December 2009
The Decade In Masculinity - The Sexist -... →
sexismandthecity:
Think boys are simply born into their masculine gender role? Consider, for a moment, how quickly the cultural norms of acceptable maleness can change. The past decade of masculine fads saw cultural expressions of manliness range from finely-groomed boy bands to shlumpy stoners to blowed-out “guidos.” The versions of masculinity that gained popularity in the aughts saw an...
The Decade In Femininity - The Sexist - Washington... →
sexismandthecity:
Now that we’ve exhausted the decade in masculine trends, it’s time for us to take a look back at the aughts’ many cultural incarnations of femininity. The versions of femininity that have been aggressively marketed to us over the past ten years, from “not that innocent” pop tarts to Sex & the City fashionistas to Kill Bill’s ass-kicker.
i'm really glad you guys don't have ugly kids.
scottfriday:
i mean none of you. all the tumblr children are like little models.
Those are not our real children.
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etoilenoire:
literarypiano:
n., literally means beautiful thinking, is a medical term which refers to the state of normal mental health, and is also the shortest word in the English language which contains all five vowels.
“Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via robot-heart)
“The Only Church That Illuminates Is A Burning Church.”
– Durruti (via adamquinn)
“I disagree with the use of the word “pussy” to describe a weak person. Because...”
– Hal Sparks (via bean22) (via sexismandthecity)
“Fifty percent of the women in this country are not having orgasms. If that were...”
– Margo St. James (via bean22) (via sexismandthecity)
“He seems to think if he (Pres. Obama) closes Guantanamo and releases the...”
– Dick Cheney
I fuckin hate this man.
(via brooklynmutt)
Dick Cheney is fucking evil.
“Alaska, the particular reality from which Palin hails, is so little known by...”
– Jonathan Raban’s review of Going Rogue in the new issue of the New York Review of Books is nothing short of devastating. (via cajunboy)
BOOM ROASTED.
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kelsium:
It was a mistake to wear a strapless bra today.
Strapless bras are always a mistake.
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“I’ve got taste. It’s inbred in me.”
– David Hasselhoff (via schbank)
“I think one of the reasons why kids today have quarterlife crises is because...”
– Twenty Something: Instead of traveling, writing and trying to figure out what we want, should we be marrying and having babies? (via robot-heart)
“I think there will always be a gulf between the haves and have-nots, so far as...”
– Neil Postman (via azspot)
GENDER/LANGUAGE: Rejecting the Derogatory... →
amberlrhea:
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jessica-dianne:
I studied this in my linguistics course this year, wrote a paper about it, too.
sexismandthecity:
What happens to language and the way women are addressed when they start to occupy positions of responsibility? Well, it depends on the language.
How to lose your idealism in under 10 years →
robot-heart-politics:
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Economically, the Boomers have devastated the country. We inherited debt, a shredded safety net; pensions went the way of the horse and buggy; largely, no one born after 1982 will ever have a full-time job. I don’t know what the new economic model is. We are a waning empire that has seen unparalleled progress and expansion in the modern era....
“Yeah, I will always have an asterisk after my name, but I hope I’ll have two...”
– Bill Clinton (via brooklynmutt)
Ohh SNAP. I love this. You go, Bill Dawg.
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Republicans that opposed stimulus bill and call it... →
jonathan-cunningham:
If you needed proof that the stimulus is helping people, look no further than the ranks of the GOP when they campaign. Although on talk radio and at tea parties they criticize it, they take the credit for the individual programs that are funded by the stimulus package. Our bought-and-sold media won’t report on it, though.
Surprise, surprise.
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favour...”
– Frederick Douglass, slavery abolitionist (via secrets0ciety) (via redguard) (via fyeahsocialism) (via fuckyeahtheorists) (via curate)
Your assimillationist vs. radical philisophical debate = done.
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I get email : Pharyngula →
friendlyatheist:
I am often chided by morons.
Consistent
Dear Mr. Myers,
To be wrong is always acceptable, because we are human. But, to be consistently wrong, especially when you call yourself a Professor, is going way beyond the bounds of good sense. Anyone who even gives ear to people such as Dawkins and Kitchens is no less than a fool. There is nothing wrong with being a fool, but...
“Coincidentally, I have over the past couple of months been watching DVDs of Star...”
– Mike Potemra
I didn’t realise “peace, tolerance, due process, progress” were such LIBERAL messages. I’m glad I’m a liberal.
