ThePrettiestOne

hollandrooden:

get to know me meme: [1/5] favorite tv shows » Fringe

"I’m going to tell you something that I have never told another soul. Until I took my son from the other side, I had never believed in God. But it occurred to me… That my actions had betrayed him and that everything that had happened to me since was God punishing me. So now I’m looking for a sign of forgiveness. I’ve asked God for a sign of forgiveness. A specific one, a white tulip. Tulips don’t bloom this time of year… white or otherwise. But he’s God. And if God can forgive me for my acts then maybe… It’s in the realm of possibility that my son, possibly, may be able to forgive me too."

socialjusticekoolaid:

Please don’t forget about our sisters lost in this struggle. A week before Tamir Rice was killed, a woman by the name of Tanesha Anderson had her head slammed into the ground and was killed by Cleveland police. We fight in their name. #staywoke #farfromover

This is what gender ideology looks like:

That’s The Walking Dead’s Rosita Espinosa with newly shaven armpits.

This is also gender ideology at work: the privileging of an idea of gender over real life or, in this case, realism.

The Walking Dead’s producers go to great lengths to portray what a zombie apocalypse might be like. They are especially keen to show us the nasty bits: what it really looks like when dead people don’t die, what it looks like to kill the undead, and the evil it spawns in those left alive. It’s gruesome. The show is a gore orgy. But armpit hair on women? Apparently that’s just gross.

If gender ideology had lost this battle with realism, we’d see armpit hair on the women in Gilligan’s Island, Planet of the Apes, The Blue Lagoon, Beauty and the Beast, Waterworld, Lost, and The Hunger Games – but we don’t. (Thanks to Ariane Lange at Buzzfeed for the whole collection and to @uheartdanny for the link.)

At least Rosita could conceivably have a razor. How do women supposedly shave their armpits on deserted islands? Did the Beast slip Belle a razor, you know, just as part of his controlling personality? And maybe some persnickety women would continue to shave even if they were lost in purgatory, but Riley in Alien? Come on.

Our interest in realism only goes so far. Armpit hair on women is apparently one of its limits.

Cross-posted at Pacific Standard.

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)

ellenkushner:

kat-howard:

medieval-women:

Claricia’s Medieval Selfie

Claricia was a German illuminator who included a self-portrait in a South German psalter produced circa 1200 CE.

In the self-portrait, she depicts herself swinging from the tail of a letter Q with her name inscribed over her head. Her uncovered head, braided hair, and style of dress (close-fitting tunic, long-waisted dress, long flowing sleeves) suggests that she was a lay student at the convent.

I love this.

Me, too! Thanks for sharing this, Kat!!

underking:

genderflummox:

"never use this word because it’s common, instead use all of these things that i’ll call synonyms even though they carry different connotations and will change the meaning of your dialogue if you use them" — very bad and unfortunately very common writing advice

"Do you want this sandwich?" she elaborated, acquiring the sandwich from her rucksack with a set of fingers.

His visage was set aflame with a smile. “Sure,” he postulated.

dion-thesocialist:

deducecanoe:

mellopetitone:

deducecanoe:

bankuei:

v-for-valkyr:

bonerfart:

asfadedasmyjeans:

missworded:

“…supporters of police officer Darren Wilson have donated more than enough money to post a billboard in the heart of the St. Louis suburb reading ‘#PantsUPDontLoot.’”

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME.

This is offensive on so many fucking levels.  NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE, THO, RIGHT?!

What the fucking hell

their response to “please stop shooting us” is “maybe you should pull your pants up”, fucking disgusting 

look at this paid-for racism

AKA: “Next time we’ll have a DIFFERENT reason why it’s ok to kill you.”

That is fucking bold. I mean, BOLD. White people in that town need to rethink their shitty racist lives.

It’s not just Ferguson. The guy who started the funding campaign for the billboard was from Tennessee, outside Nashville. And there are people all over the country who think some fucked up shit about this, like police and white people can do no wrong and black people are suspicious so despite all the explicit evidence to the contrary, even the stuff that plays into their idea of a good person, they’re sure Mike Brown must have been in the wrong because they can’t imagine that the white cop did something shitty.

Holy shit. I can’t even believe the audacity. We need to collect our cousins. Like… white people, friends don’t let friends be racist fucks, ok? 

Is this real?

Of course it’s real, and wasting time being “shocked” and “dismayed” and settling into a morass of inaction is what permits it to continue. We as white people allow it to continue when we pretend otherwise. We have the overabundance of power, we have the safety to confront things like this and the people who put them in place without fearing for our lives.

This is why, once again, it’s important to have the “awkward” confrontational conversations with your racist relatives and friends on Facebook/”back home”/etc and not let it drop, to challenge as much as we can everywhere we see it. It’s not just St Louis, it’s not just one city, it’s not Somewhere Else that this is happening.

TDS December 8, 2014

Jon Stewart responds to criticism for a factual mistake he made last week on The Daily Show where he listed Dante Parker as one of a number of black men shot and killed by police. 

Dear Anonymous,

Miles and I addressed the textual evidence—which lands firmly on your side, by the way—in Episode 34, but I’d also like to take a moment to talk to your friend directly:

Dear Anonymous’s Friend,

You seem like someone who works hard to consider the cultural context and ethical implications of the media you consume. That’s really cool, and it’s something I try very hard to both practice—as a podcaster, as a critic, and as a consumer—and to encourage in our audience.

Here’s the thing, though, AF—this is not black-and-white, it never has been, and it never will be. It’s not a rigid objective rubric. It’s a deeply personal judgment call. And when you attack your friend because they like a fictional character you find personally problematic, you are being an asshole.

AF, it is absolutely okay for your friend to find enjoyment, value, and points of personal identification in things that don’t perfectly mesh with their identity or personal beliefs. To tell anyone that they’re not allowed to have those things because fictional entities in which they find meaning don’t measure up on a rigid real-world rubric is—as far as I’m concerned—incredibly uncool.

I also want to address another point that your concerns about Nightcrawler bring up—about members of marginalized groups searching for points of identification in mass media. I don’t know anything about you, but your friend mentioned that they’re queer, and I know from experience that when you’re reading from a position anywhere on the margins—say, as a sexual minority—one of the first skills you learn is to identify with fictional characters who aren’t like you and sometimes even profoundly conflict with your personal identity and values. You learn to do this because when you are coming from that position, if you strike from the list every character who doesn’t precisely reflect your values and identity, you are denying yourself the overwhelming majority of the options available.

And having those footholds, those points of affection and identification and fandom—that matters. It matters so much. Cyclops and I don’t have a ton in common superficially—in canon, he’s portrayed as a straight male-presenting person who grew up in an orphanage and shoots force beams out of his eyes; and I’m a queer female-presenting person who grew up with two (very cool) parents and no superpowers whatsoever. Cyclops is also often a total jerk a lot of the time; and especially in the Silver Age, he says and does some completely fucked up shit, including some things that are unambiguously sexist or racist.

But you know what? He’s still my favorite character, because there are things really fundamental to who I am and how I experience the world that I find reflected in Cyclops and almost nowhere else in fiction. Because having him available to me as a metaphor helps me parse shit that I otherwise do not have the tools to handle. Because I am never, ever going to find a paper mirror that reflects all of the complicated, faceted aspects of my identity and experiences—and guess what? no human being is—so I find and cobble together points of identification where I can.

Ultimately, though, that’s secondary to my main point. You do not get to decide what other people are allowed to like. Independent of action, liking things—or disliking them—is not itself an ethically charged act. What you are doing here does not serve a greater good. It does not speak to ethical consumption of fiction, or ethical anything. It’s just petty and cruel.

Look, AF, it’s okay if Nightcrawler’s Catholicism is a deal-breaker for you, personally. That is just fine. You are absolutely not obliged to like everything your friend likes, and you shouldn’t have to answer to their preferences or personal rubrics for the fiction they consume any more than they should have to answer to yours. But part of being a friend is recognizing that you are not the same person. Of the fictional characters and real people in this scenario, there’s only one trying to impose rigid dogma aggressively enough to do harm—and it’s not Nightcrawler.

(Also, your understanding of both Nightcrawler’s historical portrayal in X-Men and the relationship between Catholic dogma and the politics and personal views of individual Catholics is just spectacularly off-base.)

Sincerely,
Rachel

killbenedictcumberbatch:

owning-my-truth:

12 Year Old Dymond Milburn was severely beaten by 3 plainclothes police officers because they thought she was a prostitute. Even though they beat her with a flashlight and caused injuries to her head, spine, throat and ear, the cops charged her with assault.

Sean Stewart, one of the cops involved, later received “Officer of the Year”

Credit: Cop Block

WHAT THE FUUCK

politics-war:

Ramsey Orta, who filmed Eric Garner being put into a chokehold that led to his death. Orta has since been indicted  on weapons charges stemming from an arrest by undercover officers earlier that month.

Police alleged that Orta had slipped a .25 caliber handgun into a teenage accomplice’s waistband outside a New York hotel. Orta testified that the charges were falsely mounted by police in retaliation for his role in documenting Garner’s death, but the grand jury rejected his contention, charging him with single felony counts of third-degree criminal weapon possession and criminal firearm possession.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/eric-garner-grand-jury-rigged-man-filmed-chokehold-article-1.2033257

micdotcom:

#BlackLivesMatter has gone global

It’s not just Americans that care about racist policing practices across the U.S. In protests held worldwide this week, thousands of people showed up to demonstrate solidarity with their counterparts in the U.S. protesting the deaths of Ferguson teenager Mike Brown and New York man Eric Garner.

27 photos from protests around the world 

peopleplacesnthings:

"Love is an action, never simply a feeling."

— bell hooks

drst:

illbeoutback:

If you’re protesting abortion, the Supreme Court says you can get right in women’s faces and scream at them on their way into the clinic. Because freedom of speech.

But if you try and protest the murder of a black man, you get tear gas fired at you.

While standing in your own backyard.

Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley for December 09, 2014

Dog Eat Doug by Brian Anderson for December 09, 2014

ronracer:

Nothing ever changed by following the system

majiinboo:

Do the KKK and Westboro Baptist Church get arrested when they’re throwing around hate speech and protesting funerals, or is that only reserved for black people asking to have their humanity recognized?

Judge Drops Involuntary Manslaughter Charge Against Cop In Aiyana Stanley-Jones Shooting:

drst:

whitegenocide:

harleyhendrix:

bogleech:

sonofbaldwin:

Wayne County Circuit Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway dismissed an involuntary manslaughter charge against the Detroit police officer accused in the 2010 fatal shooting of 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones, reports the Detroit Free Press.

As previously reported by NewsOne, Officer Joseph Weekley failed to follow his training when he stormed a house looking for a murder suspect with his finger on the trigger and shot Aiyana who was asleep on the couch, according to prosecutors.

All sides acknowledge that Aiyana Stanley-Jones’ death was not intentional. But prosecutors say Officer Joseph Weekley’s actions were a crime because he handled his submachine gun in a reckless manner.

“You have to use ordinary care in the exercise of your duties,” prosecutor Rob Moran said. “He didn’t follow ordinary care. … If he didn’t pull the trigger, Aiyana would be alive.”

Here’s the opportunity to prove that black girls lives matter as much as black boys lives.

Where is the national movement against this judge who dropped the charges against the cop who killed seven-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones as she lay on a couch in her home? Where is the demand from the people that the cop be locked up?

A cop who was frontin’ for the cameras of the reality series that was being filmed at the time, who was all gassed up on that “Look at me! I’m a cop on TV” shit and wound up killing our baby girl.

They charged him with some bullshit-ass, slap-on-the-wrist “involuntary manslaughter” and not even that shit could stick.

Baby girl is dead.

And there’s not a whisper or a tear.

I don’t believe it when people say they love black girls.

I have zero evidence of that assertion.


(H/T Kristen M. Muldrow)

holy FUCKING SHIT

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

A COP KILLS A 7 YEAR OLD LITTLE CHILD WHO WAS SLEEPING ON A  FUCKING COUCH

AND DOESN’T EVEN GET INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER

Yall

YALL SHE WAS A DAMN BABY

so what’s the excuse now??? did they claim she charging at him too???? did they describe her as some sort of hulk hogan demon spawn as well???? what the fuck was the excuse??

YOU CAN FUCKING GET IN A CAR ACCIDENT AND STILL GET CHARGED WITH INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER BUT A COP DELIBERATELY ACTS LIKE RAMBO AND KILLS A BLACK GIRL AND NOTHING.

gingerhaze:

HUNGER GAMES COMICS

PART 2

zebablah:

my initial thoughts in light of the recent announcement. i have nothing left to say. 

“It is not widely known that David Koch was the Libertarian Party vice-presidential candidate in 1980. He believed that Ronald Reagan was much too liberal. Despite Mr. Koch putting a substantial sum of money into the campaign, his ticket only received 1 percent of the vote. Most Americans thought the Libertarian Party platform of 1980 was extremist and way out of touch with what the American people wanted and needed.

Fast-forward 34 years and the most significant reality of modern politics is how successful David Koch and like-minded billionaires have been in moving the Republican Party to the extreme right. Amazingly, much of what was considered “extremist” and “kooky” in 1980 has become part of today’s mainstream Republican thinking.”

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Bernie Sanders (Ind. - VT) asks: Who are the Koch Brothers and what do they want? (via odinsblog)

And yet the media talks about Bernie Sanders, who has been in Congress for years, as if he’s a “kook” and not a legitimate candidate for President.

“The reason that the government keeps old Black Panthers in prison is not because they fear that they will engage in violence or to just punish them, but rather because they fear their effects upon the youth, who are seeking leadership and will fight.”

- Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin  (via america-wakiewakie)

digital-femme:

Comic strip by Kris Straub

bpdrinmatsuoka:

ctron164:

melanin-made:

This is getting bigger by the second

First Deandre Joshua and now Shawn Gray, who’s looking after the witnesses in Ferguson ?!

From his family:

"We reached out to the officers in Ladue, Kirkwood and the [St. Louis] city police and I feel like we didn’t get the help that we needed," said Gray’s cousin Nayesha Courteney.

Gray was last seen leaving work at Cardwell’s restaurant and bar in Clayton at 11:30 p.m. on Thanksgiving. Relatives say it was unlike him to disappear so they filed a missing persons report in St. Louis two days later. But it was family members that were able to track down his car to the parking lot of a Maggie Moo’s in Ladue.

"We played detective from day one of his disappearance up until yesterday of them finding his body," Courteney.

The family called Ladue police, who went to the scene, looked in the trunk and inside the car and determined there was no sign of foul play. News 4 asked police if they could have done more like check for surveillance video, but they wouldn’t comment on an ongoing investigation.

The police were not just uncooperative and unwilling to search for Shawn Gray- they were complicit in the minimization of his disappearance, and his subsequent death. This was not an accident.

momicaa:

suck-my-thermos:

Let’s pretend for a moment that vaccines DID cause autism. Lets say it was proven that there was a link (which there isn’t).

Could you honestly look your child in the eye and tell them “I would much prefer it if you caught polio and suffered an extremely painful death whilst your body was fully paralysed than find out that you have autism”?

Mic drop

Dog Eat Doug by Brian Anderson for December 08, 2014

Marvel Age #31


Marvel Age #37


Marvel Age #39


Marvel Age #40


Marvel Age #42


Marvel Age #50


Marvel Age #57


Marvel Age #57


Marvel Age #59


Marvel Age #60

partycops:

comicartistevolution:

Kyle Baker 1985-1986: “It’s Genetic” from Marvel Age #31 - 60

Having landed an internship at Marvel somewhat effortlessly and being well-liked in the Bullpen, Baker could have been a shoo-in for a bright future at Marvel. The big problem is that Marvel is mostly in the superhero business, and Baker is the first to admit he’s not a big superhero fan.

I was still trying to be funny, and I had been submitting strips to syndicates with no luck. It’s very hard to get into a newspaper syndicate. Jim Shooter and Stan Lee both tried to help me get into the syndicate that does the Spider-Man strip. Shooter liked me — I was doing some Marvel stuff, too — but he felt that I was just all wrong for Marvel, because they didn’t do any comedy. So he was always trying to get me set up at the syndicate so he could get rid of me. [laughter] That was nice of him — I’m not knocking him.

During his time freelancing at Marvel, Jim Salicrup commissioned him to write a few one-panel gags about the X-Men, called “It’s Genetic” published sporadically in the pages of Marvel Age’s “Mutant Report” feature. 

Baker did twelve of these comics over the course of a little over a year and it’s the first time we get to see him in his element. I have a fond memory of these comics and loved the way he drew such a short squat Wolverine.

@rachelandmiles

frauleinmaria:

Jessica Williams is god

“Male student, your unwanted advances and creepy staring are distracting the female students. Go home until you can get yourself together and have some self-control.”

- said no one, ever (via madlori)