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eatyourpaisley: thelandthattimeforgot: Richard Dawkins is...

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:31:47 -0500

thelandthattimeforgot:

Richard Dawkins is getting owned by PoC and no one seems to care

h8 u forever richard

On the radio...

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:32:40 -0500

On my way back from picking up Wallace I heard some dude on NPR (guest, not host) compare Obama’s relationship with the press to an domestic abuse relationship between a man and woman. I found it incredibly unsettling that someone could make that comparison with such a light-hearted, joking tone.

"You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:22:51 -0500

“You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple the unemployment isn’t interested in purchasing the assets of the generation who just blew an enormous housing bubble and kept it from popping through quantitative easing and out-and-out federal support? Curious.”

- When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials arent’ buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)

grrrl-riot: anukkinearthwalker: concreteandsunflowers: monster...

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:56:32 -0500

grrrl-riot:

anukkinearthwalker:

concreteandsunflowers:

monsterlovepoems:

satanic2chainz:

ameliated:

bad-dominicana:

skepticamongthefaithful:

kemetically-afrolatino:

source 1; source 2; source 3; source 4; source 5

WELP.

Stop what you are doing.

Read those.

Right now.

I’ll wait.

If you don’t want to read, I’ll explain the key bullet points, but please read them afterwords:

This is not “we didn’t protect him enough.”

This is not “the government screwed up some random detail or accidentally let his killer loose.”

The 111th Military Intelligence had a team taking pictures of his balcony during the assassination.

They brought in a Special Forces 8-Man Sniper Team from the 20th.

Memphis Police withdrew their regular protection detail from him.

A jury of 12 people, six black and six white, found the United States Government guilty of conspiracy to commit murder.

YOUR GOVERNMENT. MY GOVERNMENT. THE GOVERNMENT OF, BY, AND FOR THE PEOPLE, SHOT AND KILLED DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING. And the media never reported the case.

MLK was ASSASSINATED. By a government YOU PAY FOR.

I hate those posts where someone tries to pressure you into reblogging. I almost never ask you to reblog.

This shit is important.

Reblog this. I don’t care what kind of blog you have. I don’t care what you normally talk about.

Reblog this.

imma get in trouble when i’m a teacher and I spent a lesson talking about this

the second source is the court transcript. give it a gander.

I knew about this. And I’ll always be angry about this.

welcome to reality. The FBI influenced members the Nation of Islam to kill Malcolm X too.

Kinda like how they are trying to influence young muslims to commit acts of terror on US soil these days.

Forever reblog

teaplusbeardspluscake: phalange: crowcrow: pleasestopbeingsad:...

Fri, 24 May 2013 09:28:15 -0500

teaplusbeardspluscake:

phalange:

crowcrow:

pleasestopbeingsad:Street harassment is not a compliment.

THIS! i love being (and giving) compliments to strangers, but there is a HUGE difference in the way you say it.

YES ALL OF THIS

This this all day

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Fri, 24 May 2013 06:37:30 -0500

grrrl-riot: moddedcarbine: Thought you couldn’t hate Obama any...

Fri, 24 May 2013 06:28:44 -0500

grrrl-riot:

moddedcarbine:

Thought you couldn’t hate Obama any more than you already do? This is absolutely absurd. Just the mere fact that he would ask (order) a Marine to do this shows he has no concept of respect. Think this is photoshopped? I got it from the CNN website. It’s completely true. Do a web search and you’ll see multiple sources. This President is absolutely worthless.

Once more:

reblogging for future reference

dasboo: In all honesty, I just felt like doodling a cat with a...

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:41:22 -0500

dasboo:

In all honesty, I just felt like doodling a cat with a monocle.

“I don’t think you need to go to work today,...

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:51:00 -0500

“I don’t think you need to go to work today, mom”

Have I mentioned how much I hate leaving this guy every day?...

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:25:01 -0500

Have I mentioned how much I hate leaving this guy every day? Breaks my heart.

Planned Parenthood Never Told Parents of Abortion on Raped 12-Year-Old

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:28:09 -0500

Planned Parenthood Never Told Parents of Abortion on Raped 12-Year-Old:

grrrl-riot:

If we needed any more evidence that parental notification legislation is long overdue in Washington State, we just got it. In a story making news this week,

This is how Life News manipulates people.

What isn’t in the headline is that her rapist was her step-father so PP called the police.

You guys, I miss my little butterball so much right now. I wish...

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:31:00 -0500

You guys, I miss my little butterball so much right now. I wish I could be a stay-at-home puppy-mom

mediaite: CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Asks Atheist Tornado Survivor If...

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:03:15 -0500

mediaite:

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Asks Atheist Tornado Survivor If She ‘Thanked The Lord’

Oh god, this is beautiful.

"Women are afraid of meeting a serial killer. Men are afraid of meeting someone fat."

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:03:37 -0500

“Women are afraid of meeting a serial killer. Men are afraid of meeting someone fat.”

-
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 irritates. Misogyny kills.”

I mean, it’s just true.

(via tealeafprincess)

“Misandry irritates. Misogyny kills.”

That’s it. That’s it right there.

(via oddpicturesoddpeople)

queenfattyoftherollpalace: bigfatfeminist: so I answered this...

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:58:48 -0500

queenfattyoftherollpalace:

bigfatfeminist:

so I answered this question on my personal blog, but it absolutely belongs here.

(tw: discussion of ED, rape, rape culture, depression/mental illness, and hate speech)

well anon, I give a shit! and if you care about other -isms, you probably should too. fat people (or really, people of any body type outside the “norm” as determined by the media — intersectionality, yo) are stigmatized to the point where:

hate speech and flat-out nastiness toward fat people is normalized, which is dehumanizing. people feel entitled to tell fat people they shouldn’t eat something, or should eat less, or should exercise more, or that what they’re wearing isn’t flattering, and all manner of things that are actually pretty inexcusable! moreover, people feel entitled to say (and do say, all the time) that fat people are disgusting, lazy, gluttonous, stupid, and/or unhygienic, which is simply untrue. and these things are legitimized and standardized by our culture. this is all in the name of Being Concerned About Their Health but that’s actually a load of crap — someone else’s health isn’t your business, you can’t tell if someone is healthy if you’re looking at them, and unhealthy people deserve just as much respect and dignity as healthy people regardless.

fat people, especially fat people who are not cis men, who are sexual assault survivors are significantly less likely to report their assault, because they’re told they’re wildly undesirable pretty much every day. in a culture where rape is misrepresented as a crime of passion or misunderstanding, fat people are scoffed at for reporting. who’d want to fuck a fat girl, after all?

fat people are encouraged in eating disorders and eating disordered behavior. generally, most people see any effort fat people make to lose weight as a good thing, even if those behaviors would cause serious alarm if performed by a thin person. I can speak firsthand about this - my EDNOS went undiagnosed for years because most of my doctors thought that any effort for me to lose weight was a good effort, even if it meant I was hurting myself. the other night I was watching TV and a diet advertisement came on for a product that had the tagline “Eating less never looked so beautiful.” seriously, what the hell?

speaking of, fat people are routinely misdiagnosed and mistreated by the medical community. I once went in to my university’s gyno to get a yeast infection addressed, and was told that I’d developed it because my thighs touched.* Melissa McEwan of Shakesville says it better than I ever could:

No, there is not a documented epidemic of brutal murders of fat people for being fat, but there is a documented epidemic of failure to provide life-saving healthcare: Google will easily help you find stories of fat people who died while emergency crews laughed at their weight and appearance, of fat people who were told they should lose weight to fix problems actually caused by blood clots, cancer, internal injuries, infections, and myriad other problems that later killed them, because their doctors couldn’t see past their fat to properly treat them. Google will also easily help you find stories of medical equipment that cannot accommodate fat bodies, of anesthetists who accidentally kill fat people in surgery, of doctors who prescribe wrong doses for fat bodies, of drug trials that make no attempt to include fat patients. Google will also easily help you find stories of fat people who did not seek life-saving healthcare because they had been so viciously fat-shamed by doctors their whole lives that they had given up hope of finding sensitive and caring providers who would treat them.

Fat people die because of fat hatred ALL THE TIME.

fat people are subject to a myriad of microaggressions that, in aggregate, signal to them that they are not worthy of “normal” society. plus-sized clothing is harder to find and often costs more and is not as well-made. safety equipment doesn’t fit fat people. fat people are expected to constantly apologize for themselves and be actively looking to lose weight, and therefore are not allowed to be happy or to like themselves (and fat people who are happy, who like themselves, or who feel sexy are relentlessly ridiculed and cut down for it). articles about the “obesity epidemic” are accompanied by photos of fat people where their heads are cropped off, which is a standard way of objectifying and dehumanizing. “fat” has become shorthand for “lazy, gluttonous, stupid, unhygienic, disgusting.” I could go on, but the blog This Is Thin Privilege has many other examples.

overweight teenage girls are much more likely than their average-weight peers to be depressed, suicidal, or to commit self-harm. this is because they’re only offered images of happy thin people and one-dimensional, unhappy fat people. when all you see in the media are people who look like you that hate themselves, or people who used to look like you to whom the best thing in their lives was no longer looking like you, you don’t expect happiness.

and not for nothing, but people are making a LOT of money off of this “obesity epidemic” crap and keeping people from focusing on the actual problems behind said “epidemic.” the people who benefit from keeping everyone scared of being fat? the billion-dollar diet/weight-loss industry, plus the companies who get a LOT of money from government food subsidies for corn, in particular. they want people at large to avoid thinking critically about why people in America are steadily gaining weight, because the answers will lose them a lot of money. classism, wage gaps, and poverty play a huge role — if you’re a single parent working multiple jobs, you don’t have a lot of time or money to prepare fresh meals all the time, and there is a correlation between poverty and weight. ever heard of a food desert? google that sucker, anon. shit’s whack.

you should give a shit about fatphobia because fatphobia is mad intersectional (body politics apply to a lot, a lot, a lot of people, not just fat people) and because it’s mostly manufactured to keep you thinking about “actually important things.”

not for nothing, but if you’re worried about the quality of life of oppressed people, you should also worry about the fact that 1 out of 10 parents would abort a child if it was genetically likely to be fat** and 1 out of 3 people would rather walk away from their marriage than be fat ***

apparently, fat is the most terrifying thing you could possibly be in American culture. and how fucked up is that?

* yeast infections do not happen because your thighs touch.
** sauce
*** even more sauce

Did the person asking this question forget that fat, queer POC exist?

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Tue, 21 May 2013 15:54:08 -0500

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Tue, 21 May 2013 14:16:58 -0500

So now when you do Alt + Reblog, the reblog symbol turns green, "explodes" and then disappears.

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:07:17 -0500

theshelbylife:

incestuous-lesbianponies:

laurarw:

I THOUGHT THIS WAS KIDDING SOGMLASG

HOLY SHIT

"As sometimes happens, the legislation that emerged was far too broad, and would have had..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:02:40 -0500

“As sometimes happens, the legislation that emerged was far too broad, and would have had ramifications that neither he nor the Commonwealth’s attorney’s office ever intended. Sen. Obenshain is strongly against imposing any added burden for women who suffer a miscarriage, and that was never the intent of the legislation.”

- The Virginia GOP’s nominee for attorney general says his bill to criminalize unreported miscarriages was a big misunderstanding—it was just a poorly written law. So, you know, it’s a good thing he wants to be attorney general. (via motherjones)

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Tue, 21 May 2013 10:21:17 -0500