March 2012
Rise Up.: Offensive jokes are the best jokes. →
frostrune:
cooneytalks:
reem-ster:
cooneytalks:
Quit being so damn uptight and politically correct.
Or you could listen when someone is uncomfortable with what you’re saying.
How’s that? If someone says they are offended by something you say/did, it’s your damn job to stop. Who are you to tell…
I’ll repeat myself again. If you’re that offended by what I say, stay off my blog. I can...
“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via anticapitalist)
The more I hear from Dr. Tyson, the more I love that man.
(via goddamntoothbrush)
Federal Judge’s ‘Apology’ for Sending Racist Email... →
ladyatheist:
“It was not intended by me in any way to become public,” [U.S. District Chief Judge Richard] Cebull said. “I apologize to anybody who is offended by it and I can obviously understand why people would be offended.”
This is the quintessential non-apology apology. He’s not sorry for what he did, he’s just sorry he got caught.
“If you can look at the reproductive rights movement in America and come to the...”
– Something I said yesterday. (via ladyatheist)
mrjohnegbert:
sometimes there are certain people and when you don’t hear from them all day, everything is off and weird and gross.
"Our abortion was different. I love my wife. I...
fuckyeahchoice:
jump-in-the-fountain-of-youth:
- Rick Santorum, on his wife’s late-term abortion.
So basically, we’re a bunch of faceless drones whose rights and physical health are completely insignificant to you because you don’t know us on a personal basis. That quote was just a nice way of saying “I don’t give a fuck about any of you.”
And there are people out there who want this man to...
The one thing I hate
sinidentidades:
about Tumblr is how people forget that there are people behind these blogs that feel and experience things. Tumblr has a tendency to create a circle jerk of dehumanization. I’m guilty in participating in that paradigm, and you probably are too to some extent.
fuck themes omfg: um yeah just throwing this out... →
zeborah:
um yeah just throwing this out there
it’s a little rude when you delete the description that an artist has written below art dsgdfgdfs i mean it’s not just me obviously i’ve seen a ton of artists have this problem but it goes without saying i guess that.. idk please try not to do it if you can…
So, if you put your URL in here, you can listen to... →
seaofglasz:
edgingoninsanity:
kayla-bella:
alexaraye:
supuru:
mega-meister:
no, I don’t think you guys understand how fantastic this site is
I just listened to orchestra music followed by mother mother, the proclaimers, the red hot chili peppers, and Detektivbyran.
because my music taste is fucking awesome.
I lika this a lot!
Whoever came up with this.. I love you. So...
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miamidice:
jonh stpo it: a reading
I have been...
A Message to Women From a Man: You Are Not "Crazy" →
haveagoodaisy:
You’re so sensitive. You’re so emotional. You’re defensive. You’re overreacting. Calm down. Relax. Stop freaking out! You’re crazy! I was just joking, don’t you have a sense of humor? You’re so dramatic. Just get over it already!
Sound familiar?
If you’re a woman, it probably does.
Do you ever hear any of these comments from your spouse, partner, boss, friends, colleagues,...
Deaf student wins battle against university →
creatureskissing-intherain:
iamateenagefeminist:
thatdeafchick:
ewitty:
But in the last couple of weeks, she’s learned she may not graduate on time because some officials at Central Michigan University believe she can’t teach effectively - because she’s deaf.
Now, TV5 is learning their policy will change.
But Laatsch says the university would not let her pass her student teaching...
attn steam workshop submitters
frostrune:
can we not fill the skyrim workshop with “<random female character> IMPROVEMENT MOD!!!” bullshit
please
adding more cleavage is not an “improvement” and your neckbeard is showing
See you’re just being WHINY AND OVERDRAMATIC when you complain about perfectly okay unattractive female models in video games are sexualized IMPROVED BY giving them bigger breasts giving them...
Prejudice: [PoC calls white person a cracker].
Racism: Two centuries of PoC being stolen from their homelands, driven out of their native lands, tricked, raped, infected with disease, and otherwise downtrodden so as to remove them from any chance of being the dominant race.
Prejudice: [PoC gives a white person a nickname playing on the fact that they're white].
Racism: PoC must, from the moment they realize a baby is on the way, worry about whether giving a child a name reflecting their heritage will affect their chances at a good life in the future. Hint: it will.
Not racism: Calling out that slavery lasted for two centuries, and civil rights did not happen for PoC until the 20th Century (you know, the century which only ended TWELVE YEARS AGO).
Racism: We should not talk about it, because it makes [non-PoC] feel bad.
Not racism: A non-PoC actor can get pretty much any role s/he wnats.
Racism: ... including roles that were originally written as PoC. PoC actors must settle for roles making them servants, sassy women, jive turkey men, criminals, drug addicts, or abused downtrodden prostitutes, the better to reinforce the negative mental image of PoC in the minds of the zeitgeist, and hold up the excuse that "they bring it on themselves".
Not Racism: Flattering pictures of people used to represent them on the web.
Racism: Flattering pictures of Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Bachman. But the most unflattering pic available of Michelle Obama is used for the same article.
Not Racism: Articles about women's features.
Racism: Article purporting to have scientific "proof" that Black women are uglier than women of any other race.
Not Racism: America is where everyone is supposed to have equal chance.
Racism: Equal chance? Freed slaves were lucky if they got 40 Acres and a Mule, after working for free for generations for people who are now wealthy and offered no other reparations.
Not Racism: Irish History Month, Italian History Month, French History Month, German History Month, etc. All of which would, technically, qualify, btw, as White History Months.
Racism: It's not Cameroon History Month, Nigerian History Month, Egyptian History Month, Zimbabwean History Month, Zaire History Month, Somalian History Month, etc. It's BLACK History Month. Doesn't matter what country in Africa you come from. If you're Black you just all get lumped in together.
Not Racism: PoC describe their experiences.
Racism: Non-PoC interrupt, derail, silence, mock, deride, or cite "oversensitivity" because it makes them feel uncomfortable to know that PoC have endured this, and to have to acknowledge their privilege -- and their responsibility to do something about it if they really are as anti-racist as they profess.
...add your own examples.
Ms. Blaspheming Bitch: 13 Year Old Jada Williams... →
baddominicana:
thatmuchlove:
13 Year Old Jada Williams Persecuted by the Rochester City School District Over her essay on Frederick Douglass.
ai-yo:
jumpstart-therevolution:
theafrosistuh:
beautifulbrwn:
“On Saturday, February 18, 2012, the Frederick…
Land of No Hope: When I took History of Rock and... →
sinidentidades:
there was this racist white dude in my class, that got called out by the professor.
He said with complete confidence [surrounded by PoCs no less], “I only listen to rock and roll. Not that ni**er shit.”
Everyone looked at him with death stares, and my professor said,…
Ms. Blaspheming Bitch: Anonymous asked: How do you... →
fuckyeahchoice:
They’re alienating people in the pro-choice movement and losing support all because they’re too bigoted to say ‘person’ for some reason. Since not only women can get pregnant, they’re incorrect in their word choice and hurting our cause.
Not to mention it should be a…
STFU, White Liberals!: I should not read excerpts... →
douglass-forgot-the-chitterlings:
because it does nothing but irritate the hell out of me. Not his speeches, mind you, but the way history has set him up against MLK as if they were two men working for different ends.
I hate what history has done to MLK, taking the fire out of him, reducing him to a single speech, a single sappy story of a man who never grew angry (false), never lost his...
This is not native!: You can learn a lot from... →
this-is-not-native:
How someone interested in fighting racism responds:
“I didn’t know that! I’ll avoid doing/saying that from now on.”
How someone who doesn’t care about racism responds:
“Who are you, the PC police?”
“Calm down.”
“It’s really not a big deal.”
“You’re just racist against white people!”
“There are bigger battles to fight.”
“I don’t complain when someone does (rude but not...