May 2013
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Guy: What do girls do at sleepovers?
Me: Pass the Bechdel test.
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Charlie Swinbourne: The 10 annoying habits of... →
edscoble:
Hearing people, eh? You can’t live with them, you can’t live without them. Of course, the term ‘hearing people’ only really exists in the deaf world, because hearing folk generally see themselves a…
Number 1, 2, 5, 8, 9 and 10 irk me immensely, 8 probably the most out of all.
learned a ton from this list
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“Although most boys figure out how to bring themselves to orgasm by age thirteen,...”
– Dorian Solot, I Love Female Orgasm: An Extraordinary Orgasm Guide (via muffdiver)
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Hemlock Grove: Y U No Like Women?
I just finished the (first? only?) season of Hemlock Grove on Netflix. My assessment of it in the first episode remained accurate all the way through: the lovechild of Twin Peaks and Twilight, as written by Bret Easton Ellis. The shooting was gorgeous, the pace was perfect for my attention span and the cast was unbeatable. But jeez, do I have beef. *SPOILERS ABOUND* First there are basic...
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unvivid:
it’s weird how body parts are considered sacred and secret when you can just take someone’s clothes off and see them, whereas someone’s personality or sense of humour or opinions and mind are all literally invisible, like there’s no way to see what someone’s mind is like without their consent. why don’t we glorify minds more than bodies, aren’t they more sacred and special?
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“This increasing empahsis on criminalization redefined domestic violence as an...”
– Priya Kandaswamy, “Innocent Victims and Brave New Laws,” in Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity (edited by Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore (via brute-reason)
sociolab:
Do you ever think about the fact that the US has created and legitimized a system of institutionalized inequality by funding schools through property taxes? That basically a child’s education is only as good as the value of the property in their neighborhood. Funny how education is so often viewed as an equalizing factor when there is nothing equal about it.
parscilla:
instead of publicly shaming girls for wearing shorts on an 80 degree day you should teach teachers and male students to not overly sexualize a normal body part to the point where they apparently cant function in daily life
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The Day That Punk Died Again
omgthatdress:
newyorker:
The biggest sin of this current show is not that it isn’t true to punk. It’s that it doesn’t honor history, ideas, or clothing. It’s dull, and even a suburban house party can negate that kind of bad religion.
—Sasha Frere-Jones on the many failures of the Met’s “Punk: Chaos to Couture” exhibition: http://nyr.kr/15AE7MT
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“For the last three decades many Americans have puzzled over a system that gives...”
– Carrie Rickey
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“You have to question a cinematic culture which preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay...
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“There are little folds of skin all over the place, you can hardly find it. The...”
– Passage from The Diary of Anne Frank that parents of 7th and 8th grade students are claiming is “too graphic” and “too pornographic” to appear in classrooms. Instead, they argue, a censored version of the book should be taught if it is to be taught at all.
Gail Horalek, the parent who filed a...
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gundamnjack:
Off-duty sailor beats the shit out of an attempted rapist
A bus driver who tried to rape a passenger at knifepoint chose the wrong victim, a court heard yesterday.
The woman, an off-duty US navy sailor, knocked the knife from his grasp, broke it in two, bit his hand, wrestled him to the ground and put him in a stranglehold between her thighs.
Having beaten...
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April 2013
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Feminism without Women: Deconstructing Disney's... →
“…To make its deceptive point that feminist struggle is no longer needed, the post-revolutionary world mocks the past to celebrate the present. In Disney’s Mulan, a prime example of feminism without women, China’s past is stolen to reinforce the American ideal. When the matchmaker meets Mulan, she comments that Mulan’s body is “too skinny” and therefore is “not good for bearing sons.”...
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Whenever I see a puppy
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