Logic Goes Here

Trying to find common sense in places where there seems none

[perennialnarcissist]

[macleod]

Totally the biggest controversy that has erver graced american politics ladies and gentlemen.

[logicgoeshere]

This is how you can tell when someone on twitter is very young. Because I am old enough to remember when the Bush twins were practically on the “news” every single day because of the things they did. They were indeed stalked by the media. Not just the tabloids but network news. Yes, Queen, people were woke back then.

And given how the media also stalked Chelsea Clinton when her father was president, the Obama girls have had it unbelievably easy. I am amazed how restrained they have been to this administration. 

[mergaskittle-deactivated2019091]

[logicgoeshere]

“DO-SI-DOS, MOTHERFUCKER!”

[refinery29]

Yet Another Stat That Proves The Male Gamer Stereotype Is A Farce

With new data from a Pew Research Center survey, we know that women play an even bigger role in the gaming community. Of the 40% of Americans who own a video game console, 42% are women and only 37% are men.

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[ahundredthousandsteps-deactivat]

While I would love for this to be true, I have a few points to make.

1. I’m not sure if they include PC as a gaming console here, but that could sway the statistics. An ever growing part of the gaming community is on PC, and it would invalidate these stats to leave it out.

2. They don’t give specific statistics for each console, which is an important oversight. There’s hardware that’s generally more popular with female audiences, like most Nintendos, and there’s hardware that is more popular with male audiences, like the PC. 

3. This only examines American gamers, even though other countries have their own gender ratios. There are no international borders in video games, so this survey only looked at an unrepresentative chunk of all gamers.

4. The survey mentions the previous survey that claims adult women outnumber teen boys in video games, even though that survey included mobile games. While mobile games could be seen as valid, they shouldn’t be included with console/pc games as they are an entirely different thing.

5. The survey claims that gender relations in video games don’t match these statistics, and blame gamers for this gap. But the survey fails to assess whether women and men are playing the same games on average.  There are numerous statistics that show women are more likely to play platformers, visual novels, and character driven games, whereas men are more likely to play shooters, mobas or mmorpgs. Life is Strange, Sims 4 and Hatoful Boyfriend are going to have different demographics than World of Warcraft and Gears of War, which explains why women are the prioritized audience in some genres and a secondary audience in others. 

6. The survey claims that “women are rarely considered to be an equal presence” in video games, even though this year has given us some of the most progressive games to date.

7. This survey doesn’t account for the fact that a single console can have multiple users. In a household with a mother and son, the mother will own the console, but the son might also be a player of it. He wouldn’t be counted in this survey. Therefore, there’s potentially a large number of gamers who aren’t accounted for.

8. The survey had a sample of 948, which I personally don’t think is large enough to represent 319,900,000 people. Plus, the sample isn’t mentioned. They could’ve taken it at an anime convention or at a maximum security prison. Where/when/how they took their sample group will have a large impact on results, especially with such a small sample. 

Those are a few cursory criticisms I have of this study. It’s interesting, but I’d need more information before I could accept it as fact.

[logicgoeshere]

I’ve never liked the majority of surveys out there. Because it is so easy to fudge with them and get the result you want. Everyone should take surveys with a grain of salt until you get all the information on how it was done.

[the-perks-of-being-black]

The excerpt referenced by Jonathan Frandzone containing the quote by Emmeline Pankhurst (the role played by Meryl Streep in the feature film Suffragette) is from the book The Women’s Movements in the United States and Britain from the 1790s to the 1920s by Christine Bolt, The University of Massachusetts Press, 1993.

[danielle-mertina]

Practically every big name white feminist has a history of hyperbolically comparing their struggle to that of Black ppl–who they render gender-less. Just the other day I was reading Naomi Wolf’s book where she compares white women getting plastic surgery in the 1980s to the forced scarification of Black ppl during slavery.

[moneymae-deactivated20231206]

Like they’re not even subtle with this bullshit. As if the confederates weren’t called rebels and the confederate flag wasn’t called the rebel flag.

[cardinalsong-blog]

Reblogging with links to some good articles that add great historical context: Pankhurst totally had the cultural context to know better when she said it and she didn’t, she fucked up. Defending her is a century out of fashion. 

http://www.themarysue.com/suffragette-shirts/

http://www.themarysue.com/time-out-responds-to-suffragette-shirt/

[logicgoeshere]

See, it is posts like this that make me embarrass to be an American. Here we have a movie about an extremely important event in UK history. The shirt references this. And here come the Americans making this all about them. 

This movie has nothing to do with America. REPEAT AFTER ME, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH AMERICA!

Stop erasing other cultures’ history. Stop making everything about you. American isn’t the center of the universe. 

Now go log off tumblr and go read a book. And if you are still offended by this, stay away from the song Rule, Britannia...

[oblwankenobi]

Kevin Bacon lashes sexist trend of unnecessary female nudity in cinema and television and demands more male nudity in Hollywood.

[oblwankenobi]

[logicgoeshere]

I love Kevin Bacon but he really has no room to speak. He was in X-Men: First Class. A movie where all the women save for one were running around in their underwear or were nude. And the single woman who was neither? She was a stripper! 

[oinkoinkoink5783920]

when guy sits next to me on the bus: im gonna die im gonna die im gonna die when girl sets next to me: she trusts me i feel safe and this is a great day

[realjusticewesteros]

wow.

The paranoia and sexism is strong with this one.

-SS

[colorsofsocialjustice]

OP should see someone about that. Sounds like a serious condition.

- Emerald

[kurgy]

“bad representation is better than no representation”

[myboyfriendpetebuttigieg]

No one here seems interested in the grimy parts of mental health. Everyone wants to talk about mental illness as quiet introverts drinking tea and nervously stuttering over words. No one ever talks about symptoms like paranoia or hallucinations or hypersexuality or compulsions or homelessness or drug addiction or delusions or psychosis or violent urges. Every time a clearly mentally ill person commits a crime, and someone says, “Hey, maybe this is a sign that we need to improve mental health awareness in this country,” everyone goes to screaming: “This isn’t about mental illness! Mentally ill people aren’t violent!”

But yes, sometimes mentally ill people are violent. Sometimes we are bad people. And even those mentally ill people are in need of advocacy, maybe even more so.

When you post “Protect people with mental illnesses at all costs,” do you mean all of us, or just the cute ones?

[aliform]

I get sick of tumblr’s version of self care, which 90% of the time threads into this beautifully: go pet a fuzzy cute animal! pile up your favorite blankets from childhood and watch disney movies! take a nap! play a game from this list of cute soothings games! 

More realistically: go take a shower because it’s been three days. Wash the dishes that have been in the sink since last Friday that you can smell as soon as you open your door because rotting food stinks. Pick all your clothes off the floor because that’s where your entire wardrobe is and you’ve already cried today because you tripped over a sweater and realized the cat puked on it. Call someone who can give you enough courage to pay that bill you’ve been ignoring. Put away the crackers because that’s all you’ve eaten for two days straight. Apologize to the friends who are worried sick about you, and if you can’t at least let them know you are ok and need space. 

One of the most empowering types of self-care is responsibility, but tumblr just wants to sit in a closet strung with fairy lights and read their favorite fic.  

“Cute” self-care for “cute” mental issues. That’s not reality. 

[whats-out-there]

When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told them, don’t be afraid, I am a Soviet citizen like you, who has descended from space. And I must find a telephone to call Moscow.

Yuri Gagarin, the first human to travel to space; upon re-entry Gagarin landed 280 kilometers away from the intended landing site, to the surprise of a farmer and his daughter who watched him fall from the sky (via whats-out-there)

[curiosityconfusion]

How did people first figure out that it was cicadas that make this noise? I could see that taking a long time. Were there just like a thousand years where people were like “yeah, the trees are screaming. They do that in the summer.”

[logicgoeshere]

Cicadas are freaking HUGE. Like almost twice as big as a man’s thumb. I think our ancestors found out what was making that noise rather quickly. 

ANCESTOR: What is making that noise? Are the trees scream-HOLY SHIT, LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT BUG!!!!!!! Guys, I found out what is making that noise. And it’s nightmare fuel!

[hufflepuffsquee-deactivated2015]

so

can someone please tell me what’s wrong with Banksy? Cause I don’t understand and everything I’ve seen about anything being wrong with Banksy… Is someone asking and not getting a real answer.

[mockiato-deactivated20200315]

Banksy is p much the face of gentrification–when poor brown people express themselves and are taggers, they get arrested. When Banksy does it as a well-off white guy, he’s rewarded.

Tagging is largely the oppressed claiming space, space for themselves and space for their art. It’s not meant to make anyone feel comfortable. The fact that the very same people who think that black people’s live are worth so little embrace Banksy is proof of this. 

One of the things that’s recently pissed a lot of taggers off is, he’s not part of the tagger community and doesn’t know the rules, doesn’t follow them. NYC is locals only when it comes to graffiti, since they’re the ones whose space it is.

Like. He went to East NYC, predominately black and Latinx, majority poor, where there are a TON of local taggers, and claimed areas as his, Instagrammed the general area so people (mainly white middle to upper class) could come flocking He’s going to poor parts of NY–areas where taggers flourish–and waltzing in and claiming space as his. 

He’s also like, peak liberal. ‘Down with the system!’ while being the very system itself. ‘Destroy capitalism!’ while doing everything he can to capitalize. Literally ‘If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes politics’ while being someone who benefits from the horrors committed.

Basically, you got  white hipster British dude who hsa access to p much any medium he wants choosing to use a medium that has a legacy and a meaning that he will never understand, to spread the most watered down messages of all time. He’s like the Zen Pencils of the Graffiti World.  If you’re interested, here  is a post talking about some great and well known taggers who aren’t Banksy.  This blog showcases real graffiti art and is largely artist-submitted. (WARNING: AUTOPLAY!) You look at some of these gorgeous works, hand painted that takes days/weeks to complete, you look at the skill and the artistry and you just have to go…And all this recognition is going to Stencilhead LiberalBoy instead, while the actual artists are getting slammed to the ground by cops and charged ridiculous fees. 

[logicgoeshere]

Wait, are you trying to claim that graffiti is a black and latino founded art? Graffiti has been around since cave man times. There is a ton of it on the ruins of ancient Rome.The name itself is Italian. NO SINGLE CULTURE OWNS GRAFFITI. Not Americans. Not any of the Europeans. Not any of the Asians. Not any of the Africans. NO ONE. It’s a universal art crossing every human culture out there. 

The only thing Banksy is doing wrong and I agree with you here, is tagging over someone else’s territory. But then, this sort of thing happens all the time. 

[logicgoeshere]

Everyone is impressed with this new bloom of transgender actors playing transgender roles on television and in the movies. 

Honestly, I will be impressed when transgender actors are no longer stuck playing transgender roles and can play cis gender roles like the way straight actors can play gay roles and gay actors can play straight roles. When a transgender actress can simply play a cis woman, that’s when I know that transgender actors have finally been accepted in Hollywood. 

[superheroesincolor]

Marvel, Please Cast an Asian American Iron Fist | thenerdsofcolor

“Yes, I am proposing that a major comic book institution change the race of one of its popular characters as it transitions to a new form of media. In this case, I want Marvel Studios to cast an Asian American actor to play the lead in the upcoming Iron Fist show it is developing for Netflix.

It seems logical enough to me, though as always, there are fans who are urging Marvel to resist changing his race. Now, I know the topic of cross-racial casting has come up time and time again here at The Nerds of Color. And while there are a contingent of fans who don’t think such things matter — or worse, are vehemently opposed to such casting choices — I can’t help thinking that Iron Fist gives Marvel a chance to add even more diversity to its interconnected cinematic universe.

Not to mention that this is a case where changing the race of the character has the potential to actually add layers of depth to the story of said character. First, let’s get a couple of misconceptions out of the way. My call for an Asian American Iron Fist is not meant to displace Danny Rand from the story. It is, in fact, the opposite…” 

Keep reading Keith Chow’s article at thenerdsofcolor

There’s also a petition for Marvel Studios to cast an Asian American as Iron Fist.at 18 Million Rising.

[cpt-tightpants]

"My call for an Asian American Iron Fist is not meant to displace Danny Rand from the story,” wrote Keith Chow, a contributor to the site. “It is, in fact, the opposite. In my mind, casting a young Asian American in the lead role does nothing to change his classic origin: He can still be the son of a wealthy businessman. He can still accompany his family on an expedition to seek out K’un L’un. He can still train under Lei Kung, the Thunderer. He can still seek revenge against the man who killed his father. Danny being Asian American precludes none of these things. What does change, however, in making Danny non-white is that it removes the white savior syndrome of the original story.”

”…If Danny is Asian American, the scenes of him embracing the ways of K’un-L’un can be viewed through the lens of cultural reconnection.”

[logicgoeshere]

 Please, please, don’t do this. Asian American actors and Asian actors in Hollywood are only now starting to break free from the racist stereotype of Asian character = martial arts master/mystical martial arts master and able to get broader, more interesting roles in TV and in the movies. Such as Lucy Liu playing consulting detective, Joan Watson on Elementary or Ken Leung playing a combat vet turned ER doctor, Topher Zia, on The Night Shift or Osric Chau playing the college student turned demon pissing off prophet, Kevin Tran, on Supernatural. Roles that didn’t rely on racist stereotypes. That’s not to say the Asian character = martial arts master/mystical martial arts master stereotype isn’t still around. I am looking at you Teen Wolf, the new Heroes series and Sense8. I’m saying it’s getting better. And it needs to get better. Stop trying to go backward.

What I would love for the Iron Fist is for Danny to stay the way he is in the comics and for everyone who is not an Asian stereotype be filled with Asian actors. Just a big middle finger to the Asian charachter = martial arts master stereotype. 

[fotojournalismus]

At a Tent Theater Near You: Traveling Tent Cinemas of India

Nomadic cinemas travel to remote villages in India, far from fixed-site theaters. Films are shown in large tents, often using makeshift equipment, with the audience seated on the ground. Although India is home to the most prolific movie industry in the world, producing around 800 films a year, it has one of the lowest ratios of screens to population – 13 screens per million people. The traveling cinemas show mixed fare, including regional language films, Bollywood blockbusters and Hollywood movies, but they are facing a fight for survival as DVDs become more easily accessible and cable networks penetrate further into the country.

(World Press Photo, Arts and Entertainment, first prize stories, 2011)

Photographs by Amit Madheshiya

[logicgoeshere]

Tumblr: support artists!!!! commission their work, don't discredit them, and support smaller artists who are just starting out! they need it uwu

Banksy: *commissions and hires lesser known artists*

Banksy: *charges three pounds for entry into an entire art exhibit so he can pay said artists*

Banksy: *brings biggest economic boost of tourism to Weston since the actual theme park closed down because tourists would sooner flock to Disneyland Europe locations*

Tumblr: *ignores other commissioned artists* pretentious white bullshit!!! I can't believe Banksy is making millions off of this pretentious work!!!!

[still-loyal]

“You’re too young to be in love" 

let me just remind you that when Romeo and Juliet met ,Romeo was 16 and Juliet was 13.

[tuesday]

Bro. Six people died and it lasted three days

[phroyd]

Decency In The White House!

Brought to you by a Black American Family!

Phroyd

[offtospace]

show me the lie though

[thesweetishthuggishbone]

^Not a damn one

[sketchlock]

[logicgoeshere]

I’ll show you the lie.  “Hated by most white Christians.” Do you know what the majority of America is made up of? White Christians. You know who re-elected Obama TWICE into the White House? White Christians. Barack and Michelle both have had best selling books? Who bought the majority of those books? White Christians. Please, show me the best selling books spewing hatred on the entire Obama family.