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inlovewithafictionalcharacter:
This is one of the most inspirational stories ever.
Oh. My. God.
Is this a true story??
It is indeed. (x) And she's written a fantastic piece about body image. (x)
holy shit I didnt know that
This is too amazing to NOT reblog, so inspiring.
That is amazing.
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unicorn-meat-is-too-mainstream:
Various cloud formations might be one of the most beautiful and romantic sights in nature, but these masses of liquid droplets is also a complex and scientifically interesting phenomena.
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lochnesie: teambeartrap: I found some stuff guys! BONER...
I found some stuff guys!
BONER ALERT
thelookingglassgallery: "Remembering Yotvata" by Elena...
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(A gay couple has just met up in the restaurant and kissed each other upon arrival. Another customer has seen this and is obviously angry.)
(A gay couple has just met up in the restaurant and kissed each other upon arrival. Another customer has seen this and is obviously angry.)Angry Customer: "Damn f**s."
Gay Man: "Excuse me?"
Angry Customer: "You heard me, you little s***. Let's not make this into some little pride protest, okay? I have to accept that you're going to live your lifestyle, and you have to accept that I've got freedom of speech."
Gay Man: *quietly* "Is it too much to ask for a little human decency?"
Angry Customer: "Human? Listen up, what you're doing is not human. I think I have the right to determine what I think is human."
(The manager shows up. He's a quiet Italian man who I assume is conservative due to the Christian imagery and portrait of Reagan he keeps around the restaurant.)
Angry Customer: *to the owner* "Hey, can you move either them or us to another table?"
(Instead of responding to the angry customer, the owner instead speaks to his wife.)
Owner: "I'm sorry ma'am, but we have a strict 'no pets' policy in my restaurant."
Wife: "Uh, I, uh, what? I don't have a—"
Owner: "Well, according to your talking monkey over here, I can determine who's a human and who's not. You bring an animal into my restaurant; I gotta assume it's your pet."
(The angry customer storms out. When I left, the owner was giving his description, and copies of security camera footage, to the biggest crowd of police I've seen. Apparently it's a bad idea to not pay your bill at a restaurant that gives free coffee to cops.)
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whitefeministcollectionagency:
White Feminism privilege denying FLOTUS edition.
The above are screen caps of tweeets made by CodePink and their cofounder Medea Benjamin after Michelle Obama was confronted by a protester named Ellen Sturtz from the pro- LGBT group Get EQUAL.
After the incident was reported to happen, tweets like the above started to be made playing into racist tropes by framing FLOTUS as an "angry black woman" and telling her how she should have responded plays into respectability politics.
Your white privilege is showing feminists. Just stop and think what would have happened if Laura Bush did the same thing. Yeah that's what I thought.
"She came right down in my face," Sturtz told the Washington Post. "I was taken aback."
Haha! GOOD! It's good that she was taken aback, it's good that the First Lady took no shit.
This is all very typical for racist white feminists. Basically, they don't believe that a black woman has any boundaries or any right to defend or assert herself.
Clearly, that protester was out of line and under any other circumstances that would be pretty much ubiquitously understood. But because FLOTUS is a black woman they re-frame the story to make it seem as if she was overly aggressive to a "gently" spoken, non-threatening white woman and that SHE was the one out of line.
I always notice how white feminists cry on and on about how they don't want to be seen as delicate flowers. And they have books like Lean In encouraging them to "take their power" as women and whatever else but as SOON as white supremacy gives them the opportunity they revert to the familiar "I'm a delicate, precious white woman" trope to justify the abuse of black women.
hm.
"ellen didn't scream, she talked gently" I bet all the money i will ever make Mrs Obama didn't speak scream but a Black woman doing as much as breathing is aggression to the white chick
I don't know what this has to do with her race. The person was interrupting her to yell about same sex marriage.
Honestly the heckler didn't even deserve acknowledgment, but Mrs. Obamas response was perfectly acceptable, maybe even generous with her response.
I think that those who are upset are more focused on the perceived disregard of LGBT rights by dismissing the person. Which is absurd because one, the speech had nothing to do with gay marriage and two because the Michelle Obama does support gay rights. And thirdly she was Way out of line to even be interrupting her in the first place. It has to do with respect than race if you ask me.
I'm just really not sure where you're coming from with the whole white feminist thing, and I'm not sure what you're trying to say about them.
I don't think it was racist to interrupt the flotus, but it was definitely rude. These particular people tweeting negative shit are just butthurt that she wasn't going to take their crap.
I'm just confused as to why a white female gay rights advocate heckling the First Lady, some how translates to a generality about other feminists.
Shit I'm not gonna deny that most articles and tweets on this topic are full of racist slurs an stereotypes but that says nothing about the two people involved.Because there's a certain level of inherent disrespect for women of color, especially black women in these so-called "feminist" (who seem to forget there are non-white women) or "gay" (who seem to forget there are non-white gay people) organizations. These same people will support the Onion calling a 9 year old black girl a c*nt, or blame Beyonce for sex trafficking, or tell us to laugh at a joke about Chris Brown murdering Rihanna. They blame black people for Prop 8 passing, while ignoring the white organizations and churches that actively wrote, initiated, and supported passing the bill (Mormon church spent a helluva lot money to get that bill passed, but you don't see HRC condemning them like they do the "black community", do you)?
So sorry, if you can't see. Maybe it's not meant for you to see. But, anytime some white woman feels the need to police what a woman of color is doing or saying, that's smacks of them viewing said woman as less than: less intelligent, less entitled to assert herself, less of a human being.
Mrs. Obama owes them absolutely nothing. They're fortunate that Mrs. Obama doesn't suffer fools and handled it with more grace and class than that heckler deserved.
i agree & would just like to add hecklers at events like this seem BEYOND ridic to me. no leader in the HISTORY OF EVER has been swayed by some idiot talking over them & just droning on & on & not letting them properly respond. EVER. tbh, even the times i've AGREED w/the hecklers, i just roll my eyes at them when they get on the news.
which really, is their whole point: attention. which is fine if you're speaking on an issue that NEVER gets attention (like the us govt continuing to steal native's gold in alaska & how they've petitioned the un for help), but otherwise? what's the point? you just wind up making yourself & whatever organization you're a part of looking like an ass.
idk, that's just how i feel about it. :P i'm a big fan of politics & i think people don't use their right to vote as effectively as they ought to…instead they like to resort to screaming at people they don't agree w/like children on a playground. it's not a very effective way to accomplish anything.
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mothernaturenetwork: Recipe: Bourbon and Butternut Squash Ice...
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theuppitynegras: firstladysexyfineass: Where is the otter that...
Where is the otter that looked so disgusted with its watermelon?
here he is
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A university student from China, pasted a "boyfriend-wanted" card on the university notice board and more than 2000 guys showed up.
The girl
Guys who showed up.
The notice card.
"My name is Zhang Mengqian, a grade one student, and I think I am attractive, but strangely I can't find a boyfriend. However I believe in destiny. If you have the same wish, please come under my dormitory building and shout for my name in between 12:30 to 12:50 on March 11th, and I will observe you secretly up on the building. If you're my type, I'll come down to meet you."
girl got game. snap! XD
manuxinhace: Fox News talks about working mothers' negative...
Fox News talks about working mothers' negative impact on their children. AKA "When Fox News gets so misogynistic that their own anchor is 1026% done with them." [x]
tapatheo: airpunchingacademic: methcastle: Go ahead and think...
Go ahead and think we're the only intelligent life out there. You go right ahead.
Fuck yeah Science
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erin-hugie: As for me, my emotions are shot.
As for me, my emotions are shot.
howstuffworks: How Liquid Motion Lamps Work: The most common...
The most common way to change the density of compounds is to change their temperature. Heating a compound activates the molecules so that they spread apart, making the compound less dense. If you have read How Thermometers Work, you know that heating water causes it to expand quite a bit. Cooling the compound down again increases the density.
If you look inside a motion lamp when it's turned off, you'll find a solid waxy compound on the bottom of the globe. This solid compound is only a little denser than the surrounding liquid compound. When you turn on the light at the base of the globe, here is what happens:
- The solid quickly turns into a liquid and expands, giving it a lower density than the surrounding liquid.
- A warm blob is now slightly less dense than the surrounding liquid, so it rises to the top of the globe.
- Because it is farther away from the heat source, the blob cools slightly, becoming more dense than the surrounding liquid (it does not cool down enough to change back into a solid, however).
- The blob sinks to the bottom of the globe, where it heats up enough to rise again.
This is a pretty simple idea, but it's actually fairly complicated to balance all the elements — the compounds, the heat source and the size of the globe — so that the blobs are constantly moving around. In fact, the companies that produce commercial motion lamps guard their ingredients very closely, and motion lamp enthusiasts have had a very hard time reproducing the displays you see in commercial models.
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