March 2012
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Why Benevolent Sexism Matters →
Benevolent sexism: the culture of gender traditions that feed the fire of hostile sexism towards women, in a manner that seems sympathetic and proper but is in fact subtle and dangerous. Benevolent sexism is widely-accepted and encouraged by the men and women whom it is inculcated in.
TL;DR @ article: We think the proper way to treat a woman is with patronizing affection and insisting on...
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War Horse
newtheoryoldlove:
This is the story that they tell you.
A boy raises a horse and they go through a lot together and it’s pretty sentimental but then the horse has to be sold in order to save the family farm and the boy is really sad but the horse goes through a lot of crazy shit and somehow survives each time through battles and charges and travel and fire and the boy joins the army...
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stratifiedsquamousepithelium:
The Kids Don’t Stand A Chance: For those who think I rant about the patriarchy and misogyny too much
queen-gertrude:
TRIGGER WARNING FOR RAPE CULTURE, STREET HARASSMENT
thelittlekneesofbees:
To the first man, who I met by the Eiffel Tower my second week in Paris, when I didn’t know better. Who took me out four times, who waved little red flags that I tried...
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“There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be...”
– This Teju Cole piece from The Atlantic on The White Savior Industrial Complex has already made the rounds of the Tumblrs and the Twitters this week, but I wanted to quote this part anyway. You should obviously read everything that Teju Cole wrote because it is brilliant and so incredibly important,...
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“What you get in this Tumblr scene is imitators of imitators of imitators, each...”
– The Tumblr Trap (via nevver)
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Anonymous asked: you should post more pictures of you and Jasmeet. You guys are so totally cute.
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la-ville-de-loubli:
¿Enamorado?, ¿qué es eso? Esto. No, Ya sé que es eso, es voluptuosidad. No, la voluptuosidad es una consecuencia. Y no puede existir sin amor. ¿Qué es el amor, entonces? Tu voz, tus ojos….tus manos, tus labios… Nuestro silencio, nuestras palabras…La luz que va..la luz que retorna. Una sola sonrisa entre nosotros. En busca del conocimiento, vi la noche crear el día..sin...
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wellalright:
schrodinger’s grade. if i don’t check my grade for this exam it’s like i have a 30 or a 100 or a 0 or anything in between all at once forever.
CAN I HAS QUANTUM PHYSICS PLZ <3
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“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride (via helplesslyamazed)
“Nonviolence is perhaps the most exacting of all forms of struggle, not only...”
– Thomas Merton (via azspot)
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@TheHungerGames
When POC characters are turned white: this isn't about race, if you think it is, then you're the racist one, let's just enjoy the book/film as it is, this is about the character's personality, god, you're so sensitive, the new skin tone actually fits the character's personality IMO, I never imagined them as POC anyway, not all whitewashing is racist god get over it!!111
When white characters are turned into POC: omg how could they!?!?!? this is soooo racist and unfair! why can't they present that white character as WHITE, how dare they change the original skin color to suit their own terms! this is reverse racism!! this is about race! I NEVER imagined that white character to be a POC that is so weird, it doesn't fit, this is political correctness gone crazy!!
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los tigres de antigua: okaytight: tigersofantigua:... →
okaytight:
tigersofantigua:
bruh fox news commentators will be talking about “why can’t we say that word”
can i call it
i’m callin it
The Official Drinking Game:
“It was a slip-up” = one shot
“It means something different now” = two shots and a side-eye
“They shouldn’t say it…
I’m not even sure they’d pass it off as calling someone the n-word as okay—
He...
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Are you serious, presidential "candidates" calling...
zikrayat:
GET OUT JUST GO AWAY NEVER COME BACK
For a link:
My fucking God there’s always been so much implied and so much explicit that’s so fucking wrong but how, how can anyone not see how blatantly unacceptable this is? How do you not see all of the bad policies and views and language and hatred? THIS GUY GETS VOTES. PEOPLE ACTUALLY LIKE HIM. PEOPLE STILL LIKE HIM.
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burningmuse:
Staff note: I relate.
cado-per-ventus:
when will she learn to stop holding emotions in- that expressing the soul is far from a sin?
when will she learn to speak her mind- that taking on differences makes her one of a kind?
when will she lean to hold her head high- that being strong doesn’t mean it’s a weakness to cry?
when will she learn to just let go-…?...
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historicalcontext:
thoughtcatalog: how to miss someone
“Take inventory of your life and note what’s gone missing. The easy company. The long talks. The unblinking, all-knowing eye contact. These are things you now know exist but had never taken special notice of before. Now they’re showing up to take you to task, to make you acknowledge how rare it is to find them in someone else. Here...
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great-perhaps replied to your photo: I… okay. I don’t drink, I have more gray hair…
I got the same thing. does this mean I’m turning into a housewife already? CARBON-FIVE LIFE GAHHHH
Calc 181 Memes. Me gusta.
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Medical Students in Paris
ziyadmd:
This video made by some fellow medical students is clever and entertaining. Medical school can drive you crazy, but thankfully while working our way through the process, we can find ways to escape and claim our sanity back.
Greatest thing I have ever seen in my life. The lyrics in this shit are CRAY.
Best lines:
“Med mobster, treat zoster, helpin’ all of our shingle...
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“When two people become a couple, the brain extends its idea of self to include...”
– The Brain on Love - NYTimes.com (via wildcat2030)
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Flamethrowers
Rolling plains picture. I can’t pretend these automatics are starter pistol sounds when the bullets are flying past my ears and I can’t turn around, but somehow you are catching them as cottonwood seeds, and I am, I am, I am panting desperation and mock-tragedy disease and Whose fault is this, soldier? but beautiful or dangerous you’re wearing that straw hat and you have,...
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“I am sick to death of people who celebrate “the family” making excuses about why...”
– Charles P. Pierce (via azspot)
“I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via 500daysofkissingmypillow)
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Nightmares, again. I wished it wouldn’t be with this. I thought I’d had my run before, but this, it doesn’t get much worse than this.
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dishabillic:
I should just dedicate an entire blog to how great my boyfriend is.
But… I’m… not even that cool…
Mmm she’s just too nice to me*. Also I detract from all the important things on her blog enough, already >___<
*Except when she’s reblogging Audrey Hepburn quotes on my account ughhhh
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Don’t Lecture Me: Rethinking How College Students... →
Redish has been teaching at the University of Maryland since 1970. When he started, he lectured because that’s the way he had been taught. But after a few years in the classroom, Redish was meeting with one of his mentors, a famous physicist named Lewis Elton who had begun doing research on education.
“He asked me, ‘How’s your teaching?’”
Redish told him it was going well, but that he seemed...
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To My Fellow White People: An Open Letter →
Some of you–not going to name names, you will figure out who you are– are saying, or thinking, that in one way or another Trayvon is at fault for his own murder. You are saying, or thinking, “He should have known that he looked suspicious with that hoodie on.” “He should have known that someone like him would come across as threatening.” “He shouldn’t have felt afraid of the large man following...
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Neverland
I have realized that if you told me I had thirty seconds to live, it would be just enough time, for anything that I could do.
Sure, of course, the natural inclination for action with thirty seconds of life is the direction in which my heart would crumble, scattered for a moment of reconciliation, fine. This much may be true. But while thirty seconds seems like never enough, these days,...
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“People talk about sexual assault like it’s a bad habit that men have.”
– Jon Stewart (via mutualaddiction)
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“We are now living in a time in which the first generation in history that never...”
– Study finds link to socially aggressive narcissism (via nevver)
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The Importance of Nonexistence
Laozi and the Daodejing
Thirty spokes converge on a hub but it’s the emptiness that makes a wheel work pots are fashioned from clay but it’s the hollow that makes a pot work windows and doors are carved for a house but it’s the spaces that make a house work existence makes something useful but nonexistence makes it work
道德經 Daodejing, verse 11 (tr. Bill Porter)
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“I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual...”
– Steven Pinker (via azspot)
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“There are the occasions that men—intellectual men, clever men, engaged...”
– Melissa McEwan, of course, on the terrible bargain. My life as a woman, as a queer person, as a fat person, is not your thought experiment. (via sanitywatchers)
Exactly. Your “playful” argumentation is in fact a series of personal attacks. You don’t get to attack us and then say we’re too...
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Why Katniss Everdeen is a Woman of Color →
katnissisoliveskinneddealwithit:
“I loved The Hunger Games when I devoured the trilogy in a week (the first book, in a day). As a woman of color (brown, not olive skinned) who grew up in a third world country, the idea of being a revolutionary hero in the world of YA seemed to speak to my childish self. When I found out it was going to be made into a movie, I was so excited to see who would be...
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Lucy in the Sky with Cubic Zirconia
operahousegirl:
Drench my skin in summer greens and blues cover me in red-shaded hues of sunsets I painted in art class in senior year. You sat behind me. “Will you paint one, too?” I asked you and him and her and hoped you’d find the colors in my voice. My blood type’s polychromatic kaleidoscopic.
I’m sick of these dead leaves I find in your hair. Which season was it...
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“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are...”
– Anaïs Nin (via dishabillic)
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Stomach Knots
Creature fear, creature fear Eat me up just please, rabid animal I don’t let out (public nuisance speech) burrows nest above my bladder, rabid Mind with teeth. Doctor’s orders: Don’t let feed, just let it be and let it free, yet many fines, already— Hence, verbal incontinence, keep it caged, for all the piss, embarrassment. Lungs will go, half a lobe (while...
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“I’ve been forced to explain homosexuality to my kids (aged 3 and 4) because...”
– KateP, Internet commenter (via cocklordsimone)
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“POC generalize white people, white people feel sad.
white people generalize...”
– ai-yo regarding the death of Trayvon Martin, shot and killed by his White Neighbor while coming back from the store.
And this shit is real. This is the reality. There’s no getting around it.
(via hamburgerjack)
This is what I mean when I say that if I do not assume all white people on the street...
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Anonymous asked: Shaurya, do you think there are "easier" majors at Bowdoin?
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Anonymous asked: so remember how i told you i got deferred? well now i found out i got waitlisted at wash. u in st. louis. that pretty much means that i can tell you what my admissions decisions will be from all the other schools i applied to- george washington, upenn, brown, nyu. i'm screwed, and i kind of feel like crawling in a hole and never coming out of it. life sucks.
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Holi
I was born like glass-blown bubbles, Cold and clear and crude, In mother’s hands began to fumble, Veins just barely blue— But then at three, we walked for miles, With father learned to pitch a tent, He spoke of trees that grew so wild, It’s how I learned what green had meant, And didi, remember, I bothered you so, But somehow you were soft and strong, Best role-model I...