June 2013
“It doesn’t seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.”
— Richard Feynman (via ianbald)
NO BUT SERIOUSLY
WHY DOES NO ONE TALK ABOUT THE QUETZALCOATLUS?!
I MEAN, JESUS F. CHRIST.
PTERODACTYLS AIN’T SHIT NEXT TO THESE MOTHER FUCKERS. QUETZALCOATLUS FUCKING ATE BABY DINOSAURS FOR BRUNCH.
LITTLE-FOOT, NOOOO!!!
JUST IMAGINE SOMETHING AS TALL AS A MOTHER FUCKING GIRAFFE
SOARING THROUGH THE SKIES AT 80 MILES PER HOUR, AND THEN SWOOPING DOWN AND FUCKING EATING YOUR FACE OFF.
FUCKING QUETZALCOATLUS
Is Forced Fatherhood Fair? →
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com
In cases of accidental pregnancy, men now arguably have less reproductive autonomy than women.
I winced hard when I read the title of this article, and I think it fails to address some important issues in regard to “fairness” (including widespread attacks on the reproductive rights of women by anti-choice politicians and organizations). However, it does bring up interesting issues on policy, so I’d be interested on talking about it more…
If dudes are expected to have a lot of sex
But ladies are expected to stay virgins until marriage
But homosexuality is bad
I’m really confused who dudes are supposed to be having all that sex with
Guys I got it
Society is literally telling dudes to go fuck themselves
- John Lloyd: Lastly, here's a Freudian question for you. Freud once said, "The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul is: what does a woman want?" What do you feel about that?
- Natalie Haynes: I think... a woman wants not to be treated as some sort of exotic sub-species by a coke-addled creep like Freud.
this was in the fedora tag
I can’t even believe that these kinds of people actually exist. O-o
growing up means realizing a lot of your old friends are assholes
“The courts have long held that parents cannot be compelled to take actions to benefit their children’s health. In two key cases, the courts refused to force a father to donate a kidney to his dying child and declined even to make parents move to a new climate to aid their ailing child. “To compel the defendant to submit to an intrusion of his body would change every concept and principle upon which our society is founded,” the judge wrote in one such decision. “To do so, would defeat the sanctity of the individual.” It was apparently less of a legal leap to intrude upon the body of a pregnant woman.”
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Susan Faludi, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (via bornamutant)
(not only women can get pregnant)
Fucking Ourselves | bluestockingsmagazine →
bluestockingsmag.com
The sex positivity movement has done a lot of great things. Led by women, fought for by women, and realized (to the extent that it has been realized) by women, it has pushed back against the narrative of women being the frigid sex, unworthy and unwanting of pleasure. It has returned sexual agency—to masturbate, to vocalize, to consent or not consent, to discern—to an oppressed class. And for that, it should be commended.
However, in the 1980s, Andrea Dworkin and women like her were at the forefront of calling bullshit. The branch of the feminist movement she was a part of pointed out that sex in pornography, its major form of media, had ceased to be sexual in the classic sense. Focus on pleasure ceased; instead, pornography became a locus of power, an emblem and reification of male domination and a not-so-tacit endorsement of sexual violence. In the latter days of her scholarship, sex, especially with men, seemed more and more inherently violent to Dworkin. It was an enaction of female oppression; it was the enemy.
To many this seemed crazy, and that is how she is remembered. Sex-positive third wavers have long since won the title of feminists of the future, and they have an agenda. Dworkin is not in it. Instead, at Brown we have events to learn how to make women orgasm, events about fisting, events about kink. We learn that BDSM has nothing to do with oppression, and can be done consensually, then we hand out handcuffs. As participants, we nod fastidiously at these workshops. After all, these things are inarguable in the sex positivity-dominant climate of modern-day feminism. Personal pleasure is our mantra; “in cumming we trust.”
if you are a male-identified person and you would like for me to ever talk to you again, you should read this. right the fuck now. yes, there will be a quiz.
i have never been so proud to be part of any group as i am to be a part of bluestockings. i think this article is particularly relevant.
THIS IS IMPORTANT. READ IT.
It’s not long, just read it and really put some thought into the sorts of things that you are like to have internalized relating to porn.
I’m talking especially to my male followers who consider themselves feminists and care about about being good allies.
my dad tried to grow potatoes in the garden
we’re proud of him
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The TOMS campaign — like the million shirts — misses the fundamental point that not having a pair of shoes (or a shirt, christmas toy, etc.) is not a problem about not having shoes. It’s a problem of poverty. Shoelessness, such as it is, is a symptom of a much bigger and more complex problem. And while donating a pair of shoes helps shoelessness, it does not help poverty.
Things like jobs help poverty. Jobs making things like shoes, for example. But TOMS doesn’t make its shoes in Africa, it makes them in China where it’s presumably cheaper to make two pairs of shoes and give one away than it is to get people in a needier community to make one pair of shoes.
The result of this setup, as Zizek explains most succinctly, is that on a big-picture level, TOMS (and other buy-my-product-and-donate companies) are busy building the exploitative global structure that produces economic inequality, while on the other hand pretending that supporting them actually does something to fix it.
It doesn’t. It just gives people shoes.
” —The 7 Worst International Aid Ideas (via sasstapor)Aren’t you like 12 said the 16 year old to the 15 year old
12: the most hated age in the world
A 12 year old is moving into my house in September. I am *so* excited.
boycott monsanto
get in your car and drive to whole foods
buy non-gmo organic food
let the poor people eat the poison
activism
