February 2012
5 posts
Aficionado of the Underrated and Unconventional:... →
fromonesurvivortoanother:
privileged people win again, proving that death and rape threats are totally a-ok to get what you want. and of course having a petition totally undercuts any real arguments that lots of disabled people have put forward, because we’re just “too sensitive” and we’re…
I was wondering about this - the instant that they started featuring Ditzy/Derpy (ugh). I learnt...
We Are Designed to Party: Goddammit, The Term... →
cptfunk:
Warning: This is going to be deeply hetero-centric and not very useful for people for whom romance and sexuality are divorced from each other, because it’s a rant directed at people who are very hetero-centric and for whom sex in a relationship is apparently fucking paramount.
UGH, FEMINIST…
January 2012
33 posts
“Slut” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “yes”....”
– (via thechocolatebrigade)
“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even...”
– Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie (via larmoyante)
Feminist Disney: waltdisneyconfessions: “I pursue... →
feministdisney:
waltdisneyconfessions:
“I pursue guys that treat me badly because I secretly want to recreate Belle and Beast’s relationship. It’s probably because I wish, deep down, that one of them will be inspired by my kindness and love me so much that he’ll want to change.”
-_-; remembering…
Yeah, those dismissive “LOL IT’S JUST A CARTOON, STOP TAKING IT SO...
Feminist Disney: stereotyping is not a substitute... →
anarchybambi:
somestrangeseahorse:
feministdisney:
for more information on Vodou/why its portrayal in Princess and the Frog is problematic/how it has been stereotyped in society (and why no, it’s not okay in this movie just because Mama Odie was a good person,) go…
Is Minnie Mouse Hot? →
feministdisney:
stumbleupstumbleon:
Disney’s latest t-shirt designs cause us to re-evaluate the way we see, interpret, and value female characters in mainstream media.
I’ve been thinking about this for a long time (read: basically my whole life), and it just keeps getting worse. I recommend you read the whole article and take a minute to think about it before you shrug it off (or reblog this...
“Cartoons for girls don’t have to be a puddle of smooshy, cutesy-wootsy,...”
– - Lauren Faust, on creating My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (via jeffbe
)
unabating:
Online gaming in MMOs and MOBAs is frustrating for me because I like to play tanks but they are so team dependant that I end up pissed off more often than not. There is nothing worse than tanking a team fight and your team-mates don’t know how or who to focus first and just get melted.
This is why I mainly play tank via Singed, that way I can just derp around with my Q on and spam...
I Like Your Flaws by Stephanie Georgopulos →
luciedee:
I like how you mispronounce words sometimes, how you fumble and stammer and stutter looking for the right ones to say and the right ways to say them. I appreciate that you find language challenging, because it is, because everything manmade is challenging. Including man, including you.
When you sleep on your side, I like to map the constellations between your beauty marks freckles...
love and other human rights: The term "Slut-Shame"... →
loveandotherhumanrights:
I’m not exactly sure why, but a part of me thinks it’s mainly because it doesn’t roll off the tongue very well. Maybe there’s more to it than that, though. Probably not, but.
I’m not really into it being an immediate response to anyone who speaks out against the overly sexualized youth of…
Yes, please.
A study which finds that what you watch influences... →
feministdisney:
dzurlady:
It’s called media priming — the idea that the things we watch or listen to or read influence our emotions and our behavior, perhaps more than we realize. This particular study may be the first to use fictional characters in a narrative to show an effect on people’s cognitive performance, says lead author Markus Appel, a psychologist at Austria’s University of Linz.
...
Feminist Disney: Women,Race,Culture in Disney's... →
zookerdee:
Kathy Maio, a feminist journalist in Boston USA, looks at the way Disney’s animated movies present women, race, and other cultures.
Maio is worried about some of the racial and cultural messages in Disney’s movies, too.
Snow White
Snow White was the heroine of the…
love and other human rights: theashkaari:... →
theashkaari:
loveandotherhumanrights:
sanityscraps:
theashkaari:
If your religion condemns homosexuality then your religion is absolute shit.
Wow. First, extreme religious intolerance, and then a gif mocking a black woman praying in a manner typical with her…
marththebland:
Oh and here’s some advice
When you’re a parent and your son or daughter is like me when it comes to social interaction
Don’t fucking say “don’t be shy”
No actually here let me broaden this out, no matter who you are or who you’re talking to, if someone has a problem, don’t tell them not to have the problem
“The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter...”
– Paint me a palace.: The Paradox of Our Age
(via down14thstreet)
December 2011
19 posts
I Love Charts: Conclusion →
ilovecharts:
Yesterday we posted a chart to which some people took offense. One person took the time to write us directly with her anger about the chart. I took exception to her tone and disagreed with her assertions and regrettably fell into one of the more simple traps of poor communication, writing a …
is there a word for the fear of being unknown?:... →
loveandotherhumanrights:
rainbowsunicornsandbutterflies:
I hate randomly seeing posts that are like “I can’t wait to break it to my devout Christian mother that I’m a feminist,” etc., I can’t think of all the examples that I’ve seen right now. But too often I come across posts that imply: a) feminist = liberal b) feminist = atheist, dunno why but from what I’ve seen a lot of people seem to...
love and other human rights: I hate my feminist... →
loveandotherhumanrights:
I’m so disappointed and bitter about this awful tumblr experience. My photo blog is fun. But my feminist blog? So fucking terrible.
When I became involved in this community, I was so excited at the prospect of learning new information, sharing my thoughts and experiences… But really, it’s just…
on my way to the immigration office.
luciedee:
oh my god oh my god oh my god
Good luck! Knock ‘em dead.
One teachers approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said:...
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