June 2011
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Another terrorist plot foiled as TSA forces 95...
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iheartchaos:
The TSA has gotten hell and has stood by its decision to give a 95 year old woman with leukemia and in a wheelchair, an enhanced pat-down, which included forcing the woman to remove her soiled adult diaper. Another terrorist plot thwarted! Good job America.
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TSA you suck so much.
Seriously now, when are we going to get some comprehensive reform of...
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Dressing Up Native: Just Don't Do It
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“Dressing up as ‘a Native American’ furthers the already popular notion that they aren’t real, diverse, complex human beings. There’s a reason that dressing up as a white guy isn’t nearly as effective on Halloween; there’s no homogenous vision of what White Guy looks like. If you’ve developed a homogenous vision of a particular race, enough that you could conceive of a good...
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Interesting Discussions of X-Men: First Class and...
zesticola:
“No matter Hollywood’s attempt to convey moral ambiguity, the viewer is obviously intended to side with Xavier when it all comes down. But the way most of the X-Men films have portrayed human aggression toward mutants resonates a little closely with, y’know, real life violence and oppression toward people of color, towards queer and gender non-conforming people, women. These are types...
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Thank You, British Empire... For Being Dicks
spastasmagoria:
“20. While we recognise the Aboriginal people as the first people of Australia, we encourage them to accept our Government’s apology and invite them to issue a statement of thanks for the good that the British heritage has brought to our nation.”
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Welcome to Rise Up Australia Party – Keep Australia Australian!
I am disgusted and horrified and… I just have no words.
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Dan Savage Is A Douchebag
cabell:
“I’m sorry, bisexual activists, but you’re doing it all wrong. Instead of berating me for my alleged bi-phobia—and if I’m the enemy, you’re in real trouble—berate your closeted compatriots. If they all came out tomorrow, you could put an end to bi-phobia, take over the LGBT movement, and kick my ass out of it.”
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Bisexuals by Dan Savage - Seattle Pullout - The Queer Issue: You’re Doing...
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Couple Married 86 Years Holds World Record For...
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Longest Married Couple in the World
emcu2:
Herbert and Zelmyra Fisher have an extraordinary story to tell. They’ve been married for 86 years. Together, they endured the Great Depression, World War II, the Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam, they have seen the impact of the Civil Rights Movement, watched man land on the moon, the dropping of the atomic bomb,...
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America was a great country before 1965...
jhameia:
“Ladies and gentlemen, America was a great country before 1965”
— Rick Santorum
Yeah, if you were white, America was off the hook…
…the white man’s Coke was colder
Did you know that German Nazi prisoners of war were treated with more respect than Japanese Americans during World War II? Look it up…while you’re doing that look up “sundown towns”, too…
“nigger, don’t let...
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Picnic group, Highland Beach, Md / 1931
ofanotherfashion:
This photograph titled “Picnic group, Highland Beach, Md / 1931” shows 21 girls from the local YWCA sitting in and on what has been identified as a 1929 Packard Model 633 8-cylinder Rumble Seat Roadster. I assume that the man wearing the dress shirt and tie in the background is the adult chaperone. Notice the variety of hats some of the older girls are wearing - they’re using...
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from "Men Can Stop Rape" by Joe Ehrmann, former...
jhameia:
“From an early age, boys are fitted with emotional straight-jackets tailored by a restricted code of behavior that falsely defines masculinity. In the context of “stop crying,” “stop those emotions,” and “don’t be a sissy,” we define what it means to “Be a Man!” Adherence to this “boy code” leaves many men dissociated from their feelings and incapable of accessing, naming, sharing, or...
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Sherman Alexie: Why the Best Kids Books Are...
karnythia:
“When some cultural critics fret about the “ever-more-appalling” YA books, they aren’t trying to protect African-American teens forced to walk through metal detectors on their way into school. Or Mexican-American teens enduring the culturally schizophrenic life of being American citizens and the children of illegal immigrants. Or Native American teens growing up on Third World...
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on privilege denial within disability
youarenotyou:
I’ve noticed a lot of people lately on tumblr denying their capability to be ableist because they themselves fall somewhere on the disability spectrum. Specifically, I see people react to being called ableist by referring to themselves as “not able” and therefore, lacking the privilege that is necessary to be oppressive.
Not able. There’s a lot wrapped up in those words.
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Police Point Gun At, Threaten, and Arrest Man Who... →
More reinforcement for my firm belief that, overall, police cannot be trusted unless you’re white and upper class looking.
Miami Beach police did their best to destroy a citizen video that shows them shooting a man to death in a hail of bullets Memorial Day.
First, police pointed their guns at the man who shot the video, according to a Miami Herald interview with the videographer.
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Colorlines: Conservative Group Targets Oakland's... →
The National Organization of Marriage is taking heat for aggressively coming out against gender identity lessons taught at an Oakland elementary school, as part of an anti-bullying campaign.
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NOM president Brian Brown sent a letter to supporters calling the lessons “disturbing” and that the organizers want to “embed in these children’s minds the idea that we all have a right to make up...
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From The Feminist Wire: Bad Boys, Bad Boys,... →
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Although the details and perpetrators of these incidents are quite different, the women in these stories—a young police detainee in Tijuana and a hotel maid in Manhattan—share a glaring similarity. Both women have much less power, and much less social and cultural capital, than their alleged assailants. While some progressive commentators have framed these...
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