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In an effort to provide abused children with a safe way to reach out for help, a Spanish organization called the Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk Foundation, or ANAR for short, created an ad that displays a different message for adults and children at the same time.THIS IS AMAZING OMG
I have someone staying in my hotel tonight that made me think that this would be worth sharing here.
If you are running away/trying to hide from someone that is frightening, abusing, harassing you, and you find yourself staying in a hotel to avoid being found, there’s an extra precaution you can take.
When you check in, ask the front desk clerk to put you as “Unlisted”. They’ll know what you’re talking about. What this means is that as far as anyone other than you and the front desk clerks are concerned, you’re not there. If someone tries to call for you and your room, “I’m sorry. I don’t have anyone registered under that name.” Same thing goes for it someone shows up at the desk. “Unlisted” means you’re untouchable.
Please, please, if you find yourself in trouble and seeking refuge in a hotel, do this. It’s really quick, easy, and painless for the front desk clerk to do, and they are not going to judge you for it.
This is why Colin is a good influence on Damian and one of the many reasons it seems this duo is so popular with the fans.
(Also, Damian, the answer is yes, you do.)
What we don’t see is immediately after this conversation, Dick talks to both boys about the importance of a secret identity and how blood doesn’t constitute a proper mask (and is sort of creepy).
(Source: Batman: Streets of Gotham 11)
“Never again. No more obsession. No more craziness. No more Joker.
I finally see that slime for what he is.
A murderous, manipulative, irredeemable…
Angel!”
-Harley QuinngaaahDAMN
I think the thing I loved about the whole Harley and the Joker dynamic was that few writers ever tried concealing how fucking unhealthy their relationship was, or romanticizing it in anyway. When the reader/viewer sees their relationship as a third party, and how the Joker is constantly harming her and how she keeps returning, the reader/viewer wants them to split, for her sake. It’s an excellent portrayal of an abusive relationship and how the abused party can actually want to stay with their significant other despite the shit they go through, and it’s a great way for pop culture to help others recognize the characteristics of such a relationship.
I mean look at this. He pushes her out of a window, and she still feels attracted to him nevertheless. Think of how frustrating that is, that she’s still completely blind to how terrible he is. Imagine how different things would be if, rather than glorifying unhealthy romances, the media continued to show things like this and instilled the same kind of frustration in mass audiences. I imagine that complacency on such issues would drop quite a bit.
GOD BLESS YOU when people romanticize their relationship my soul dies a little
Did anyone expect anything otherwise?
I’m the strongest there is.
“Dear old Dad.”
AH AH AH NO NOT THIS WHY DID THIS FOLLOW ME TO TUMBLR WHY IS IT HAUNTING ME
holy shit what is this from
there are tears in my eyes
Chris Lumbreras
(281) 864-7275
814 Patou St
Channelview, TX 77530-3424Texas boy kills dogs for barking and laughs about it on Facebook.
Tumblr minions, unite. Reblog and expose this.
//SIGNAL BOOST!!!
GET THIS FUCKING BASTARD LOCKED AWAY.
Oh my God… Signal boosting. This kind of shit can’t go unpunished.
I demand a picture of this man’s skull splitting open like a fucking pez dispenser
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
I’M SO ANGRY RN I’M
SIGNAL BOOST SIGNAL BOOST SIGNAL BOOST CMON GUYS CMON
Come on, guys. Can’t let 4chan have all the fun, can we?
Signal boost. Someone bring me his head on a stick.
Jesus fucking Christ why couldn’t this little Bitch live in NY..
Lin I got the baseball bat and the transport. You up for a roadtrip?
I’m so down.
Can we please kill him? It would only be fair
that is fucking illegal, someone better fucking call the fucking cops before i get my hands on his fucking neck!!
First there was Seamus, the Romney family Irish Setter whom they admit to strapping to the roof of their car (at least once) for a 12-hour drive to Canada as if he was luggage. They left poor Seamus up on the roof even after he became ill and soiled himself and the car. Mitt, in what was described by his campaign as “emotion free crisis management” merely hosed Seamus down and continued on the trip for hours more.Now there is a horse named Super Hit.In 2008, the Romneys sold a horse named Super Hit for $125,000. The horse was subsequently found to be lame and unable to perform dressage. Dr. Steven Soule, veterinarian for the U.S. Equestrian Team, was consulted. He found that Super Hit, at the time he was sold, had been drugged with a staggering amount of painkillers - more than he had ever seen given to a horse in 38-years of practice.
Super Hit’s new owners sued Ann Romney, her trainers and her vet. The case was settled out of court last September. The Romney campaign called the case “frivolous,” but refused to allow the LA Times to interview the Romneys, their trainers, or their vet. The LA Times also reports that Romney’s lawyers have sought to keep the case out of the public eye by trying to get the attorney of Super Hit’s new owners to sign a confidentiality agreement.
The Romneys continue their relationship with the same trainers under whom Super Hit was given a staggering amount of painkillers so that he could be forced to continue performing.Like I seriously hate him right now guys… If he wins I’m moving to fucking Ireland
if i didn’t fucking hate him before. i hate him now.
March 16, 2011 (first photo): An emaciated Pitbull-mix is discovered in a garbage bag by maintenance workers at the bottom of a 19-story tall garbage chute. The dog is immobile, but ALIVE. This is how he looked on arrival that Newark’s animal shelter that night.
The 22 story apartment building is equipped with garbage chutes on each floor for tenants. Someone had no more use for this dog. They had starved it to near death, put it in a garbage bag and threw it down the garbage chute. A maintenance worker cleans out the bin every few days and on Wednesday, March 16th, they were cleaning out the contents of the container to go directly into a trash compacter. The bag moved a little and the worker opened it to find a moribund dog inside — pathetically thin, cold and near death.
The City of Newark Animal Control was contacted and ACO Arthur Skinner picked up the dog and brought him directly to the Society. The veterinary staff immediately put him on intravenous fluid.His temperature was so low that it did not even register on the thermomenter. He was covered with heating pads and blankets.
After a brief time at the Society’s Newark facility, he was ambulanced to Garden State Veterinary Specialists in Tinton Falls — a referral hospital with 24 hour emergency care. If he died during that night, we feel he would know that everyone loved and cared about him and treated him gently and lovingly. He amazed everyone at the Society and at Garden State by surviving with the 24 hour emergency care that they rendered. He was given a blood transfusion, a bath — and even a walk! In honor of the first day of his re-birth, we call him Patrick — in honor of St. Patrick’s Day and we hope he has the luck of the Irish!March 17, 2011 (second photo): Once stabilized, he’s moved toGSVS Pet Hospital for continuous intensive care. It is now St. Patrick’s Day, and the GSVS staff decide to call him Patrick.
March 22, 2011 (third photo): Bright lights still hurt his eyes.
Late April 2011, Easter (fourth photo): Six weeks into recovery.
Late October 2011 (fifth photo): 8 months into recovery.
December 25, 2011, Christmas (sixth photo): 9 months into recovery.
The last photo is one of his most recent photos. He’s fully recovered and living with an amazing family. You can visit and “like” his Facebook page by clicking here and to help give free food and care with a single click, please visit The Animal Rescue Site. Help fight animal abuse in your neighborhood.
Holy shit. Thank you, science.
This brought tears to my eyes. He looks like such a sweetie. To be put through such horrible treatment is heart breaking. Thank goodness they found him!
If you’re a girl and you hit, punch, or physically harm your boyfriend in any way it’s still considered abuse and you’re equally as much of a piece of shit as any guy that hits his girlfriend. Seriously the amount of girls that disagree with this is ridiculous, and they’re all fucking stupid. Sorry not sorry.
word.
The only time it’ll ever be appropriate is when you’re having crazy kinky fun, otherwise you’re just shit.
i wrote a paper as a senior in high school about this and when tracking the unhealthy relationship symptoms i found this out too. fucking a.
THIS is a legitimate reason to think Twilight is problematic. Not “oooh, but it’s girly literature cause the vampires sparkle and all the teen girls are into Edward”. As funny as some of the sparkly vampires jokes are - and they really sometimes are - Twilight’s very unique take on vampires is the least of the series’ problems, yet this criticism gets heard a lot more than the criticism of people who have noticed that something isn’t quite right in the relationship between Edward and Bella.
Anyone who thinks “it’s so romantic that he wanted to eat her and also snuck into her room without her permission to watch her sleep” really, REALLY needs to…rethink their definition of “romantic.”
so funny story time (and when i say funny i actually mean sad).
one of my students wrote a (very poorly worded) dissertation about bella and edward’s flawlesslyromantic relationship. i gave her a D. she sent her mother to talk to me because according to her i was “letting my personal taste cloud my judgment” and “teachers should be objective, judge the form and not the content” (since when?, i might add. but yeah).
i pointed out that her daughter had declared twilight a ‘soul-warming love story’, gave her a pamphlet about abusive relationships and told her to read the books.
she came back two weeks later and apologized.
Yes. All of this. I read the first one and gagged. It was just.. no. Seriously. No.
This is why I hated Twilight, above and beyond the fact that it’s poorly written.
And while I have not read them - and will not - I’m pretty sure the 50 Shades series meets most of, if not all of, the same criteria as well.
Why I will always think you are of lesser intelligence if you actually love these books.
When I was younger, I liked the first book, but as I grew older, I realized how truly scary the relationships in these books are. (Not just the relationship between Edward and Bella, but all of them.)
tonight i watched a documentary that made me realize i have spent far too long being far too quiet about something very serious. something i could be speaking out about and helping other people who are going through it right now. for too long i have been ashamed to admit that when i was 13 years old i was sent, against my will, to a rehabilitation center in utah. it was mormon-run, called “turn about ranch.” i had no history of drugs, violence, alcohol abuse, sex addiction, shopping addiction, any kind of addiction at all. i was sent to this program because i had a “bad attitude”. i’ll hit that home: i was sent away to utah and locked up against my will, at the age of 13, because i had “bad attitude” and my parents wanted to “fix me.” i was picked up at the airport and driven to the facility by two people i had never met in my life who tried to calm me down for the 5 hour drive by feeding me cheeseburgers and pretending it would all be okay. when i got there, all of my belongings were taken from me and i was told to go sit in a rock circle in the dirt. i wasn’t allowed to lie down or speak to anyone. no one came to talk to me for 5 hours. when they finally did, i was told i was supposed to be “detoxing” and “thinking about what i’d done.” again, i had never done drugs of any kind. there was nothing to detox from. all i did was cry.
i sat in that circle for 3 days, and then an additional 14 days after that because i wasn’t able to produce 8 fires from the bowdrill technique (i weighed about 87 pounds at the time so this really wasn’t surprising.) i spent 3 months being forced against my will to do hard labor, accept jesus into my heart, repent my sins and be shamed about who i was as a person. i had to fill out a binder of paperwork teaching me how to change and be better. i was cut off from technology and from the outside world. people who ran were chased down on horseback and sent to other programs where they spent 3 months hiking in the wilderness. i didn’t speak to my parents except in letters that the program read ahead of time and threw out if i had revealed too much. when my parents came to get me, the program tried to talk them into keeping me there. during this time i almost died at least 3 times doing things much too dangerous for someone my age. i sat on a cactus and was taken to a vet instead of a doctor. i was kicked by a horse and not taken anywhere. my “schooling” was basically just packing a bunch of us into a room while an older gentlemen slept and the rest of us read books for 4th graders.
When I finally got out of this program, I was sent to a lockdown boarding school in vermont which was even worse. here we weren’t allowed to leave the facility, numerous girls tried to commit suicide, there were at least 2 sexual harassment cases between teachers and students and I had to be kidnapped by my mom and taken to florida because the program didn’t allow you to leave until you were 18.
Both of these programs were run by Aspen Education Group. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspen_Education_Group
This is a mormon-run group that has hundreds of facilities across the country where youths are sent against their will and locked up, cut off from their families. many families have lost contact with their children once this happens because the programs continue to send the children to other facilities without instructing the family first. At this very moment, kids are locked in these facilities with no way out, because their parents couldn’t think of a better alternative to behavioral issues than locking up their child. As far as I know, not many people know about these places. A short-lived reality show “Brat Camp” highlighted them for a while but didn’t garner much attention. Please, if you can, spread this around. This rigorous Mormon company is along the same vein as “straight camps” in terms of their approach. If my mom hadn’t kidnapped me I would’ve been in them until I was 18. I have no other way of getting attention on these programs except this blog, but attention MUST be put on them. They have already had numerous of their facilities shut down due to unethical treatment and sexual harassment cases. You could be helping so many kids who are locked away while the world is completely unaware of this epidemic in this country.
PLEASE PLEASE spread this around. I can no longer stand the thought of someone else having to go through what I went through.
editing for more resources/reading material:
http://tales-from-the-black-school.blogspot.com/2010/11/turn-about-ranch-rough-guide.html
Powerful Child Abuse Ads
This campaign won a Gold Lion yesterday at Cannes. Via Mexico.
It pleases me that the middle mother is aggressively screaming. The first implies physical abuse, the last implies sexual, but those aren’t the only two kinds of abuse children endure, and I’m glad attention is being called to that.
I also appreciate that the ads show that women can be abusers, too. These are INCREDIBLY impactful images.
i wrote a paper as a senior in high school about this and when tracking the unhealthy relationship symptoms i found this out too. fucking a.
THIS is a legitimate reason to think Twilight is problematic. Not “oooh, but it’s girly literature cause the vampires sparkle and all the teen girls are into Edward”. As funny as some of the sparkly vampires jokes are - and they really sometimes are - Twilight’s very unique take on vampires is the least of the series’ problems, yet this criticism gets heard a lot more than the criticism of people who have noticed that something isn’t quite right in the relationship between Edward and Bella.
Hey. Guess what? I heard you last night complaining. All “Woe is me” at Friday Night Magic because no girl will date “The nice guy” and how they “Judge you because you play card games.” Well, after being in close proximity to you for four hours, guess what?
That’s not at all the reason you can’t get a date.
You are a terrible human being. That’s the reason. I mean, for one, your assumption that girls think any less of you for playing Magic? Um, in case you didn’t notice, like half the players last night were female. And I saw some of them kick your sorry ass. And most of the people I talked to wereintroducedinto Magic by females. So yeah. Shut up on that count.
For two? You’re a bad sport. Which is never a good sign for the rest of your personality. You got busted cheating last week, coordinating with someone else to pass eachother certain colors and such in the draft. And what did you do? You whined and complained and talked about how you’re never buying anything from this store again. Well, good riddance, I say. We don’t need you around here.
And finally?
YOU ARE A MISOGYNISTIC ASSHOLE.
I heard you talking. Bragging about your strip club exploits. Whooo, big man, able to spend money to get a look at a girl in her underwear. How ever will I compare to your prowess? Your ability to drag your greasy fat ass to a strip club amazes the masses.
And what did you brag about with it? YOU ABUSED THE FUCKING EMPLOYEES. Laughing and carrying on at top volume about how you’d pay for a lap dance, then shove the girls onto the floor? How you’d flip tables and scare the shit out of them? And don’t think I didn’t hear your little buddy’s response. “They love that abuse shit. Abuse is why they’re there. Once you’ve done that, you’re just like Daddy.”
FUCK. YOU.
I literally see no value you’re bringing to the world. What you could possibly contribute. You’re lucky nobody attacked you then and there. Maybe if you weren’t so smug and clueless, you’d have noticed the death glares every other player was giving you.
If I see you on the street, I’m punching you right then and there.
Stay out of our game shop.
Stay out of our hobby.
And stop giving men and nerds a bad name.
Fuck you, buddy.
Whooo, big man, able to spend money to get a look at a girl in her underwear.
I had to laugh. Some people don’t have to pay money for that.
