August 2012
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Petition: Cancel Joss Whedon's New Avengers TV... →
The sequence of events:
Disney reveals that Joss Whedon will get to help a new Marvel-verse TV show
Fans squee all over themselves at the news
Fans then jokingly say that the show will probably be cancelled prematurely or otherwise fucked with in mysterious conspiracy involving Disney, Fox, and the rights to Daredevil, the Silver Surfer, and Galactus
Site that deals in satire then creates...
July 2012
15 posts
“I met my wife at a Star Trek convention. She was study abroad from France and...”
– Hear more tales of nerdery in this week’s Pwn Up! (via dorkly)
Media Ignore Report on Extrajudicial Killings of... →
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...
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Roundups of Tumblr & POC issues?
ktempest:
My search-fu is failing me. I know there was a post going around Tumblr that collected a list of links showing how Tumblr support gave no crap about POC being harassed but threw around warnings when POC had something to say that wasn’t pretty. Anyone have a link?
swimtrackcat asked: I have a serious qualm about something you reblogged that has to do with "cis" being hate speech. A lot of people assume that Gender Identity Disorder is, in fact, a disorder that differentiates trans people, those with a serious mental illness, from those who have no problem fitting into a box within the gender binary. This implication that trans people are "sick" and...
“Mitt Romney said the White House wasn’t sleeping well last night. You know who...”
– Rachel Maddow (via many-worlds)
Beautiful
(via peopledontalwayssuck)
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....
"Cis" is still hate-speech
ktempest:
roseverbena:
“Cis” is STILL hate-speech. Don’t use it.
There is no such thing as a “cis woman”. There is certainly no such thing as a woman with “cis priviledge”.
The fact that mentally-ill people with severe Gender Identity Disorder call themselves “trans” is no reason to smack the label “cis” on people free of Gender Identity Disorder .
In fact, it’s utterly abusive, sick crap...
White Logic and the History of Slavery
bankuei:
If slavery was a mugging caught on camera, white logic would dictate that you should:
Ignore the victim’s account, the camera and other evidence, the fact the mugger had the victim’s wallet, the fact the mugger kept records of every person they mugged and how much money it was worth…
…and instead listen to the mugger when they say, “Well, actually, it wasn’t that bad, in fact they...
Repeat offender: ME
ktempest:
billcorbett:
On two separate occasions this week I managed to offend some people strongly on Twitter. In the first case, it was mostly one guy. In the other, quite a few people were upset. …And I mean, right out of the gate, screaming FUCK YOU ASSHOLE -level upset.
Sometime in the near future I hope to have time to parse through the specifics of this, and let my pedantry flag...
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My Favorite Fiction From June 2012 →
ktempest:
Contact by Eileen Gunn I love stories where humans encounter aliens that are SO alien. This one is told from the alien’s POV and works really well.
Winter Scheming by Brit Mandelo [TRIGGER WARNING: Domestic Violence.] What I like best about this story is that it starts out in an unexpected way given what’s really going on (which you understand at the end). Very well structured and...
June 2012
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My rebuttal to the argument "But it's *just* a... →
The bottom line on this issue is simple: If you think that a piece of media such as a movie, TV show, book, or song is merely entertainment and ingest said media without giving any thought to how it influences or shapes you or the culture you exist in, You Are A Sheep.
What!? You cry. Again:
You. Are. A. Sheep.
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blackraincloud:
A poignant post by alexandraerin:
For Our Protection
The way that Black bloggers who talk about race are expected to be mindful about not triggering the people who keep coming at them and keep arguments with them going while not having a single thought given about their mental and emotional health in the midst of this…I just can’t help seeing a parallel between that and the way...
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Why Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is The... →
whyyesitiskate:
ktempest:
These ideas about Lincoln and the Civil War are what I like to call White Guilt Fantasies. The kinds of stories white Americans tell themselves about the history of our country to make themselves feel better — or, at least, not have to grapple with the realities of the things their forefathers thought or did. And this White Guilt Fantasy pervades Abraham Lincoln:...
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Why Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is The... →
ktempest:
These ideas about Lincoln and the Civil War are what I like to call White Guilt Fantasies. The kinds of stories white Americans tell themselves about the history of our country to make themselves feel better — or, at least, not have to grapple with the realities of the things their forefathers thought or did. And this White Guilt Fantasy pervades Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. So...
(tw: brutal gay bashing) Black NYC 8th Grader... →
alexandraerin:
thisbriskness:
kerriheartsyou:
howtobeterrell:
But it gets better lil Kardin
Now u can’t see out of one eye because str8 people can’t raise their fucking kids. I hate heterosexuals right now
Do u have any idea what it’s like to walk down the street waiting to be gay bashed?
These fucking people.
>I hate heterosexuals right now
So every single person who’s...
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“TRIGGER WARNING.
“The ability to see her as a human is even more enticing to...”
– —Ron Rosenberg, talking to Kotaku about the Tomb Raider reboot.
You can imagine my thoughts on this, but I wrote a post to illuminate them, anyway. This is some base misogyny, and the dude isn’t even ashamed about it.
May 2012
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“So let me get this straight – it’s a problem if my mom listened too much to my...”
– Dlisted | Be Very Afraid
Wow, Bristol Palin, you are a MQ.*
*Can you guess.
(via cijithegeek)
um. hey. direct insult to the President’s intelligence, go!
“that’s not a reason to change thousands of years of thinking…”
ah. so let’s forego all the developments in medicine. don’t want to...
anyone else see that article in the ny times about...
strugglingtobeheard:
in regards to the HONY thing. i was wondering if maybe this is something that ties into the ability for him to go as far as demand all these people to take that image off the net. i guess many ultra orthodox jews have been harshly shunned for outting any kind of sexual assault/rape/molestation. i am sure this article has a possibility of creating a kind of stereotype and i...
Rooting social justice in culture: a call for a...
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
eshusplayground:
Riley touched on this a long time ago with their Rules of a Whiteness-Free Discussion. However, I’m interested in digging a bit deeper to figure out a new way of talking about social justice online.
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and reflecting, and I’m starting to believe that POCs need our own movement that comes at social justice from our ways of...
Watchblackamazon:
custerdiedforyoursins:
quickhits:
Trayvon Martin gun range targets sell out — because many ‘conservatives’ are really just assholes.
WKMG:
An unidentified entrepreneur admits he is trying to profit off Trayvon Martin’s death by selling gun range targets featuring the teen who’s death has sparked a nationwide controversy.
Although Martin’s face does not appear on the paper...
“Stalking Latino Women: “In another instance, during a crime suppression...”
– 10 Worst Things Arizona’s Racist Sheriff Joe Arpaio Has Done | Civil Liberties | AlterNet
i appreciate that the top ‘worst’ things done pinpoint what this asshole has done to Latinas. I am highlighting this section in particular because Driving While Colored is far far FAR too often represented as...
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"Why WON'T you educate us and hold our hand? We...
cruelyouth:
I’ve seen this shit before and have been meaning to write about it.
Imagine an abusive relationship (can work with romantic relationships and/or with family) and this is said by the abuser:
“Why do you want to leave me? I allowed you to live in my house, and I make all the money. You’re dependent on me. YOU need ME. Nobody will ever love you like I do, and I have everything you...
“After the sentencing, Rep. Corrine Brown confronted State Attorney Angela Corey...”
– Florida woman sentenced to 20 years in controversial warning shot case - CNN
Fuck. This. Shit.
(via notime4yourshit)
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notime4yourshit:
Between Marissa Alexander’s sentencing and the asshole selling Trayvon gun range targets, I’m done with Florida. Done.
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Mitt Romney Inadvertantly Teaches Us A Lesson... →
Consider the kind of man Romney is. He has not a bit of compassion, empathy, or regard for people other than himself and the people he holds dear1. He casually destroys people’s lives, makes their jobs disappear, then laughs and makes jokes about it. His ever-changing political stances prove that he doesn’t hold values, he pretends them, and says whatever is politically expedient no matter who it...
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cabell:
stopwhitewashing:
Maria in the comics
She may have been a white Russian woman at some points, and the cartoon did darken her noticeably, but in Civil War and Secret Invasion, the comic events where she played a pivotal role, she looks a hell of a lot like a light-skinned WoC to me.
And given that sometimes she’s white and sometimes she’s not, and that there was a full cast almost...
“Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday signed into law a bill to cut off Planned Parenthood’s...”
– Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (Wicked Witch of the West) Signs Planned Parenthood Funding Ban (via tinfoilandtea)
Fuck you Jan
Fuck you Jan
Fuck you, Jan
Fuck you, Jan
Fuck you, Jan
(via nakedcrip)
here’s another case of white supremacy and heteropatriarchy intersecting. because in arizona—they’ve...
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Black Women
blackamazon:
being ya know human
are specific , unique individuals want to be loved and cared and sexed etc in personal deeply felt ways ….
who are unfairly asked to not need or compensate or correct or sell their lives
and all I really ant is the world where we get to enjoy the things that make us US without having to have a quarom , referendum,meeting
unless we CHOOSE it
WHY IS THIS...
By saying that you only support abortion in cases...
“When someone says ‘I have these two crystals if you rub them together you’ll get...”
– Neil de Grasse Tyson - on the nature of scientific inquiry (via doubtingmarcus)
Yes, thank you Neil de Grasse Tyson. THANK YOU QUALITY HUMAN BEING, YOU.
Also, this is why I get frustrated with so called skeptics and scientists who lazily dismiss anything that they don’t immediately think is...
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Mickey Smith is completely underrated
the-eleventh-blog:
The guy fucking saved the universe with a yellow truck.
He was loyal to a woman who fell in love with a man no one can compete with.
He went to another universe just to be with his Grandma.
He broke into a motherfucking school with a motherfucking metal dog in the backseat.
He has a god damn 80’s song dedicated to him.
