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MOTHA FUCKIN SCIENCE
sources:
Engagdget
DailyTech
CBS
They turned RNA into an anti-virus program. That is amazing.
Let me restate this in case it didn’t sink in the first time
Researchers physically DELETED ALL TRACES of the HIV virus from a human cell.
ALL OF IT.
IF YOU ARE NOT EXCITED ABOUT THAT I DON’T THINK YOU KNOW WHAT HIV IS
And the whole: my dad was a feminist!!!
you know what, fuck your fucking dad. His male privilege afforded him so much freedom.
It is never: I am proud of my feminist mom, she taught me to be a feminist.
So shout out to all the feminist mothers who are placed in the shadow of their husbands, just because he once said something like “I dont hate women„ erh heheh”
A staggering 80 percent of Central American women crossing Mexico en route to the United States are raped.
Is rape the price to pay for migrant women chasing the American Dream? (via kateoplis)
feministcurrent deleted both of my comments, one of which provided links to evidence to Jonah Mix’s persistent and unending misogyny and need to speak over women, and completely ignored the complaints of the negative comments they did receive in order to clarify that Jonah wasn’t paid for his piece.
Luckily I saved them (bonus screen cap of Meghan’s original response to Tuften before she realized what a pandering asshole she sounded like and edited it)!
Hey Meghan, thank you for prioritizing men and their regurgitated garbage over women telling you that those men make feminist spaces unsafe. Thanks for being a great feminist! Guess I shouldn’t have been surprised given how googly-eyed you got over Hugo Schwyzer noticing you and how lukewarm your response to criticism was until it no longer became fashionable to support him publicly.
Everyone you admire will always disappoint you if you give them enough time.
you know there’s something wrong with our society when they put a rape victim on a cover and have the words SEXUAL REVOLUTION in giant letters over her image and “movement against sexual assault” in tiny letters in the corner
gender conforming women are so on edge with GNC women that they literally make up stuff.
They are too afraid to name the real problem, men, so they just go after the women they think are “imitating” men, and then blame them for being as misogynistic and oppressive.
if anyone imitates the way men treat GNC women, it is gender conforming women.
something i’m still really unhappy about with celebrities championing feminism is the tone policing nature they take on. paraphrasing Emma Watson: “feminism is too often thought to be synonymous with man-hating”
women have the right to hate their abusers
Yes, it seems very… palatable. :/
Well she’s doing it for an organization called “He for She” which is apparently a “solidarity movement for gender equality” so it seems like the entire purpose of this is the same boring “make feminism as non-threatening as possible for men” bullshit.
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
just so you know what is going on in my country right now:
votes came in for independence 45% yes 55% no
media very “”no”” centred and bias
unionists are now attacking yes voters
a seventeen year old girl has been stabbed
they are burning our saltire giving nazi salutes
our first minister resigns
please signal boost this
What do gender & power have in common? They are not the properties of individuals — possessions that one has or doesn’t have — but rather, the properties of social life. An isolated human being cannot have power. An isolated human being cannot have a gender.
Sociologist Michael Kimmel, The Gendered Society {2011} (via antineutral)
Race is an important factor in emotional labor. People of color spend much of their life engaged in emotional labor because racist attitudes and discrimination make it continually necessary to manage one’s feelings.
Sociology in Our Times, The Essentials (9th Edition) by Diana Kendall Page 113 (via theracismrepellent)
The most destructive tool of the culture of classism is deficit theory. In education, we often talk about the deficit perspective—defining students by their weaknesses rather than their strengths. Deficit theory takes this attitude a step further, suggesting that poor people are poor because of their own moral and intellectual deficiencies (Collins, 1988). Deficit theorists use two strategies for propagating this world view: (1) drawing on well-established stereotypes, and (2) ignoring systemic conditions, such as inequitable access to high-quality schooling, that support the cycle of poverty. The implications of deficit theory reach far beyond individual bias. If we convince ourselves that poverty results not from gross inequities (in which we might be complicit) but from poor people’s own deficiencies, we are much less likely to support authentic antipoverty policy and programs. Further, if we believe, however wrongly, that poor people don’t value education, then we dodge any responsibility to redress the gross education inequities with which they contend. This application of deficit theory establishes the idea of what Gans (1995) calls the undeserving poor—a segment of our society that simply does not deserve a fair shake.
Paul Gorski | "The Myth of the Culture of Poverty" (via radical-teacher)
collections that are raw as fuck ➝ elie saab f/w 2014-15
stunning
This is male violence.
Disgusting.
Fox's entire career might as well consist of him getting women to participate in "grudge matches" so that he can beat the crap out of them in front of his bloodthirsty genderqueer/trans fanbase.
GODDAMN IT TUMBLR, CAN YOU AT LEAST GIVE US THEIR NAMES?!?!?
Ching Shih was a prominent pirate in middle Qing China, who terrorized the China Sea in the early 19th century. She commanded over 300 junks manned by 20,000 to 40,000 pirates[2] another estimate has Cheng’s fleet at 1800 and crew at about 80,000[3][4]— men, women, and even children. She challenged the empires of the time, such as the British, Portuguese and the Qing dynasty. Undefeated, she would become one of China and Asia’s strongest pirates, and one of world history’s most powerful pirates. She was also one of the few pirate captains to retire from piracy.
Nancy Wake (one of the few white women on this list; of course you put her name on the graphic…)
Lyudmila Pavlichenko
Rukhsana Kausar
The Gulabi gang (gulabi is Hindi for “pink”) was founded by Sampat Pal Devi, a mother of five and former government health worker (as well as a former child bride), as a response to widespread domestic abuse and other violence against women.[3]Gulabis visit abusive husbands and threaten to beat them with laathis (sticks) unless they stop abusing their wives. Al Jazeera reports there are 400,000 members across Northern India.
Neejra Bhanot was just 22 when terrorists from the Abu Nidal Organization hijacked Pan Am Flight 73, where she was the senior flight purser. After 17 hours (and yes, hiding American passports to protect those passengers), when the hijackers opened fire and set off explosives, Bhanot opened the emergency door and helped a number of passengers escape. She could have been the first to jump out when she opened the door but she decided not and was shot while shielding three children from a hail of bullets. Bhanot was recognized internationally as “the heroine of the hijack” and is the youngest recipient of the Ashok Chakra Award, India’s most prestigious gallantry award for bravery during peace time.
Zainab Bibi, 42, allegedly told authorities she killed her husband Ahmad Abbas because he tried to sexually assault her 17-year-old daughter from another marriage.
In September 2006, Susan Kuhnhausen found an intruder in her southeast Portland, OR home. “I saw a man step out of the shadows and he began to hit me in the head and the face with a hammer,” said Kuhnhausen. “I got the hammer and started hitting him with the hammer several times. My father, the carpenter, always taught me a hammer could be used for self defense — the claw end would work the best,” said Kuhnhausen. Kuhnhausen’s husband, Michael, had hired Ed Haffey to kill his wife.
Seriously, fuck this one. The photo is of Parinya Chareonphol or Nong Thoom who is a kathoey, which many Thai believe to be a third gender (as opposed to the Western idea of ‘transgender’.) After a short time as a Buddhist monk, she took up Muy Thai kickboxing to support her parents and make enough money to pay for her sex-reassignment surgery, and basically kicked ass at it for several years. She was not “constantly made fun of before fights;” the Muy Thai community embraced her and her presence greatly revitalized both media and public interest in the sport, as shown by increased ticket sales and stadium revenue. The movie Beautiful Boxer was made about her, and she has recently acted in Mercury Man as well as continuing to kickbox. So yeah, fuck this one hard.
Juliane Diller née Koepcke was the only survivor of the LANSA Flight 508 crash in 1971. Despite sustaining a broken collar bone, a deep gash to her right arm, a concussion and an eye injury in the fall, she was able to trek through the dense Amazon jungle for 10 days, until she was rescued by local lumbermen, who subsequently took her by canoe back to civilization. It was later discovered that as many as 14 other passengers also survived the initial fall from the disintegrated plane but were unable to seek help and died while awaiting rescue.
Seriously, guys, this took me like 20 minutes using Google and Wikipedia. These women are real people with real names and real stories. Please don’t reduce them to a picture (most of which came from Wikipedia in the first place oh my god i know you were there) and an “uplifting” story.
Look at these kickass women, and remember their names!!
They are so damn raw
If you are female, expressing hatred for your own body is not just acceptable, it’s practically de rigeur. Failure to indulge in the requisite amount of self-flagellation – my thighs! my skin! my face! – isn’t just negligent, it’s unfeminine. Self-hatred is fundamental to how femininity is constructed, more fundamental than any of the more obvious external symbols (dress, make-up, shoes). What matters is not that you are beautiful, but you know your place in the beauty hierarchy (and since every woman ages, every woman’s place will eventually be somewhere at the bottom). Young women are encouraged to bond over their dislike of excess body hair, surplus flesh and “uneven” skin. They are meant to do so in a jovial way, egged on by perky adverts informing them what “real women” do: worry about having underarms beautiful enough for a sleeveless top, celebrate curves with apologetic booty shakes and cackle ruefully over miserable Sex-and-the-City-style lunches of Ryvita and Dulcolax. It’s a gendered ritual; men get football and booze, women get control pants and detoxes. We are supposed, of course, to be grateful. Hey, you don’t have to be perfect! Just know you’re not perfect and act accordingly, with the appropriate levels of guilt and shame! Fairy tale after fairy tale tells us that what matters is being beautiful “on the inside” but what does that really mean? It means submission, obedience and the suppression of one’s own desires. Don’t be haughty and proud. Clean the hearth. Kiss the frog. Love the beast. Suck it up when you’re replaced by a younger model. Sure, you may look fine, but you mustn’t feel fine. You mustn’t be vain. You mustn’t be angry. All fury and pain must be turned back on itself. That way you’ll be a real princess: silent, fragile and never threatening to challenge the status quo.
Glosswatch, Almost Famous, real women, and the normalisation of self-hate. (via nextyearsgirl)
