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spastasmagoria:

benpaddon:

That fourth paragraph is a solid argument for why the internet cannot have Nice Things. Take it down a notch, people.

roxannameta:

callithaala:

Everyone needs to take a moment to step back and remember that there are real people on the receiving end of the fannish mania. I’m not advocating not fangirling, just think before you post, people!

Please reblog and spread the word!

Respect, yo. RESPECT.

Goddamnit, Fandom, you’re doing that thing again where you forget that actors, writers, and anyone with a bit of celebrity are actually human beings and that their loved ones are actual human beings. They are not there simply for your amusement. Their actual real-lives are NOT YOUR PLAYTHINGS. 

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spastasmagoria:

theclearlydope:

Me on the phone: Yeah I’m going to be late to work today.

Supervisor: Why?

Me: There’s a cat gang bang happening on top of my car.

Supervisor: (silence)

Supervisor: Well can’t you break it up?

Me: Who am I to break up a cat gang bang? They’ve probably been organizing it for days on Craigslist.

Supervisor: Good point. See you when you get here.

WHAT THE ACTUAL————I can’t. I can’t even can. I have lost the ability to can. 

(Source: lewis1993, via deducecanoe)

karnythia:

curiouskitty:

karnythia:

dontbearuiner:

karnythia:

atheism-:

thewickedpath:

babybutta:

misesman:

Had to be asked.

O v o and I bet they’re not going to ask. 

Alright, can I just? Lemme just, hang on.

If anybody actually thinks this is some kind of conspiracy, or something, I’m gonna go ahead and tell those people to fuck off.

You’re gonna take this incredibly tragic, monstrous event, and make it about the government? Or some kind of higher power supplied him, or something? How dare you.

There are literally dozens of ways he could’ve gotten the money to buy those things, if he even bought some of them at all. Making this about anything other than the victims is foolish at best, and absolutely disgusting at worst. Fucking shameful.

That’s all I’m gonna say.

^ I couldn’t say it better myself.

Are you people seriously implying that it wasn’t his fault? Like oh, poor guy, someone make him do it, he was probably brainwashed, the government is behind this and we should blame Obama, etc etc etc.

I wonder if you all would ask the same questions if he wasn’t white.

Yes. It’s a valid question. That’s a lot of red flags that should have gone off if he didn’t have a dealer’s license. Apparently they didn’t. That’s a huge flaw in the system we keep being told exists to protect us from terrorists. Domestic terrorism is still terrorism & him being white is probably part of how he flew under the radar to commit this horrible crime. It doesn’t need to be a grand conspiracy to be troublesome to people who know how hard it is supposed to be to lay hands on an arsenal.

The local gun club rejected his application on the grounds that he made them uncomfortable. That this fact didn’t emerge until after he perpetrated a mass shooting is very scary.

I can’t buy too much allergy medicine in a given amount of time and I have to sign a registry when I do so, presumably so that if I’m cooking meth instead of dealing with allergies, they have a record of how much I’ve purchased. But this guy can buy $20,000 of weapons and ammo in three months and no one says boo? What?

So yes, let’s absolutely ask these questions, because no one did until it was too late.

Exactly. Preventing something like this from happening again includes addressing the mechanics that made it possible this time.

How do we know he bought them over 6 months? Was that reported somewhere? If not, maybe he’s been planning this for a while now. Or if he was given any student aid (scholarships, student loans, etc.) then he could have used that.

The first recorded purchase was in May & all of the purchases were technically legal albeit via unregulated sites online. My thing is we’re all supposed to be worried about tracking cookies & our ISP’s reporting what we do, but this dude bought an arsenal & no one noticed the pattern? Big Brother is not watching the right people.

(Source: conservativesforboobs)

An exhaustive report on the deaths of 110 Blacks in the United States at the hands of police, security guards and self-appointed vigilantes during the 6-month period ending June 30 “clearly indicates there is a human rights crisis in the U.S.,” said Ajamu Baraka, of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. “If these numbers were coming from somewhere else, indicating that a particular population was being subjected to militarized violence from the state…many people around the world would agree that there was, in fact, a human rights issue.” Yet, even so-called progressive media “aren’t picking up on the report,” said Rosa Clemente, the Green Party’s 2008 vice-presidential candidate.

(Source: disciplineandrubbish, via karnythia)

morenamagia:

whitepeoplecollectionagency:

If a Black person of color could reblog this and add n*gga to the tags so the white girls who pull that shit can see, I would appreciate it.

I love you. 

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Rachel Maddow (via many-worlds)

Beautiful

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I think I’m going to reblog this every day. The anxiety people I know feel about unforseen health problems is crippling, and the alternatives to the problematically dubbed “Obamacare” besides repealing it? Nothing whatsoever. What does it say about a political party that sees a situation profoundly effecting huge swaths of the population and offering nothing as a response?

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ktempest:

spastasmagoria:

l-o-o-n-y-l-o-v-e-g-o-o-d:

spastasmagoria:

l-o-o-n-y-l-o-v-e-g-o-o-d:

spastasmagoria:

strawberrypatty:

spastasmagoria:

that’s because you have skinny, pretty white girl privilege. Your deep knowledge of nerdy topics is esoteric and cute. Mine is obsessive and strange. Your personality quirks are endearing. Mine are weird. When you wear clothes that make you happy, you are chic and bohemian. When I wear clothes that make me happy, I’m that weirdo fat chick with bad fashion sense. So, y’know. Excuse me for wanting to punch both you and your character in the face whenever you whine about how nobody accepts you. no… everybody accepts you. You’re what a geek girl is “supposed” to be. YOU’re the one the guys want to talk to, and the rest of us, since we don’t meet some minimal standard of cute, are seen neither as dating material nor as even friend material, and worth their time in a conversation. Sorry this is a bunch of bitterness toward “quirky” girls and our perception/treatment of them, at the expensive of OTHER girls don’t fit the supermodel mold. 

Seriously. I cannot convey my feelings any better than you have already done. I’m so fucking sick of the awkward geek girl who is perfect in her awkward geekiness, because she’s cute.

See above. Yes. That’s how I feel. It’s like she exists, so the rest of us aren’t real people with legitimate interests and strengths and weaknesses and talents and shit. Because we’re great, but we’re not the awkward ingenue. 

I love how Zooey Deschanel hate pretty much always comes from people who claim to be ~fighting the feminist cause~ in letting women make their own choices as to who they are. And by ‘love’, I mean ‘it makes me want to bash my head against a hard surface repeatedly’. Oh no, she just so happens to be white and attractive and she uses quirkiness as her defining feature! God help us, she is clearly out to undermine women everywhere and to narrow the uniquely-awkward-girl category to herself and herself only.

I know I definitely don’t fit into the ‘weird-in-an-endearing-way’ category, but just because she does (and embraces it) doesn’t mean that she’s a traitor to me or to the feminist cause or to girls who aren’t like her. She’s made a choice and she’s comfortable with it, and hating her for it is just fucking ridiculous and spiteful. Hating her for it is just another way of telling women what they are and aren’t allowed to be. ‘Nope, sorry, you’re not allowed to be attractive and call yourself weird, because you don’t properly fit with our definition’.

And yeah, her “skinny, pretty white girl privilege” clearly invalidates her as a person and turns all of her personality quirks into attempts to attack your self-esteem and worth as a person. JFC. You can’t hold her solely responsible for society’s perception of those who don’t fit into the cute-awkward-geekiness mold. That’s not how things work. Just stop.

1) I never claimed to be fighting the feminist cause. 

2) I do not begrudge her her beauty, or her success. In fact, I don’t begrudge her any success she’s had because she’s beautiful. I don’t begrudge Felicia Day or Olivia Munn their success or beauty either. 

3) What I am opposed to is these women being held up as a new standard of acceptability for nerdy girls. Many of us retreated into fandom and nerdy pursuits because that is where our thoughts were valued over whether we were bangable or not, and now even that last little island of comfort has been invaded and we’re being dictated to on what is acceptable in a nerdy female. 

4) Is this going to change? Probably not. Not as long as booth babes prevail at comic book conventions. However, I think it perpetuates misogyny in fandom and geekish endevors if we don’t at least acknowledge and confront the privilege these women have, and also confront every time someone points to those women as “doing it right” in some effort to make all the non-quirky and non-cute women in fandom “conform” to some unrealistic expectation. This perpetuates the invalidation of our opinions, thoughts, efforts and even the very things we enjoy and the way we enjoy them. 

Maybe you specifically aren’t coming at this from a feminist perspective, but Zooey hate always seems to come from a background of thinking that women should be able to make their own choices and not be hated for them, which is something I really don’t understand

And yes, to a degree she is held up as the socially-acceptable model of a nerd girl. I’m not arguing that. I’m not denying that all of the sexist bullshit that goes on in the media and in the entertainment industry extends into nerd culture, or that TV and film have started dictating new expectations for women and girls under the awkward/geek/whatever you want to call it label.

But holding one person responsible for all that, aiming all of your vitriol and hatred at her, and saying that you want to punch her in the face for choosing to be a certain type of person is something that I think is really stupid and unfair. I don’t agree with the idea that she is somehow personally responsible for the marginalisation of girls who don’t fit into the image of cute awkwardness. And I certainly don’t agree with the idea that her whiteness/prettiness/skinniess prevents her in some way from being able to claim a certain category as her own. That’s what I was saying.

You’re right. I should have qualified, and not made her the avatar of my unloading. I saw that goddamned gif come across my dash yet again, and I kinda lost it a little. SHE annoys me though. I found her annoying in HHGTTG and I think I am the only person who loved that movie. Well, I loved it except for her. There’s something about her I find to be VASTLY annoying. Far more annoying than… say… Felicia Day. I’m not entirely able to verbalize it. It may be like my dislike for Kate Mulgrew. Who is a fine actor and is often given good parts. But she looks and sounds exactly like my grandmother and I find that creepy for some reason so I avoid watching things with her in it. My dislike for her may be as nonsensical as that. But I am super-annoyed with her, and how she’s held up as the Gold Standard of quirky nerddom. And the “weird” that is so cute on her is not acceptable in the rest of us because we’re not pretty. Two separate issues, possibly. Maybe. I don’t know. 

I am a feminist, and I still don’t like Zooey. I’ll admit that my reasons for not liking her have little to do with what she does or says, but with how the media presents her to us.

When The New Girl was about to premiere, they put an extreme closeup of her big sad-eyed face on the cover with a cover line something like: IS THE WORLD READY FOR ZOOEY? Oh my, is the world ready for a conventionally attractive and thin white woman who has endearing quirks and appeals to the male gaze without ever confronting it? I DON’T KNOW GUISE, I THINK THE WORLD MIGHT NOT BE READY, OMG.

The problem with her is that she’s not all that quirky or weird or geeky or strange, yet she’s held up as an exemplar of what a quirky strange geek girl should be. I’m sorry, but that’s more mainstream media bullshit that I refuse to take.

Zooey has every right to milk this shit for all its worth to her because, hey, people gotta eat. But because she does not in any way challenge this view of her, because she either revels in it or silently goes along, I have no respect for her choices. I respect that she can make the choices and would never take away her ability to make that choice, but I do not choose to honor it nor do I choose to simply let it slip by.

So yeah, I’m a Zooey hater and I’m a feminist. And I don’t feel like that’s a contradiction. I’m holding Zooey responsible for her role in the bigger problem while acknowledging that she is not the whole of the problem.

^^^^^ This

(Source: i-do-not-understand-why)