This is honestly the best poster I have found in a while supporting breast cancer awareness. I am honestly so sick of seeing, “set the tatas free” and “save the boobies”. There is no reason in hell a life threatening, life ruining disease should be sexualized. “Don’t wear a bra day,” go fuck yourselves. You’re not saving a pair of tits, you’re saving the entire package: mind, body, and soul included. Women are never just a pair of breasts.
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you know how much pressure there is on girls to be good at every video game they play, because if they fuck up once there’s going to be a heck of a lot of people saying how girls suck and how they shouldn’t play video games
So, yes, for the fucking love of God, movies matter. TV shows matter. Novels matter. They shape the lens through which you see the world. The very fact that you don’t think they matter, that even right now you’re still resisting the idea, is what makes all of this so dangerous to you — you watch movies so you can turn off your brain and let your guard down. But while your guard is down, you’re letting them jack directly into that part of your brain that creates your mythology. If you think about it, it’s an awesome responsibility on the part of the storyteller. And you’re comfortable handing that responsibility over to Michael Bay.
The absence of women in history is man made.
How petty
just look at babe ruth’s face tho
so confused
so lost
i love it
pure hater shit
Jackie Mitchell…a bad ass lady I had never heard of.
From her Wikipedia page: “Seventeen-year-old Jackie Mitchell, brought in to pitch in the first inning after the starting pitcher had given up a double and a single, faced Babe Ruth. After taking a ball, Ruth swung and missed at the next two pitches. Mitchell’s fourth pitch to Ruth was a called third strike. Babe Ruth glared and verbally abused the umpire before being led away by his teammates to sit to wait for another batting turn. The crowd roared for Jackie. Babe Ruth was quoted in a Chattanooga newspaper as having said:
“I don’t know what’s going to happen if they begin to let women in baseball. Of course, they will never make good. Why? Because they are too delicate. It would kill them to play ball every day.”
Next up was the Iron Horse Lou Gehrig, who swung through the first three pitches to strike out. Jackie Mitchell became famous for striking out two of the greatest baseball players in history.
A few days after Mitchell struck out Ruth and Gehrig, baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis voided her contract and declared women unfit to play baseball as the game was “too strenuous.”[5][10] Mitchell continued to play professionally,barnstorming with the House of David, a men’s team famous for their very long hair and long beards.[11] While travelling with the House of David team, she would sometimes wear a fake beard for publicity.”
TL;DR: teenage girl strikes out two of the greatest baseball players ever, teenage girl gets her contract voided, teenage girl plays baseball wearing fake beard
These guys were so fucking injured by a teenage girl’s awesomeness that they literally threw a hissyfit and hung up a sign that said “NO GIRLS.”
They gave up.
They couldn’t handle it.
Losers.
Teenage girls are amazing.
DEAR WHITE AND NON-BLACK FEMINISTS,
this symbol does not represent mainstream feminism
this is the symbol for black feminism, that black feminists have created and been using for decades to represent our struggle against anti-black misogyny, hence the combination of the black power fist and the symbol for womanhood.
Bryan Stevenson on The Daily Show.
i don’t get why arguments against wearing tight/revealing clothing are that “it leaves nothing to the imagination”
bro who cares about the way you imagine my body, this is what it factually looks like so fuck off
like you’re literally saying that your interpretation of my body is more important than, like, my actual body
http://vitaminw.co/culture-society/womens-history-questions-and-facts
Just a fraction of the cool stuff I learned when researching women’s history.
Rosalind Franklin did not just help. She actually discovered the structure before – Watson and Crick stole all the credit after building a stick and ball version of it.
… All we see is media reporting that singularly ascribes blame to North Korea, which is portrayed as a kind of unquestionable evil, so what the U.S. is doing in response to the supposed provocation seems eminently justified. I think we are in a crisis point. It doesn’t feel dissimilar to the kind of media rhetoric that surrounded the run-up to the U.S. invasion in Iraq. During that time also, there was a steady drumbeat to war.
If we were to look at the facts, what do those facts tell us? I will give one example of the inverted logic that is operative, coming out of the media and U.S. administration. In a recent Pentagon press conference, [Defense Secretary] Chuck Hagel was asked whether or not the U.S. sending B-2 stealth bombers from Missouri to fly and conduct a sortie over South Korea and drop what the DOD calls inert munitions in a simulated run against North Korea could be understood as provocative. He said no, they can’t be understood as provocative. And it was dutifully reported as such.
What we have is a huge informational landscape in which the average person who listens to these reports can’t make heads or tails of what is happening. What has happened since Kim Jong Un has come into his leadership position in North Korea is that the U.S. has had a policy of regime change.
We tend to think of regime change operations and initiatives as a signature or hallmark policy of the Bush administration. But we have seen under President Barak Obama a persistence of the U.S. policy of getting rid of those powers it finds uncooperative around the world. To clarify what I mean, after Kim Jong Il passed away [in December 2011], the U.S. and South Korea launched the biggest and longest set of war exercises they ever conducted. And for the first time it openly exercised O Plan 5029, which is a U.S. war plan that essentially simulates regime collapse in North Korea. It also envisions U.S. forces occupying North Korea.
What is routine during these war exercises, which are ongoing right now, as we speak, is they simulate nuclear strikes against North Korea. These workings are a combination of simulated computer-assisted activity as well as live fire drills. Last year, the first year of Kim Jong Un’s leadership, a South Korean official was asked about the O Plan 5029 and why he was exercising this regime collapse scenario. He said the death of Kim Jong Il makes the situation ripe to exercise precisely this kind of war plan.
It’s almost impossible for us in the United States to imagine Mexico and the historic foe of the U.S., Russia, conducting joint exercises that simulate an invasion of the United States and a foreign occupation of the United States. That is precisely what North Korea has been enduring for several decades.
Christine Hong, “Behind the North Korean Crisis” (interview)
To those asking about the Escapist bit, here we go.
Most of this can be found here: https://storify.com/alexlifschitz/escapist-drama though I will be going into more detail on some of it.
The Escapist recently published an article titled “Female Game Developers on Gamer Gate” in which several female game developers all anonymously (by request) discussed the whole gerbergate thing. They were, shall we say, rather negative.
To proved TWO SIDES, the Escapist then published an article titled “Game Developers on Gamer Gate” (see the first issue?) in which several male game developers talked about gamer gate with much more positive reactions.
And then a few problems came up.
For starters, not everyone in that list was an actual game developer. Some were just dudes. You see, the guy who actually did all this sourced it all from 4chan. He has also been very unabashedly loud in his support of gamergate, so hey, corruption in games journalism, right? This lead to most of the questions being incredibly biased from the start. Then it turns out there’s other problems with the people being asked. Again, some were not even game developers. One, Slade Villena aka RogueStar, was one of the bigger harassers in the beginnings of gerbergate, eventually trying to organize a harassment effort get Zoe Quinn to kill herself, also tried falsifying tax information to get Anita Saarkesian arrested, and even harassing and attacking other Escapist staff. Another was Brad Wardell, who is basically a living version of those cheesy mandatory office videos that teach you how not to treat employees. Yet another was James Desborough, a tabletop games indie developer “famous” for his constant books about demeaning women and engaging in harassment campaigns of anyone who even so much as disagrees with him, at one point writing a full essay on how much he loves to talk about rape.
This is who the Escapist felt was worth giving an open forum to.
And just to wander back, look at these fucking questions.
“Imagine a development team composed of middle-aged white men creates a game explicitly aimed at young men called AMERICAN VENGEANCE that features a lantern-jawed white American soldier attempting to save his exotic-dancer girlfriend (complete with jiggle physics) from torture at the hands of Jihadists. Violence is the only way to advance in the game and the girlfriend’s torture is as graphic as anything in the movie SAW. But as far as violent shooter games go, it is exceptionally innovative, gorgeous, and fun. Is it fair to give the game a low review score for lacking inclusiveness? Is it fair to give the game a lower review score for having violent or misogynist themes?”
That is a literal question the Escapist asked one of these people.
But it actually still doesn’t stop there. In a few interviews, the interviewed listed personal information, real life names, and/or social networking addresses of their favorite targets to get others to attack them. In one case, the aforementioned Desborough began listing the people he hated most – all of whom immediately went under attack as soon as the articles were published.
The Escapist has fixed a small number of these problems. SOME of Desborough’s targets were edited out, though not all. The added “Male” to the title. RogueStar’s interview was taken out. But the overwhelming decision to keep almost everything else intact paints a very grim picture.
At this point someone is bound to say “Well what about literally this one specific person that works there and isn’t terrible?” Well, apologies to them, but it does not matter. The website they work for acknowledged how much of the above was a problem, and then didn’t do a damn thing about it. Several of the people listed out as attack targets are still being attacked – some of whom are friends of mine.
And that is why The Escapist is the website that hates women, rather then just the website with terrible journalism. Because they KNOWINGLY TOOK ACTIONS that lead to women being attacked, and when confronted with it, shrugged it off. Shortly after the articles were released, multiple women – some publicly, some privately – went under attack and had to momentarily drop off the internet. Some had to go further and call the police.
The Escapist and Greg Tito, in turn, stated “we don’t condone harassment” and changed nothing.
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