February 2012
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“It’s no accident that Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X have been set up as...”
– a-dream-deferred-goes-to-harlem (via stay-human)
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What Lot's Wife Would Have Said (If She Wasn't A...
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eating-poetry:
Do you remember when we met in Gomorrah? When you were still beardless, and I would oil my hair in the lamp light before seeing you, when we were young, and blushed with youth like bruised fruit. Did we care then what our neighbors did in the dark?
When our first daughter was born on the River Jordan, when our second cracked her pink head from my body...
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The United States: Hey you better not get nuclear weapons because you're a dangerous country that might attack others for no good reason and you'll probably drop those weapons on innocent civilians.
Iran:
North Korea:
The United States:
Iran:
North Korea: Hirosh-
The United States: SHUT UP.
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Joss Whedon: Feminist
Interviewer: So why do you write these strong female characters?
Whedon: Because you're still asking me that question.
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“One day, all of this will have happened a long time ago.”
– - Sady Doyle at Rookie Magazine here
This is from an excellent survivor piece partially reproduced with added comments here and fully reproduced here
(via findingrealwords)
My favorite part:
Most people who want to die don’t actually want to stop existing; they want the pain to stop existing....
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TPM - How The GOP Went Back To The 1950s In Just...
abaldwin360:
Very neatly, and on three separate fronts, conservatives in America turned the clock back to the 1950s with their rhetoric about women’s rights Thursday, according to women in politics on both sides of the aisle. This could be a big problem for the GOP when the calendar reaches November.
Let’s take a look at Thursday, February 16, 2012, the day Washington fell into a time-warp.
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“The Bible’s the greatest game of ‘Telephone’ in history. Jesus said ‘Love your...”
– @JohnFugelsang (via apoplecticskeptic)
HA!
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Winning the Birth Control Battle: How Obama just... →
thesoapboxschtick:
Obama’s plan in a nutshell:
STEP #1: Mandate that all female employees have a right to free birth control through their employer’s insurance company (including females who work for religious organizations).
STEP #2: Sit back for two weeks as religious right-wing conservatives go nuts condemning birth control as evil. Even though 99% of sexually active women (a lot of...
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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been....”
– Isaac Asimov (via whomadewho)
So Relevant.
(via stfuconfederates)
I will never cease to be amazed at how many people refuse to change their beliefs in the face of statistics and evidence and studies and history. Just mind-boggling.
-Jess
(via stfuconservatives)
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“The first is that true gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A...”
– Fanfic Symposium: When Worlds Collide (via bitterbuffalo
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OMG I LOVE THIS ESSAY SO MUCH. This is the thing that made me embrace slash a few years ago because before I was like “uh-oh I can’t do that it’s something GIRLS do D:” /coolstorybro
(via onetrueharem)
Really good essay
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[animated GIF set of Lady Gaga dressing in... →
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bakajane:
#God I really want Gaga to just GO THE FUCK AWAY and stop appropriating other people’s experiences #YEAH LOOK AT YOU YOU’RE SO COOL BINDING AND DOING YOUR HAIR UP LIKE A GUY FOR A PHOTO SHOOT #But you kind of get to take the binder off after the shoot is done and continue being happy with your body #so GO FUCKING...
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“One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before,...”
– Rick Santorum
From Tressugar’s “11 Quotes from Rick Santorum that are Worrisome for Women”
(via elledeau)
This makes me physically ill.
(via someauthorgirl)
Do tell, Rick Santorum, how are things supposed to be? I could use a good laugh.
(via shewalkslikethunder)
P in V, missionary...
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