Hey look, nothing matters and the entire Republican argument against opponent Hillary Clinton was a steaming load of bullshit all along. You got played, Republican America. You got played so damn bad.
Senior Trump administration staffers including Kellyanne Conway, Jared Kushner, Sean Spicer and Steve Bannon have active accounts on a Republican National Committee email system, Newsweek has learned.
Hey, lookie there. It's not just one administration official using a private email server, the whole crew has their own private email server! The good news, though, is they didn't even have to set it up themselves—it's the same server George W. Bush and his crew used for the precise same purpose. And when federal watchdogs came looking for those emails, the Bush administration ‘fessed up that they had (oops) accidentally deleted 22 million of them. (Don't worry, even though the deleted emails were all from the period of time the administration was promoting dodgy information to sell the public on the Iraq War, they promise there was nothing important there.)
It’s not clear whether or how Trump staffers are using the RNC email addresses. If they are using them, they are subject to the “Disclosure Requirement For Official Business Conducted Using Electronic Messaging Accounts," a law, 44 U.S.C. 2209, that went into effect in 2014. If White House staffers have already used the RNC emails system for White House work, they must copy or forward those communications into the government system within 20 days.
It disturbs me that men think any kind of image that plays to sexuality is default objectifying. Like, I’ve seen men, feminists, laugh off the appearance of Chris Hemsworth in the Ghostbusters trailer as objectifying - even as something that would be positive if it wasn’t actually in the movie. Something the makers put in just to make meninists mad. O_o
I’ve been thinking about that and trying to put into words exactly how many levels of fucked up are going on in that sentiment. And it’s hard because these are men who mean well and are trying to understand about objectification, but…
Liiiiiiiike, yes, it’s eye-candy. It’s honest-to-god eye-candy that plays to the (heterosexual/boy-liking) female gaze, and we are starved of that, but let’s be real: that is a fully clothed man shot from the waist-up engaged in agentful action, dressed and behaving in a way that reflects character and characteristics that do not revolve around women or attraction. THAT IS NOT OBJECTIFICATION.
It’s like a strawman understanding of feminist analysis of the objectification of women in film. Objecting to sexual objectification is not about saying you can have nothing sexy in your film. Suggesting otherwise plays into the myth that women’s sexual drives are less than mens, and that men want theirs to be pandered to more because it is more demanding upon them and they can’t ‘help’ themselves.
I mean, are you kidding me? Are men so used to the objectification of women that the above seems objectifying in comparison to, say, even one of the least objectified female action heroes of our time, Black Widow?
Objectification is when your introductory scene in the film is ostensibly about your skill as an interogator, but you’re scantilly clad and shots that are supposed to demonstrate your intelligence are actually framed to focus on your breasts:
And even your fight moves are filmed to focus on your breasts:
And even when you get to be the cool person who doesn’t look back at explosions, you have to stand in a sexual, rather than action pose, and your face remains serenly calm, because women aren’t allowed to express anything that might prevent them looking pretty even in the middle of a fight (and this is something your supposedly feminist director has actually said to you):
And you’re the only one in a team of heroes whose costume is actually skin-tight and unzipped to show your cleavage.
And this is a character widely praised as being much less objectified than women usually are in action films.
Don’t tell me Chris Hemsworth is being objectified in Ghostbusters - HE IS NOT. He’s a good looking man, for whom part of his role in this film is eye-candy. The only thing that’s new is that he’s not in a dominance role - he’s not the leading man, he doesn’t lead the team, he supports them. Do men seriously think that just not being in charge means they’re being objectified?
Don’t tell me this is objectification. And seriously don’t tell me you think it would be a laugh if these shots weren’t even in the film because, lol, it’s just some kind of joke to get misogynists riled up. Fuck you. That’s my ever-so-rare eye-candy. Hands off. I don’t get to see this very often.
Do men seriously think that just not being in charge means they’re being objectified?
u know what … i changed my mind… all u scientists out there who worked ur butts off just to have your research purposefully ignored by the government… do your science thing and bring back the dinosaurs… catch them ignoring you when a velociraptor is our next president…. like ding dong what’s that? it’s science, it doesn’t care about your silly ignorant opinion… it’s back with a vengeance… and it’s hungry, bitch
Gimme a baseball bat. True story, it took me until I was in my forties to realize the reason white noise drives me insane is because my brain is wired incorrectly, and I'm on the autism spectrum. Fortunately for me and my sleep schedule, Amazon sells really good earplugs in bulk.
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Senator Ed Markey and Rep. Ted Lieu introduced legislation intended to prevent Trump from using nuclear weapons in a first-strike scenario without the explicit approval of Congress on Tuesday.
The legislation is titled the “Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act of 2017.“
The two legislators issued a press statement on the bill co-signed by William Perry, who served as secretary of defense in former President Bill Clinton’s administration. Read more
It’s terrifying that we need this, and horrifying that this isn’t already in place.
Someone: POLITICS and ART should always be SEPARATE! There is NO REASON why ART should be POLITICAL!
William Shakespeare: *laughs. writes 3 more tiny hand jokes into his latest play, King Tiny Hands.*
And the National Parks Services said, “lol, no” and went rogue and we were all like, “I was not expecting the park rangers to lead the resistance, none of the dystopian novels I read prepared me for this but cool.”
Hours after President Donald Trump tweeted that he'd launch a "major investigation" into massive voter fraud, of which there's no evidence, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Wednesday laid out a few details of what such an investigation might look like.
As reporters and experts immediately pointed out, Trump's belief that 3 million to 5 million people voted illegally in November is at odds with what his own lawyers said in court when they challenged the recount petitions of Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein. "All available evidence suggests that the 2016 general election was not tainted by fraud or mistake," Trump's legal team argued in a brief.
But on Wednesday, Spicer claimed that the legal team had actually only been discussing the three states where Stein pushed for recounts, not the entire country. "I think there's a lot of states that we didn't compete in where that's not necessarily the case," he said, mentioning California and New York. "I think that if you look at where a lot of potential—a lot of these issues could have occurred in bigger states. That's where I think we're going to look."
Spicer says there could be potential voter fraud examined in “a lot of states that we didn’t compete in… bigger states” – mentions CA and NY pic.twitter.com/GFGjRKKmjQ
Spicer also floated the idea that voter ID laws, which serve to suppress voter participation among minorities, young people, and the elderly, could be a solution to problems the investigation may find.
Spicer's comments led reporters and other observers to question why a massive voter fraud scheme would be carried out in reliably blue states, instead of swing states where the election is decided.
It's not just Trump's legal team that sees no evidence of fraud. Secretaries of state, governors, and even Republican members of Congress have come forward to say they have no evidence to back up Trump's allegations. On Tuesday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) warned that Trump's voter fraud claims will "erode his ability to govern this country if he does not stop it" and urged him to "knock this off."
If Wednesday is any indication, Trump is not taking Graham's advice.
Pledging to continue their protests, rallies, and demands to exist safely and see differences celebrated following the inauguration, the teens urge Trump to stop resorting to “name-calling when people speak out against you.” Instead, they ask him to remember that he has taken an oath “to protect the constitution, the one that says all people are equal. And that includes us.”
Privileged folk ridiculing safe spaces is so funny as if men don’t refuse to enter “girly” stores and have “man caves”, as if white people don’t avoid black neighbourhoods, as if straight people don’t ostracise gay people from their social circles, like who’s really the one with the safe spaces lol
that’s the thing about power dynamics. Your boss has no problem entering your work space randomly, while you can’t enter his office as freely. Same mechanic is happening here, only that when you refuse to let your boss (privileged people) enter your space (safe space), they feel offended because they think they’re entitled to entering your space all the time.
The actress noted that she’s a survivor of “all forms of sexual abuse, including three rapes,” in addition to being subjected to rape and death threats on the internet. Some of the worst harassment Judd received online came after she weighed in about a Kentucky Wildcats game.
Even though it’s easy enough for most of us to comprehend, there are sadly still many people out there who don’t understand the difference between rape and consent. Because of this, Twitter user Nafisa Ahmed decided to break it down in a way that everybody can understand.
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“I don’t get how rape is so hard to understand for some men,” she wrote in the first of a series of tweets. “But, if you put it like this, they get it.” Ahmed then goes on to explain the difference using a super simple and effective analogy involving a purse and some money. While it’s pretty sad that she even has to do this, we’re certainly glad that she did. Let’s just hope everybody takes note.
Someone punches a nazi and now people are screaming and crying about how we need to use our words and that violence doesn’t solve anything.
But then Shia Labeouf does nothing but yell at a nazi that had the audacity to show his ugly ass face and spout pro-white bullshit on his live stream, and now ya’ll are calling him a bully? Are you really gonna defend LITERAL NAZIS in 2017?? What the fuck is up????
If you think a Jewish man standing up for himself against a nazi is bullying, block and unfollow me right the fuck now.
Folks literally defending folks who openly and wholeheartedly promote genocide cus it’s “not polite”
Finally got around to doing another comic! I’ve been grappling with memories of my childhood, trying to understand why from a certain period of time I saw myself as being a girl. I never really felt like I related to “always being a boy just never realized it” but maybe that’s because of my upbringing? Parents were liberal with what I wore/played with, and I was heavily groomed into the “tomboy” role, so I never really felt that repression? Or maybe I just wasn’t aware! Who knows! I’m a boy now, I’m at peace with my childhood and that’s all that matters!
