May 2013
157 posts
“Most Whites find it easy to ignore residential segregation. I experienced a good...”
– Jane H. Hill, The Everyday Language of White Racism (via wretchedoftheearth)
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This is like when me and my white soon-to-be husband were looking for places. I’d call up and they’d say, “Come on down! Get an application!”. Because I don’t “sound” black.
Then I’d walk in 2 minutes later and...
“Brienne’s story is an adaptation of a traditionally male narrative, one that...”
– “There Are No True Knights: Brienne of Tarth” @ Feminist Fiction (via tallandhomely)
flawlesstrueperfection:
if you never had to actually have your rights voted on because you always had them by default i think it’s safe to say you can sit the fuck down
“Women are afraid of meeting a serial killer. Men are afraid of meeting someone...”
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When Strangers Click, a 2011 documentary about online dating.
It reminds me of that famous Margaret Atwood quote: “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” It also reminds me of something written by one of the mods of Sex Worker Problems: “Misandry...
icicleman:
thatpunnyguy:
what does Batman like to put in his drinks? JUST ICE
GET OUT
This occured last night while Nicki and I were...
Me: hey, you just punched me in the back.
Nicki: sorry I was fighting a tiger.
Dear Yahoo,
thefrogman:
First, I would like to welcome you to this wonderful tumblr community. Most of us just sign up for free, but I guess paying a billion dollars works too.
A lot of us are apprehensive about your presence in our space. I’m afraid we don’t like change very much. Whenever something big happens, we curse the gods and make graphics and gifs displaying our dislike of said change.
This...
siralexandergaskarth:
thecorruptedquietone:
prongsmydeer:
Plot twist: The next companion is a normal girl/boy who only dies once in their lifetime and has no remarkable back story but he thinks they’re wonderful because they are human and the Doctor needs reminding that you don’t need to be a mystery to be remarkable.
#and the doctor never has to kiss them or sexualize them at all #in...
missatralissa:
nicoleanell:
daenystargaryen:
captainasha:
they mentioned balon greyjoy i thought this day would never come
Somewhere, on Pyke, Balon Greyjoy lifts his head to the sky, rain pouring down, as he recognises that someone, somewhere, has acknowledged his rebellious claim
HE PROBABLY SENT STANNIS A GIFT BASKET FOR EVEN BOTHERING TO CURSE A GREYJOY.
I bet he ran onto the...
vocodex:
my mom once told me that writing your feelings down or drawing them out is very therapeutic and relaxing
thenewwomensmovement:
trashprincesss:
trashprincesss:
I want nothing to do with a feminism that excludes trans* women. Go be a cisterhood without me.
135 notes and counting. Faith in world semi-restored ♥.
Feminism must be intersectional and inclusive or it is bullshit.
witneyhouston:
im having one of those nights where u watch one youtube video and watch a related video and 3 hours later ur watching an hour long conspiracy documentary about how the illuminati killed michael jackson
captorquest:
one time in freshman year my biology teacher was teaching us about chromosomal disorders and apparently some women can have three X chromosomes and she went to go look up some pictures of what some women afflicted with this condition look like. unfortunately my teacher typed in “XXX females” and that worked about just as well as you’d expect
partybarackisinthehousetonight:
my life changed forever when i found out the word “slang” was actually slang for “shortened language”
LET ME LEARN U ALL A THING
failedblackwoman:
Khan as a villain is interesting for several reasons. In the Star Trek Universe history is the same for quite a long time but diverges in random bits and pieces.
The Eugenic Wars were started after Genetically Enhanced humans decided “lol fuck it” and took over “Genetically enhanced ambition blah blah”. They were enhanced using a mix of bioengineering and selective...
