March 2012
ladonnapietra replied to your post: I love it when people go to an academic lecture and then laugh inappropriately
It’s not unusual for people to laugh at things that at root frighten them. It’s not exactly nervous laughter so much as it is a distancing mechanism.
I’m sure that’s what it was for most people, but others just couldn’t get control of themselves in a way that was...
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I love it when people go to an academic lecture...
Trigger warning on this just in case.
I just came from an event on campus where I saw Dr. Eric Hickey speak about forensic psychology, serial killers and his area of specialty, paraphilias and sex crimes. It was very interesting, I took notes.
Anyway, towards the end he was talking about the line between having a fetish and a paraphilia. He was explaining that feet fetishes are pretty common...
February 2012
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That moment when
you realize that something you thought was due this week isn’t actually due until later.
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Prejudice: [PoC calls white person a cracker].
Racism: Two centuries of PoC being stolen from their homelands, driven out of their native lands, tricked, raped, infected with disease, and otherwise downtrodden so as to remove them from any chance of being the dominant race.
Prejudice: [PoC gives a white person a nickname playing on the fact that they're white].
Racism: PoC must, from the moment they realize a baby is on the way, worry about whether giving a child a name reflecting their heritage will affect their chances at a good life in the future. Hint: it will.
Not racism: Calling out that slavery lasted for two centuries, and civil rights did not happen for PoC until the 20th Century (you know, the century which only ended TWELVE YEARS AGO).
Racism: We should not talk about it, because it makes [non-PoC] feel bad.
Not racism: A non-PoC actor can get pretty much any role s/he wnats.
Racism: ... including roles that were originally written as PoC. PoC actors must settle for roles making them servants, sassy women, jive turkey men, criminals, drug addicts, or abused downtrodden prostitutes, the better to reinforce the negative mental image of PoC in the minds of the zeitgeist, and hold up the excuse that "they bring it on themselves".
Not Racism: Flattering pictures of people used to represent them on the web.
Racism: Flattering pictures of Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Bachman. But the most unflattering pic available of Michelle Obama is used for the same article.
Not Racism: Articles about women's features.
Racism: Article purporting to have scientific "proof" that Black women are uglier than women of any other race.
Not Racism: America is where everyone is supposed to have equal chance.
Racism: Equal chance? Freed slaves were lucky if they got 40 Acres and a Mule, after working for free for generations for people who are now wealthy and offered no other reparations.
Not Racism: Irish History Month, Italian History Month, French History Month, German History Month, etc. All of which would, technically, qualify, btw, as White History Months.
Racism: It's not Cameroon History Month, Nigerian History Month, Egyptian History Month, Zimbabwean History Month, Zaire History Month, Somalian History Month, etc. It's BLACK History Month. Doesn't matter what country in Africa you come from. If you're Black you just all get lumped in together.
Not Racism: PoC describe their experiences.
Racism: Non-PoC interrupt, derail, silence, mock, deride, or cite "oversensitivity" because it makes them feel uncomfortable to know that PoC have endured this, and to have to acknowledge their privilege -- and their responsibility to do something about it if they really are as anti-racist as they profess.
...add your own examples.
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tw: fatphobia mental illness, sexism,...
markaragnos:
fsufeminist:
strawberrypookmoo:
unknowablewoman:
freibiergesicht:
hex-positive-feminism:
lmao men are fucking garbage
this is so fucking hilarious i am having trouble not reblogging
this has got to be a parody of nice guy thought right?
or perhaps i am still in 3rd grade and it is actually opposite day
I can’t stop laughing. This is so absurd.
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THIS is why...
“And yet a woman’s weight is seen by American culture as an outward manifestation...”
– Everybody, Every Body: the Media’s Erasure of Fat Girls
this is a really articulate way of describing why despite being a cisgendered woman with 100% cisgender privilege, I still have extreme issues with seeing myself as a woman.
(via ladiebear)
kaye wrote this and kaye is really amazing and...
Watching the Teen Mom 2 finale
Prepare for an armchair-psych-student-aspiring-relationship-therpaist analysis below:
Chelsea and Adam are tragic. It could not be any more obvious that he is only sticking around for the cameras. He completely can’t stand her. They are sitting on the couch together, and he’s sitting almost as far from her as possible and certain points, he’s even leaning back and angling...
no-panic-go-nomadic:
Right, it's February 29th and i'm going to get in...
fuckyeahgenderstudies:
Please don’t send me messages asking what i think about the “tradition” of women proposing (or, rather, being allowed to propose) to their partners on February 29. I don’t think it’s neat. I don’t think it’s liberating. I think marriage is shit and oppressive in all its forms and, come on, the sexism of this tradition is totally transparent anyway.
That is all. Have a...
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“No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your...”
– President Barack Obama (via ithedivine)
Oh, sir. You’re so logical it makes my heart flutter.
(via ipomoeaandthestarstealers)
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All I'm saying is it's worth the small sacrifice... →
fucknojezebel:
“mrsbuzzed” is ridiculous.
I love her breeder logic. “You’re selfish if you don’t have kids! I have kids so someone is forced to take care of ME.”
People like this confirm my choice not to have children because they sound so miserable. Happy people don’t go on rampages about what they’re missing out on but how it’s all “worth it”.
Other choice quotes from this gem of a...
Things That Irk* Me
kitteh-neon:
*make me really fucking angry
people who don’t spay, neuter, or vaccinate their pets
YOU’RE JUST CREATING MOUNTAINS OF UNWANTED PUPPIES AND KITTIES AND BIRDS AND GERBILS AND MICE.
AND THEY’RE ALL UN-VACCINATED AND SPREADING DISEASES NOT ONLY TO THEMSELVES BUT TO OTHER ANIMALS AND OTHER SPECIES AND FUCKING HUMANS.
*head explosion*
*snot everywhere because kitteh-neon is sicky*
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Romance Novels, The Last Great Bastion Of... →
buoyantcherub:
“Romance fiction is widely reckoned to be a very low form of literature. Maybe the lowest, if we’re not counting the writing at Groupon, or on Splenda packets. Romance fiction: probably the worst! An addictive, absurd, unintellectual literature, literature for nonreaders, literature for stupid people—literature for women! Books Just For Her!…Romance novels are feminist documents....
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It never fails
I would say about 90% of the time when I call someone they don’t answer, even if I’m calling them right back after missing their call. I only call like 4 people on a regular basis, so this might have something to do with it but anyway.
This is so common that sometimes when I’m in the car alone and I call people back, I don’t bother to turn down my music or stop singing...
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alpha-lima-lima replied to your post: I know people have mixed feelings about
I love capes myself, but I guess I am more annoyed by Paltrow’s attempt to look like some sort of grande dame of the cinema.
Oh yeah, it is definitely more her and not the dress. I’m trying to find another picture of it because I’ve only seen one so far.
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I know people have mixed feelings about
Gwenyth Paltrow’s dress (well, my dashboard. I’m not watching this or anything) but I just have to say that I fully approve of capes. I’ve been watching a lot of period movies lately including Ella Enchanted (I was babysitting), and I’ve been thinking about how I wish it was still fashionable to wear capes everywhere.
I have a black one that my mom made me for a witch...
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Random thoughts for today
-I wish I could just buy a box just the red Mike and Ike’s. Also just the green and white conversation hearts (I bought myself a few small boxes and I’ve already eaten all the good ones)
-I have been fucking freezing all day. I have been walking around with goosebumps, no matter where I went. This is Texas, so it’s weird.
-My cat has been weirdly affectionate lately. I suspect...
Feminist just hate men so much.
weirdette:
feministhistorian:
That is why some of us date men. Some of us fuck men. Some of have sons. Some of our closest friends are men. Some of us are married to men. Some of our greatest allies are men. Some of us are men.
MRA folks need to cut the crap and stop trying to pretend you are some victim of the evil feminist. You all are just making yourselves look like douchebags. You...
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thelefthandedwifeinhiding replied to your post: Complaint
stir in about a tablespoon of water (depending on the portion) first. it’ll keep the noodles and sauce from getting dried out in the microwave, and helps to keep the sauce from breaking (which makes grease). also try a longer cook time on lower heat.
So I already choked down my leftovers but will definitely be trying this next time.