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I would be a happy grandma.

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I learned about the murder of Kitty Genovese in two separate psychology classes, at two separate universities. It was studied as an example of the “bystander effect”, which is a phenomenon that occurs when witnesses do not offer help to a victim when there are other people present.

I was told by my professors that Kitty Genovese was a 28-year-old unmarried woman who was attacked, raped, and brutally murdered on her way home from her shift as manager of a bar. I was told that numerous people witnessed the attack and her cries for help but didn’t do anything because they “assumed someone else would”. Nobody intervened until it was too late. 

What I was not told was that Kitty Genovese was a lesbian who lived more or less openly with her partner in the Upper West Side and managed a gay bar. 

Now… is it likely that people overheard Kitty’s cries for help and ignored them because they thought someone else would deal with it? Or, perhaps, did they ignore her because they knew she was a lesbian and just didn’t care?

Maybe that’s not the case. Maybe it was just a random attack. Maybe her neighbours didn’t know she was gay, or didn’t care.

But it’s a huge chunk of information to leave out about her in a supposedly scientific study of events, since her sexuality made her much more vulnerable to violent crimes than the average person. And it’s a dishonour to her memory.

RIP Kitty Genovese. Society may only remember you for how you died, but I will remember you for who who were.

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Books That Should Probably Never Be Written

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Don’t Even Joke With That Ish

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Hemingwayapp.com is a writing tool that lets you paste in your text and suggests edits for you. It highlights sentences that are hard to read, alerts you of phrases that are written in passive voice, keeps count of your adverbs, and tells you the grade reading level of your writing. Source

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Oh my dog. (via RosslynAJ / to_wags)

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It’s like taking crazy pills

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It is a wonderment to some ….

ht: DH

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This is very accurate

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The Power Of Bohemian Rhapsody

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When shopping for a new printer, don't look for the cheapest machine, looks for the cheapest cartridges, ebay has lots of cloned cartridges that makes running your printer super cheap.

I’ve found I end up on craigslist buying a second hand printer that takes the cloned cartridges, costing me only a few bucks. My office printer gets rinsed pretty hard so I need it to be cost effective.