china-memes:

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grindsmygears-marauderera:

As always, brilliant commentary - great points + eloquency I wish I could manage.

I get that people think there’s nothing wrong with emphasising the positive physical features of a character (or just making them up….). But the underlying attitude that I think often goes unnoticed is that characters are worth more somehow, that they’re more interesting/fun/worth it to RP as/whatever if they’re prettified. And that pisses me off. Correct me if I’m wrong about this, please, but I see some leve of similarity between this sort of thing and white-washing.

the difference between "gamer girls" and girls who actually play video games

gamer girl:

omgggg modern warfare 4 lyfeee<3 lolz wait how do you even do this? oh no i think i just died lol cuteee. omgg im sooo sexy cuz i play video games that boyzzz lykee lolll im like the kewlestt gurl evaarrr

girls who play video games:

GOD DAMN IT MARIO. IS IT THAT FUCKING HARD TO STAY ON RAINBOW ROAD FOR MAYBE TEN SECONDS. OH MY FUCKING GOD PEACH YOU FUCKING WHORE. YOU REALLY HAD TO USE THE THUNDER CLOUD AND FUCKING SHRINK ME. REALLY. THIRD. I'M IN THIRD PLACE OH MY GOD YES THANK JESUS LORD ABOVE IN THE HEAVENS. FUCK. NO. I FELL OFF. I SWEAR TO GOD MARIO I'M GOING TO MURDER YOUR ITALIAN PLUMBER MOTHER FUCKING ASS. i hate my life.

uncdan:

There’s a certain kind of racism activist who thinks all white people are the cause of all the racial problems of the world, and that it’s impossible for them to understand. 

I had written something about Europe, and I don’t remember the details. It was something to do with the way people in the Balkans had slaughtered each other over minute differences, or how the 1940s Germans saw “slavs” or basically all Russians, as subhuman. 

There was a comment or a reblog or something about it, and the comment was basically “LOL white people.” 

To a certain kind of Person-of-Colour American racism activist, all white people are white. But while they might all be “white” to them, in Europe the differences are old. 

So a comment like that is either very smart or very dumb, though I’m inclined to the latter. 

It’s smart because if anything, it’s an illustration about how all racial and ethnic differences are silly and artificial. Why should Russians and Germans kill each other? Why should Bosniaks and Serbs kill each other? Why should anyone hate Jews? It’s all, technically, artificial. In black/white/Asian/Latino terms, they’re all “white.” What, really, is the difference between all of them? 

But it’s dumb because it marginalizes serious and real conflicts. It lumps all “white people” into one. It applies an American framework on the rest of the world, which does not fit. Most importantly, it doesn’t help at all. 

After all, if “white people” looked at Congo, or Rwanda, and said “LOL black people” it wouldn’t be so easily dismissed. 

sailorv:

I’m so sick and tired of seeing this picture. Normally when I see images like this (daily on my Facebook feed, actually), I blow them off, because I know that thin is the industry standard and I’m lucky blah blah blah. But people who would tell me to quit complaining would probably be incredibly surprised to know what kind of criticism I receive on a regular basis for being somewhere between Kiera and Kirsten on this scale. When I worked at Godiva, I usually got multiple comments every day about how I should “eat more chocolate,” “probably couldn’t help them out because I looked like I never ate chocolate,” etcetera. Almost invariably these comments were delivered in a mocking or plainly offensive tone.

Every time I see this picture posted, it’s usually accompanied with a comment about how “natural” beauty is no longer valued. Yet people forget what types of self-mutilation women of earlier eras went through to look the way they did: corsets, skin bleaching, hair bleaching (before it was as perfected as it is today), and in the case of Rita Hayworth, electrocution of her hairline. What people fail to realize is that setting any standard of beauty for women is incredibly detrimental to our esteem. Throughout history, the standards have changed, but the stuff we put our bodies through hasn’t.

Furthermore, some women just do naturally look like Kiera Knightley or Kirsten Dunst. I will NEVER naturally look like Marilyn Monroe. No matter how much weight I gain or how much I eat, I will NEVER have curves. My waist-hip ratio is TERRIBLE. I am just not cut out to be a curvaceous woman. And telling me that I’m less “hot” because of it is counter-productive to banishing any sort of societal issues related to women’s esteem. Period.

Furthermore, shaming women for eating disorders (which arguably some of the women on the top may have) is also just plain disgusting. Although the image doesn’t necessarily imply this, I’ve seen a swarm of ed-shaming comments surrounding this photo every time it’s posted on Facebook so I feel the need to address it. Honestly, it’s pictures like this that exacerbate eating disorders in women. Often eating disorders are a pursuit of perfection more than a pursuit of thinness, but the idea of “perfection” becomes so distorted beyond reason that a woman forgets what “perfection” means to her, and so extreme thinness and dysmorphia are the only lasting result. Furthermore, this type of behavior is deadly, so when people say thin women should “get over” negative comments, I cannot believe they would be so insensitive.

I can understand why, from a standpoint of historical criticism, people would want to analyze standards of beauty and why they have evolved over time, but that is NOT what this image does. It is far too provoking and shaming, and in the end, it achieves exactly the opposite of what it sets out to do. Rather than making women feel better about their bodies, it only narrows the definition (notice how the women on the bottom are all still thin) of beauty. So um… let’s quit passing this around, okay?

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squintyoureyes:

have love will travel | a black keys primer

I’m just going to say it: The Black Keys will make you want to reach for a cigarette whether you smoke or not. This is relentless, grinding, white-hot blues of the finest quality. And it’s pretty sexy.

Formed in 2001, the American garage act consisting of guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Pat Carney has been compared to The White Stripes, but while both bands clearly have similar blues-rock inspirations, The Black Keys have set themselves apart with a gritty, bare-bones style that manages to be minimalist and a the same time fill the entire room with feeling. There’s nothing quite like Auerbach’s desperate wail and clever fingers.

In just under a decade The Black Keys have built up an impressive body of work, and to be honest there isn’t a bad record in the bunch. Here’s is just a taste of it. 

The Big Come Up (2002)
1. Busted
2. The Breaks
3. Yearnin’
4. Heavy Soul
5. Them Eyes

Thickfreakness (2003)
1. Hard Row
2. Thickfreakness
3. Cry Alone
4. If You See Me
5. Everywhere I Go

Rubber Factory (2004)
1. The Lengths
2. When the Lights Go Out
3. 10 Am Automatic
4. All Hands Against His Own
5. Girl is On My Mind

The Moan EP (2004)
1. Have Love Will Travel
2. Heavy Soul (alternate version)
3. The Moan

Chulahoma: The Songs of Junior Kimbrough EP (2006)
1. Work Me
2. Meet Me In The City
3. My Mind is Ramblin
4. Have Mercy on Me

Magic Potion (2006)
1. Your Touch
2. Goodbye Babylon
3. You’re the One
4. The Flame
5. Strange Desire

Attack & Release (2008)
1. So He Won’t Break
2. Lies
3. Strange Times
4. Remember When Side A/Side B
5. Things Ain’t Like They Used To Be

Brothers (2010)
1. Tighten Up
2. Everlasting Light
3. Sinister Kid
4. Never Give You Up
5. Howlin’ For You

B Sides, Collabs & Rarities
1. Evil
2. Same Old Thing (Live from Abbey Road)
3. What You Do To Me (feat. Billy Danze, Jim Jones & Nicole Wray)
4. On The Vista (feat. Mos Def)
5. Hope You’re Happy (feat. Billy Danze, Nikki Wray & Q-Tip)
6. The Way I Feel When I’m With You

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Fucking TRUTH.

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9gag:

Uninstalling dictators, please wait…

Idea.

inothernews:

Let’s stop taking down organizations that work to provide family planning services, contraception and medical services to women from low-income households, and stop those who want to stop people of limited or no means from receiving health insurance, and stop those who want to stop those who love each other regardless of sexual orientation from marrying, and stop trying to get others to fear those of a particular religion by spreading misinformation about their true intent in wanting to be free of dictatorial rule, and stop trying to get people to wonder if their President is not really an American but a Kenyan / Briton / anything but someone with a U.S. birth certificate, and stop trying to convince people that their government and country is run by socialist Hitler fascist Nazis, and stop listening to propaganda spewed forth by a television network pretending to be a journalistic enterprise by slapping the word “News” on their fucking logo. 

Let’s stop hating on people because they are open-minded and compassionate about the plight of their fellow human beings; let’s stop hating on people because they don’t get all of their information from angry millionaire radio talk show hosts who carefully craft and hone their Regular Joe personas when in fact they’re living in penthouses in New York City or mansions in Connecticut. 

There’s nothing wrong with empathy.  There’s nothing wrong with wanting to help people who are worse off than we are.  There’s nothing wrong with giving a shit about our fellow human fucking beings.

We’re not on the right.  But we’re not wrong.