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Gentlemen! Let’s play a little game. I call it “Creep or Normal Guy?” The way you play is you have less than a second to decide whether a man you don’t know is a threat or not. If you identify a normal guy as a threat you could get called a bitch; if you identify a creep as a normal guy you could end up dead. This is fun, isn’t it? Now play it every day, with nearly every man you see, in nearly every situation you’re in, from the time puberty hits to … well, I turned 38 this week. Can someone tell me when I can stop playing?

Wild tells the story of every woman’s least favorite game: ‘creep or normal guy?’ - Kristen Page-Kirby (via misandry-mermaid)

World Stands With Pakistan to Mourn Slain School Children

Pakistan woke to a day of mourning on Wednesday after Taliban militants killed more than 140 students in a grisly attack which shocked the nation.

Source: NBC News

Endless Starfish

(My answer to this week's flash fiction challenge from terribleminds.com, in which you must produce a story based on a randomly generated title). I bring you Endless Starfish:

In the beginning, there was Starfish. The waves rolled by and time rolled by and the oceans dried, yet Starfish remained. He was tenacious, effervescent, pink. He was unbound. Even is the end of all things, Starfish was.

Alone, Starfish wept a single tear, and whispered to himself, ‘I am infinite.’

I wanted to know more about the victims of today’s horrifying massacre, and since the media’s information wasn’t quite specific enough, I took to Facebook to look for them.

What I found was this playful, innocent status written by a student of Peshawar’s Army Public school. You can just tell how much these kids loved being at school.

Mubeen Shah, the boy at the end, uploaded his cover photo a while back with this quote: “We are a nation of beauty and great grief. Our smiles are much stronger than your guns.”

Mubeen and his other three friends in this picture were all killed by the Taliban today.

And, as much as I want to, I don’t know how to look at these kids and tell them to “Rest in Peace”

Because how can they “Rest in Peace” when every article covering their massacre is riddled by Islamophobic comments?

How can they “Rest in Peace” when they, the victims, are categorized alongside their oppressors?

You do not have to be any particular religion or political party to mourn alongside Pakistan today. Muslim, Christian, Democrat, Republican: it doesn’t matter. All you have to be is awake.

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