August 2012
“Fashion is one of the very few forms of expression in which women have more...”
– Fashion is a Feminist Issue: Greta Christina (via dyemelikeasunset)
The last sentence is so crucial to understanding what we work for. And it certainly isn’t limited to just women. What is important to any group that is viewed as trivial is also viewed as trivial.
(via loverwife)
July 2012
Being Poor →
foulmouthedliberty:
Being poor is knowing exactly how much everything costs.
Being poor is getting angry at your kids for asking for all the crap they see on TV.
Being poor is having to keep buying $800 cars because they’re what you can afford, and then having the cars break down on you, because there’s not an $800 car in America that’s worth a damn.
Being poor is hoping the toothache goes...
yukidama:
aboutmaleprivilege:
male privilege is ryan lochte responding to ye shiwen’s record-beating swim by saying “it was pretty impressive. and it was a female. she’s fast. if she was there with me, i don’t know, she might have beat me.”
lochte swam his final 50 meters in 29.10 seconds. ye swam it in 28.93. motherfucker, she DID BEAT YOU.
fuck ryan lochte, ugly ass douche
Wow, epic...
Paul Muad'Derp: oh hey. wow.i just had a social... →
dandelionofthanatos:
beldaran:
vastderp:
beldaran:
vastderp:
oh hey. wow.
i just had a social justice aneurysm. once it blew i realized.
the social justice fingerpuppets who hurt people instead of spreading genuine awareness? they’re sick. they have a disease where they have to make everything a civil right even if it’s cancerous and evil and basically a…
You know, I have been...
“We shouldn’t remind people on welfare when the election is”
– Rush Limbaugh, 07/30/12 (via mediamattersforamerica)
On Tumblr ignoring racial abuse.
stfuconservatives:
robot-heart-politics:
dionthesocialist:
Read the whole thing on The Black Kids Table.
It looks like everyone on Tumblr’s support staff failed basic Civics and Economics, so let me tell you how freedom of speech works. Your freedoms end where mine begin. You may have the right to blog all you want about Neo-Nazism and Culturalism, but the moment you enter someone else’s...
“Every country has, along with its core civilities and traditions, some kind of...”
– The Aurora Movie Theatre Shooting and American Gun Culture | The New Yorker (via ratsoff)
digitallyimpaired:
why can’t “customize appearance” apply to me
person: she--
me: it's he.
person: *condescending smile* well, on your birth certificate--
me: yeah, it also says ' 8lbs, 6 oz '-- a lot has changed over the years
“When it comes to education, there is no one-size-fits-all answer for what works....”
– Teaching Feminism: Single-Sex Classrooms Encourage Gender Stereotyping
Not to mention, by seperating classrooms by gender we are forcing people to define their gender in terms of the gender binary which is not okay either. (via becauseiamawoman)
invisible-head:
i wonder what would have happened if Moffat did all the text effects for Sherlock in comic sans.
“Grammar, with its mixture of logical rule and arbitrary usage, proposes to a...”
– Marguerite Yourcenar, quoted in The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind by Steven Pinker (via perfectcoma)
“The world is not full of Attractive People and Unattractive People. It’s full of...”
– — Kate Harding (via bunnicula)
solipsism is not a good look.
(via fuckyeahhardfemme)
Not to be outdone by Newsweek, Time Magazine...
joegressivism:
Subtitle “Bock, bock, bock”
