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Chris. Feminism, politics, funny stuff, geekery. In Fide, Virtus.

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Dictionary Jones

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Watch: Comedian Aamer Rahman’s explainer of reverse racism is still requisite viewing.

Especially considering the astounding number of Americans who think “reverse racism” is a real problem.

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The disastrous Australian Emu War.

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Someone turned it into a comic. YES.

[dat-soldier]

never forget the emu war

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And the rest of the world is like, “WTF Mate?”

[glorious-scumbag]

“Casualties and losses: 10,000 rounds of ammo. Dignity.”

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[hisnameismichael]

How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful

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I’m in love with this post 💙

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these are actually nice you fucking nerd

1. selfie

2. what would you name your future kids?

3. do you miss anyone?

4. what are you looking forward to?

5. is there anyone who can always make you smile?

6. is it hard for you to get over someone?

7. what was your life like last year?

8. have you ever cried because you were so annoyed?

9. who did you last see in person?

10. are you good at hiding your feelings?

11. are you listening to music right now?

12. what is something you want right now?

13. how do you feel right now?

14. when was the last time someone of the opposite sex hugged you?

15. personality description

16. have you ever wanted to tell someone something but you didn't?

17. opinion on insecurities.

18. do you miss how thing were a year ago?

19. have you ever been to New York?

20. what is your favourite song at the moment?

21. age and birthday?

22. description of crush.

23. fear(s)

24. height

25. role model

26. idol(s)

27. things i hate

28. i'll love you if...

29. favourite film(s)

30. favourite tv show(s)

31. 3 random facts

32. are your friends mainly girls or guys?

33. something you want to learn

34. most embarrassing moment

35. favourite subject

36. 3 dreams you want to fulfill?

37. favourite actor/actress

38. favourite comedian(s)

39. favourite sport(s)

40. favourite memory

41. relationship status

42. favourite book(s)

43. favourite song ever

44. age you get mistaken for

45. how you found out about your idol

46. what my last text message says

47. turn ons

48. turn offs

49. where i want to be right now

50. favourite picture of your idol

51. starsign

52. something i'm talented at

53. 5 things that make me happy

54. something thats worrying me at the moment

55. tumblr friends

56. favourite food(s)

57. favourite animal(s)

58. description of my best friend

59. why i joined tumblr

60. ask me anything you want

[thecommonchick]

THIS IS AMAZING 😭

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😥😪

[saltypatra]

I’m such a slut got Napoleonic era fiction. Especially when it has dragons.

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Such a good series

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How are there still straight women

[prokopetz]

Rape is the only crime on the books for which arguing that the temptation to commit it was too clear and obvious to resist is treated as a defence. For every other crime, we call that a confession.

[prokopetz]

I’ve gotten more angry asks about this post than I have actual reblogs.

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Pixar successfully sold a movie about a girl’s emotions in an industry that doesn’t always seem concerned with girls’ minds

Jurassic World may have bested Inside Out at the box office this weekend, but the Pixar animated movie set a different record. Inside Out had the highest-grossing opening weekend of any original film — a movie that wasn’t based on a book or comic book and that wasn’t a sequel. That may sound like just a nifty accolade, but consider this: Pixar successfully pitched audiences on a movie about the personified emotions of an increasingly depressed 11-year-old girl they didn’t know named Riley. (Oh, and Riley isn’t a princess.)

That’s no easy feat. Hollywood has long subscribed to the notion that movies with female protagonists don’t sell. Only 12% of protagonists and 30% of all major characters in the top 100 grossing movies of 2014 were women, according to San Diego State University’s Celluloid Ceiling Report.

The problem is even more dire among children’s films, which are often based on fairytales that date back to a darker time for women. And original animated films, from Toy Story to Shrek, tend to sideline women in favor of men. There’s only one female character for every three male characters in family films, according to the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media.

What’s so radical about Inside Out — besides the fact that it maps out an entirely new world inside our brains — is that it’s about a normal girl with normal problems. Her two main personified emotions, Joy and Sadness (Amy Poehler and Phyllis Smith, respectively) are also women and spend the film trying to help their preteen host. Will she make the hockey team? Can her friendships withstand her move from Minnesota to San Francisco? Her mind is the centerpiece, and we only get glimpses at what Riley actually looks like. There’s no throne at stake and no noble prince to save her. (Though director and writer Pete Docter did find a clever way to subvert this trope when Joy uses Riley’s dreamboat hunk as a tool in her quest to save Riley.)

It’s a nice change for parents seeking role models for their daughters in family films filled with gender stereotypes. The glass ceiling is even lowerfor female movie characters than it is for women in real life. In fact, the most popular occupation among women in animated films seems to be princess. Just look at Disney’s female characters: all of them are either literal royalty (Jasmine from Aladdin, Cinderella from Cinderella, even Nala from Lion King) or they look, dress and act an awful lot like princesses (Alice from Alice in Wonderland, Esmerelda from Hunchback of Notre Dame and Tinker Bell from Peter Pan). Frozen cleverly twisted this trope, but Elsa and Anna are both still impossibly tiny-waisted sovereigns. Even in the most liberal of children’s films, how girls look matters as much or more than how they think.

Don’t expect the trend to end anytime soon: Disney’s entire marketing strategy is based on turning every single female character it has into a princess. Mulan hates putting on her dress and makeup in the film and yet is forced to wear it for the sake of merchandising. Even Merida from Pixar’sBrave — the progressive production company’s only movie with a female lead before Inside Out — was sexed-up for the sake of the Disney princess pantheon. (Pixar is owned by Disney.)

Of course, that wasn’t Merida’s only problem. The first female Pixar hero was not only a princess but also a princess whose main concern was marriage — or how to get out of it. The resolution of the film comes when Merida is permitted to be another female stereotype, the tomboy, without having really learned anything from her journey. Critics were not onlydisappointed in the film but frustrated with the fact that Pixar’s first female director ever, Brenda Chapman (The Prince of Egypt), was ousted as director of Brave in the last 18 months of production.

Pixar was clearly capable of creating a female protagonist with depth. It had already done so with supporting characters like Dory in Finding Nemoand Mrs. Incredible in The Incredibles. Inside Out, finally, has three in Riley, Joy and Sadness. Some fair critiques have been leveled against the film: the mom seems to have no job, and one particular scene featured in the trailer that goes inside the heads of Riley’s parents adheres to outdated gender stereotypes. But Riley, Joy and Sadness are permitted to function in a universe where their gender doesn’t much matter, and they grow and learn just like Woody in Toy Story or Carl in Up. In these largely conservative children’s films, that’s revolutionary.

So it’s apt that after decades of Hollywood executives demonstrating that they did not care what girls thought, a movie about a girl’s brain is proving them wrong.

Via Time

Written by Eliana Dockterman

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Watch: If an angry bear was treated like rape, this is how absurd it would sound.

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“Lucille, who is absolutely tied to this house, says a line about how she can never leave this house. Looking out at a vine that is dead, she says, ‘Nothing grows here anymore.’ So we started making these leaves.” She and the team also hand-dyed hundreds of long, claw-like acorns—and when the tops separated in the dye solution, re-glued each cap.

She modeled a large, intricate and dimensional garland of leaves from a sample piece of passementerie. It encircles Lucille’s dresses like vine that protects—or strangulates.

A team of six artisans created the leaves from a single length of cording, each frond and vertebrae glued and hand-stitched according to a template. Hawley estimated that each leaf took six hours to create.

“We built it so that we could take the whole thing off and put it on the next dress,” Hawley said. The intensive labor was easier to justify because Lucille wears dresses with the garland for most of the film.

Hawley also extended the utility of the dress by creating three different bustles. “Each one gets longer … and functions like an umbilical cord attached to the house,” she said.

find the rest of the article HERE  

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Watch: Sen. McCaskill’s list is pretty thorough — are you listening, guys?

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“well, it seems we are at an impasse.”

“so we are. carry on, cat”

“same to you, bird.”

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They literally were in an awkward situation

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I love how the bird leaves like “well, I best be hitting the dusty trail”

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Black Australian teenager Francis Ose posted this video Tuesday of his experience at an Apple store in Melbourne that many are calling racial profiling. After the video hit the web, the teens and their principal went back to the store and demanded answers.

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This. Fucking. Country.

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More here: The Attention-Sucking Power of Digital Technology Displayed Through Photography by Antoine Gregor

[kny111]

this is corny

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…All right. So, I carry books with me a lot in public. I read them on the bus, on my lunch break, at restaurants, at the bank. Anyplace where I have to wait and don’t have friend or whatnot to talk to. So why is my paper, focus-trapping device admirable, where my plastic one wouldn’t be? It’s like I gleefully stop reading to talk to a stranger. I’ve actually threatened to break someone’s finger because he wouldn’t stop talking to me when I asked and kept touching me to get my attention.

In short, people have never been available for conversation in public, so old men can quit yelling at clouds now.

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Perfect magnets

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Fun story: One of the first things I was taught as an astronomy student is that, if you want to be a dick to someone giving a presentation, ask them “and how do the magnetic fields play into this?” and they will invariably say “fuck you I don’t know” because no one understands magnetic fields they are black magic.

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Rare magnetic Pepe