March 2012
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“If I wanted the government in my womb, I’d fuck a senator.”
– Senator Judy Eason McIntyre; Tulsa, OK (via supcakes)
You're fucked now, UrbanOutfitters, muahahahahah! →
stfuconservatives:
gloria-swanson:
apihtawikosisan:
This is the big news of today and I haven’t seen it all over the place yet! The Navajo Nation (who has trademarked their name) is suing UrbanOutfitters. The suit is based on trademark infringement and violation of the Indian Arts and Crafts Act. This is going to be an awesome case!
It’s great that they’re taking a stand to reclaim...
February 2012
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"My sister lost her baby... and my state requires... →
stfuconservatives:
leeleeleelee submitted: “This is the reality of Texas’ ultrasound for abortion bill. A 30 year old Texas woman’s fetus’ heart stopped beating after 12 weeks. The options given were to wait until miscarriage, give birth to it, or to abort it (the preferred, safest option). She has to look at an ultrasound of her already dead fetus and if she looks away, she will have to...
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100,000,000 Workers Grind India To A Halt In One...
thewayistare:
lafemmeindienne:
itsthemusicpeople:
taringanjing:
One of the world’s largest ever strikes began at midnight on Monday 27th Feb and will end at midnight tonight. Up to 100,000,000 Indian workers from different sectors and industries are calling for a national minimum wage, permanent jobs, and much more.
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Are those nine digits?
motherlaaaaaaaaaaaaaand git it...
“I think it’s funny, but the last thing you’ll ever see me do is jump up and...”
– George Clooney on rumors of his sexuality (via gayerthanjew)
Watchiamabutchsolo:
collegehumor:
Gender Role Reversal Dating
“Does this mustache make me look fat?”
Play on stereotypical gender roles.
I was sitting in class today
awildvuvuzelaappeared:
and realized that instead of talking about what should happen to a woman who gets pregnant from a rape, politicians should be talking about preventing rape all together, and then i wondered why none of the politicians have thought about it that way.
Prejudice: [PoC calls white person a cracker].
Racism: Two centuries of PoC being stolen from their homelands, driven out of their native lands, tricked, raped, infected with disease, and otherwise downtrodden so as to remove them from any chance of being the dominant race.
Prejudice: [PoC gives a white person a nickname playing on the fact that they're white].
Racism: PoC must, from the moment they realize a baby is on the way, worry about whether giving a child a name reflecting their heritage will affect their chances at a good life in the future. Hint: it will.
Not racism: Calling out that slavery lasted for two centuries, and civil rights did not happen for PoC until the 20th Century (you know, the century which only ended TWELVE YEARS AGO).
Racism: We should not talk about it, because it makes [non-PoC] feel bad.
Not racism: A non-PoC actor can get pretty much any role s/he wnats.
Racism: ... including roles that were originally written as PoC. PoC actors must settle for roles making them servants, sassy women, jive turkey men, criminals, drug addicts, or abused downtrodden prostitutes, the better to reinforce the negative mental image of PoC in the minds of the zeitgeist, and hold up the excuse that "they bring it on themselves".
Not Racism: Flattering pictures of people used to represent them on the web.
Racism: Flattering pictures of Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Bachman. But the most unflattering pic available of Michelle Obama is used for the same article.
Not Racism: Articles about women's features.
Racism: Article purporting to have scientific "proof" that Black women are uglier than women of any other race.
Not Racism: America is where everyone is supposed to have equal chance.
Racism: Equal chance? Freed slaves were lucky if they got 40 Acres and a Mule, after working for free for generations for people who are now wealthy and offered no other reparations.
Not Racism: Irish History Month, Italian History Month, French History Month, German History Month, etc. All of which would, technically, qualify, btw, as White History Months.
Racism: It's not Cameroon History Month, Nigerian History Month, Egyptian History Month, Zimbabwean History Month, Zaire History Month, Somalian History Month, etc. It's BLACK History Month. Doesn't matter what country in Africa you come from. If you're Black you just all get lumped in together.
Not Racism: PoC describe their experiences.
Racism: Non-PoC interrupt, derail, silence, mock, deride, or cite "oversensitivity" because it makes them feel uncomfortable to know that PoC have endured this, and to have to acknowledge their privilege -- and their responsibility to do something about it if they really are as anti-racist as they profess.
...add your own examples.
Bravo to anyone who took part in this!! This post is amazing !!!
infinityadeux:
des-etoiles:
xvxavier:
If you’re a “nice guy” to a girl up until you realize she doesn’t want to date you, then go on about how she’s a cold shrew that friendzoned you and how no girls date nice guys, like, nah mate, girls do date nice guys. You just aren’t a nice guy. You’re a passive aggressive beta with internalized misogyny and a serious victim complex.
ohmystars this.
...
“I’m hilarious” I whisper to myself as I continue making shitty text posts that get 2 notes
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latententropy:
In Defense of Florece + The Machine’s No Light, No Light. For the tl;dr crowd, just look at the pictures
First of all, I’d just to preface that despite being a big Florence + the Machine fan that upon viewing ”No Light, No Light” I immediately felt uncomfortable with what I perceived to be racial undertones to the music video. I didn’t...
Please tell me again how Billy Crystal isn't a...
douglass-forgot-the-chitterlings:
africanessence:
“After seeing the help I wanted to hug the first black woman I saw. From Beverly Hills that’s about a 45 minute drive.”
Houston, we have a mission.
Target: Crystal, Billy Objective: Through a series of well placed nut shots, throat chops, and dead legs, we will incapacitate Billy Crystal, henceforth known by his code name, “Racist Douche”....
iwasateenagefaery:
24 Black Academy Award Winners
thechanelmuse:
Hattie McDaniel - Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Gone With the Wind, 1940
Sidney Poitier - Best Actor in a Leading Role: Lilies of the Field, 1963
Isaac Hayes - Best Original Song: Shaft, 1971
Louis Gossett Jr. - Best Actor in a Supporting Role: An Officer and a Gentleman, 1982
Irene Cara - Best Original Song: Flashdance,...
“The only thing that would make The Oscars okay is if Sammy Davis Jr came back...”
– My friend Ann, on Facebook. (via seekwill)
REAL. TEARS.
(via thegoddamazon)
No lie, that would be the best.
(via note-a-bear)
The Bechdel Test and Race in Popular Fiction
lesbianoutlaw:
crystalsavestheday:
1. It has to have two POC in it.
2. Who talk to each other.
3. About something other than a white person.
No Joss Whedon show passes, neither does Supernatural, or Being Human.
Veronica Mars passes, but doesn’t pass the original Bechdel Test.
Check out a few more here.
Does Doctor Who count, because of Martha and Mickey? Perhaps?
Torchwood...
New biological studies reconfirm that “human... →
satans-advocate:
In a world filled with mostly well intentioned people and tons of senseless violence its completely natural for those people to develop an assortment of justifications and rationalizations for the horror that is taking place around them. One of the most popular of these rationalizations is what I like to call “the human nature cop out”. This is basically the notion that violence...
OH MY GOD
theadler:
broadwaykelly:
norleftfromwrong:
broadwaykelly:
peregrint:
MERYL
I’M SO PROUD OF YOU
YOU
FINALLY
WON
THANK YOU GOD
SHUT UP IT’S BEEN 29 YEARS
YES YES YES EXACTLY.
Meryl and the Oscars is my equivalent to Patti and the Tonys
^lol!
“Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who...”
– Amy Poehler (via funkyfest)
Great advice.
(via becauseiamawoman
This is a thing I’ve been working on.
(via coffeewithants)
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“I love animation because in the world of animation, you can be anything you...”
– CHRIS ROCK, introducing the Best Animated Film Oscar. (via inothernews)
“Oh, by the way! Santana — also gay, also a bully once-upon-a-time, also...”
– Autostraddle’s review of “On My Way” (via carsonphillips)
“I find it slightly ethnocentric that whenever Japanese appropriate some aspect...”
– Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics (via quimichpatlan)
