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"Finding Your Feet Again"
Denison Witmer
Are You a Dreamer?
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Dust in my hands
Danika | 20 | Cellist | Feminist | Music Ed Major at BSU
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"John Wayne Gacy, Jr."
Sufjan Stevens
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Sometimes I take off my bra, and then someone decides to ring the doorbell.
Whaddya do?
life is hard.
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→ 31 Jan 12 at 1 pm
→ 31 Jan 12 at 1 pm
LEGO announced that after 4 years of intensive research, they have finally come up with a LEGO product that fulfills the desires of “how girls naturally build and play.” This new theme is called LEGO Friends and it’s a pink and purple, gender segregated, suburban wasteland populated by Barbie/Bratz style dolls. Many parents, educators, feminists, and media critics have spoken out against LEGOs attempts to separate girls into their own stereotypical isolated enclave within the LEGO universe.
In part 1 of my two part LEGO and Gender series, I’ll explore how LEGO went terribly wrong with LEGO Friends and provide a brief history of LEGO’s ridiculous and slightly hilarious attempts to market to girls since the late 70′s. In part 2 I’ll delve into LEGO’s intentional strategy to market almost exclusively to boys since the mid 80′s by developing and marketing sets that are male identified and male centered. In conclusion, I’ll offer LEGO a couple of suggestions that they can consider when creating and marketing new products.
For more information, links and a full transcript visit Feminist Frequency
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→ 31 Jan 12 at 11 am
→ 31 Jan 12 at 11 am
This describes so many people I know.
Oh, hello, ALL of my facebook friends.
(Source: mramarmoset)
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→ 30 Jan 12 at 11 pm
→ 30 Jan 12 at 11 pm
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned (via libbymagalhaes)
(Source: awritersruminations, via libbymagalhaes)
"Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know—because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly…And when I got it it turned to dust in my hands."
Dear College Students,
Don’t complain about eating Ramen. Ramen is delicious, and has no nutritional value, and is easy as FUCK to make. All of these qualities are the top 3 survey answers to the question, “what makes good food good?” ERGO, Ramen is perfect.
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→ 30 Jan 12 at 9 pm
→ 30 Jan 12 at 9 pm
“TOP TEN SIGNS YOU’RE AN ADULT” by Almie Rose
(Source: hellogiggles.com, via seriouslyamerica)
"After a long day, you just want to go home and shove the closest edible thing into your mouth and watch whatever is on Netflix instant. And on weekends, you try to psych yourself up to go out at night but then you realize you are just so damn tired and Netflix instant sounds awesome. And there’s all that driving and like, having to wear pants."
The true identity of Ludwig van Beethoven, long considered Europe’s greatest classical music composer. Said directly, Beethoven was a black man. Specifically, his mother was a Moor, that group of Muslim Northern Africans who conquered parts of Europe—making Spain their capital—for some 800 years.
In order to make such a substantial statement, presentation of verifiable evidence is compulsory. Let’s start with what some of Beethoven’s contemporaries and biographers say about his brown complexion.:
” Frederick Hertz, German anthropologist, used these terms to describe him: “Negroid traits, dark skin, flat, thick nose.”
Emil Ludwig, in his book “Beethoven,” says: “His face reveals no trace of the German. He was so dark that people dubbed him Spagnol [dark-skinned].”
Fanny Giannatasio del Rio, in her book “An Unrequited Love: An Episode in the Life of Beethoven,” wrote “His somewhat flat broad nose and rather wide mouth, his small piercing eyes and swarthy [dark] complexion, pockmarked into the bargain, gave him a strong resemblance to a mulatto.”
C. Czerny stated, “His beard—he had not shaved for several days—made the lower part of his already brown face still darker.”
Following are one word descriptions of Beethoven from various writers: Grillparzer, “dark”; Bettina von Armin, “brown”; Schindler, “red and brown”; Rellstab, “brownish”; Gelinek, “short, dark.”
Newsweek, in its Sept. 23, 1991 issue stated, “Afrocentrism ranges over the whole panorama of human history, coloring in the faces: from Australopithecus to the inventors of mathematics to the great Negro composer Beethoven.”
And yet Western “scholars” want you to believe that Beethoven looked like:
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I feel like c r a p today
Possible side effects of reading feminist blogs all day:
- Hating everyone for the rest of the day.
- Hating the country for the rest of the day.
- Saying “YOU GO GIRL”
- Burning women’s magazines.
- Thinking about being vegetarian or vegan even though you’re fairly certain you wouldn’t survive. (If this is offensive to anyone I certainly don’t mean for it to be)
- Yelling at your sister for saying “fag” in a derogatory way on the internet.
- Hating how republican your family is.
- Moving out of Idaho to a state that is more friendly towards homosexuals and women and minorities and liberalz or something.
- OR moving to your own personal island where you can be liberal and have wifi and be awesome A L O N E
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The founder of the gulabis is the fearless Sampat Pal Devi, 40, who was married off at the age of 12 to an ice-cream vendor and had the first of her five children at 15. The gulabis, whose members say they are a “gang for justice,” started in 2006 as a sisterhood of sorts that looked out for victims of domestic abuse, a problem the United Nations estimates affects two in three married Indian women. Named after their hot-pink sari uniforms, the gang paid visits to abusive husbands and demanded they stop the beatings. When obstinate men refused to listen, the gulabis would return with large bamboo sticks called laathis and “persuade” them to change their ways. “When I go around with a stick, it’s to make men fear me. I don’t always use it, but it helps change the mind of men who think they are more powerful than me” says Pal. She has assumed the rank of commander in chief and has appointed district commanders across seven districts in Bundelkhand to help coordinate the gang’s efforts.
Pal’s group now has more than 20,000 members, and the number is growing.
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“Gender Bias in College Admissions Tests”, FairTest.org
(Source: fairtest.org, via seemorebanannafish)
"[F]or the first several years the SAT was offered, males scored higher than females on the Math section but females achieved higher scores on the Verbal section. ETS policy-makers determined that the Verbal test needed to be “balanced” more in favor of males, and added questions pertaining to politics, business and sports to the Verbal portion. Since that time, males have outscored females on both the Math and Verbal sections. Dwyer notes that no similar effort has been made to “balance” the Math section, and concludes that, “It could be done, but it has not been, and I believe that probably an unconscious form of sexism underlies this pattern. When females show the superior performance, ‘balancing’ is required; when males show the superior performance, no adjustments are necessary.” "
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→ 30 Jan 12 at 5 pm
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Female arrested forcibly strip searched nude by ohio male cops in 2008 which is against policy.
Welcome to the new world order.
Fully nude strip searches of females are being forcefully conducted by male police officers, against policy, and in Abu Ghraib torture style, in Stark County Ohio. The women are video-taped and left naked for up to six hours.
Near the beginning of the video you can see the black male officer helping to strip Hope’s panties off of her while another male officer holds her down. The woman’s bra and panties are removed along with all her clothing, exposing her bare naked breasts, ass, and vagina in front of the male officers. She is eventually completely stripped and left naked and handcuffed on the floor.
All this happened merely because 911 was called for help on Hope’s behalf when she was hurt in a fight. Hope accidentally showed her dead sister’s ID to police, she keeps it with her in remembrance of her sister. So far, five women have come forward with similar strip search experiences at this Ohio jail, see link near bottom.
Hope Steffey’s ‘Abu Ghraib’ Treatment at the Stark County Jail:
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2008/02/22/p23576
Stark County Strip Searches
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/51315
It all began in Stark County, Ohio when Hope Steffey was assaulted by a cousin and another cousin called 911 for assistance. When the officer arrived, Ms. Steffey accidentally handed over her deceased sister´s license, which she kept for sentimental reasons. She immediately noticed the mistake and gave the officer her own identification and asked for her sister´s to be returned. The officer refused to return her sister´s license. The officer ran a check on Ms. Steffey´s license and found no infractions, but continued to treat her as though she were the perpetrator of the crime, instead of the victim.
Ms. Steffey states she begged for the return of her sister´s license until Officer Gurlea lost his patience and shouted, “shut up about your dead sister.” When Ms. Steffey pointed at the officer´s pocket, which held her sister´s id, and said, “she was here, she was someone”, Officer Gurlea threw her face down on the hood of his patrol car, chipping one of her teeth. And according to documents filed by Hope and Greg Steffey with the United States District Court in Cleveland, Officer Gurlea then threw Steffey to the ground. Although Ms. Steffey´s cousin repeatedly reminded the officer that Steffey was the victim and had been knocked unconscious in the previous assault, Officer Gurlea handcuffed Steffey and put her into the back of his patrol car, refusing her medical care.
Hope Steffey was then taken to the county jail and forcibly strip-searched by 6 to 7 male and female deputies, despite Stark County´s own policy which states that a strip search must be conducted by a same sex officer. She was left in a cell for 6 hours with no clothing or even a blanket and eventually wrapped herself in toilet tissue for warmth and modesty. She was not allowed a phone call or medical attention and when she was later taken to booking, she was given only a small weighted vest to cover her nudity. She was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
Is there video the Stark County Sheriff doesn’t want you to see?
http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=82519
Strip search case prompts 5th woman to come forward:
http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=88666
This made me sick. WOW
