I haven’t had much to say about the Ghostbusters reboot other than I love the costuming and I’m going to see it twice.
I have to say what’s in my black fat girl feelings right now.
I’m a little surprised that throughout all the discussions about the reboot and the sexism that no-one has spotlighted how the entertainment industry’s beauty standards and the male gaze plays into the Ghostbusters reboot mess?
They’re not only mad because it’s women. They’re mad about not being able to jerk it to The New Ghostbusters lineup. They’re mad because their expectations of getting at least one hypersexualized, female protagonist wasn’t met– not even one sexy secretary. That’s rough, buddy.
Let’s be oh so real here: if it were Megan Fox, Zooey Deschanel, Cameron Diaz, and Jennifer Lawrence in the Ghostbusters reboot, we wouldn’t be having as much of a problem. McCarthy, Wiig, Jones and McKinnon in this movie are not funny-hot, like Cameron Diaz dorky dancing in a pair of underoos in Charlie’s Angels. They’re just funny and serving you soft-butch, wild-butch, nerd-chic and (albeit a little too stereotypical) cut-a-bitch realness and it’s a problem for these assholes.
This Ghostbusters reaction falls into the same category as men who treat women poorly simply because they don’t find them attractive/fuckable/worth their time.
This is so on point.
This plus the fact that the closest we get to a “sexy” character is McKinnon’s character. But it’s “sexy” specifically in a way that is meant to appeal to queer women and not men.
So when the movie does dress up one of its characters in the sexy role, it’s not doing it for the boys, it’s doing it for the girls. It’s basically one big apology to every not hot and/or not straight nerd girl who loved watching nerdy adventure movies but never got the bones thrown to them by those movies that the boys did. To the girls who were told “you’re only going to be in a movie like this if you’re hot and willing to be fucked by dudes.”
Basically it’s a movie that flat out refuses to cater to men in any way shape or form and IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY.
You will never win a fight savaging the parents of a dead soldier. So it’s a fight you simply don’t engage in. A smart terrible person would get this and say something along the lines of the quote I noted above. Trump doesn’t seem terribly bright. But this isn’t about intelligence as we test it with logic puzzles. Realizing that this would be the only way to respond requires a level of self-awareness a narcissist lacks and a degree of impulse control Trump simply does not have. Empathy or any moral consciousness would get you there too. But remember, we’re focusing here on the difference between a smart terrible person and a dumb terrible person both of which lack those qualities.
Animal Miniature Watercolors Reveal The Beauty of Small Details
Young artist Rachel Beltz has projected her passion of art into the perfect miniature water paintings of animals and everyday objects. Barely the size of a thumbnail, these minuscule portraits and paintings embrace adorable animals frolicking and playing with each other.
What started as a set of Christmas gifts for the artist’s family turned into a recognised art series that challenged her and presented the world with beauty found in the smallest of details. Beltz’s love for this minuscule art style is contagious and charms the audience with the depth of her accuracy in the drawings.
Most of the artist’s subjects are tiny animals, depicted innocently and the adorable figure is surrounded by real flowers, plants and seeds in comparison of the size. The intricate execution of perfectly drawing with a diluted paint medium show’s the artist’s skill and steady hand her unique style of art. Find them in her Etsy shop.
Currently feeling relieved that my night light is working again.
I suffer from claustrophobia and if I wake up and the room is too dark it can bring on an attack so Chris got me a motion sensor night light that turns on if I just wave my arm near it. It went a little haywire today but it’s fine now. I can sleep peacefully.
The world’s oldest bird is 64 years old, and she just laid an egg.
Wisdom, the oldest known banded (meaning that she has been tagged and followed by scientists) bird in the world, is at least 64 years old. Her species, known as a Laysan albatross, are known for being long-lived – but never this long; the typical Laysan albatross only lives for about forty years at the longest. She has been returning to the Midway Islands, which are home to about 99.7% of the world’s Laysan albatross population, with her mate Mr. Goo – with whom she has been partnered since 2012 – when her previous partner died.
The egg hatched on February 1st, 2016, and the chick has been named Kūkini, a Hawaiian word meaning ‘messenger’.
I’ve written extensively about this here, at my blog, and ad Medium.
Here’s the very short version: This election is a choice is between Clinton and Trump. Period. If you, like me, were and are a Sanders supporter, Hillary Clinton is our candidate.
I don’t understand why this has to keep being explained.
I had to mail out an order today and all the post offices are closed because they’re on strike or some shit.
I’m supposed to meet up with my friend Rhonda who just finished her last exam and she seems to have disappeared into the abyss I haven’t heard from her in hours.
A guy just dropped a bottle of beer on the floor because the table is missing a glass pane.
I’m kinda wondering when this Friday is gonna start getting good.
It’s that time of the month again when my hormones act up and I have to clean everything in sight. The downside is that I’m bloated and feel like I look like a baby elephant. The upside is that my house is sparkling.
OK WHILE LOOKING FOR THE GHOSTBUSTERS BOOK I FOUND THAT YOU CAN ACTUALLY BUY ERINS AND ABBYS BOOK ‘GHOSTS FROM OUR PAST’ AND I’M SUPER EXCITED ABOUT THIS!!!!!
so I did ‘look inside’ because obviously I’m curious and OH MY GOD
some of the content list:
UPDATE BY JILLIAN HOLTZMANN!!!! HISTORY CASE STUDIES BY PATTY TOLAN!!!!!!!!!! AAAHHHHHHH!!
WE’RE GONNA GET A BUNCH OF BACK STORY OMG
I JUST WANT EVERYONE TO READ THIS!!!
AND THERE IS EVEN STUFF WRITTEN BY KEVIN!! KEVIN!!!!!
and it comes with a super awesome basically I’m uber pumped to read this book and I’ve already ordered it and you should too
You can make movies about non-white people WITHOUT MAKING A WHITE PERSON THE MAIN CHARACTER!!!
I know this is a difficult concept for you, but at some point you’re gonna have to accept the fact that the majority of the world’s population ISN’T white. You cannot continue to write us out of our own stories.
You have no options. Voting for a third party candidate is effectively throwing your vote away. It’s a BINARY CHOICE.
You are going to get us all killed.
You are going to get us all killed.
You might not remember what happened last time, but I do. Leftists swore up and down an Al Gore Presidency would be “just as bad” as a Bush Presidency. That was the EXACT phrase they used.
“Al Gore is a corpratist,” they said.
“I want to vote for something instead of against something,” they said.
Now, over a decade later, the entire GLOBE is still trying to correct what was done during the Bush administration–global financial collapse, SCOTUS nominees, TWO endless wars, drone strikes, the Patriot Act, No Child Left Behind, Isis, DICK CHEYNEY.
Open your eyes and see how the tide is turning. For the past 10 years, there’s been a steady rise of right-wing ideology and politics. There’s UKIP and the Brexit, France and their damn neo Nazi Marine Le Pen, whatever is happening in Brazil right now. Canada only just ousted a leader who muzzled scientists who spoke about climate change!
And now we have the possibility of Trump. Trump who, as of this moment, has a 38% chance of winning according to Five Thirty Eight. Not 38% of the vote. 38% chance of winning. Those aren’t terrible odds. They’re better odds than rolling a specific number on a die, 16.68%.
Do you understand that we have a chance to flip the Supreme Court for the first time since the 60’s?
Remember all that Civil Rights shit from the 60’s? Do you know what happened to it, why it didn’t usher in a new age of equality like MLK’s Dreamers hoped? The Burger Court happened to it. The Burger Court is the conservative-majority Supreme Court that came into power in the backlash following the 60′s. With that Court came a conservative jurisprudence that would last for generations. It was the Burger Court that stymied de-segregation efforts, and created ‘white flight’ by ruling that de-segregation orders couldn’t be extended past district lines. It was the Burger Court that laid the groundwork for Citizens United, when they ruled that corporations could spend money in politics. Everyone was so shocked when SCOTUS ruled corporations are people and money=speech. Well, thank the Burger Court!
Now, for the first time in SEVERAL DECADES there is an opportunity to flip the Supreme Court. We haven’t had a liberal jurisprudence since the 60′s. And look at what’s coming down the pipe–anti trans laws like HB2, Affirmative Action, housing rights, repealing Citizen United, immigration, abortion, gun control, police brutality, climate change, etc.
I am begging you to vote Hillary. And tell others to vote Hillary. I won’t quibble over whether her policies are better than Trump’s (they objectively are) or whether or not she is a better person than Trump (that’s…more subjective). The SCOTUS nominations should be reason enough. PLEASE don’t make me live through a Trump administration. Please don’t do this again.
I use to kill Banana Bread in college. I was forever sauteing it in a butter+brown sugar “glaze” and topping it with vanilla ice cream. I have level jealousy right now.
This was my first time making it. It came out really great!
@trinilikesalt tagged me in the ‘What Are You Reading Now’ meme so I’m totally excited because after quite a long hiatus I’ve been reading again. So here’s what I’m reading now:
Morgue: A Life In Death by Vincent DiMaio. Vincent DiMaio writes about his career as a forensic pathologist. He’s worked on many high profile cases such Trayvon Martin, Lee Harvey Oswald, etc. Sounds morbid it’s really fascinating.
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. Set in occupied France during WWII, the story is about a young woman working with the Resistance.
As for what I’m reading next, I have a good few to choose from:
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent because this is our next selection for the tumblr unofficial book club.
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick. I was intrigued by the title and it sounded lovely. A widower goes on an epic quest to discover who his wife’s secret life before she married him.
Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley cause it’s about a man and his best friend, a beloved dachshund ,and I’m a sucker for stories about dogs.
yeah if humans tried to smell space just like that, we’d die, no doubt about it
but the smell of space lingers on spacewalk suits, and docking hatches when astronauts open them!
apparently, space itself smells like burning hot metal, or a hot barbeque grill with a slight hint of spent gasoline. The moon, apparently, smells like a gun after its been shot!
The coolest thing about it all is that the smell is actually what are left of dying stars- it’s literally the smell of stardust, and the particles smell like that because they’re so rich in hydrocarbons- something so very essential to life, and speculated by a lot of astronomers and astrobiologists and such to be the very thing life on earth started from!
another neat fact is that no two solar systems smell the same- ours smells like that because our solar system in particular is extremely rich in carbon, and other solar systems and places in the universe will have extremely different smells depending on what elements are most abundant in their system!
I made oven fried chicken for dinner and I’m waiting for Chris to come home and the whole apartment smells amazing and I’m starving.
With a combination of antihistamines, Vaseline, cortisone, and Burt’s Bees coconut & pear lip balm, my lips are feeling a little better. But this has been a really bad allergic reaction. My lips look a crack whore who had a two for one special on blowjobs.
I’ve been really disinterested in work this week.
I found a nice chocolate mousse recipe I wanna try tomorrow. Yes I’ve been distracting myself with baking and cooking.
I’m glad your reaction wasn’t worse. But sometimes allergic reactions get worse each time, so please be extra careful.
They actually have been getting worse. In the past I was able to mess around with it but I can’t anymore. And this lip thing is new. So I guess my body’s had enough.
Beyond the obvious beauty and grace of our First Lady, one must consider the historic importance of this photo. Our history books sweep under the rug the fact that the White House was built by African American slaves. For the next 150 years the majority of the serving staff of the so called “people’s house” were African American. In 1901 Booker T. Washington was the first African American to be received there as a guest by Theodore Roosevelt, to the horror of Washington society. They are all at last vindicated in our first African American first family. Note…It is my humble opinion that no matter what family should occupy the White House after January 2017, and the following generations for that matter, they will never equal the style, debonair, and class as that of the Obamas.
When an artist tells people to “look at this pussy,” they’re bound to listen. Eva Sealove and Chelsea Jones, both 25, are doing just that with “Look at This Pussy,” an Instagram-based project to collect photos of everyday objects that resemble vaginas. The goal is to normalize female genitalia — and it’s working.
The Wyoming delegation during Roll Call today. Wyoming is 0.8% black and its delegation wore ‘Black Lives Matter’ t-shirts, a big solidarity statement.
Democrats in Wyoming are woke!
WORD.
Anyone who takes the time to be kind is beautiful.
Well I guess I’m never eating anything at Church’s Chicken again.
We had a leftover piece of chicken that I had with my lunch and a) that shit was SO hot (as in spicy) that it burnt my fucking tongue and b) I was left with my lips all red and swollen because guess what? THEY FRY THE CHICKEN IN THE SAME OIL AS THE SHRIMP AND THE FISH. And guess who’s allergic to shrimp? ME! So I took a Piriton and now I’m gonna have to deal with lip dryness and peeling for the next few days and I’m really fucking irritated about it thank you very much.
Well, as you know I live in the tropics so we have summer-like weather all year round. It’s not my favourite. I’ve experienced all seasons to varying degrees and I have to say I really love fall. Everything about it, the crisp air, the changing leaves, getting to dress up and layer but not freeze my ass off. I love it.
coral: if you had to describe your personality as a food, what would you be and why?
I have no idea how to answer this. In fact I saw it and thought, I really hope no one asks me that. I’ll try. I’ve got a passionate, fiery personality, I’m bold, loud, outspoken. I also am caring, compassionate and a good friend. So I’ll go with a nice (spicy) curry dish with coconut milk (soothing) with some paneer (texture) and garlic naan on the side (tasty). Dammit now I’m hungry.
nymph: old-fashioned or modern decor?
I find a lot of modern decor can be cold, but I love the clean lines of it. I don’t like fussy or ornate furniture, but I also like pieces that show history, especially heirloom antiques. So I’d say I like some accent pieces that are older with a generally modern decor.
coastline: what is your favourite flower?
Orchids! I’ve always found them so incredibly beautiful. The are so unique among flowers. Some varieties have such a complex structure. Their colouring is usually vivid but even when they come in soft yellows or whites they are stunning. To me the are the most elegant of all the flowers.
pearl: if you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go and why?
sails: describe your perfect partner.
lighthouse: how much makeup do you wear?
shells: would you prefer to be a vampire or a werewolf?
mermaid: most embarrassing moment?
turquoise: weirdest dream you’ve ever had?
waves: favourite season and why?
breakers: would you ever consider getting married?
seafoam: describe your ideal summer vacation.
rain: if it were possible, what exotic animal would you keep as a pet?
sunlight: least favourite song?
marine: would you ever consider plastic surgery?
sea glass: what do you consider to be your best physical feature?
storm: do you like piercings and tattoos? Why or why not?
boardwalk: who is your favourite fictional couple?
coral: if you had to describe your personality as a food, what would you be and why?
nymph: old-fashioned or modern decor?
seawater: scariest movie you’ve ever watched?
siren: in a fantasy setting, would you be a warrior, rogue or mage?
tempest: your favourite Pokemon?
tropic: what is your least favourite thing about your appearance?
aquamarine: describe your dream date.
brine: gold or silver?
tidal: what is a colour that best describes your personality?
azure: what is something that you do that makes you happy?
fog: describe where you think you’ll be in five years.
coastline: what is your favourite flower?
shallows: what is your typical Starbucks order?
voyage: what are your favourite names?
shipwreck: do you have an OC? If so, describe them.
cerulean: do you believe in true love?
shoreline: if you could become fluent in another language, which would you pick and why?
tsunami: describe a dream outfit of yours.
riptide: are you introverted or extroverted? Are you happy with this?
hurricane: describe a strange habit of yours.
THESE ARE SO CUTE ASK ME PLSS
I’m leaving my vacation spot and heading home to boring old reality early tomorrow so it would be really cool if you guys could ask me some of these questions.
Tried to waste as much time as I could before leaving the house. Went to get gas. Took my time driving to the airport and I’ve made the rounds three times now and she (mom) still hasn’t come out. *sigh*
I’d really like to learn sign language. I wonder what we call our sign language here? There are different “dialects” so to speak. British is different to American.
re @millerflintstone‘s post about growing up in an abusive household, I don’t think people realise how it literally never leaves you. The anticipation of angering someone or getting yelled at is always there. It never goes away.
Chris is generally very ho-hum about most things but he told me he really liked Ghostbusters. Then the next day he brought it up to me again how much he liked it. That never happens. I’m so glad. It was important to me.
I have to make an airport run tonight to pick up my mom.
Gonna be test driving this piece today to see how it wears. Plus I’m keeping it, the gemstone was cracked #handchain #handflower #harembracelet #handmade #caribbean #trinidad #jewelry #aquachalcedony
Plus things like CCTV, easily removable convertible tops, toilet paper holders, improvements in cataract surgery, and research that lead to touch tone telephones, portable faxes, caller ID, call waiting, and fiber optic cables.
A black woman’s DNA is responsible for majority of the twentieth centuries cell, cancer and vaccine research. Fuck you anon.
Sarah E. Goode – Folding Cabinet Bed July 14, 1885 – 322,117
Miriam E. Benjamin (School teacher) -Patented a gong and
signal chair for motels- July 17, 1888- 386,289
Anna M. Mangin (Woodside, New York) -Patent for a pastry
fork -March 1, 1892 – 470,005
Lyda A. Newman (New York City, NY) -Patent for a hair brush
which permitted easy cleaning by having a detachable unit which carried the
brush and bristles-
November 15, 1898 -614,335
Madeline Turner (Oakland, California) -Patent for a fruit
press.- April 25, 1916 -1,180,959
Alice H. Parker (Morristown, NJ) -Issued a patent for a
heating furnace. The invention provided
a mechanism for regulating heat to be carried to various rooms of a building.
-December 19,1919 -1,325,905
Marjorie Joyner
(Chicago, Illinois)- Patent for a permanent wave machine which could
wave the hair of both white and Black people. -November 27,1928- 1,693,515
Marjorie Joyner was employed by the Madame C.J. Walker
Cosmetic Company and assigned her patent rights to that company for a hair
styling hot comb (erroneously cited as invented by Walker).
Madame C.J. Walker,
born Sarah Breedlove, invented hair creams to soften the hair. She also developed other lotions and creams
for which she acquired trademarks.
Patricia Carter Ives.
“Creativity and Inventions. (Arlington, VA: Research Unlimited), 1987.
Henrietta Mahim Bradberry
(Chicago, Illinois) Patented a bed rack which was an attachment to the
bed that permitted air to pass through and refreshed worn clothes. – May 25,
1943 2,320,027
Device operated pneumatically and was adapted to discharge
torpedoes under the water surface. –
December 11,1945 2,390,688
Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner (Washington, D.C.) (born in
Charlotte, North Carolina) Sanitary Belt. May 15, 1956 2,881,761 Sanitary Belt
with Moistureproof Napkin Pocket. April
14, 1959 2,881,761 Carrier attachment
for invalid walkers. (McLean, Virginia) May 18, 1976 – 3,957,071 Bathroom
Tissue Holder. (Williamsburg, Virgina)
October 19, 1982 – 4,354,643 Back washer
mounted on a shower wall and bathtub. September 29, 1987 4,696,068
Mildred Austin Smith
(Sister of Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner) Family relationships card game
A game that explores genealogical family relationships. Marketed under the names “Family
Relationships Card Game” and trademarked as Family Treedition, also
available in braille October 28, 1980 4,230,321 .
Virgie M. Ammons- Fireplace damper actuating tool. The
instrument opens and closes a fireplace damper and is also intended to operate
as a securing means to prevent fluttering of the damper due to wind -September
30, 1975 3,908,633.
Iula O. Carter
(Ohio) Nursery Chair February 9, 1960 2,923,950
Bessie V. Griffin (New Jersey) Portable receptacle April 25,
1951 2,550,554
Maxine Snowden (Washington, D.C.) Rain Hat April 5, 1983
4,378,606
Mary Ann Moore
(Carlisle, Kentucky) Pain relief composition and method of preparing
same December 4, 1979 4,177,266
Patricia Bath, M.D. Los Angeles, CA Laser apparatus for surgery of cataracts
lenses- Dec.1,1998 5,919,186 ,Method and apparatus for ablating and removing
cataract May 17,1988 – 5,843,071 Apparatus for Ablating & Removing Cataract
Lenses Jul. 6, 1999 4,744,360
Marie V.Brittan Brown
Home security system Dec.2,1969
Joan Clark Los Angeles, CA Medicine tray Apr.1,1986 , Holder
for bras & like
Aug.31,1976 D283,249
Beatrice L. Cowans (Washington, DC) and Virginia E. Hall
(Washington, DC) Embroidered fruit bowl wall hanging and kit for making same.
Apr.5,1977 4,016,314
Ellen Elgin Clothes wringer 1880s
Julia Terry Hammonds (Lebanon, Illinois) Apparatus for
holding yarn skeins
Listed in the Official Gazette of the U.S. Patent
Office. Dec.15,1896 572,985
Joanna Hardin(New York, NY) and Bernard Hirschenson (New
York, NY) Keyboard standFeb. 23,1993 5,188,321
Ruane Sharon Jeter (Los Angeles, CA) Toaster April 14,1987 D289,249
Ruane Sharon Jeter (Los Angeles, CA) and Sheila Lynn
Jeter(Los Angeles, CA) and-held,
multi-functional devices in one housing including a stapler, staple remover,
pencil sharpener, hole punch, calculator, tape measure, architectural and
engineering scale. Sept. 16, 1997
D383,783
Gaba; Rodolfo (Simi Valley, CA); Griffin; Michael (Aqua
Dulce, CA); Gusakov; Ignaty (East Aurora, NY); Ruane Sharon Jeter (Los Angeles,
CA); Mach; Brian
(Elma, NY); Marsh; Gordon H.
(West Hills, CA). Medical waste
disposal container Sept. 7, 1999 5,947,285 ,
Container installing system Jul. 6, 1999 5,918,762, Cabinet for housing a medical waste container
Jun. 15, 1999D411,008
Natalie R. Love (Baltimore, MD) T-Top roof cover May 5,1992
5,110,178
Brothella Quick (Evanston, IL) Pocketed underwear Nov
23,1993 D341,470
Carol Randall (Los Angeles, CA) Portable holder for tissues
Aug.13,1996 Ear brace Nov.20,1990 5,544,750
Judy W. Reed
-Improvement in dough kneader & roller Sep.20,1884
Mary J. Reynolds Hoisting/loading mechanism Apr.20,1920
Archia L. Ross (New York, NY) Runner for Stoops. August 4,
1896 and Trousers Support November 28, 1899 565,301
Theora Stephens Pressing/curling iron
Valerie Thomas(Lanham, MD) Illusion transmitter Oct 21,1980
4,229,761
M. Thomas Float-operated circuit closer May 4,1920
Hirschenson; Bernard (New York, NY); Hardin; Joanna (New
York, NY)Keyboard stand February 23, 19935,188,32
I haven’t even touched the 2000′s yet
So cut it the fuck out
Also the mitochondria in every cell of every human comes from a single female ancestor who was from you guessed it- Africa. meaning a Black woman invented yo dumbass.
My poor honey is sick since yesterday with a stomach bug. I don’t think it’s anything he ate because we had the same stuff. I just hope it’s not one of those mosquito-borne viruses. He has chills again poor guy. My heating pad is really coming in handy.
With noble bearing, this man proudly holds his chin high above his powerful chest. Sculptor Francis Harwood chose a black stone to reproduce the sitter’s skin tone. Harwood also chose an unusual antique format for the bust, terminating it in a wide arc below the man’s pectoral muscles. Harwood was familiar with antique sculptures from time spent in Florence reproducing and copying them. He may have deliberately used this elegant, rounded termination, which includes the entire, unclothed chest and shoulders, to evoke associations with ancient busts of notable men. Although the identity of the sitter is unknown, the scar on his face suggests that this is a portrait of a specific individual. This work may be one of the earliest sculpted portraits of a Black individual by a European.*
* I think we should all know by now that this is definitely untrue.
so Charlotte Bronte read Emma by Jane Austen and was really interested in this minor character named Jane Fairfax who was poor and would have been a governess had she not married well and then Bronte wrote her own novel exploring the plight of the poor governess who married this guy named Edward Fairfax Rochester in a novel called Jane Eyre and my point is don’t let anyone tell you shit about fanfiction
From 1969 to 1971, 89 Natives (they called themselves Indians of All Tribes “IOAT”) occupied Alcatraz Island to fight for the Treaty of Fort Laramie1868 which declared all federal land not in use be returned to Native people.
They united states government forcibly ended the protests by cutting off the power, phone lines and water.
The whole protest brought lots of attention to Native American issues and its still a very important place to this day.
On National Day of Mourning there is a Sunrise Ceremony on Alcatraz island, where we can still see the painted sign above.
Women
in the Appalachian mountains on horseback delivering books and reading
to those who could not as a feature of the Works Progress Administration
(WPA) of the 1930’s. Established in 1935, the Pack Horse Library
Project was aimed at providing reading materials to rural portions of
Eastern Kentucky with no access to public library facilities. Librarians
riding horses or mules traveled 50 to 80 miles a week up rocky
creekbeds, along muddy footpaths, and among cliffs to deliver reading
materials to the most remote residences and schools in the mountains.
Some homes were so remote that the book women often had to go part of
the way on foot, or even by row boat. — with Stephanie McSpirit.
I saw an image online and thought how interesting it is that many painting throughout Western art history are called The Conversation or Two People Flirting or The Couple. You’re clearly meant to see this as a pleasant interaction, but the look on the woman’s face is so clearly, “Someone, please, for the love of God, get me out of here. I wish I were dead.” I don’t want to make sweeping generalisations, but I love the idea that basically for 600 years of Western European art, male artists were thinking, ‘That’s the look women always have on their face when you talk to them. That’s not boredom, that’s just their listening face.’
I feel like season 2 of Mr. Robot has lost its way.
Now that we know we can’t trust anything Eliot perceives, it’s become a kind of guessing game of figuring out what’s real rather than there being a real plot moving forward. It feels stuck. He needs to get back in the game.
Um. So I’m probably one of the few folks who doesn’t think this is adorable. At all.
I think it’s fucking scary how this little boy keep pushing himself on her after she CLEARLY doesn’t want to be bothered with his ass.
And the adult behind the camera doesn’t intervene at all because it’s ‘cute.’
And how analogous it is to when grown ass men don’t take fucking no for an answer, no matter how much we push and shove and say no.
This is not cute. This is an absolute disregard of this little girl’s boundaries.
In the very bottom left gif you can see he’s smiling/laughing. Like this is some kind of game.
I would bet money that the person filming this is laughing and encouraging him.
This is how we teach boys not to respect women’s spaces.
She sure doesn’t look like she’s fucking laughing.
It’s impossible for me to not view it like that too…
you people are insane…hes just a baby
“He’s just a baby.” “He’s just a kid.” “He’s just 19.” When does it stop? At what age should you try to turn the ship and start teaching boys that they’re not entitled to girls’ space/time/attention/bodies?
When should we begin teach basic, age appropriate notions of consent and boundaries?
Answer: now. Always. It’s actually not that hard. Much easier than trolling through ancient posts to complain about.
You know, it’s only stuff like this where people say “oh he’s just a baby”. If he were drawing on the walls you’d stop him. If he were tearing up your books or important documents you’d tell him no. But the second he’s harassing a little girl you want to make excuses instead of teaching him it’s not acceptable.
not to mention you teach kids not to draw on the walls, not to rip up your papers etc because this shit sticks as a kid. you tell your baby that it’s not okay to invade people’s personal space and touch them without their permission, they’ll grow up believing that and you won’t have to make excuses when they’re older. it’s much easier to teach a little kid about personal space then a grown man who’s had excuses made for him his entire life.
“He’s just a baby.” Yes. No one is passing a moral judgment on what this child is doing- just on the fact that the adults are encouraging it rather than properly intervening and teaching this kid about boundaries and personal space.
We’re not saying this child is sexually assaulting this girl- we’re saying that this is rape culture, that this is why “good boys” grow up to be rapists- because no one taught them to respect women’s boundaries.
– the rise of old friends senior dog sanctuary
– Hamilton
– pokemon go
– female ghostbusters
– i don’t give a fuck im outta here Obama
– captain america civil war
– girl, black guy and latino guy leads in new star wars
– deadpool
– lemonade
– literally???! Nothing??? Else????
… . and this is just what I came up with in a pretty lazy google search in an hour, including distractions where I went down the research rabbit-hole for a bit because holy crap some of that stuff’s NEAT, guys!
And I know I’m missing stuff, because I wanted a citation for every single thing I put on there.
And like I do actually get the sudden overwhelmed feeling of EVERYTHING SUCKS? but that mindset is, at this point, literally our worst enemy. “Everything is terrible somebody do something” helplessness is what will in fact consign us to everything BEING terrible.
Everything is not terrible. In fact there are new ways, every single month, wherein new opportunities and miracles are happening and no that does not balance out the bad shit but it gives every reason to FIGHT the bad shit, and to get past the bad shit, and to make sure the bad shit ISN’T the overwhelming stain.
I’m awake at 3:36am because Chris has some kind of stomach bug and maybe now fever and was shaking a while ago and I thought he was having a fit so I got all alarmed but just turned out he was cold so I turned up the AC and rubbed his back until he fell back asleep and now I’m wide awake and writing about lizards
Remember a while back I wrote a post about a spider rappelling down into my bedroom?
I said that I had two rules for critters living in my house. 1) Don’t be too big, and 2) Don’t live in my bedroom.
I forgot back then to mention the third: Don’t jump on me, something I see the lizard living in the kitchen cupboard wasn’t informed of. He was kinda breaking rule number one, too. Fortunately he kinda parkoured off my shoulder and went on his way. But I seriously need to have a talk with him about the rules.
okay so in psychology years ago we learnt that it’s common for companies to put women in charge when there’s a predicted downfall so that they could be all ha see women suck at being in charge. and I just find it interesting how the UK is gonna have a female PM right after Brexit so like years from now people are gonna be like “the country saw some of its worst years under a woman” when it was men that fucked it up and then ran
Women are expected to perform emotional labour and men are expected to consume it without reciprocating and we’re all trained to call that love. It’s incredibly toxic, and it’s not love.
You can find more about Pippa Branham’s DIY Book Stairs here, and see her post on FB here.
From the Stair Artist Pippa Branham on Reddit here:
First I painted the treads with black gloss with a little fine sand added so it wasn’t slippy and then I used either emulsion or gloss paint for the background of each rise and acrylic paint for the rest. Sealed it all with Plasti-Kote varnish spray.
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