@histroarry

Current events, feminism, politics, and venting.

[lordendsavior]

“The double agent for the patriarchy is basically just a woman who perhaps unknowingly is still putting the patriarchal narrative out into the world. Is still benefitting off, profiting off and selling a patriarchal narrative to other women. But it’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing. You know, just because you look like a woman, we trust you and we think you’re on our side, but you are selling us something that really doesn’t make us feel good. You’re selling us an ideal, a body shape, a problem with our wrinkles, a problem with ageing, a problem with gravity, a problem with any kind of body fat. You’re selling us self-consciousness. The same poison that made you clearly develop some sort of body dysmorphia or facial dysmorphia, you are now pouring back into the world. You’re like recycling hatred. I find that really dangerous and I think it’s unacceptable and I don’t care if you’re a woman. I think constructive criticism is needed for anyone to ever evolve. For our gender to evolve we need some sort of constructive criticism. As long as we do it in a somewhat careful way. (…) So many of the worst things in the world have happened motivated by greed. And I just don’t think that’s an acceptable excuse anymore. How much money do you need? Really how much money do you need? How much money do any of these huge influencers who are worth millions or billions sometimes… why are they still promoting appetite-suppressant lollipops to young girls? And it’s not a fight against obesity. They have young, already slim girls, in their adverts for Flat Tummy company, this company that are absolutely everywhere, and they’re even being advertised in some of the most mainstream magazines, women’s magazines, and they have a billboard in Times Square. The money is built on the blood and tears of young women who believe in them, who follow them, who look up to them like the big sister they never had. It’s so upsetting and it feels like such a betrayal against women.”

Jameela Jamil explains why she thinks the Kardashians are “double agents for the patriarchy”

[warmbath]

[musicnerderys]

WAOW

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[justsomeantifas]

so the worst fires in californias history has minors fighting in them as punishment for crime.

[rjzimmerman]

Domino-effect of climate events could push Earth into a ‘hothouse’ state

Leading scientists warn that passing such a point would make efforts to reduce emissions increasingly futile

Excerpt:

A domino-like cascade of melting ice, warming seas, shifting currents and dying forests could tilt the Earth into a “hothouse” state beyond which human efforts to reduce emissions will be increasingly futile, a group of leading climate scientists has warned.

This grim prospect is sketched out in a journal paper that considers the combined consequences of 10 climate change processes, including the release of methane trapped in Siberian permafrost and the impact of melting ice in Greenland on the Antarctic.

The authors of the essay, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, stress their analysis is not conclusive, but warn the Paris commitment to keep warming at 2C above pre-industrial levels may not be enough to “park” the planet’s climate at a stable temperature.

They warn that the hothouse trajectory “would almost certainly flood deltaic environments, increase the risk of damage from coastal storms, and eliminate coral reefs (and all of the benefits that they provide for societies) by the end of this century or earlier.”

Katherine Richardson from the University of Copenhagen, one of the authors, said the paper showed that climate action was not just a case of turning the knob on emissions, but of understanding how various factors interact at a global level.

“We note that the Earth has never in its history had a quasi-stable state that is around 2C warmer than the preindustrial and suggest that there is substantial risk that the system, itself, will ‘want’ to continue warming because of all of these other processes – even if we stop emissions,” she said. “This implies not only reducing emissions but much more.”

New feedback loops are still being discovered. A separate paper published in PNAS reveals that increased rainfall – a symptom of climate change in some regions - is making it harder for forest soils to trap greenhouse gases such as methane.

[npr]

For five years, Beck Dorey-Stein was Barack Obama’s “professional stalker,” she says. “His creeper.”

As a former White House stenographer — a job she found on Craigslist of all places — Dorey-Stein was part of a team responsible for going anywhere the president would go, recording his every public utterance and then transcribing it for posterity.

“Especially whenever he spoke with press, he made sure, just like the previous presidents did, that there was a stenographer in the room so that there was no miscommunication or confusion about what exactly was said,” says Dorey-Stein. She writes about the experience in her new memoir, From the Corner of the Oval.

In an interview with Noel King for NPR’s Morning Edition, Dorey-Stein says “everything changed” with the inauguration of President Trump, whose team “didn’t know that stenographers existed.” She recounts how during the transition, it took her boss multiple tries before she was even able to get past a young press wrangler to introduce herself to the incoming West Wing staff.

Things didn’t improve much from there. In a New York Times op-ed published last week, Dorey-Stein writes about how Stephanie Grisham, now the communications director for the first lady, told a colleague that White House stenographers would not be needed often, because “there would be video.”

“This seems like a fair point,” says Dorey-Stein, “unless you really know audio.” The audio that’s taken from media video might change or get trimmed during the editing process, she says. “We see that with music videos, so the idea of it just being like, ‘Oh, of course, we can just have this on video,’ it’s not the same.”

Ex-White House Stenographer: With No Official Transcript, Trump Can Muddle The Truth

Photo: Saul Loe/AFP/Getty Images Caption: Beck Dorey-Stein, a former White House stenographer, walks with members of the White House press pool from Air Force One upon arrival at Wattay International Airport in Laos on Sept. 7, 2016.

[npr]

April Is A Cruel Month For This Columbine Teacher And Survivor

Paula Reed remembers walking out into the sunshine of a beautiful day when kids ran by yelling, "they've got guns."

[yyyyddmmsupremacy-deactivated20]

absolutely nothing should be sold for a profit if its absence can kill you.

water shouldn’t be sold for a profit.

food shouldn’t be sold for a profit.

healthcare shouldn’t be sold for a profit.

any system where people can die because they’re unable to access these resources needs to be dismantled.

[julius-novachrono]

Hot take ☕️

[kittyseeker-deactivated20200610]

Stop reducing native issues to “they had their land taken”.

Our sisters are still murdered and missing. Our children go hungry and cold. Our elders can’t afford health care. Our parents suffer from untreated mental illness and have addictions because they self medicate.

And thats not even on the reservations. Thats just in farming communities of the Lumbee. And we are doing well by comparison to other groups.

Stop reducing us to stolen land and erasing our real struggles.

[kokoona-deactivated20160520]

Natives have the highest suicide rates. Natives have the most unsafe school conditions. 75% of sex trafficking victims in Canada are First Nations. Natives are the most likely to be shot by police according to some studies and just as likely to be shot as black brothers and sisters according to others. Half of the homes on reservations in the US are legally deemed “uninhabitable” despite families and children living in them. Non native people can still commit crimes against us and not even be tried under native law, usually meaning not at all. Reservations flood often, they are stricken with drought. Most urban native kids carry the weight of being the only native their classmates and other townspeople will ever know. There are no college classes for us or about us. We are struggling, y'all. We have had our land, languages, and family ripped from us, it’s more than just history, it’s 500+ years of ongoing genocide.

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

News Anchors Reciting Sinclair Propaganda Is Even More Terrifying in Unison

A new video demonstrates how the real “fake news” has never been more synchronized.

[informative-feminist]

It's not enough for abortion to be theoretically legal.

It must be - unconditional - affordable - on demand - safe

Abortion must be accessible on all platforms.

[thechanelmuse]

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie gracefully gathers everybody during a discussion with R. Emmett Tyrrell and Emily Maitlis. Watch it here. 

[menalaus]

queeeeeeen!!!!!!!

[witchbornwitch-deactivated20150]

[trollitics]

[liberalsarecool]

‘Trump bots’ and how Right Wing media utilizes their ‘fake media’.

[the-future-now-deactivated20170]

Smoking doesn’t just kill humans. Cigarette butts are destroying the planet, too.

Cigarette butts are tiny, but they’re collectively trashing our planet.

Every year, the world is burdened with an estimated 1.69 billion pounds of littered cigarette butts, according to a 2009 study, and humanity is expected to smoke some 9 trillion filtered cigarettes in the year 2025.

Cigarette filters contain hundreds of trapped chemicals that run off into our oceans, rivers and streams, and they clog up our heaping landfills without biodegrading.

That’s the potential for a lot of damage — but now, researchers have an idea for how we can reuse them. Read more (8/7/17)

follow @the-future-now​

[lavenderpoetryx]

Does Your Daughter Know It's OK To Be Angry?

Girls, taught to ignore their anger, become disassociated from themselves.

Most girls and women understand the risks they take when they become angry. 

No matter how justified, appearing angry won’t do her any favors and will actually undermine people’s perception of her competence and likeability. 

For men, anger reinforces traditional gender expectations, for women it confounds them. That conflict by itself is a source of anxiety.

Girls are more likely to learn that their feelings of anger, no matter the reason they have them, are “wrong” and out of sync with their identities as girls. 

Anger is diverted in women, who, as girls, lose even the awareness of their own anger as anger. 

Girls are taught, through politeness norms that suppress disruptive behavior, to use indirect methods of dealing with rage. 

For example, it’s “unladylike” to be loud, or “vulgar” to curse, yell, or seem unattractive. Adaptable girls find socially acceptable ways to internalize or channel their discomfort and ire, sometimes at great personal cost. 

Passive aggressive behavior, anxiety, and depression are common effects. 

Keep reading

[profeminist]

Rahim Kanani: As president and CEO of CARE USA, how would you characterize the global trend in awareness, advocacy and action towards the social, political and economic empowerment of women and girls around the world?

Helene Gayle: I guess you could say the stars have aligned. It’s as if many of the world’s biggest and smartest thinkers have come to the same conclusion almost at once: you can’t marginalize more than half of the globe’s population and expect to see any meaningful solutions to the problems that ail the world. Perhaps it’s because we’re all faced with the same facts: 60 percent of the world’s one billion poorest people are female; women work two-thirds of working hours but earn only 10 percent of the income; nearly two thirds of children out of school in the world are girls.

No matter how you measure it, women and girls bear the brunt of poverty. But it’s also clear that women are also our greatest hope for ending it. We at CARE have long believed that if you change the life of a girl or woman, you don’t just change that individual, you change her family and then her community. By doing so, you begin to turn those grim statistics around. Consider that for every year of education you give a girl or woman, she’s more likely to have good health, to give birth to a child who survives and to send that child to school. Investing early, when that woman-to-be is a girl, only amplifies the impact, unlocking potential earlier in life and yielding greater returns for her and everyone around her.

The stars really shouldn’t have to align for girls and women to realize their full potential. They deserve solutions that endure, something much closer to a constellation.“

Read the interview here: Helene Gayle, President and CEO of CARE USA, on Empowering Women and Girls Worldwide

[histroarry]

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