June 2013
“Men who want to be feminists do not need to be given a space in feminism. They need to take the space they have in society & make it feminist.”
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Kelley Temple, National Union of Students UK Women’s Officer (via petiteperspective)
WOW. NEVER HAS ANYONE SAID IT SO WELL. OMG. i’m jealous that this isn’t a quote of me.
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Reminds me of zee beach houses.
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If you think the appropriate response to a discussion about rape is to suggest that we in turn allow the perpetrator to be raped or think prison rape jokes are acceptable get the fuck off of my blog now.
The button is in the top right corner. Have a nice day.
elizabitchez replied to your post: How about River Song for meme? :D
River as Liz10’s spymaster would be awesome. To hell with 11, he’s too manboy for River. I think River and Liz10 should run the whole damn galaxy.
LIZ10 OMG I FORGOT ABOUT LIZ10!
…Fuck YES.
Plot twist: The villain kills the main character and his girlfriend levels up her personal character development and takes over as protagonist.
“A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, [it is] an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”
—Naomi Wolf (via femininobsession)
“Later, after Trek was on the air, the producers used the network’s concerns about sexuality to their advantage — they would deliberately put sexy stuff into episodes for the network to freak out about, so the censors wouldn’t notice other things. For example, in the episode “A Private Little War,” the producers deliberately put in a scene of Kirk having an open-mouth kiss with a half-naked woman, so the network could throw a fit about that — and not notice the blatant Vietnam allegory.”
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10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About The Original Star Trek (via mediahascookies)
THIS IS WHAT STAR TREK IS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT
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When JJ Abrams decided that he didn’t like the “philosophy” of Star Trek, this is some of the stuff he was knocking.
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Also, remember when Star Trek had a character who was two parts Timelord and one part River Song and they decided the best person for the job was Whoopi Goldberg? Remember how they were right? Remember how they went…
“you’ll scare guys off with that feminist crap”
oh i’m sorry
you’re right
the kind of guy who has problems with me demanding that i be treated as his equal is totally the kind of guy i want to be in a relationship with
my mistake
lol and that’s even considering that i want to attract guys at all lol.
gtfo boys.
I LOVE THIS POST WITH ALL MY HEART! Also when I was still interweb dating my profile specifically included the words “bitchy smart feminist” to scare off just those kinds of guys. I ended up with awesome boyfriend, so there’s that.
Villain, I have done thy mother: Participation grades are, in effect, inherently sexist, as well as ableist. →
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Teachers, first off, favor boys speaking in the classroom, even ones who think they do a good job of classroom equality.
- teachers are more likely to call on boys and then go on to reinforce, praise and encourage them. When a boy gives a wrong answer, a teacher will spend time to help him reason out the correct answer. However, when a girl answers, a teacher is likely to either respond with a bland “okay” to her right answer or simply to move on to another student if her answer is incorrect.
- Boys are eight times more likely to call out in class without raising their hands and tend to dominate discussions. Boys are twice often used as role models in class and five times more apt to get a teacher’s attention when they raise their hands to recite. Boys often recite even if they have not done the day’s homework, whereas even well prepared girls hesitate to participate. The older girls get, the more they let boys take over the class.
- Teachers learn boys’ names more quickly.
- An underlying theme of coeducational schools is that if only boys would work harder and behave better, they’d get better grades. The underlying message for girls is “You are nice and well behaved, and you work hard, but you’re not very smart.”
This is not even considering students who suffer from social anxiety or autism, or who are maybe even just introverted. This is generally an ableist phenomenon. Besides, anxiety mostly affects—wait for it—women. Women are twice as likely to have anxiety than men are.Classrooms need radical change. Learning gender roles begins during childhood, and what are we teaching children? That boys get to talk, and girls get to submit to them.
That’s fucked.
Well that helped
My meds at the moment are working really fucking well, so I don’t actually take anything during the day for fibro pain. But I do have emergency muscle relaxers for bad days (thanks awesome doc). I took one. It very quickly took the pain down from OH MY GAWD WHY DO I FEEL THIS ALL THE WAY IN MY FACE! to just pain in the pertinent area. Plus I am now a little woozy and don’t give as much of a fuck. SWEET.
Now I need to find something to distract myself with on the Netflix.
autumnyte replied to your post: sorry not sorry about all the poop today.
For whatever reason you are one of like 5 people I follow that has been posting about poop in the past 72 hours. My dash’s poop-to-everything-else ratio went through the roof, and I’m okay with that.
idek what is going on but it’s been a poop fest up here today and I AM REALLY OKAY WITH THIS.
It’s kind of like hanging out with a group of new moms. Or going to a baby shower. The conversation inevitably turns to poop.
i feel like this parallel between andersmancers and baby showers is some sort of epoch.
Baby shower conversations also often turn to sex as well. Apparently there is a ‘horny as fuck’ stage of pregnancy. Or so I’ve been told. So… if the awkward discussion shoe fits…
THAT SECOND TRIMESTER THO.
LIKE THE MOST RANDOM PEOPLE START TO LOOK REALLY FUCKING HOT.
That second trimester was all x rated dreams, masturbation, sex, sex, and more sex. Seriously, I am surprised I got anything else done.
I think my right ovary is trying to claw its way out of my body
OH HOLY FUCK NO THE PAIN. And I have fibro, so I am like soooo fucking familiar with pain. But this is like hurts all the way to my tonsils pain.
“Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a coalition of mayors from around the country, recently released an analysis of mass shootings since January 2009, shootings in which four or more people were killed with a gun. “There was a noteworthy connection between mass-shooting incidents and domestic or family violence,” the report states. That connection? A majority of the mass shootings in the four-year period were domestic-violence related. In 32 of the 56 mass shootings, or 57 percent, the perpetrator “killed a current or former spouse or intimate partner or other family member.” If we as a society have any interest in preventing mass shootings—crimes that seem so senseless, so unpredictable—we have got to look at domestic violence.”
—When Domestic Violence Becomes a Mass Shooting by Anna Minard - Seattle Features - The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper
i can’t believe some of you actually LIKE pete campbell and actually SHIP him with PEGGY
WHO THE FUCK WOULD DO THAT?
I have a new theory
David Wenham is the anti-Sean Bean.
Your dad sends you off in a hopeless battle against an overwhelming number of orcs?
Don’t die.
Hugh Jackman drags you along to fight vampires in Transylvania?
Don’t die.
Join a suicide mission to stop the Persian army for Sparta?
Don’t die.
I”m not sure that guy can be killed.
It’s not always true. I don’t want to spoil too much, but let’s just say that the dude can be killed if he is wearing a modern suit and tie.
I was born in the wrong time period. I should have been born in the far future when everyone has the rights they fucking deserve
and space ships.
and every food is healthy
and time machines
and other future stuff
I should’ve been born on the Enterprise
I WOULD WALK FIVE HUNDRED MILES
AND I WOULD WALK FIVE HUNDRED MORE
JUST TO BE THE MAN WHO WALKED A THOUSAND MILES
TO GET WILL GRAHAM SOME PROPER FUCKING MEDICAL CARE
Sticks and stones can break my bones but words can mobilize an entire society in violent hate against me.
Language is never neutral.
Star Trek Into Darkness Plot Twist: Halfway through the movie, Captain Kathryn Janeway marches on screen and punches JJ Abrams in the face.
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Illuminati Eyebrows: Another character that kind of has a fucked up premise
is Wonder Woman.
Imagine you’re raised in this utopian, women only warrior society (this part isn’t fucked up) and you’re taught all about how outside of…
I Wanna read this right now
did you know that if you go into your bathroom turn the lights off and say Bones three times fast McCoy shows up and says “damnit jim im a doctor not a spirt of folklore”
lillinox replied to your post: Someone hold my bank card for me
I’ve been wanting to try matte nails lately, but I am not very good at nail polishing.
The trick with nail polishing is….. fuck it- the mistakes wash off in the shower. Don’t worry about getting it all over your cuticles or fingertips or the skin on the sides- as long as you cover the nail totally. Make sure your nails are clean clean clean- no lotion or oils before painting and then wipe down with acetone nail polish remover even if you didn’t have polish on. Use a good sticky base coat. 2 thin coats of polish, then a good quick dry top coat. Once it’s all dry, slather some moisturizer on and work that into your cuticles (this will also help remove polish fuck ups). I like straight up cocoa butter or coconut oil. And then wash your hands and peel off the polish boo boos. I get my polish to last a week or 10 days, but I’ve been switching it up more often lately cause boredom + stress.
i hate when people vilify psychiatric pills as ‘mind-altering drugs’
like
yes
that’s exactly what they are
they are for mental illness
mental
if i had a kidney-related illness, i would hope to have kidney-altering drugs on the market
Someone hold my bank card for me
Boyfriend and I are going to dinner and a movie, but I gotta make a quick run into Ulta for nail polish thinner and remover. I am not a big spender on anything (except my nails lately, which keeping long and purdy distracts me from the horrors of bedbugs and unemployment) so uh, this could be bad. BUT ALL I WANT TO DO IS MAKE OMBRE NAILS, THAT’S ALL.
House votes to allow indefinite military detention of Americans →
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The U.S. House of Representatives voted again Thursday to allow the indefinite military detention of Americans, blocking an amendment that would have barred the possibility.
