June 2011
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Swedish School Eliminates gender!!
genderqueer:
Submission from louiscypher:
Well, here is the link to the story on Jezebel. I also have it on my page.
http://jezebel.com/5815665/swedish-school-eliminates-gender
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FUCK. 15 days to read the Harry Potter Series and I’m still on book 1.
I’m not going to make it.
To be honest though, I’m not going to see the movie right away. Probably. Unless tumblr informs me of what happens in the movie via graphics.
Whatever. I got time.
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Pandora's playing Mulan's "Honor to Us All"
and it’s giving me flashbacks to when I was abroad and my host dad, over dinner, turned to me and said smiling, “You know, we love the movie, Mulan. It was Ricky’s first movie!”
I had no idea what to say in response. So then I told them it the actual story is pretty dark with her carving a lesson into her back. Silence ensued and the conversation was dropped.
Later the...
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I am watching the Big Bang Theory and while I do love the show, I would love it infinitely more if Penny punched Howard in the throat every time he makes a sexist/derogatory remark, which is every fucking episode. Ugh. Get out, you douchebag.
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“Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our...”
– Audre Lorde (via lunetlautre)
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“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
– Stephen Fry. [Basically summing up my 4000+ word rant in one sentence.] (via michaeltalbot)
I am convinced the copy of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is defective. There’s no way there are this many grammatical errors in an edited and published book. No fucking way.
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Harry Potter and female space
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itsinthetrees:
hopesichord:
Okay, I obviously think HP > Twilight by miles, but I also think that what Bonnie says something here that merits discussion and so I’m going to talk about it. Because she says, “Twilight is more for American teens, especially girls,” which, yes, it is, but I’ve been thinking about chick flicks and chick lit lately because...
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What Melanie Phillips Was Wrong About.
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What Melanie Phillips Was Wrong About:
“Slut Walks” do not promote treating women as sexual objects. They challenge the societal belief that what a woman wears defines how she should be treated, who she is as a person and in effect, if she deserves to be sexually assaulted. Ever heard of the phrase ‘Don’t judge a book by it’s cover?’
What Melanie Phillips Was Wrong About:
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hopesichord:
“The following day, I attended a workshop about preventing gender violence, facilitated by Katz. There, he posed a question to all of the men in the room: “Men, what things do you do to protect yourself from being raped or sexually assaulted?” Not one man, including myself, could quickly answer the question. Finally, one man raised his hand and said, “Nothing.” Then Katz asked the...
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“See usually when a black woman is attacked we find some way of making it her...”
– Antoine Dodson’s Sister: On Invisibility as Violence
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My dashboard has recently been flooded with all...
It feels like everyone is gearing up for a huge party and I’m just sitting in the corner twiddling my thumbs as I watch people amp up for the last movie.
I guess I should start rereading 1-5 and read 6-7. Womp Wooomp.
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theriotmag:
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jerfrey:
early-onset-of-night:
OUR ABORTION WAS DIFFERENT: WHEN THE ANTI-CHOICE CHOOSE
Rick Santorum, former Pennsylvania senator and likely presidential candidate, wants all abortions outlawed. He has even said that abortion providers should be “criminally charged.” Clearly, his compassion for zygotes, fetuses, and other...
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Slut-Shaming
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burtmacklin:offbeatorbit | alasappalachia:
If you’re a girl and you sleep with twenty dudes in a month and go out into public dressed like a Cass Corridor hooker, then you are a slut, and you should be ashamed. Have a little fucking decency. No, I realize if you do that you’re not asking to be raped, and if it isn’t clear enough from my blog, I believe that...
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“But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The...”
– Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (via creatingaquietmind)
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Presidential Proclamation--Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,... →
riotisnotquiet:
jerfrey:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2011 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month. I call upon the people of the United States to eliminate prejudice everywhere it exists, and to celebrate the...
