Portrait of a Girl

hannahsaur-feels: Janelle Monae wardrobe appreciation post! One...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:54:43 -0400

hannahsaur-feels:

Janelle Monae wardrobe appreciation post!

One KICKASS lady!

eyes-of-the-cat: catanist: I love all cats but seriously those...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:54:19 -0400

eyes-of-the-cat:

catanist:

I love all cats but seriously those ears….dying.

Precious ‘lil triangle heads

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:35:10 -0400

seeeriiiouussslyyy

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:22:48 -0400

acylates:

if you’re a man and your reaction to a woman saying she wants equal rights is “so does that mean I can hit you now” maybe you should reassess your entire pitiful life

evilfeminist: If I truly believed that men were biologically inclined to rape, torture, kill, and...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:14:50 -0400

evilfeminist:

If I truly believed that men were biologically inclined to rape, torture, kill, and harm women and children I would be in a bunker in the mountains. Rad Fems argue in the favor of men not being biologically inclined to be anything but a person with a penis. Really this should work in their favor why do they want to be told they are nothing but civilized caveman fighting urges. But no it makes violent men be accountable for their actions and that is a problem.

"Anyone worth knowing is inevitably also going to be exasperating: making the same obvious mistakes..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:18:28 -0400

“Anyone worth knowing is inevitably also going to be exasperating: making the same obvious mistakes over and over, dating imbeciles, endlessly relapsing into their dumb addictions and self-defeating habits, blind to their own hilarious flaws and blatant contradictions and fiercely devoted to whatever keeps them miserable.”

- I Know What You Think of Me (via sissypunks)

keep-bullshitting: omg ^

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:10:33 -0400

keep-bullshitting:

omg *^*

freshest-tittymilk: sourcedumal: boycameron: indieintellectual...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:09:56 -0400

freshest-tittymilk:

sourcedumal:

boycameron:

indieintellectual:

concerningmishas:

I’M SORRY BUT THIS REALLY PISSED ME OFF AND I NEEDED TO VENT.

So I liked this page last year for the shits and gigs, as you do. I found it funny, and let slide the few sexist posts.

Only recently- and after I got a tumblr- did I really start to notice the abundance of rape, sexist and racist jokes appearing on my news feed. And it pissed me off.

I said nothing, however, because what could I do? Send in a message to the page and get labelled a whore and a slut by the Admins as I’ve seen so many people do?

Then this motherfucking gem popped up.

I usually don’t get involved in these sorts of things; if I do my comment gets lost more often than not and goes unnoticed. But I had to comment, I really had to.

I thought my argument was valid and whole, and I was actually rather happy when he admin directly replied to my comment.

I narrowed down my five favourite games ever and posted them.

Of course, I got beaten and labeled down once again.

When I asked for a rational clarification of his definitions of “casual” and “core” he did not reply. It was only when I directly insinuated the bias of his claim did I get a response.

“A feminist I see. No arguments need to be made. Good luck with getting them eggs fertilized”

Note the use of “feminist” as an insult.

I have had my fair share of gender specific hate regarding gaming. I get told I am a fake and a bitch if I get a high score; I get told to “suck a dick because you are better at that, bitch” if I get a low score; I get told to “get back in the kitchen, slut” without any prompt at all, simply because I have a vagina.

I am beyond sick of this. I hate the fact that if a male who hypothetically plays a few hours of CoD can be easily called a gamer by the wider community but I if were to say that I was a level 34 on Skyrim I would immediately be called a fake geek girl, a casual gamer and a liar.

I hate the fact that, even though 45% of gaming consumers are female, developers and publishers still believe that there is not a large enough demographic for female protagonists.

I hate the fact that most women in video games are no more than sexulised objects in skimpy clothing.

I hate the fact that I cannot enjoy a game without being labeled and branded because of the fact that I posses a vagina and not a penis.

~sorry about the long post clogging up your dash. I needed to vent~

Off-topic somewhat, but important.

why this

Men who say this shit need to go fall into Mordor’s volcano.

men like this should be given an xbox one and a lifetime subscription………………………………….

edsdick: kawaiierection: its sad how its more socially acceptable to hate your body than to love...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:05:19 -0400

edsdick:

kawaiierection:

its sad how its more socially acceptable to hate your body than to love it

this text post hit me like a train

fuckyeahwomenprotesting2: I like how correcting her kids creepy...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:05:11 -0400

fuckyeahwomenprotesting2:

I like how correcting her kids creepy behavior doesn’t even matter to that mother.

jeiwalking: mY AUNT JUST POSTED THIS ON FACEBOOK BECAUSE WE’RE GETTING A LOT OF SNOW BUT I CHOKED...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:16:07 -0400

jeiwalking:

mY AUNT JUST POSTED THIS ON FACEBOOK BECAUSE WE’RE GETTING A LOT OF SNOW BUT I CHOKED OMFG

kyary: “this world is fucked up” the white teenage boy says not because of the constant...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:24:00 -0400

kyary:

“this world is fucked up” the white teenage boy says

not because of the constant discrimination of minorities all over the world but because nicki minaj has reached number one

"Don’t you mean SOME men?"

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:27:47 -0400

“Don’t you mean SOME men?”

- Ancient Male Proverb (via cottonbutts)

When You Kill Ten Million Africans You Aren’t Called ‘Hitler’

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:54:54 -0400

When You Kill Ten Million Africans You Aren’t Called ‘Hitler’:

acidshenko:

canadian-communist:

Take a look at this picture. Do you know who it is?

Most people haven’t heard of him.

But you should have. When you see his face or hear his name you should get as sick in your stomach as when you read about Mussolini or Hitler or see one of their pictures. You see, he killed over 10 million people in the Congo.

His name is King Leopold II of Belgium.

He “owned” the Congo during his reign as the constitutional monarch of Belgium. After several failed colonial attempts in Asia and Africa, he settled on the Congo. He “bought” it and enslaved its people, turning the entire country into his own personal slave plantation. He disguised his “business transactions” as philanthropic and scientific efforts under the banner of the “International African Society”. He used their enslaved labor to extract Congolese resources and services. His reign was enforced through work camps, body mutilations, executions, torture, and his private army.

Most of us – I don’t yet know an approximate percentage but I fear its extremely high – aren’t taught about him in school. We don’t hear about him in the media. He’s not part of the widely repeated narrative of oppression (which includes things like the Holocaust during World War II). He’s part of a long history of colonialism, imperialism, slavery and genocide in Africa that would clash with the social construction of the white supremacist narrative in our schools. It doesn’t fit neatly into a capitalist curriculum. Its bad to “say racist things” (sometimes), but quite fine not to talk about genocides in Africa perpetrated by European capitalist monarchs.

Mark Twain wrote a satire about Leopold called “King Leopold’s soliloquy; a defense of his Congo rule“, where he mocked the King’s defense of his reign of terror, largely through Leopold’s own words. Its 49 pages long. Mark Twain is a popular author for American public schools. But like most political authors, we will often read some of their least political writings or read them without learning why the author wrote them (Orwell’s Animal Farm for example serves to re-inforce American anti-Socialist propaganda, but Orwell was an anti-capitalist revolutionary of a different kind – this is never pointed out). We can read about Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, but King Leopold’s Soliloquy isn’t on the reading list. This isn’t by accident. Reading lists are created by boards of education in order to prepare students to follow orders and endure boredom well. From the point of view of the Education Department, Africans have no history.

When we learn about Africa, we learn about a caricaturized Egypt, about the HIV epidemic (but never its causes), about the surface level effects of the slave trade, and maybe about South African Apartheid (which of course now is long, long over). We also see lots of pictures of starving children on Christian Ministry commercials, we see safaris on animal shows, and we see pictures of deserts in films and movies. But we don’t learn about the Great African War or Leopold’s Reign of Terror during the Congolese Genocide. Nor do we learn about what the United States has done in Iraq and Afghanistan, potentially killing in upwards of 5-7 million people from bombs, sanctions, disease and starvation. Body counts are important. And we don’t count Afghans, Iraqis, or Congolese.

There’s a Wikipedia page called “Genocides in History”. The Congolese Genocide isn’t included. The Congo is mentioned though. What’s now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo is listed in reference to the Second Congo War (also called Africa’s World War and the Great War of Africa), where both sides of the multinational conflict hunted down Bambenga and ate them. Cannibalism and slavery are horrendous evils which must be entered into history and talked about for sure, but I couldn’t help thinking who’s interests were served when the only mention of the Congo on the page was in reference to multi-national incidents where a tiny minority of people were eating each other (completely devoid of the conditions which created the conflict no less). Stories which support the white supremacist narrative about the subhumanness of people in Africa are allowed to be entered into the records of history. The white guy who turned the Congo into his own personal part-plantation, part-concentration camp, part-Christian ministry and killed 10 to 15 million Conglese people in the process doesn’t make the cut.

You see, when you kill ten million Africans, you aren’t called ‘Hitler’. That is, your name doesn’t come to symbolize the living incarnation of evil. Your name and your picture doesn’t produce fear, hatred, and sorrow. Your victims aren’t talked about and your name isn’t remembered.

Leopold was just one part of thousands of things that helped construct white supremacy as both an ideological narrative and material reality. Of course I don’t want to pretend that in the Congo he was the source of all evil. He had generals, and foot soldiers, and managers who did his bidding and enforced his laws. It was a system. But this doesn’t negate the need to talk about the individuals who are symbolic of the system. But we don’t even get that. And since it isn’t talked about, what capitalism did to Africa, all the privileges that rich white people gained from the Congolese genocide are hidden. The victims of imperialism are made, like they usually are, invisible.

Tony Bourdain referenced this on his program about a week and a half ago. The mention wasn’t very lengthy, but it was enough to make me actually look it up.

I was absolutely horrified.

Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex and Power with Prof. Sut Jhally

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:44:00 -0400

Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex and Power with Prof. Sut Jhally

lotsalipstick: people who use phrases like “attention whore” but also say they’re body positive...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:12:42 -0400

lotsalipstick:

people who use phrases like “attention whore” but also say they’re body positive etc, I see you

velvetlovepocket: “If You Know Someone Who Doesn’t Believe...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:40:05 -0400

velvetlovepocket:

“If You Know Someone Who Doesn’t Believe Sexism Exists, Show Them This”
Link here: [x]

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:26:20 -0400

nextyearsgirl: solarmetronome: heyfrankie: santova: nagayt...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:57:30 -0400

nextyearsgirl:

solarmetronome:

heyfrankie:

santova:

nagaytokomaedang:

diemeowderkatze:

I AM SORRY BUT THIS IS WHY I AM EMBARRASSED TO BE AN AMERICAN. IF A HIJAB THAT DORNS THE AMERICAN FLAG PATTERN IS NOT ACCEPTABLE BUT SKIMPY ASS BIKINIS OR WEARING THE FUCKING ACTUAL FLAG IS ACCEPTABLE, JUST BECAUSE THE PERSON IS WHITE, I WANT TO FUCKING THROW UP.

(I don’t have a thing against Audrey Kitching, she was just merely and example).

But this fucking disgusts me right here. It makes me want to say, fuck this country and its racism and double standards.

also notice how these people are calling her a terrorist even though she didn’t do anything wrong

but they are threatening to kill, beat, steal from, and degrade this woman for simply wearing an article of clothing

fuck everything

Urrrrrhg people are rfdhyuij

ONLY ONE GUY SAID “NOTHING.”

And only because of the fact that there was nothing he could legally do :|

Almost all of the people commenting on this are men. These are much better examples of counter-images:

renlybaratheeon: you don’t know true agony unless you’ve gone from watching 5 seasons in 2 days to...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:47:49 -0400

renlybaratheeon:

you don’t know true agony unless you’ve gone from watching 5 seasons in 2 days to 1 episode a week