I get so, so many questions asking me: what if the abuser had a bad childhood? what if they belong to a marginalized group? what if what if what if, haven’t you thought about their pain?
and the idea that any of that explains for the abuse of another human being is abhorrent. the idea that we don’t already live in a world that loves to make excuses for abusers is so foreign.
where is the empathy for the abused? what about their bad homelife? what about the fact that they’re more likely than their abuser to belong to a marginalized group? what about their pain?
A new ORAS trailer is up on the Japanese site!
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572. Muggleborns set up a system for lying to their muggle friends about classes. Potions: Chemistry ; DADA: defensive fighting; Transfigurations: Physics; Herbology: Biology; Divination: Statistics; Charms: Quantum Physics. Everyone just thinks they are super smart and bound to go into some obscure STEM program. Or kick their ass if they ask too many questions.
sometimes you need to unleash upon the universe the loudest “fuck you” you can possibly muster and scream until all the anger has been purged and you’ve burned a hole in some part of the cosmos
oh COME ON.
i need to go to bed but there is a massive spider in the bathroom and i don’t want to deal with that
“Earlier this year I wrote in the eBulletin regarding my desire to have greater uniformity of hem lengths on the girls’ skirts and dresses. Although there has been some success in bringing about a change in this area, the current ‘four finger above the knee’ rule, has been problematic for staff to police. Many staff have commented to me that they feel this rule is very ambiguous and they feel uncomfortable attempting to measure skirt lengths. As a result, it has been decided that from the beginning of 2015 all skirts and dresses will be required to be ‘to the knee’. This will, hopefully, remove the subjective nature of this issue.”
maybe the staff feel uncomfortable about it because you’re asking them to scrutinise girls’ skirts in EVERY SINGLE CLASS and they are uncomfortable with looking at girls’ skirts
so starting from next term my school will be changing the uniform skirt length to knee length which is TOTAL BULLSHIT for a bunch of reasons
- new principal said earlier this year that she would not be changing skirt lengths (we thought she might bc she’s been really pissy about skirts all year + used to be vice principal at a school with ankle length skirts) so nice to know you have tony abbott as a role model
- stated reason for new length is “four fingers above the knee was too hard for you to figure out/us to check, knee length is easier” which is just. bullshit.
- finding out that teachers are uncomfortable with our skirts is like. that’s your problem
- throughout this entire thing all year, not a single thing has been mentioned about shorts
- there are no restrictions on shorts. it should be noted that even though girls are allowed to wear shorts, most don’t bc the uniform shorts are designed for guys and are ugly as hell on girls so essentially girls’ clothing is being ultra policed while no one gives a shit about guys
- (i mean guys definitely get picked up on uniform almost as much as girls, but there isn’t a school wide campaign against them not wearing ties in class)
- in year assembly today we essentially got blackmailed- to be in a position of leadership, you need to set a good example, so if you don’t wear the new skirt you’re not getting a leadership position next year
- about skirts in year 11. there’s the summer one (term 1 and 4) and the winter one (2 and 3). in year 11 you get a new summer skirt. not including this term, we have 3 summer terms and 2 winter terms left of school ever, and we have had one summer term.
- this means that a large number of people have spent money on a skirt which was worn for one term before ceasing to be correct uniform
- and that 50% of my year group is expected to spend possibly hundreds of dollars on a uniform we are going to wear for jack shit amount of time
- (which is just another thing related to money- new principal has introduced a thing which is basically every parent from year 5 on has to pay for a piece of technology which will become obsolete in two years’ time) (dear new principal you may have previously worked at the $25000/year school but this is the $10000/year school there are parents who can’t afford this)
- also new principal goes on about how she has consulted with ~~all the teachers~~~ about this like it’s some great thing but the old principal who was amazing used to do the same, but he talked to the students too. he had lunch with every single student in the school, and asked for everyone’s opinions, and it was great
basically changing the skirt lengths is total bullshit and the new principal kind of reminds me of the head of english, who is under the impression that all the students love her, when no one actually likes her
also this is a lot longer than i was planning