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trumpeteer34:

shrewreadings:

proudly-pro-choice:

probodilyautonomy:

officialclinicescort:

prochoice-or-gtfo:

Mick Huckabee has decided to withdraw from the Republican presidential race. The good people over at RH Reality Check on Facebook had some amazing responses.

IT GOT BETTER

IM SCREAMING THIS IS HILARIOUS!!!!!

NO😂😂😂

-Allie

ROFLMAO

this is the best.

the-real-eye-to-see:

The Mammy stereotype was the main way white Americans looked at black women from the early 1800s to the 1950s.

The Mammy pictured female household slaves as:

• fat,
• middle-aged,
• dark-skinned,
• undesirable, at least to white men,
• given enough power to run the household,
• happy to serve whites, always smiling and laughing,
• perfect straight, white teeth.

This is a complete and utter lie.

The ugly truth is that they were:

• thin, because they barely got enough to eat;
• young, because only one in ten ever saw age 50;
• light-skinned, a daughter of rape;
• desirable to white men and therefore raped;
• utterly powerless,
• extremely unhappy.

Even after the slaves were freed the Mammy stereotype continued to put a happy face on black women’s lowly position in society, helping to set at ease the hearts of good white people everywhere.

Mammies ‘were so happy to serve whites’ that in the American films of the early 1900s they are shown giving up riches and even their freedom for the chance to continue serving “their white family” (their own husbands and children be damned, apparently).

Marketers of that time distributed racist production actively, feeding the racist image:

Mammy Peanut Tin

Mammy Black Enamel

Black Mammy ‘Fun To Wash’ Washing Powder Sample Box

Black Mammy Smoking Pipe Alarm Clock

Sock Darner, Painted as Black Mammy

Black Mammy cookie jar

Mammy Tobacco Tin

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A lot of white people than believed that the Black women, who work for them, are “just like family”. They wanted to believe that the only role those women played were as caretakers for them and their children. 9 times out of 10 these women were most likely drained physically and emotionally from having to do it all while smiling in some white person’s face, but they needed money to survive.

The Mammy stereotype hasn’t gone anywhere. It’s clear from the mainstream television shows that it still persists. In fact, all the stereotypes of black women are still in full force and effect.

chandelyer:

Alfazairy fall 2015 couture

fatdickstyles:

just-shower-thoughts:

Girls can’t find their hairclip, but they remember what you said exactly 2 yrs ago at 2:13am

Can’t find a 2mm piece of metal usually colored brown that blends into everything but remembers when you said something meaningful/hurtful at any given time. Good comparisons, they make no sense

Apparently it’s sexism week in coverage of the Democratic presidential primary. Ha, just kidding: Like there’s only one week when sexism rules coverage of anything Hillary Clinton is involved in. And no matter who you support in this primary, if you think that generally speaking it would be good if women could exist in public life on an equal basis, you should be angry about the kind of coverage we’re seeing.

And speaking of angry. According to the New York Times, in Thursday night’s debate, Clinton appeared “tense and even angry at times,” while Bernie Sanders “largely kept his cool.” Clinton “accused” and “lobb[ed] her harshest assault yet,” displaying “ferocity” and “vitriol.” Sanders, meanwhile, appears from Jonathan Martin and Patrick Healy’s account to have been some manner of puppy dog. Maybe there was a difference in their demeanors, but think what a male candidate would have to do to draw that kind of language. Men get to be intense or passionate in reporter-speak. Women are sent straight to anger.

Then there’s this, from the editor in chief at The Hill:

Let’s face it: raising your voice is part of political speaking. God knows Bernie Sanders deploys the raised voice with abundance. But with him it reads as—again—intensity, passion, or, in the most critical case, cranky grandpa. Marco Rubio raises his voice, and it reveals his voice to lack resonance and be maybe a little nasal, but we don’t hear about how that’s a liability for him as a politician. Chris Christie? If reporters thought that when Christie raises his voice, he loses, he’d be a national joke—if he’d ever been taken seriously enough for the nation to know who he was. But Hillary Clinton? Nooo, that’s unacceptable and terrible and saying so doesn’t even require explanation because we all get it. 

It’s a standard part of the political discussion to tear into Clinton’s voice and tone where you’d never, short of the Dean scream, mention a man in that way. MSNBC’s Morning Joe did a whole segment​ on it the other morning, and by “on it,” I don’t mean criticizing the inherent sexism, I mean Bob Woodward saying she should “get off this screaming stuff.” And the one other national level politician for whom a raised voice is as risky a proposition is Barack Obama. That should tell you something about power and the right to show anger. 

Think what you want about Hillary Clinton. But until women in politics are allowed to display the same range of emotion and tone as men in politics, without journalists piling on about how unnatural and angry and unpleasant they’re being, we have a serious problem. 

When someone attacks political correctness in general, it means they have specific problematic views they don‘t want to discuss because then people will know that they’re bigots. Not always true, but almost always. Political correctness, or, as I like to call it, “being nice to people”, is a safe target for right-wing anger without ever getting into the real reason that anger exists.

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affablyevil:

kingomd:

2015 and still relevant

People seem to gloss over the truth bombs dropped in this film.

drinkyourfuckingmilk:

drinkyourfuckingmilk:

there is a really fucking suspect noise going down in the library and it sounds like muffled porn sounds and all the students are just looking around suspiciously at each other trying to figure out who’s got the dirt like

UPDATE: it wasn’t porn. turns out it is a very upset pigeon stuck in the air shaft in the ceiling.

crowmemes:

april-polyverse:

fat-birds:

macpye:

crowmemes:

when you have a problematic fave

[Woman: *kisses raven’s beak* Even though you are naughty, I still love you, aye.]

#goals

Stop everyone! These are the Knaresborough Castle ravens, and this ‘naughty’ raven is probably Izzie: the only bird in the UK to have been given an ASBO (a criminal conviction for anti-social behaviour). 

Izzie pretends to get her head stuck in trash, so that when people get up to help her she can fly off and steal their sandwiches. She can mimic human speech, but does not do it often and when she does speak it’s usually rude. When we met the lady in chain mail in July 2013, she told us that Izzie had once flown up to a tourist and said “who the **** are you looking at?!”. The tourist was very offended and assumed it was the chain mail lady who had spoken. The birds are not on chains for their own protection, but for their bad behaviour. They are literally on the naughty step.

I went to Knaresborough on a day the ravens weren’t there, and I was disappointed. I asked the castle attendant when they would be back, and he said he didn’t know. The Raven Lady isn’t associated with the castle. She’s just someone with pet ravens who comes and goes when she pleases and likes to wear chain mail. Life goals or wife goals?

Read more about them >>>>here

Thank you for adding this, I was going to reblog it again with some info tonight and you beat me to it! Yes this one was Isobella! She also steals cameras from people, she pretends to have her foot stuck in an old water bottle and then goes and nicks stuff from the people who try to help her omfg

when you do the same stupid things as every other teenager but it’s treated as some sort of emergency that requires intensive treatment

maybemarietumbls:

knitmeapony:

boazpriestly:

brusewillis:

Do you have a shorter name?

#when action movie heroes look at the badass leading ladies with heart eyes#this is my aesthetic

This was the beginning for me

This was the first time I realized I had an aesthetic, before I knew what the word meant.

Beautiful, brightly-colored futures no matter how dystopian the government.  Art and culture and music and fashion and joy as a sub plot, with aliens that are eight flavors of weird but recognizably human, with the same kind of love and dedication and all new kinds of beauty to discover.  

Technology that is both breathtakingly futuristic and endlessly recognizable, that fails in a recognizable way.  Bureaucracy without Kafka. 

Angry action heroes who claim to have no fucks and no skills, secretly filled with care and kindness and ambition and cleverness and talent, who break out of their stock-still inertia to help a beautiful stranger save the world.

A gorgeous woman, surprisingly less sexualized than you’d think for all the nudity, smarter and kinder and faster and gentler and better than everyone else in the movie.

The pinnacle of masculinity being a fast-talking black man who covers himself in elaborate hairstyles and beautiful flowers and extreme outfits, clearly cultured and an unquestionable good-guy despite all the queer coding, someone who loves his job and dedicates himself to it entirely, who has friends and who doesn’t put on a fake persona on the air.

The funny bits are funny, not gallows humor but delightful giggly silly funny and quotable, endlessly, in contexts that are not at all grim. And the dramatic bits are glorious.  And the good guys win.

This is why I loved Jupiter Ascending.  This is why I adore Pacific Rim.  This is why I stan for comic books that’ve forgotten about Watchmen.  This is the definition of formatlive, y’all.  If you don’t understand this movie, you don’t understand me.

Yes. Everything about this. Fifth element is everything.

This post is not only making me rematch Fifth element for the hundredth time, it is all I need to buy Pacific Rim and rewatch Jupiter Ascending too.

YES GOOD.  JOIN ME IN THE JOY EVERYONE

relevxnce:

micdotcom:

In a speech that lasted almost 30 minutes, Judge Vonda Evans of Detroit laid into 47-year-old William Melendez, the former police officer caught on video beating an unarmed black man in January 2015. Looking at his history, Melendez deserved every word of it.

Judge Vonda Evans of Detroit you are my wcw

#bad ass women

airspaniel:

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fluffy-overlord:

bitchwhoyoukiddin:

drst:

unbelievable-facts:

Man of the moment Keanu Reeves has shown his generosity by giving away £50 million of his earnings from the Matrix sequels. The 38-year-old decided to hand over the money to the unsung heroes of the sci-fi blockbusters - the costume and special effects teams.

*fistbump*

Confirmed.  He’s also dumped millions into cancer research.  I really do love Keanu Reeves a lot.

Keanu Reeves is like the nicest person. He still lives in an apartment/flat and he gives most of his money away to charities and people who need it. He even invites some paparazzi people to sit down and eat with him when he’s at a coffee shop or restaurant. He’s such a nice person.

When I was working on the UWS, one of my delivery guys accidentally backed his scooter into a parked car in front of the restaurant. I went out to help, since the driver didn’t speak much English, and it turned out the car belonged to Keanu Reeves. He helped us pick the scooter up, and when I asked if we could exchange insurance information (because the front of the car was pretty banged up), he kept telling us not to worry about it and put his hand on the driver’s shoulder and said “I just want to make sure you’re okay, man. Are you okay?” And he was so sincere about it and so kind that I decided in that moment I would always defend Keanu Reeves at all costs. He is an excellent man.

This billboard for Dr. Mittens Lamar, who “heals boo-boos with nom-noms”, is actually part of a clever ad campaign by Lamar Advertising of Milwaukee to promote their billboard advertising.

Here are some more of Lamar’s silly billboards:

via reddit, Neatorama

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godpenis:

spritzeal:

its weird how everyone, really, has multiple names that are used in different contexts and that many (most women, for one) people will change their names throughout their lives. like a guy might be called bobby by his friends robert by his boss mr burton by his co-worker he might become burton-smith after he gets married, rob at school, he might be robby to his mum, he might have the pen name of burton ellis, and he might be analdestroyer94 on one forum and forallthatsgood344 one another and that is all perfectly acceptable. people have different names and identities in different contexts and these change as they grow throughout their lives.

but then when trans people want to change their names, or young trans people have multiple names for different contexts everyone starts to get a bit weird about it.

boom

goblinparty:

actualdogvines:

in case anyone doesn’t know what a borzoi is, this video is very informative

[caption]

“This is a borzoi. Brown eyes. Long nose. Lazy. Not a horse.”

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“This is why I am mostly amused at this point by those monthly articles about how dumb libraries are. You can rest assured that if you are in the habit of telling librarians that libraries are dying and nobody uses them anymore, every librarian you talk to is well-aware that you have not actually visited a library in several decades. We are only smiling politely and nodding because we feel sorry for you.”

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Librarian Confidential: Stephanie Anderson | Literary Hub (via wattsay)

micdotcom:

Watch: George Carlin spoke the truth about pro-lifers in 1996 — and it’s still being proven today.

Jesus: every server’s nightmare. (via eraser411)

gynoidwren:

elcomics:

Midnight Radio. Written by Ehud Lavski. Art by Yael Nathan. If you like it, please share.

Contact: elavski@gmail.com

This reminds me a lot of The Secret Knots.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder committed one of the worst sins imaginable for a public servant: He poisoned his own people. Why? To pinch a penny.

Now he's got to turn to his GOP-led state government and the Republican Congress to help foot the $767 million bill to fix Flint's water infrastructure. It seems government's always the problem until you've got a problem—even if you engineered that problem yourself. The irony hasn't been lost on Democrats, reports Amber Phillips.

"Republicans disparage government all the time as intrusive, too involved, and detrimental to our society. Gov. Rick Snyder is a leading cheerleader of that theory," Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) said on the Senate floor on Tuesday. "He denigrates government every single chance he gets. But to whom does he turn when he needs help cleaning up the mess he has created? The federal government."

But it's not just Snyder who is in a tough spot. The GOP-controlled Congress is about to be asked to help with the man-made disaster in Flint, and it's not going to be an easy sell among fiscally conservative Republicans watching their backs in an election year.

But to turn down requests to help provide the most basic service of clean water to a mostly poor, majority-black city will almost certainly invite Democratic attacks like the one Reid launched at Snyder on Tuesday.

As it should. The continual short-sightedness of Republican politicians is wreaking havoc on the country in a million different ways. But they damn well better help the city they helped destroy and the residents they have poisoned on the path to "fiscal responsibility." Right on cue, GOP lawmakers are already trying to shirk responsibility.

Russian craftsman Andrei of MTM Wood who makes beautiful end grain wood cutting boards, has generously provided instructions for creating what he calls “3D end grain cutting board #1” one of many highly creative optical illusion boards.

Sometimes I make 3D end grain cutting boards. I want to show you how to make simple and good looking 3D end grain cutting board. I called it a 3D end grain cutting board #1, because I have about fifteen 3D boards and it is not easy to give name to each board.

images by MTM Wood

via Technabob

evilsupplyco:

Prepare for bad weather by ensuring your library is well stocked.

Twitter user Daurmith points out just how differently we talk about intelligent women by treating these famous male scientists the same way. [via mashable] «Pierre Curie, married and proud father of two, found time for love and family during his short scientific career.» — Daurmith (@Daurmith) January 30, 2016 «His dour personality made everyone think … Continued

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