"In school, they would tell you that life wouldn’t come to you; you had to go out and make it your own. But when it came to love, the message for girls seemed to be this: Don’t. Don’t go after what you want. Wait. Wait to be chosen, as if only in the eye of another could one truly find value. The message was confusing and infuriating. It was a shell game with no actual pea under the rapidly moving cups."
Libba Bray, Beauty Queens, 125.
Exceptional book. I highly recommend the audiobook.
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Just listened to this bit on the audiobook today. Amazing book/audiobook.
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WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLR: The Situation of Andrew "weev" Auernheimer
via a friend who just visited him in prison.
Andrew is currently serving 3.5 years for revealing a security flaw by AT&T. He has been in administrative segregation for twenty days as punishment for using his payphone calls to post to Soundcloud, and for sending pre-written…
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when bananas rot they secrete stuff that makes other fruit including bananas near them rot faster
that’s so fucked up that is murder suicide
bananas commit murder suicidethat’s pretty fucking metalI’d say it’s pretty fuckingbananas
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Smile, Baby!
Hi Tumblr! This is my final revised personal essay for my Creative Nonfiction class. It’s about Kristen Stewart, sexism, and women being told to smile all the time. Clickthrough for the full thing, but here’s an excerpt:“She – is – a – trampire.” Will’s eyebrows knit together and his spit sprays the front row. That’s it: the funny switch is flipped and the audience screams. Nothing like Will Ferrell butting into your love life. Will was mocking our blame-the-other-woman culture, but the next day black and orange hoodies, t-shirts, and tank tops with “K-Stew is a Trampire!”, “Kristen Stewart Fucking Sucks,” and “I Wanna Take a Dump on Kristen Stewart” became available. All $20-$30. Get ‘em while they’re hot!Flashback to 2010 when Ashton Kutcher cheated on his wife Demi Moore. Unlike Kristen, Ashton was married to the person he cheated on. And what happened? A couple tabloids later he was in movie after movie. Then he starred in the TV show Two and a Half Men with Charlie Sheen, who also cheated on his wife with no real consequence.Ashton cheated again on Mila Kunis in 2013. Not a peep.Jude Law cheated on his wife with the nanny of his four kids, publicly apologized, and went on his merry way, getting a shit ton of movie roles.And Jesse James cheated on his fiancée Kat Von D with 19 different women.But no one remembers them for sleeping around. What’s Kristen? A villain for kissing her director. The other woman. The slut. The tramp. Homewrecker. Skank. Whore. Surely not human. And why was Kristen cheating considered national news? Sure, let’s ignore that she’s helped raise tons by making PSAs for RAINN – an anti-sexual assault organization – and Security on Campus.To shield Hollywood from more shameful acts like Kristen’s, I’ve concocted an average womansuperwoman recipe:15 dashes of red silk dress10 teaspoons of sculpted eyebrows66 vats of shimmering smiles30 pounds of concealer (consult Vogue to match your skin tone)30 shades of smoky eyes26 pinches of nice ass27 squeezes of big boobs32 puckers of luscious red lips26 sprinkles of stilettos44 dollops of windchime voices23 inches of long locks8.56 tablespoons of bubbly personalityAnd that’s it! The application is simple: first, you sift the red silk dress, concealer, and windchime voices into a vat of conventional femininity. Then you toss in the locks, the eyebrows, the ass, and the lips and stir until they mold into a nice unrecognizable mush. Then you inject whatever’s left and hope for the best. Cook at 212 degrees until it looks hot and ready to toss on the red carpet.Does your superwoman look like Kristen Stewart?But maybe I should just calm down. I’m thinking too much. I mean, why do I care? I don’t know Kristen. It’s not like she’s actually hurt by any of these stupid comments. It’s not like we have better things to be concerned about. No poverty or inequality. Not like girls who look up to her might suddenly start to hate her, thanks to our society that blames “the other woman.” We should expect much more from women than from men: a huge ass, a nice rack, and a smile. After all, that’s what they’re there for. That and making fun of the ones who don’t fit in.
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Florida teen Kaitlyn Hunt, 18, is seeing her young life turned upside down and her future jeopardized simply because she fell in love. Unfortunately for her, she fell in love with a younger girl who has vindictive bigots for parents.
She was kicked off the basketball team because of the potential for “drama” her presence created. She’s been vilified by fellow students, called “criminal,” “rapist” and “child abuser.” She was expelled from school. And far worse. She’s facing a lifetime label of “sex-offender,” because the other girl’s parents brought criminal charges against her despite the fact that the relationship was consensual. What’s more, according to Hunt’s parents, Hunt was 17 when the relationship began, but the other girl’s parents waited until after she turned 18 to go to police.
Unbelievably, prosecutors have decided to press the criminal charge.
Emphasis mine.So the prosecutor’s office in Sebastian River, Florida thinks this is a worthwhile use of taxpayer money and the court’s time.
Fuck everything about this.
"[W]hen we launch in a territory the Bittorrent traffic drops as the Netflix traffic grows. So I think people do want a great experience and they want access – people are mostly honest. The best way to combat piracy isn’t legislatively or criminally but by giving good options. One of the side effects of growth of content is an expectation to have access to it. You can’t use the internet as a marketing vehicle and then not as a delivery vehicle."
Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer at Netflix (via laliberty)
Look, someone who gets it.
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this perfectly mirrors my feelings about ebooks & libraries, too.
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People being angry about ~dem gays~ on Target’s Facebook.
I just want to give my two cents on this and tell you a story.
A couple weeks ago, I was hired at Target. I have a job at Target. Not a big deal right?
It is a big deal because i’m a transman.
It doesn’t take a genius to conclude that it’s hard for me, my brothers, and sisters to get a job. There are legal restraints regarding the job and if you don’t pass, it’s hard to be taken seriously at a job interview.
Right on the application, it asks what your preferred name is. It also asks if there is anything that target should know. I put the fact that I am a transman, expecting not to get a call because usually when you put that down, people will throw out the application. I got TWO interviews.
At the interview, they asked me about it. I told them I am on hormones and they told me that they didn’t care. Not in the sense that they don’t emotionally care, but that it didn’t matter. I was male and that’s all that mattered. They also told me that they give sex same couples benefits in states that do not recognize them as a married couple.
At my job orientation, I was not misgendered once. Even my supervisors who weren’t sure of my gender avoided pronoun use, which I found only happens when you’ve had pronoun training. They gave me a name tag with my preferred name and didn’t ask questions. I felt safe and respected, which is huge for a trans* person.
TLDR: Target is amazing not just for the LGB, but also the T. Shop there for the rest of your life.
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