April 2011
117 posts
lazy radical: How to pay a genuine compliment →
howmanywomen:
When you see an attractive woman you don’t know on the street, it’s not impossible to pay her a genuine compliment. But this will never involve a) yelling anything, from any distance, b) saying anything overtly sexual, c) using any non-words such as whistles or “Woo!”s, or d)…
On a similar note, when I was a personal trainer, I received a whole host of comments, in the gym...
Your Son Was Killed in Afghanistan →
Introduction On April 23rd, 2011, I had to tell two parents that their son died in a war that I do not believe in. The combination of my distrust in published American foreign policy objectives and…
“I want to live in a world where little girls are not pinkified, but where little...”
– S. E. Smith, “Get Your Anti-Femininity out of my Feminism” (via roxanneritchi)
I know there are feminists out there like this, but I must be super lucky not to know any! IRL I can be a pretty “girly-girl,” I spend way too much on makeup, I’m pregnant and my husband is the main...
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“they r baby killers,worse than the jap,nazi or commie docs,just so woman can...”
– Donald McComas
Regarding Planned Parenthood
(via stfuhatemongers)
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
(via queercakes)
Fun fact - The group that sponsored the ask - “the not so silent majority by pro-life rocks” - I trolled them a while ago, they pretend that they’re a “real”...
Site updates, staff additions →
Whew! This past couple of months has been quite challenging. The core of our website, WordPress, was giving us some customization issues and we were forced to transfer our domain to our Tumblr. This…
Top 10 Reasons Why The BMI Is Bogus →
cassket:
Americans keep putting on the pounds — at least according to a report released this week from the Trust for America’s Health. The study found that nearly two-thirds of states now have adult obesity rates above 25 percent.
But you may want to take those findings — and your next meal — with a grain of salt, because they’re based on a calculation called the body mass index, or BMI.
As...
realization:
Saying “in the past” in a history paper is extremely redundant.
Tweet predictor →
Based off your existing tweets, this predicts what you could be tweeting about.
My faves from mine:
Morality is not the Beck version. ….but many, many people who god hates, it’s not a fine we WOULD be.
Lmfao because of two evils: collect welfare or mcveigh? Islam has a federal level. Dhurrrr.
The Devaluation of Undergraduate Education →
In his 1955 masterpiece “The Sane Society”, Erich Fromm predicted what the footsteps at the end of a long path of capitalistic socialization sounded like. A latent byproduct of someone entering the…
tenderstatue asked: Now that I think about it, when a close friend was pregnant a couple of years ago, she took to slapping people's hands away from her belly. She is also a master of the hairy eyeball, and she deployed that with stunning ferocity once she got over the shock of being touched without permission. Similarly, I used to have super-long hair (like, tuck-into-the-pants long), and people ALWAYS touched...
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My last table of the day
So this fucking cow has the nerve to tell my bartender how *totally awesome* her service was while getting change, bring me back a $5 bill (her bill was $48) and then RUB MY STOMACH while saying “GOD BLESS you and your child.” Like, she was serious about it. She honestly thought she was blessing my womb or something.
Serious? SERIOUS? I run all around the damn restaurant getting you...
Dear Marine Corps: I hate you.
Jesse had to go tell a family that their son died in Afghanistan today. It’s part of his job now, that and being part of the guard at far too many funerals than any one person needs to take part in. (he’s close to 200.)
He’s done it before, multiple times, but this one really got to him. A combination of the guy who was supposed to be in charge being a completely incompetent...
Trigger warning: rape culture, rape apology. ....
stfufauxminists:
feministsaresexist:
benevolentsociopathy:
As a footnote to the previous post on relationships:
If I ever “went Dexter” on the world, I would choose to make as my victims the rapists and sexual abusers of the world. In my psychotic quest to “fix” and counsel the women around me, they’re the causes of these broken bodies and shattered souls that are nearly irreparable. ...
Pinwhale: The U.S. Government Database That Reads... →
libertarians:
combattant-de-la-liberte:
But the reality is that the NSA is not just satisfied with snooping on your emails.
Now the NSA is creating an artificial intelligence system called “Aquaint” that will literally intercept information from thousands of websites and databases to figure out not only who you are and what you are doing, but also what you are thinking.
Aquaint (“Advanced...
iamnotacrackpot replied to your post: Jesus pooped.
WELL THEN WHY DOES GOD KEEP SENDING MY COLLEAGUES INTO THE BATHROOM AT WORK WHEN I’M IN ONE OF THE STALLS TRYING TO POOP?!?!?!
The lord.
He is testing you.
Jesus pooped.
I just want everyone to let that sink in for a bit. And he was probably constipated sometimes. And other times he had diarrhea. Jesus. Diarrhea.
Research paper for history of the middle east
Christianity’s influence on Middle Eastern Politics, Affairs, and Boundaries
The area of the Middle East, encompassing the former Ottoman Empire, the Arabian Peninsula, and parts of Northern Africa, has been known far and wide as the birthplace and epicenter of the religion of Islam. While the Islamic religion heavily influenced the culture and rise of the Middle Eastern empires from its...
Supreme Court Weighs Rights of Parents Facing Jail... →
The Supreme Court heard arguments [recently] in a dispute over whether parents who face jail for failing to pay child support should be entitled to court-appointed attorneys. NPR notes that the core question before the court is whether long jail terms for civil contempt amount to criminal punishment. Those who say it does, including the American Civil Liberties Union, argue parents are being...
Antebellum America thesis:
While Northern Republicans argued vehemently not only for the prevention of slavery in the expanding territories but abolition in already established slave states, their motives were largely based in political maneuvering rather than a moral stance against slavery as an institution.
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Help!!
I need a good topic for my Antebellum America History class research paper… Suggestions?
"Many parents would get gene tests for kids:... →
stuffsickpeoplehavetoputupwith:
Here’s a good way to make sure that your child will never, ever be eligible for health insurance (and therefore access to health care in the U.S.) under any circumstances; make sure you get proof before they’re even born that they do in fact have 1 or more “preexisting conditions.”
Never. Never in a million years would I do this.
If you have knowledge of a...
theonetaylordetroye asked: I finally saw the Trololo guy today. MADE MY DAY.
statistsgonnastate asked: Umm I WORK. I file taxes and the only money I get back is money that the government took out of my paycheck. My education funds come from grants, scholarships, and loans.
"If you're as poor and sick as you say you are then you don't pay taxes."
Oh wait, I do.
Also, uh I'm still quite poor and quite sick so I don't know what's supposed...
"If you're as poor and sick as you say you are then you don't pay taxes."
Oh wait, I do.
Also, uh I'm still quite poor and quite sick so I don't know what's supposed...
“The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped...”
– Michelle Obama, 2008
Only someone as ignorant as a fascist would think that wealth is a fixed pie, to which we are “allotted” percentages. They would never stop to think that value can be created and expanded for your fellow man, not only taken from what is already in existence. The more you take...
I need to finish my homework
But I can’t stop feeling up my sleeping husband.
Damn you pregnancy hormones!
“The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped...”
– Michelle Obama, 2008
Only someone as ignorant as a fascist would think that wealth is a fixed pie, to which we are “allotted” percentages. They would never stop to think that value can be created and expanded for your fellow man, not only taken from what is already in existence. The more you take...
“I’m not going to show compassion for girls who complain about a guy telling them...”
– ~ Wingedwickedthings.tumblr.com
TRIGGER WARNING FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT
ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS??? Of course it is oppression!!! IT’S NOT ABOUT MEN FINDING WOMEN SEXY. Men I don’t know always seem to feel entitled to telling me what they think about my body while I’m trying to go about my days. It’s...
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ipomoeaandthestarstealers replied to your post: ipomoeaandthestarstealers replied to your post:…
Have you tried Alphamom’s registry list? I worked off of that and the stuff in the Baby Bargains book. Protip: do not register with your mom in tow, you will end up registering for some ridiculous shit to shut her up.
Well my mom isn’t crazy… Other than the baby name issue...
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ipomoeaandthestarstealers replied to your post: Conversation on the burqa ban
GURL why do you brave Baby Center? It’s a wretched hive of idiocy and the lowest common denominator. It’s the Idiocracy Mos Eisley wrapped up in a a Pooh swaddling blanket.
I don’t knowwww….
Honestly I was bored and trying to avoid doing hw and I was looking at the “things you should register...
Conversation on the burqa ban
In a BABY CENTER thread of all places. Why do I even….
I compared it to a country where the natives go topless all of a sudden implementing a law that every woman wasn’t allowed to wear a shirt, and mentioned burqas were often worn because (among other reasons) of modesty issues. Making a woman reveal more of herself than she wants to is disgusting.
Here’s the wonderous gem of...
Don't call me "baby"?
missdaisyvo:
If a man tells me I’m hot, or asks for my number, it isn’t oppression. In asking for my number or sending compliments my way, he’s not saying, “Hey bitch, I have a right to your body. I have a right to making you feel uncomfortable.” I’m not going to assume that I’m being victimized every time someone tells me I’m attractive. He’s simply complimenting me. I can feel uncomfortable,...
Seriously now
angrybees:
I want to meet all of these supposed feminists (as in women who actually call themselves feminists, not “women in general”) who hate men, fight to exclude women from the draft while leaving the system itself in place, mourn “the death of chivalry,” and want to continue being given preference over men in custody cases simple because they’re women
spoiler: I won’t meet them, because...
“I’m not going to show compassion for girls who complain about a guy telling them...”
– ~ Wingedwickedthings.tumblr.com
TRIGGER WARNING FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT
ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS??? Of course it is oppression!!! IT’S NOT ABOUT MEN FINDING WOMEN SEXY. Men I don’t know always seem to feel entitled to telling me what they think about my body while I’m trying to go about my days. It’s...
According to Sami Rebuttal →
alexholzbach:
UGH PEOPLE I’M SO DAMNED TIRED OF THIS ARGUMENT. The government isn’t taking the services from the doctors, specialists, or hospitals. It’s PAYING THEM FOR IT. A public option would simply provide the funds for those who cannot provide it for themselves to get the treatment they need to live.
-accordingtosami, responding to this quote by Ron Paul.
Now tell me, Sami, how the...
Anonymous asked: <p>this is from my old econ teacher’s blog:<br/>
<a href="http://www.profswitzer.com/blog/2009/04/national-fatality-equity-day/">http://www.profswitzer.com/blog/2009/04/national-fatality-equity-day/</a></p>
<a href="http://www.profswitzer.com/blog/2009/04/national-fatality-equity-day/">http://www.profswitzer.com/blog/2009/04/national-fatality-equity-day/</a></p>
alexholzbach:
“It’s a fallacy to say that people have a right to somebody else’s service. No, you have a right to your life and you have a right to your liberty and you have a right to earn a living and you have a responsibility to take care of yourself, but you don’t have a right to get something from government, because government has nothing so government has to take it from somebody and give...
Feminism is totally overrated.
Feminists are just making shit up and complaining about nothing, right? It’s not like first-world women are in actual danger anymore…
Birds.
Why are you chirping birds I’m about to go to sleep. It’s not bird chirping time.
