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broternia: i hate math tests because all throughout the chapter it’s like really easy shit and then...

Sat, 25 May 2013 19:07:50 -0400

i hate math tests because all throughout the chapter it’s like really easy shit and then you think you’ve got it and then the test is like

if i throw a triangle out of a car and the car is going 20 mph and wind resistance is a thing that exists, how many cupcakes can pedro buy with one human soul

hobolunchbox: When Batman used to do his own stunts.

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:21:58 -0400

hobolunchbox:

When Batman used to do his own stunts.

"Why is much of men’s aggression against women sexual in nature?ii Why wouldn’t men use the same kind..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:21:37 -0400

“Why is much of men’s aggression against women sexual in nature?ii Why wouldn’t men use the same kind of violence against women as they use against men? The answers may lie in patriarchy’s use of anatomical sex differences for determining individuals’ membership in oppressor and oppressed groups. That is, because we use individuals’ sex organs as the basis for discriminating membership in the oppressor group (male) and the oppressed group (female), males may direct violence and threats of violence against females’ sexual organs. (Jane Elliot, in The Eye of the Storm, demonstrates with third graders that virtually any dimension along which people can make discriminations, such as eye colour, is easily turned into grounds for creating oppressor and oppressed groups.) The purpose of such directed violence is to help ensure that female sexual organs are seen as subordinate and male sexual organs are seen as dominant. (Consider in this regard the fact that Sigmund Freud so strongly believed that the penis was superior that he based his whole psychology of women on this belief, arguing that women’s envy of the penis produced their heterosexuality. In addition, the label “castrating”, assigned to women whom men perceive as assuming too much power in their relationships with men, reveals a publicly recognized relationship between the penis and dominance.)”

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Dee Graham, Edna Rawlings & Roberta Rigsby. Loving to Survive: sexual terror, men’s violence, and women’s lives. NYU Press. July 1 1994. (p. 19)

"Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there’s a tomorrow. Maybe for you there’s one thousand..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:17:07 -0400

““Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there’s a tomorrow. Maybe for you there’s one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through your fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there’s only today. And the truth is, you never really know.””

- Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall | Submitted by jessicaloveex3 (via quote-book)

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i brushed my teeth and now i’m drinking coffee. what is my logic. i don’t even

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:17:53 -0400

i brushed my teeth and now i’m drinking coffee.

what is my logic. i don’t even

catandkitty: durnesque-esque: thehippiejew: extrafeisty: jayc...

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:36:38 -0400

catandkitty:

durnesque-esque:

thehippiejew:

extrafeisty:

jaycubs:

A Glasgow nightclub has installed a two-way mirror which allows male revellers in private booths to spy on unsuspecting women as they visit the toilet! With no notification or signage anywhere in the venue many female club goers have been left feeling embarrassed and used. Although they do briefly show the mirrors in a promo video, the club has been quickly deleting comments and posts on their social media from club goers trying to alert others to the situation. This is pretty much illegal and hugley violates privacy. Thank you The Shimmy Club for giving us a shiny, new, creative and cool take on objectification.
article here

i’m never leaving my house again, this world is just too fucked up.

WHAT!?

gross gross gross gross gross

Good morning disgusting.

Remember ladies:

“No space, leave the place” (fingernail test)

A two way mirror must be set INTO the wall, not placed on top of it.

If you rap/knock against the mirror, one installed onto a wall (a normal mirror) will make a dull sound, because there’s something behind it. A two-way will have more reverberation.

Use the flashlight on your phone to shine on the mirror, if it’s a two-way, you’ll be able to see into the other room.

You can also shield your eyes and see in if you lean up against the glass.

The room being viewed will have to be brightly lit (10x brighter than the room looking in), so if you’re in a typical dimly lit club bathroom, you’re ok.

Remember ladies, don’t expect to leave your house an be treated like an autonomous person who doesn’t have to search every bathroom, powder room, and elevator like you’re in a fucking neo noir spy film! So pass on these safety tips that reaffirm that deep knot of dread in your stomach telling you your humanity is up for debate!

beautilation: Kubrick cinemagraphs

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:09:34 -0400

beautilation:

Kubrick cinemagraphs

peabug: getdestroyed-staydestroyed: Sleep Paralysis is a...

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:50:59 -0400

peabug:

getdestroyed-staydestroyed:

Sleep Paralysis is a phenomenon in which people, either falling asleep or waking up, temporarily experience the inability to move. Scientifically its the transition state between wakefulness and rest characterized by complete muscle atonia (muscle weakness).

I’ve known several people who have had sleep paralysis, who have even made characters who share the same trait. I’ve never suffered from it myself but I find the folklore around it fascinating, because no matter what nation of origin it always has to do with the visitation of a demon or vengeful spirit who either sits on, restrains, or strangles said victim. And so I drew my own little depiction of it, complete with a demon girl puking black stuff on a guy.

I dunno, sue me.

Fun Fact Of the Day #1 the myth of the succubus and incubus came out of the hallucinations people have when they experience sleep paralysis

Fun Fact Of The Day #2 this dude’s art is so fucking rad

involvingmeinvolvingyou: If you wanna be my lover You’ve gotta throw huge parties to get my...

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:26:15 -0400

involvingmeinvolvingyou:

If you wanna be my lover

You’ve gotta throw huge parties to get my attention and get your neighbor to invite me over for tea then let me run over my husband’s mistress in your car

candlelitdinnerwithjamescassells: My life. LOL

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:57:44 -0400

candlelitdinnerwithjamescassells:

My life. LOL

mooglemisbehaving: tyndall-blue: riskycuriosity: artemisiumabs...

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:10:04 -0400

mooglemisbehaving:

tyndall-blue:

riskycuriosity:

artemisiumabsinthia:

Josephine Baker, later known as ‘Bronze Venus’, ‘Black Pearl’ and ‘Créole Goddess’ was born in America in 1906 and later moved to France to become a singer, dancer, and actress. She was the first African-American woman to star in a major motion picture, and became famous worldwide.

Though she grew up as a maid in wealthy white households she eventually became an exotic dancer in France, famously appearing in next to no clothing, and became a French citizen in 1937.

Ernest Hemingway referred to Baker as ‘the most sensational woman anyone ever saw’ and she received approximately 1500 marriage proposals in her life time. She became a muse for Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, and Christian Dior. She had a variety of exotic pets including a cheetah named Chiquita, a chimpanzee named Ethel, a pig named Albert, a snake named Kiki, a goat, a parrot, parakeets, fish, three cats, and seven dogs.

When WWII broke out, Baker became a volunteer spy for France, and assisted the French Resistance by smuggling messages written in invisible ink on sheet music. She made great efforts to aid those in danger of enemy attack, sent Christmas presents to French soldiers, and smuggled information she gathered in Spain back to France by pinning notes containing the information on the inside of her underwear. She was awarded the Medal of Resistance with Rosette and later named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.

Baker also aided many civil rights movements by refusing to perform to segregated audiences and storming out of a club in Manhattan with actress Grace Kelly after she was refused service. She worked with the NAACP and spoke at a Washington march alongside Martin Luther King Jr. as the only official female speaker. Baker was actually asked by Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow to take his place as leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, but Baker declined on the grounds her twelve adopted children ‘were too young to lose their mother’.

Baker died in 1975, four days after her final show, attended by such names as Mick Jagger, Shirley Bassey, and Liza Minnelli.

Oh and she was queer and had a relationship with Frida Kahlo. All around badass.

I’d like a movie about her life too, please.

yeah seriously. where is her biopic

applecharlotte: New OOTD: Summer’s Blossomed

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:07:38 -0400

applecharlotte:

New OOTD: Summer’s Blossomed

just got home from smiths night at milk bar. now for some young...

Sun, 19 May 2013 04:35:01 -0400

just got home from smiths night at milk bar. now for some young justice season 2 and sleep!

"Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you."

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:59:24 -0400

“Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.”

- Maya Angelou (via creatingaquietmind)

take a year. take a lifetime.

(via youarenotyou)

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

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:56:25 -0400

“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”)

thegoddamazon: tashabilities: sara-huynh: thebestworstidea: r...

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:50:49 -0400

thegoddamazon:

tashabilities:

sara-huynh:

thebestworstidea:

resilientkate:

softgore:

“This piece was primarily a trust exercise, in which she told viewers she would not move for six hours no matter what they did to her. She placed 72 objects one could use in pleasing or destructive ways, ranging from flowers and a feather boa to a knife and a loaded pistol, on a table near her and invited the viewers to use them on her however they wanted.

Initially, Abramović said, viewers were peaceful and timid, but it escalated to violence quickly. “The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed… I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.”

This piece revealed something terrible about humanity, similar to what Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment or Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiment, both of which also proved how readily people will harm one another under unusual circumstances.”

This performance showed just how easy it is to dehumanize a person who doesn’t fight back, and is particularly powerful because it defies what we think we know about ourselves. I’m certain the no one reading this believes the people around him/her capable of doing such things to another human being, but this performance proves otherwise.”

this is why performance art is important

So every single person who told me ‘ignore them they’ll go away’ and ‘you can’t let them know they bothered you’ and ‘They’ll stop if they don’t see you react’ and all that bull shit, my entire school career, I want you to look good and hard at this.

I want you to think about what you said.

What you keep saying.

What you are telling your children.

You are making them powerless.

yep

ignoring my bullies never made them go away

they only ever backed off when i started confronting them and fighting back

i keep saying… people who tell you to turn the other cheek have never been punched in the face.

Also, I can’t see a Black woman performing Rhythm 0 and living to tell about it.

Someone would have sexually assaulted her and killed her if she’d been Black.

I’m not impressed because all this is just reiterating what most of us already know: ignoring the problem only make oit worse.

explore-blog: In his fantastic SVA commencement address on the...

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:57:53 -0400

explore-blog:

In his fantastic SVA commencement address on the false division between “high” and “low” culture, critic Greil Marcus adds to history’s finest definitions of art.

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