May 2010
“But Christian supremacy has, historically speaking, been grounds for empire and...”
– Christianity is Empire (via azspot) (via chaichangechaos) (via clingtomymouth)
ihatethismess:
New York’s Most Livable Neighborhoods — for White People
glitterbombing:
fireeyedboi:
so-treu:
zuky:
New York Magazine has published a list of the city’s most “livable” neighborhoods, using a weighted index which assigns 6% importance to “diversity”. The highest ranked neighorhoods are for the most part those with the lowest diversity scores. Last place on the...
“I wish I had enabled her so much more than I did. My only regret was any moment...”
– Ann Patchett via nightmarebrunette + igather + amandaw (via bonesarecoralmade) (via clingtomymouth) That’s intense.
April 2010
amandaw:
The Drunken Poor: A Conservative Lie
abbyjean:
Rich Americans drink substantially more alcohol than their poor counterparts. According to a recent survey by the National Center for Health Statistics, over 72 percent of adults whose family incomes are at least four times the federal poverty level drink alcohol. The figure for adults whose families make less than the poverty...
“Beginning in the years following WW I, a program was initiated by the United...”
– Sara Hoerlein, Female Sterilization in Puerto Rico. jesus christ, i knew it was a huge number of women but one third of the female population, i wouldn’t have guessed that. (via isabelthespy)
When I first told my guy about forced sterilization, he thought I was lying and that it was some feminist...
“Because the two-state solution is unworkable, both for practical and moral...”
– ei: Right of return not negotiable (via clingtomymouth)
“Federal agents and local police raided 35 homes in rural Southern California...”
– Shakesville: Today in Totally Not Terrorism (via clingtomymouth)
“A new commercial for Lane Bryant’s new lingerie line, Cacique, has been censored...”
– Lane Bryant’s Plus-Size Lingerie Commercial Gets Censored by Networks
So. This immediately made me think of the story I read somewhere, that even though Breakfast at Tiffany’s was written essentially for Marilyn Monroe, the filmmakers who adapted it cast Audrey Hepburn because if Marilyn was the...
“I do not have a library card because I grew up poor—very, very, After-School...”
– seanan_mcguire: Bullies.
Go. Read.
(via shiyiya)
reblogged due to its relevance to my ongoing interest in who does and does not have library cards.
(via abbyjean)
Reblogged for awesomeness, and truth.
(via dorianisms)
I have similar interests to abby…
(via telegantmess)
amandaw:
Why Are iPad Factory Workers Killing Themselves?
ilykadamen:so-treu: defyinghistoryy: (via digdown)
A growing string of worker suicides and attempts has plagued a Chinese factory operated by Foxconn, the China-based tech company that produces, among other products, the new Apple iPad. In the past month, four employees at a single factory have attempted suicide, and 11 workers have...
SF calls for boycott of Arizona over immigration... →
Reblog with a show Fox canceled (one per reblog).
ihatethismess:
inothernews:
operationfailure:
chasethedevil:
recycleanimals:
woahitsjuanito:
meysell:
salsa-shark:
corpsefucker:
- Arrested Development
- On The Lot
- girls club
Firefly
Dollhouse
Fastlane
Drive (2007)
I normally don’t do these things, but this one makes me laugh.
Ned & Stacey
Futarama
The X-Files
fuckles
ouyangdan:
So I was finally hitting my stride w/ my Ben Roethisberger post…it was going great.
Then, the place where I am using wifi had a power surge, and then it went out, then on again. And I didn’t save.
And it took me 25 minutes to figure out that I needed to reset my cookies to get back on.
I lost it.
All of it.
I have been ripping my hair out (literally) over this post for two...
“Wiesel’s history of justifying Israel’s aggressive policies is long and...”
– Israel’s Enabler in the U.S. | Mostly Water (via clingtomymouth)
Musings of a Daydreamer - Leonard Nimoy Officially... →
“We can rail against The Baios because it is easy to do, but I think that we are...”
– Womanist Musings (via smart-tart) (via therealestsocksinthegame) (via lams) (via clingtomymouth)
“Feminism and Feminist are capitalized because the institution — the one that...”
– problemchylde (via amandaw)
I CANNOT EVEN FUCKING BEGIN TO BELIEVE THIS... →
thecurvature:
Or the fucking rest of the entire article! This is cbsnews.com! Not even some fucking local news source that doesn’t even begin to follow AP stylebook. (Not that that would make it okay or better, but at least I wouldn’t be in such shock that this made it to print.)
I … don’t even know what to say.
What the fucking fuck…
“She said no” Anti-Ben Roethlisberger Chant at...
thecurvature:
abbyjean:
thepoliticalpartygirl:
brooklynmutt:
video
If you click the video link above, you can hear the crowd chanting “SHE SAID NO!” right at the beginning as the Steelers come on stage to announce their draft pick.
Not gonna lie, I’m pleasantly surprised that NFL fans not only chose to jeer the Steelers because of Roethlisberger, they chose the words “She said no.”...
“He left education and is now unemployed. He has been very, very traumatised. It...”
– British soldiers accused of sickening sex assault on Iraqi boy, 14 - Home News, UK - The Independent
fuck the world
(via clingtomymouth)
A Problem of Framing
thecurvature:
meloukhia:
You’ve likely heard about the case of Clay and Harold. I wrote about it yesterday, as did Tigtog at Hoyden About Town. Cara featured it today.
Short version: Older gay couple is living in Sonoma County (just to the south of me, incidentally, geography nerds!). Partners realise that hospitalisations may be in their future, so they set up powers of attorney and other...
“The moment you start viewing a situation as someone else’s fault, and (this is...”
– Carolyn Hax: Nagging about little things can add up to trouble (via notemily)
Truth.
(via annaham)
an amusing hoax of the grandest proportions
ekswitaj:
ragbag:
i love me a good prank. and when the pranksters are a remote tribe of amerindians and the one being pranked is a dunderhead anthropologist—even better. the following account is taken from napoleon chagnon’s book yanomamö: the fierce people (1968). here, chagnon tries to record each tribe member’s “true name” the only problem is that this was an invasion of their system of...
“‘I come from a country where there is no size for women’s clothes,’ I told her....”
– Ode Magazine : Size six: The Western women’s harem (via clingtomymouth)
Naivete: Things I Forget
ilykadamen:
There’s a whole social justice industry in the United States with whole corporations producing Feminism(TM).
I am not enough degrees removed from people who are entirely at ease with the phrase “social justice industry.”
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Viola Desmond is not Canada’s Rosa Parks →
thecurvature:
On November 8th 1946 Ms. Viola Desmond decided to go and see a movie while she was waiting for her car to be repaired. She requested floor seats and paid for the ticket. As she sat watching the movie she was approached and asked to move, but claiming an inability to see from the balcony she refused. Her refusal would not be accepted and she was subsequently dragged out the theatre...
