March 2011
110 posts
“The first is that true gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A...”
– Fanfic Symposium: When Worlds Collide (via thefuror)
I find myself shocked when women make up more then 1/3 of reoccurring characters :/
(via stfukyriarchy)
this quote is so amazing omgggggg
(via stfufauxminists)
This is spot on. For a patriarchal society, equality is threatening and assigned...
Charlie Brooker, marry me already →
Just as Sadowitz’s palpable vulnerability makes him funny, so it’s a soulless lack of self-reproach that makes the predominant Perez Hilton/3am Girl/Holy Moly/TMZ gloaty online sneer-culture so unbearably dull and depressing. You people lick the inner base of dustbins for a living. Stop looking so fucking pleased with yourselves.
Are you there, God? It’s me, Clementine. I...
Link: Fault Lines - A fundraising e-book for Japan... →
I wrote something a little while ago about the frustration and sense of futility that can come when faced with tragedy. After the floods in Queensland and the earthquakes in New Zealand and Japan, I think a lot of people were a bit lost as to what they could tangibly do to help. I don’t have much money and I’m a little suspicious of the ‘raising awareness’ activity of...
Mother Jones magazine on Tumblr: The best... →
Seriously, the greatest job ad ever written in the history of the world. I want to work for Matthew Doig. And I also kind of want to marry him.
motherjones:
You should, like, strongly consider applying to work for this guy:
We want to add some talent to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune investigative team. Every serious candidate should have a proven track record of conceiving, reporting and...
“Why do strange men think I care about their opinion of my appearance? Do they...”
– Chloe Angyal (via splatterdick)
It may come as a surprise to some men, but most women don’t actually move through life in a mess of self doubt waiting for strangers to come and define them with throwaway comments.
How many times during the years have I been given unsolicited opinions on my...
Nikki J's Scrapheap: Wow. In Which Marie Claire... →
newsweek:
LATE NIGHT, BY THE NUMBERS:
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno Male writers: 19 Female writers: 1
Conan Male writers: 17 Female writers: 1
The Colbert Report Male writers: 16 Female writers: 1
The Late Show With David Letterman Male writers: 13 Female writers:…
LINK: The continued assumption that female to male... →
From AdelaideNow (with my emphasis added):
A SCHOOL house mistress who sexually abused six boys should be sentenced on the basis of her crimes.
Crown prosecutor Kara Shead told Judge Anthony Garling his sentencing approach should be the same as if the perpetrator was a man. But defence lawyer Christopher Watson said, while the boys suffered harm, the damage was “unlikely to be as...
Playing Endlessly: Attention Amanda Vanstone . . . →
spilumendalaust:
… re. your unintelligent opinion piece on the repayment of HECS debts in today’s SMH:
1. HECS debts exist because spending time acquiring a tertiary education is a surefire road to short term poverty. Sure, on average, those with a university education earn more than those without one, but…
Well said Geeves. Well said.
I feel like this new ‘press enter’ system on the comments in facebook is going to result in a lot of people posting regretful late night declarations of love.
I’m too afraid to even look at the pages of the people I normally facestalk in case Zuckerberg has somehow figured out a way to psychically transmit my thoughts directly into the feed of every single person they have ever...
Does anyone else find it disturbing when young girls wear short, tight, cheeky hot pants? I mean, technically speaking if anyone’s legs are going to ‘get away with it’ it’s going to be a 13 year old’s. But it’s weird, right? If I were a dude, I would experience the following range of emotions upon seeing some of these devil-may-care young things in their scraps...
Rebecca Black vs The World: Why She Matters To... →
morefunthanbeingsad:
This is a really well written piece by Ned Hepburn, he explores some very interesting points in relation to the thunderous noise of the internet nowadays when comparing the reaction to the natural disaster currently occurring in Japan, to the reaction spawned by manufactured pop disasters like the Ark Music Factory and it’s most recent martyr Rebecca Black.
For anyone with...
Hey!
You know what’s not needed right now? A whole bunch of “I told you so”s about nuclear power.
Can Japan be given a chance to get through this crisis before people who aren’t scientists and only have their own politics directing them start weighing in on how they were right all along but NO ONE WOULD LISTEN?
These are real people. This is a real country. It’s not a...
Money - the cold, hard reality of disaster relief
My best friend came to town this weekend. In between drinking copious amounts of cham (unwisely, it turns out) and playing with the cutest children in the world (mixies are the best), we talked about the practical approach to disaster relief.
Mtk works for a major aid agency and informed me there’s only one real thing we can do to help.
“Money,” she said. “Money, money,...
Link: The Careless Language of Sexual Violence →
We live in a strange and terrible time for women. There are days, like today, where I think it has always been a strange and terrible time to be a woman. It is nothing less than horrifying to realize we live in a culture where the “paper of record” can write an article that comes off as sympathetic to eighteen rapists while encouraging victim blaming. Have we forgotten who an eleven-year-old is?...
morefunthanbeingsad asked: Haha, that little back and forth between you and Erin was hilarious :-)
But you're both welcome to fight over Damon, not to ruin your boner or anything but he is a *little* chubby in this one. Now he's nowhere near Fat Kilmer but he needs to be careful not to let himself go any more. I'd stick with Ryan Gosling if I were you, or Mark Wahlberg! have you seen the...
But you're both welcome to fight over Damon, not to ruin your boner or anything but he is a *little* chubby in this one. Now he's nowhere near Fat Kilmer but he needs to be careful not to let himself go any more. I'd stick with Ryan Gosling if I were you, or Mark Wahlberg! have you seen the...
thoughts over wires and wavelengths: Just a... →
northonm31:
I am always wary of over-philosophising about prominent occurrences, and some could be forgiven for deeming such analysis to be not all that far removed from the “everything happens for a reason” school of thought…
However, there is a part of me that feels that we’re slowly coming together…
My thoughts then.
I think you’re right about people realising we are all...
