November 2011
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“You know, in Western cultures, we give a lot of lip service to motherhood. We...”
– Lauren Bruce, founder of Feministe, in an interview about teen motherhood.  (via jessicavalenti)
Nov 30th
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Nov 11th
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Nov 11th
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Help Michigan Students Stop the "License to Bully"... →
lostgrrrls: This just makes me sick… On November 2, minutes before voting to pass a new bullying bill, the Michigan State Senate added special language that provides a blueprint for bullies. According to this language, as long as the bullying is done because of “a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction,” then it’s ok. I just… How the hell is that the line they draw, where...
Nov 11th
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Nov 4th
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Nov 4th
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WatchWatch
whenparentstext: HEY TUMBLR FANS!!! IT’S OUR ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY AND WE’RE CELEBRATING BY GIVING AWAY A FEW BOOKS!  All you  gotta do is re-blog is video! Do it! You know you want to… Especially if you didn’t win a book last time. This is your chance! We <3 you Tumblr.  WPT.
Nov 4th
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Nov 4th
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“…women bear the brunt of our neurosis. It is much easier for us to place...”
– http://www.huffingtonpost.com/yashar-hedayat/a-message-to-women-from-a_1_b_958859.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false
Nov 4th
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“The point being: if you miss a few home payments, you have a very high...”
– Wall Street Isn’t Winning It’s Cheating | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone (via robot-heart-politics)
Nov 4th
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“Ordinary people have to borrow their money at market rates. Lloyd Blankfein and...”
– Wall Street Isn’t Winning It’s Cheating | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone (via robot-heart-politics)
Nov 4th
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Nov 4th
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“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get...”
– Stephen King (via atomos) (via nolackofloquaciousness)
Nov 4th
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Nov 4th
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Nov 4th
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Top 10 misconceptions about Dinosaurs →
1. Dinosaurs represent failure and extinction. Rather, dinosaurs are the best examples of success and adaptation. They ruled the Earth longer than any other land animals (over 150 million years), and gave rise to birds. 2. Dinosaurs and “humans” coexisted. The death of the last dinosaur and the appearance of the first “human” (genus Homo) were separated by about 62 million years. 3....
Nov 4th
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July 2011
8 posts
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Jul 21st
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Jul 19th
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Bigger than Religion
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Jul 8th
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Jul 8th
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Jul 6th
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“You know what this mess tells me? That if you report a rape, you have to be...”
– DSK Rape Case Takeaway Number Five: You Have to Be the Perfect Victim | Akiba Solomon | COLORLINES (via minorjive) Reading some of these articles has been so sickening and disheartening. It’s all just so wrong. (via strugglingtobeheard)
Jul 5th
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“Obviously, rape is a bad thing, but…”
– Cisgendered Privileged Men Who Go on to Defend Rape Jokes and The Divine Right of Cisgendered Privileged Men to Make Them (via unitedstatesofmeryl)
Jul 5th
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“When you have a wacky “cocktail party” morning show where...”
– Alex Pareene, “Mark Halperin comes up with a great excuse to fire Mark Halperin.” Salon.com
Jul 1st
June 2011
22 posts
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Jun 30th
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Jun 23rd
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Schrodinger's Rapist
“Now, I don’t know if he is an actual rapist, and I sincerely hope he’s not. But he is certainly Schrödinger’s Rapist, and this particular Schrödinger’s Rapist has a probability ratio greater than one in sixty. Because a man who ignores a woman’s NO in a non-sexual setting is more likely to ignore NO in a sexual setting, as well.” full article
Jun 21st
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Jun 21st
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Jun 21st
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Jun 21st
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“With any of the Miley Cyrus shit, or any of that Vanessa Hudgens shit — I would...”
– Megan Fox, GQ (2008) I’m not a huge fan, but on this point we agree.
Jun 20th
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“Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of having it all, we...”
– Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Ms. Magazine, March 1978 (via thatswhatshesaidquotes)
Jun 16th
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Jun 16th
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“First you have to ask yourself, ‘Do we need this scene? Is this necessary...”
– Noomi Rapace on Lisbeth Salander’s rape in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. NPR
Jun 15th
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Jun 15th
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“In Western industrialized societies, women have also become increasingly...”
– Kathryn Pauly Morgan, PhD, Women and the Knife: Cosmetic Surgery and the Colonization of Women’s Bodies, Hypatia: Vol. 6, No. 3 (Autumn 1991)
Jun 14th
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Jun 14th
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Jun 14th
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Jun 8th
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“So my question for the media watchdog groups who are so concerned about how...”
– Rihanna Speaks: Who Gets To Talk About Rape? | Persephone (via riverwaltz) I like whoevers coaching her for when she speaks. (via soydulcedeleche)
Jun 8th
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Jun 8th
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“I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain...”
– Esperanza Spalding (via thatswhatshesaidquotes)
Jun 7th
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Jun 6th
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“A Chicano kid grows up with walls of many kinds around him. When somebody is...”
– Gusmano Cesaretti, Street Writers: A Guided Tour of Chicano Graffiti, 1975. (via rrachrrey)
Jun 2nd
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Jun 2nd
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“I know that this defies the law of gravity, but, you see, I never studied law.”
– Bugs Bunny (via scienceisbeauty)
Jun 1st
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May 2011
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May 27th
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May 26th
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May 26th
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“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding...”
– Sandi Toksvig (via thatswhatshesaidquotes)
May 26th
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