July 2012
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“One of the worst ways to stop someone from telling sexist jokes is to tell him...”
– If This Isn’t From a Book, It Should Be (via gaircyrch)
“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes...”
– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. (via riverran)
#mary shelley #this quote though #it’s all kinds of wonderful #hey remember that time one asswipe was like you have 30 seconds to name something invented by a woman… #…and Mary was like SCIENCE FICTION MOTHERFUCKERS #that was awesome #thanks Mary Shelley...
big fat feminist: [SPOILERS] Let's be real, here:... →
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Without her, a lot more people would have died. There would have been no antidote at all. When her life is threatened she evacuates everyone else in the building, gets the room she’s in to lock down in the hopes it will keep her safer and give her more time, and when she realizes that won’t work…
Thank you thank you THANK YOU. I didn’t even realize how much I...
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[SPOILERS] Let's be real, here: the hero of The...
Without her, a lot more people would have died. There would have been no antidote at all. When her life is threatened she evacuates everyone else in the building, gets the room she’s in to lock down in the hopes it will keep her safer and give her more time, and when she realizes that won’t work she steals the device the monster who’s threatening the city is looking for and hides...
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How to like problematic things
starvedforjustice:
know they’re problematic
know why they’re problematic
don’t dismiss people’s feelings/dissatisfaction with them
don’t silence people when they’re talking about the problems in your media, because your enjoyment is not more important than that discussion.
Congratulations, you’ve reached the minimum level of decency for being a person who enjoys things that might be...
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“Midnight screenings are big, hyped, advertiser-driven events that have become a...”
– Alyssa Rosenberg on the Aurora shooting
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Emma Gannon On Female Comedians: "Girls Aren't...
This morning my coworker linked me to an article on Hello Giggles written by Emma Gannon, a Londoner who is apparently a Lifestyle blogger. I have literally never heard of her before this morning, and now I’m wishing I never had.
This multi-paragraph monstrosity of condescension and tittering little-girl rhetoric began innocuously enough: comedians make Gannon uncomfortable sometimes. And...
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Not OK, Cupid, not OK.
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Thin privilege is rarely, if ever, seeing someone’s dating profile specify “no skinnies”. Thin privilege is not having to dig through a thousand questions or more before discovering that the person who was highly matched with you would never date a thin person. Thin privilege is people...
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llneo asked: I just wanted to address the waxing advert you posted. I grew up in a very hot country and so bared skin and went to the beach - A LOT. I was also a very hairy, quickly developed young girl. I waxed my hairy legs, armpits and bikini line (as I did have fully grown coarse pubic hair). It had nothing to do with oversexualising me, it was about feeling comfortable in a swimming costume shorts and...
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Cultural Appropriation? Let’s fix this.
As white people, we find there are many things that we can’t do due to it being labelled as cultural appropriation. It’s only fair that other races do not appropriate our culture.
So here is a list of things that...
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trans-terrific:
“I’ve read some blogs during this whole [rape joke controversy] that have enlightened me. This woman said how rape is something that polices women’s lives. They have a narrow corridor. They can’t go out late, they can’t go to certain neighborhoods, they can’t dress a certain way…I never…that’s part of me now that wasn’t [there] before.”
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Louis C.K., The Daily Show, 7/16/12....
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