ThePrettiestOne

odinsblog:

salon:

Critics of Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In project argue that her brand of feminism is only for elite people, focused more on telling privileged people to throw their weight around at work than on the systemic issues that make it hard for people, especially people who have no power to set their own work schedules, to have a good work-life balance. She confirmed these suspicions Wednesday with an obnoxious Facebook post congratulating Paul Ryan for using his power to get weekends home with the family. It’s complete with this photo of him at a Packers game with the kids.

Liberal media exploded, as it should, in outrage, arguing that Ryan is a hypocrite because he has repeatedly opposed Democratic efforts to make family leave available to Americans who aren’t privileged enough to be congressmen. This is good and I hope that Sandberg sees the error of her ways and apologizes.

Paul Ryan isn’t a hypocrite. He just sees a family life as a privilege for the elite, instead of a right for all.

The House Speaker job pays $223,500 annually, has job benefits that the average American can only dream of, and to top it off, congress only works an average of 3 days a week, or somewhere around 137 days a year - that is, when when Republicans aren’t busy shutting the government down

Paul Ryan’s demands for the paid leave that he has repeatededly denied to American workers is a perfect example of elitism, classism and his selfish, Ayn Randian beliefs

musaafer:

Stupidest thing ever is this infantilization of patriarchy like, “it’s boys who do those things; a ~~real man~~~ would never be that way” no listen to me, it is not little boys who crack jokes that make up patriarchy but actual grown-ass men engaging in actual physical, systematic, structural, emotional, verbal violence against women. Patriarchy is not puberty you grow out of but a backdrop wired into the fabric of our society. 

gardeniaaxx:

Prayer Circle
Mad Max for Oscar 🙏🏻

did-you-kno:

HAPPY 101st BIRTHDAY TO THE LATE HEDY LAMARR

As WWII escalated, Lamarr was motivated to find a way to steer torpedoes by remote control using changing radio frequencies, which she called “frequency hopping,” so that the transmissions could not be jammed by enemies. 

She donated her patent to the U.S. government, but the Navy rejected her designs, convinced the mechanisms would be too large to fit into a torpedo. 

They responded with, “You should go raise money for the war. That’s what you should be doing instead of this silly inventing,” (which she did, raising war bonds by the millions). So she silently watched her invention become a reality under the credit of others and never made a dime from it. 

Over 50 years after her original patent, Hedy did FINALLY get some acknowledgment - even a few awards - but she didn’t show up to accept them. By then, botched plastic surgery made her very reclusive. She died alone in Florida at the age of 86. Her obituaries began with her beauty and made only brief references to the invention she had hoped would prove her mind was beautiful, too.

Today, frequency hopping is used with the wireless phones that we have in our homes, GPS, and most military communication systems.

Happy Birthday, Hedy.

 Source

“Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.”

- Kait Rokowski (via writingsforwinter)

jtotheizzoe:

sagansense:

uumans:

i will never not love carl

This scene very well may have been the catalyst that moved me into science communication.

I would also be smiling that big if Carl had dropped in on my class when I was younger.

Don’t be afraid to ask simple questions. They can unlock amazing knowledge.

sparkledog:

I am so tired of being told that i am too old for the things i like. No cartoons. No toys. No fantasy animals. No bright colors. Are adults supposed to live monotonous, bleak lives ? I can be an adult and still love childish things. I can be intelligent and educated and informed and i can love stuffed animals and unicorns. These things are not mutually exclusive. Please stop making me feel bad for loving the things that make me happy.

The Hero’s Journey: The idea you never knew had shaped “Star Wars”:

salon:

The opening of the Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s proposed adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel, Dune, would have been the most ambitious single shot in cinema.

It was to begin outside a spiral galaxy and then continuously track in, into the blazing light of billions of stars, past planets and wrecked spacecraft. The music was to be written and performed by Pink Floyd. The scene would have continued past convoys of mining trucks designed by the crème of European science fiction and surrealist artists, including Chris Foss, Moebius and H.R. Giger. We would see bands of space pirates attacking these craft and fighting to the death over their cargo, a life-giving drug known as Spice. Still the camera would continue forwards, past inhabited asteroids and the deep-space industrial complexes which refine the drug, until it found a small spacecraft carrying away the end result of this galactic economy: the dead bodies of those involved in the spice trade.

The shot would have been a couple of minutes long and would have established an entire universe. It was a wildly ambitious undertaking, especially in the pre-computer graphics days of cinema. But that wasn’t going to deter Jodorowsky.

This scale of Jodorowsky’s vision was a reflection of his philosophy of filmmaking. “What is the goal of life? It is to create yourself a soul. For me, movies are an art more than an industry. The search for the human soul as painting, as literature, as poetry: movies are that for me,” he said. From that perspective, there was no point in settling for anything small. “My ambition for Dune was for the film to be a Prophet, to change the young minds of all the world. For me Dune would be the coming of a God, an artistic and cinematic God.

“For me the aim was not to make a picture, it was something deeper. I wanted to make something sacred.”

Joseph Campbell believed a single archetypal story lay at the heart of all stories – George Lucas was listening

Thank heaven the article’s writer went on to point out something that everybody who’s written for Hollywood in the last two decades has had to deal with. Lucas’s success with Campbell’s underlying “monomyth” concept quickly turned it into the Procrustean bed of story structure. Stories that didn’t need to be cast in this paradigm were routinely forced into it, and if they wouldn’t fit into it, were chucked out (usually along with the writer). Not all stories need monomyth*.

The fact that Lucas had used Campbell’s monomyth as his tool for bottling magic did not go unnoticed. As far as Hollywood was concerned, The Hero’s Journey was the goose that laid the golden eggs. Studio script-readers used it to analyse submitted scripts and determine whether or not they should be rejected. Screenwriting theorists and professionals internalised it, until they were unable to produce stories that differed from its basic structure. Readers and writers alike all knew at exactly which point in the script the hero needed their inciting incident, their reversal into their darkest hour and their third-act resolution. In an industry dominated by the bottom line and massive job insecurity, Campbell’s monomyth gained a stranglehold over the structure of cinema.

Campbell’s monomyth has been criticised for being Eurocentric and patriarchal. But it has a more significant problem, in that Campbell was wrong. There is not one pure archetypal story at the heart of human storytelling. The monomyth was not a treasure he discovered at the heart of myth, but an invention of his own that he projected onto the stories of the ages. It’s unarguably a good story, but it is most definitely not the only one we have. As the American media critic Philip Sandifer notes, Campbell “identified one story he liked about death and resurrection and proceeded to find every instance of it he could in world mythology. Having discovered a vast expanse of nails for his newfound hammer he declared that it was a fundamental aspect of human existence, ignoring the fact that there were a thousand other ‘fundamental stories’ that you could also find in world mythology.”

*And I say this as someone who loves Campbell dearly and didn’t need George Lucas to find out about him.

“I can remember speaking to a 12-year-old boy, a football player, and I asked him, ‘How would you feel if, in front of all the players, the coach told you, you were playing like a girl?’ Now I expected him to say that I’d be sad or I’d be mad or I’d be angry or something. No, the boy said to me, 'It would destroy me.’ And, I said to myself…. if it would destroy him to be called a girl, what are we then teaching him about girls.” - Tony Porter

This quote is from an excellent TED talk by Tony Porter, an educator and activist who is internationally recognized for his efforts to end violence against women. In his talk, “A Call to Men,” Porter explores the social conditioning that he refers to as the “man box,” which can lead men to disrespect, mistreat, and abuse women and each other.

To watch his TED talk, visit http://bit.ly/1s4Nqwz. Porter is also the cofounder of A CALL TO MEN: The National Association of Men and Women Committed to Ending Violence Against Women: http://www.acalltomen.org/

Thanks to Free Your Mind and Think for sharing this image!”

As seen on the A Mighty Girl Facebook page 

solarcat:

eudaemaniacal:

i know ive complained about it before but all this midwestern gothic shit is really missing something. if you invite a midwestern vampire in all theyre going to do is fuss about no, no, i really couldnt. if some kinda fucked up ghost demon does a triple murder the neighbors are just gonna look outside and be like “how terrible… and on such a perfect day!”  if you find a frostbitten corpse propelling itself through the snow youre just going to be like “haha, could it get any colder!” by way of greeting, like youre friends, and then youve met the terms of the social contract and dont have to acknowledge each other

this is so accurate tho. Like, zombies would be standing around like, “I don’t care, I’m good with anything, which brain do YOU want to eat?” for half an hour

Feelings: Hey! Come join us!
Me: Nope.
Feelings: C'mon! The water's great!
Me: Nope.
Feelings: Dude come on it'll be fine. Plus we got that good kush bro
Me: Aight maybe just a quick dip.
Feelings: That's the spirit! C'mon in!
Me: *gets into the pool*
Feelings (whispering to my other feelings): Drown him.

slytherin-stud:

blinkpen:

shapeshifting is the best super power because you can have any haircut any time you want, you can turn into a hotter version of yourself, you can turn into a dragon, you can turn into a robot, you can turn into a shambling mound of abstract shapes and sulk outside your estranged father’s house at night while chanting ominously about his sins,

This took a weird turn, but I’m still on board

airdodgeoffstage:

mutisija:

please look at this frog

awesome-picz:

Cats Who Immediately Regretted Their Poor Life Choices.

cosmos-kitty:

Salty, 2015
Mixed Media on paper

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. — Thomas Jefferson

Sorry, Tommy. We let you down.

It happens every election cycle. The "captains of industry"—CEOs, investment bankers, and wheeler-dealers of all stripes—swagger forth to save the nation. They make the deep personal sacrifice of subjecting themselves to conversations with people they can't fire out of nothing more than their deep love for country and their utter conviction that they should run it.

Some come forth with clipboards full of pie charts, talking about "getting under the hood" of the government. Some rally the troops with tales of how they trimmed the fat from bloated corporations. Some raise cheers with nothing more than a promise that they have the Secret Knowledge for effective arm-twisting at the negotiation table.

All of it is bullshit.

Actually, it's worse than bullshit. It's all based on the recurrent theme that "government should be run more like a business," and that theme is both dangerous and completely counter to the whole idea of democracy. Government and business are not the same thing. In fact, there are good reasons why, in a democracy at least, any effort to run the government like a business should be seen as a hostile act. These people need to keep their stinking business out of our government, and I'll tell you why...

lyssamaeneedsbreathingroom:

psychetimelapse:

Today I learned that some fuckin’ misogynist on the internet went on about how women mind-control men with vagina juice by oozing (squirting?) either half or two fifths of a cup of the stuff into the dickhole during the part of intercourse where you just lie there with Tab A in Slot B while not moving and I am so, so happy.

Through the process of coupling [emphasis original] a female and male will lay relatively still without having sex with the penis inside of the vagina. The process may take up to 15 minutes and works faster and more efficiently when the female is on top of the male. During this period the vagina injects up to ½ cup (100 ml) of the copulin fluid into the urethral opening at the tip of the penis, which is chemically attracted to semen, and will follow the semen down the shaft directly into the testicles. After 15 minutes of coupling the copulins will have entered the blood stream and traveled from his testicles up into the hypothalamus (a section of the brain that controls hormones) causing the male to become completely influenced by the needs and suggestions of the female.

This brings me indescribable levels of joy.

Omg. We can mind control dudes with SEX. We can make them SEX MACHINES.

itreallyisthelittlethings:

Guess what I just bought…

evilsupplyco:

That which does not kill you has learned to fear your name.

delirieuse:

marzipanandminutiae:

huffingtonpost:

The Women Those ‘Evolution Of Beauty’ Videos Leave Out

With videos like “100 Years of Lingerie in 3 Minutes” or “100 Years of Beauty: Germany,” the Internet has been treated to gorgeous viral videos that show the glamorous side of women’s lives throughout history, but according to Polish costume blogger Karolina Zebrowska these videos are leaving out reality. 

I feel like this is creating a false duality, though. These extremes did exist, but there was a lot more overlap than this video or the more common videos let on.

Factory workers still saw Charles Dana Gibson’s idealized drawings in magazines and tried to emulate them as best they could. Many prominent 1910s suffragettes came from wealthy families. Cosmetics sales rose during the Depression, not just among screen starlets, but among ordinary women. And nurses during WWII did sometimes try to keep up with fashion developments back home during their rare leave or off-hours.

And I really, really could have done without the retroactive Not Like Other Girls rhetoric.

Real women wore no makeup and lots of makeup and odd bits of makeup. Real women were fashion-forward and conservative. Real women fought to survive and had no time to think about fashion. Real women were petty and noble, vain and selfless. Real women had jobs and real women were women of leisure. Real women were rich as Croesus and poor as church mice. Real women cared about beauty standards and real women told those standards to go fuck themselves.

Gibson girls and factory workers and heiresses and suffragettes and flappers and maids and starlets and mothers on the breadlines and torch singers and war nurses were real women. Every last one. And I am not here for a polarized portrayal of them or the minimization of their stories. History’s done that enough. All women are real women. All women are more complex than a homogenized ideal of their social class. Period.

Reblogging for that last comment, which expresses more clearly what I was talking about in the tags to my previous reblog of this gifset.

“When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t.”

- Louis C.K.
(via wordsnquotes)

chaoticlivi:

• don’t touch me
  
• wait, no, come back, i need snuggles
  
• that’s enough snuggles
• i want to be near you, please don’t leave me alone
• tch, it’s not like i happen to be in the same room as you all the time because i miss you
• “i got wet. this is the worst thing that’s ever happened”
  
• “why is this door closed? this door doesn’t need to be closed”
  
• “i need a nap.” “didn’t you just wake up 2 hours ago?” “yes but i could sleep for a week”
  
• (hisses)
• “i want food”
  
• “but not this food”
  
• (wanders around)

As seen on the End Slavery Now Facebook page

mvessick:

profeminist:

CONGRATULATIONS TO JANET MOCK AND HER HUSBAND AARON!

From Laverne Cox’s Facebook page: 

“Stunning. Two people loving each other is enough and shouldn’t be a symbol for anything beyond that love. The love is enough and a wonderful gift. I am not a chick who is into weddings and the institution of marriage for me personally but @janetmock and Aaron this is a beautiful sight. A black trans woman having a cis straight identified black man publicly declare his love for her and making it all official and legal and stuff gives me and I know so many black trans women out there hope that our versions of true love are possible.

But the love is enough. You two finding each other is enough. Congrats you two. I am so happy for you. Sending lots and lots of love from the main land.”

#TransIsBeautiful #LoveIsEnough #GirlsLikeUs

I’m not crying, your crying.

Someone’s cooking onions, I swear!

Who am I kidding - that wedding photo is JUST TOO DAMNED ADORABLE.

feminismfuckyeah:

PREACH 

TW for sexual harassment

More Profeminist posts on street harassment

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People who oppose the use of screens aren’t trying to silence disabled people. The problem is that they aren’t thinking about us at all. When confronted with what smartphones can do for disabled people, anti-screen folks will claim that they are not talking about us. The thing is, when they look at a café and see people using their phones, there is no way to distinguish between the people who use phones as disability aids and people who just happen to find speaking through social media a perfectly adequate or even preferable mode of communication. A false hierarchy is formed, and of course, the ways some disabled people speak is at the bottom of it.

By idealizing inflexible, narrow definitions of communication, we are dehumanizing the people who don’t make eye contact, the people who don’t speak. Social media just gives us more socially acceptable and normalized options for communication. A world where people are “glued to their screens” is a world where I and others can more easily exist, succeed and be happy. Stop telling strangers you pass on the street to “look up.”

”

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Screen Backlash is a Disability Issue
(via digoldenepave)

It also is so hugely helpful for those of us who are too ill to go out and have an active public social life. 

(via hermionxjean)

hantisedeloubli:

heirofglee:

My first photoshoot. Thanks to photography: Ron Gejon
I met him while I was at a the special edition NYcomic con.

Photographer: @RonGejon #RonGejonPhotography
Cosplayer: Phillicia Deanell (Me) HeirOfGlee
Cosplay As: Bicker Chic starfire

SLAYYYYYYYYY

MAKE THIS CANON

fairykiid:

angstyfries:

honerablerosemary:

BUT HE HAD 7 KIDS AND A WIFE TO FEED SO HE ENDED UP OWNING A GROCERY STORE AFTER SERVING IN WW2

TODAY MY DAD WAS CLEANING THE HOUSE AND FOUND SOME PENCIL DRAWINGS THAT MY GRANDPA DID AND ASKED IF I WANTED TO HAVE THEM AND I

CAN WE JUST LOOK AT THIS

MY BAD WEBCAM PICTURES DON’T EVEN DO THEM JUSTICE LIKE LOOK AT THESE

MY GRANDPA NEVER BECAME A FAMOUS ARTIST

BUT I WANT TO MAKE HIM KNOWN

this is so beautiful hell im crying

i wish ur grandpa could know that almost 1 million people have seen his artwork.