“Teachers have held up Helen Keller, the blind and deaf girl who overcame her physical handicaps, as an inspiration to generations of schoolchildren. Every fifth grader knows the scene in which Anne Sullivan spells water into young Helen’s hand at the pump. At least a dozen…
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the fuckING PENCIL SHARPENER ONE
BRILLIANT THANK YOU
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The danger of worldviews (Speaking when the world sleeps)
Truth bomb if I ever saw one.
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We [Fraction and his wife, Kelly Sue DeConnick] were pregnant at the time, and while I was out there I started to realize that if I had a daughter, there would come a day when I would have to apologize to her for my profession. I would have to apologize for the way it treats and speaks to women readers, and the way it treats its female characters.
I knew that if we had a daughter, because I know my wife and I know the kind of girl she wants to raise and I know the kind of girl I want to raise, she was going to look at what I did for a living and want to know how the fuck I could stomach it. How could I sell her out like that?” Fraction continued. “That conversation is still coming, and I’m bracing for it in the way that some dads brace for their daughter’s first date or boyfriend. I became acutely aware that I had sort of done that thing that lots of privileged hetero cisgendered white dudes do. ‘I’m cool with women, and that’s enough.’ It’s not enough. It’s embarrassing to say, because we somehow have attached shame to learning and evolving our opinions, culturally, but I became aware that there was a deficiency of and to women in my work, and all I could do at that moment was take care of my side of the street.
"— Writer Matt Fraction on his role on expanding the profile of female characters in the Marvel Universe. (via goodmanw)
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: irresistible-revolution: rillness: Seriously talk all your shit about…
Seriously talk all your shit about “authenticity” and “real talent” but do you honestly think your cloying overdone White Guy music “legends” could deliver even a nominally passable performance in 6 inch heels while recalling hours’ worth of choreography in super form-fitting clothes while still having to focus on preserving their hair and makeup AND having to be fit enough to at least appear unfazed by the demands of the performance NO you don’t. The fact of the matter is that the spectacle aspect of American pop music is set phenomenally lower for men than women and your criticism is such a snore
I don’t know who this was directed at but whoever it was just got their fucking edges ripped out.
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When Strangers Click, a 2011 documentary about online dating.
It reminds me of that famous Margaret Atwood quote: “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” It also reminds me of something written by one of the mods of Sex Worker Problems: “Misandry irritates. Misogyny kills.”
I mean, it’s just true.
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“Misandry irritates. Misogyny kills.”
That’s it. That’s it right there.
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I am so obsessed with this song right now!!
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RIP Koh Masaki.
6,20,1983 - 5,18,2013Yes, he was a king within the sex industry, and where many would regard that as being worthy of little respect, the fact is he did so much to help normalize the world of homosexual sex. His movies were not gratuitous or exploitative video vehicles but examples of enervating and powerful man sex; and all the more remarkable for coming from the land of Japan.
He not only enabled Japanese gays to be free in their skins. He also helped open the world of Japanese society and give a nod to the fact that, for all their conservatism, Japanese men have the very same passion and urges that can be found anywhere. That’s a gift that cannot be dismissed or demeaned and the bottom line has to be that in his all too short life, Koh left us having made a difference.
His years were short but well used and future generations of Japanese gays will enjoy lives more secure and tolerant on his account.
Earlier this year, Masaki and his partner appeared in an episode of the LGBT- themed documentary series called, “We Are Out”, in which they discussed their open relationship. Watch it below.
plot twist: the man thinks, ah, she is simply expressing her frustration as a member of an oppressed group, whilst hating the construction of masculinity that was designed to keep her down, not all individual men such as myself…this is absolutely not the same thing as sexism and not a personal attack on me *keeps scrolling*
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- moniquill (on red face & cultural appropriation)
I’m just going to reblog this again, since some people apparently need reminding.
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So on point, I can’t even
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Two Palestinian schoolgirls going to school THROUGH the
“Israeli” Apartheid Wall.
