Jackie Mitchell…a bad ass lady I had never heard of.
From her Wikipedia page: “Seventeen-year-old Jackie Mitchell, brought in to pitch in the first inning after the starting pitcher had given up a double and a single, faced Babe Ruth. After taking a ball, Ruth swung and missed at the next two pitches. Mitchell’s fourth pitch to Ruth was a called third strike. Babe Ruth glared and verbally abused the umpire before being led away by his teammates to sit to wait for another batting turn. The crowd roared for Jackie. Babe Ruth was quoted in a Chattanooga newspaper as having said:
“I don’t know what’s going to happen if they begin to let women in baseball. Of course, they will never make good. Why? Because they are too delicate. It would kill them to play ball every day.”
Next up was the Iron Horse Lou Gehrig, who swung through the first three pitches to strike out. Jackie Mitchell became famous for striking out two of the greatest baseball players in history.
A few days after Mitchell struck out Ruth and Gehrig, baseball commissionerKenesaw Mountain Landis voided her contract and declared women unfit to play baseball as the game was “too strenuous.”[5][10] Mitchell continued to play professionally,barnstorming with the House of David, a men’s team famous for their very long hair and long beards.[11] While travelling with the House of David team, she would sometimes wear a fake beard for publicity.”
TL;DR: teenage girl strikes out two of the greatest baseball players ever, teenage girl gets her contract voided, teenage girl plays baseball wearing fake beard
These guys were so fucking injured by a teenage girl’s awesomeness that they literally threw a hissyfit and hung up a sign that said “NO GIRLS.”
They gave up.
They couldn’t handle it.
Losers.
Teenage girls are amazing.
Here’s a friendly reminder of why the big leagues of sports aren’t co-ed.
It’s not to “make it fair” on women. It’s because men are scared of being beaten by women.
She’s from my home town! And after all the baseball games I’ve been to here, no one ever mentioned her at all. I only recently looked her up online.
Let’s take a look at the definition of appropriation.
I’m gonna copy paste this straight from Google:
“ ap·pro·pri·a·tion əˌprōprēˈāSH(ə)n/noun
the action of taking something for one’s own use, typically without the owner’s permission. example: ‘the appropriation of parish funds.’ ”
Cool. So now that we know what that means, we can figure out who specifically owns this hairstyle. Easy, right?
Except there are several cultures and religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity / Celtic folk, etc) that wear dreadlocks or have worn dreadlocks. It is not exclusively black culture.
Aside from that, who gives a shit? It’s hair. Nobody owns any particular hairstyle.
Wrong.
The problem is that you’re lumping together a whole bunch of things that are not dreadlocks: don’t look like dreadlocks, aren’t called dreadlocks, don’t have the same social/historical meaning as dreadlocks; all in the same category like they’re the same thing. That’s a form of cultural erasure, and it’s not accurate.
The only confirmed matted (not dreaded) hairstyles of Europe were the glibbe and the plica polonica, neither of which look anything like dreadlocks. And the Vikings were sticklers for having untangled hair, to the point where they kept combs on them at all times (which they were eventually buried with, signifying their importance) and kept their hair in braids. Not only do we have the burial record we have perfectly preserved bog bodies which all have elaborately braided styles. Viking warriors did cake their braids with mud to protect their hair during battles, but they did not have dreads.
The South Asian jata worn by practitioners of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism is a style only used by ascetic monks, and is matted (not dreaded, see below), and are also caked with ash from sacred ceremonial fires so that’s a false equivalence as well.
Moreover, no one is attempting to imitate the plica polonica, or they’d have one giant beaver tail, or the glibbe, which is matted bangs, or the jata, which require ash. They are imitating the way the African diaspora SPECIFICALLY style their hair into locs, which is unique and different from all the other examples you mention.
Additionally it is a hair texture issue. Afrotextured (3c-4c type hair) dreads naturally because of its corkscrew shape.
All other types of hair matt, which is a whole different process where the cuticle of the hair has to be damaged and raised, revealing the living inner sticky core of the hair in order for the hair strands to stick to one another.
Obviously, these 2 things are not the same.
That’s why all it takes for black people to have dreads is a little twisting and some kind of moisturizing product, and a life time commitment to constant maintenance & hygiene.
And why white people do silly shit like back combing, the ‘twist n rip’ method, elmers glue, not washing their hair, and other forms of damage, lack of hygiene and neglect to achieve an imitation of the real thing they consider a ‘low effort’ hairstyle.
See the difference now? That’s why the imitation of ‘locs’ in the picture you provided are a matted disgusting mess.
Okay. Those are all some pretty specific and accurate points. Thanks for educating me on that.
I redirect to my final point: Who gives a shit who wears what hairstyle?
Maybe if white people stopped giving black people so much shit about their natural and cultural hairstyles, black people wouldn’t be calling out white people’s hypocrisy.
What’s funny is that they were acting like they had correct historical information on dreads. And once corrected they suddenly didn’t care about the historical significance they hold. It’s almost like you never cared in the first place, and just want to dirty up your ugly ass hair and call in dreads. Stop fuckin lyyyyyin 🎵
That’s what they do. Every single time.
Move the goalposts light years away because admitting you’re wrong and having a simple fucking shred of human respect for minorities is just too much to bear
Then they would be, GASP, ess jay dubbleyew
my favorite thing on this site is when anti-sjws make these posts that only show their total ignorance on social justice issues, assuming they’re ~just sjw inventions~ , and get absolutely destroyed by people who actually know what they’re talking about
Lol ok but she was mad irritating, whether you were rooting for Walt or not. Walt is trash, we know that.
Yeah, the way she thought of her family first, didn’t believe the bullshit that was handed to her, supported her husband through cancer and refused to put up with his shit was SO irritating.
I always liked Skylar, she was really good and had to put up with so much shit.
I’d like to say I don’t understand why she gets so much hate but sadly we all know the reason why she does :(
Well, from my chair, I saw her do NOTHING to make it possible for Walt to do anything other than what he did (quite the contrary, actually) and then just complained endlessly about what he was doing. In other words, bring a solution, or STFU.
She got a second job while heavily pregnant, was willing to ask anyone for money because she didn’t care about any ridiculous sense of “dignity”, she cared about keeping him alive. He continued to cook meth LONG after he had enough money for treatment, the whole fucking point was that he was in love with the power. He liked being in charge, he liked having the authority, he liked being a bad guy, he liked being a killer.
He could have asked for money from his rich friends and they would have given it without question. He had choices, he WANTED to do what he did. I mean, that was the whole fucking point of the show and his character arc …
Always a good time to bring this back. The title is facetious as the article actually makes fun of Skyler haters for their ridiculous reasonings.
the hate for Skyler is so fucking wild to me, and people like Viking up there come up with the most nonsensical reasons. like really?? even Walt admitted with his own damn mouth that he did these things because he wanted to, and people are still acting like he didn’t have a choice and everything is Skyler’s fault some how like omfg
The Skyler White effect is a real term they came up with as a result.
“
Man, I don’t see it that way at all. We’ve been at events and had all our actors up onstage, and people ask Anna Gunn, “Why is your character such a bitch?” And with the risk of painting with too broad a brush, I think the people who have these issues with the wives being too bitchy on Breaking Bad are misogynists, plain and simple. “ -
Vince Gilligan, showrunner and creator of Breaking Bad.
For the people who act like she was written to be a bitch, she wasn’t, the writers don’t think she is a bitch. The reason you think she is a bitch is because she got in Walt’s way and you lack the ability to, or you outright refuse to, acknowledge that just because a character gets in the way of the protagonist does not mean they are bad and coming up with lists of reasons to justify your hatred of her is misogynistic and you have been hit by that Skler White effect.
“The Skyler White Effect: The cognitive dissonance that happens when a female character is presented by the narrative as absolutely correct in their judgment of a male character, and yet the viewers assume she’s the bitch.”
are there any genitalia-based sexual orientations? like someone doesn't care what gender someone is as long their genitalia looks like this...?
transphobia
transmisogyny
cissexism
violent dehumanization
reducing human lives into arbitrary categories and destroying their identities for something as petty as sexual gratification
edit: intersex erasure (thanks @theunitedcabrio)
i dont get offended at white people jokes even though im white because:
i can recognize white people as a whole have systemically oppressed POC in america, which is where i live
most people when they make white people jokes only mean the shitty white people and i am not a shitty white person
im not a pissbaby
my white friends that have reblogged this give me life
4. Sometimes I am a shitty white person and the jokes remind me to FUCKIN STOP
If ur white and like this post I fux with u
^absolutely
5. It’s hard to be offended when white people jokes involve bland food/tourist dads in socks and sandals/white girls in yoga pants obsessed with pumpkin spice/suburban PTA moms and other harmless and mostly true stereotypes while jokes about POC involve them being called thugs/criminals/slurs/uneducated/illegal immigrants.
i fucks with u heavy if ur white and you reblog this
6. They’re usually really fucking funny and don’t perpetuate stereotypes that will ever affect me economically, politically, or cause me any true harm, let alone create risks that “justify” my murder and/or death
Family sues PETA for $9 Million for stealing, killing their dog
Maya was a family-owned, healthy Chihuaua. PETA members were filmed stealing Maya from private property, which they denied until they were told they were filmed. After the family called asking about where their pet was, PETA delivered them a gift basket and told them that Maya was dead.
It is illegal in the state of Virginia for a shelter to kill an animal that comes to them without waiting five days, and PETA was fined $500 for doing so. The day of the incident, PETA also took in other animals from the same park that may or may not have been stolen, including kittens, a lab mix, a puppy, and another chihuahua. These animals were also killed the same day, without effort to find homes for them. Multiple accounts of current and former PETA workers describe that the organization routinely kills healthy animals, including 97.5% of the animals they take in. Sometimes animals are killed in the back of PETA vans, before even making it to the shelter. “Euthanasia is the kindest gift to a dog or cat unwanted and unloved,” PETA CEO Ingrid Newkirk said at a press conference.
Four months after the incident with Maya, PETA responded. Even though the thieves knew the park well and had personally met with Maya and her owners, they claim that they didn’t realize the dog was owned.
why i don’t support peta and never will
PETA is a fucking awful organization for this and plenty of other reasons, don’t support them.
PETA is fucking gross and I will never support them
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