If you can look at this and say the media is not controlled by people who want to keep you docile and ignorant, I don’t know what else to tell you.
This is important.
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TELL ME SOMETHING I HAVEN’T HEARD
About halfway through drawing this, I realized what I had created was effectively a Bingo Card, but perhaps a slightly more emotive one. So I’ll explain a bit of what’s behind it.
I first got into comics through feminist criticism of comics. I’m a feminist. And I love comics. The two things for me are inseparable, and I make no apologies for it. Both are a part of who I am. I’m also a fan of superheroes and superhero comics.
When it comes to discussions about women in comics, sexism in superhero comics, and so forth, I’m always reading, sometimes linking, and commenting a bit here and there. If you pay attention for a while as a female (and possibly feminist) comics reader, and/or superhero fan, you start to hear the same things over and over again. It becomes predictable and repetitive pretty quickly.Below I’ve expanded on what I’m talking about. It’s lengthy, so it’s behind a text cut.
EDIT: apparently “read more” text cuts don’t work on photo posts, so the full thing is HERE. Oh tumblr, you difficult thing, you.
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Currently Listening
I am not sure I can even explain how much I love the album Simple Math by Manchester Orchestra. I adore it.
Janoskis!
(Source: ridingpresidential, via paisley-rose)
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
we all got wood and nails, and we sleep inside this machine.
listened to this album like all last week.
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fantastic-mr-kevin ha risposto al tuo post : sidenote
show your hair!
I would but I don’t know how to take photos with the computer I’m currently using and I’m too lazy to take pictures with my iphone. I’ll put a picture up tomorrow probably. Hopefully I’ll have come to terms with the color by then.
sidenote
A) I really do like my haircut but I might get the colored bit re-dyed when I get my hair cut again. Don’t want to make any split decisions but I’m feeling that.
B) This may turn into an album review blog for a little bit because I’ve been using spotify and made a playlist of most of Pitchfork’s Top 50 Albums of 2010 (late to the game, I know) so I might write little reviews about them if I feel so inclined.
hem.
I got my hair done today (cut and partial foil business) and I am not sure how I like the color. I’m like about to cry over it too, which is silly as all hell. There’s just too much red in it and reddish (or magenta-ish) purples aren’t my favorite.
:(
I think I’m stressing too hard over not important things and that is why this is making me want to cry… which is better than simply wanting to cry over my hair color.
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You Need to Pay Attention to Michele Bachmann
I know a lot of us aren’t that political, and many haven’t been paying much attention to the Republicans clawing all over each other for the presidential nomination next year, but if you have a Twitter account or read the news you have probably heard of Michele Bachmann, the congresswoman from Minnesota who is quickly floating to the top of the short list of GOP bigots likely to face Barack Obama at the ballot box next year.
You know Bachmann—she’s the one who married her queeny husband Marcus (who runs a clinic that offers “ex-gay” therapy for self-hating homos) after both of them experienced a vision from God. Well, despite the fact that she is a religious extremist with virtually no record of accomplishments in congress besides forwarding her hateful moral agenda, she won the Iowa Straw Poll over the weekend, one of the first real litmus tests to determine who is a “top tier” candidate for the 2010 election.
Here’s the thing about Michele Bachmann: she is not Sarah Palin. She is smarter, she’s more highly regarded, she has a more drive and she has none of Palin’s political baggage. She’s also about twice as crazy.
Want to know just how Bachmann feels about you? Here’s what she said in 2004 re: the gays:
“It’s a very sad life. It’s part of Satan, I think, to say that this is ‘gay.’ It’s anything but ‘gay.’ It leads to the personal enslavement of individuals. Because if you’re involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it’s bondage. It is personal bondage, personal despair, and personal enslavement. And that’s why this is so dangerous. We need to have profound compassion for people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life, and sexual identity disorders.”
Bachmann was faced with this gem as recently as this past weekend, when she appeared onMeet the Press after her Iowa victory, and she stood by it, adding stupidly, “I am not anyone’s judge.” In it, she displays her profound ignorance (or worse, her straight up denial of facts) by calling homosexuality a “dysfunction” and a “disorder”, despite the fact that the American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality as a disorder in 1973, with the American Psychological Association following suit a few years later.
We need to face a scary reality, guys. Barack Obama’s approval ratings have dropped below 40 percent, the lowest they have ever been. Meanwhile, Michelle Bachmann, even with her long history of documented bigotry, is well on her way to securing the nomination (with only Texas governor Rick Perry posing much of a threat now, and he’s about as bad as she is). Remember what happened in 2010, when the GOP took back the senate and the house? We need to face the real possibility that Michele Bachmann could be the next president.
She supports a federal ban on gay marriage. She has vowed to reinstate Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. She opposes ENDA, which would defend you from discrimination in the workplace. She thinks the love you share with your partner is Satanic, dysfunctional and sad. Under President Bachmann, you can expect the momentum toward full civil rights we have achieved over the past few years (with little thanks to President Obama, it’s true) to be rolled back. You’d see full Republican control of government, and the introduction and passage of who knows what kind of hateful legislation aimed and subjugating LGBT people even further.
You need to pay attention to Michele Bachmann in the coming months, as she calculates her way to the presidency. And you need to be terrified.
I think you’re using a weird scale of intelligence if you consider Michele Bachmann smarter than Sarah Palin. She is a bucket full of crazy. This doesn’t even mention that she has stated (multiple times?) that there is contention over evolution existing in the scientific community.
And wheeeen did Republicans take the senate? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
(Source: ih8religion, via newton-pulsifer)
“everyone’s lives would have been better for it”
I agree with the person above this. The equivalent of what this picture says in real life is this: “World War I would have never happened if Gavrilo Princip didn’t assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie.”
Because no, WWI would have happened because the tension was already there and rising rapidly, it just needed a starting point. And if that hadn’t happened, something else would have.
Also I haven’t watched the show but I am currently reading A Storm of Swords.
Reblog, go on your blog, and click the triangle.
I JUST SPENT LIKE AN DHOUR OF MY LIFE ON THIS, GENIUS
^me too
holy shittt
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I read a review of Pala, Friendly Fires most recent album, recently, and summed up it was basically: same-ish, not as good as previous album but aight, Hawaiian Air may be specifically meant to annoy. [It might have been slightly more complimentary but I don’t remember that well and the magazine is at my desk at school and I am at home]
But Hawaiian Air is possibly my favorite song on the album right now.
And I love Spotify. Bunches.
Emma Stone in Tom Ford // July 19
I hope we see a lot more of her as they get this movie going.
Wouldn’t it be lovely to see her in a suit?
Speaking of suits
dapper, Mr. Gosling
that’s all I have to say to you.
In which Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone are perfect human beings.
