Ill-Fated Wanderer

“I think a lot about what makes a strong female character. You...

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:16:46 -0400

“I think a lot about what makes a strong female character. You know, movies and TV shows, these things have influence, my own website. So I think the question of “What makes a strong female character?”, often goes misinterpreted. And instead we get these two-dimensional superwomen, who maybe have one quality that’s played up a lot. Like, you know, a Catwoman type, or she plays her sexuality up a lot and it’s seen as power. But they’re not strong characters who happen to be female, they’re completely flat and they’re basically cardboard characters.
The problem with this is that then people expect women to be that easy to understand, and women are mad at themselves for not being that simple. When in actuality, women are complicated. Women are multifaceted. Not because women are crazy, but because people are crazy. And women happen to be people!”

-Tavi Gevinson for TEDTalks [x]

tyleroakley: Oops.

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:27:36 -0400

tyleroakley:

Oops.

tyleroakley: So close.

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:11:00 -0400

tyleroakley:

So close.

porcelain-horse-horselain: Not a god damn thing.

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:49:28 -0400

porcelain-horse-horselain:

Not a god damn thing.

Photo

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:38:27 -0400

kardigone: Oh god, not French. ANYTHING BUT THE FRENCH.

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:27:26 -0400

kardigone:

Oh god, not French.

ANYTHING BUT THE FRENCH.

Photo

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:38:14 -0400

theolduvaigorge: My Primate Family Tree, Edinburgh Zoo Images...

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:27:41 -0400

theolduvaigorge:

My Primate Family Tree, Edinburgh Zoo

Images and text by artist Russell Dempster

“I was approached a while back by Edinburgh Zoo to design ‘My Primate Family Tree’ for the Living Links department of the zoo. It was to be an educational mural to show a few representatives from the hundreds of living primates, and tell us how closely related we are to each with the bonus of being able to take part in the picture and then completing the link. It fills an outside space of 2.3m x 3m. Every monkey and ape was drawn individually and all pieced together at the final artwork stage and then printed onto 3 panels.

The base of the tree represents the evolutionary origin of primates about 65 million years ago. The Capuchin and Squirrel monkeys on the bottom left represent the primates of the ‘New World’ (The Americas) that split from other evolving primates about 35 million years ago. Next, the Gelada Baboon, Japanese Macaque and Diana Monkey on the top left represent the ‘Old World’ monkeys of Africa and Asia that split from the apes shown on the right about 25 million years ago. Our closest relative is the Chimpanzee, then it’s the Gorilla and then the Orang-utan. These great apes and ourselves are a family that share a common ancestor about 14 million years ago.”

For more information about the divergence of humans and apes see:

Langergraber, K.E. et al. 2012. “Generation times in wild chimpanzees and gorillas suggest earlier divergence times in great ape and human evolution,” PNAS 109(39):15716–15721

Pontzer, H. 2012. ”Overview of Hominin Evolution,” Nature Education Knowledge 3(10):8 (open access)

nettumbles: the4mat: kennyboss: howtosucceedinwhoring: 1)...

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:16:40 -0400

nettumbles:

the4mat:

kennyboss:

howtosucceedinwhoring:

1) our President is a Prime Minister

2) our Prime Minister is a She

3) She is an Atheist

and we have had ‘Obamacare’ for like… ever

Lmao

the best response^

"Laurie Penny’s Saudade There are more of us than you think, kicking off our high-heeled shoes to..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:27:21 -0400

“

Laurie Penny’s Saudade

There are more of us than you think, kicking off our high-heeled shoes to run and being told not so fast

The best minds of my generation consumed by craving, furious half naked starving-

Who ripped tights and dripping make up smoked alone in bedsits bare mattresses waiting for transfiguration.

Who ran half dressed out of department stores yelling that we didn’t want to be good and beautiful

Who glowing high and hopeful were the last to leave the gig our skin crackling with lust and sweat and pure music

Who wrote poetry on each other’s arms and cared more about fucking than being fuckable

Who worked until our backs stiffened and our limbs sang with the memory of misbehaviour that was what it was to be a woman

Who dared to dance until dawn and were drugged and raped by men in clean T-shirts and woke up scared and sore to be told it was our fault

Who swallowed bosses’ patronizing side-eyes stole away from violent broken boys in the middle of the night and vowed never again to try to fix the world one man at a time

Who slammed down the tray of drinks and tore off our aprons and aching smiles and went scowling out into the streets looking for change

Who stripped in dark rooms for strangers’ anodyne dollars because we wanted education and were told we were traitors

Who sat faces upturned to the glow of the network searching searching for strangers who would call us pretty

Who bared our breasts to hidden cameras and fought and fought and fought to be human

Who waited in grim hallways with synth-pop crackling over the speaker system for the doctor to call us clutching fistfuls of pamphlets calling us sluts whores murderers

Who crossed continents alone with knapsacks full of books bare limbs clear-eyed vision running running from the homes that held our mothers down

Who filled notebooks with gibberish philosophy and scraps of stories and cameras to prove we were there keeping our novels and the name of out children close to our hearts

Who were told all our lives that we were too loud too tisky too fat too ugly too scruffy too selfish too much too and refused to take up less space refused to be still refused refused refused to be tame

Who would never be still. Who would never shut up. Who were punished for it and spat and snarled and they shook the bars of our cages until they snapped and they called us wild and crazy and we laughed with mouths open hearts open hands open and would never not ever be tame.

Sara, I’m with you in hospital, in the narroe rooms where you have put off your veil to count your ribs through your T-shirt, short hair and secrets and quiet defiance crying together that we don’t know how to be perfect-

Lara, I’m with you in mandatory art therapy, where we draw pictures of weeping cocks and are told we are not making progress-

Lila, I’m with you in a north London bathdroom, watchhing unreal maggots crawl in the cuts in your arms and listening to your girlfriend drunk and raging through the wall-

Andy, I’m with you in Bethnal Green where you love ambitious angry women with heart brain pen fingers tongue and you have a line from Nietzche tattooed over your cunt-

Adele, I’m with you in the student occupation, with your lipstick and cloche hat and teenage lisp drawling that there’s not enough fucking in this revolution and we must take action-

Kay, I’m with you on the night bus, half drunk and high dragging bright-eyed boys home to our bed, where we watch them worn out sleeping and whisper that we will never be married-

Katie, I’m with you in Zuccotti Park, where a broken heart is less important than a broken laptop is less important than a broken future and we watch the cops beating kids bloody on the pavement for daring to ask for more-

Tara, I’m with you in Islington where you have thrown all your pretty dresses out of the window and flushed your medication so you can write and write-

Alex, I’m with you and a bottle of Scotch at two in the morning when you tell me that no man will make us live for ever and we must seduce the city the country the world-

We are always hungry.

There are more of us than you think.

”

- Laurie Penny’s Saudade, from Fifty Shades of Feminism (via mollycrabapple)

So good.

(via neil-gaiman)

abinky: i still don’t know why this isn’t the most talked about...

Sat, 18 May 2013 06:33:10 -0400

abinky:

i still don’t know why this isn’t the most talked about thing on the internet still

Transgender Rights in the Era of Same-Sex Marriage: Are We Forgetting the

Sat, 18 May 2013 04:22:10 -0400

Transgender Rights in the Era of Same-Sex Marriage: Are We Forgetting the :

The United States moves inexorably toward granting equality to the L.G.B., but in the process, while still pronouncing that satisfying final consonant, we often, in practice, drop the T. No federal law offers protection to transgender people from discrimination in the workplace; the population sees double the usual rate of unemployment, and ninety per cent of transgender individuals report harassment, mistreatment, or discrimination at work.

fishingboatproceeds: #sass

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:11:07 -0400

fishingboatproceeds:

#sass

wilwheaton: jenniferdeguzman: He said Star Trek is too...

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:27:38 -0400

wilwheaton:

jenniferdeguzman:

He said Star Trek is too “philosophical”? Screw that noise.

mechcanuck:

I don’t know when this interview happened but I AM SAD AND ANGRY NOW

The philosophies in Star Trek are kinda part of the actual setting. If you don’t get that, why are you allowed to make Star Trek movies.

Sigh. The whole point of Star Trek is that it’s philosophical. If you don’t want philosophical Science Fiction, there’s plenty of that for you to enjoy, but Star Trek is philosophical. Philosophy is part of Star Trek’s DNA, and if you’re given the captain’s chair, you’d better damn well respect that.

mentalflossr: Finals Week in Graphs and Charts

Tue, 14 May 2013 19:38:35 -0400

mentalflossr:

Finals Week in Graphs and Charts

ottobiographic: Dylan Moran - What It Is (x)

Mon, 13 May 2013 13:05:41 -0400

ottobiographic:

Dylan Moran - What It Is (x)

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Sun, 12 May 2013 19:38:29 -0400

vvargs: My banana looks like Matt Smith

Sun, 12 May 2013 04:22:18 -0400

vvargs:

My banana looks like Matt Smith

thatzak: tastefullyoffensive: [chuck&beans] This hits...

Sun, 12 May 2013 02:11:21 -0400

thatzak:

tastefullyoffensive:

[chuck&beans]

This hits close to home.

eddplant: cityofbridges: Hyperbole and a Half is back after a...

Fri, 10 May 2013 02:11:01 -0400

eddplant:

cityofbridges:

Hyperbole and a Half is back after a year and a half off, and damn, does this one pack a punch.

Hyperbole and a Half is probably the best thing on the internet

The “yay” face bit is spot on.