February 2012
30 posts
A New Policy Against Self-Harm Blogs
staff:
One of the great things about Tumblr is that people use it for just about every conceivable kind of expression. People being people, though, that means that Tumblr sometimes gets used for things that are just wrong. We are deeply committed to supporting and defending our users’ freedom of speech, but we do draw some limits. As a company, we’ve decided that some specific kinds of content...
7 worst international aid ideas →
baddominicana:
i fucking hate shit thats all “i will donate 10 cents for every proof of purchase, reblog or like”
bitch, if you got the money, fucking give it already and stop tryina act like you give a fuck about charity and its not all about your bottom line. gtfoh.
Co-signed. (Click the link above for more.)
The ‘biblical view’ that’s younger than the Happy... →
In 1979, McDonald’s introduced the Happy Meal.
Sometime after that, it was decided that the Bible teaches that human life begins at conception.
Ask any American evangelical, today, what the Bible says about abortion and they will insist that this is what it says. (Many don’t actually believe this, but they know it is the only answer that won’t get them in trouble.) They’ll be a little fuzzy on...
GET THE FUCK OUT: oh godddd, a brief note →
also all political commentary on this blog is the result of temporarily forgetting that this is supposed to be a personal tumblr of music and crappy cellphone pics most of the followers i’ve acquired don’t care about. cuz like i’ve been getting those icky “you have a mythology, time to destroy it” feelings lately and i can’t think of ways of healthily doing that short of deleting.
Girl, you...
baddominicana:
sometimes, asking cis-men to be vulnerable and soft and human is…
like watching “thing” from fantastic four turn human.
i promise you.
that is what they walk around like.
You don’t have to make this specific to non-trans men.
baxtavius:
fussyfangs:
tumblr i am glad that we can all agree that chris brown’s actions were inexcusable
now if you could start applying the same critical spirit to your favorite white dudes that would be great
ben roethlisberger
julian assange
woody allen
kelsey grammer
roman polanski
elvis
nicolas cage
charlie sheen
gary oldman
mel gibson
bill murray
eminem
sean penn
the...
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Welcome, Violent Abusers. We Greet You With Open...
aweepingangel:
This is horrifying. And not too dissimilar from things I hear the girls at work say.
And it’s not just about Chris Brown, there are plenty of other much desired celebrity men who’ve done this and we just ignore it.
No. Ignore is the wrong word. These girls clearly aren’t ignoring what happened. Allow. Accept.
Welcome.
We hate women. I can’t...
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Last word on that whole Dad Shoots Laptop video...
missvoltairine:
This is the Domestic Violence Power and Control Wheel. Related trigger warnings apply (and note that it is based specifically on male/female relationships where the man is the abuser).
Note the following points included on the wheel:
-Displaying weapons
-Destruction of (victim’s) property
-Humiliation (of victim)
-Monitoring and controlling the victim
Now look at the...
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: On DC Comics'...
girlinfourcolors:
Yesterday, DC Comics published the results of the Nielsen survey they conducted of comics readers last year:
The launch of DC COMICS-THE NEW 52 galvanized the traditional fan base for superhero comic books: male readers, who were already—or have at one time been—comic book fans.
The survey results are not a reflection of all comic book readers or the broader audience for...
I think my favorite nonhuman identity is psionic...
desliz:
because it means there are people who have noticed that others are exhausted, drained, and exasperated by their presence, and yet they avoid the obvious conclusion in favor of something delightfully insane
I bet an astonishing number of psi vamps also identify as libertarians
This is one of my ex-boyfriend’s identities.
It was a very troubled relationship.
if you think of trans people as "CGAFAB" and...
“Multiple studies show that parental PTSD and other posttraumatic disturbances in...”
– I’m just going to leave this here. I’m not going to explain why this is shaking my whole world right now. I’m just going to leave this here. (via emilysyrja)
I’m never gonna be a good mom, am I?
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"Before Watchmen" Cover Art Revealed →
“The 70,000 women who die annually as a result of unsafe abortion didn’t just die...”
– The complacency over unsafe abortions must end (via guardiancomment)
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I Do Not Accept Your Apology
harmonioussanctity:
dreamsofalis:
It came to my attention today that a comment I made a while ago about how the homosexual community has been part of the mainstream for decades has upset some people. For that, and for my lack of explanation, I deeply apologize.
I never meant to compare us to the LGBT community in an offensive way or to compare what we’ve been through to them. What I meant to...
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January 2012
45 posts
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“Passionate, organized hatred is the element missing in all that we do to try to...”
– Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
“A man who assisted in autopsies in a big urban hospital, starting in the...”
– Sunday was the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade (via motherjones)
heart of my own: i'm glad joe paterno is dead. →
missvoltairine:
there’s no tactful way to say it.
NOTHING he ever did during his life could ever “make up for” or erase the fact that he covered up child rape. Nothing. Ever.
This really just is black and white. And perhaps it is spiteful and vengeful of me to be glad that he’s dead. Perhaps it’s not productive or healthy. I wish I could be more zen about it. I wish I could breathe deeply and...
So, Skyrim Wants Me To...
gailsimone:
…join a racist faction, destroy a city, kill innocents by the dozens, kill a dragon who has been innocent and helpful, steal from poor families, kill innocent wildlife, promote religious hatred, be a vicious and violent loan shark, and burn down a bunch of beehives.
Dear game, why am I playing you?
But you don’t actually have to do any of those things. They’re...
“I am not Jasmine. I am Aladdin.”
– Nicki Minaj, “Roman’s Revenge”
Open the borders.
mohandasgandhi:
Open the borders.
huerca zafada: fuck this blackout shit →
desliz:
so much pageantry about legislation that was doomed from the start because it threatened the interests of very rich and powerful entities, and all it will do is make for a day of old people asking me if their computer has a virus because there is a black box on top of Google.
meanwhile, the…
#askafeminist
blackamazon:
Why is getting Michael Moore to apologize on air a big feminist victory ? BUt getting someone who multiple women find dangerous and trauma inducing held accountable and removed from places of power over young women whom have no real ways of recompense a ” vengeful takedown”
World's Time Keepers Will Decide The Fate Of The... →
npr:
The International Telecommunication Union’s Radiocommunication Assembly, otherwise known as the international authority that keeps close tabs on time, will debate a philosophical question this week: They will decide whether to eliminate the leap second and in doing so break its tie to astronomical time.
A leap second is a lot like a leap year, reports the Financial Times, except that...
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“I knew I hadn’t committed any crime. But the sense of sadness—tinged with...”
– The Accidental Rapist — The Good Men Project
Hugo Schwyzer, folks. This is an essay in which a man tells his readers about how he willfully and repeatedly disregarded his partner’s negative responses to his sexual advances, and then insists that she played an equal part in the situation because she...