February 2012
618 posts
Valid reasons to be annoyed with CBS right now:
nancaia:
oxfordtweed:
° Watson is no longer the accomplished and decorated war hero and army doctor, two aspects of the character which have always, in some way or another, coloured the way the character behaves and the decisions they make. Not only does it change the character, but it sends a message that women aren’t capable of fighting for their country. ° Related to the above, Watson has...
bohemianarthouse:
19 Things That School Children Are Being Arrested For In America
ethiopienne:
lost-and-searching-in-america:
19 Things That School Children Are Being Arrested For In America
#1 At one public school down in Texas, a 12-year-old girl named Sarah Bustamantes was recently arrested for spraying herself with perfume.
#2 A 13-year-old student at a school in Albuquerque, New...
“You Don’t Have to Be Pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your...”
– I stole this from my best friend’s facebook page. :-)
Reblog this if you want someone to put a fictional...
yaeltiferet:
dooo eeet
I’m already a fictional character!
But, y’know, if you want to.
Prejudice: [PoC calls white person a cracker].
Racism: Two centuries of PoC being stolen from their homelands, driven out of their native lands, tricked, raped, infected with disease, and otherwise downtrodden so as to remove them from any chance of being the dominant race.
Prejudice: [PoC gives a white person a nickname playing on the fact that they're white].
Racism: PoC must, from the moment they realize a baby is on the way, worry about whether giving a child a name reflecting their heritage will affect their chances at a good life in the future. Hint: it will.
Not racism: Calling out that slavery lasted for two centuries, and civil rights did not happen for PoC until the 20th Century (you know, the century which only ended TWELVE YEARS AGO).
Racism: We should not talk about it, because it makes [non-PoC] feel bad.
Not racism: A non-PoC actor can get pretty much any role s/he wnats.
Racism: ... including roles that were originally written as PoC. PoC actors must settle for roles making them servants, sassy women, jive turkey men, criminals, drug addicts, or abused downtrodden prostitutes, the better to reinforce the negative mental image of PoC in the minds of the zeitgeist, and hold up the excuse that "they bring it on themselves".
Not Racism: Flattering pictures of people used to represent them on the web.
Racism: Flattering pictures of Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Bachman. But the most unflattering pic available of Michelle Obama is used for the same article.
Not Racism: Articles about women's features.
Racism: Article purporting to have scientific "proof" that Black women are uglier than women of any other race.
Not Racism: America is where everyone is supposed to have equal chance.
Racism: Equal chance? Freed slaves were lucky if they got 40 Acres and a Mule, after working for free for generations for people who are now wealthy and offered no other reparations.
Not Racism: Irish History Month, Italian History Month, French History Month, German History Month, etc. All of which would, technically, qualify, btw, as White History Months.
Racism: It's not Cameroon History Month, Nigerian History Month, Egyptian History Month, Zimbabwean History Month, Zaire History Month, Somalian History Month, etc. It's BLACK History Month. Doesn't matter what country in Africa you come from. If you're Black you just all get lumped in together.
Not Racism: PoC describe their experiences.
Racism: Non-PoC interrupt, derail, silence, mock, deride, or cite "oversensitivity" because it makes them feel uncomfortable to know that PoC have endured this, and to have to acknowledge their privilege -- and their responsibility to do something about it if they really are as anti-racist as they profess.
...add your own examples.
thatmuchlove:
13 Year Old Jada Williams Persecuted by the Rochester City School District Over her essay on Frederick Douglass.
ai-yo:
jumpstart-therevolution:
theafrosistuh:
beautifulbrwn:
“On Saturday, February 18, 2012, the Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York presented the first Spirit of Freedom award to Jada Williams, a 13-year old city of Rochester student. Miss Williams...
anedumacation:
That’s the thing, gay subtext doesn’t actually mean that the couple in question is queer, no matter how hard one might ship it.
Fanon isn’t canon. For those of us who are pretty deeply immersed in fandom, we blur the lines, because we like fan-created material more than the official creations. Canon doesn’t mean half as much to us as do the versions we hold in our heads.
But...
pretty much this
anedumacation:
shaelephant replied to your post: That’s the thing, gay subtext doesn’t actually…
thank. you. gay subtext is all well and good, but it’s been one of the most consistently frustrating things for me as a queer lady. because at the end of the day, you know it’s just stretching what’s there to fit your fantasies. the first time i saw a gay movie (imagine me & you) it literally...
Sherlock Fandom. A Word?
lalie:
laydownanywhere:
So it’s homophobic to cast Lucy Liu as Watson because then there won’t be gay subtext.
Oh. Okay, so it’s not homophobic when producers give a wink-wink-nod and fetishize gay people, when we exist as long as we don’t have sex, when we exist only as something to be laughed about but never stated?
That’s harmful. When gay people are only on television to titilliate,...
why trans men shouldn't be lionized for repeating... →
lucypaw:
mattachinereview:
This is a really great piece by Jack Radish about how whenever trans guys speak up about misogyny, we’re lauded as sensitive, clever, and innovative. But actually, we’re just repeating what we hear from trans women in our communities.
I really feel Jack on what he’s talking about in this piece. He articulates the mid-to-late 2000s shift in the trans community from...
“I refuse to lie to children. I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.”
– Maurice Sendak (via mongrel-love)
I remember reading this and thinking, “that’s totally my parenting philosophy.”
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anedumacation:
squintyoureyes:
sherlocked replied to your photo
I like Lucy Liu, and I’m pleased they’re casting a WOC as Watson because TV NEVER does that, but I’m worried they’re just doing this so they can slap them together while avoiding homoeroticism or, heaven forbid, gay people.
welllllllll
in my experience network television rarely ever shies away from homoerotic subtext between two...
“When you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore...”
– Jamie Raskin - who is now a senator in Maryland and served as floor manager of the recently passed bill allowing same sex marriage. (via abaldwin360)
BOOM.
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EFFING A, MAN. THIS. (via spastasmagoria)
Today is better than last night. Not good, not by a long shot, but better than last night.
Thanks to all who sent good wishes.
“I’m pro-choice because the personhood of a embryo/fetus is irrelevant: no person...”
– — excerpted from Raising My Boychick, a blog on parenting
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Blackface.
anedumacation:
I was going to write a parody of the justifications that people are putting forward for Billy Crystal’s blackface yesterday — “oh, its a tribute! Its not racist!” — by writing a similar justification for Fred Astaire’s turn in blackface in 1936, when he made Swing Time.
That’s Fred Astaire dressed up as Bill “Bojangles” Robinson. Astaire meant it to be a tribute to an artist he...
“Sandy” had a common experience: She is a 35 year-old transgender woman from...”
– Human Trafficking of Immigrant Transgender Women: Hidden in the Shadows (via thetart)
on re-blogging porn
bb-goose:
ineffableshe:
i find it really upsetting on many levels w hen internet feminists get so burned out calling each other out on relatively silly, western issues (the usage of words such as “crazy,” demisexuals appropriating queerness) that they completely laugh off legit critiques about the of spread of (uncredited) fetish porn images on social networking sites such as tumblr.
you know...
Cut for talk of serious depression and self-harm
Really really bad night. Tried to get to bed early — read 3am — and it’s backfired horribly. I listen to audiobooks to help me sleep, and tonight I put on an old favorite, old comfort reading … and just went to pieces. Because the second scene is the MC walking into his beautiful, perfect, closed, dead bar. And I lost it. It was bad. I was thinking hard about cutting, even...
