May 2013
“Why is there very little utility to women’s clothing? Why don’t we get pockets...”
– Kara, “The Feminist and the Handbag” (via athenasaurus)
Oh lord, don’t get me started on this. This is a little thing that highlights a big equality problem between men and women. We need the same supplies as men to do the same job. When I stocked shelves it was impossible to find pants that would...
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when i have no medication
robot-bear:
coffee makes me take naps
soda with caffeine makes me hyper for like an hour and a half, at which point i have to take a nap
everything is naps, except when i’m prancing around like a tiny fucking deer and tiptoeing and limp-wristing my flappy way around everything
i can read like two or three pages of an article at a time
i can watch like 20-25 minutes of a tv-show or movie at...
New Publishing Model for Authors Inspired to Write... →
maderr:
aggybird:
SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—May. 22, 2013— (NASDAQ:AMZN)—Today, Amazon Publishing announces Kindle Worlds, the first commercial publishing platform that will enable any writer to create fan fiction based on a range of original stories and characters and earn royalties for doing so. Amazon Publishing has secured licenses from Warner Bros. Television Group’s Alloy...
moltres:
overhearing a conversation between strangers in which they’re saying something completely wrong and you really feel like correcting them
“‘We Have Always Fought’: Challenging the ‘Women,... →
coelasquid:
Iâm going to tell you a story about llamas. It will be like every other story youâve ever heard about llamas: how they are covered in fine scales; how they
This kind of reminds me of a thing I talked about on a character design panel once, separating what you think you know from what you know you know.
[tw: ableism, mental health "professionals"]...
karalianne:
People send in asks with links and I have to read them so I can answer them (on the ADHD blog).
And there was this one a few days ago, I’m going to respond to it at some point this weekend, about how the guy who first described ADHD for the DSM said it’s fictitious right before he died. And it really did happen. And I just kind of go, “That’s nice but just cuz he said it doesn’t...
French Kids Do Have ADHD: An Interview →
actuallyadhd:
There’s a lovely article on the same website in response to the sensationalist pseudoscientific “Why French Kids Don’t Have ADHD” article that might be helpful for anyone who’s having to argue with someone who took it at face value. Just thought I’d share :)
[Thank you! Everyone, go read this. It is so much better than that other piece of crap. And, um, yo, I can’t figure out how...
kytri:
Wow I’ve already had two people come into the stream and immediately leave.
Do you guys just click on random links not knowing what they are?
That’s a good way to get viruses and porn.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/suffer-the-chil... →
actuallyadhd:
do you think this would work in america?
Do I think what would “work” in America?
Completely dimissing the very real struggles of people who have ADHD? Blaming everything on their parents?
I think that checking to see if it’s a food allergy rather than ADHD is a good idea, but other than that, this entire article (and the follow-up) is full of ableism and crap psychoanalytic...
selfdoubtandsyphilis:
dankestrnemes:
do animals think in english or in the sounds they make
this is what yahoo paid $1.1 billion for
coelasquid:
krudman:
morbi:
Okay, I always find it a little odd that people consider Super Princess Peach sexist because the gimmick revolves around Princess Peach having emotion based abilities. I see people make mood swing jokes and PMS jabs whenever it’s brought up. These are people who obviously have never actually played Super Princess Peach.
I have played Super Princess Peach. I own...
Why aren't more people freaking out about the new...
bluandorange:
monetizeyourcat:
dancepunksnotdead:
You know, the one that gives housewives/full-time mothers a pension— wages for housework?
It’s ONLY A HUGE VICTORY FOR FEMINISM, SOCIALISM, AND WOMEN OF COLOR. Not a big deal or anything. Tumblr is mysteriously silent about this.
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/05/venezuelas-new-labour-law-best-mothers-day-gift
holy shit!
fucking COOL
so
my computer kicked tje bucket
my hard drives fine but i can’y afford a new ecomputer and can’t make the money for a new computer withoit a computer
wat do pls advise i cannot effectively internet from phone
coelasquid:
Whenever I see some equivalent of “Little girls don’t care if female cartoon characters get prettied up or not so just shut up and stop making a big deal about it” getting tossed around. I just remember back to like my earliest memory of actually recognizing myself and realizing “hey this is me, this is what I look like”, I was rolling around in my parent’s room watching TV, caught...
Transgender Rights in the Era of Same-Sex... →
The United States moves inexorably toward granting equality to the L.G.B., but in the process, while still pronouncing that satisfying final consonant, we often, in practice, drop the T. No federal law offers protection to transgender people from discrimination in the workplace; the population sees double the usual rate of unemployment, and ninety per cent of transgender individuals report...
Inventor Of ADHD's Deathbed Confession A Load of... →
actuallyadhd:
wyldeside:
This article is the biggest bunch of skewed crap I’ve ever read. While I will admit the ADHD diagnosis is handed out like toilet paper, and often to the wrong kids, it is by no means fictional. Whether inadvertent or deliberate, there is real science behind what happens to a person’s brain truly afflicted with such neural problems.
Secondly, the biggest critics of the...
A SUMMARY: EUROVISION FOR ANYBODY THAT EVER...
bootymistress:
“For the last three decades many Americans have puzzled over a system that gives...”
– Carrie Rickey
(via fireworkselectricbright)
“You have to question a cinematic culture which preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay...
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Please, don't make fandom look bad.
flyingcatnall:
I never post on Tumblr, so I’m hoping my few followers can help me get this word out by reblogging…
I work for a hotel that hosts a major US con every year. I love anime and I go to cons myself, but I am going to be blunt about some of the problems we have and how we deal with them. I don’t know why people lose common sense when attending cons. I realize that most con-goers are...
coelasquid:
scribuscaballus reblogged your photoset: oldmanyellsatcloud: mrbutts: …
I always thought he was a Mexican!
The actor who played him was, the character was supposed to be Indian. Which is a pretty significant issue unto itself, that they would just be like “okay brown people are interchangeable” and call it a day. But this is 2013, we should be able to do better than this.
And I...
A QUICK LESSON ON CROPS AND WHIPS FROM YOUR...
satan-doge:
iwillincendiotheheartoutofyou:
THIS IS A CROP
IT DOES NOT MAKE THE ‘WHH-CH’ WHIP NOISE
IT CAN LEAVE BRUISING BUT WILL NOT CUT YOUR SKIN
THIS IS A WHIP
IT DOES MAKE THE ‘WHH-CH’ WHIP NOISE
IT PROBABLY WON’T LEAVE BRUISING BUT CAN CUT YOUR SKIN
NOW GO FORTH AND WRITE ACCURATE PORN
I JUST SPAT CRANBERRY JUICE ALL OVER MY HOMEWORK AND DESK BECUASE OF THE END OF THAT.
The Choice Of Motherhood and Insidious Drug Store...
stoya:

I had the privilege of growing up with a second wave feminist/reformed hippy mother. Before I sprouted my first pubic hair she handed me a mirror and a flashlight and told me to get to know my vagina. I was raised to believe that my body was mine to share with whoever I chose, whether that was one man, a couple of women, or a whole bunch of people over the course of my life. My mom...
cherrymilkshake:
nanibgal:
bemusedlybespectacled:
if you ever think mythology is boring or serious business or whatever shit
just remember that cerberus, the hell-hound and guard dog of the underworld, comes from the root indo-european word ḱerberos, which evolved into the greek word kerberos, which got changed to cerberus when it went from greek to latin
ḱerberos means “spotted”
that’s...
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KEEPING CELERY AND CARROTS FRESH FOR A LONG TIME
fuckingrecipes:
EVER BUY A THING OF CELERY OR A BAG OF CARROTS FOR A RECIPE AND THEN ONLY END UP USING LIKE, NOT NEARLY ENOUGH OF THE VEGETABLE IN QUESTION TO JUSTIFY ACTUALLY BUYING THE WHOLE THING SO THEY JUST ROT IN YOUR FRIDGE?
CUT THAT CELERY INTO 5” STICKS WITH A BADASS KNIFE AND STAND THEM ON END IN A BOWL OF WATER IN YOUR FRIDGE! CHANGE THE WATER EVERY FEW DAYS. THEY’LL STAY CRISP AS...
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Submit Anon: Surprise from Glomp-zilla
weebstories:
Ok, so I tried submitting before, but somehow wasn’t able to. Anyways, here’s a different story that might pass.
So this was while I was attending a convention here in the Midwest, a couple years back. The majority of the con went very well; I dressed as Italy for the last two days, and got many praise/pictures with it. Fun time!
Until…they felt like showing up…
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fandomsandfeminism:
anoversensitivesloth:
Please don’t attack me here, I’m just curious. Why do women get offended when someone cat-calls or wolf-whistles at them? Why not just take it as a compliment?
Because it often makes them feel unsafe and de-humanized.
Think of it feel this way:
Why would women not appreciate men confronting them in a public place in order to declare how fuckable...
“In the 101 top-grossing family films…from 1990 to 2004, of the over 4,000...”
– Natasha Walter, Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism, pages 69-70, 2010. (via bitemebeautiful)
Bringing this back as people have started reblogging this again and EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW THIS.
(via bitemebeautiful)
Fairy tales are NOT all straight white heroes and...
neverrwhere:
seananmcguire:
I re-blogged a picture of a little girl, dressed as Tiana, hugging the face actress who plays Tiana at one of the Disney Parks, and noted that everyone should have their princess. And a few people have now contacted me basically going “no, only straight white people can have princesses if you stick with the classics.”
Um.
No.
I am a folklorist, and it’s time for...
