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people born in 24 Are 2000 now

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spotted myself in my friends’ footage from the vegan street outreach on saturday. i look swole asf. yeah would love to see u try arguing abt plant proteim w me brother !! name all the amino acids ever dude let’s fucking go my guy what’s your leg day look like son. quickly

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The very first bill ever proposed by a female lawmaker in the United States came from Colorado state representative Carrie Clyde Holly in January 1895. Building on a decade of women’s activism, Holly’s ambitious legislation sought to raise the age of consent in the state to 21 years old. In 1890, the age at which girls could consent to sex was 12 or younger in 38 states. In Delaware, it was seven. […]

[…] Based on English Common Law dating back to the 1500s, American lawmakers had selected 10 or 12 as the age of consent to coincide with the onset of puberty, as if once a girl menstruated she was ready to have sex. Men accused of raping girls as young as 7 could (and did) simply say “she consented” to avoid prosecution. Reformers understood that once “ruined,” these young victims of assault could be forced into prostitution because no man would marry or hire a “fallen woman.”

Prostitution especially concerned wives and mothers because, before penicillin became widely available in 1945, syphilis and gonorrhea were more widespread than all other infectious diseases combined. Wives who unknowingly contracted STIs from their husbands could pass them on to their unborn children, resulting in miscarriages, fetal abnormalities, blindness, epilepsy and unsightly “syphilis teeth.” In most cases, women could not successfully sue for divorce, support themselves, or retain custody of their children if they did divorce. […]

[…] British purity reformers had succeeded in raising the age of consent to 13 in 1861, and the movement received international attention in 1885 after muckraking journalist William T. Stead went undercover in London’s brothels. Stead published a series of salacious articles, collectively titled “The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon,” in the Pall Mall Gazette detailing how London’s husbands and fathers paid top dollar to deflower child virgins in the city’s brothels. Within months, public outcry led Parliament to raise the age of consent to 16.

[…] Many lawmakers rejected women’s presence in public affairs and further resented the unprecedented campaign to curtail white men’s sexual prerogatives. So they stone-walled WCTU members, inserted neutralizing or mocking language in their proposed bills, and occasionally outright banned women from their galleries. The few legislators who went on record in support of young ages of consent voiced sympathy for hypothetical men who would be ensnared into marriage by conniving girls who consented to sex and later threatened to press charges. […]

[…] For years, black women—including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Ida B. Wells—had called attention to the fact that white men used rape as a tool of white supremacy. […]

White Southern lawmakers stridently opposed revised age-of-consent laws because they did not want black women to be able to charge white men with a crime. Kentucky state representative A. C. Tompkins went on record with his opposition, explaining, “We see at once what a terrible weapon for evil the elevating of the age of consent would be when placed in the hands of a lecherous, sensual n*gro woman,” insinuating that black women, who he claimed matured earlier and had a more sexual nature, would seduce men and then accuse them of assault. […]

- Kimberly Hamlin "What Raising the Age of Sexual Consent Taught Women About the Vote" 2020

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Peacocks are hilarious, really. They really are just like

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Lifestyle of young people in the 1970s.

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Thanks for the question, Anon! I had to combine the “10” with the “more than 10” because I ran out of space! Hope it works.

For me I have a lot of health issues and can’t work because of it, and family issues as well, but if it was a perfect world, I would choose two kids. That way they have each other.

-submit your poll!-

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Oreo Cookie Butter Bars

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trying to figure out how to organize protests against the organized cat torturing groups of men in china. they keep releasing coordinates of feeding stations for strays and scooping them up and skinning them alive, burning them, mutilating them…

there isn’t an embassy in this state and my activist friends and i feel so helpless. we discussed it last night but ended up nowhere again, just holding back tears together, bearing witness where others wouldn’t.

@feline_guardians on instagram is pretty much leading the exposure rn but it’s not enough. there are a few small protests in NYC and D.C. but it’s not enough. we have no representatives on the ground over in china and no way currently to organize there.

and meanwhile it keeps happening every day. more and more footage. nearly the entire internet loves cats and yet we can’t get this stopped. i feel utterly powerless.

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Pan-fried Balsamic Tofu

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So can y'all stop with the “nothing bad will happen in my lifetime so I don’t care” excuse now? Are you happy now?

Hell, I would love to say “please go vegan and help to fix this”, but what’s the point anymore? Humanity has clearly made its choice, and if you think that we’re going to somehow get our shit together in the next decade for the common good then you are out of your god damn mind. There is no hope left and now it’s been officially confirmed.

But it’s just soooo good to know that the reason that our entire planet is going to change as we know it within the extremely near future is because people would rather go down kicking and screaming eating their bacon cheeseburgers than be mildly inconvenienced in their daily lives ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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“No vegans are claiming to be perfect, and no vegans are claiming that their very existence is not harmful to this planet (or at least any vegans that are, are deluded). All we’re doing is offering a PRACTICAL solution for a very serious issue that is currently happening: the largest act of systematic violence in history, and its resulting havoc on the planet, and indeed on other humans.

I don’t have a practical solution to your argument about squirrel habitat being destroyed for my home. I don’t have a practical solution to your argument that pieces of metal in the electronic devices I own were mined by slave children. And I don’t have a practical solution to your argument that I pollute the air by using modern transport.

But I DO have a practical solution for the lambs being slammed to death on concrete because they’re not fit to produce wool. I DO have a practical solution for the dairy cows whose existence revolves around having their reproductive system violated and their babies snatched from them and stabbed to death. I DO have a practical solution for the ongoing deforestation of the Amazon, the lungs of the earth, in order to grow cattle feed. And I DO have a practical solution for the male chicks who are being shredded alive or suffocated to death in the egg industry. I’ve told you about it a thousand times before, and it’s called VEGANISM.

So I will continue to promote this practical solution to these issues, while awaiting your practical solutions to the issues of squirrel habitat being destroyed to build homes; slave children mining parts in our electronic devices; and pollutants being pumped into the air from using modern transport.

And when you’ve got them, I will gladly jump on-board. Until then though, I think it’s about time that you jump on-board with the practical solution I’ve offered to the issues I’ve raised.”

- George Martin

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