June 2012
122 posts
May 2012
124 posts
“If by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a “Liberal”, then I’m proud to say I’m a “Liberal.”
—— John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born 95 years ago yesterday. (via think-progress)
“In the instances when POC say shit like ‘Oh I can’t stand white folk’ or ‘Damn white people’, they aren’t saying ‘Oh I think they are inferior, I want to humiliate them, abuse them, enslave them and wipe out their people!’, they’re saying ‘Damn, after a couple hundred years of white people thinking I’m inferior, humiliating me, abusing me, enslaving me, and trying to wipe out my people, I don’t wanna deal with them.’ The context is completely different.”
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Briana (via absinthedisco)
Remembering this for the next time someone tries to argue me the moral equivalence of racism against whites.
(via distractedbyshinyobjects)
PIN UP ARTIST
Dita Von Teese: The Queen Of Burlesque And Body Positivity
Dita Von Teese recently launched her affordable lingerie line, Von Follies, for Target in Australia, followed fairly quickly by a catwalk show exhibiting the line. Her line has received praises, but most importantly so has her model choices. She employed a wide range of models with both ethnic and body diversity, from dark to tan to light skinned ladies and from the standard tall and lithe, to thin and curvy, to larger and full figured. She instructed the models to strip, or not indulge in, their spray tans so that their natural skin color was on display. This was partly a stylistic choice, as Ms. Von Teese herself maintains her porcelain white skin as part of her pin up aesthetic, but also, as she said on her twitter “To set the record straight, my Von Follies lingerie show ‘no spray tan policy’ means NATURAL skin tones will be represented, pale & dark.”
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Here is the thing, okay? Coming into a feminist conversation with, “Have you considered that sometimes women acquire free drinks at bars?” is like walking into graduate school during Philosophy finals and saying, “Have you considered that the color blue that I see may not be the color blue that you see?”
Imagine you are the guy who just walked into that Philosophy class and laid that shit down. Imagine the class full of students who have worked very hard and committed themselves and sacrificed to be here, students who have spent several years of their lives learning about this subject. Imagine now their feelings when you go to the head of the classroom with a smirk on your face and demand the professor give you an A for effort. Imagine now that they think you are a douchebag asshole, because they do, and because you are. You are a douchebag asshole because you are obviously so self-centered, arrogant, and completely ignorant of the world around you, that you thought you could walk into a high-level course with no background and no work and say something profoundly simplistic and totally unrelated and also everybody should congratulate you for having done this thing, so brave, so provocative.
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You are not asking us a real question. You are simply illustrating, for all to see, your own ignorance. You are saying, “I have not considered the implications of the question I have just asked. I have not taken the time nor effort nor commitment to sit down and ask myself this question. Instead, I have come into your philosophy classroom/office/feminist blog and shat out my question with a smirk, because I believe that my two seconds of thought are worth more than your long-term analysis, because I believe I am worth more.”
“I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers (via frivolousandreckless)
“I’m all for political and social satire, but in a world where Arabs and Muslims are consistently relegated to the role of cab driver, convenience-store owner, terrorist or tyrant, the yawn factor has well and truly set in. Where there is humour, it seems primarily to be at our expense.”
—Amal Awad; Joke’s worn off as films cue the stock Arab. (via popmuslim)
- Mr. Darcy: hey, I just met you
- Mr. Darcy: and this this crazy
- Mr. Darcy: but I'm going to act coldly distant to you for a long time, , then awkwardly admit my undying love to you and save you from liking a horrible liar and gambler, then propose to you, telling you I love you not for your beauty but for your mind.
- Mr. Darcy: so call me maybe.
