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bemusedlybespectacled:

ramoorebooks:

opinionatedlez:

Here are some awesome and empowering quotes from several very strong female celebrities. 

And Kristen Stewart.

No, you know what? Fuck you.

Let me tell you about Kristen Stewart.

Let’s talk about how she’s the centerpiece of one of the most inexplicably popular misogynistic pieces of film shit and somehow gets blamed for it sucking, despite the fact that, hey, the books were actually worse. For those who were lucky enough to escape reading the actual books, her apparent lack of emotion is 100% accurate to Bella’s character, because Bella is in fact not a character but a blank white wall for fourteen-year-old girls to project themselves onto. Robert Pattinson is not the only one in the cast who hates Twilight, thank you.

Let’s talk about how she got crucified in the media for having an affair with a married man, when that man was her director. And let’s remember that she was called all manner of things for “ruining her relationship with RPattz” when she wasn’t even engaged to the dude, let alone married with kids. But oh no, she gets called a slut because she’s Kristen Stewart, she gets her career fucked because she’s Kristen Stewart, and the dude gets off scott free.

Let’s talk about how she is incredibly shy and anxious (rather, incidentally, like Chris Evans) but does film anyway, because she’s just that awesome.

Fuck your noise. She’s not the best actor in the world but she sure as hell doesn’t deserve that kind of shit.

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scienceing:

mybluedecember:

princess-munchkin:

How the fuck does Bill Nye expect this to happen? What do you want to do, force women to enroll in science courses, regardless of whether or not they want to do it? Just for the sake of having “enough” women? Why the fuck do these fractions matter so much? It’s not like people are holding guns to our head and threatening to kill us if we become interested in science.

Maybe, just maybe, a lot of us DON’T FUCKING WANT to be scientists. Is that a crime?

Hi there, princess-munchkin. Female engineering student here. 

Bill Nye is not saying that you HAVE to be a scientist, and you are right that no one is holding a gun to my head because I am interested in science, but let me tell you some of the struggles of being a woman in the STEM fields. 

1) Because I am a woman, I am not expected these fields. I first fully realized this when I was in high school, on my robotics team. See, although my robotics team was about 50% female, most of the women were part of the “business administration” side of things: finance, marketting, PR, membership, etc. Was this a problem? Absolutely not. But I was there to be an engineer, and specifically, to be the robot programmer. This was met with a lot of hesitation at first from some of the other students (all of whom happened to be male. This is not necessarily a bad thing.) You see, all of the robot programmers before me were guys. Computer programming is just a thing that guys do, or so they thought. Even after I had proved myself to the mentors on the team, many of the students still underestimated my abilities. There were rumors going around that I wouldn’t have been able to program the robot at all if the lead software mentor wasn’t there to help me. This was just flat-out false, but it wasn’t until I won an award for the team that the other students actually saw my merit. 

2) There is not a lot of encouragement for women to go into these fields. I first noticed this when I was in elementary school. I was always interested in math, science, you name it, but many of my teachers and family members pushed that to the side for a long time. When I asked for legos for christmas, I would get ballet slippers. In fact, for a long time, I was training to be a professional dancer. I loved to dance. I loved math more, but no one seemed to notice that about me. It wasn’t until I had a long conversation with one particular teacher in high school that I decided to look into engineering. I had never even considered it as an option before, because no one decided to encourage me to pursue my interest in science. If it hadn’t been for that teacher, I would probably not be at the school I am at right now. 

3) For a long time, Engineering/Science/Math WAS a “boys only” club. Let me tell you when some of the top technical schools and societies started letting women in:

• RPI, The oldest tech school in the country, founded in 1824. Started admitting women in 1942 to “replace men called to war.” Campus housing for women wasn’t constructed until 1966. 
• Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honors Society - Founded in 1885. Started admitting women in 1968.
• Caltech - Currently rated #3 in undergraduate engineering. Founded in 1891. Started admitting women in 1970. 
• Georgia Tech - Currently rated #5 in undergraduate engineering. Founded in 1885. Started admitting women in 1952. 

Do you see the implications of this? Engineering has been a part of our society since around the late 1800s (in the case of RPI, since the 1820s), but women weren’t even allowed in for the most part until the 1950s, regardless of their merit. 

4) Because of the fact that it was a “boys only” club for such a long time, there are not a lot of women engineers and scientists to look up to. When you’re reading your physics, chemistry, and math text books, the majority of those theories were came up with by men. It is true that much of our history was written by White Men, but this does not mean that the fact that there are few women scientists to look up does not matter. 

So, as you can hopefully see, princess-munckin, or anyone else that shares the opinions of princess-munchkin, Bill Nye was not arguing that women that are not interested in STEM should go into those fields anyway. But he IS arguing against all of the systematic barriers set up against women who ARE interested in engineering and science. There are several women out there who are just as good as the boys at math and science, but will never pursue their interests because it just doesn’t seem like an option. That was me for a long time. I am super grateful for the fact that I fought against that, and that I ended up where I am. 

if you don’t like science, fine. Don’t be a scientist. But if one day you have a daughter and she shows interest in being a scientist, PLEASE encourage her. Because Bill Nye is right, there needs to be more women scientists in the world. 

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fuckyeahcracker:

Effects Of Thinking White People Are “All Like That”:

• Literally nothing other than white people having their feelings hurt on the internet
• I’m not joking there is no real world consequence of this

Effects Of Thinking People of Color Are “All Like That”:

• Saudi student is literally surrounded by FBI for cooking rice under terrorist suspicions
• White people literally can not associate positive words with Black faces because of racism
• More white people use drugs but Black people are sent to jail for drugs at 10 times the rate that white people are
• Black people who “sound Black” earn less money than those who don’t because of associations with stereotypes. Black people who “sound Black” are less likely to get called back for jobs
• Black children grow up literally associating being Black with being bad and ugly
• White people when tested shot more unarmed Black subjects than armed and unarmed white subjects
• Hate crimes increase after Boston tragedy
• Moroccan High School Student is linked to Boston tragedy for being Brown
• Bangladeshi man is beaten by people out of racism
• NYPD Commissioner wants Black and Latino men to fear him after the police targeted literally 90 percent Black and Latino men in New York and humiliating them by frisking them in public under the assumption that they had weapons. Studies found that white men were the ones who overwhelmingly had weapons while Black and Latino men didn’t
• White people blaming and convicting Black men for crimes they never committed and everyone believing them because of racism
• Stop and Frisk, ruled unconstitutional was practiced by New York police disproportionately and unfairly affecting 90% Black and Latino men because of racism
• Universities throwing racist ‘Fiesta Party’ homogenizing culture with extreme racism
• Here are some of the numbers on hate crimes against People of Color and btw, Neo Naziism is increasing!
• Every 28 Hours an African American is Extrajudicially Murdered in the U.S.
• Black people 3 times more likely to be arrested for Marijuana
• Black people receive much harsher sentencing than white people for the same crimes do I need to go on?

But yeah, white people’s feelings :*(

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sewthoughtful:

scalpels-scissors-stitches-skin:

A crow taking a bath.

If this isnt the greatest thing youve ever seen, you dont deserve to be alive.

i love crows ;u;

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notanearlyadopter:

Obligatory instance of me telling the story about the time Mary McDonnell and I casually chatted about feminism and how it’s okay for me to like traditionally feminine things because TRUE FEMINISM MEANS THAT FEMININE SHOULD NOT BE LESS THAN MASCULINE, like hello, the whole point is that I have the freedom to make my own choices.

As it turns out I really like Zoe Deschanel.

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"Men who harass women on the street are part of the same spectrum of the rape culture. They use their power and male privilege to intimidate women and restrict their equality. And, like abusers, they use it to control women. Don’t believe me? Ask yourself how many women adjust where they walk, what time of night they walk, how many people they walk with, what they wear etc. Street harassers, like rapists, have been able to control women’s behaviour. Even women who have never been raped have learned very early that they are not safe on their streets and their communities."

Hollaback Vancity

 An article explaining why catcalling isn’t a compliment

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introtofeminism:

don’t ever let anybody tell you that you have to make light of violence against you. don’t ever let anybody tell you that you have to suck it up, get over it, sit down and shut up. don’t ever let anybody walk all over you like that because you and only you know your experiences and however you want to deal with that is your own god damn business.

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drinkmasturbatecry:

eriizabeto:

mariuspontmercy:

optimismologist:

qsinoroyale:

optimismologist:

What I meant by that statement is that if you have some sort of problem with movies that don’t have people of color in them, then you don’t have to watch those movies. I don’t think it’s very nice of you to make any sort of comment about those movies simply because of the races of the characters in them. 

What it comes down to is what the writers want. Your or my or anyone else’s desire for POC representation in media does not obligate a writer to include POC characters in whatever they’re writing. They can write whatever they like. If the creator of Brave or Tangled wanted there to be POC in the film, then I would want there to be POC in the film. However, since the writer did not write any POC characters, there are not and there’s nothing wrong with that. 

On the third point I admittedly took a few dramatic strides too many. My point is that the writers of those films had no ill intent in not including POC. That’s just how they wrote it and that’s fine. I am not a dudebro.

No but like there is something wrong with writers continually not writing POC characters when they have the opportunity.

Just because they don’t mean ill intent doesn’t mean that it’s right.

If I didn’t watch every movie that didn’t have POC characters, I would not watch a lot of movies.

Do you not see what the issue is there?

I can certainly see that there is an issue, but I don’t think telling people they’re wrong for not including POC characters in their writing is the solution. It’s more of a cultural thing. As we became more racially accepting and inclusive as a society, there will be more people of color in our media. Putting rules and limitations on people’s art is just attacking the symptoms of the larger issue of established cultural racism. 

this just in from tumblr user optimismologist: asking for POC representation in mainstream media and questioning the exclusion of POC from mainstream media is limiting people’s artistic endeavours. also, we just have to wait. patience is key when it comes to minority representation. just sit down and don’t do anything. don’t question, don’t ask. it’ll happen eventually.

Great idea. It isn’t like minorities of all kinds have been waiting for literally thousands of years or anything. Thanks, Optimismologist.

hey remember that time they cast a PoC girl in the hunger games to play a character that was written specifically as a PoC girl and people complained because they wanted her to be white and they thought it made her death less tragic when they found out she was always supposed to have been black? good times.

“some sort of problem”? GTFO.

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"‎Rape culture is a culture in which people who have survived a violent crime are asked to laugh about it because other people think it’s funny."

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Rape jokes are unacceptable and should not be tolerated under any circumstances.

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"Makoche wiohoyanpatakiya hoyewayelo. Sending up prayers for everyone man woman child, four legged, swimmers, and all things in harms way. This is mother natures place and we pray for pity."

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