You Are a Baboon and I Am Not!

brella: tragic backstories explain bad deeds but they do not excuse them tragic backstories explain...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:01:38 -0400

tragic backstories explain bad deeds but they do not excuse them

tragic backstories explain bad deeds but they do not excuse them

korrastyle: shows up 1 episode late with starbucks

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:09 -0400

korrastyle:

*shows up 1 episode late with starbucks*

nodus tollens

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:59:50 -0400

dictionaryofobscuresorrows:

n. the realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore—that although you thought you were following the arc of the story, you keep finding yourself immersed in passages you don’t understand, that don’t even seem to belong in the same genre—which requires you to go back and reread the chapters you had originally skimmed to get to the good parts, only to learn that all along you were supposed to choose your own adventure.

ossessioni-deliri-e-sogni: the-absolute-funniest-posts: robotin...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:41:10 -0400

ossessioni-deliri-e-sogni:

the-absolute-funniest-posts:

robotindisguise:

Banana Dolphins

so fascinating seriously

why can’t i stop watching? i feel a sense of kinship with these beautiful creatures

bakerstreetsdoctor: rosetyleres: scaredpotter: forever wondering what the punchline of uncle...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:24:55 -0400

bakerstreetsdoctor:

rosetyleres:

scaredpotter:

forever wondering what the punchline of uncle vernon’s japanese golfer joke was

stop wondering

OH MY FUCKING GOD

musicofthestage: timelordparadise: myownlost: I’d like to cancel my subscription to Menstrual...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:21:01 -0400

musicofthestage:

timelordparadise:

myownlost:

I’d like to cancel my subscription to Menstrual Cycle Monthly

I’m sorry, it appears you’ve taken out a fifty-sixty year subscription. However, we can pause it for nine months as long as you sign a contract that says you’ll take out a subscription to Baby Daily for at least eighteen years

Damn those Terms and Conditions.

grinninggwynplaine: there is so much potential for comedy gold...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:15:50 -0400

grinninggwynplaine:

there is so much potential for comedy gold right the fuck here and you aren’t even trying tumblr

i think i’m going to cry

writeroost: Images like these always bum me out (although I...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:31:40 -0400

writeroost:

Images like these always bum me out (although I tend to agree with Carlin). Education should (and I would hope, does) empower people.

I try very hard to teach my students critical thinking skills, and even invite them to analyse the education system, and the amount of ‘lol nope’ I encounter is really disheartening.

I feel like if you want to find a reason why people fall into ‘boxes’, as implied by these pictures, I would look to the media, and to strategies of social conditioning. While schooling as a system can and does operate as a kind of social conditioning, the education you receive there should give you the tools to critique that system. Most social systems you encounter in your life - including, perhaps, the government - probably aren’t going to provide you with the very tools you can use to change or dismantle them to a significant degree.

"Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:03:12 -0400

““Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.””

- Robert Brault (via moaka)

WTF why does this keep showing up? it makes me so sad each time...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:00:11 -0400

WTF why does this keep showing up? it makes me so sad each time but i can’t not reblog

mia-the-wonder-slut: cakeandrevolution: pubhealth: Why...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:58:06 -0400

mia-the-wonder-slut:

cakeandrevolution:

pubhealth:

Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes

For 75 years, Finland’s expectant mothers have been given a box by the state. It’s like a starter kit of clothes, sheets and toys that can even be used as a bed. And some say it helped Finland achieve one of the world’s lowest infant mortality rates.

It’s a tradition that dates back to the 1930s and it’s designed to give all children in Finland, no matter what background they’re from, an equal start in life.

The maternity package - a gift from the government - is available to all expectant mothers.

It contains bodysuits, a sleeping bag, outdoor gear, bathing products for the baby, as well as nappies, bedding and a small mattress.

With the mattress in the bottom, the box becomes a baby’s first bed. Many children, from all social backgrounds, have their first naps within the safety of the box’s four cardboard walls.

Mothers have a choice between taking the box, or a cash grant, currently set at 140 euros, but 95% opt for the box as it’s worth much more.

The tradition dates back to 1938. To begin with, the scheme was only available to families on low incomes, but that changed in 1949.

(From BBC)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22751415

Socialism at work.

I would rather my tax money pay for this than drone missiles.

sasstiel-sassbutt: arasellle: justheroverthere: I’m the person who knows their Hogwarts house but...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:55:18 -0400

sasstiel-sassbutt:

arasellle:

justheroverthere:

I’m the person who knows their Hogwarts house but not their blood type

I know mine. it’s

pureblood

this post just got 209348451 times better okay

sildachi: sildachi: who does polyphemus hate more than odysseus nobody

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:51:11 -0400

sildachi:

sildachi:

who does polyphemus hate more than odysseus

nobody

cgl-snarker: xyuuxmorganx: -loner: iamtonysexual: naga...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:14:36 -0400

cgl-snarker:

xyuuxmorganx:

-loner:

iamtonysexual:

nagaytokomaedang:

diemeowderkatze:

I AM SORRY BUT THIS IS WHY I AM EMBARRASSED TO BE AN AMERICAN. IF A HIJAB THAT DORNS THE AMERICAN FLAG PATTERN IS NOT ACCEPTABLE BUT SKIMPY ASS BIKINIS OR WEARING THE FUCKING ACTUAL FLAG IS ACCEPTABLE, JUST BECAUSE THE PERSON IS WHITE, I WANT TO FUCKING THROW UP.

(I don’t have a thing against Audrey Kitching, she was just merely and example).

But this fucking disgusts me right here. It makes me want to say, fuck this country and its racism and double standards.

also notice how these people are calling her a terrorist even though she didn’t do anything wrong

but they are threatening to kill, beat, steal from, and degrade this woman for simply wearing an article of clothing

fuck everything

“Confront!! Aggressively! !!!”

i’m sorry but I couldn’t help but laugh at the absurdity of that dude in particular but

seriously

what the shit

wow people that think like that about women wearing the hijab are naive as fuck

No wonder I lost faith in humanity long ago.

So I tried posting this on that very same facebook page, only to discover that my comment has been deleted and I have been banned for trying to expose their hate:

Can we show this douche-bag that there are enlightened individuals out there who care? Who care enough to fight back by reporting this page? It’s a hate group and it needs to be reported:

Follow the above instructions and please, PLEASE report this page by clicking here: [click]

Do not even try to feed these trolls; just quietly report them so that no fuel is being added to the ever-growing fire.

I highly encourage everyone to signal boost this post because what the admin did was uncouth, unprofessional and downright ignorant of him!

So don’t just ‘like’ this post; reblog it so that the word gets out to everyone! We will not let ignorance continue on for this long!

friendly-giant-mushroom: castielyousonofabitch: postmodernismru...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:59:23 -0400

friendly-giant-mushroom:

castielyousonofabitch:

postmodernismruinedme:

vardaesque:

unusualjourney:

what-rabbit-hole:

“some historians think that michelangelo was drawing god in a human brain. very few people knew what one looked like at the time; but michelangelo had dissected cadavers and would have known. it even has the hint of a brain stem. if true this would have been a great “fuck you” to the pope whom he was not friendly with but also would have meant god was in a human brain, or created by man.”

Interesting.

also michelangelo painted a baby angel flipping off the pope

the blond one, you see his right hand? that’s called the fig and it’s an old world european gesture for ‘fuck you” because apparently Pope Juluis II was a total raging asshole and everyone hated him

but nobody ever noticed this little fucker because the ceiling was so high

and then thirty years later they called michelangelo back to paint the wall behind the altar and he wasted no time in painting the gates of hell behind the pope’s chair

what a badass

It amuses me to this day how much Michelangelo hated his job

He was like the Renaissance Robert Pattinson

"Matt Smith is done being The Doctor. Which means it is now time to introduce a female Doctor. This..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:57:00 -0400

“

Matt Smith is done being The Doctor. Which means it is now time to introduce a female Doctor. This apparently upsets some of you […] I got a lot of folks saying that this was “PC tokenism.” That it would just be marketing. Falsely trying to balance — well, who gives a shit. You know the drill. It’s nonsense. Crap of the highest order […] You say, it’s “tokenism.” But tokenism isn’t what you think it is [..] Tokenism is a dismissive, hand-wavey gesture. Tokenism is, “Here, happy now? We’re eating bread, but you enjoy these crusts. HEY IT’S BETTER THAN NOTHING, SHADDAP.” Making your titular character — in this case, making the Doctor a woman — isn’t a token. It’s a nuclear bomb.

If we can’t give the role of a flesh-changing alien to a woman and instead relegate the actresses only to the “girl groupies,” that’s kinda fucked up, isn’t it? What kind of message is that for the families who are watching the show? Not the adult geeks of Whovian fandom, but kids who dig the character and all its assorted fictions? And it’s that last point that matters most for me; this is a show where kids are watching. Little boys. Little girls. Do we really want to say to little girls, “You can never be The Doctor? You are forever relegated to The Companion?” And do you really want that same message for boys? “You will always be The Doctor. Girls are forever your Companions.” Fuck that noise. I want my son to grow up in a world where women can be real doctors and imaginary Time Lord Space Doctors.

”

- Chuck Wendig in “Why It’s Time to Genderflip Doctor Who” which so brilliantly tears down the “PC Tokenism” argument and argues powerfully why representation,proper representation, matters. (via whovianfeminism)

See, the main “non-sexist” argument people are offering against a female Doctor is that it would be too much of a change, that the Doctor is inherently male. And on one hand, I get where that’s coming from. But the problem is, 95% of heroes, main characters, stars in today’s mainstream media are ALSO male, with women relegated to just sidekicks (if they’re very lucky) or just girlfriends whose existence only matters in terms of the hero’s attention to it. It’s not just one show sending this message to girls. It’s the vast majority of our society. We NEED more well-known, iconic, heroic figures that are female. And say what you will, but as a Time Lord, the Doctor is a hell of a lot less “inherently” male than your typical human action hero.

We need something to change. The Doctor can change. The Doctor should.
(via xdominoe)

dallyingminstrel: maltair: i think that teenagers being aware of social issues like trans* people...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:54:29 -0400

dallyingminstrel:

maltair:

i think that teenagers being aware of social issues like trans* people and slut shaming and rape culture and misogyny and racism because of a dumb blogging website called tumblr shows that if the medias and politicians explained and showed those things, people would actually start to understand them and stop being close minded assholes

This is a grade A post.

deforest: Joan Crawford in Possessed (1931)

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:53:58 -0400

deforest:

_{Joan Crawford in Possessed (1931)}

valleyoftheawkwardfangirls: why can’t people see kristen...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:30:09 -0400

valleyoftheawkwardfangirls:

why can’t people see kristen stewart is basically 98% of all tumblr users.

cognitivedissonance: ohshititsar: senor-bizarro: crimson-firec...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:22:43 -0400

cognitivedissonance:

ohshititsar:

senor-bizarro:

crimson-firecat:

naamahdarling:

painkillerscoffeeandcathair:

tundrakatiebean:

exquisitedialectics:

fazstreetart:

Commentary.

In February, I posted two pieces in Bed-Stuy on Tompkins and Halsey. These two pieces got the most attention of any pieces I’ve put up so far. Within a few days, someone had written his response to the work directly onto the posters. From there, a woman wrote a response to him. And it went on and, on with different hand-written comments creating this kind of interesting discussion. The pieces remained up until a week or so ago, when the phallic image was drawn. That’s when I decided to try to take them down.

The “Stop Telling Women to Smile” piece remained in tact enough for me to include it in the exhibition. I thought it was important to present in the show, so that people could view these written reactions.

I love when assertive women scare men to such an extent that they have to resort to infantile shit like this.

They think it will shut women up, but it really just fuels everything further, I hope they know that.

The “devolution” of the poster is more interesting to me than the originals, which I’ve reblogged before.

The fact that a man decided to comment on the poster physically, and was the first to do so, says a lot. Whenever women defend ourselves we get these counter arguments. We get people in general, and not just men, trying to cut down our personal initiatives. And when women, like on the poster, attempt to hold a real discussion we get the brunt of the “dick solution” where we are told that we hate men, we haven’t had a “dick that was good” or we get a penis drawn on the poster meant to make a social commentary about our “place.”

I’ve reblogged the individual posters before because I understand them as a victim of the suggestions. But I’m reblogging them now to show the attempt to keep women in their societal place in our culture.

An excellent example of men not getting the point about street harassment.

“You find our unwanted projections of our opinions of you to be bothersome? Well … well … well … DICKS, THAT’S WHAT! DICKS!!!”

Serious grade-schooler shit here. Grow the fuck up.

Sighs.

I’m kind of embarrassed by this as a guy. Although I do know we tend to put an undue amount of emphasis on our genitals as the solution to all of life’s problems. Being ornery? RIDE MY DICK! Lesbian? RIDE MY DICK! Depressed? RIDE MY DICK! Just got fired? RIDE MY DICK! *sigh*

And emphasis mine.

Yeahhh, this is a good example of why feminism still needs to be a thing.

All of the above. ALL OF IT.