Roller Derby is the most amazing sport I have ever been a part of.
New players are enthusiastically welcomed and made to feel a part of the community.
The community is incredibly accepting of LGBTQIA+ people.
Everyone actually uses your pronouns for you.
If you have to correct someone on your pronouns, they’ll start using correct ones.
Derby is the first place where I met openly LGBTQIA+ people my own age.
The local adult league has an all-gender restroom at all of their bouts.
It’s also full of feminists.
It basically includes everyone.
If you don’t want to play contact, you don’t have to! Everyone gets to learn at their own pace.
Basically it’s an incredibly inclusive and welcoming environment.
Okay, story time, folks.
So I’m in a junior roller derby league (to young to be in the full on ones), been playing for six years, non skating official one year. And holy crap, I can’t even express the love.
Today, during half time, the part of the league that wasn’t drinking water was discussing gender, BDSM and how horrible 50 shades was and how it wasn’t BDSM, it was rape. We talked about abusive relationships, and the people who were less educated on anything just asked questions. RESPECTFULLY.
Everyone tries their hardest to understand everyone. All of the games for our states big league is translated into sign language (explaining the rules and such) so deaf individuals can understand the commentary.
The policies for the game are made to particularly protect women, people with special needs (sensory issues, hearing, processing, so on) and trans people. There’s a huge, and I do mean HUGE LGBT presence in derby. Heck, two of my trainers (I’m only a stand in coach, but I guess I would count as the third?) are Genderless, most all of my teammates are bi, pan, trans, gay, or questioning.
The newer people are always cheered for and aren’t ever belittled, and are set to learn at their own pace.
Religion isn’t ever a big deal.
One of the whole things about derby is to stop slut shaming and sex shaming so it’s always really open, but in a okay manner I guess (hard to explain?!), so it doesn’t feel violating, just open and happy. But slut shaming is never a thing.
Every person has a story behind their derby name, and their derby name is an identity.
Roller Derby is freaking rad and I love it. I love our community. I love everything about it.
Ppsssst you should too maybe
Whether it be when you feel you don’t belong, when you feel upset, when you’re angry, when you’re going through a hard time or when you’re feeling empty. (Social Experiment: I want to see how many people do this)
John 6:51-53 says, “ I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”52 The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’ 53 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.” That’s fairly unambiguous: his followers are confused about why Jesus would give them flesh to eat, whereas they wouldn’t be confused about being giving bread to eat. They also would not refer to ordinary bread as flesh.
In addition, according to Luke 22:19 and Matthew 26:26-28, Jesus, when giving the disciples the bread/flesh at the Last Supper, said, “This is my body given for you.” He didn’t say, “This is a metaphor for my body.” He said, “This is my body.” Although Jesus frequently spoke in parables, we know from Mark 4:34 that he would explain the parables to his disciples: : “When he was alone with his own disciples, he explained everything.” If communion was metaphorical, Jesus would have explained it. There’s no indication that it was meant as a metaphor.
Seriously, one of the important tenets of Protestantism is “sola scriptura,” so why would you ignore the clear statements of Scripture on this topic?
Okay, new rule: if you regularly consume the blood and flesh of a demigod in a room full of chanting elders you’re not allowed to call other religions primitive and evil
Well, I realized I was bisexual at sports practice, so...
The moral of Rudolph the Red nose reindeer is that no one likes you unless you’re useful.
Okay guys this is kinda important. GQ just came in the mail and for the first time in a long while it had a really important article…
I just sat here for like the last half hour reading this and I’m incredibly appalled at our justice system in regards to the military. The article interviews about 23 men who have all been sexually assaulted in some branch of the military. The PTSD from sexual assault in the military is more prevalent than PTSD from combat…
If you have a chance I suggest reading this article…and the title is a quote that one of the victims Doctor told him…
Okay, I found a quote from an interview with Ian McKellen. “The actor who’s starred as Magneto in the X-Men films also said he signed on for the films after director Bryan Singer explained to him that the mutant superheroes serve as an allegory for the gay community.”
(Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/jaimieetkin/ian-mckellen-ellen-page-living-in-the-closet?utm_term=.qnjmMjMDk#.tnRQzZzVg )
“ezra miller is going to be the first lgbt+ person to play a superhero!!”
i mean yes he’s going to be the first to get a solo movie but
So I looked at his wiki page, and I was going to say this was Photoshopped because that phrase wasn’t on there, but then I looked at the revision history and, well,
So apparently yes, until 11:37 PM last night, the wiki page for Anthony Ramos referred to him as a “pure angel bean 10/10.”
who did it
WHO DID IT
If you do not reblog this, you are in fact lying.
I think that a lot of parents prefer their teenagers having cell phones to them not having cell phones, because it makes it easier to coordinate lots of things (pick-up time from events, meeting location, “can you pick up [x] while you’re at the store, etc.). Especially given the number of teenagers who rely on their parents for transportation, teenagers not having cell phones is inconvenient for the parents, not just the teenagers.
I think some adults are bothered by teenagers using their cell phones for social media, and/or during in-person social events? Some of the people complaining about teenagers using cell phones are also older than the parents of current teenagers.
why dont phones have little tiny laser pointers built in