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Writers at Vice Media have voted to unionize, said people familiar with the matter, giving organized labor its biggest foothold yet in digital media newsrooms. The writers will be joining the Writers Guild of America. The number of employees who have voted to unionize was not immediately clear. Writers account for less than 10% of Vice’s 700 U.S. employees.

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micdotcom:

We completely agree with this Tumblr post that points out how weird it is that bra commercials are aimed at straight men. If bras were actually marketed and made with women in mind, the ads would sound a lot different. And these are just scratching the surface of the improvements that could be made.

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bluandorange:

all Bucky wanted to do was get some more tea and now this. Thanks a lot, Sam. You had to fuckin’ tell him, you ass.

Aggressively Progressive Steve Rogers is so what I’m  here for.

STeve would unleash and be all “DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH WHOOPING COUGH SUCKS?! DO YOU?! DO YOU REALLY?! ARE YOU FUCKIN’ STUPID?! BUCKY, TELL THEM HOW I BROKE TWO RIBS! TELL THEM!”

Omg, new headcanon, Beleaguered Bucky Barnes being grabbed by the shoulders and practically lifted into camera view by Steve shouting about how Bucky needs to confirm some terrible illness because no one else is alive form that time to corroborate any of Steve’s claims.  Bucky shyly telling the reporters that yes, Steve did indeed have that thing adn yeah it is dangerous and Steve jumping back into frame like “I told you!  I TOLD YOU IT SUCKED SHUT UP JENNY MCCARTHY!”

“AND YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE?! POLIO!”

“Steve you never had fucking polio-”

“YEA BUT IT STILL SUCKED! KNOW WHAT STOPPED IT?! VACCINES!”

“Oh my God, Steve.”

“I DIDN’T EVNENKNOW WHAT THAT SHOT WOULD DO TO ME BUT I TOOK IT!”

“Steve, that’s… That’s not really a good argument.”

“I DON’T CARE FOX NEWS NEEDS TO STOP USING MY IMAGE!”

“Steve, doll, calm down.”

“I VOTED FOR OBAMA!”

I would love to see Steve at a press conference go “It’s been brought to my attention that there’s a certain idea of what kind of symbol I am for certain positions so I’d like to clear a few things up. *clears throat*

Capitalism sucks, no human is illegal, STOP BEING RACIST, muslims are not terrorists, women can have all the sex they want and that’s none of your business, homeless people are NOT criminal, vaccinations should be mandatory, I’m a flaming homosexual and I should be able to marry who I want and not worry about getting fired for it, rapists should be shot, people should be able to live off of their income without working 3 jobs, and access to appropriate healthcare should be a right not a privilege. Thank you. Oh, and one last thing-

*looks camera dead on with a totally flat expression* Fuck fuckity fuck fuck.” *shuffles papers and walks away leaving stunned silence behind him*

reminder to self to draw that also, complete with reaction shots of all the Avengers

lavenderhealing:

This is what a FEMINIST MALE sounds like.

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They’re all Todd Akin now: How the Planned Parenthood sting backfired on Republicans:

Those infamous Planned Parenthood “sting” videos, deceptively edited and perhaps illegally obtained, were the years-long project of some of the most extreme, even violent figures of the anti-abortion world. They were designed to “ACORN” Planned Parenthood – that is, take a long-demonized element of progressive Democratic politics out of the game for good.

But the hoax perpetrated by the Campaign for Medical Progress, to dishonestly claim Planned Parenthood “sells” fetal tissue after abortions, may have backfired on the right, judging from the anti-choice pyrotechnics that erupted on stage in Cleveland Thursday night. CMP intended to hurt Planned Parenthood and Democrats in the run-up to the 2016 presidential campaign. But they seem to have hurt the GOP, by tricking the 2016 candidates into believing there’s more revulsion at both abortion, and at the respected women’s healthcare provider long attacked by conservatives, than there actually is.

The anti-abortion one-upmanship at the debate showed how the candidates are misreading the political opportunities and turning themselves into Todd Akin, the Republican who challenged Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill in 2012. Akin, you’ll recall, was disputing the need for a rape exception to an abortion ban when he told an interviewer that in cases of “legitimate rape,” a woman’s body magically has a way to “shut that whole thing down.” His idiocy helped not only McCaskill but President Obama that year. (Three quarters of Americans believe abortion should be legal in cases of rape, by the way.)

Nobody said anything quite that crude and stupid about women’s bodies Thursday night, but some of the answers were equally crazy. Debate “winner” Marco Rubio disavowed his own past support for abortion bans that included a rape and incest exception, and came out for personhood legislation. Gov. Scott Walker, who personally asked Republicans in the Wisconsin legislature to write a 20-week abortion ban without any exceptions, refused to squirm when Megyn Kelly asked “Would you really let a mother die rather than have an abortion?”

Meanwhile, the most recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows Planned Parenthood remains the nation’s most trusted organization in the wake of the smear campaign against it —  the NRA comes in second.

Those CMP videos were intended to put Democrats on the defensive, but they’ve instead done that to Republicans. They’ve convinced the GOP field that there’s less support for legal abortion, and for Planned Parenthood, than there is. Thus Hillary Clinton may get to run against a slightly saner Todd Akin next year, and that won’t end well for the GOP.

Read the full piece here

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Flashback Friday.

I just have to say “wow” to this ad for Quartz counter tops, sent it by Lisa Ray of Parents for Ethical Marketing and Corporate Babysitter:

The ad depicts a little girl fantasizing about growing up, but growing up means (extremely) high patent leather pumps; growing up means sexualizing herself.

And the ad does sexualize the little girl who, from the top-scanning-down, looks like a sweet girl trying on mommy’s shoes, but from the bottom-scanning-up, looks like an adult woman who suddenly transforms into a child. The white cotton dress implies innocence and purity, but it’s a costume we regularly see adult women wear when we want to both sexualize and infantilize them. In other words, this ad nicely plays into the mythology endorsed by pedophiles that even little girls want to feel sexy, even little girls want men’s attention, even little girls want sex.

And, yet, we are supposed to think this is sweet. The text, “Harmonizing Beautifully with Life” is, of course, ostensibly about the counter tops. But aligned with the image, it naturalizes both the girl’s fantasy and the conflation of female sex with the performance of sexualized femininity (it’s just “life”; as if there’s a gene for Christian Louboutin shoes that activates in the presence of double X chromosomes). More than simply naturalizing the girl’s fantasy of self-objectification, it endorses it (it’s beautiful harmony).

Notice also the class story in the ad. Who exactly is class privileged enough to have the freedom to allow “the quiet moments” to “steal the show”? Well, apparently people who are rich enough to wear Louboutin shoes. Louboutin began putting red soles on all his shoes as a not-so-subtle way to advertise that the shoe was Louboutin and, therefore, a very expensive shoe. It worked.  Fashion writers started pointing out the red soles with glee, as in this story about Angeline Jolie on a red carpet. The fact that the sole of this shoe is red is no accident, it’s meant to add class to the counter tops, in both senses of the word.

A final word on race: That the girl in the ad is white is no accident. And it’s not only because marketers expect the majority of their customers to be white, but because of what whiteness represents. Her white skin symbolizes the same thing that the white counter tops and white dress symbolize: purity, cleanliness, even innocence. It is only because all those symbolic elements are there that we can put a black patent leather heel with a red sole on her and still think “sweet.”  Imagine the same ad with a black child. In the U.S., black women are often stereotyped as sexually loose, morally corrupt, irresponsible teen mothers on welfare. With that symbolic baggage, this ad would be a morality lesson on the hypersexuality of black girls and their propensity to “grow up too fast.” It wouldn’t look sweet, it’d look dangerous.

“Harmonizing beautifully,” indeed.

Originally posted in 2010.

Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College and the co-author of Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook.

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Gay Pride to take place in Uganda, despite hostility:

“This year’s event has special significance – it has been a year since the controversial anti-gay law was scrapped – giving marchers even more reason to celebrate.

Richard Lusimbo – who is heading up the committee behind this year’s parade – has spoken about the harsh realities the LGBT community living in Uganda face.

“There are many people who are still languishing in refugee camps in Kenya,” he told CNN.

For security reasons, the location of this year’s parade has been kept secret, a stark reminder that although the anti-homosexuality bill may have been defeated, tensions remain.

Following the stabbings during gay pride in Jerusalem, the organisers say they are taking no risks.

“Within the penal code, the act of homosexuality is still criminalised. Socially, we can’t say that anyone won’t be throwing stones or homophobic insults,” Lusimbo said.

The country’s first gay pride march was held in in 2012 – the same year the anti-homosexuality bill was first introduced.

The march takes place on Saturday (August 8) – with fashion shows, documentary screenings, and events to promote better health awareness and access to support for gay and trans people to follow.

Last month, a Ugandan presidential candidate made history – by affirming that he opposes homophobia.

With the 2016 election approaching, former prime minister Amama Mbazazi stated that he opposes homophobia – making him one of the only Ugandan politicians to ever do so.”

Read the full piece here

fluffenchops

“Stormé DeLarverie (December 24, 1920 – May 24, 2014) was a butch lesbian whose scuffle with police was one of the defining moments of the Stonewall uprising, spurring the crowd to action. She was born in New Orleans, to an African American mother and a white father. She is remembered as a gay civil rights icon and entertainer, who graced the stages of the Apollo Theater and Radio City Music Hall. She worked for much of her life as an MC, singer, bouncer, bodyguard and volunteer street patrol worker, the “guardian of lesbians in the Village.”

She is known as “the Rosa Parks of the gay community." 

Source: Stormé DeLarverie on Wikipedia

#KnowYourHistory #Stonewall

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GOP debate: Marco Rubio claims it’s in the Constitution that abortion should be illegal even in cases of rape and incest:

TW for rape, incest

“Florida Senator Marco Rubio took the hardest of all possible hardline positions on the question of women’s rights Thursday night, arguing that abortions should be illegal even in cases of rape and incest.

Megyn Kelly informed him that on Wednesday, Cardinal Timothy Dolan called rape and incest exemptions “preposterous,” saying that “they discriminate against an entire class of human beings.”

“If you believe that life begins at conception, as you say you do,” she asked, “how do you justify ending a life just because it begins violently through no fault of the baby.”

“I don’t think that’s an accurate accounting of my view,” Rubio replied.

“You don’t favor a rape and incest exception?” Kelly asked.

“I have never said that,” Rubio replied. “I’ve never advocated that. I’ve advocated passing a law that says that all human life, at every stage of its development, is worthy of protection — in fact, I believe that law already exists.”

“It’s called the Constitution of the United States.”

Watch the video of this enemy of women here

THE REPUBLICAN WAR ON WOMEN IS IN FULL EFFECT!

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“Foxbots to Trump: Are you not a fraud, a cretin and a scoundrel.
 
Trump: I’m very rich. Fuck yourself. I have no time for your nonsense.
 
Crowd: Cheers wildly.”

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Debate Summary

Trump is the GOP’s Frankenstein’s monster, and it is wildly entertaining to watch him turn on his creators.

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Meet the man who survived both Hiroshima and Nagasaki 

70 years ago today, 29-year-old Tsutomu Yamaguchi was visiting Hiroshima on business and had been walking to his office. In a 2010 interview with ABC News Australia, Yamaguchi spoke of the horror he felt that day. He described that it appeared as if the “sun had fallen.“ Yamaguchi was lucky, though he suffered severe burns, he was able to escape the city. But fate would strike twice.

The U.S. Education system really needs to correct the way Hiroshima and Nagasaki are taught in classes.

“Until I started taking my antidepressants, though, I didn’t actually know that I was depressed. I thought the dark staticky corners were part of who I was. It was the same way I felt before I put on my first pair of glasses at age 14 and suddenly realized that trees weren’t green blobs but intricate filigrees of thousands of individual leaves; I hadn’t known, before, that I couldn’t see the leaves, because I didn’t realize that seeing leaves was a possibility at all. And it wasn’t until I started using tools to counterbalance my depression that I even realized there was depression there to need counterbalancing. I had no idea that not everyone felt the gravitational pull of nothingness, the ongoing, slow-as-molasses feeling of melting down into a lump of clay. I had no way of knowing that what I thought were just my ingrained bad habits — not being able to deposit checks on time, not replying to totally pleasant emails for long enough that friendships were ruined, having silent meltdowns over getting dressed in the morning, even not going to the bathroom despite really, really, really having to pee — weren’t actually my habits at all. They were the habits of depression, which whoa, holy shit, it turns out I had a raging case of.”

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Not Everyone Feels This Way — The Archipelago — Medium

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I felt this way the first time I took an anxiety medicine. I looked at my doctor and said: “is this how people FEEL? Like… most of the time?”

It was like sunlight on my face when I thought the world was only made of anxious midnight.

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I thought panic attacks were just…normal.  That everyone would suddenly have the ground drop out from under their feet and a thousand pounds of concrete in their chest and have to sit there waiting for the firm conviction that everyone in the world hated them to fade away.

That was just…normal.

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terufrying:

“gays will push their sexuality onto their children”

funny because that’s exactly what every straight person does.

“Look at little Emma and her future husband! SO cute!”
(literally two 3 month olds flailing on a baby mat)  

“Ooh, a friend? Is Samantha your GIRLFRIEND, Johnny?”
(4 year old boy expressing he has made a friend at school) 

“You’ve been friends with Michael for a while now haven’t you? Would you like to marry him when you’re older?”
(8 year old girl, male best friend)

“He’s such a ladies’ man!” (tiny infant responding positively and smiling vacantly in response to the attention of adult human women) 

thank you for opening my mind to this. never thought of it this way.

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darkenedgamr:

unbelievable-facts:

Scientists bred extremely sexually attractive male mosquitoes whose offspring are unable to breed. So these mosquitoes will hopefully dominate the mosquito gene pool, and in a generation or two, billions of mosquito larvae will be reproductive dead-ends.

Mosquitos deserve this for being little buggy assholes.

Mosquitos can be safely removed from the Ecosystem without any significant damage, whereas it can save countless people from disease.

how are we going to feed the fox bat?

In the lack of mosquitos in the fight for resources, the other insects in the area will rise in population, leaving the bats and frogs and spiders with much to eat still.

awesome, also i learned that fox bats eat fruit not insects

Coolio

Is no one going to address how scientists literally had to go “aight we have to make the most BANGIN mosquito possible. The SEXIEST thing these bloodsuckers have ever SEEN”

In just a few generations, we have gone from The Screwfly Solution to Magic Mike XXL.

animatedamerican:

… everyone has to “earn their keep” and “work to survive” because that’s “the way the world works” and anything else would be “entitled and lazy”…unless your parents were rich.

You know, when you put it that way, I suddenly realize that the best way to explain Guaranteed Basic Income might be something like:  “It’s basically like everybody in the country now has a rich dad, who won’t buy them everything but will make sure they don’t starve while they’re looking for work or finishing college or raising a kid of their own.”

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