Why We Still Need Feminism

Honestly, I just randomly reblog things I see on my dash. It tends to be anything related to feminism, Supergirl (my fic blog is catcoworldwide), Carmilla, music, lgbtq issues, or general nerdiness...Also, be aware that I run a queue. And I am usually too lazy to tag it. So if I don't respond when it seems like I'm posting, it's not that I'm ignoring you.

[raniatsaran]

idk how i’ve never thought of this au before but like

cop alex and tree hugging protester astra

[refinery29]

[catgrantscupcake]

look   at   you. [ ]

[finallyclean]

Hillz with the receipts!!

[daenerys-targaryen]

AHEHRJANFJAJBD

[growlift-deactivated20161002]

YASSS SIS

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

If I was Hillary Clinton I’d send Kate McKinnon to do one of the debates just to see if Trump notices. 

[riverphoenixsgirlfriend-deactiv]

[beanzinos]

honestly

[mikeyjamesk]

[thealogie]

it’s not too late to bring back every lesbian you killed in 2016 and start the “gays who love to fake their deaths” trope

[1esknineteen]

#tbt that time i was raving about an all women shakespeare company and some fuckboy butted in with “i hate how you never hear about all men shakespeare productions” that has honestly been the highlight of my university career so far

[coolserietvloveuniverse]

I was re-watching “Falling” ,1x16 of Supergirl, and I have noticed that Cat say ”Allez”. So now I am curious, how many languages do you think she speak?

[randomthingsthatilike1]

oh man, you KNOW that her mom taught her french, maybe enrolled her in a school as a child at a french-only speaking school or a similar language, then had a nanny speak another language, like italian or german, ‘elegant’ and upscale european languages. and MAYBE mandarin if she gets over her pretentiousness, because of how useful it could be in business. and then maybe in high school cat chooses to learn spanish, because she knows how /useful/ spanish would be in someone wanting to be a journalist, and she’s smart and capable and by now VERY good at picking up languages so she goes out not just in school to learn, but also goes out among people, understand the slang and the idioms and all the little things you’re not taught in a classroom. She takes a new language every single year in college, travels abroad for at least two semesters, learning the language and the cultures and she knows that one of the best ways of putting a potential source at ease is to be able to have a conversation in their native languages. She knows enough to get by in several. Her freshman year she takes arabic-something her mother /hates/, and it feels all the sweeter. Her mother always wanted her to take Latin, but that’s a dead language, useless to cat when there are so many other languages she could be learning instead. Latin’s a dead language. Her work is with the living.

[traveler-of-heart-deactivated20]

Ok, but what about Kara? Did she arrive on Earth and had to learn English? Was there some super kryptonian DNA stuff that allows her to pick up any language? I want her to speak several languages and be really good at it. Imagine Cat having an interview with a German politician about the refugee crisis and for some reason she is late but when she finally arrives she sees said politician unphased by the delay, being charmed with Kara, who is speaking perfectly in German. 

[coolserietvloveuniverse]

THIS IS ALL I WANT TO KNOW AND EVEN MORE

[superkartoffel-deactivated20180]

For some reason I have the head canon that her mom actually hates Latin, and that Cat initially took it at her fancy (catholic?) prep-school to spite her mom, only to become fascinated by it.

Latin isn’t a dead language. It lives on in so many “upscale european languages” and knowing Latin paves your way to easily understand many of them. It would explain why she would be able to understand and speak French, Italian and Spanish, for example. I totally share the love for language-obsessed Cat Grant, but I think Latin would be essential in this. It’s like the key that unlocks a whole array of new things, and I somehow feel like Cat would fall in love with it.

And since her mom is such a pompous know-it-all who lives off the fame of others, I love the idea even more that Katherine never studied Latin, and when Cat discovered it it gave her some refuge, which in return might have even been the beginning of her mom disrespecting her achievements. Katherine could not stand that her daughter went deeper.

Cat is a hard worker, an analyst and definitely a linguist. I know that a lot of English comes from Proto-Germanic, but many words are also rooted, directly or indirectly, in Latin.

I love the idea of Cat making an effort to learn Arabic, especially since I also like to imagine her spending some time in the Middle-East as a war correspondent. (It’s part if the she-used-to-make-out-with-Lois-Lane-in-a-tent-in-the-dessert headcanon that someone wrote a while ago).

But yeah that’s just my little take on Cat & Latin. ^_^

[argyle-s]

It’s semi-canon (from the tie in comic book) that Kara was conversational in English in about a day.  I’ve got this head canon that there’s a box in Kara’s closet with all the Rosetta Stone boxed sets, and a ton of other “Learn (Obscure Language)” kits, and Kara sometimes just spends a weekend learning a language because she can.

[novak-fan]

[ I’m not a scared little girl anymore. ] 

Yeah, but I will always be your big sister. That doesn’t just suddenly change because last week you decided to fight criminals.

[carolxdanvers]

So somebody on my Facebook posted this. And I’ve seen sooooo many memes like it. Images of a canvas with nothing but a slash cut into it, or a giant blurry square of color, or a black circle on a white canvas. There are always hundreds of comments about how anyone could do that and it isn’t really art, or stories of the time someone dropped a glove on the floor of a museum and people started discussing the meaning of the piece, assuming it was an abstract found-objects type of sculpture.

The painting on the left is a bay or lake or harbor with mountains in the background and some people going about their day in the foreground. It’s very pretty and it is skillfully painted. It’s a nice piece of art. It’s also just a landscape. I don’t recognize a signature style, the subject matter is far too common to narrow it down. I have no idea who painted that image.

The painting on the right I recognized immediately. When I was studying abstraction and non-representational art, I didn’t study this painter in depth, but I remember the day we learned about him and specifically about this series of paintings. His name was Ad Reinhart, and this is one painting from a series he called the ultimate paintings. (Not ultimate as in the best, but ultimate as in last.)

The day that my art history teacher showed us Ad Reinhart’s paintings, one guy in the class scoffed and made a comment that it was a scam, that Reinhart had slapped some black paint on the canvas and pretentious people who wanted to look smart gave him money for it. My teacher shut him down immediately. She told him that this is not a canvas that someone just painted black. It isn’t easy to tell from this photo, but there are groups of color, usually squares of very very very dark blue or red or green or brown. They are so dark that, if you saw them on their own, you would call each of them black. But when they are side by side their differences are apparent. Initially you stare at the piece thinking that THAT corner of the canvas is TRUE black. Then you begin to wonder if it is a deep green that only appears black because the area next to it is a deep, deep red. Or perhaps the “blue” is the true black and that red is actually brown. Or perhaps the blue is violet and the color next to it is the true black. The piece challenges the viewer’s perception. By the time you move on to the next painting, you’re left to wonder if maybe there have been other instances in which you believe something to be true but your perception is warped by some outside factor. And then you wonder if ANY of the colors were truly black. How can anything be cut and dry, black and white, when even black itself isn’t as absolute as you thought it was?

People need to understand that not all art is about portraying a realistic image, and that technical skills (like the ability to paint a scene that looks as though it may have been photographed) are not the only kind of artistic skills. Some art is meant to be pretty or look like something. Other art is meant to carry a message or an idea, to provoke thought.

Reinhart’s art is utterly genius.

“But anyone could have done that! It doesn’t take any special skill! I could have done that!”

Ok. Maybe you could have. But you didn’t.

Give abstract art some respect. It’s more important than you realize.

[thebestoftumbling]

[bookoisseur]

I miss this show.

[party-wok]

the way he claps when he says HOT DAMN is what makes it.

[aimee-b-loved]

Brooklyn Nine Nine is a gift and I’m SO MAD for not watching sooner.

BTW, season 4 premieres September 20.

[saintdollyparton]

Dammit I was banking on the Mole Man theory…

Get it… banking?

… I’ll see myself out.

[babies-come-with-hats]

Just to be clear, Hillary Clinton could straight up die and relay her orders to the oval office every morning via a fuckin ouija board and she’d STILL be a better president than Trump

[whywestillneedfeminism]

My sister (in a proud voice): I haven't slept past 8:30 since March! Me: Wow! My sister (in a quiet voice): I'm really tired...

[usbdongle-deactivated20200531]

ive never fucked off and been a fun and irreverent young person bc im literally aware of all possible things that could go wrong at all times in any given situation