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My life.

If you were a computer-loving male child who took a lot of shit from your peers, I suspect you heard something similar from the adults in your life. Maybe it was “Sure, things are bad now, but when you’re a little bit older, women will LOVE guys like you!” Or maybe it was “That kid who makes fun of you now will be working at a gas station when you run a big fancy computer company and marry a supermodel!” If you were once young, nerdy and male, it is not unlikely that your future sense of self-worth was funded with a non-consensual IOU from the world’s women. It’s taken me a long time, but at this point I genuinely believe that much of this “GEEKS SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH” rhetoric is little more than patriarchy’s bespectacled wingman. It excuses the pain that systems of power exert on children by promising little boys future dominion over little girls. It is deeply and massively fucked.

What (Else) Can Men Do? Grow The Fuck Up. — Medium (via imamandanelson)

oh my god this…

It’s taken me a long time, but at this point I genuinely believe that much of this “GEEKS SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH” rhetoric is little more than patriarchy’s bespectacled wingman.

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Are computer-loving female children fed these same lines? Are they told “SOME DAY YOU WILL HAVE ALL THE MONEY AND POWERS AND MEN WILL FLOCK TO YOU LIKE AUTONOMY-DEPRIVED MAN-ZOMBIES?” If you insist that the presence of enough computers magically transforms the world into a meritocracy, you might want to think about that one for a second.

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love the classism there too like “someday you will be better than those other people because you will have more money and a ‘real’ job” like hooray that’s not toxic AT ALL

and it adds an extra layer of sexism because lol women are gold-diggers amirite, that’s all you need to attract women, is a fat paycheck — not, you know, personal merits of some kind beyond a marketable skill (not that a good work ethic isn’t a desirable trait in a partner but that can’t be all you’ve got)

male entitlement becomes more explicable — NOT more excusable, but easier to understand — when we look at how many promises of this kind are made. “if you just do x y and z then you will get women” oh well no wonder you’re mad, you did x y and z and the women aren’t falling at your doorstep, it’s still your fault you didn’t figure out we’re people at some point but it’s not like you were encouraged to learn that

though some men manage somehow so I sure don’t feel sorry for your whiny ass (cumaeansibyl)

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emmaylor

In Greek, whose color lexicon did not stabilize for many centuries, the words most commonly used for blue are glaukos and kyaneos. The latter probably referred originally to a mineral or a metal; it has a foreign root and its meaning often shifted. During the Homeric period it denoted both the bright blue of the iris and the black of funeral garments, but never the blue of the sky or sea. An analysis of Homer’s poetry shows that out of sixty adjectives describing elements and landscapes in the Iliad and Odyssey, only three are color terms, while those evoking light effects are quite numerous. During the classical era, kyaneos meant a dark color: deep blue, violet, brown, and black. In fact, it evokes more the “feeling” of the color than its actual hue. The term glaukos, which existed in the Archaic period and was much used by Homer, can refer to gray, blue, and sometimes even yellow or brown. Rather than denoting a particular color, it expresses the idea of a color’s feebleness or weak concentration. For this reason it is used to describe the color of water, eyes, leaves, or honey.

Michel Pastoureau, Blue: The History of a Color (via emmaylor)

The history of how and when civilizations and cultures throughout history began describing or ‘seeing’ or differentiating between the colors blue/green is fascinating

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I blame studying the linguistics of colours for turning me into a filthy poststructuralist lefty, and it is just the greatest.

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Australia’s Prime Sinister

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Senior Muhammad Shamim worked his way around the 15th-century Swahili residence like he knew it inside and out—because he did. He helped build it.

While his teammates described the residence that once existed physically, the Rice University computer science student…

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I hate this site.

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#embroideredcupcake

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Fluff rice with a fork, never stir it with a spoon. Vaseline is the best night time eye cream on the market. You can buy alcohol and chips with your parents’ gas station credit cards. If you force something, you’ll break it. That could be good or bad. It’s important to read the care tags on your clothing and follow those instructions. Related: don’t wash and dry j. crew wool sweaters. Changing your car’s oil is not optional. Whatever physical objects you acquire you will one day have to put into a box and move. You’re allowed to disagree with negative feedback. It’s always worth reading the instruction manual. Nostalgia, like any drug, can be a poison or a remedy. Pets are like human friends but better in every conceivable way. Good doctors listen more than they talk. You can’t fix a burned roux. Floss. Just because someone is an authority figure does not mean they are intelligent/competent/right. Measure twice, cut once. Get your nice jeans and dress pants tailored by a professional. If you’re uncomfortable wearing it you will not look good. You’re not required to drink alcohol while in a bar. There are a few things that cure all ills: the beach, your favorite album on vinyl, and fresh garlic. Kindness is not weakness. Baking soda is not baking powder. Taking Excedrin P.M. while still in public is not advisable. Terrible people will succeed. Wonderful people will fail. The world is not fair. Appropriate footwear is always key. You can absolutely be too forgiving. Real humor punches up, not down. Reading the assigned chapters will actually help you learn the material. There are no adults. Everyone is as clueless as you are. Applying eyeliner well is a timeless art. You can always leave. Awkward dates, suffocating jobs, hometowns that you outgrow, relationships that aren’t growing in the right direction. You can always come home again. But it won’t be the same. Life is too short for bad books, boring movies, shitty people, and margarine. Never underestimate the importance of eyebrows.

36 Things I Wish I Figured Out Sooner - Whitney Kimball (via seabelle)

Seriously, first thing I do when I get some cash to spend on non-essentials, I'm buying some of the pomegranate iced tea from Chatime. I wish I could blame idontevenhaveone for my pomegranate addiction, but I think I may be just as culpable.

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The white and Zionist supremacist gaystreams want you to feel ‘safe’ because you can wear pink shorts in Tel-Aviv (and San Francisco). But collective liberatory politics is not about wearing or doing whatever you want; it’s about redistribution and dismantling oppressive institutions. It is also about negotiating gender and sexuality in various contexts of ‘hiddenness’. We might call it ‘strategic visibility’ or we might not name it at all, but roughly it encapsulates the thousands of practices variously oppressed peoples have used to maintain their safety and efficacy within imperialist, fascist, policed, and otherwise challenged contexts. It is not always about being out and loud and pink. In other words, the state’s surveillance and sexuality are informed by the same strain of politics. In a US context in particular, the Patriot Act and subsequent repeal of both Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT) and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) invest in the same, broader political strategy. That is, the state wants you to come out (and now, to come extra extra out by getting married) so it can surveil you.

DarkMatter on the Queer International

I was listening to a talk by Huma Dar a few days ago where she distinguished between the categories of queerphobic and queerphilic imperialisms, and how “a manifestation of queerphilic imperialism is the eurocentric, liberal construct of the international gay as the norm”.

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angelophile

You could argue comic books have little importance in the grander scheme of things. But comic books make a big statement in a small way. We won’t have blockbuster movies about a Muslim superhero until we can all be excited about a comic book portraying one. When Marvel created Khan, it took a shot at breaking the typical paradigm of superheroes. While it’s a small gesture when measured up to the entire comic book world, it’s another step in the movement for equality in entertainment.

For the larger part of the decade, there was a potent cloud of racism and hatred towards Muslim people. Today, the fact we can portray young Muslim girls as superheroes is a beacon of hope for what is to come. Sure, a lot of people will say “it’s just a comic book.” But I’d like to think somewhere out there, it’s making a difference in a young Muslim girl’s life. And even if the message gets lost and Khan’s character doesn’t sell well, at least a young girl could have her own superhero to look up to.

Global Thinking: Kamala Khan Marvel launches female Muslim Superhero by Kavahn Mansouri.

It is so fucking weird to have been best mates with a guy when we were teenagers, who I saw go from shitty air guitaring to wanting to be in a band, and now, years since we last talked to each other, is becoming a really successful musician starring in the feature article of rock magazines and things like that. It is just the must surreal shit.