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Deep Throat: It's Not All In Your Head
Girls, giving head can be great fun for both you and your partner but deep throating can lead to a whole other not so pleasant experience. You see, the wall of the esophagus, essentially your throat, is exceptionally thin and extremely fragile. It can puncture or rupture very easily causing a hemorrhage and possible bleed out. Repair to the esophagus is not that simple and requires very difficult and exacting surgery. The healing process is not the pleasant either. Am I saying that deep throating is wrong? Not at all. But take the information I have given you and make an informed and rational decision before you let a guy cram his shlong down your throat. Things to consider before making this decision: If the guy's dick is too long you might want to pass. If it's too thick you might want to pass on that too. The most important thing to consider is that your throat is not built to take a pounding like your vagina is for the reasons that I have already explained. So, be fucking careful. A good rule of thumb: Definitely do not let a guy cum in your throat unless you want to take the serious risk of suffocating to death. Also, don't let a guy ram rod your throat like a steam engine piston. That may be the most dangerous thing involved w deep throating and It's just not worth the risk. Also, not all girls throats are designed the same. You may not physically be able to deep throat. If you find it difficult then you probably shouldn't try to force it. Remember, this is your body. Don't let a guy do something to it that could potentially cause you serious harm or, at the very least, simple discomfort just because you want to please him. And if' he's insistent on it then he's probably not the guy you want to impress. Sex should be fun and mutually enjoyable. If he's having fun and you're not then maybe you shouldn't be doing it. ~ Trabue Gentry .
Rebel Against All The Things That Tie You Up And Keep You Down
It's so sad that people have to rely on alcohol or anything else to do what they want. This is your body, your brain, your life, You own it. Do what you want w it. You won't get any second chances after you're dead. Rebel against all the things that tie you up and keep you down. Be free to think, feel and say what you want. Get naked and walk down the street w your fist held high in defiance of those who would judge you. Be who the hell you want to be. If you don't get the response you want then you're hanging w the wrong people. You earned the right to be free when you were brought into this world w out your permission. You fought like hell to stay alive while floating in embryonic fluid for nine months and then forced from your home into the bright and frightening lights of life only to become a slave to the world. Don't fucking do it. Don't be a slave. Throw away the guilt. You have nothing to feel guilty about so long as you never imposed yourself on anyone else. Don't allow depression to destroy you. Stand up and fight to be happy. You have every fucking right. You can start by eliminating from your life anything that doesn't agree w you. Avoid alcohol and drug abuse at all costs. These things will end up owning you and you're already owned enough. And if you die from them, you loose the opportunity to rebel and make life your own and to help others who were in your shoes. If you absolutely have to use these things, for crap's sake, don't fucking feel guilty about it. Just do what ever you need to to get away from them as fast as you can so you can stay in the game. Don't fucking give into peer pressure. They're assholes.to try make you do something you don't want to do so who gives a shit what they think. Most of all, we have to hang together, love each other, have compassion and understanding for each other. In the truest sense of the sentiment, we are all family coming from one finite source. So hang on tight to each other. Never apologize for who you are. You have nothing to apologize for. You're cool. Human beings have lived under the oppression of others since our inception. It's time to stop the trend. Be fucking free NOW! ~ Trabue Gentry
The Sad Truth...
"The sad truth is the truth is sad.” Now here's a perfect example of an inspirational saying gone way wrong. First, it;s just a clever play on words, nothing more. Second, it's completely wrong. Truth is neither sad nor happy. It is simply truth. To me, truth is enlightenment and that can never be a bad thing. Truth is only happy or sad dependent on how it applies to your preconceived notions before enlightenment. It's all relative. Third, the author used "the truth" incorrectly per its context. It should read "The sad truth is, truth is sad." Now, if the author wanted to be correct AND clever it could read like this: "The sad truth is that sad truth can be sad." Now, that's the truth! ~ Trabue Gentry
Who writes this shit?
I disagree w this in its entirety. The world can be a beautiful place but seldom do we get the opportunity to enjoy it. Most of the time we are enviously observing those who are in a position to experience its beauty. As for dying, though I find many theories about the afterlife to be plausible, I have no real way of knowing what the afterlife will be like, So I'm afraid I'm afraid. Who writes this shit? ~ Trabue Gentry
The Buy Now and Pay Later Syndrome to The Extreme…
We are living in an ever increasing world of "I want What I want at any cost" people.. Being the confirmed hedonist that I am, I look at "I want what I want" as quite reasonable…except when others must pay the price for one's indulgences. We take what we want at any expense, then justify and rationalize our actions. In fact, we will do whatever it takes to achieve that end. We simply do not care about consequences to others or even to ourselves. We live for then now and care only about our own immediate gratification. This is becoming a serious problem for our society. Unfortunately, there is no society when it is every man for himself. ~ Trabue Gentry
Think For Youraelf...
Rhymes and clever plays on words are often not words of wisdom. In fact, they are most often mere works of art designed to appear inspirational and can unintentionally and even intentionally lead one down the wrong path. Remember, people like Hitler and Mussolini were incredibly gifted w the art of inspiration but they used it against not for mankind. So, be careful. Just because something sounds good doesn't mean that it is good. This is why we were given free will. We all have the ability to make appropriate choices, to be able to tell right from wrong, good from bad. Use that ability. Don't just take the word of every clever meme or inspirational quote that comes along. Learn all that you can, question everything, draw your own conclusions, then make your own decisions. ~ Trabue Gentry
Student Loans Industry Prediction / Commentary : "The Looming Student Loan Crisis"
Hello All, It's that time of the month I usually share a "Gem of Opportunity" for you to reflect upon. However this time its not I plying an innovative conceptual design for you to mull over. I have in past years offered up predictions surrounding: future inventions regarding dental hygiene, hidden American Naval Installations, the distant future healthcare industry in America, including the Great Generation 2.0 of Americans who are now children living in poverty in the shadow of this "Great Recession". Today I stick my neck out once more hoping to God I've misread the signs and have misinterpreted my intuition. I rather be gladly wrong than get this prediction correct regarding America's Next Financial Crisis. Our next American recession will be surrounding the Student Loans financial industry. Which is now underwritten by $1 Trillion dollars by the Federal Government and climbing for the stratosphere. The last estimated figure heard in the news here in the States a couple of weeks ago. Was data from October 2011 placing America at $1.2 Trillion Dollars. One trillion dollars underwritten by the Federal government via the private lending institutions (ie banks). The other couple hundred million dollars as unsecured private financing which is: personal lines of credit, HELOC (Home Equity Lines of Credit) loans, 529 State Funding Plans, retirement account loans, etc... Here's an article from the CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) in the Federal Government set up during the 1st term of the Obama Administration. The article is dated from last year in July 17th, 2013. Student Debt Swells, Federal Loans Now Top A Trillion Dollars (Link) I've lived about 40 years on planet Earth here in America so far. In my human experience nearly every decade of my mortal existence there has been a recession led by greed, negligence, incompetence, and plain ugly corruption. In the 1970's it was the 1973 Oil Crisis and the 1973 / 1974 Stock Market Crash, in the late 1980's the "Savings and Loans Crisis", the late 1990's and early 2000's it was the Dot Com Boom and subsequent Bust, and in the last quarter of 2007 the "Great Recession". I'm a Generation X by birth here in America, as they say X marks the spot. :o) Americans enter into selective amnesia every decade acting like innocent lambs when an economic crisis of our collective making occurs. When we are the hardcore bogeymen of the world as the only super power until that is the Chinese catch up. Below is a pictorial Image courtesy of "The Wall Street Journal" showcasing 2012 values of the types of student loans.
Right now I foresee 4 Types of Asset Bubbles confronting Americans today in late 2014. First, the aforementioned $1.2 Trillion dollars of Student Loans from numbers of October 2011 (as the latest data sets). Second, Tech Firm valuations during M&A (Merger and Acquisitions) activity when technological firms merge. The most famous recently was when "Mr. Marc Zuckerburg" of Facebook paid for "WhatsApp" at the $16 Billion price tag. It started the reincarnation of the Dot Com asset bubble paying on future hyped performance commercially for something that may or may not ever happen. Other tech firms have followed suit in Facebook's example and that is a dangerous trend indeed. Third, auto sub-prime loans much like what started the housing crisis of the "Great Recession". More sub-prime loans for automobile paper is on the rise, didn't we learn our lesson already? Finally the fourth asset bubble I foresee is that of Sports League Team Owners looking for municipal bond tax payers. To go onto a bloody meat hook so they can build themselves a shiny brand new stadium. Cities like Tampa, Florida are still paying off the last stadium and don't have the stomach hearing about a new stadium. These Team Owners of whatever sports league can do the financing themselves they're just looking for State / Local government welfare handouts. Our Federal Congress of legislators have done patch work reforms to lower interest rates for Student Loans. Such as the "Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act of 2013" tying it to the 10 year Treasury Note for the life of each individual loan. (Source: Aug. 1st, 2013 U. S. News & World Report) (Link) President Obama also took Executive Action with the "Pay As You Earn" existing Federal student loan program. By expanding it to cap at 10% of a student's income which after 20 years time with the loan a portion can be forgiven. (Source: The Chronicle.com June 9th, 2014) (Link) I still personally suspect this may vent some of the steam from this pressure cooker, but not enough. It may be too little, too late. I'm no professional in the financial industry, however take it as face value from a spiritual intuitive aka an "Oracle Imagineer". This is a prediction that in 2 to 3 years time we're over due for our next American economic recession. Remember every decade of life I've had on this Earth there's been an economic meltdown in America. Our last one was 7 Years Ago in the last quarter of 2007 for the "Great Recession". We're due for our pound of flesh to be paid by the aforementioned criteria of human: negligence, incompetence, greed, and corruption. Speaking of corruption regarding the student loans industry the CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) I mentioned above. Seeks $500 Million dollars from a law suit against "Corinthian Colleges,Inc." It's a for-profit college that services 74,000 students with private loans with fraud in overly expensive tuition rates, advertising bogus job prospects and career services at graduation, and illegal debt collection practices to strong arm students. (Source CFPB Sept. 16th, 2014) (Link) Right now we're swimming in the wild wild west of for-profit colleges and universities be they online only or otherwise. Playing with students fast and loose with their higher education career needs. Not until the financial tide goes back to sea. Will we notice all the naked swimmers as predators and criminals preying on unsuspecting students. Just like when the credit industry dried up during the "Great Recession" crooks like Mr. Bernie Madoff were discovered with their fraudulent schemes. This is a partial chain of events I foresee as happening when the "Student Loan Crisis Strikes" in 2 to 3 years time. Remember the last "Great Recession" happened during the last year of the Bush Administration in America. The "Student Loan Crisis" may very well begin during the last year of Obama's Administration. An eerie trend n'cest pas? First, the student loan default rates will begin to climb month after month due to excessive interest rates on the loans. Indicators will be from the major banks and lenders servicing students such as: Sallie Mae, Citi Student Loans, Wells Fargo Education Financial Services, Bank of America, and JP Morgan Chase. To name a few. Whereby many colleges and universities will begin climbing on tuition rates nationally across America. The first line of victims will be the for-profit colleges & universities online enterprises followed by their bricks and mortars brethren having their stock market prices plummet. Next the 529 State Plans used as funding sources will deplete ahead of time due to changes in tuition rates in most funding plans. Colleges and University campus will start to trim the low performing baccalaureate programs from their curriculum. Next non-essential staff and unfilled vacancies will be trimmed from the school budget. School Maintenance budgets will also see their planned dollars cut drastically. However that is only triage before the patient of higher learning in American begins to really hemorrhage as a patient. After the for-profit educational entities bite the bullet next comes public state colleges and universities to follow. Satellite campus locations will start to see their hours of operation shortened until they're furloughed completely. Forcing undergraduate and graduate students to commute to the main campus instead. When this damage control ceases to work for campuses then the core undergraduate or graduate programs will be curtailed as offerings. Delaying graduation dates for students that's if the next semester inflated tuition rates doesn't do them in eventually. University and College student body marches and protests will start to be televised on the news wire across the country. Those students fortunate to have parents in America's top 10% as the multi millionaires will go unaffected by all this turmoil. Otherwise non Ivy League endowment giving will start to see a noticeable drop from philanthropists. Value added supply chain corporations that rely on Universities will start to see diminished orders or non-renewals of their contracts. (ie Text Book makers, Sub-contracted labor on campuses, other logistical services) Savvy American students will start to consider International English speaking countries such as: Great Britain, the Caribbean nations, Australia, South Africa, Canada, and New Zealand. As alternative destinations for their higher education scholastic needs. This begs the question if American Universities abroad start to feel the pinch as well in funding of their operations? Will the Student Loan Crisis as a financial lending contagion spread to Europe, Asia, or elsewhere internationally? Certainly niche as smaller traditional woman colleges and those servicing Afro-Americans will also see a harsh impact to their campus with any offered curriculum. We won't know 2014's actual Student Loan numbers until October 2017. By that time is when I foresee this crisis beginning the point of no return. Until that is the Federal government steps in like they did in 2008 with the "Great Recession". Bailing out the banks and other assorted money student loan lenders like "Sallie Mae". Not until another round of a fire sale of some lending institutions brokered by the Federal government in part being sold off before a full bankruptcy. America will only learn years after the fact the ugliness that reared its head just as we're pulling out from our lost decade from 2007. The U.S. government as the chief underwriter may force banks to slash most to all interest rates just to collect the principle loan amounts as payment scheme installments. Since "The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005" written by special interest groups for legislators that sold out Americans. Whereby all qualified education loans regardless of whether a nonprofit institution was involved in issuing the student loans. Can Not Be Forgiven this includes even Social Security beneficiaries as senior citizens or the disabled getting their government welfare checks garnished. (Source: NY Times, Sept. 12th, 2014) (Link) The Federal Government will be staring down if Usury rates andfees can even be collected. Making it sound more like a form of "Sharia Compliant Finance" operation as conducted by many Muslim nations abroad. Wikipedia: "Usury" Definition (Link) Dare I say "Brace for Impact for the Pigs are Flying"! It's only a matter of time in my opinion and not a matter of "If" that will whip lash America with our next recession. My money or suspicion is it'll be with the "Student Loan Crisis". Again allow me to reiterate this is my intuition firing off since I personally foresaw the "Great Recession" one full year before it happened. I didn't know squat about the derivative lending global market which led to the housing mortgage crisis. I simply called them "Voo Doo Mortgages" not knowing any better from my own ignorance of the total dynamics at play. Now time will tell in 2 to 3 years time if I was on the mark as X marks the spot. (Generation X'er here) Or if I'm completely an ass talking up my back side regardless of these obvious meta concerns I'm intimidated by in principle by my convictions.
The "Model Minority"
Asian Americans seem to have it good, don’t they? After all, they are all smart, get high 90s, and go on to succeed in life. Or is it the opposite? Asian Americans are dirty yellow people who eat weird animals and steal your jobs.
Which one is it? The truth is, it’s neither of these. Asian Americans are a minority in the grand old U. S. of A who are held up to double standards impossible to achieve. They are hated. They are held superior to other minorities. And it is a problem.
Americans may choose to forget, but racism against Asians has been around since the 1850s, when Chinese immigrants were employed as cheap wage workers in gold mines, and given only half or less the wage they should have normally earned. Regardless of how little they were being paid, raucous shouts of “they’re stealing our jobs!” sounded in the depression of 1876. Does it sound similar to the slogans of today? For over 100 years, this dehumanising behaviour continued, from internment camps to violating boundaries in “pat downs” for immigrants. And not just towards the Chinese and Japanese. South Asians, Filipinos, Pacific Islanders, they were all subjected to the same disgusting treatment.
However, in the 1960s, there was a turning point. During the upheaval of the civil rights movement, the government pitted Asian Americans against Black Americans, pointing out how the Asian Americans were a “model minority” due to their docile behaviour and work ethic. Newspapers praised them, stating, “At a time when Americans are awash in worry over the plight of racial minorities — one such minority, the nation’s 300,000 Chinese Americans, is winning wealth and respect by dint of its own hard work … Still being taught in Chinatown is the old idea that people should depend on their own efforts — not a welfare check—in order to reach America’s ‘promised land.’”
By viewing Asian Americans as “more superior” than Black Americans, the harmful stereotype of successful Asians swimming in money and with kids that go to Harvard was born, along with causing a rift between the minorities.
But that’s all in the past, one can say. It’s different now. Really?
Modern films and books still portray stereotypes of Asian characters. The Chinese girl with striped bangs. The immigrant mom who will disown her daughter if she doesn’t get into Yale or Harvard by 18. The sexy Japanese girl who wears a kimono and provides sexual relief to the white protagonist. These tropes are all still alive and kicking, even in such “progressive” times. We must actively work to dismantle them.
The first way is to run films that include Asian Americans (or any BIPOC character, for that matter!) through the Luna Test, which was invented by Joshua Luna, a Filipino comic artist. The Luna test consists of 8 qualities, all targeting common racist tropes found in entertainment. If the film fails to meet any of these criteria, it contains content that portrays minorities in a harmful manner.
The second way is to include Asian, and Asian American history in history classes. After all, why only focus on the white history? There are always different points of views, and seeing the point of view of an Asian American during the second World War would certainly help students open their minds to actively dismantling racist stereotypes and to see the inequality that still continues in the world.
In order to create such a change, we must actively work towards educating teachers, film producers, and the world in general. If they can see what needs to be done, they can help teach our generation, and the next. Films that portray BIPOC characters in a positive manner are in dire need. If big studios like Sony or Warner Bros can’t give us that, it is up to independent film makers to rise up. To change the whole world, one must start with tiny actions like these that will create a domino effect until there are no more “model minorities” or harmful stereotypes.
SOURCES:
Starkey (2016), “Why We Must Talk About the Asian-American Story, Too”. The Undefeated.
Strochlich, (2020) “America’s Long History of Scapegoating its Asian Citizens” National Geographic.
ASIASOCIETY (2021) “Asian Americans Then and Now” Asia Society.
De Leon (2020), “The Long History of Racism Against Asian Americans in the US” PBS.
Luna, (2020) “Caste-ing Call”. Tumblr.
TVTropes (2021) “How Asiatic Can You Get?” TvTropes.
im a huge fan of the uk rapper Ren and also a huge fan of watching music commentary/reaction videos
i am not a huge fan of watching people react to Ren’s extremely explicit political commentaries and saying ‘okay so we’re not gonna get into politics but…blah blah blah *mindless waffle*”
don’t do a commentary on the Money Game trilogy if you aren’t ready to have a discussion about how global capitalism corrupts the world and is the source of (and i mean this with all sincerity) all evil
Something that TLOU HBO did that I loved was that they let Ellie be an actual, real fourteen year old girl.
I feel like so many shows just assume that teenage girls are inherently unlikeable, so they portray them as stupid, annoying pests who should never be take seriously. Sometimes if they don’t do that they’ll go in the opposite direction, making their teen girl characters distance themselves from the demographic by being so unbelievably charming, mature, and witty that it becomes impossible for real people, especially real teenage girls, to live up to it. (As great as The Last of Us Game is, it very much does that).
A lot of times that ‘perfect teenage girl’ philosophy also carries over to appearance, with teen girl characters always dressing and looking mature, stylized, and unrealistic.
(Not the main point of the post, but you can absolutely see how these portrayals harmfully affect real teen girls by making them feel like they aren’t worthy of love unless they conform to impossible standards) (is this getting about me? Pfffffft, nooooooo…)
But The Last of Us HBO doesn’t do that. It lets Ellie be a real teen girl with all her faults. It doesn’t portray her as annoying or idealized, it portrays her as a real person who deserves to be taken seriously, and that’s something that will always help the flawed-14-year-old still inside me. She’s awkward and abrasive and charming and funny and brash and sweet and it sees her not as a pest but as a person. Someone who doesn’t always look perfect or fashionable. She’s someone who cries and screams and gets flustered without it being something to make fun of.
Craig Mazin, the main writer for the majority of the show, doesn’t see being a teen girl as something inherently wrong. I think it’s because he has a now-adult daughter who it’s clear he adores. He wrote Ellie with so much respect and care, and it’s clear he loves the character (and is also a fantastic show runner)
Thank you, Craig Mazin
You can get away with anything if you are confident and liked.
(These are all blanket statements, obviously there are exceptions, but the concept holds)
Think of it as a kid in the principal's office. If the kid gives their excuse or whatever in a confident, self-assured manner, and if the principal likes the kid, their chances of getting away with whatever goes way way up.
Having confidence but not likablility makes you cocky and arrogant.
Being likable but having no confidence is like having a good personality.
I love breaking down hunger games and analyzing it, and I've thought a lot about the love triangle. Particularly how there isn't really one. How the love triangle was really just marketing, but it was always peeta and katniss. And also, Gale was always borderline toxic and possessive. If I compare that to TSITP...gale becomes Conrad imo, the way gale assumes that there is some attachment due to his care/protection/ whatever from the past, having issues that make the FMC feel needed and responsible to help, (I actual started writing this in June of 2023 and just stumbled upon it in my drafts so I'll try to finish what I was talking about) saying things to make the FMC feel guilty about choosing the other guy (even in small things, not even dating the other guy, but like talking to him), letting/making the FMC feel as though she's the only one who knows him/what's going on for him.
The thing about The Hunger Games for me is that Suzanne Collins was pointing out how powerful people are (and have always) pointing attention towards entertainment, and especially romance, to distract from serious issues. In the books, the love triangle is hardly present (again, IMO) but the movies proved the point by drawing out the relationships and marketing the movies for the love triangle, which led many people to believe it was just a dumb storyline about a teenage girl who can't choose between two guys uwu, when in reality it was a social critique, told from a teenage girl without criticizing or belittling girls in any respect, and taught a generation about activism.
That is the crucial different between the two, to me. Hunger Games was meant as a social commentary in ya fiction form, which got marketed as a love triangle. Summer I Turned Pretty really is about the love triangle.
Belly in the first episode is reading the Hunger Games, in the 4th episode in the flashback we see she's watching the movie, do you think there's a connection with TSITP love triangle?
Wow , great question. Unfortunately, I haven’t seen the hunger games… it wouldn’t be fair for me to make an analysis, but I’d like to think that Jenny never does anything unintentional. In season 1, Cam and Belly went to watch Sabrina at the drive in and the plot of the movie represents the triangle between Belly, Conrad, and Jeremiah. There’s connections everywhere. My sister has seen Hunger Games and she said that there’s not even a love triangle that present. I know that Jere loves Belly, but it’s not as present and deep like I think Conrad’s love is. From what I heard, it seems like Katniss and Peeta’s relationship had the main focus and the third person of the triangle was there to spark things up between them. Same goes for TSITP, Belly and Conrad are beyond teenage love. They’re represented as a love that will always find their way back, no matter the obstacles, they’re meant for one another. The gravitational pull between Conrad and Belly is infinite, the light shines most on them. Jeremiah and Belly’s love is platonic, as teenagers and young adults that can get confused with being in love, but when it doesn’t feel right—you’ll just know. I’d love to hear your theories and connections.
“it’s a good thing that the minecraft movie isn’t about the intense loneliness of minecraft’s world and finding growth and hope in a post-apocalyptic society because it’s for children” Have You Ever Spoken To A Child
i cannot, do not, and will never ever respect the “it” pronoun
“it” is a pronoun used for objects and takes away the value of human life when applied to humans
Nina Paley’s This Land is Mine A lushly animated, affecting, and ultimately terribly sad look at human waste in the name of divine mandate, Nina Paley’s condensed history of the Holy Land may streamline things, but in doing so, only cuts more directly to the melancholy, hypocritical, bloody heart of our martial nature.
does anybody else remember when the h*nger g*mes movies were big and there was that really dark, haunting song in them about a man getting lynched and people watching it because that kind of violence was so normalized in their world (that “are you are you coming to the tree, they strung up a man, they say he murdered three” song), and then in real life they made like a club version of that song to play on the radio