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naamahdarling:

witchlockmonsterfox:

if anyone’s interested: the study my professor did was basically with children who were 2-3 years old.  they laid out toys for them to play with that were commonly associated with one gender or the other (action figures vs. dolls, a pink and therefore “girly” bike vs. a non-pink and “masculine” bike or w/e).  for a while they would observe them in the room and the children would be aware they were being watched by them.  during this period pretty much every child played with the “appropriate” toys

what they did next was then have everyone leave the room, but be watching behind one-way glass, and observe which toys the children would choose when they didn’t think they were being watched. a lot of children would play with any toy, regardless of which gender it was “meant” for.  they had no problem with it.  but they were aware of the fact that adults and other people had a problem with it.  they had already learned what they were “supposed” to do, despite the fact they didn’t seem to honestly care.  just as long as they thought they weren’t being watched and wouldn’t get in trouble for not playing with the “right” toys… which in itself says something

basically it supported the idea that children internalize gender roles at a young age, are aware of them, and it isn’t innately something a certain gender prefers over the other (or someone with one type of genitals innately prefers, as most people correlate gender with genitals, especially regarding a child. so it seems logical to assume it’s unrelated)

they’re just kind of arbitrary associations that seem to do more harm than good

So, basically, children too young to communicate effectively are being criticized and possibly punished for playing with the “wrong” toys.

Good job, parents.  Great fucking job.

bisexual-books:

wongtonz:

Aaron Diaz ( creator of Dresden Codak and my favourite LoZ au ) says things. 

I feel like this bears repeating and in bold:

You can’t cite the rules of a fictional world to defend something problematic, because a person made it up.  That person is accountable.

I feel this so much when people try to make excuses for authors who write terrible bisexual characters or whose writing is full of bi erasure, bi tropes, or conspicuously missing the b-word.  

- Sarah 

“When people with privilege hear that they have privilege, what they hear is not, “Our society is structured so that your life is more valued than others.” They hear, “Everything, no matter what, will be handed to you. You have done nothing to achieve what you have.” That’s not strictly true, and hardly anyone who points out another’s privilege is making that accusation. There are privileged people who work very hard. The privilege they experience is the absence of barriers that exist for other people.”

- No One Cares If You Never Apologize for Your White Male Privilege
(via deliciouskaek)

micdotcom:

Real students’ responses to what #IWishMyTeacherKnew will break your heart 

Kyle Schwartz asked third-graders in her Denver classroom to write her notes about things they wish she understood about their lives. Schwartz told ABC News she knew her students came from underprivileged homes but wanted to truly understand how that affected their lives and education. The movement has now spread across the country.

The next time someone unwanted asks for your name, simply reply, “What are you, my necromancer?!”

nezua:

always remember: all these systems of dominance rest on very fragile illusions. tap the glass.

1,007,000 Americans working full-time earn the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. All of that pay, to all of those people, for all of 2014 adds up to $14 billion dollars. And that is less than half of what employees on Wall Street earned in bonuses alone.

This is your image of the week:

Source: Institute for Policy Studies.

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.

(View original at http://thesocietypages.org/socimages)

islamic-art-and-quotes:

Don’t Judge

Originally found on: the-scattered-pearls

videntefernandez:

queenoftheantz:

A small witch comic under the theme “That day changed everything”!

vaccineswork:

Cartoonist Darryl Cunningham tells the important story of tetanus and how we can stop it, as part of the Art of Saving a Life project. 

Time to stop this disease in its tracks!

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Find out more about Darryl here.

Dubai-based photographer Martin Beck has created We Can Be Heroes, a humorous and gritty photo series capturing normal everyday hardworking people dressed as superheroes. Beck does a brilliant job of showcasing that heroes are all around us, and they don’t always have to have “perfect bodies and beautiful faces.” More behind-the-scenes photos are available to view on the We Can Be Heroes community page on Facebook.

The subject matter being those folk who didn’t quite make the grade at superhero school and are, like most of us, living their lives doing the day-to-day chores and their best to live a happy life while providing for their loved ones. Along with this gritty and humor laden style of photography, there is a very important message too. When we think of Superhero’s our initial thoughts are of perfect bodies and beautiful faces, in reality most of us are not like that. However, that doesn’t have to mean that we cannot still be heroes. Each of us in our own way can be heroes to our family, friends, colleagues and we all have the potential to help others.

photos via Martin Beck Photography

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animatedamerican:

feminismandhappiness:

forumgamer:

sandandglass:

Aasif Mandvi talks to Don Yelton, North Carolina Republican Executive Committee Member.

They are not even TRYING to cover their dislike of democracy and their racism…

Republicans are trying this hard to suppress Democratic votes, and you still buy the idea that “voting is not important and changes nothing”?

Does it look to you like he just outright admitted that preventing voter fraud isn’t the point, and “kicking Democrats in the butt” is?  Like, not even faintly veiled?

cuteosphere:

it always disappointed me that Monster Girls are an anime porn thing rather than something used to explore the way society and the media dehumanises women, but oh well

shout out to all my fellow monsters

“And no, before you ask, it’s not possible to take time off from work to go to the doctor. Employers are often highly resistant to this and aside from the loss of wages, employees may face retaliation for asking for time off to go to their psychiatrists and other mental health care providers. It doesn’t matter if such retaliation is illegal — even if someone could afford to retain an attorney, employers are adroit at finding reasons to explain why, for example, they cut an employee’s hours or moved her to a different shift with fewer tips, leaving her making less at the end of the week.”

- Affordability isn’t the only barrier to mental health care for low-income people | this ain’t livin’ (via feministlibrarian)

actuallyadhd:

some-other-metal-than-earth:

Don’t mess with ADHD science students during their assessment period.

You have been warned.

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mickeyandcompany:

Give me princesses who are strong and kind and fierce. Give me beauty and grace and power and will. Give me something to scornfully laugh at, when a man condescendingly calls me “princess” and thinks that he has showed me my place. Give me a throne and I will reign, give me a voice and I will sing to you a song of how glittery queens found their places, give me a dream and I will fight. - text by newtmasdoesthedo

Thank you for asking! I have a pretty fundamental understanding of economics.

  This link answers your question pretty thoroughly. 

But the short answer is: NO. Basic universal income is not the same as “printing money” so to speak, and inflation is not guaranteed. It simply redistributes money that is already in circulation more evenly.  In fact, we have REAL WORLD EXAMPLES of places that have Basic Income systems or partial basic income systems that have seen very little, or NO increases in inflation as a result!

In that link I provided, for example, it cites two examples: “In 1982, Alaska began providing a partial basic income annually to all its residents. Until the first dividend, Alaska had a higher rate of inflation than the rest of the United States. But ever since the dividend was introduced, Alaska has had a lower rate of inflation than the rest of the United States. A partial basic income was also provided in Kuwait in 2011, when every citizen was given $4,000. Fears of increasing inflation were rampant, as Kuwait already had high inflation. Instead of bad inflation getting worse, it actually got better, decreasing from record highs to under 4 percent.” 

New Words That Should Be Added to the Dictionary (images via imgur)

Previously: Name Improvements for Everyday Stuff

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eisuverse:

khaleezee:

videoevan:

Cate Blanchett pops Adderall and tries on hats for three hours in this instant Disney classic! 

she also gets a robot hand that shoots lasers

“Hulk wants to go to the Ball!!!”

jodyizm:

innthenameoffashion:

know your place & come correct when talking to a Queen.

Whew. “Sit down. I’m not for male consumption.”

Source: New Yorker, Cartoon by Jacob Samuel h/t Umair

20sidedmom:

Christopher Eccleston: Why my Doctor had to be northern

“If you’re an alien how comes you sound like you’re from the north?” Billie Piper’s Rose Tyler asked The Doctor ten years ago – now Christopher Eccleston has finally revealed why his Time Lord had a northern accent.

“Lots of planet have a north” the Doctor told Rose way back then, but Eccleston (who returns to our TV screens in ITV’s new thriller Safe House on Monday April 20th at 9pm) gives a rather different answer in this week’s edition of Radio Times.

“I wanted to move him away from the RP (received pronunciation) for the first time because we shouldn’t make a correlation between intellect and accent” he says, “although that still needs addressing”.

The self-described working-class actor also says that cultural inequality is “much more pronounced” in Britain than it used to be, and that it would be difficult for a young actor with his background to succeed in the industry today.

“You can’t blame Eddie Redmayne or Benedict Cumberbatch but inequality will lead to a milky, anodyne culture. To an extent that’s already happened,” he argues.

Eccleston stresses that it’s not just about the working class though. “There’s not enough writing for women or people of colour” he says. “It frustrates me when they insist on doing all-male Shakespearean productions – a wonderful intellectual exercise, maybe, but it’s outrageous because it’s putting a lot of women out of work.”

“Support the books. It was people dressing up as Captain Marvel at Emerald City Comic-Con that made us give that book a second wind. We saw that it was catching on. There is a challenge inherent in launching new titles. It’s as hard to launch a Black Panther as it is to launch a Black Widow. This has changed recently, and we are making progress.””

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Axel Alonso, Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief (via bjornwilde)

Oh look, cosplayers aren’t bad for comics…

(via optimysticals)

All those “fake geek girls” who are… causing more comics to be made.

(via vixyish)

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The claim that a company like McDonald’s can’t afford to pay wages over the minimum is absolutely insulting when you compare the salary of its CEO to one of its crew members.

I worked at a McDonald’s in New York over the summer and did a little math while I was there. In 2011, former McDonald’s CEO James Skinner made $8.75 million with compensation, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. In comparison, crew members made $7.25 an hour, for about $15,000 a year, if they stayed at the job year-round.

If you take Skinner’s total salary in 2011 and assume that he worked 40-hour week, he would have made $4,200 an hour. In one hour, he made 580 times more than the average McDonald’s worker. James Skinner made $33,600 a day, which is twice the salary tht a McDonald’s crew member makes in a year of full-time work.

Looking at it another way, the average worker would have to work for almost 600 years to make the salary that Skinner made in 2011. In one year, Skinner makes more than I could make in at least six lifetimes.

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- Maximum lies about the minimum wage | Socialist Worker | Samantha Valente (via meridithv)

sourcedumal:

lightspeedsound:

superheroineworld:

Grown ass man and one of the founders of Image Comics being upset because teenage muslim hero wears costum that fits her age,religious and cultural background instead of “iconic” swimsuit

“IT’S TRUE WITH ATHLETES THEY WEAR SKIMPIER THINGS’

Like Miss Marvel’s outfit is LITERALLY A BURKINI THAT SHE ALTERS. YOU KNOW, ATHLETIC WEAR FOR MUSLIM WOMEN WHO WANNA GO SURFING. IT’S LITERALLY ATHLETIC CLOTHES. SHUT THE FUCK UP. 

Also if it were true that “baggy clothing hinders movement” like have you SEEN what professional soccer players and basketball players wear or…?

newsflash: not every sports/athletic/physical activity requires us to strip down to our skivvies in order to “move freely” and in fact SOMETIMES THE BREASTS NEED TO BE PROPERLY PINNED DOWN AND SUPPORTED IN A WAY THAT DOES NOT INVOLVE A CORSET OK. 

So essentially, all female superheroes need to look like they can double as a stripper or else it’s “pandering to a vocal minority”

Never mind the vocal minority who has been demanding straight white male wank for how many decades now?

jenniferrpovey:

markthemech:

marshybot:

I’m laughing because now that Ted Cruz is running for president, his wife (whose health insurance he was covered under) decided to take a leave of absence to help him campaign, causing them both to lose their health insurance. Now they’re forced to sign up for coverage under the Affordable Care Act or become uninsured.

So since Ted Cruz decided to campaign to repeal Obamacare, he can now only get insurance through Obamacare.

And that, my friends, is a true example of irony.

This is glorious

And appears to be verified. Hahaha.

design-is-fine:

Horse painting and hand stencils, Pech Merle caves, France. Charcoal residue from the horse on the right has yielded a radiocarbon date of 24,640 bce. 📷 Jean Vertu. Source

Women made most of the oldest-known cave art paintings, suggests a new analysis of ancient handprints. Most scholars had assumed these ancient artists were predominantly men, so the finding overturns decades of archaeological dogma. Via Nationalgeographic