August 2011
168 posts
“We definitely don’t want to live in a world where boys routinely see women breastfeeding. They might grow up with the idea that breasts exist for something other than their amusement.”
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Margaret Hartmann, “Porn Star Publicly Breastfeeds Baby, Gets Accused of Promoting Pedophilia” at Jezebel. (via aaabbbbbbiiieee)
^THIS!!!
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The Wallpaper Project -- a photography collection →
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A worthy, and interesting, local cause.
Fuck I am so horny, right now.
Someone help?
my dearest sympathies, empathies, and drinkathies.
My condolences.
(Also, this how my friends are. We all feel for Ryan…as no one else is getting laid either.)
Ryan, the only way you could be more drowning in gays is if you were in the musical theatre school. WHAT. THE. FUCK. is your problem? get it, boy!
The Sad State News Network Blog: Senator Coburn, Sir, you can kindly go fuck yourself →
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So the country was better off before Medicare, & you wish you could pack heat on the Senate floor. Keeping it classy, as usual.
Just one thing, Senator - when exactly do we get to hear your version of how you mediated payments between John Ensign and his mistress’s husband?…
unfortunate, but totally true.
“The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all … The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men’s rights nor women’s rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.”
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— Helen Keller, 1911
It really frustrates the hell out of me that the only public mention of Hellen Keller in any modern context is to poke fun at her disabilities. Keller helped to found the modern day American Civil Liberties Union, wrote extensively on the exploitation of the working poor (particularly those with medical issues), and was a member and contributor to the Industrial Workers of the World. She was a badass and a passionate socialist radical. I intend on posting a more in-depth background on her in the future.
Critics attempted to diminish the impact of her work by saying that her embracing socialism and activism was obviously the result of her “limits in ability and development”. All you are doing is participating in the perpetuation of that lie.
Fair is fair: Kindergarten and the American Dream →
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Excerpt:
Fundamentally, the assumption behind the American rags-to-riches ideal is meritocracy; everyone starts out equal and gets what they earn based on merit.
But that’s a legal fiction. It’s not true. American society is not a meritocracy. In fact, measuring by social mobility, it’s less of a meritocracy than many other Western nations. Americans, and especially “Conservative” Americans, don’t want to pay the price of a real meritocracy.
If Americans really wanted a merit-based system, they would advocate for universal health care for children. What is merit-based about a child receiving healthcare, or not, on the basis of whether her parents have work with benefits or oodles of money?
If Americans really wanted a merit-based system, they would advocate for a very large inheritance tax, even a 100% tax. What’s merit-based about getting money for free from parents whom you could not choose?
If Americans really wanted a merit-based system, they would advocate for health care for people who were injured through no fault of their own, like a passenger in a train which crashes. What’s merit-based about losing your hard-earned life-savings because a conductor was texting while driving?
We could come up with examples all day. Conservative Americans advocate against all of these things (and so do many “Liberal” Americans). They want to call it a meritocracy, and they want everyone to buy into that notion, while at the same time passing along every unfair advantage they can to their children.
I love my children, and I want them to do well, and have access to opportunity. But I want them to have it because everyone has it, not because resources are limited, I happen to have more, and I actively worked toward kneecapping the people who have less.
It’s all well and good to advocate for whatever you want: no inheritance tax, reduced public funding of education, minimal public funding of healthcare, etc ad nauseum. But if you do, you can’t then honestly turn around and say, “Our system is awesome because it’s not a lottery.”
It’s a lottery. Humans can’t control or compensate for everything, so to some extent it will always be a lottery. But there are plenty of ways in which we could make it LESS of a lottery, and we don’t do them, and then we praise ourselves for living in the land of opportunity.
And that’s hypocrisy.
Beautifully put.
as my boyfriend you are legally prohibited from speaking to anyone prettier than me male or female i dont care violation of this law is punishable by at least three nasty looks and up to five apathetic eye rolls in your general direction
what about someone who knows how to use punctution, are you scared by them as well? what about smarter people, or more creative people, or people with cooler hair?
wtfox?!: motivatedslacker: robot-heart-politics: so i am taking a cultural lit... →
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so i am taking a cultural lit class
I don’t consider myself racist but I have to agree to a certain extent with this person, because throughout my high school years I had to read so many stories about oppression I got pretty…
Delicious!: Connected →
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Nothing is ever simple. Let’s get that clear first and foremost. As human beings with lives and interests of our own, it’s all too easy to think of things in terms of black and white, good and evil, right and wrong. We are too ready to think our culture and our lives exist in a vacuum, untouched…
“That state of deprivation though is, of course, the condition that many of those rioting endure as their unbending reality. No education, a weakened family unit, no money and no way of getting any. JD Sports is probably easier to desecrate if you can’t afford what’s in there and the few poorly paid jobs there are taken. Amidst the bleakness of this social landscape, squinting all the while in the glare of a culture that radiates ultraviolet consumerism and infrared celebrity. That daily, hourly, incessantly enforces the egregious, deceitful message that you are what you wear, what you drive, what you watch and what you watch it on, in livid, neon pixels. The only light in their lives comes from these luminous corporate messages. No wonder they have their fucking hoods up.”
—Russell Brand on the London Rioters (via 4-chette)
Denial
“She does not believe in air-conditioning… as if it is a thing to be disbelieved.”
-August: Osage County
AJ's Headspace: No One Is Free While Others Are Oppressed ~ August 6, 2011 SlutWalk Philadelphia Speech →
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http://notherapedocumentary.org/no-one-is-free-while-others-are-oppressed-slutwalk-philadelphia-speech
“Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society’s definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference – those of us…
AJ's Headspace: afrolez: “Over the past two almost three days, I’ve read some amazing... →
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“Over the past two almost three days, I’ve read some amazing critiques of The Help by a diverse range of Black feminists. Are there ANY White feminists (publicly) writing about/critiquing this film? FYI…The politics of challenging racist/White supremacist/sexist representation in…
If I had seen the movie or read the book, I’d be there with you too. Shortly.
