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“If the past is any indication, Melania is no passive victim. Recently a 2011 interview with Melania on the Joy Behar Show went viral on Twitter. In the interview, Melania defends her husband’s adamant commitment to the birther conspiracy born of the Tea Party—his belief that President Obama is not an American citizen, that he was born in Kenya and that his Hawaii-issued birth certificate was, in fact, a forgery. 

‘Do you want to see President Obama’s birth certificate or not?’ Melania asks Behar. 

‘I’ve seen it,’ Behar responds. 

‘It’s not a birth certificate,’ Melania says as she shakes her head. Here, Melania recites her husband’s conspiratorial and fictitious claims, ones Donald Trump repeated for five years until, in September 2016, he ‘conceded’ that they were untrue. Melania has never indicated whether or not she agrees with that concession.

But Melania has always been willing to defend her husband and to employ tactics that typify the Trump approach to the world. After journalist Julia Ioffe published a profile of Melania in GQ, Melania denounced the piece, calling it ‘yet another example of the dishonest media and their disingenuous reporting.’ When Ioffe received a barrage of anti-Semitic messages and threats, Melania said, that Ioffe “provoked them.” Later, Melania almost trollishly announced that, as First Lady, she would launch a campaign to prevent bullying on the internet, denouncing social media’s “mean and rough” culture.

Social media aside, she’s proven that she’s a willing scribe of the Trump hagiography. In October, Melania sat down with CNN to defend her husband after a leaked tape caught her husband bragging about sexually assaulting women. She called his language ‘boy talk’ and blamed the tape’s release on the conspiratorial ‘left-wing media.’ When asked about the sizable number of women who have accused her husband of sexual assault, she demonstrated that she was no listless vessel, but in full possession of autonomy: ‘I know he respects women but he is defending himself because they are all lies,’ she told CNN.

Like Ivanka Trump, whose brand and subsequent media narratives have worked to distance her from her father’s repugnant ideologies from racist birtherism to sexual assault, Melania is no innocent. She’s willing to vocally defend her husband—not only to stand next to him for the sake of political spectacle or personal gain, but to do the obligatory media tours and, like her step-daughter, insist that he respects women.

Melania Trump is hardly a stand-in for American women, she is neither a victim nor is she lacking agency. Rather she’s an active participant working to construct Donald Trump’s narrative, readily available to put a gauzy domestic veil on his racism and misogyny. Melania Trump doesn’t deserve your sympathy.

thisisourwitchcraft

This article is terrible, disgusting actually, and shows a fundamental lack of understanding of how abuse works, and how impossible it can be for women to oppose their abusers in words and action, especially when the power imbalance is this strong. Besides, every abused woman deserves empathy and help. Criticize what she says, criticize her ideas, but don’t you dare claim a woman who is obviously abused doesn’t deserve our sympathy.

fuck the OP honestly
asieybarbie
asieybarbie:
“ Ayeee. #WIP
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Hey! Tumblr said I couldn’t message you but I just wanted to let you know that my text post from earlier was actually posted before I even saw this artwork. It was just a general gripe from me browsing the sombra tag. I’m...
asieybarbie

Ayeee. #WIP

platoandaplatypus

Hey! Tumblr said I couldn’t message you but I just wanted to let you know that my text post from earlier was actually posted before I even saw this artwork. It was just a general gripe from me browsing the sombra tag. I’m a fan of your work and I know you do a great job at providing proper representation to POC/WOC :) I’m sure I’ll love this piece when it’s done. 

Also I appreciate the thoughtful and polite way you responded to my post even when you thought it was directed at you!

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mighoul-jones

One of the things I hate about this website is that is pushes this idea that you’re this ethereal being that is incapable of doing any harm and that everyone else is hurting you and that’s it
But life isn’t that narrow
Sometimes you are the toxic person
Sometimes you need to think about your actions critically
You need to accept that you aren’t always right and you aren’t always innocent.
Living like that and never accepting or learning from your mistakes is so fucking unhealthy and I wish this website would stop promoting the “ur a celestial princess uwu” idea.
Everyone has places to improve. Remember that.