ThePrettiestOne

“I read in vivid language the various ways, humiliating and violent, in which my genitals, vaginal and anal, should be violated, shamed, exploited and dominated. Either the writer was going to do these things to me, or they were what I deserved. My intellect was insulted: I was called stupid, an idiot. My age, appearance and body were attacked. Even my family was thrown into the mix.”

- Ashley Judd explains why online gender violence is very much a “real” thing

inkskinned:

my guy friend was telling me about how he went to a city he doesn’t speak the language of and how he went into this scary + dark building at night and when i was like “haha i wish i could do things like that but i couldn’t i would die” somebody said, “you’re always making everything about feminism” and the funny thing is… i wasn’t at that moment. like it’s funny to me that we can literally just talk about our experiences and it seems like we’re raging about the system. it’s funny that the argument isn’t “no that isn’t like that” it’s “it is like that, but i need you to be quiet about it and suffer in silence.”

“Privilege does not mean that you’re rich, that you’ve had an easy life, that everything’s been handed to you, and you’ve never had struggle or to work hard. All it means is that there are some things in life that you will not experience— or ever have to think about— just because of who you are.”

- Franchesca Ramsey (x)

Yo papa so tired, he can’t think of anything to put in this newspost.

Have a great day!

basquithot:

king-emare:

youknowyouwantsit:

And She Isn’t A Feminist?

Can someone explain the pickle juice line to me?

It was a comparison she made in an interview between being offered shitty deals from diff managers and labels… She said she wanted champagne and they offered pickle juice and tried to make it sound like they were offering champagne. She said she remained dedicated to her craft and refused to settle and that’s why she is where she is now

Douchebag trolls, in a nutshell.

“According to the newly declassified NIE, the intelligence community concluded that Iraq “probably has renovated a [vaccine] production plant” to manufacture biological weapons “but we are unable to determine whether [biological weapons] agent research has resumed.” The NIE also said Hussein did not have “sufficient material” to manufacture any nuclear weapons. But in an October 7, 2002 speech in Cincinnati, Ohio, then-President George W. Bush simply said Iraq, “possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons” and “the evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program.””

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The CIA Just Declassified the Document That Supposedly Justified the Iraq Invasion | VICE News.

And nobody will ever hold Bush, Cheney, Powell, Rumsfeld, and the rest of those fucking liars accountable for the oceans of blood on their hands.

We saw a lot of the reviews and the interviews, and people always cutting us down, and ‘jailbait’ is a light word…think the meanest thing you could possibly call a girl, the most degrading thing you could call her, then think a hundred times worse. And that’s the way the Runaways were treated.

Joan Jett on misogyny in journalism, circa-1982

animatedamerican:

bibliophile20:

christiannightmares:

Catholic church installs watering system to drench homeless and keep them away (To read the story, click image or here; To watch a video of the watering system, click here; Found at Joe. My. God.; For a related post, click here http://christiannightmares.tumblr.com/post/49362830253/a-homeless-mans-clever-test-of-generosity-based)

So much for 1 Timothy 6:18 and 1 John 3:17. 

I wonder how much installing that watering system cost, versus for instance financially supporting a homeless shelter.

Also, this is a church in California.  So they’re abusing the homeless (I don’t care if you don’t want homeless people sleeping on your porch, an unposted sprinkler system that goes off during the night even during cold weather is active abuse and not okay), and wasting water during the most profound drought most of us have ever encountered.

Gotta love that Christian spirit.

“I’m not joking. I have a very large problem with that concept.”
astonishing x-men v3 #03 / wolverine and the x-men v1 #01

Lighten Up:

tehnakki:

A Marvel colorist reflects on the subtle racism of shifting skin tones.

Ron Wimberly is an incredible artist and this comic really spoke to me (no joke, I’m still crying as I write this). I’m leaving it as a link to the website it’s posted on because the website works to display the comic accurately both on a computer and on mobile, and the layout of this comic is a big part of it’s impact. You should read this.

aaronbsam:

I’m just imagining the hardware store clerk (or wherever these knives were purchased) ringing up all of these knives.  Like the artist just standing there acting nonchalant and the store clerk just keeps looking down at the PILE OF KNIVES and back up at this person, and then back to the knives…

"How was your day today?"

"I think I sold 1,000 knives to a serial killer and some people are going to die.”

Is Complimenting a Woman Sexual Harassment?-Feminist Fridays

“Blank Page” is a great Game of Thrones parody, written by Freddy Scott and directed by both Andrew Bowser and Ben Mekler, of the new hit song “Blank Space” by Taylor Swift. In the funny music video, featured on a new episode of Nerdist Presents, an version of George R.R. Martin on an intense power trip sings about the uncertainty that lingers in his fantasy world of Westeros when it comes to who will be killed off next.

The original music video for comparison:

I’m pretty sure that although intent might not be magic, we white people must surely be magic. The proof is in the media response to the SAE lynching chant. Most of it magically turns white racism into something that’s black peoples’ fault. That’s amazing. It can’t be done with rationality or anything else of this world, so it must be magic. For an antidote to all that, here’s a great summary by Ellie Mystal on how the words of the chant go beyond simply being “speech” and turn into a threat when looked at through black history:

Now, I get how a white listener wouldn’t take the threat as a true threat. They weren’t threatening Eugene Volokh. And, I don’t know, maybe when white people are by themselves, they talk like this and they all understand that they don’t actually intend to solicit a lynch mob to go after the black people on campus. Who knows what you say when I’m not around. Maybe white people are just used to chants about hanging people from trees, and intuitively know that the drunk frat boys weren’t serious?

But that’s not really an objective reading of the situation, at least if we dispense with the notion that the white perspective is the only objective one. Objectively, a bus of drunk white people were singing about hanging people. Buses of drunk white people singing about hanging folks is a true threat, because sometimes buses of drunk white people then actually go out and hang people. IT’S HAPPENED BEFORE.

In fact, I’m getting pretty sick of white people telling me how I’m supposed to perceive threats from white people. Of course I perceive the chant as an attempt to solicit a criminal act. How could I not? Don’t most hate crimes committed against African-Americans start with drunk douchebags talking about n***ers?

The post When a Song Becomes a Threat: SAE and “Speech” appeared first on Literate Perversions.

GREATEST IMPROVISED LINE EVER

aud-works:

elsinore-rose:

"beauty and the beast" where beauty’s dad comes home with the rose and is like oh shit oh shit this terrible monster says i have to come live with him forever because i picked his favorite flower and beauty just goes fuck that and puts on her pants and marches down to the beast’s castle herself

and she’s expecting this horrifying dark fortress but it’s actually sort of just a normal castle with big rose bushes and furniture that’s sometimes alive

and she thinks, i can work with this

and the beast comes out and he’s like don’t look at me i am a hideous monster and beauty’s like dude you’re like a talking tiger in a cape are you kidding you’re AWESOME can i pet you can i stroke your paws can you give me a ride

and he’s like what and she goes around the castle like okay we’ll put curtains here and expand the kitchen and this could be a really cute breakfast nook

and the beast is confused because isn’t she supposed to be terrified and hate him and he had all these intimidating speeches planned and he’s like uh aren’t you going to try to run away

and beauty’s all are you kidding this is a magic castle i’m going to live here forever

so they just sort of settle in together and one day beauty goes home for the weekend to visit her family and they’re all amazed that she’s alive and her sisters go WHY DIDN’T THE HUGE MONSTER EAT YOU TO DEATH and she’s like nahhh he’s basically just a big cat he’s kind of cute actually sometimes he plays with yarn when he thinks i’m not looking

and she explains how it’s really not that bad, all the dishes wash themselves and i get all these gorgeous dresses for free because the castle doesn’t know what else to do with them and yeah there are flowers everywhere but hey that’s his hobby y’know i’m not gonna discourage that man

and then one day while beauty’s re-alphabetizing her magic library and trying to decide where to put that enchanted mirror the beast comes up and he’s like hey so this is awkward but are you like………………………………..in love with me……?????????

and beauty’s like oh uh wow haha um sorry no you’re…sort of a tiger

and the beast is like thank goodness because if you were i’d have to turn back into a human and i’ve kind of gotten used to being a big lion thing with horns and the ability to speak english for some reason like why would i want to go back to being a spindly little man and then beauty laughs and she’s like okay well can you go catch us a wild boar for dinner, dear

and they end up getting married in the end just because it’s easier to explain that way, you know, a single lady ~~living alone with a man~~ even if he’s not actually a man, and that’s fine with them because beauty was never really into the whole boys and sex thing and the beast (whose name is jeff) is honestly more interested in his flowers

and whenever any of the other ladies in the village give her any shit beauty is just like, oh, you don’t like my crepes? well you know my husband, who is literally a tiger, loves them and then everyone leaves her alone, which is really all she ever wanted

and she goes back to her magic castle and sits down with a book in front of the fire and rests her feet on her cat husband and nobody bothers her ever again

can that happen

8D

“It was only January when Republicans took full control of Congress, but already it is safe to say they have no earthly idea of what they want to accomplish.
 
What we’re seeing is not just a bit of sputtering before the GOP machine cranks up and begins to systematically fulfill its governing plan. There is no plan. Republican majorities in both the House and Senate are so out of control that they’ve managed a feat once thought impossible: They make the Democratic Party look like a model of unity and discipline.”

- The dysfunctional GOP is failing to govern.

radicalqueerbrownboy:

creamsiclesdontaskquestions:

black astronauts who have traveled into space [x]

Can you lead out a constellation in its season
     Or guide the Ash constellation along with its sons?
Do you know the laws governing the heavens,
         Or can you impose their authority on the earth? - Job 38: 32, 33

they should make a documentary series on their journeys. it’d be so dope.

Yeah, we know.

Read the whole thing.

The anti-intellectualism of the American citizenry is just killing us. They won’t be impressed: they’ll just point to the 13th panel and say, “Haw haw, we can kick your ass.”

sandandglass:

TDS, March 10, 2015

geekhyena:

songforalonggoodbye:

Labyrinth + Text Posts

Bonus Tweet

so many of these apply to tobyverse…

“Yesterday, I spent 60 dollars on groceries,
took the bus home,
carried both bags with two good arms back to my studio apartment
and cooked myself dinner.
You and I may have different definitions of a good day.
This week, I paid my rent and my credit card bill,
worked 60 hours between my two jobs,
only saw the sun on my cigarette breaks
and slept like a rock.
Flossed in the morning,
locked my door,
and remembered to buy eggs.
My mother is proud of me.
It is not the kind of pride she brags about at the golf course.
She doesn’t combat topics like, ”My daughter got into Yale”
with, “Oh yeah, my daughter remembered to buy eggs”
But she is proud.
See, she remembers what came before this.
The weeks where I forgot how to use my muscles,
how I would stay as silent as a thick fog for weeks.
She thought each phone call from an unknown number was the notice of my suicide.
These were the bad days.
My life was a gift that I wanted to return.
My head was a house of leaking faucets and burnt-out lightbulbs.
Depression, is a good lover.
So attentive; has this innate way of making everything about you.
And it is easy to forget that your bedroom is not the world,
That the dark shadows your pain casts is not mood-lighting.
It is easier to stay in this abusive relationship than fix the problems it has created.
Today, I slept in until 10,
cleaned every dish I own,
fought with the bank,
took care of paperwork.
You and I might have different definitions of adulthood.
I don’t work for salary, I didn’t graduate from college,
but I don’t speak for others anymore,
and I don’t regret anything I can’t genuinely apologize for.
And my mother is proud of me.
I burned down a house of depression,
I painted over murals of greyscale,
and it was hard to rewrite my life into one I wanted to live
But today, I want to live.
I didn’t salivate over sharp knives,
or envy the boy who tossed himself off the Brooklyn bridge.
I just cleaned my bathroom,
did the laundry,
called my brother.
Told him, “it was a good day.”

-

Kait Rokowski, A Good Day

(via

femmewitchbabe

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you fucking go, you bad ass bitch 🙌

(via heysaba)

evilsupplyco:

Be strong today.

If you cannot be strong, be terrifying today.

If you cannot be terrifying, we will lend you monster claws, razor teeth, and fiery breath.

zetsubonna:

So I’ve started watching Leverage again…

#i think that eliot was supposed to be way more cultured and hipster at first#hence this scene#but then they just decided to go with country boy thug#which okay#but i still miss THIS eliot#leverage#favorite character alert

actualmenacebuckybarnes: okay but can’t he be both though? Like, okay, I get the backstory, as it’s been given to us, but this is my number one pet peeve about the perception of Southerners, country people and of violent characters generally.

Eliot Spencer is incredibly smart and very cultured. When other characters talk about pink collar jobs, Eliot corrects them and is far more aware of that sort of thing than they are (Sophie says ‘stewardess’, Eliot immediately tells her ‘flight attendant,’ etc.). He has a great knowledge of not just knife technique, which, okay, but wines, distillery, flavor composition, etc. He routinely passes as professions deemed higher class than that which is perceived to be his own (doctor, lawyer, accountant), and he uses his means of accomplishing tasks, violence, with skill and discernment and not mere force.

He also reads Nate better than anyone, including Sophie, and calls him on his bullshit directly all the time.

When we see Eliot interacting with the rest of the team, it’s not that he’s uncultured or less of a hipster trope, it’s that it reads different coming from him than say, Hardison because he has a Southern twang, a gravelly voice, and a tendency to punctuate with the word “damn it.” Which is a local dialectical thing, honestly, I do it, my mom’s boyfriend does it, a lot of people around here do it.

Eliot with the Leverage crew is Eliot relaxed. He’s code switching. When he knows something, he tells them, ‘it’s a very distinctive,’ which is like our tumblr shorthand ‘for reasons.’ They come to trust that when Eliot says ‘it’s a very distinctive’ he means, ‘It’s complicated and I know it from experience, but it’s not important enough for you to know that I have to explain, so move on.’ He doesn’t have to turn on his charm or put forth any sort of airs, they know him, they know how he operates, they know how he thinks, so he can just grumble and swear and threaten and keep working, so he’s happy.

He doesn’t like talking. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t like anything else, he just doesn’t like talking. Some people don’t. Doesn’t mean they don’t think, I mean, there’s that old proverb about removing all doubt, right?

I never see Eliot as a thug. I see him as a country boy hipster whose professional life is punching people in the face, and, aside from the resume, I know that guy. I went to school with that guy. I’ve banged that guy on multiple occasions. He’s a great guy.

Defensive architecture: keeping poverty unseen and deflecting our guilt:

Defensive architecture is revealing on a number of levels, because it is not the product of accident or thoughtlessness, but a thought process. It is a sort of unkindness that is considered, designed, approved, funded and made real with the explicit motive to exclude and harass. It reveals how corporate hygiene has overridden human considerations, especially in retail districts. It is a symptom of the clash of private and public, of necessity and property.

Pavement sprinklers have been installed by buildings as diverse as the famous Strand book store in New York, a fashion chain in Hamburg and government offices in Guangzhou. They spray the homeless intermittently, soaking them and their possessions. The assertion is clear: the public thoroughfare in front of a building, belongs to the building's occupant, even when it is not being used. [...]

Defensive architecture acts as the airplane curtain that separates economy from business and business from first class, protecting those further forward from the envious eyes of those behind. It keeps poverty unseen and sanitises our shopping centres, concealing any guilt for over-consuming. It speaks volumes about our collective attitude to poverty in general and homelessness in particular. It is the aggregated, concrete, spiked expression of a lack of generosity of spirit.

Ironically, it doesn't even achieve its basic goal of making us feel safer. There is no way of locking others out that doesn't also lock us in. The narrower the arrow-slit, the larger outside dangers appear. Making our urban environment hostile breeds hardness and isolation. It makes life a little uglier for all of us.

Lots of good stuff at the Dismal Garden gallery (I think this is what used to be the "Anti-Sit archives" -- many of the photos look similar, anyway.)

And, one of my favorite background gags from Transmetropolitan, 1999. It took me a little while to dig these out. Can you believe that these images aren't googleable?

ainospeaks7331:

justsomebirdie:

missbadgerdrake:

shlang:

source

ALL OF THIS!!!!
… The Queen is then the Stable Master of the Fae…

OMG.

That is awesome!!! :D :D

Terry Crews, seriously, all allies should aspire to be as excellent as you.

Speaking with Dame Magazine, Crews spoke eloquently about gender and how we represent ourselves when talking about how much of himself he brings to his character on Brooklyn Nine-Nine. “Every man and every woman has both sexes in them [...] We have to embrace the duality that we are,” said Crews. “I’m an artist – I love painting and drawing, and I play the flute, and people go, ‘Man, that’s feminine!’ But why is that feminine? That’s just human. If you feel that is feminine, you’re judging yourself based on what other people’s reactions might be.”

The former NFL player, who is now married with five children (four of whom are girls) and one granddaughter, said that he has had to do some “serious thinking” about the world in which he’s raising his children, and that’s part of what made him want to actively speak out about feminism and the fight for equality. “When I see the world and the way people are treated, I see so many domination and control issues,” said Crews. “The truth is, everyone is equal and valuable, and everyone is necessary, but there tends to be a dismissal of certain groups.”

But, Crews clarifies, he’s not trying to speak for women, but rather to be the best ally he can. “Women are more than capable of handling themselves, and have been doing so wonderfully for years,” explained Crews. “What I am saying is, as one man to another man, examine your own mind-set. Examine what makes you tick. Because if you feel that you are more valuable than your wife and kids, that’s a problem.” In his book Manhood, Crews cites male pride as something that stops men from changing their outlook on how they treat women.

Crews also spoke at length about rape culture and its prevalence in the world of sports and football, noting that he’s known many men who believed women were responsible for their own sexual assaults because of how they were dressed. “Once I realized that I was part of that culture, I knew that I had to change it,” Crews said, citing 50 Shades of Grey as an example of pop culture projecting abuse as romance, and said that it’s simple in our society for men to use lies, guilt, and shame to control women – something he’s seen at length in his work with the Polaris Project to stop human trafficking.

“We’re not talking Game of Thrones stuff,” added Crews. “we’re talking very subtle mind games that change cultures, and change how people live. We’ve got to address these mindsets that say that’s cool. A reaction I get from certain people is, ‘Hey man, chill, it’s not that deep.’ Everything’s that deep. Don’t wash your hands, and serve food at a restaurant, and you’ll find out how deep things get real quick. It starts with one small thing, and you can cause a whole chain reaction.”

If you want to check out the whole interview – and I think you should, because this dude is awesome – head over to Dame Magazine.

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femininefreak:

By Ellen T. Crenshaw