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feministspitball: bemusedlybespectacled: ramoorebooks: opinion...

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:49:24 -0600

bemusedlybespectacled:

ramoorebooks:

opinionatedlez:

Here are some awesome and empowering quotes from several very strong female celebrities.

And Kristen Stewart.

No, you know what? Fuck you.

Let me tell you about Kristen Stewart.

Let’s talk about how she’s the centerpiece of one of the most inexplicably popular misogynistic pieces of film shit and somehow gets blamed for it sucking, despite the fact that, hey, the books were actually worse. For those who were lucky enough to escape reading the actual books, her apparent lack of emotion is 100% accurate to Bella’s character, because Bella is in fact not a character but a blank white wall for fourteen-year-old girls to project themselves onto. Robert Pattinson is not the only one in the cast who hates Twilight, thank you.

Let’s talk about how she got crucified in the media for having an affair with a married man, when that man was her director. And let’s remember that she was called all manner of things for “ruining her relationship with RPattz” when she wasn’t even engaged to the dude, let alone married with kids. But oh no, she gets called a slut because she’s Kristen Stewart, she gets her career fucked because she’s Kristen Stewart, and the dude gets off scott free.

Let’s talk about how she is incredibly shy and anxious (rather, incidentally, like Chris Evans) but does film anyway, because she’s just that awesome.

Fuck your noise. She’s not the best actor in the world but she sure as hell doesn’t deserve that kind of shit.

ALL of this. Fuck the Kristen Stewart hate.

No woman deserves that kind of shit.

pikeys: Hanging Fire, 1999 by Cornelia Parker I saw this in...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:12:37 -0600

pikeys:

Hanging Fire, 1999 by Cornelia Parker

I saw this in person in San Francisco. It’s really cool up close.

Why aren't more people freaking out about the new Venezuelan labor law?

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:39:51 -0600

dancepunksnotdead:

You know, the one that gives housewives/full-time mothers a pension— wages for housework?

It’s ONLY A HUGE VICTORY FOR FEMINISM, SOCIALISM, AND WOMEN OF COLOR. Not a big deal or anything. Tumblr is mysteriously silent about this.

http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/05/venezuelas-new-labour-law-best-mothers-day-gift

Wow, damn.

catbountry: cumaeansibyl: Ruby Rhod is one of my favorite...

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:58:57 -0600

catbountry:

cumaeansibyl:

Ruby Rhod is one of my favorite characters in sci-fi ever because he is Luc Besson’s vision of the hetero sex symbol of the future: a flamboyant, emotionally labile man who wears skin-tight leopard print or decks himself in roses, a man who accessorizes with big jewelry and dabbles in cosmetics. And the ladies love him. Everything about him screams “gay” according to our stereotypes, but he’s portrayed as a 100% straight sexual dynamo.

Besson is one of the few directors I’ve seen who actually recognizes that our ideas of sexuality and gender performance might have changed drastically in the future.

He also has one of the most jarring entrances in a movie. Like the entire movie screeches to a halt because he bursts onto the scene well into the second act and it’s so strange and arresting and Bruce Willis is just like “what the fuck is even going on anymore?”

It’s p. great.

I’ve never thought of it that way before.

I like The Fifth Element a lot more now, which is saying something because I already fucking love The Fifth Element.

thesparhawke: Jezebel article + comment from a pokemon...

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:49:57 -0600

thesparhawke:

Jezebel article + comment from a pokemon enthusiast

featherloom: thoughts-in-stereo: cronuses: iM “CAPTAN PEANUT...

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:20:46 -0600

featherloom:

thoughts-in-stereo:

cronuses:

iM “CAPTAN PEANUT MCNOLEGS”

Miss Squiggy McPantaloons

I normally don’t do these things, but I had to share the name Princess Pickles Fluffybutt.

That’s Miss Pickles Bunnybottom to you lot

camdrogynous: devynjaiden: qbutch: missmatie: peanuhbutta: T...

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:59:41 -0600

camdrogynous:

devynjaiden:

qbutch:

missmatie:

peanuhbutta:

This is realllllllllly weird lmao

This is really NORMAL.
Except we never see it-so it is terrifying and uncomfortable when it happens.
(Mostly because people would laugh or be unkind)

I own a sex shop. Once a woman bled on our chair during an interview. She was horrified and felt ashamed because it was in some way unprofessional. We weren’t bothered. We said ‘what better place to work on being ok with your body than at a feminist sex shop?’
Bleeding is normal and dealing with it is one of the most pervasive ways women are complicit in their silence.

Some men bleed too. How would you react to that? For many men who are Trans the act of bleeding is a security threat.

Fuck off with your lolz.

Reblogging again for above commentary ^^^^^

So happy that the above commentor included trans* men.

This is rather amazing

Would people say “OMG SO WEIRD” if these pictures showed women bleeding from grievous injuries? Probably not. Grievously injured women is ‘normal’ and ‘acceptable’ and even ‘entertaining’, according to what our media tells us. But a woman experiencing non-life-threatening, nonviolent, and ordinary monthly bleeding from the vag? OMG SO GROSS AND WEIRD ICK.

cryptaniac: bananneli: I wish that there was a socially acceptable way to say, “I’m having a bad...

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:54:34 -0600

cryptaniac:

bananneli:

I wish that there was a socially acceptable way to say, “I’m having a bad mental health day and need you to pay attention to me,” without alienating everyone.

or: “I’m having a bad mental health day and need to be on my own for a while so please don’t be mad if I cancel our plans on short notice.”

I just wish there was a way to say “I’m having a bad mental health day” in such a way that people will still respect you and take you seriously. Because having slightly wacked-out brain chemistry is ATTENTION WHORING and FOR THE WEAK.

the-platonic-blow: H&M Video Podcast with Mads Mikkelsen...

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:52:33 -0600

the-platonic-blow:

H&M Video Podcast with Mads Mikkelsen (x)

MADS I KNOW YOU’RE A MARRIED MAN AND EVERYTHING BUT I’D LIKE TO CORDIALLY INVITE YOU TO MY LADYPARTS.

featherloom: radastheyscum: i just This would have been...

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:00:48 -0600

featherloom:

radastheyscum:

i just

This would have been pretty much my entire hometown.

Holy hell

Photo

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:45:32 -0600

verdantfervor: nbchannibal #Hannibal #NBC #Television #Crime...

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:23:37 -0600

verdantfervor:

nbchannibal

#Hannibal #NBC #Television #Crime Scene #TW: Death #TW: mutilation #Spoiler #Lets go to the beach each #Lets go get away #Trou Normand

THEY ARE SINGING STARSHIPS AT US I AM LAUGHING SO HARD

HAVE A DRINK CLINK FOUND THE BLOOD LITE BAD CANNIBALS LIKE ME IS HARD TO COME BY

(Sorry about the spam guys. The official Hannibal tumblr is just so funny I can’t help it)

#What you didn’t think we noticed your ships? #You must...

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:17:28 -0600

#What you didn’t think we noticed your ships?
#You must be new

OMG GUYS HIDE EVERYTHING

Hannibal

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:15:28 -0600

Hannibal:

redgummii:

The official Tumblr page for NBC’s Hannibal, premiering Thursday, April 4 at 10/9c! nbc.com/hannibal…

Everyone needs to go follow the official NBC Hannibal Tumblr right now. Whoever is in charge of their tags has an amazing sense of humor and is very aware of this fandom’s shenanigans.

They really are hilarious.

thinksquad: More and more children being arrested for trivial...

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:13:01 -0600

thinksquad:

More and more children being arrested for trivial things…

#1 At one public school down in Texas, a 12-year-old girl named Sarah Bustamantes was recently arrested for spraying herself with perfume.

#2 A 13-year-old student at a school in Albuquerque, New Mexico was recently arrested by police for burping in class.

#3 Another student down in Albuquerque was forced to strip down to his underwear while five adults watched because he had $200 in his pocket. The student was never formally charged with doing anything wrong.

#4 A security guard at one school in California broke the arm of a 16-year-old girl because she left some crumbs on the floor after cleaning up some cake that she had spilled.

#5 One teenage couple down in Houston poured milk on each other during a squabble while they were breaking up. Instead of being sent to see the principal, they were arrested and sent to court.

#6 In early 2010, a 12-year-old girl at a school in Forest Hills, New York was arrested by police and marched out of her school in handcuffs just because she doodled on her desk. “I love my friends Abby and Faith” was what she reportedly scribbled on her desk.

#7 A 6-year-old girl down in Florida was handcuffed and sent to a mental facility after throwing temper tantrums at her elementary school.

#8 One student down in Texas was reportedly arrested by police for throwing paper airplanes in class.

#9 A 17-year-old honor student in North Carolina named Ashley Smithwick accidentally took her father’s lunch with her to school. It contained a small paring knife which he would use to slice up apples. So what happened to this standout student when the school discovered this? The school suspended her for the rest of the year and the police charged her with a misdemeanor.

#10 In Allentown, Pennsylvania a 14-year-old girl was tasered in the groin area by a school security officer even though she had put up her hands in the air to surrender.

#11 Down in Florida, an 11-year-old student was arrested, thrown in jail and charged with a third-degree felony for bringing a plastic butter knife to school.

#12 Back in 2009, an 8-year-old boy in Massachusetts was sent home from school and was forced to undergo a psychological evaluation because he drew a picture of Jesus on the cross.

#13 A police officer in San Mateo, California blasted a 7-year-old special education student in the face with pepper spray because he would not quit climbing on the furniture.

#14 In America today, even 5-year-old children are treated brutally by police. The following is from a recent article that described what happened to one very young student in Stockton, California a while back….

“Earlier this year, a Stockton student was handcuffed with zip ties on his hands and feet, forced to go to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation and was charged with battery on a police officer. That student was 5 years old”.

#15 At one school in Connecticut, a 17-year-old boy was thrown to the floor and tasered five times because he was yelling at a cafeteria worker.

#16 A teenager in suburban Dallas was forced to take on a part-time job after being ticketed for using foul language in one high school classroom. The original ticket was for $340, but additional fees have raised the total bill to $637.

#17 A few months ago, police were called out when a little girl kissed a little boy during a physical education class at an elementary school down in Florida.

#18 A 6-year-old boy was recently charged with sexual battery for some “inappropriate touching” during a game of tag at one elementary school in the San Francisco area.

#19 In Massachusetts, police were recently sent out to collect an overdue library book from a 5-year-old girl.

HERE ARE THE LINKS FOR THOSE WHO FEEL THIS PAGE MADE ALL THIS UP:

http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/latino-daily-news/details/texas-student-sarah-bustamantes-12-arrested-for-spraying-perfume/13250/

http://abcnews.go.com/m/blogEntry?id=15077292

Check out this video on YouTube:http://youtu.be/wk2b_twCCdw

http://m.guardiannews.com/world/2012/jan/09/texas-police-schools?cat=world& type=article

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/18/new.york.doodle.arrest/index.html?hpt=C1

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2010/feb/11/port-st-lucie-schools-confines-6-year-old-with/

http://m.guardiannews.com/world/2012/jan/09/texas-police-schools?cat=world& type=article

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/12/29/nc-high-school-senior-suspended-charged-possesion-small-knife-lunchbox/#

http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/2009/june09/zero-tolerance-states.html

http://m.tauntongazette.com/wkdTGazette/pm_/contentdetail.htm?contentguid

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Mateo-pays-family-of-boy-pepper-sprayed-by-cop-2384518.php

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/cops-called-for-school-kiss-657831

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/01/27/hercules-family-battles-playground-sex-assault-claim-against-6-year-old/

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/01/02/charlton-library-sends-police-to-collect-overdue-books-from-5-year-old/

As if we needed more proof that cops are fucking psychopaths

fuckyeahannibal: This benefits you, because I have dessert for...

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:01:39 -0600

fuckyeahannibal:

This benefits you, because I have dessert for two.

Bread pudding is people.

I’d still eat it.

mamrie: I know I know I know… I got the name of the movie...

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:58:15 -0600

mamrie:

I know I know I know… I got the name of the movie wrong. Also, you should know, you should know, you should know… I don’t care.

As always… shot and directed and sipped up on by the always outrageous GRACE HELBIG!

Mamrie being adorbz and hilariez

wretcheddisease: vye-leviathan: I live by this. People always...

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:54:44 -0600

wretcheddisease:

vye-leviathan:

I live by this.

People always remark at how big my inner child is. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Fuck growing up. And fuck being an adult.

^ this! i’m embracing my inner child

Miranda is an excellent role model

badboy-halfbrother: avengers challenge → day 10 - underrated...

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:27:38 -0600

badboy-halfbrother:

avengers challenge → day 10 - underrated character.

virginia ‘pepper’ potts.

let me tell you a little something about pepper potts. she gets so much hate all the time because people write her off as nothing more than tony’s love interest. but that is complete bullshit. this woman right here has dealt with over ten years of tony’s shit and is pretty much responsible for his survival. she maintains stark industries and she got her job because she found an accounting error and she told the boss that he was wrong. a simple, unknown employee told the boss of a billion dollar company that his workings were wrong. she takes no shit from anyone. she’s smart, witty and can handle herself in situations where normal people would fall apart. and in the recent movie, she puts on the damn iron man suit and saves tony’s ass. pepper potts is a bamf and better than you and i am sick of people brushing her off as a useless character when she is so much more.

Pepper is a Baws Bitch.

Total Babe

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:57:19 -0600

Total Babe:

The latest from Hettienne (@HettiennePark). TV/Film/Theater Actress. Writer. Musician. Pole Dancer. Lumberjack. NYC (artwork by Hiroki Otsuka)

Let’s talk about how Hettienne Park’s Twitter is hilarious.