girl culture is turning around every few feet when you’re walking alone to see if someone’s following u
Learn to peep through the corner of your eye so you’re not quite so obvious when you turn.
Putting in your earphones so hopefully no random men try to talk to/harass you but not actually playing music so you can listen for footsteps/other suspicious noises behind you.
feeling like someone is following you and subtly shifting whatever object you’re holding into a better grip so you can use it as a bludgeon if the person behind you tries anything
Being fucking terrified when street lamps give you more than one shadow
just girly things~🌟
Ok, buckle up for some advice from your local redhead who grew up in a collection of iffy neighborhoods.
Square. The Frick. Up.
No one to fight? No one near? Square Up.
Leaving work late? Going out on public transit? Square Up.
Don’t know how to fight? Terrified? Square Up.
Square Up doesn’t mean fists up and ready to punch in this case it just means shoulders back chin up and walk like you might be late for an argument.
The deal with the threats we face is that it’s classic predator/prey dynamics. Preds look for prey, not other preds. Walk like a predator not prey. Sometimes that doesn’t work. Sometimes that one pred doesn’t get the idea.
Sucks to be them. Cuz they’re not getting out of this without a serious slice of humble pie. Be it a simple comment or getting their skin cells under your fingernails, that’s up to them. Don’t talk more than absolutely necessary, keep it short and powerful. “I don’t have time” seems to work best for me bc it’s urgent, true, and usually not insulting enough to feel like a challenge. Stay visible, never hide.
You’ve been grabbed? Grab. Them. Back. Your hand over their wrist, nails digging into the softest skin possible. Take the power, take the situation, it’s yours. You grab that wrist and lean back, pivot on your feet, turn and use both your strength and body weight to swing them off of you. Yell. “Do not touch me!” They’ll usually become less interested after this point, you’re putting up too much of a fight, you’re ‘a psycho bitch’. Damn right you are you gorgeous beast.
If they don’t give up on you, God forbid, they attack? Go for broke. Hit the soft parts, throat and genitals are the best. Men: grab a handful of the Twins and squeeze as hard as you can while pulling and twisting. Women: same deal up top, tiddies are sensitive as we’re just as prone to crotch-shots as men. Can’t do that? Bite and Scratch. Get their evidence on you and yours on them. Nothing is more incriminating than a human bite mark. Be the reason they need to go to a hospital.
Yell and scream as much as possible, I don’t care what just scream.
No direct threat? Just the ol anxiety playing up? Trust your gut, the one time you don’t will be the one time you wish you did.
Contrary to popular belief, you can call emergency services. Tell the operator “I’m walking home and feel unsafe” and they’ll stay on the line with you, might even send a nearby squad car to give you a lift home. Don’t feel safe calling the police? Call or text your closest relationship. Talk to them the whole way back, text them every five minutes like clockwork.
All these things are two pronged: address the immediate threat and aid investigators in the future should the worst occur. Don’t be afraid to ask for help. Have a well meaning but maybe dense friend? Ask them to walk with you, they may not have known you were scared.
Most people are great, they’ll help you even if you’re a frazzled thing pounding on their front door past midnight bc the shadows aren’t trustworthy. Go for the house with the nicest garden, I’ve never met a mean green thumb they’re always the loveliest.
When you yell make sure you yell as loud as you can in a deep voice phrases like “No!” and “Don’t touch me!” and “I don’t want to go with you!” because then any eye witnesses in the area will tell the cops that they were handling you against your will.
-FemaleWarrior
Also if push comes to shove, elbows are your friends! Elbow them in the stomach or side, even in the soft bits. kick them possibly in the knees (or the back of the knee, even better) and if you really need to get out of a situation, eye gouge them possible as a last resort. Head butting is efficient even hair pulling. It may distract them enough to get them to loosen their grip.
Whatever I get is going towards fixing my car so I can start working full time to be out of my house more. My brother’s getting insanely violent again and honestly, I no longer feel safe. I live in a small town so there’s not many options for me until I can afford my own place (which I’m trying to get my credit up to be able to do).
I don’t have a set amount I’m raising, because again, it’s going towards my car and if there’s anything left over, it’s being saved up for my own place. I always lock my bedroom door before going to bed, but unfortunately we all have a skeleton key and my brother could break my door anyway.
I have been sexually abused by him in the past. But because I wasn’t taking my medicine at the time, my family wouldn’t believe me. And the only other family I could stay with isn’t good for my mental health either. Mainly because of how they treat me and always calling me by my deadname.
I know it’s the Holiday Seasons and people have their own financial situations to worry about. I promise you the moment I can, I’ll pay it forward and/or back to you.
My goal is at least $650 towards my car. But again, every little bit helps as it’ll be going to other much needed things as well.
Thank you in advance.
If you would like something in return, I do photoshop edits for celeb pics/rp icons. Also psds. Though they’re all pretty basic.
If you can’t donate, please share this. I really need my car fixed so I can get more hours at work instead of having to rely on family to take me to and from.
“Alaska’s interior has turned out to be an unlikely place to find some big political gains, as two trans women end up in elected office.
During the state’s municipal elections, held in October, Liz Lyke and Kathy Ottersten won in their respective races. Lyke to the North Star Borough assembly in Fairbanks, while Ottersten was elected to the Fairbanks city council.
Lyke will be representing almost 100,000 people, while Otterstan will serve 32,000.
Both candidates had to navigate their identities as transgender women in the election in the state that brought us Sarah Palin, but both stress that being trans is simply another facet of their life.”
Whatever I get is going towards fixing my car so I can start working full time to be out of my house more. My brother’s getting insanely violent again and honestly, I no longer feel safe. I live in a small town so there’s not many options for me until I can afford my own place (which I’m trying to get my credit up to be able to do).
I don’t have a set amount I’m raising, because again, it’s going towards my car and if there’s anything left over, it’s being saved up for my own place. I always lock my bedroom door before going to bed, but unfortunately we all have a skeleton key and my brother could break my door anyway.
I have been sexually abused by him in the past. But because I wasn’t taking my medicine at the time, my family wouldn’t believe me. And the only other family I could stay with isn’t good for my mental health either. Mainly because of how they treat me and always calling me by my deadname.
I know it’s the Holiday Seasons and people have their own financial situations to worry about. I promise you the moment I can, I’ll pay it forward and/or back to you.
My goal is at least $650 towards my car. But again, every little bit helps as it’ll be going to other much needed things as well.
Thank you in advance.
If you would like something in return, I do photoshop edits for celeb pics/rp icons. Also psds. Though they’re all pretty basic.
If you can’t donate, please share this. I really need my car fixed so I can get more hours at work instead of having to rely on family to take me to and from.
At first I was like “no don’t reblog it’ll weird people out” then I was like “oh right that’s the point”
STOP INCLUDING CRAMPS THAT MAKE YOU PASS OUT IN THESE LISTS AS IF THEY WERE NORMAL
THEY ARE NOT
IF YOUR CRAMPS ARE THIS BAD AND YOU’RE NOT A TEENAGER, SEE A DOCTOR
I REPEAT: THEY ARE NOT NORMAL. YOU COULD ACTUALLY BE ILL
YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO PASS OUT FROM YOUR PERIOD CRAMPS
I actually passed out at the start of my period a couple of times and three years ago I found out I have polycystic ovaries, but yknow. What’s so bad about periods.
Excruciating pain both during and not during your period isn’t normal. Yes, you could just have severe period pain but it could also be the sign of major problems like ovarian cysts or even more serious ailments. If you can, get checked out by a doctor. At the very least if it’s not a something dangerous, birth control might be a good investment.
I think my least favorite Hetero Trope is when the girl eats a burger or whatever and the dude is like “Wow, I like a girl who can eat” like what the fuck did your last girlfriend do, photosynthesis?
I was just thinking the other day about how they do a very similar thing with men in the media as well. It may not be as prevalent as with the female characters, but you almost always see superheroic male characters with extremely toned physiques in bars, drinking beer and eating pub food, portrayed as “man’s man” types who let their scrappy lives give them saran wrapped eight packs, when in reality the actors playing those guys are on extremely specialized diets coupled with intense workout programs. At the same time, “gym rat” characters who are actually shown doing the work a person would actually need to to maintain bodies like that are almost unilaterally made out to be stupid, vain, often meanspirited meatheads.
I remember watching the behind the scenes footage of a Jason Statham movie where he’s complaining about only being allowed to eat a plate of steamed veggies while the entire rest of the crew was having a party with cake or something. In the same movie his character is pretending to eat and drink things that real dude Jason Statham was not allowed anywhere near to maintain the idea that regular blue collar working class movie character got sweet abs by drinking beer and driving fast cars.
Then there’s the issue of these actors being harassed in real life when they don’t upkeep their intensely high-maintinence bodies between movies. Like, The illusion has been created that the jacked up bodybuilder physique is their effortless natural state of being, so any deviation from that must be caused by flawed behaviour and you see constant articles about how “[Popular Action movie guy] Really Let Himself Go” or people bombarding the actors’ personal accounts with fat jokes and accusation about their lifestyles
I guess the overarching issue is, people seem to be fed this idea that attractive qualities people may posses are only valid if they came naturally and effortlessly. The person with beautiful hair is desirable, the person who spends an hour making their hair beautiful is “self obsessed”, the person with the athletic body is hot, the person who goes to the gym every day and works on being more athletic is “a dumb jock”. It’s all appreciating the results while devaluing the effort it took to achieve them.
WILL BE BLOCKED BECAUSE of SOME OLD POLITICIANS “that know the youth and the internet the best then anyone else” IN THE SENATE THINKING THEY KNOW BETTER SHUTTING DOWN YOUTUBE AND OTHER SOCIAL PLATFORMS FOR ME AND PEOPLE LIVING IN THE EU FOREVER!
PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE I REPEAT THE ARTICLE HAS BEEN CHANGED COMPLETELY NO FUCKING JOKE GUYS! LAST TIME IT WAS ALL ABOUT PROTECTION NOW THEY ADDED SOME STUPID STUFF AND THEY WILL BE TAKING AWAY MY YOUTUBE; SOCIAL MEDIAS AND EVERYTHING!
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SHARE THIS POST AND SIGN UP AND VOTE THE MORE THAN BETTER! Let’s SHOW THESE OLD PEOPLE THAT YOUTUBE, TUMBLR, INSTAGRAM AND ALL THESE GREAT OTHER SITES AREN´T FUCKING USELESS AND SHET BECAUSE THEY DO NOT KNOW WHAT SOCIAL MEDIA IS! INSTEAD OF TAKING THESE PRECIOUS THINGS THEY SHOULD WORRY ABOUT OTHER.STUFF ( Migrants, new school system) BUT NAH THEY WANT TO TAKE AWAY OUR SOCIAL MEDIAS
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I hate asking this, but my mom said she’d pay my fine this month. So I had given her twenty-five dollars towards it and she ended up spending that and what she had for it on something else.
What had happened was, I was going to take it to get my car inspected. I had informed the officer that I just got the car earlier this year and I was heading to get it inspected/see what all I needed to do to get it to pass inspection. I still ended up getting a ticket because of it.
I NEED to have it paid by Monday (the $50 and I don’t get paid until Thursday).
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