my name is Megan
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I like and therefore blog about TV/ Movies/ art/ Books/feminism/silly jokes/ and other stuff
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just so that you realise the true pain of my existence, you should know that i'm alergic to cats
my blog has become this weird mixture of fandoms, feminism, cats and really fucking stupid jokes that nobody outside this website would find remotely amusing
my brother is 21 years old and a chef in a 5 star restaurant and he still has dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets for dinner every night so dont let anybody tell you how to live your life
They never published the second picture, which was the one where she backhanded him in the fucking face for getting all up in her shit.
Oh great, good to know this has been a problem for HUNDREDS OF YEARS CAN WE PLEASE STOP DOING THIS ALREADY JUST FUCK OFF AND LEAVE ME ALONE
Everyone is overlooking something very significant in this picture, that I saw in two seconds, that adds a layer of super slime to his whole awful attitude. “The Irritating Gentleman” is a politeness.
She’s wearing all black in 1874. Black gloves, hat, cloak, and dress. In public. The whole nine yards. That’s not a fashion choice or a gothic thing. Back then when people wore all black like that, they were in mourning for someone who died. No one did mourning like the Victorians, that shit was an art form to them.
Someone in her family has died—she could even be a young widow. No one’s accompanying her either. With the carpet bag? She’s traveling alone while still in deep mourning. Look at the closeup. She’s got tears in her eyes. She is upset, devastated in a way that one is only when someone has died. And the guy’s still bothering her, like her problems are flippant bullshit and she needs to just smile or pay attention to him because ladies are supposed to be pleasing for men no matter what shit they’re going through. That’s not a look of “what an ass.” That’s a look of devastation that even in her pain, she’s expected to give people like him focus. She’s not mad. She’s hurt. And to add insult to injury? Everyone would be able to tell. It was a clear sign and still is in ways that someone is mourning, to dress in black crepe like that. He would know why she’s wearing all black, and he’s still demanding her attention.
Police descended on a Roma camp today in France to evict its residents in a new crackdown against illegal immigrants.
Men, women and children were carrying out their belongings as they were removed from the camp in Lille, northern France.
In the past year France has shut down many illegal camps full of Roma gypsies which have sprung up around the country.
With an estimated population of about 15,000 Roma in France, and the government seems determined to expel as many as it can.
In August there were similar raids with hundreds of Roma gypsy families being forcibly sent from France back to their countries of origin in Romania and Bulgaria.
Those evicted from camps in France were herded together under the watchful eye of CRS officers (the French equivalent of the riot police) wearing military-style blue outfits and black leather boots, then taken to airports and put on flights to their home countries.
The French are so determined to move on the Roma that they offer them financial incentives.
In addition to covering the cost of the trip home, the French government pays 300 euros (£235) to every expelled Roma adult and 100 euros (£80) for every child.
Reports of Romanian gangs perpetrating organised crime, such as cashpoint fraud, are common in France — as in the rest of Europe — and this only serves to whip-up anti-Roma sentiment.
In total, nearly 1,000 Roma have been deported following at least six raids last summer.
The exact figures are hard to establish because the French authorities are not allowed to define those they have ejected as ‘Roma’, because this would suggest that their actions are potentially racist and therefore illegal under EU law.
Only the vulnerable — pregnant women, the frail and the elderly — are given housing by the French social services.
However, healthy young men have been seen fleeing into nearby woods, or through the streets to avoid being rounded up.
Marine David, mayor in Saint-Priest, admits the French authorities are playing a game of ‘ping-pong’ with the gypsies.
‘We are going round and round in circles,’ she says. ‘We can’t offer them a permanent housing solution, and I know there’s a risk they will just set up another camp. We just don’t have the means to deal with this kind of situation.’
This game of human ‘ping-pong’ began under the previous president, Nicolas Sarkozy, who ordered the ejection of around 9,000 gypsies, only for many of them to return. He introduced the deportation crackdown in 2010 after linking the Roma community to begging, prostitution and petty street crime.
Despite promising tolerance and humanitarian assistance if elected, Sarkozy’s successor, Socialist President Francois Hollande also approved the eviction programme after he and interior minister Manuel Valls said the camps were adversely affecting the lives of the French working class living near to them.
Local councils’ court orders to destroy camps are all approved by the national government.
i rarely reblog news/political stuff, but as a european with a lot of american followers i want you to see this. roma are treated absolutely horribly here, i’ve seen it throughout my childhood in hungary and poland (my countries of origin) and now, every day, here in sweden (where i grew up and still live). so pleasepleaseplease stop using the word “g-psy” — which i have no right to use, as it is a racial slur — to describe anything hippie, wanderlusty or flowerchildly. there are plenty of words to use for those things without being casually racist. my people and my immediate relatives have suffered much persecution in europe and i have solidarity with others that suffer the same or worse. thanks x
For my followers with the g*psy slur in their urls. Kindly get informed.
^This
those of you who are my friends this is why I get upset about things like Buckland’s g**** magic book. This culture and these people go through so much shit already that our using a slur that came from their pain as some sort of ornament for ourselves just rubs me wrong okay. I will never say you can’t use the word but if I am upset when you do please understand.
