Bands, Youtubers and Laughter

[profeminist]

BIG NEWS, PROFEMINIST READERS!!! 

I am MEGA-PROUD to announce the release of my first E-Book: THE PROFEMINIST GUIDE TO FREQUENTLY ASKED FEMINIST QUESTIONS 

Visitors to this Tumblr know I spend a lot of time answering reader questions - I’m here to help!! To that end I have created a handy resource that you can use for those times when you want a feminist answer for yourself, or to answer curious or challenging friends and family. 

I have created a handbook for 20 of the most commonly asked feminist questions, including:

- What IS feminism? 

- Do feminists hate men? What’s up with misandry?

- Why feminism, not humanism or equalism?

- What’s the difference between sex and gender? What are the “new” genders?

- What is intersectional feminism? What about racism within the feminist movement?

- I’m a guy, can I be feminist?

- What’s rape culture? How can I stop it?

The 20 question / 60 page e-book comes out next Friday May 15, but in honor of Mother’s Day I am kicking off a one-week pre-sale - only $5 instead of $10! (The book download links will be emailed out on the 15th.)

I will share the link to get the eBook tonight at 2am PT so you can get it any time Sunday. 

Need a last minute gift or a bonus gift for your feminist mom, or your mom who needs feminism? This Feminist FAQ is the gift that keeps on giving.

Thanks to everyone who supports this blog! 

(BTW the cover above isn’t the final cover. I’m getting a new logo, that image is from The International Day of the Girl.)  

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Science side of tumblr, please explain how can Misha Collins be simultaneously sexy and cute?  [x] [x] [x] 

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Me after taking my finals

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I've seen this gif everywhere, you can use it for anything

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every episode of scooby doo

guy: something spooky's happening

fred: k we'll come check it out

fred: daphne, velma come with me

daphne: lol okei

shaggy: but scooby and i are terrified of everything why do you always fucking send us off alone

velma: shut up you two

shaggy and scooby: *run into monster*

scooby: RAGGY

shaggy: *oblivious to everything*

scooy: RAAAAGGGGGY

shaggy: zoinks!

*the monster chases them accompanied by fun music: part 1*

shaggy and scooby: *meet up with fred, velma, and daphne*

fred: what happened?

shaggy: M-M-MONSTER

velma: uh oh

monster: boo

all: AAAAH

*the monster chases them accompanied by fun music: part 2*

*they run into one room and come out of another one, i don't fucking know how that's possible*

velma: my glasses! i lost my glasses!

monster: *picks up velma's glasses and hands them to her*

velma: thanks. ....JINKIES!

*the monster chases them accompanied by fun music: part 3*

monster: whoops i tripped

scooby: i captured you

*they pull the monster's mask off*

fred: oh look it's the suspicious guy we met at the beginning of the episode who was super suspicious and greedy and he wanted money

suspicious guy: and i would've gotten away with it too if it weren't for you meddling kids and your dumb dog

scooby: ROOBY ROOBY ROO

all: *laugh*

[jakeperaltz]

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Preparing for finals like

[the-middle-eastern-feminist]

[rapunzelie]

21+ full-figured actresses playing 14/15/16 yr old characters rly fucked up my self-esteem and self-image when i was young and made me v insecure

quit casting adults as young characters esp in shows w/ young target audiences?? man it makes undeveloped lil girls feel inadequate that they don’t look like grown women when they’re baby teens

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tRUTH

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"21st Century Digital Boy," Bad Religion

"About a Girl," Nirvana

"Across the Sea," Weezer

"All Apologies," Nirvana

"Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba," The Mr. T Experience

"Battle of Who Could Care Less," Ben Folds Five

"Been Caught Stealing," Jane’s Addiction

"Better Man," Pearl Jam

"Bitch," Meredith...

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We all have that one friend we act married with

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This is the Christmas Squirrel. Reblog him and you will get everything you want for Christmas

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Can we talk about how great Victoria secret’s new models are? [x]

ARE YOU FOR REAL THIS IS REAL THIS IS A REAL THING???

THIS MADE MY MONTH

Not only the models, BUT LOOK AT THE THEME OF THIS NEW LINE. I THINK I’M IN LOVE WITH VS.

THEY EVEN GAVE A LESSON ON RAPE CULTURE AT THE SITE

http://pinklovesconsent.com/pink/pink.victoriassecret.com/before_after.html

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I LOOOOOVE VICTORIA’S SECRET

[rachellephant]

GUYS. They even fucking admitted to their own wrongdoings. They even were like “We were wrong once. Now we’re taking steps to change that.”

And these models? Ugh. Go VS. You’re getting MUCH better.

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SLOW CLAP 4 FOR U VICTORIA’S SECRET

[laviegothique]

Wow. *joins slow clap*

[sorrynottoosorry]

<3

[theuniwarriorproject]

Wow, we love their honesty in this campaign.

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really confused about Rooney Mara being casted as tiger lily for the new Peter Pan movie???????????

[dymentia]

Devery Jacobs, an actual Native actress.

Sign the petition here!

[thisnightsrevels]

why is this bad?

[susiron]

It’s bad because POC roles shouldn’t go to white people when there are already more than enough white characters for white people to play. Casting a POC character with a white actor is white-washing and takes away potential jobs from POC actors.

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Licia Ronzulli, member of the European Parliament, has been taking her daughter Vittoria to the Parliament sessions for two years now.

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Every time this is on my dash, it’s an automatic reblog.

[cultureshift]

Life. There’s always a way to make it work.

[awaiting-my-escape]

This woman runs PARLIAMENT with a baby in her lap and she’s CLEARLY doing an outstanding job because she’s still there being a total boss two years later, baby still in her lap.

"A baby will destroy your career-"

Really

Are you sure?

Because I’m pretty sure that Licia Ronzulli would laugh at that declaration.

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Okay but real talk that baby probably knows politics better than a lot of Senators by now

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[prismatic-bell]

Can we just stop and talk about this for a minute?

Thresh doesn’t make an alliance. Thresh doesn’t waste time liking her. Thresh knows that either he must kill her or she must kill him for one of them to win.

But this is the only way he can repay her for protecting Rue when he couldn’t. It’s the only way he can repay her for honoring Rue when he couldn’t. He honors her by sparing her friend, the girl who would have died for her.

The revolution really doesn’t start with Katniss.

It starts with Rue.

[yourloversstaymyage]

SOMEBODY FINALLY SAID IT

[silenthill]

This is exactly the point I’ve been trying to make for years. Okay, so the revolution gets it’s kindling with Katniss. She volunteers, well that’s new, she rebels in the display of talents by shooting the apple. This triggers her perfect score, okay. These aren’t really “Revolutionary” though. 

It’s not even revolutionary when Peeta professes his love, because, let’s face it, the rules of the game haven’t changed. They’re still just two kids who would have to KILL each other to win. Without a doubt, it would bring some interest to the games, so the Capitol makes propaganda about it. The “Star Crossed Lovers” in a game of life and death.

But what changes the game is Rue. Right away from her introduction in the books we know Rue is going to be somewhat of a big deal. She was compared to the most important character to Katniss, Prim, so that’s a huge indicator. She’s small, young, she’s what Prim would have been.

So Katniss instantly feels a subconscious pull toward her. 

When they meet in the trees, Katniss could have killed Rue easily, and Rue probably could have pulled a sneak attack or alerted the Careers of Katniss’s presence. Instead, Rue points out the Tracker Jacker nest.

Then it escalates, Rue and Katniss become an odd team, they’re an alliance, which is never new in the Hunger Games, as forming teams and then betraying them at the end seems to be a common, but there’s is different. It’s close, it’s sisterly, protective.

And then Rue get’s impaled. Katniss kills her first tribute with ease after that. Comparing it to hunting game. Katniss holds Rue, she cries, and then she sings. She sings for Rue a song of promised safety and warmth, something completely absent in the arena. 

And this is where the metaphorical canon fires. Katniss could have left Rue, the hovercraft would have been along to pick her up, but she can’t. She’s morally obligated to love this girl as much as possible. And this is where the revolution starts. 

She honors the dead. She honors a dead tribute from a district she’d never seen, a person she’d known for only a short period of time. But she throws away Hunger Games norms. She rejects them completely.

In the Hunger Games you’re supposed to kill mercilessly and leave the victims for the plain box they’re shipped home in. 

Katniss gives Rue a funeral in the Games, she decorates the body, she makes it look like Rue is sleeping. Like no harm had come. Katniss just ignited the coals that Rue had placed.

Rue’s District sends a parachute. Homemade bread. 

Then Thresh kills Clove and distracts Cato by taking his bag. 

The fire is going now, and the actions in Catching Fire are even more obvious.

The Speech for Rue. Peeta’s painting. Everything eludes back to this one little girl who became Katniss’s family.

So the revolution never started with Katniss, she was just the tinder for Rue’s ignition. 

Rue was the real Mockingjay.

[luke-biwalker]

Also, who’s four note whistle is constantly attached to the trailers?

Rue’s whistle.

Rue is omnipresent in the books and movies, and I absolutely love it.

[sourcedumal]

The rebellion was started because the innocence of a black girl was defiled.

That is a powerful statement that a lot of people gloss over for this book

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[astreana]

FUCK

[cinderchild]

shots fired

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Omf

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I will never not reblog this when I see it. 

[astralstream]

Things to remember.

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Please please please notice this