January 2011
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Is the way your gender gets portrayed in the media...
gunnarkauth:
http://heteroabnormative.tumblr.com
Go to this blog.
A friend I know runs it, and I hadn’t seen it until today. It’s funny, interesting, and upsetting. so check it out.
This is great.
Today I am going to a 6 year old's first...
But I think it’s a “everyone gets a trophy for participating!” kind of thing.
I’m really tempted to make red, blue, and white ribbons, and award him accordingly myself.
REMINDER: one of the most important things you can...
Listen up people. When you have giant boobs EVERY...
theoceanandthesky:
williamaweasley:
lady88:
EVERY. SHIRT.
It’s not slutty…it just happens.
Now move along.
skellington is following lady88. two worlds meet. yayyyy
oh my god gpo-twenty years of my life.
yep.
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pyrrhosrepublic:
parliament-of-owls:
one day it will be warm outside again & there will be sunlight past five pm & i will be capable of doing more than just sleeping. one day i will go back to reading books that aren’t just brain candy & i’ll maybe even start writing again. one day i will have interests & hobbies again. one day i will actually try to sort out my future &...
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I am having a terrible time finding a bag I...
I have way too many bags. But I’ve been searching for one that can act as an everyday bag/bookbag/laptop case so I’m not rotating through them every couple of days. And especially for when I am traveling & will need my laptop w/ me a good portion of the time. (Like in about 3 weeks).
I have a little bag I love that’s designed for maybe a 13” laptop. It’s a...
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You know what? We DO need to redefine rape.
et-tu-dionysus:
[TRIGGER WARNING FOR RAPE/RAPE CULTURE/VICTIM-BLAMING] Our society has this idea that rape is what happens when a young beautiful virgin woman walks through an bad neighborhood at night and is kidnapped and raped by an ethic gang-member.
If you’re married it isn’t really rape. If you’re drunk it isn’t really rape. If you’re dating it isn’t really rape. If you wore a skirt it...
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“You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie...”
– Kathleen Hanna, Ms. Magazine, 2000 (via asuddendeath)
AND IT’S A LIE
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Lament of the financial-aid worker: WHY ARE PEOPLE...
thetemerity:
The officers aren’t blameless, to be sure, but the worst I’ve seen from them is getting overworked and busy and forgetting things. But some of these kids and parents are just total shits.
Maybe it’s just the people who apply to this particular school, but the sense of entitlement is overwhelming and awful. People turn forms in late but expect us to deal with them instantaneously....
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Yes, Chick-fil-A Says, We Explicitly Do Not Like... →
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“Unlike a lot of the deep thinkers who have written big books about how our...”
– Bill Patrick at XY: “Late for the equality train: Why young men need to learn about feminism”
I had a hard time deciding on a quote from this piece. Go ahead and click through for more.
(via lostgrrrls)
This was a really great read. While it wasn’t shocking, it was still disturbing how the...
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DiGiorno's Pizza And Cookies Combo Is Watershed... →
Pizza & Cookes?
Excellent idea.
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petitefeministe:
Laurie Penny: Four myths about feminism – and one thing Dominic Raab is right about
In the week when Sky presenter Andy Gray has been sacked for “unacceptable behaviour”, feminism may have gone far enough. At least that’s what Conservative MP Dominic Raab thinks: he has defended his comment that men get a “raw deal” at work because of feminist...
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Are there really people who don't realize that...
thetemerity:
librarianinlittlecanada:
Have many people by the graduate level never experienced wildly different translations of the same text?
Maybe it’s just my background I guess?
I’m confused that this is a foreign concept.
I keep seeing this reblogged and it still keeps shocking me.
Maybe it’s just because I had so many classes early on in college that relied on translations- Dante,...
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“Teenage girls curl up together like newborn puppies, painting one another’s toes...”
– Emma Straub’s piece on My So-Called Life/Rayanne on the Paris Review blog is so, so great.
I agree with this in the sense that my girlfriends and I are all very physical with each other, but I don’t think it’s because of a constant state of arousal that borders on the insane, I just think it’s...
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interruptedchaos asked: Hello (I apologize in advance for this essay I'm about to write in your ask box, lol)
My name is Danielle, I'm a women's studies minor and I love following your blog! You have so much interesting information on feminism and feminist issues! I'm still new to women's studies and I often find myself conflicted with certain issues or situations. I was browsing Netflix...
My name is Danielle, I'm a women's studies minor and I love following your blog! You have so much interesting information on feminism and feminist issues! I'm still new to women's studies and I often find myself conflicted with certain issues or situations. I was browsing Netflix...
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Every child deserves access to education.
the-madame-hatter:
Every child deserves up to date textbooks. Every child deserves competent teachers. Every child deserves access to a well maintained and safe school.
Every child should get the same opprotunities than the next. Family income, which neighborhood they live in, etc. should not even factor into the equation.
This is why the American education system is a fucking mess. It is, at...
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“I got a B once in French and I started crying. But then junior year came along...”
– Alia Shawkat on high school to BUST (via tulletulle)
LOL Alia
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“There’s been only one issue that really matters in the thirty years since Ronald...”
– David Michael Green (via azspot)
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The Slanted Playing Field
squashed:
Monopoly is a good game for libertarians. Everybody starts out in the same spot. The rules are clear and understandable. There’s a lot of luck—but enough skill that you can feel good about winning. And it’s just a game. We don’t need to shed any tears for the losers.
To succinctly demonstrate my problems with the libertarian view, let’s change one rule. The player with the wealthiest...
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mohandasgandhi:
My new number 1 goal in life is to make excessive paper use as illegal as possible. It’s time we properly embrace technology already. This is beyond ridiculous. No one should need a warehouse just for half of their files.
This is a big pet peeve of mine. Many industries and companies are moving further and further away from the necessity of printing out documents. These...
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“Most of us, in our daily lives, do not think about rape at all. Women, however,...”
– Pornography, Lad Mags, Video Games and Boys: Reviving the Canary in the Cultural Coalmine Matthew B. Ezzell (via iwillnotshavemyvagina)
I always walk with my keys out after dark. I will gouge your eyes out.
(via robot-heart-politics)
See, my mom taught me to gauge out an attacker’s eyes...
Making "fetch" happen
inautumn-inkashmir:
rosalarian:
I hear a lot of grammatically-inclined people constantly bemoaning the use of singular “they”. Though there are many grammar scholars who say that singular “they” is a legitimate use of the word, and has been used in such a way throughout the history of the language and by many respected writers, most of the people debating grammar on the internet aren’t grammar...
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Santa Barbara to realign sidewalk benches used by... →
tranzient:
emilyswash:
abbyjean:
Cities have tried many ways to move panhandlers and vagrants out of prime shopping districts, but Santa Barbara believes it has a new angle — 90 degrees. Using $50,000 in redevelopment funds, the city is planning to turn 14 benches perpendicular to the State Street storefronts they now face. The idea is to make it more difficult for beggars to establish...
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I wish that anyone who liked Anthony Head would...
Hi there! Also: ASHLatte
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feministic asked: I just went through your Feminist book list and added every book that I hadn't read into my Amazon wishlist. I am completely in love with your Tumblr and it's a pleasure to follow you. :-)
Lots of Buffy on my dash today.
No complaints.
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What Would Willow Wear? →
tumblr never disappoints me with its randomness
(Also, I think my style in the 90s was just a much more butch, a bit less colorful, version of Willow’s. In fact, sometimes it was more similar to Xander’s…..)
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You Mad, Anti-Choicers?
rabbleprochoice:
You REAL mad, huh?
38 years later and we won’t go back. Our bodies are our own; our lives are our own we won’t go back to having to choose between having them controlled or dying for a chance at reproductive freedom.
Love,
Rabble
The title of this post + the gifs
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