White men fuck over the entire world and then get offended when you remind them.
radiantpeace submitted:
"Congrats on getting the job! XD- from a very happy reader~"
Thank you so much!! :) <3
If you haven’t been keeping a close eye on the story in West, Texas, a lot has happened since the deadly explosion a few weeks ago. Bryce Reed (right), an early responder who was one of the first EMTs on the scene of the incident, was found in possession of an alleged pipe bomb. While he has not been charged with anything in connection with the explosion as of yet, authorities have opened up a criminal investigation into the incident since his arrest. As Talking Points Memo reports, he had a shaky personal situation in recent days.
A white guy with an Anglophone name was found with a pipe bomb in circumstances related to a blast that killed a dozen people, injured scores, and devastated a town?
No, I hadn’t actually heard anything about that. Weird.
And you’ll notice no one’s rushing to call him a “terrorist.”
With Minnesota looking poised to enact marriage equality early next week, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn (D) is getting restless. In remarks Thursday, he called for the Illinois House of Representatives to follow the state Senate’s lead and enact marriage equality.
Quinn, who endorsed same-sex marriage last May, has been personally lobbying undecided legislators and says supporters are close to the required 60 votes.
After months of delays, Quinn says it is now “time to vote.” He told reporters “it’s important that Illinois and the House of Representatives get moving… I believe a majority exists to get this bill passed through the House onto my desk so I can sign it into law.”
Recent polling showed 50 percent of Illinois voters in support of marriage equality, compared with just 29 percent in opposition. In addition to Quinn, both of the state’s U.S. Senators — Democrat Dick Durbin and Republican Mark Kirk — have endorsed equal marriage.
A source told the Chicago Phoenix that the bill currently has 58 of the necessary 60 votes for passage. The legislative session ends on May 31.
We’re getting there!
*And they did it!*
willthroughthelookingglass submitted:
"hi about the nintendo thing. i say this to you as i know you have a voice so you and you can spread it better than i. someone with a bit of game developing experience can download the patch for the game once released decompile the file and simply changing the relevant files to both keep the male same sex marriage and allow female same sex marriage and then upload it somewhere online for others to download and install the same way its just a matter of finding someone who can"
I got the job!
I’m SO excited to say I got the Graduate Assistantship I applied for! I am finally getting into college classrooms, and I will be assisting in Women’s Studies classes in the fall!
Found this on my car tonight. It was weird because my car was the only one I saw with this paper.
Anyway, spread it around. Missing child in the Louisville area, last seen/heard from March 26, 2013. Name is Kyra Exum, aka Chi-Chi, aka Kai Jae. The number listed on the paper is 314-249-4417.
This map geographically places the national concentration of various homophobic, racist, and ablest slurs used on twitter in the United States.
From the site:
To produce the map all tweets containing each ‘hate word’ were aggregated to the county level and normalized by the total twitter traffic in each county. Counties were reduced to their centroids and assigned a weight derived from this normalization process. This was used to generate a heat map that demonstrates the variability in the frequency of hateful tweets relative to all tweets over space. Where there is a larger proportion of negative tweets referencing a particular ‘hate word’ the region appears red on the map, where the proportion is moderate, the word was used less (although still more than the national average) and appears a pale blue on the map. Areas without shading indicate places that have a lower proportion of negative tweets relative to the national average.
The numbers that appear in the map during a mouse hover indicate the total number of hateful tweets and number of unique users sending them in each county.
Literally half of the United States is just fucking awful.
The Japanese 3DS console version of the Nintendo game Tomodachi Collection: New Life reportedly allows two male characters to get married and have children. While some quickly claimed the game was a “breakthrough in LGBT visibility,” Nintendo released a statement saying the same-sex marriage option was actually a bug in the game.
Gaming website Kotaku has posted a translation of the Japanese press release from Nintendo, which described the same-sex relationship bug by saying “human relations become strange”and said the downloadable patch would not only fix the issue, but would address other concerns such as “the inability to save,” “the inability to boot up the game,” and “error messages.”
Protesting Nintendo’s planned “fix,” many users have pledged to not download the patch as a show of support for marriage equality. Others have taken to Twitter posting photos of their male couples and asking the video game giant to leave the feature in the game and instead create a patch that would allow female pairings.
Oof. It’s about time Nintendo got a little more LGBT-inclusive in its games, even if it is by accident! (Ha. Really, though, I wish they’d just let it be.)
Tim Lambesis of Christian metal band As I Lay Dying was arrested Tuesday night in a murder-for-hire plot. Apparently, he did the nice Christian thing and tried to hire a hitman to MURDER his wife, who was filing for divorce. More like As I Lazily Lay on the Couch While Someone Else Does My Dirty Work, I guess?
Anyway, what do you do when you hear about the lead singer of this band you like attempted to KILL his ex? Well, YOU BLAME HER BECAUSE SHE’S MOST LIKELY A BITCH WHO PROBABLY DESERVED TO DIE, OF COURSE!
Lots of very opinionated people out there saying “WAIT ‘TIL WE HEAR MORE BEFORE WE BLAME POOR TIM” and then proceeding to jump straight to the conclusion that his wife was somehow a terrible person deserving of death!
“Props dude for having the balls to hire someone else to kill your wife!”
And as usual, when it comes to ANYTHING being discussed on the internet involving a woman…
BLAME THE FEMINISTS.
Removing the context from a quote by bell hooks
Recently the following quote by bell hooks was shared and reblogged on tumblr over 350+ times:
“White supremacist power is always weakened when people of color bond across differences of culture, ethnicity, and race. It is always strengthened when we act as though there is no continuity and overlap in the patterns of exploitation and oppression that affect all of our lives. To ensure that political bonding to challenge and change white supremacy will not be cultivated among diverse groups of people of color, white ruling groups pit us against one another in a no-win game of “who will get the prize for model minority today.”
However, if you read the full text of the bell hooks essay from which this quote came, you will notice that the quote was actually spliced from two different paragraph. It seems that the quote was deliberately constructed to remove the discussions of anti-blackness among non-Black people of color, which was a central point in bell hooks’ essay.
Here’s the full two paragraphs that the quote came from. The italicized is the above quote and the bolded is the ignored text.
Just as many white Americans deny both the prevalence of racism in the United States and the role they play in perpetuating and maintaining white supremacy, non-white, non-black groups, Native, Asian, Hispanic Americans, all deny their investment in anti-black sentiment even as they consistently seek to distance themselves from blackness so that they will not be seen as residing at the bottom of this society’s totem pole, in the category reserved for the most despised group. Such jockeying for white approval and reward obscures the way allegiance to the existing social structure undermines the social welfare of all people of color. White supremacist power is always weakened when people of color bond across differences of culture, ethnicity, and race. It is always strengthened when we act as though there is no continuity and overlap in the patterns of exploitation and oppression that affect all of our lives.
To ensure that political bonding to challenge and change white supremacy will not be cultivated among diverse groups of people of color, white ruling groups pit us against one another in a no-win game of “who will get the prize for model minority today.” They compare and contrast, affix labels like “model minority,” define boundaries, and we fall into line. Those rewards coupled with internalized racist assumptions lead non-black people of color to deny the way racism victimizes them as they actively work to disassociate themselves from black people. This will to disassociate is a gesture of racism.
Why was the bolded text ignored? Why would you not at least add the full context of the quote? Why deliberarely remvoe discussions of anti-blackness among people of color? Anyway, here’s the full essayimportant context and reminder for non-black people of color to keep ourselves accountable to the ways we are raised to be anti-black and participate in white supremacy.
i apologize for reblogging the italicized without full context and erasing the ways non-black poc perpetuate white supremacy and will be working to continue to read further into the works of black writers and revolutionaries to avoid assuming that it’s always applicable to me.
npr:
The U.S. will soon begin to open combat positions to women. That’s already the case in Israel, where women say it is an important step but doesn’t guarantee full equality. The military’s upper echelons remain male-dominated.
— Women In Combat: Some Lessons From Israel’s Military : Parallels
Photo: Larry Abramson/NPR
- Helen Mirren, beautiful in every way it’s possible for a human to be beautiful.
