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[porterr-robinson]

BBC Radio Dance announces the death of Prince Phillip.

[1995lahaine]

if they don’t top this for liz i swear to god

[skeletortilla]

[grapiibear-dead-deactivated2018]

fingers in his ass sunday

[zootycoon-archive]

you know what day it is

[zootycoon-archive]

addicted to fingers in his ass sunday

[zootycoon-archive]

despite everything…

[freyjapup-blog]

Its been NINE YEARS and i still dont think anyone knows exactly why teen titans was cancelled

[mediumsizetex]

Same reason Young Justice and Green Lantern The Animated Series were canceled: Girls liked it. Bruce Timm finally up an’ said it out loud in an interview a while back when he was asked why in the hell GL:TAS had been canceled when it was doing so well on every front; DC’s animation department has institutionally decided that feee-males don’t/can’t/shouldn’t like superheroes, so even if a show is drawing in great viewership numbers and has great toy sales, once they find out that it’s popular with women and girls, they pull the plug on it. Cartoon Network loved Teen Titans— two million viewers for new episodes will do that— and wanted a Season Six, and the production staff was already in the planning stages for it; they were going to have a big arc about Terra and why she was Living Normal, and do a lot more with the extended Titans team members.

[silkktheshocka]

This is so fucked up.

[prokopetz]

To elaborate on this point a bit, the reason this happens is that modern television merchandising aims for total market segregation.

In a nutshell, it’s much more efficient to sell things to people if you can divide them up into tightly defined subcategories that have no interests in common; that way, you never risk accidentally competing with yourself.

This is why children’s toys (and toy sales channels) are actually much more strongly gendered these days than they were forty, thirty, even twenty years ago: one of the basic market segregation splits they’ve decided to use is “boys versus girls”.

Ever wonder why you see Avengers t-shirts that leave Black Widow out of the group shot, or Guardians of the Galaxy action figure lines with no Gamora? That’s market segregation in action.

The upshot is that shows with crossover appeal can actually be cancelled for being too popular with girls; they’re viewed as “stealing” the female market from the specifically girl-targeted media that rightfully “owns” it.

This is the sort of thing folks are talking about when they say gender roles are socially constructed, by the way. The gender split in media merchandising? It’s not just artificial, it’s deliberately imposed as a top-down marketing strategy. When folks try to justify it by saying “this is the ways it’s always been” or “this is just what the market wants”, they’re lying through their teeth - this is, in fact, the merchandisers dictating to the market what it wants in order to sell stuff more efficiently.

(Interestingly, the reverse isn’t always true: if a specifically girl-targeted show unexpectedly becomes popular with boys, sometimes rather than being cancelled, its merchandising will shift to court the male collector’s market. TV execs are so sexist, even their sexism is sexist.)

[taxfrauddotcom]

It gets worse.

Paul Dini, a writer/producer said this on a podcast: “ That’s the thing, you know I hate being Mr. Sour Grapes here, but I’ll just lay it on the line: that’s the thing that got us cancelled on Tower Prep, honest-to-God was, it’s like, ‘we need boys, but we need girls right there, right one step behind the boys’—this is the network talking—’one step behind the boys, not as smart as the boys, not as interesting as boys, but right there.’”

Cartoon network and Warner brothers deliberately made the conscious decision to dumb down their female characters because they want to push female viewers away. In fact, Tower Prep was cancelled because it had too many female viewers because the writers made too many well written female characters.

So shitty representation of girls isn’t something that just happens. It’s the result of deliberate planning just so the execs can make more money.

And it’s not just cartoon network. I mean, why do you think Nick fucked over Korra so badly? Remember them telling Bryke they didn’t want a female Avatar? Why do you think there are no Korra figurines or action figures?

Source: http://www.themarysue.com/warner-bros-animation-girl-market/

[misspetsyourcats]

“shitty representation of girls isn’t something that just happens. It’s the result of deliberate planning”

[official-mugi]

And then these same corporations will try to play the “boys gatekeep girls out of hobbies but not us please give us your female money”

[lucianalight]

@wickedjaime Is this the post you were talking about a few months ago? It just crossed my dash.

[greenmossloveisreal1998iloveyou]

you should be addicted to shutting the fuck up

You wanna fuck me so bad it makes you look stupid

[bannedtags]

Does putting a period at the end of a tag work as a bypass? I've seen ppl doing it and have done so myself but i don't have an ios device to see if it works

OH MY GOD IT WORKS

THEY CAN'T EVEN FUCK US OVER PROPERLY

[bannedtags]

all along, it was a ploy to make us use punctuation

[bannedtags]

Does putting a period at the end of a tag work as a bypass? I've seen ppl doing it and have done so myself but i don't have an ios device to see if it works

OH MY GOD IT WORKS

THEY CAN'T EVEN FUCK US OVER PROPERLY

[bannedtags]

all along, it was a ploy to make us use punctuation

[seenthisepisode]

he was a boy she was a $&*!

[rylandsgrace]

[installationwizard]

[chumbie]

NOOOOO NOT DOUGLAS

[prisonhannibal]

I’m so glad tumblr is my social media of choice because kids on tiktok have to write like this

[ambrosiadreamer]

[injuries-in-dust]

Source: Instagram

[pissbunn]

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[bogleech]

They’re also chordates, like us vertebrates! Their embryos have basically the same anatomy as ours, but the notochord, the part that becomes our spinal column, just remains a notochord until they’re ready to become a jelly bag forever. Then they digest the notochord as well as their own brain because they won’t need either of them.

[totallynotagentphilcoulson]

So fucking jealous right now these little bastards get to just live their best life meanwhile I gotta drive 40 miles to work each morning and pay taxes

[melodyofthevoid]

:O

[artimu5-is-odd]

[anxietyproblem]

[pesky-plumbers]

[graffyn-guy]

The funniest part of this, to me, is that they didn’t use the “G” in Super Mario Galaxy? 

[pesky-plumbers]

[treaclethetortoise]

There is no war in Ba Sing Se

The Moon landing was faked

Major words in Mario games have never used a G

[pesky-plumbers]

please stop bringing attention to my mistakes i already feel terrible

[graffyn-guy]

What about the H in Super Mario Sunshine? @pesky-plumbers

[pesky-plumbers]

[final-justice]

@pesky-plumbers what about the F from Mario Golf?

[pesky-plumbers]

[tremendouslysizzlingsandwich-de]

y in mario party

[pesky-plumbers]

this one is actually justified so kiss my fucking ass ok the Y is from Mario Teaches Typing

your ass tryina 1-up me like everyone else but you failed uwu

[grawly]

there was a g in this one too tho

[pesky-plumbers]

[a----rag]

Please I cant do this today it’s only 6 39 am

[sabertoothwalrus]

op I’m sorry we should have listened

[pesky-plumbers]

well

[everythingstarstuff]

[lost-carcosa]

Oh look, it’s campus-police officer Lt. John Pike who pepper-sprayed peaceful protesters at University of California Davis.

And UCD reportedly payed $175,000 for this image to not appear when you search it on google:

[ladychurch-deactivated20200811]

Darn shame if this circulated…

[deedesria543]

So you mean to tell me that just by reblogging this I’m ruining an organizations plan, wasting them money, and uncovering some shitbag humans awful behaviour?

T R I P L E K I L L

[xxx---sink----xxx]

google maps literally sending me thru a best buy here

[gamecubewizard]

speedrunning strats

[petalpetal]

[creanavt]

[thequietpartloud-deactivated201]

Straight up thought this was a herd of tiny brachiosaurs crossing the sidewalk