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Wed, 22 May 2013 04:12:46 -0400

chekhov: In health class we were given sheets of paper and told to write a message we would want...

Wed, 22 May 2013 03:18:25 -0400

In health class we were given sheets of paper and told to write a message we would want someone of the opposite sex to know

She read some examples

The girls were like: “Hey can you please not treat me like shit”

The boys were like: “Spray tans look ugly I hate when girls wear too much makeup and don’t lead me on.”

snapdraws: Apologies for the terrible image quality - I’m...

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:35:02 -0400

snapdraws:

Apologies for the terrible image quality - I’m lacking scanner access at the minute so I had to take these photos on my phone

I was reading hyperbole and a half’s blog entry explaining their experience of depression and decided to make another sketchy comic based on my experiences with anxiety, which is another mental illness I think people tend to misunderstand quite frequently

Hopefully this will be of use to some people - whether they suffer from anxiety themselves or if they just want to know more about it

thequeenofscream: beeishappy: Stephen Colbert salutes UVA’s...

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:08:12 -0400

thequeenofscream:

beeishappy:

Stephen Colbert salutes UVA’s Class of 2013 Followed by this.

FUCKING THANK YOU.

lalacanthearyou: arystar: blingostarr: courtbo: finishedby5am...

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:06:18 -0400

lalacanthearyou:

arystar:

blingostarr:

courtbo:

finishedby5am:

Wow.

The human body is fascinating

I keep telling people this shit in real life and they don’t believe me.
I’ve seen it from multiple sources, and this just adds another (albeit usually unreliable) source.

This is actually legit, guys. This is how your eyes move when you’re thinking about something. It’s actually a good way to tell if someone is lying or not, because they’ll look to their left (your right, durr) when they’re constructing false memories, and to their right when they’re actually remembering them.

HOLY CRAP. SAVING THIS FOR FUTURE REF.

this is totally real..just learned some body language stuff for theatre class and this was included

I have been looking for something like this for ages! I’ve caught myself looking in specific directions before, and wondered about it. Awesome!

"Here is the thing, okay? Coming into a feminist conversation with, “Have you considered that..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:03:34 -0400

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Here is the thing, okay? Coming into a feminist conversation with, “Have you considered that sometimes women acquire free drinks at bars?” is like walking into graduate school during Philosophy finals and saying, “Have you considered that the color blue that I see may not be the color blue that you see?”

Imagine you are the guy who just walked into that Philosophy class and laid that shit down. Imagine the class full of students who have worked very hard and committed themselves and sacrificed to be here, students who have spent several years of their lives learning about this subject. Imagine now their feelings when you go to the head of the classroom with a smirk on your face and demand the professor give you an A for effort. Imagine now that they think you are a douchebag asshole, because they do, and because you are. You are a douchebag asshole because you are obviously so self-centered, arrogant, and completely ignorant of the world around you, that you thought you could walk into a high-level course with no background and no work and say something profoundly simplistic and totally unrelated and also everybody should congratulate you for having done this thing, so brave, so provocative.
[….]
You are not asking us a real question. You are simply illustrating, for all to see, your own ignorance. You are saying, “I have not considered the implications of the question I have just asked. I have not taken the time nor effort nor commitment to sit down and ask myself this question. Instead, I have come into your philosophy classroom/office/feminist blog and shat out my question with a smirk, because I believe that my two seconds of thought are worth more than your long-term analysis, because I believe I am worth more.”

”

- Fugivitus: A few things to consider when you find a feminist blog (via absolutely-spiffing)

And for the record: women getting free drinks at bars enables rape culture.

(via sanityscraps)

"We [Fraction and his wife, Kelly Sue DeConnick] were pregnant at the time, and while I was out there..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 01:56:38 -0400

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We [Fraction and his wife, Kelly Sue DeConnick] were pregnant at the time, and while I was out there I started to realize that if I had a daughter, there would come a day when I would have to apologize to her for my profession. I would have to apologize for the way it treats and speaks to women readers, and the way it treats its female characters.

I knew that if we had a daughter, because I know my wife and I know the kind of girl she wants to raise and I know the kind of girl I want to raise, she was going to look at what I did for a living and want to know how the fuck I could stomach it. How could I sell her out like that?” Fraction continued. “That conversation is still coming, and I’m bracing for it in the way that some dads brace for their daughter’s first date or boyfriend. I became acutely aware that I had sort of done that thing that lots of privileged hetero cisgendered white dudes do. ‘I’m cool with women, and that’s enough.’ It’s not enough. It’s embarrassing to say, because we somehow have attached shame to learning and evolving our opinions, culturally, but I became aware that there was a deficiency of and to women in my work, and all I could do at that moment was take care of my side of the street.

”

- Writer Matt Fraction on his role on expanding the profile of female characters in the Marvel Universe. (via goodmanw)

The Problem with 'Boys Will Be Boys'

Wed, 22 May 2013 01:54:41 -0400

The Problem with 'Boys Will Be Boys':

For months, every morning when my daughter was in preschool, I watched her construct an elaborate castle out of blocks, colorful plastic discs, bits of rope, ribbons and feathers, only to have the same little boy gleefully destroy it within seconds of its completion.

No matter how many times he did it, his parents never swooped in BEFORE the morning’s live 3-D reenactment of “Invasion of AstroMonster.” This is what they’d say repeatedly:

“You know! Boys will be boys!”

“He’s just going through a phase!”

“He’s such a boy! He LOVES destroying things!”

“Oh my god! Girls and boys are SO different!”

“He. Just. Can’t. Help himself!”

I tried to teach my daughter how to stop this from happening. She asked him politely not to do it. We talked about some things she might do. She moved where she built. She stood in his way. She built a stronger foundation to the castle, so that, if he did get to it, she wouldn’t have to rebuild the whole thing. In the meantime, I imagine his parents thinking, “What red-blooded boy wouldn’t knock it down?”

She built a beautiful, glittery castle in a public space.

It was so tempting.

He just couldn’t control himself and, being a boy, had violent inclinations.

She had to keep her building safe.

Her consent didn’t matter. Besides, it’s not like she made a big fuss when he knocked it down. It wasn’t a “legitimate” knocking over if she didn’t throw a tantrum.

His desire — for power, destruction, control, whatever- - was understandable.

Maybe she “shouldn’t have gone to preschool” at all. OR, better if she just kept her building activities to home.

I know it’s a lurid metaphor, but I taught my daughter the preschool block precursor of don’t “get raped” and this child, Boy #1, did not learn the preschool equivalent of “don’t rape.”

Not once did his parents talk to him about invading another person’s space and claiming for his own purposes something that was not his to claim. Respect for her and her work and words was not something he was learning. How much of the boy’s behavior in coming years would be excused in these ways, be calibrated to meet these expectations and enforce the “rules” his parents kept repeating?

There was another boy who, similarly, decided to knock down her castle one day. When he did it his mother took him in hand, explained to him that it was not his to destroy, asked him how he thought my daughter felt after working so hard on her building and walked over with him so he could apologize. That probably wasn’t much fun for him, but he did not do it again.

There was a third child. He was really smart. He asked if he could knock her building down. She, beneficent ruler of all pre-circle-time castle construction, said yes… but only after she was done building it and said it was OK. They worked out a plan together and eventually he started building things with her and they would both knock the thing down with unadulterated joy. You can’t make this stuff up.

Take each of these three boys and consider what he might do when he’s older, say, at college, drunk at a party, mad at an ex-girlfriend who rebuffs him and uses words that she expects will be meaningful and respecte, “No, I don’t want to. Stop. Leave.”

The “overarching attitudinal characteristic” of abusive men is entitlement

The Literary Dilemma

Wed, 22 May 2013 01:52:15 -0400

smallestgrackle:

When you finish a scene or a short story and you reread it immediately:

“Wow, this is the best thing I’ve ever written.”

When you read it a week later:

“Wow, this is garbage.”

Great thing about writing: You get more skilled at your craft every day.

Terrible thing about writing: You get more skilled at your craft every day.

neverforgetthemusic: 221cbakerstreet: lulz-time: It’s like...

Wed, 22 May 2013 01:42:13 -0400

neverforgetthemusic:

221cbakerstreet:

lulz-time:

It’s like the cat realizes whose holding it in the second gif

is this heaven

you can almost hear the cat fangirling

the-laughing-cactus: jaclcfrost: if i was in a fictional universe i wouldn’t be the main character...

Wed, 22 May 2013 01:40:25 -0400

the-laughing-cactus:

jaclcfrost:

if i was in a fictional universe i wouldn’t be the main character i’d probably be that friend of the main character who lacks supernatural powers or special abilities but makes up for it with sarcasm and really lame one-liners

canitouchyoursleeve: I STILL DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE HATE...

Wed, 22 May 2013 01:39:26 -0400

canitouchyoursleeve:

I STILL DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE HATE RARITY SO MUCH???

omg the last one

wilwheaton: I kind of want to go to a convention and cosplay as Sparks McGee. … I need to figure...

Wed, 22 May 2013 01:29:04 -0400

wilwheaton:

I kind of want to go to a convention and cosplay as Sparks McGee.

… I need to figure out how to make a rainbow uniform that will fit me.

Oh Christ, please do this.

“‘We Have Always Fought’: Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative” by Kameron Hurley â A Dribble of Ink

Wed, 22 May 2013 01:28:05 -0400

“‘We Have Always Fought’: Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative” by Kameron Hurley â A Dribble of Ink:

alyssabethancourt:

I’m going to tell you a story about llamas. It will be like every other story you’ve ever heard about llamas: how they are covered in fine scales; how they

“Because when we choose to write stories, it’s not just an individual story we’re telling. It’s theirs. And yours. And ours. We all exist together. It all happens here. It’s muddy and complex and often tragic and terrifying. But ignoring half of it, and pretending there’s only one way a woman lives or has ever lived – in relation to the men that surround her – is not a single act of erasure, but a political erasure.

“Populating a world with men, with male heroes, male people, and their “women cattle and slaves” is a political act. You are making a conscious choice to erase half the world.

“As storytellers, there are more interesting choices we can make.”

Yes, yes, all the yes. If you are a creator of stories of any kind, please read this article.

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Tue, 21 May 2013 20:37:17 -0400

mileyhighrus: stressful day in the office

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:33:00 -0400

mileyhighrus:

stressful day in the office

crueltyandgrandeur: justice-5ever: kobragay: mohandasgandhi: ...

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:53:03 -0400

crueltyandgrandeur:

justice-5ever:

kobragay:

mohandasgandhi:

si-dramatic:

“You’d think the US government had bigger priorities than treating honors students like criminals, yet here we are”

Watch this.

holy shit, we’re finally recognized.

Everyone should freaking watch this

Watch this right the fuck now, all of you.

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Tue, 21 May 2013 18:26:15 -0400

the-thought-emporium-imperial: protomlad: s brilliantjust-laff: egberts: if i ever met a genie...

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:23:20 -0400

the-thought-emporium-imperial:

protomlad:

s brilliantjust-laff:

egberts:

if i ever met a genie i wouldnt wish for a million dollars id wish that whenever i bought something i’d always have the right amount of money to pay for it in my pocket

you are one of the great thinkers of our time

Shit that’s genius

“Sir, do you… Always walk around with $250,000?” “YOU GONNA SELL ME THE CAR OR NOT?”

What the fuck car did you buy that cost $250,000????

mofran: smogoncc: The official Pokémon Facebook page just...

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:21:23 -0400

mofran:

smogoncc:

The official Pokémon Facebook page just uploaded this image! What’s your answer? Ours is Karateon, of course, but Pebbleon is pretty cute too.

pebbleon is ducking hilarious

I Put Stuff Here Sometimes

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chekhov: In health class we were given sheets of paper and told to write a message we would want...

snapdraws: Apologies for the terrible image quality - I’m...

thequeenofscream: beeishappy: Stephen Colbert salutes UVA’s...

lalacanthearyou: arystar: blingostarr: courtbo: finishedby5am...

"Here is the thing, okay? Coming into a feminist conversation with, “Have you considered that..."

"We [Fraction and his wife, Kelly Sue DeConnick] were pregnant at the time, and while I was out there..."

The Problem with 'Boys Will Be Boys'

The Literary Dilemma

neverforgetthemusic: 221cbakerstreet: lulz-time: It’s like...

the-laughing-cactus: jaclcfrost: if i was in a fictional universe i wouldn’t be the main character...

canitouchyoursleeve: I STILL DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE HATE...

wilwheaton: I kind of want to go to a convention and cosplay as Sparks McGee. … I need to figure...

“‘We Have Always Fought’: Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative” by Kameron Hurley â A Dribble of Ink

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mileyhighrus: stressful day in the office

crueltyandgrandeur: justice-5ever: kobragay: mohandasgandhi: ...

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the-thought-emporium-imperial: protomlad: s brilliantjust-laff: egberts: if i ever met a genie...

mofran: smogoncc: The official Pokémon Facebook page just...

“‘We Have Always Fought’: Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative” by Kameron Hurley â A Dribble of Ink