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holy-mother-of-sin: For sure I can’t be the only one who think...

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:24:44 -0500

For sure I can’t be the only one who think Stefon is adorable…

So gonna miss these two……..

I LOVE YOU BILL HADER!!!!!!!!!!!!

thatneedstogo: Jason Sudeikis dancing in the “What’s Up With...

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:23:31 -0500

thatneedstogo:

Jason Sudeikis dancing in the “What’s Up With That?” sketch »»

I might miss this the most of all.

scholasticbookclubs: Magical Books’ covers: “Hogwarts, A...

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:27:05 -0500

scholasticbookclubs:

Magical Books’ covers: “Hogwarts, A History”

Love this!

tyleroakley: rosalarian: Angelina Jolie had a double...

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:17:47 -0500

tyleroakley:

rosalarian:

Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy, in case you hadn’t heard. How dare she remove those ticking time bombs from her chest, amiright? Like, hasn’t she learned by now that her body is public domain and we all get to vote on what she does with it? Sheesh, how selfish can ya get.

Boom.

popchartlab: Don Draper’s Old Fashioned, The Dude’s White...

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:51:40 -0500

popchartlab:

Don Draper’s Old Fashioned, The Dude’s White Russian, Hunter S. Thompson’s Singapore Sling, Daisy Buchanan’s Mint Julep, and more in our new Cocktail Chart of Film and Literature.

meangirlsofpanem: Coming this fall, the “Capitol Collection,”...

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:50:50 -0500

meangirlsofpanem:

Coming this fall, the “Capitol Collection,” exclusively from CoverGirl!

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Tue, 14 May 2013 21:53:18 -0500

"The first immigrants to Europe arrived thousands of years ago from central Asia. Most pre-contact..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:46:11 -0500

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The first immigrants to Europe arrived thousands of years ago from central Asia. Most pre-contact Europeans lived together in small villages. Because the continent was very crowded, their lives were ruled by strict hierarchies within the family and outside it to control resources. Europe was highly multi-ethnic, and most tribes were ruled by hereditary leaders who commanded the majority “commoners.” These groups were engaged in near constant warfare.

Pre-contact Europeans wore clothing made of natural materials such as animal skin and plant and animal-based textiles. Women wore long dresses and covered their hair, and men wore tunics and leggings. Both men and women liked to wear jewelry made from precious stones and metals as a sign of status. Before contact, Europeans had very poor diets. Most people were farmers and grew wheat and vegetables and raised cows and sheep to eat. They rarely washed themselves, and had many diseases because they often let their animals live with them.

Religion infused every part of Europeans’ lives. Europeans believed in one supreme deity, a father figure, who they believed was made of three parts, and they particularly worshiped the deity’s son. They claimed that their god had given humans domination over the earth. They built elaborate temples to him and performed ceremonies in which they ate crackers and drank wine and believed it was the body and blood of their god, who would provide them with entrance into a wondrous afterlife called heaven when they died. Many wars were fought over disagreements about the details of this religion, each group believing their interpretation was the right one that should be spread across the land.

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- Indigenous History: “What if people told European history like they told Native American history?” (via stfuconservatives)

How ‘Slut Shaming’ Has Been Written Into School Dress Codes Across The Country

Fri, 10 May 2013 12:58:49 -0500

How ‘Slut Shaming’ Has Been Written Into School Dress Codes Across The Country:

Last month, a New Jersey middle school banned girls from wearing strapless dresses to prom. Administrators claimed that the dresses were “distracting” — though they refused to specify exactly how or why. Parents reacted strongly to the rule; some supported the dress code while others deemed it “slut-shaming.” On Friday, the school compromised by allowing girls to wear single-strap or see-through-strap dresses.

This is no isolated incident in the United States. Across the country, young girls are being told what not to wear because it might be a “distraction” for boys, or because adults decide it makes them look “inappropriate.” At its core, every incident has a common thread: Putting the onus on young women to prevent from being ogled or objectified, instead of teaching those responsible to learn to respect a woman’s body. Here are five other recent examples:

1. A middle school in California banned tight pants. At the beginning of last month, a middle school in Northern California began telling girls to avoid wearing pants that are “too tight” because it “distracts the boys.” At a mandatory assembly for just the female students, the middle school girls were told that they’re no longer allowed to wear leggings or yoga pants. “We didn’t think it was fair how we have all these restrictions on our clothing while boys didn’t have to sit through [the assembly] at all,” one student told local press. Some parents also complained, leading the school’s assistant principal to record a voicemail explaining the new policy. “The guiding principle in all dress codes is that the manner in which students dress does not become a distraction in the learning environment,” the message said.

2. A high school principal in Minnesota emailed parents to ask them to cover up their daughters. A principal in Minnetonka, MN recently wrote an email telling parents to stop letting their daughters wear leggings or yoga pants to school. He says the tight-fitting pants are fine with longer shirts but, when worn with a shorter top, a girl’s “backside” can be “too closely defined.” The big risk of having a defined backside, he thinks, is that it can “be highly distracting for other students.”

3. Two girls in Ohio were turned away from their prom for being “improperly dressed.” Laneisha Williams and Nyasia Mitchell were barred from prom this spring for wearing dresses that administrators considered “too revealing.” The girls say that they didn’t believe they were violating a dress code that said dresses couldn’t be too short or show too much cleavage. But one administrator told local news that the high school girls were only allowed to wear dresses that had “no curvature of their breasts showing.”

4. A kindergarten student in Georgia was forced to change her “short” skirt because it was a “distraction to other students.” It’s hard to imagine that a kindergartener’s outfit could be “a distraction to other students,” but a mother in Georgia told locals news there that her daughter had been outfitted in someone else’s pants — without parental permission — after the principal deemed the skirt the young girl was wearing too short.” The girl had apparently wore the skirt, and accompanying leggings, just one week before without incident.

5. Forty high school girls were sent home from a winter dance in California after “degrading” clothing inspections “bordering on sexual harassment.” A school board member’s daughter was among the 40 girls turned away from Capistrano Valley High’s February dance for wearing dresses that either exposed their midriffs or were cut too low. Before the dance, girls were apparently required to flap their arms up and down and turn around for male administrators’ inspection. The school issues image guidelines for appropriate dress on its website — though the images were nearly all of women, and the only male image depicted proper attire. One girl alleges that the principal told her, “Not all dresses look good on certain body shapes.” A grandmother of one of the girls who was turned away from the dance also said that a teacher remarked about her granddaughter, “What mother would allow her daughter to wear a dress like that?” Apparently the school did receive some praise, though, from the parents of two male students.

When most Americans think about “rape culture,” they may think about the Steubenville boys’ defense arguing that an unconscious girl consented to her sexual assault because she “didn’t say no,” the school administrators who choose to protect their star athletes over those boys’ rape victims, or the bullying that led multiple victims of sexual assault to take their own lives. While those incidences of victim-blaming are certainly symptoms of a deeply-rooted rape culture in this country, they’re not the only examples of this dynamic at play. Rape culture is also evident in the attitudes that lead school administrators to treat young girls’ bodies as inherently “distracting” to the boys who simply can’t control themselves. That approach to gender roles simply encourages our youth to assume that sexual crimes must have something to do with women’s “suggestive” clothes or behavior, rather than teaching them that every individual is responsible for respecting others’ bodily autonomy.

If the way I look distracts you, that’s YOUR problem, not MINE.

theartofnotwriting: “Nobody can guarantee that it’s going to be...

Thu, 09 May 2013 20:56:37 -0500

theartofnotwriting:

“Nobody can guarantee that it’s going to be okay, but — and I don’t know if this will be comforting to anyone else — the possibility exists that there’s a piece of corn on a floor somewhere that will make you just as confused about why you are laughing as you have ever been about why you are depressed. And even if everything still seems like hopeless bullshit, maybe it’s just pointless bullshit or weird bullshit or possibly not even bullshit.

I don’t know.

But when you’re concerned that the miserable, boring wasteland in front of you might stretch all the way into forever, not knowing feels strangely hope-like.”

-Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Depression, Part Two

fleurdeliser: cheia: Safe abortions have always been...

Thu, 09 May 2013 19:11:23 -0500

fleurdeliser:

cheia:

Safe abortions have always been available to the rich, Dan. You simply want to deny them to the poor, and if you succeed, poor woman will be forced to get them anyway. They’ll be forced into the alleys with hangers, plungers and vacuum cleaners, risking death or mutilation. But you’d like that, wouldn’t you, Dan? You sadistic, elitist, sexist, racist, anti-humanist pig!

Saturday Night Live 3x18

This aired in 1978. Thirty-five years later, it’s still a fucking ~debate.

ilovecharts: -Bojan M.

Thu, 09 May 2013 19:11:09 -0500

ilovecharts:

-Bojan M.

stfuconservatives: mohandasgandhi: What happens if you flip...

Thu, 09 May 2013 19:05:31 -0500

stfuconservatives:

mohandasgandhi:

What happens if you flip gendered book covers?

You are informed about a book’s perceived quality through a number of ways. Probably the biggest is the cover.

And the simple fact of the matter is, if you are a female author, you are much more likely to get the package that suggests the book is of a lower perceived quality. Because it’s “girly,” which is somehow inherently different and easier on the palate. A man and a woman can write books about the same subject matter, at the same level of quality, and that woman is simple more likely to get the soft-sell cover with the warm glow and the feeling of smooth jazz blowing off of it.

This idea that there are “girl books” and “boy books” and “chick lit” and “whatever is the guy equivalent of chick lit”* gives credit to absolutely no one, especially not the boys who will happily read stories by women, about women. As a lover of books and someone who supports readers and writers of both sexes, I would love a world in which books are freed from some of these constraints. Click here to read more about the perceived differences between ‘girl’ and ‘boy’ books.

(Continue reading…)

This is a pretty interesting experiment from author Maureen Johnson.

I read this earlier today. Really, really worth looking at and thinking about. There’s a whole gallery of them.

stfuconservatives: nerdyfacts: (Source.) True story! His...

Thu, 09 May 2013 19:02:14 -0500

stfuconservatives:

nerdyfacts:

(Source.)

True story! His family has donated a ton of money to Planned Parenthood.

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Thu, 09 May 2013 19:01:56 -0500

ilovecharts: Hyperbole and a Half: Depression Part Two Allie...

Thu, 09 May 2013 18:59:16 -0500

ilovecharts:

Hyperbole and a Half: Depression Part Two

Allie Brosh is absolutely the best writer about depression on the Internet. This, like her Part One, is perfect.

theartofnotwriting: divergentofficial: JUST REVEALED - the...

Thu, 09 May 2013 18:58:34 -0500

theartofnotwriting:

divergentofficial:

JUST REVEALED - the official ALLEGIANT cover! Only 165 more days until ALLEGIANT hits stores! http://bit.ly/18w60ov

LOOK at it. Isn’t it gorgeous? Joel Tippie at HarperCollins is the creative force behind this cover, and he is so talented and always works so hard to get everything just right. (Also a shout out to Amy Ryan and Barb Fitzsimmons, also at Harper— you guys are awesome!) I have been so fortunate to get three covers that I love. I couldn’t be happier with this one and I can’t wait to see all three books lined up on my shelf!

A short note about that symbol: no, it is not a faction symbol. It is, however, a symbol that appears in the book. I can’t really share more than that— you’ll have to read it for yourself! (I can’t wait for that either!)

(Also, yes, that is O’Hare at the bottom. Can’t say more about that either! AHH!)

If you missed my Today show interview with Ryan Seacrest in which we reveal the cover for the first time, you can watch it here: http://www.today.com/video/today/51828575

tyleroakley: flozac: the principal at my school made an...

Thu, 09 May 2013 18:57:44 -0500

tyleroakley:

flozac:

the principal at my school made an announcement yesterday that the girls need to start covering up and then i found this in the hallway

BOOM.

STFU, Conservatives: North Carolina bill requiring teens to get notarized parental permission for medical and mental health care including...

Thu, 09 May 2013 18:57:09 -0500

STFU, Conservatives: North Carolina bill requiring teens to get notarized parental permission for medical and mental health care including...:

abaldwin360:

Raleigh, N.C. (WRAL) — North Carolina could be on the verge of implementing the nation’s strictest law on medical care for teenagers.

House Bill 693 would require notarized written approval from a parent before a doctor or other provider could diagnose, treat or even…

theartofnotwriting: Divergent Trilogy Love this! So cool to...

Thu, 09 May 2013 18:55:25 -0500

theartofnotwriting:

Divergent Trilogy

Love this! So cool to see them all together.