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"‘They create an environment where rape is funny, where you can be boastful about it.’ An environment..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:28:39 -0400

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‘They create an environment where rape is funny, where you can be boastful about it.’ An environment where, according to court documents, it’s alarmingly easy to post a video of the sexual abuse of a 12-year-old girl.

The trolls will always be with us, but corporations have an obligation to set the tone. Free speech isn’t hate speech. Free speech doesn’t look like a group called Violently Raping Your Friend Just for Laughs. And a hostile, violent environment makes the concept of a place built around the word “friend” just a cruel, stupid joke. Or, as one of the letter’s commenters noted Tuesday, “On Facebook, hating a religious or ethnic minority gets you banned, but hating half of humanity gets you Likes.”

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- “Facebook’s hate speech problem” Mary Elizabeth Williams at Salon (via facebooksexism)

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Wed, 22 May 2013 17:25:32 -0400

mehreenkasana: equimby: “Veiling is legitimized by the...

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:24:58 -0400

mehreenkasana:

equimby:

“Veiling is legitimized by the element of choice, and it is the presence or lack of choice that creates the context of whether the hejab frees a woman or objectifies her. Yet history, in all its intersections between the Old and New World, shows that patriarchy repeatedly finds a way to sneak in and impose itself on women’s dress, all in the name of “liberation.”

Leila Ahmed, an eminent scholar on gender and feminism in Islam, has argued that the linking between women and the veil as oppression “was created by Western discourse.” A seemingly progressive male-driven resistance developed, which urged women to abandon the veil as a means of emancipation was therefore a mirror image of the colonial narrative; it “contested the colonial thesis by inverting it – thereby also, ironically, grounding itself in the premises of the colonial thesis.” Back home in Europe and America, these same “liberating” men fought against female suffrage for the right to vote. Feminism, in many ways, became a passive aggressive tool by which to continue to control women within a patriarchal framework.

Veiling, conversely, became a symbol for resistance against invading colonialism, only truly becoming an issue for women when they felt their cultures come under attack. Far from reconciling themselves as symbols of female submission, women, throughout the history of Western intervention in the Middle East, have persistently covered themselves to make their presence known, to be seen in opposition to whatever powers would rather paint them anonymous and invisible.”

- Revolution 2.12: The Revolution Will Not Be Veiled | Safa Samiezade’-Yazd

Read this.

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Wed, 22 May 2013 17:23:41 -0400

universallyme: If Earth Had Rings First off, they would be...

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:23:21 -0400

Guatamala

Washington, DC

Quito, Ecuador

Polynesia The Earth's Shadow appears on the Rings at night

Arctic Circle The Rings are barely visible

universallyme:

If Earth Had Rings

First off, they would be really pretty to look at. They would also dominate the sky in both night and day at exactly the same place as they would never rise nor set. And at night you would see the Earth’s shadow swing across the rings, like in the 4th photo here.

However, life would be very different on Earth if this were the case. Nocturnal animals would have a hard time being nocturnal, as the light reflecting from the rings would illuminate the night.

Because we are closer to the Sun than Saturn is, the rings would be more rocky than ice, making them less bright but still pretty bright. In fact, you would see far less stars at night (living anywhere other than the equator or the arctic circle) because of the light pollution and not to mention ruin most meteor showers because of that.

During the day the rings would block sunlight in certain regions of the planet creating wild weather cycles and effecting plant life as well. So basically, they would be definitely pretty to look at but they would also make a whole lot of things screwy.

Illustrations by Ron Miller // io9
— Click the photos for captions

"Women are afraid of meeting a serial killer. Men are afraid of meeting someone fat."

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:21:58 -0400

“Women are afraid of meeting a serial killer. Men are afraid of meeting someone fat.”

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When Strangers Click, a 2011 documentary about online dating.

It reminds me of that famous Margaret Atwood quote: “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” It also reminds me of something written by one of the mods of Sex Worker Problems: “Misandry irritates. Misogyny kills.”

I mean, it’s just true.

(via tealeafprincess)

“Misandry irritates. Misogyny kills.”

That’s it. That’s it right there.

(via oddpicturesoddpeople)

Favorite Disney movies (in no order) [03/??] - Beauty and the...

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:20:19 -0400

Favorite Disney movies (in no order) [03/??] - Beauty and the Beast

Release Date:

November 13, 1991 (world premiere)

November 22, 1991 (United States)

"But ask yourself: Why is there that knee-jerk rejection of any effort to “overthink” pop culture?..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:20:00 -0400

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But ask yourself: Why is there that knee-jerk rejection of any effort to “overthink” pop culture? Why would you ever be afraid that looking too hard at something will ruin it? If the government built a huge, mysterious device in the middle of your town and immediately surrounded it with a fence that said, “NOTHING TO SEE HERE!” I’m pretty damned sure you wouldn’t rest until you knew what the hell that was — the fact that they don’t want you to know means it can’t be good.

Well, when any idea in your brain defends itself with “Just relax! Don’t look too close!” you should immediately be just as suspicious. It usually means something ugly is hiding there.

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- - David Wong

This quote is in an article about superhero movies, but it applies to so many things.

(via thecharles)

"Through a career that has included crotch-grabbing, nudity, BDSM, Marilyn Monroe fetishizing, and a..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:18:15 -0400

“Through a career that has included crotch-grabbing, nudity, BDSM, Marilyn Monroe fetishizing, and a 1992 book devoted to sex, Madonna has been viewed as a feminist provocateur, pushing the boundaries of acceptable femininity. But Beyoncé’s use of her body is criticized as thoughtless and without value beyond male titillation, providing a modern example of the age-old racist juxtaposition of animalistic black sexuality vs. controlled, intentional, and civilized white sexuality.”

- All Hail the Queen? (http://bitchmagazine.org/article/all-hail-the-queen-beyonce-feminism#.UZvUyP56MrU.facebook)

"Over the last decade, as companies chased after an effective chemical, there was fretting within the..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:17:51 -0400

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Over the last decade, as companies chased after an effective chemical, there was fretting within the drug industry: what if, in trials, a medicine proved too effective? More than one adviser to the industry told me that companies worried about the prospect that their study results would be too strong, that the F.D.A. would reject an application out of concern that a chemical would lead to female excesses, crazed binges of infidelity, societal splintering.

“You want your effects to be good but not too good,” Andrew Goldstein, who is conducting the study in Washington, told me. “There was a lot of discussion about it by the experts in the room,” he said, recalling his involvement with the development of Flibanserin, “the need to show that you’re not turning women into nymphomaniacs.” He was still a bit stunned by the entrenched mores that lay within what he’d heard. “There’s a bias against — a fear of creating the sexually aggressive woman.”

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- “Unexcited? There May Be a Pill for That.”—NYT

Gee, you ever think that might be part of the problem? That there’s a societally acceptable level of lady-boning?

(via ladonnapietra)

“good but not too good”

Yeah, go fuck yourself, dude.

(via whynotshesaid)

This article gave me fits for many reasons.

(via wut4)

i am so fucking angry at this

(via piddlebucket)

let me tell you how fucking angry this makes me as a woman who has been struggling with therapy for issues regarding my ability to enjoy sex. there could be something out there that would work for me, but maybe I can’t get it because some repressed, asshole fucking dudes decided that women enjoying and taking control of their libido’s and sexual needs would hurt society???

FUCK. YOU.

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liberalsarecool: The GOP hates students, loves their debt...

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:14:17 -0400

liberalsarecool:

The GOP hates students, loves their debt payments.

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katherinestasaph: goodbyemisery: still the best gatsby...

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:00:44 -0400

katherinestasaph:

goodbyemisery:

still the best gatsby comic

nick sux

always reblog

crab-cakes: peonygoodchild: C I R C L E T S (x) I require...

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:51:27 -0400

crab-cakes:

peonygoodchild:

C I R C L E T S (x)

I require all of the bridesmaids and groomsmen at my wedding to wear circlets.

No you have no choice. You will be elves and you will like it.

keepcalmandstaywonderful:

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:47:18 -0400

keepcalmandstaywonderful:

hellyeahdisneyfanart: Beauty & the Beast.

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:46:32 -0400

hellyeahdisneyfanart:

Beauty & the Beast.

stfuconservatives: aknightlight: jackpowerx: acornfarm: defil...

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:44:17 -0400

stfuconservatives:

aknightlight:

jackpowerx:

acornfarm:

defilerwyrm:

AHAHAHA NOT QUITE, OP, NOT QUITE

FUCKING NAILED IT

A+ commentary!

THANK YOU

I had seen the original making the rounds. Glad to see it got a proper rebuttal.

vishual: Justin Bartels, Impression. ‘The series focuses on...

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:42:33 -0400

vishual:

Justin Bartels, Impression.

‘The series focuses on the clothing that women think they should wear, or are told what to wear, to impress someone in a sexual manner. There is a physical mark that is left from these clothes, showing the discomfort women go through.’