May 2013
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“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...
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“Laurie Penny’s Saudade
There are more of us than you think, kicking off our...”
– Laurie Penny’s Saudade, from Fifty Shades of Feminism (via mollycrabapple)
So good. (via neil-gaiman)
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“There’s no time for romance, we have shit to Avenge.”
– Scarlett Johansson,
on the lack of romantic subplot in The Avengers.
(via hisimages)
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“Everyone keeps saying that immigration is bad because immigrants might be...”
– A fucking SIXTH GRADER in debate today. (via dionthesocialist)
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Ethan: i've spent the last 5 hours downloading skyrim tweaks, fixes, and graphics overhaul mods
Ethan: im 2/3 done
Ethan: im downloading a mod right now
Ethan: called
Ethan: improved
Ethan: puddles
ALSO SCREAMING OKAGE: really drew
Ethan: really
ALSO SCREAMING OKAGE: is it that fucking important
Ethan: yes
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saorishi:
Evangelion (n): its so excrutiatingly painful its like it tears open your chest with its bare nails and drags out your heart pulling out each and every atery and vein one by one until its detatched from your body and while you still have enough blood to watch, it tears your heart in half and drinks every last drop of blood with a smile that makes you fall in love
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dorkstrider:
farouttosea:
dorkstrider:
GROWING UP IS ACTUALLY PRETTY COOL MAN I’M AN ADULT i can buy a horse or move to pakistan and choose to eat mac and cheese every night without exception i could kill a man and nobody could stop me THIS IS FUCKING GREAT
Money, money, heart attack and stroke, prison. Yeah. Fucking great.
i bet you’re fun at parties buddy
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“We shouldn’t be profiting from our students who are drowning in debt while we’re...”
– Senator Elizabeth Warren (via azspot)
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Hawks Circling: Clocking Out →
workingamerica:
“Deficit hawks” are getting what they say they want, but they’re unmoved by the facts.
The rapidly-falling deficit really isn’t anything to brag about.
Fight for 15: the people who are driving the new wave of fast food activism.
In Milwaukee, African American workers have a special connection to the fast food strikes.
Walmart refuses to sign on to other retailers’ Bangladesh...
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Today in Psychology class we were talking about...
Girl: People with depression just want attention.
Teacher: That's not true. Actually, most hide the fact that they have it because they don't like it. It makes them feel different and weird. Like something is wrong with them.
Girl: Well obviously something is wrong with them if they're slicing their wrists and wanting attention for it.
Teacher: They want attention? That's why they will go to extreme lengths to hide it, just to get attention? You are not them. You don't know what thoughts they battle in their minds. It can be a very scary place for them. And obviously, something must be wrong with you for judging what you do not understand.
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Transgender Rights in the Era of Same-Sex... →
The United States moves inexorably toward granting equality to the L.G.B., but in the process, while still pronouncing that satisfying final consonant, we often, in practice, drop the T. No federal law offers protection to transgender people from discrimination in the workplace; the population sees double the usual rate of unemployment, and ninety per cent of transgender individuals report...
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“Under the current ‘tyranny of slenderness’ women are forbidden to become large...”
– Sandra Lee Bartky, Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power (via sociophilia)
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“The most significant differences between those who smoked marijuana and those...”
– The Atlantic’s Lindsay Abrams, reporting on the results of a recent study on the health effects of marijuana. In addition, regular pot smokers were skinnier than those who abstained, “even after adjusting for factors like age, sex, tobacco and alcohol use, and physical activity levels,” and had...
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I lost with five aces. Fuck everything.
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Working Families Flexibility Act Passes House Over... →
jaison96:
robot-heart-politics:
Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Depression-era statute that serves as the bedrock of U.S. labor law, hourly workers must be paid time-and-a-half for every hour they work over 40 in a week — both to reward workers for their extra hours and to discourage employers from pushing workers too hard. The Republican measure would instead give employers and their...
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typicalwelshnonsense:
afternoonsnoozebutton:
deanprincesster:
what if the pope resigned because he’s pregnant with the new jesus and mtv makes a show about it called sistine and pregnant
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stfuconservatives:
Even if the goal isn’t to make the brand unappealing by associating it with the homeless, Fitch the Homeless is pretty clearly using homeless individuals as props in a political statement that ultimately has little to do with actually helping them. The stated goal is to get as many homeless people as possible to wear A&F clothing. I don’t see how that’s not treating them as...
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New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto... →
stfuconservatives:
A new app allows you to scan a product in the supermarket aisle and learn who exactly is behind that box of cereal. More impressively, you can join user-created campaigns to boycott groups of companies who may have lobbied against a cause you believe in.
I couldn’t scream SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY fast enough at this. And it’s free! Due to all the traffic, the app is down...
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STFU, Conservatives: Gender-Neutral Restrooms... →
transqueery:
When Mayor Michael Nutter signed legislation Thursday to afford equal rights to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, he said he hoped Philadelphia would become “the most LGBT-friendly” city in the world.
One piece of that comprehnsive legislation will forever alter the restroom options in city-owned buildings.
The legislation requires that new or renovated city-owned...
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Hate heat map shows where racist, homophobic... →
stfuconservatives:
A group of researchers have created a “Geography of Hate” map revealing racist and homophobic tweet concentrations across the U.S.
Find out if you’re in the hot zone.
(ETA: Map does not account for population density in those areas)
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Why isn't New Orleans Mother's Day parade shooting... →
stfuconservatives:
“So I shouldn’t be surprised that the Mother’s Day Parade shooting has largely been forgotten. On Sunday, shots were fired into a crowd during a parade in the New Orleans 7th ward. Police said they saw three suspects running from the scene.
This is the largest mass shooting in the United States where the shooters were still at large after the crime was committed. Think about...
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