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*parts a bead curtain as i enter the room, carrying a glass of lemonade*

hey….

nothing you ever read, watch, or participate in will be ideologically pure and without its problems. your quest to consume the most unproblematic material will be, in the end, fruitless. your enjoyment of anything will be sapped away, leaving you a husk starved for media.

it is okay to enjoy things that have problems to them, so long as you do it critically and with an open mind, and take care to consider others.

*leaves the way i came*

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marvinetta

My opinions.

If the ranchers, loggers, and miners can’t make a living without government subsidies or the land they actually own… They don’t deserve to be in that business.

If you need to steal public land by threat of force because you can’t give your livestock what they need, don’t be a rancher.

If you can’t buy the rights to private property to mine it, and want to destroy public land for a profit, you shouldn’t be a miner.

If you can’t buy enough land, or buy the right to harvest the trees to get lumber, you shouldn’t be a logger.

If your business can’t survive without stealing from others, and/or getting assistance from the very government you claim to be oppressing you, you need to get into a new line of work.

“But my family did this way for over a hundred years, it’s not fair!”

Life’s not fair, and anyone who tells you otherwise is lying. Nostalgia is not the basis for a good business model. Do like the rest of us when our career becomes obsolete and get a different job.

Until then I will continue to believe that every white American involved in that “protest” is a lazy, entitled, hypocritical jackass who can’t run a successful business. Stealing from the rest us with one hand while the other accepts corporate welfare is disgraceful.

Again for the people in the back: If you can’t run your business without stealing your resources from others, you are bad at that business. No one owes you anything. Sit the fuck down, and stop whining.

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re: not wanting kids

i’ve seen a lot of pushback against “kid hating” lately, so let me just say a few things:

i don’t particularly like kids

they make me uncomfortable

the idea of being responsible for the physical and emotional well being of a child freaks me out

being pregnant is incredibly unappealing to me

i wouldn’t want to screw up my kids or scar them in any way with my shitty parenting

i don’t want to have to organize my personal/professional lifestyle and finances around my children for 21+ years

i just don’t want kids

but

i would never be mean to children

i love other people’s kids

i completely understand why other people want children

i’m fully aware that many others struggle to conceive and i would never disrespect or belittle that pain

i don’t think less of anyone for wanting kids

the idea that people who don’t want kids are inherently selfish, uncaring assholes is a lazy, misogynistic attempt to shame people (primarily women) for prioritizing personal goals and self care above parenthood. Choosing to have children doesn’t automatically make you more kind or selfless or fulfilled than people who don’t. Wanting to remain childfree is not the same as “hating kids,” nor does it mean you’re a horrible person. It’s a personal choice like everything else, so can we please stop being shitty about it?

boykingdom

who on earth coined the stereotype that girls are obsessed with changing clothes i’ve been wearing the same t shirt and pajama pants for two days now and the same bra for like three

thenarator

OOH OOH I KNOW THIS ONE! so in the elizabethan era queen elizabeth couldn’t appear like she was having That Time of the Month in front of the male members of her court, and you bet your ass if she had to remain in the public eye while she was bleeding from the snatch then the rest of the female courtiers did too. because they didn’t have handy dandy tampons back in the day, they would basically shove a rag down there and inevitably bleed onto the inner layers of their clothes. she what did they do? changed clothes. about eight times a day to be precise, and they did that all month long, so none of the delicate male constitutions would be offended by unseen yet implied bloody lady parts. this is part of why fashion was such a huuuuuge cultural item (and the secondhand clothing industry was such a huge part of society) because they had to appear like they were just doing it out of vanity/showing off their wealth. this became pretty much the standard mode of behavior for ladies who had to be out and about during shark week, right up until some nurses realized that the specialized gauze pads they used to plug up bullet wounds would work great for other such bleeding holes.

so yeah if you were wondering why dudes think women change their clothes a lot its because they don’t understand periods.

star-spangled-jackass

It always comes down to men not being able to handle periods

faeriviera

Finn doesn’t balk at helping out, whether it’s passing tools to Rey in the Falcon or aiding Chewie with his injuries. Finn doesn’t talk over Rey or try to make choices for her. They may disagree and banter, but it’s not barbed, and it’s at an even keel. He looks out for himself, but not at the expense of others – when Finn decides to leave for the Outer Rim, he honestly tells Rey his story and how he feels about her, and asks her to come, and then accepts her refusal gracefully. He respects her decisions, her autonomy, and Rey as a person. Obviously Finn digs this girl — who wouldn’t, she is undeniably The Coolest — and he does ask if she has a boyfriend early on, but after she says “None of your business,” he lets it go. When he could sulk or tease or be possessive or rude toward her, he doesn’t. He adores her, but is happy just to see Rey safe and well. He’s not preoccupied with romance or feeling “jilted,” where another character might resent her for it. When she hugs him on the Starkiller Base, he doesn’t turn lecherous or try to make a move. She owes him nothing, even when he risked his life to come to her aid, and he gets that! He’s not a White Knight, Friend-Zoned, or a Nice Guy. He never tries to “take” anything he wants when it comes to Rey. He doesn’t view her as a thing to take…. The parallels between Finn and Kylo Ren are the most direct (and stark) in terms of toxic masculinity. Finn seems to reject this toxicity, whereas Kylo Ren is constantly hung up on performing and proving himself strong enough. They are opposites: especially evidenced by the way they treat Rey – how they define themselves against the chief female presence of the movie. Like Finn, Kylo Ren is also interested in and impressed by Rey. (And he also first meets her when she attacks him.) But instead of treating Rey like a person, Kylo acts out of aggression, objectification, and self-centeredness. He immediately immobilizes her, Force-faints her, and then carries her, bridal-style, to his ship: old-fashioned, exploitative, and gross. His language towards her is incredibly patronizing: “So this is the girl I’ve heard so much about…” He proceeds to insult her friends and threaten and torture her: violating her mind, using her as a tool but also relishing the show of his own power and the taking of something personal by force. “I can take what I want” is simultaneously a threat, a statement of power/entitlement, and a declaration of how Kylo fundamentally views Rey: an object, something controllable to serve his purposes. When the tables turn and Rey reads him, he is incredibly shaken by the subversion of his own authority and control, and when she escapes, he storms around looking for her in a blind rage, pursuing her with a weapon. Even as she’s beating him in the ensuing lightsaber battle, he has the gall to mansplain her own power to her: “YOU NEED A TEACHER!”

Resistance, Caring, and “Mask”ulinity: The Feminist Message of the Dudes in The Force Awakens

I love how this article is in direct contrast with the nonsensical idea that Kylo Ren somehow respects Rey as an equal while because Finn took her goddamn hand, he’s somehow the sexist one.

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THIS is why Kylo/Rey will never work for me. Besides the fact that they could be siblings. The way he TREATS her is horrible! I’d rather have Rey remain single than see her with Kylo, whether they’re siblings, cousins, or not even related. His whole attitude towards her is gross.

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Let’s pretend, for a moment, that you are a 22-year-old college student in Kampala, Uganda. You’re sitting in class and discreetly scrolling through Facebook on your phone. You see that there has been another mass shooting in America, this time in a place called San Bernardino. You’ve never heard of it. You’ve never been to America. But you’ve certainly heard a lot about gun violence in the U.S. It seems like a new mass shooting happens every week. You wonder if you could go there and get stricter gun legislation passed. You’d be a hero to the American people, a problem-solver, a lifesaver. How hard could it be? Maybe there’s a fellowship for high-minded people like you to go to America after college and train as social entrepreneurs. You could start the nonprofit organization that ends mass shootings, maybe even win a humanitarian award by the time you are 30. Sound hopelessly naïve? Maybe even a little deluded? It is. And yet, it’s not much different from how too many Americans think about social change in the “Global South.” If you asked a 22-year-old American about gun control in this country, she would probably tell you that it’s a lot more complicated than taking some workshops on social entrepreneurship and starting a non-profit. She might tell her counterpart from Kampala about the intractable nature of our legislative branch, the long history of gun culture in this country and its passionate defenders, the complexity of mental illness and its treatment. She would perhaps mention the added complication of agitating for change as an outsider. But if you ask that same 22-year-old American about some of the most pressing problems in a place like Uganda — rural hunger or girl’s secondary education or homophobia — she might see them as solvable. Maybe even easily solvable. I’ve begun to think about this trend as the reductive seduction of other people’s problems. It’s not malicious. In many ways, it’s psychologically defensible; we don’t know what we don’t know. If you’re young, privileged, and interested in creating a life of meaning, of course you’d be attracted to solving problems that seem urgent and readily solvable. Of course you’d want to apply for prestigious fellowships that mark you as an ambitious altruist among your peers. Of course you’d want to fly on planes to exotic locations with, importantly, exotic problems. There is a whole “industry” set up to nurture these desires and delusions — most notably, the 1.5 million nonprofit organizations registered in the U.S., many of them focused on helping people abroad. In other words, the young American ego doesn’t appear in a vacuum. Its hubris is encouraged through job and internship opportunities, conferences galore, and cultural propaganda — encompassed so fully in the patronizing, dangerously simple phrase “save the world.”

“The Reductive Seduction of Other People’s Problems” by Courtney Martin

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Capitalism can’t save the world, but it can simulate the experience and sell it to you.

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queendamurk

Spread the word

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it’s true

chocolate--goddess

Why don’t doctors tell people this

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Guys you could save someone’s life.

scientia-rex

Ah, yes, the “X kills cancer but doctors don’t want you to know” routine. Thanks for suggesting that I and everyone I have worked with for the last ten years don’t give a shit about saving lives because… I don’t know, we get the BIG BUCKS in academic research where there’s no actual profit motive???

Seriously. If something worked, there are academic researchers who would be working on it, even if major corporations refused to.

Nothing is going to be an anti-cancer miracle and the people who claim they’ve found one are wrong. I don’t care whether they think they’re right or whether they’re trying to scam you. Do you even know how widely different cancer cell types are? Do you have any idea how many cellular molecular pathways go into producing different cancers? “Cancer” as a singular disease doesn’t exist. What works for HER-2 positive breast tumors doesn’t even come close to working for leukemia. And “well it can’t hurt” is often wrong. Foods that are supposed to work like drugs CAN have side effects, whether or not they help at all. Just ask somebody who ate a grapefruit right before they took their HIV medication.

If you want to get a better understanding of cancer, read The Emperor of All Maladies or go to fucking medical school.

madlori

Also, you know what’s in laetrile? FUCKING CYANIDE.

Laetrile, a form of amygdalin, is found in certain seeds. PEOPLE HAVE DIED FROM TAKING IT, from cyanide poisoning, and there is ZERO clinical evidence that it has any effect on cancerous tumors.

thegreenwolf

So What’s All the Fuss at Malheur?

Okay. So here’s a recap on the situation at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge:

I’ve been following this since it broke yesterday. Here are my thoughts in brief, as someone who’s been to the refuge multiple times and is pretty darn attached to it:

–The men at the heart of this, Dwight and Steve Hammond, have a long history of flouting the law. They’re ranchers in the Frenchglen, OR area, south of Malheur. They don’t like the idea of public lands being multi-use, to include setting some aside for crucial wildlife habitat. The first fire Steve Hammond set was to cover up evidence of poaching. The second, in 2006, was set after a burn ban in place, AND was set at the bottom of a butte where young firefighters were camping for the night, AND Hammond called to ask if he could set a burn AFTER the fire was started. As to the Bundys, you only need to Google “Cliven Bundy” to get an idea of the anti-government craziness that fuels his entire family.

–The Hammonds were sentenced to relatively short amounts of time in federal prison a few years ago, and served their sentences. A newer employee of BLM went after them later and used anti-terrorism laws to get them nailed with a longer mandatory minimum sentence of five years each. The Hammonds are *wllingly* going back to prison tomorrow, even though the elder is 73 years old. They did NOT call for this “action” on the part of the Bundys and others, and they do not support it.

–Malheur National Wildlife Refuge is not so crazy a choice to make a crazy stand as you might think. Something people who have never been to Malheur may not realize is that this is not just a gift shop and some offices. There are also a few bunk houses for rangers and other on site officials, a helicopter pad, bathrooms, and the hill behind the gift shop has an observation tower on it. There are also telescopes on the deck of the main building used to observe birds. So it’s not entirely devoid of resources; I can see where they might think it was a good strategy to take this over.

–My big concern, other than potential loss of human life, is impact on the refuge. The facilities they’re in overlook a small pond that’s just part of a greater wetlands system that is absolutely crucial to many migrating waterfowl, as well as many species of bird that come there to breed in spring. It’s in a desert, which is a sensitive ecosystem to begin with, and still in heavy drought. And it is pretty remote; it’s an hour drive from the nearest small-ish town, Burns, and at least five hours and change from the I-5 corridor.

–The locals, like residents of Burns, are not supportive of this occupation. Bundy and his buddies had a big peaceful protest in Burns yesterday afternoon with about 300 people, and then tried to recruit locals to go take over the refuge, No one went with them. They claim there are 150 people there, but eyewitnesses say there’s maybe a dozen. (I haven’t been able to find any news stories today that say more have arrived.)

Personally, I do think there’s reason to debate the additional time under terrorism laws; what the Hammonds did was stupid, and harmful, and likely more intentional than they claim, but it wasn’t *terrorism*. However, the men who are currently occupying the refuge are a bunch of wannabe comic book characters and would-be martyrs full of paranoia and hate; Ammon Bundy got a lot of well-deserved heat a couple of years ago for insinuating that black people were better off being slaves to white people than being “slaves” to welfare and other social services.

As far as I know, there is still no law enforcement on the ground at Malheur just yet, though everyone from local law to the FBI are well aware of what’s going on. Harney county schools are closed for the week. Supposedly no damage has been done to the facility–yet–and supposedly this is more of a sit-in than an armed takeover, but some of the people there are armed.

This is a very special place to me, and so I’m keeping a close eye on what’s happening. I just woke up around 11:30 so I’m still getting a sense of what’s happened since last night, but that’s a pretty good overview so far (albeit with my personal biases thrown in here and there.).

For more reading:

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2015/12/ranchers_fight_with_feds_spark.html

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2016/01/oregon_militants_in_high_spiri.html

http://www.thewildlifenews.com/2016/01/03/left-over-cliven-bundy-militants-appear-in-burns-or-occupy-malheur-wildlife-refuge-headquarters/

http://audubonportland.org/news/audubon-society-of-portland-statement-on-the-occupation-of-malheur-national-wildlife-refuge

thegayreich

WWII Gay G.I.s recounts tale of losing their Lovers

Excerpt from the book Coming out under fire The history of gay Men and Women in World War Two: Combat soldiers often responded to each other’s personal losses with the deepest respect and understanding, allowing gay GIs to express openly their grief over the death of boyfriends or lovers.

Jim Warren’s boyfriend was hit while trying to knock out a machine-gun nest on Saipan. “They brought him back,” Warren recalled, “and he was at the point of death. He was bleeding. He had been hit about three or four times. I stood there and he looked up at me and I looked down at him and he said, ‘Well, Jim, we didn’t make it, did we.’ And tears were just rolling down my cheeks. I don’t know when I’ve ever felt such a lump and such a waste. And he kind of gave me a boyish crooked grin and just said, ‘Well, maybe next time.’ And I said, ‘I’m going to miss you. And I’ll see your mother.’ There were people standing around, maybe seven or eight people standing there, and I was there touching his hand and we were talking. Somebody said later, ‘You were pretty good friends,’ because I had been openly crying and most people don’t do this. I said, ‘Yes, we were quite good friends.’ And nobody ever said anything. I guess as long as I supposedly upheld my end of the bargain, everything was all right.”

Ben Small was even less able to control himself when his boyfriend was killed in the Philippines. But he, too, was surprised by the other men’s compassion towards him. “We had a funny freak attack of a Japanese kamikaze plane,” he recalled, “and I guess he was getting rid of his last load of these baby cutter bomb, these little bombs that explode at about three feet high so if they went off through a tent they exploded at bed level. I had just been in the tent of a guy I had been going with at the time. He crawled into bed, and I said goodnight and walked out the tent. And this plane came overhead and all we heard was explosions and we fell to the ground. When I got up too see if he was all right, the trust of the bomb had gone through his tent and he was not there. I went into a three-day period of hysterics. I was treated with such kindness by the guys that I worked with, who were all totally aware of why I had gone hysterical. It wasn’t because we were bombed. It was because my boyfriend had been killed. And one guy in the tent came up to me and said, ‘Why didn’t you tell me you were gay? You could have talked to me.’ I said, ‘Well, I was afraid to.’ This big straight, macho guy. There was a sort of compassion then.”

After a raid in the Philippines, Ben Small remembered, a lieutenant who had been injured was being shipped back to the States, so the men “all went to the plane to see him off that night. It was an amazingly touching moment, when he and his lover said goodbye, because they embraced and kissed in front of all these straight guys and everyone dealt with it so well. I think it was just this basic thing about separation of someone you cared for, regardless of sex.” Small described this tender parting as “a little distilled moment out of time” when men’s “prejudices were suspended” and gay soldiers “could be a part of what this meant.”

myvegansensesaretingling

reblog if you’re on team “I acknowledge that Draco Malfoy is a highly flawed individual and in no way condone the shit he’s done, but I strongly believe he was deserving of a redemption arc and it hurts my soul that JKR chose not to explore that”

draconianpotterhead

*raises hand*

nevver

What’s across the ocean from you when you’re at the beach (larger)

renamok

This woman confronts racism in the funniest way possible.

nonlinear-nonsubjective

Okay but consider this- Elizabeth Swann. She’s a pirate nerd from the beginning. She’s fascinated. And by the time the Black Pearl blasts Port Royal she knows enough to defend herself- first with the iron, then with the Code. That nerd studied pirate law enough to quote it.

And not just pirates. Presumably she’s been on a ship once- when she comes over from England. But nope no piracy wasn’t enough for this kid no she did some intense studying of sailing too because why not. So when they’re being chased down who’s coming up with all these nautical maneuvers? Elizabeth fucking Swann, sea nerd extraordinaire.

Fast forward and she’s not just a nerd anymore. And she isn’t a pirate, either. She’s the Pirate King, doing battle with Davy Jones and the entire British navy, with every Pirate Lord and their crews behind her. No more improvised weapons, no more parlay- she commands every black heart that ever set sail. And then her bae becomes ferryman for every soul lost at sea.

So then what? Everyone just goes back to what they were doing? And Elizabeth just goes home to make a quiet life for herself as a single mum? From studious sea nerd to Pirate King and now suddenly she’s happier at home, waiting for Will?

Give me an epilogue where Elizabeth has her father’s estate and enough gold to keep her comfortable for a lifetime, but instead travels the world, her son at her side. Adventuring and exploring, in and out of the law. Tell me she calls up Calypso for tea from time to time and they talk about uncharted lands and the price of sugar. Tell me in some ports she’s recognized as the daughter of Governor Swann and wined and dined. Tell me in some ports she’s recognized as the Pirate King and gets barrels rum on the house.

Tell me even honest sailors whisper stories of the mysterious and elusive Pirate King, who rarely strikes at all but then vanishes for years at a time.

Tell me Elizabeth spends time aboard the Flying Dutchman, so she can be with her husband, and her son can be with his father and grandfather. Imagine young William learns to sail on his father’s journeys to and from the land of the dead. And when he finally captains his own ship, he’s learned to be both a respectable gentleman and a good pirate.

Imagine Elizabeth spending her life on the sea, sometimes with Will and sometimes not, with a wind from Calypso always in her sails, adventuring enough for lifetimes as a part-time well bred lady, part-time Pirate King.

hollowedskin

yes this

language-obsession

woahwoahwoahwoah LOOK AT THIS

PDFS OF GRAMMAR BOOKS FOR THE FOLLOWING LANGUAGES:

Hindi-Urdu

Gujarati

Sanskrit

Panjabi

Nepali

Sinhala

Tamil

you’re probably like psh what’s the big deal BUT THE COLLOQUIAL SERIES AND THE TEACH YOURSELF SERIES FOR HINDI, URDU, GUJARATI, PANJABI AND TAMIL ARE ALL ON HERE. DO YOU REALIZE HOW HARD IT IS TO FIND THE COLLOQUIAL SERIES SOMETIMES? ALSO SANSKRIT RESOURCES???

please just check this out omg

obsessedwithlanguages

!!!!!!!!!!!

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Anybody else remember this episode? In it, a female villain called Femme Fatale is stealing millions of dollars in Susan B. Anthony coins. Naturally, the Powerpuff Girls go to stop her. She then convinces them that men are all horrible because female superheroes aren’t as well known as male superheroes, even asking Blossom to name some to where her only answer is Wonder Woman.

They start acting bitter, refusing to do chores when the Professor asks and even telling the Mayor to save the town himself. Ms. Bellum and Ms. Keane talk to the girls and basically explain that being mean to guys won’t do anything and that isn’t the kind of message feminists should put out.

They proceed to beat up Femme Fatale while giving her a history lesson about Susan B. Anthony, the story where she voted and was found guilty because women couldn’t vote back then, but when the judge wanted to let her off easily because she was a woman, she forced them to take her to jail. The girls handle her and the lesson is that misandry will not stop misogny and we all should just respect each other.

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And it fell on Tumblr’s deaf ears.

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Reblogging again because this is great.

abortstigma

Abortion is a responsible choice.

There is nothing wrong with not being ready to carry a pregnancy to term.

Only you know your limits and situation best; no one else.

#TrustInAbortion

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