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    America, Apparently, and Bad: normal-horoscopes:

pooraurora:

postmarxed:
inkandcayenne:

wilfulwayfarer:

rasec-wizzlbang:

dalaisa-katili:

local-emo-mom:

anarcho-individualist:

explanatorypower:
i dont understand this at all and america scares the fuck out of me

This is the america they donā€™t want you to see

i love america

This is what you call Waffle House at 2 am when the bars close and everyone is drunk and hungry

*group of people having fun*this site: wtf this is so scary


People having safe fun at a waffle house is scary for most Tumblr bloggers, reports say.

Some context for those not familiar with Waffle House Culture:Ā 
Waffle House is one of the few chains in America thatā€™s open 24/7/365, and where you can get both breakfast and lunch/dinner options at any time (I have had so many Breakfast Cheeseburgers at Waffle Houses). The food is really good, and people eat there at all times of the day or night, but itā€™s particularly popular as a late-night post-drinking spot because itā€™s all thatā€™s open and itā€™s the kind of food that tastes especially good when youā€™re hammered.
Part of Waffle House Protocol is that all the servers and cooks greet every single customer as they come through the door. It sounds lame, but Iā€™ve never been to a Waffle House where that greeting didnā€™t feel completely heartfelt. My mom is a health nut who could barely find anything on the menu she was willing to eat and yet she describes the Christmas Day lunch we had there one year as one of the nicest meals sheā€™s ever had because everyone was so warm and welcoming. That sense of camaraderie gets turned up to 11, of course, at 2 a.m. when everyoneā€™s shitfaced.
The jukeboxes have Waffle-House-themed songs on them (once you have heardĀ ā€œRaisins in my Toastā€ you will be earwormed forever) and there is an arcane system of hash brown ordering: scattered, smothered, covered, chunked, topped, diced, peppered, and/or capped. The hot sauce bottles sayĀ ā€œCasa de Waffle.ā€Ā 
Once, in Oxford (UK), my husband and I walked past a kebab van very late one night and he saidĀ ā€œwhy do I smell Waffle Houseā€
The location of most Waffle Houses means thereā€™s someā€¦ classism that tends to get tied up with Anti-Waffle House Discourse, which is probably lending itself, in part, to this being such a fraught topic. (Iā€™m looking at a map and apparently I was born and raised right in the middle of the Peak Waffle House Density Zone)
It is, in the words of chef Anthony Bourdain,Ā ā€œindeed marvelousā€” an irony-free zone where everything is beautiful and nothing hurts; where everybody regardless of race, creed, color or degree of inebriation is welcomed.ā€


Weā€™re not even gonna mention FEMAā€™s Waffle House Index where they determine how bad a natural disaster is by calling the local Waffle House to see if theyā€™re open? 



#and wafflehouse is one of those spiritual places#2am friendships#its the same hazy feel#of cicadas and front porches with your friends



Waffle House is physical and spiritual neutral territory. Starting shit in a Waffle House isnā€™t just bad form, it tips the entire natural balance of the universe against you. 
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                America, Apparently, and Bad: normal-horoscopes:

pooraurora:

postmarxed:
inkandcayenne:

wilfulwayfarer:

rasec-wizzlbang:

dalaisa-katili:

local-emo-mom:

anarcho-individualist:

explanatorypower:
i dont understand this at all and america scares the fuck out of me

This is the america they donā€™t want you to see

i love america

This is what you call Waffle House at 2 am when the bars close and everyone is drunk and hungry

*group of people having fun*this site: wtf this is so scary


People having safe fun at a waffle house is scary for most Tumblr bloggers, reports say.

Some context for those not familiar with Waffle House Culture:Ā 
Waffle House is one of the few chains in America thatā€™s open 24/7/365, and where you can get both breakfast and lunch/dinner options at any time (I have had so many Breakfast Cheeseburgers at Waffle Houses). The food is really good, and people eat there at all times of the day or night, but itā€™s particularly popular as a late-night post-drinking spot because itā€™s all thatā€™s open and itā€™s the kind of food that tastes especially good when youā€™re hammered.
Part of Waffle House Protocol is that all the servers and cooks greet every single customer as they come through the door. It sounds lame, but Iā€™ve never been to a Waffle House where that greeting didnā€™t feel completely heartfelt. My mom is a health nut who could barely find anything on the menu she was willing to eat and yet she describes the Christmas Day lunch we had there one year as one of the nicest meals sheā€™s ever had because everyone was so warm and welcoming. That sense of camaraderie gets turned up to 11, of course, at 2 a.m. when everyoneā€™s shitfaced.
The jukeboxes have Waffle-House-themed songs on them (once you have heardĀ ā€œRaisins in my Toastā€ you will be earwormed forever) and there is an arcane system of hash brown ordering: scattered, smothered, covered, chunked, topped, diced, peppered, and/or capped. The hot sauce bottles sayĀ ā€œCasa de Waffle.ā€Ā 
Once, in Oxford (UK), my husband and I walked past a kebab van very late one night and he saidĀ ā€œwhy do I smell Waffle Houseā€
The location of most Waffle Houses means thereā€™s someā€¦ classism that tends to get tied up with Anti-Waffle House Discourse, which is probably lending itself, in part, to this being such a fraught topic. (Iā€™m looking at a map and apparently I was born and raised right in the middle of the Peak Waffle House Density Zone)
It is, in the words of chef Anthony Bourdain,Ā ā€œindeed marvelousā€” an irony-free zone where everything is beautiful and nothing hurts; where everybody regardless of race, creed, color or degree of inebriation is welcomed.ā€


Weā€™re not even gonna mention FEMAā€™s Waffle House Index where they determine how bad a natural disaster is by calling the local Waffle House to see if theyā€™re open? 



#and wafflehouse is one of those spiritual places#2am friendships#its the same hazy feel#of cicadas and front porches with your friends



Waffle House is physical and spiritual neutral territory. Starting shit in a Waffle House isnā€™t just bad form, it tips the entire natural balance of the universe against you. 
                
                

                
            

            
            
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wilfulwayfarer:

rasec-wizzlbang:

dalaisa-katili:

local-emo-mom:

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    Another One, Bad, and Barbie: er
 er
 KINDER SURPRISE
 2OG KINGER SURPRISE T-1
 1.17
 KS GIRLS
 20G KINDER SURPRISE GIRL
 1.17
bizarre-transmission:

findingfeather:
wetwareproblem:


thoughts-of-an-x-factor:


ohgressfuriosa:

castiel-knight-of-hell:

jen-kollic:

thejollity:

jen-kollic:

hobopoppins:

manaphy:
wow I didnā€™t know fuckin chocolate eggs were gendered
OKAY LET ME TELL YOU A STORY ABOUT THE FUCKING PINK EGGS.
I work at a concession stand in an ice rink. We sell a bunch of chocolate bars and snacks and shit including Kinder Surprise eggs.
So one day this woman comes up to the counter with her two little kids, a girl whoā€™s probably about 6 or 7 and a little boy, maybe 3 or 4. The mom asks what they want, the little girl points at the Kinder eggs and says ā€œOne of those!ā€. I asked if she wanted the white or the pink egg. She said pink. The little boy pointed to the Kinder eggs and says ā€œOne of those!ā€. I asked if he wanted the white or the pink egg. He said pink. HOLY SHIT IT WAS LIKE I OPENED THE GATES OF HELL. The mom absolutely FLIPPED and was like ā€œYOU ARE NOT GETTING THE PINK EGG ITā€™S ONLY FOR GIRLS. YOU CAN GET THE WHITE ONE OR NOTHING AT ALLā€. The little boy looked at his mom and said ā€œBut I want the same as ______ (whatever the sisterā€™s name was)ā€. The mom completely ignored him and turned to me and gave me a death glare. ā€œHe can have the white egg.ā€
I had to give a little boy a white egg when he wanted the pink so that he could be the same as his big sister and he started crying. The mom just reiterated that the pink egg was for girls and told him that boys donā€™t cry.
And this is why we shouldnā€™t gender fucking chocolate eggs.

This is actually a relatively new thing, originally Kinder Eggs were all white like the ones on the left. I donā€™t know at what point they decided to make ā€˜girlā€™sā€™ Kinder Eggs, but I do not like it.

Holy shit do not even get me started on how moms constantly police their sonsā€™ masculinity. Iā€™ve seen mothers do it WAY more often than fathers.
I used to work at a bakery that specialized in creating custom cakes. We had this feature where we could print out any image off the computer and put it on a cake (with rice paper). One day this lady comes in and asks for an image we had of the baby Sesame Street characters. Theyā€™re all together with cake and confetti, and she asks, ā€œOh, well since itā€™s a boy, can you please change all of the little pink confettis into blue confetti? I mean, heā€™s aĀ boy, you know.ā€
Confetti.
The fucking confetti.
It barely covered 5% of the image.
Another instance was when a lady asked me for an image of four superheroes to put on her sonā€™s cake because her son was turning four. She admitted to not knowing any superheroes, so I offered the most obvious choiceā€”The Fantastic Four. I pulled up a picture of them and she goes, ā€œOh no no, we canā€™t have that. Letā€™s do another one.ā€ Confused, I pulled up a Justice League one with Batman, Superman, The Flash, and Wonder Woman. Again, she said no. I asked her if she needed anything specific (she didnā€™t know superheroes, why was she so picky?), and she just said, ā€œOh, itā€™s just that heā€™s a boy, you know? We canā€™t have a girl superhero on his cake.ā€
I nearly lost my shit. I did temporarily lose my customer service face and ask why, women have been superheroes all the time, Wonder Woman is iconic, etc etc and she was like, ā€œItā€™s just that my son has been playing with Barbie dolls lately and I really donā€™t want him to end upā€¦ well, you know.ā€
This shit has got to stop.Ā When you teach boys that certain things are only for girls, youā€™re limiting them and youā€™re teaching them that girls or ā€œgirly thingsā€ are bad. If you want gender equality as an adult, you better make DAMN sure that youā€™re teaching the same thing to your kids.

So this woman did not want her son to turn out ā€˜you knowā€™ and her plan for that was to get him a cake with spandex-clad manly men AND ONLY MEN on it? I donā€™t think she thought that one through too wellā€¦

in sociology class we were talking about gender being assigned to objects and one of the male students started saying how forward thinking he is because he buys his daughter sports equipment and ā€œboy toysā€. I asked if heā€™d do the same if he had a son and he said ā€œOf course Iā€™d buy my son sports equipmentā€. I clarified ā€œNo, would you buy him dolls and other toys that are thought of as being for girlsā€.Ā He turned around and didnā€™t answer.
Parents will pat themselves on the back for letting their little girls play baseball but a little boy with a Barbie is still considered an affront to society


Fuck everything.

My father was one of these parents (along with several other harmful issues!), and even though I know, for an absolute fact, that his world views and ways are entirely wrong, this shit he tried to ingrain into me still effects me to this day.Parents, donā€™t ruin your fucking kids by treating them like this.


I wonder how much of the ā€œmothers police masculinity moreā€ phenomenon comes back to ā€œwhen a man fails at masculinity, we call him a mamaā€™s boy and blame her for it.ā€


A lot of it. It doesnā€™t really excuse it, and as someone who did a decade and a half of childcare I can tell you that for every woman who does as described above thereā€™s one sneaking the Dora the Explorer fruit snacks because those are the ones her son loves but his father will flip his shit. 
Or being crushed that since he went to daycare he suddenly wonā€™t do ā€œgirl stuffā€ bc the other boys will make fun of him. 
Itā€™s really sad either way. 
But when it does manifest that way a huge amount is ā€œIā€™m not raising a mamaā€™s boy Iā€™m raising a MAN!ā€ And itā€™s gross. 


My nephew is 4 and weā€™ve NEVER gendered things with him, whenever heā€™s allowed a treat or a toy, we just ask him which one he wants and thatā€™s it, sometimes he picks out cars and superhero toys, other times he wants dolls and pretty pink things, I let him choose his prize at a carnival last summer and he excitedly picked a big hot pink inflatable baseball bat that said ā€œprincessā€ on it, the looks we got from some people were astounding. And even if he does turn out to be ā€œyou knowā€, then good for him, heā€™ll be wholeheartedly loved and supported.
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Another One, Bad, and Barbie: er
 er
 KINDER SURPRISE
 2OG KINGER SURPRISE T-1
 1.17
 KS GIRLS
 20G KINDER SURPRISE GIRL
 1.17
bizarre-transmission:

findingfeather:
wetwareproblem:


thoughts-of-an-x-factor:


ohgressfuriosa:

castiel-knight-of-hell:

jen-kollic:

thejollity:

jen-kollic:

hobopoppins:

manaphy:
wow I didnā€™t know fuckin chocolate eggs were gendered
OKAY LET ME TELL YOU A STORY ABOUT THE FUCKING PINK EGGS.
I work at a concession stand in an ice rink. We sell a bunch of chocolate bars and snacks and shit including Kinder Surprise eggs.
So one day this woman comes up to the counter with her two little kids, a girl whoā€™s probably about 6 or 7 and a little boy, maybe 3 or 4. The mom asks what they want, the little girl points at the Kinder eggs and says ā€œOne of those!ā€. I asked if she wanted the white or the pink egg. She said pink. The little boy pointed to the Kinder eggs and says ā€œOne of those!ā€. I asked if he wanted the white or the pink egg. He said pink. HOLY SHIT IT WAS LIKE I OPENED THE GATES OF HELL. The mom absolutely FLIPPED and was like ā€œYOU ARE NOT GETTING THE PINK EGG ITā€™S ONLY FOR GIRLS. YOU CAN GET THE WHITE ONE OR NOTHING AT ALLā€. The little boy looked at his mom and said ā€œBut I want the same as ______ (whatever the sisterā€™s name was)ā€. The mom completely ignored him and turned to me and gave me a death glare. ā€œHe can have the white egg.ā€
I had to give a little boy a white egg when he wanted the pink so that he could be the same as his big sister and he started crying. The mom just reiterated that the pink egg was for girls and told him that boys donā€™t cry.
And this is why we shouldnā€™t gender fucking chocolate eggs.

This is actually a relatively new thing, originally Kinder Eggs were all white like the ones on the left. I donā€™t know at what point they decided to make ā€˜girlā€™sā€™ Kinder Eggs, but I do not like it.

Holy shit do not even get me started on how moms constantly police their sonsā€™ masculinity. Iā€™ve seen mothers do it WAY more often than fathers.
I used to work at a bakery that specialized in creating custom cakes. We had this feature where we could print out any image off the computer and put it on a cake (with rice paper). One day this lady comes in and asks for an image we had of the baby Sesame Street characters. Theyā€™re all together with cake and confetti, and she asks, ā€œOh, well since itā€™s a boy, can you please change all of the little pink confettis into blue confetti? I mean, heā€™s aĀ boy, you know.ā€
Confetti.
The fucking confetti.
It barely covered 5% of the image.
Another instance was when a lady asked me for an image of four superheroes to put on her sonā€™s cake because her son was turning four. She admitted to not knowing any superheroes, so I offered the most obvious choiceā€”The Fantastic Four. I pulled up a picture of them and she goes, ā€œOh no no, we canā€™t have that. Letā€™s do another one.ā€ Confused, I pulled up a Justice League one with Batman, Superman, The Flash, and Wonder Woman. Again, she said no. I asked her if she needed anything specific (she didnā€™t know superheroes, why was she so picky?), and she just said, ā€œOh, itā€™s just that heā€™s a boy, you know? We canā€™t have a girl superhero on his cake.ā€
I nearly lost my shit. I did temporarily lose my customer service face and ask why, women have been superheroes all the time, Wonder Woman is iconic, etc etc and she was like, ā€œItā€™s just that my son has been playing with Barbie dolls lately and I really donā€™t want him to end upā€¦ well, you know.ā€
This shit has got to stop.Ā When you teach boys that certain things are only for girls, youā€™re limiting them and youā€™re teaching them that girls or ā€œgirly thingsā€ are bad. If you want gender equality as an adult, you better make DAMN sure that youā€™re teaching the same thing to your kids.

So this woman did not want her son to turn out ā€˜you knowā€™ and her plan for that was to get him a cake with spandex-clad manly men AND ONLY MEN on it? I donā€™t think she thought that one through too wellā€¦

in sociology class we were talking about gender being assigned to objects and one of the male students started saying how forward thinking he is because he buys his daughter sports equipment and ā€œboy toysā€. I asked if heā€™d do the same if he had a son and he said ā€œOf course Iā€™d buy my son sports equipmentā€. I clarified ā€œNo, would you buy him dolls and other toys that are thought of as being for girlsā€.Ā He turned around and didnā€™t answer.
Parents will pat themselves on the back for letting their little girls play baseball but a little boy with a Barbie is still considered an affront to society


Fuck everything.

My father was one of these parents (along with several other harmful issues!), and even though I know, for an absolute fact, that his world views and ways are entirely wrong, this shit he tried to ingrain into me still effects me to this day.Parents, donā€™t ruin your fucking kids by treating them like this.


I wonder how much of the ā€œmothers police masculinity moreā€ phenomenon comes back to ā€œwhen a man fails at masculinity, we call him a mamaā€™s boy and blame her for it.ā€


A lot of it. It doesnā€™t really excuse it, and as someone who did a decade and a half of childcare I can tell you that for every woman who does as described above thereā€™s one sneaking the Dora the Explorer fruit snacks because those are the ones her son loves but his father will flip his shit. 
Or being crushed that since he went to daycare he suddenly wonā€™t do ā€œgirl stuffā€ bc the other boys will make fun of him. 
Itā€™s really sad either way. 
But when it does manifest that way a huge amount is ā€œIā€™m not raising a mamaā€™s boy Iā€™m raising a MAN!ā€ And itā€™s gross. 


My nephew is 4 and weā€™ve NEVER gendered things with him, whenever heā€™s allowed a treat or a toy, we just ask him which one he wants and thatā€™s it, sometimes he picks out cars and superhero toys, other times he wants dolls and pretty pink things, I let him choose his prize at a carnival last summer and he excitedly picked a big hot pink inflatable baseball bat that said ā€œprincessā€ on it, the looks we got from some people were astounding. And even if he does turn out to be ā€œyou knowā€, then good for him, heā€™ll be wholeheartedly loved and supported.
                
            

            
            
bizarre-transmission:

findingfeather:
wetwareproblem:


thoughts-of-an-x-factor:


ohgressfuriosa:

castiel-knight-of-hell:

jen-kollic:

t...