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[ozmills]

I was bored

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[themundanematt]

Why #gamergate is important

[zennistrad]

Fun fact: Morgan Ramsay, founder of the Entertainment Media Counsel, did an objective study of how much of gaming journalism talks about sexism or social justice.

To do this, he downloaded 130,524 articles from 37 RSS feeds of 23 outlets, including The Escapist, Rock Paper Shotgun, CVG, Edge Online, Eurogamer, Gamasutra, Game Informer, GamePolitics, GamesBeat, GamesIndustry International, GameSpot, GamesRadar, IGN, IndieGames, Joystiq, Kotaku, Massively, MCV, NowGamer, PocketGamer.biz, Polygon, Shacknews and VG24/7, published over a period of twelve months. He then did a search on how often these games articles mentioned sexism, feminism, or misogyny.

The result? Over a period of one year, 0.41% of 130,524 articles referenced feminism, feminist, sexism, sexist, misogyny, and misogynist explicitly.

That’s less than half of one percent.

So next time you hear someone whining that “feminism is taking over video games journalism”, what they’re actually whining about is that feminism exists in video games journalism.

[consonant-deactivated20251203]

[we-are-legion-for-we-are-taco]

[thecutespook]

Do older ppl expect us to believe they never took photos of their kids while they were growing up

[ozmills]

There ARE certain habits I'm not a fan of. Like calling a child's name just to take a photo of their face and then ignoring them.

But candid photos of a baby person? Nah not so much.

When they get to a certain age I ask for their permission, though...

[micdotcom]

Watch: George Takei sends a message in Spanish about how we can defeat Trump

[wilwheaton]

George is doing such important work right now. I’m so grateful he’s speaking out.

[treksource]

Rest in Peace, Anton Yelchin

March 11th, 1989 - June 19th, 2016

[ozmills]

Maybe having him in the redshirt attire isn't appropriate

[fraaaaaaank-blog]

[cartoonsnc3real-deactivated2016]

rawshyt:

THE POWER OF THE VAGINA

look at the gravitational pull of her vagina! he gets sucked right into it

Amazing.

omfg dat ass grab yo

[ozmills]

LARP story of the day

[horrorpunk]

Jack Nicholson getting into character for the axe scene in The Shining.

[medievalpoc]

Sophie Okonedo in The Hollow Crown

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Apparently I should be checking out this miniseries adaptation of Shakespeare’s history plays, immediate-style. 

[mycroft-holmes-lestrade]

Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, WRONG! A black woman playing a white English queen? And I’m not even talking about the armour nonsense. What’s next a native american roman emperor wearing a grass skirt? A white Ghandi wearing ripped jeans and psychedelic shirts?  

If you throw reality and historical accuracy out of the window for being PC you’re movie isn’t worth watching because it can have no real message. 

[medievalpoc]

And this is why I don’t have any plans to stop blogging here anytime soon. Until the concept that “historical accuracy” means “only cast white people” dies a well-deserved death, I’m going to keep posting art and documents that prove that casting historical adaptations with people of color is MORE accurate that leaving them out. When it comes to Black women characters in European Medieval and Renaissance theater, you can go back to PRIMARY sources and see them for yourself:

It sickens me that after three years of posting my research, there are still people who look at images as beautiful as these and say that it’s wrong. This is a Shakespeare adaptation; are you seriously sitting there thinking that everyone’s in Shakespeare’s writing, or in Elizabethan England, was white? The idea of people of color existing outside where YOU think they should be is somehow ridiculous?

You’re wrong. You’re Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, WRONG.

[freedom14movement]

this angers me to an enth

[nabokovsshadows-deactivated2018]

These are the same people who complain about white washing. Yet also claim Einstein was black.

[byzantinefox-deactivated2018120]

urgh, unless someone can prove English monarchs during the War of the Roses were POC then I will not be watching this show.

[nabokovsshadows-deactivated2018]

Such a double standard. It’s wrong to turn poc historical figures white but it’s also wrong to turn white historical figures to poc. Social justice warriors are always trying to rewrite history to fit their agendas. People on tumblr constantly lose their shit over their false claim cleopatra was black. Yet a white British queen is black and that’s fine. It’s nonsense.

[byzantinefox-deactivated2018120]

utter nonsense; insulting nonsense as well

and it seems lots of people are to afraid to say anything

even many of my fellow historians

[nabokovsshadows-deactivated2018]

That’s because if you call out their lies and delusion they scream racist. They are bullies who are turning what should be a serious accusation into something meaningless. Sadly they are too stupid to realise this and how harmful it ends up being towards victims of real racism. It’s the boy who cried wolf but instead it’s the SJW who cried racist. Not to mention medieval poc has been called out countless times for talking utter shit. Not to mention a few personal accusations. Which I take with a pinch of salt but still they are out there.

[byzantinefox-deactivated2018120]

Hopefully everyone not already in the cult knows to ignore them now

and totally agree

a house built on lies will never survive a storm

[medievalpoc]

And again I’m noticing that it’s when a person of color is cast in a role considered to be the “property” of white people only, because, you know, “historical accuracy”, that’s when everyone really comes out of the woodwork to show what’s really important to them.

If I’m wrong, go ahead and tell me why I’m wrong. Show me some links, documents, artworks, citations or precedents. Explain why the director of the miniseries’ claim that he chose the best possible actress for the role is wrong:

Dominic Cooke explained the decision to cast Sophie in what is considered to be a traditionally white role, saying: “Well, in the theatre we’ve been doing this for donkeys years.”

He said that he wanted to go with the actor who was “right for the part” rather than any other factor.

Dominic went on to say: “I think Sophie is the best person in this country to play that part, I really do. Her visceral power and range is so extraordinary - that’s what I was really looking for.

And hey, when you can’t attack the truth of what someone has to say anymore, you try to cast aspersions on who and what they are  to try and discredit what they have to say. Because that’s a wholly new and original concept, right?

Every time we see a sign of real, concrete change, there’s twice that amount of backlash. I post pictures like these ones of Sophie Okonedo because so many people STILL have a massive, vocal problem with seeing an actress of color, especially a Black actress, playing a Medieval European role. I’m really not sure how any of you who’ve commented really can believe, or that anyone else can believe, that you care about “the truth” when it’s painfully obvious that what you really care about is Whites Only, Forever.

Also, “Social Justice Warrior”? That’s the best rebuttal anyone can come up with? This is tiresome and old, and I’d like to think after three flipping YEARS of doing this, someone would have come up with something better than “SJW!!”, personal attacks, and “b-b-b-but HISTORICAL ACCURACY!!!”

[fuunsaiki]

a) It’s SHAKESPEARE. Right from the start historical accuracy was the most distant possible concern, and there’s bigger inaccuracies than someone’s skin-tone.

b) You all bang on about English queens MATE MARGARET WAS A FUCKING FRENCHWOMAN IF YOU’RE GOING TO GRIPE AND MOAN AT LEAST GET YOUR FUCKING FACTS STRAIGHT.

[ozmills]

"a native american roman emperor wearing a grass skirt? A white Ghandi wearing ripped jeans and psychedelic shirts?"

I am all for these portrayals! Whatever next? A modern-day retelling of Jesus of Nazareth as a white guy in a musical? :p

[porterr-robinson]

[asoiafedit]

The dragon has three heads.

[micdotcom]

Watch: Viral clip shows a woman in genderless clothing being ejected from a ladies’ bathroom by the police.

[reproductivejusticeandliberty]

Sharing this isn’t meant to take away from the fact that trans people are the ones who are going to be most affected by bathroom laws, but this policing of gender is going to lead to more things like this too. This video predates NB2, which just goes to show that this has been happening for a while, it’s now just codified into law. People who don’t conform to gender stereotypes are also punished like this woman was. -V

[lesbiangender-deactivated201908]

aren’t these laws supposed to keep “”men”” from entering women’s bathrooms and hurting them?

because this cis man just entered a public women’s restroom with the express intent of hurting this woman.

bathrooms in the south are more dangerous than ever.

[ozmills]

Scifi fan: So, how do your spaceships get places?

Star Trek fan: Matter and antimatter are mutually annihilated in a fusion reaction that warps space-time sufficiently to drive the ship faster than light.

Star Wars fan: Hyperdrives use hypermatter particles to hurl a ship into hyperspace, allowing it to take advantage of wrinkles in the fabric of realspace to reduce journey times significantly.

Warhammer 40,000 fan: They go through hell.

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[hedaoftheworld]

Ok so it’s the classic story of a young maiden wants a thing and a witch is like “promise me your first born child” and the maidens like “k” and that should be enough but no the witch keeps coming around like “yo where’s my first born child pls” and the maiden is like “bitch I don’t even have a boyfriend” and the witch keeps coming back and being like “how’s the bf search?” And just being generally annoying. then she just keeps coming round and hanging out and they fall in love and the first born child is already the witches and everyone lives happily ever after

[yihequan]

went to an American restaurant today!!!! ‘ello mate!!!!!! put forks in my hair to show my love for these Westerners’ food!!! Haha!!!!! Ha!!!! Ha!!! Ha!!! Ha  !