Things I'm Obsessing Over

the-chaos-of-trouble:

fuckyeahfamousblackgirls:

Clair Huxtable sets Elvin straight

Clair Huxtable. Role model.

I wish to see moments like this on modern tv shows 

lacigreen:

uselessparadigm:

10knotes:

I feel so embarrassed and I can’t explain it.

“if women are so smart, why hasn’t there been a woman president?”

(Source: idiotsonfb, via merrytheknight)

merrytheknight:

dionthesocialist:

erosum:

Feminist Frequency - Tropes vs. Women: #3 The Smurfette Principle (full video & transcript here)

Yeah, I’m glad that Bing Bang Theory seems to have corrected itself a bit by adding Bernadette and Amy to the main cast.

possible-side-effects:

philosopherintraining:

I love feminism. I’m sorry, I had to say it.

4 my franz

I love feminist thought that includes the idea of choice

I see way to much prescriptive and conditional feminism in my day to day life

(Source: thisishangingrockcomics, via atticuschapin)

magalomania:

latinegro:

stuish:

tumblrofthrones:

kissedxfire:

Attention ASOIAF and Game of Thrones fandom:

This video game comes out tomorrow, and I want everyone here to know that they left women out of this Game of Thrones RPG, or shall we say otherwise reduced them to non-playable characters who give out orders and/or are prostitutes. This is shouldn’t be acceptable when the developers promised to respect the world Martin built in the ASOIAF. For more details, read the full post at Kissed by Fire here. 

Fandom, I think it’s time to take a stand. Don’t buy this game. 

What is this fuckery? Relegating women to NPC roles, that’s just a lovely metaphor all types of sexist shittiness.

How grossly disappointing. I was really looking forward to this game.

Wow…that is crazy! Some of the best characters in the books and the shows are WOMEN! Not all women in either case are prostitutes and handmaidens. Shit, Daenerys commands dragons and Brienne is a Knight! That shit is unacceptable. I thought about buying this game…I wont now.

I will stick with Arkham City where I can choose to actually play as Cat-Woman

Makes no sense.

oh that is some BULL SHIT right there

so many of the POV characters are bad ass females. 

hellyeahchandlerbing:

ALL THE AWARDS TO MATTHEW PERRY

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disneynicole:

How am i the only one so far in Humboldt?

http://www.slutsacrossamerica.org/

Why do you support birth control?

do it do it do it

think-progress:

What women could afford if the gender gap didn’t exist.

Put another way, a woman over the course of her lifetime could afford two houses, 7 college degrees from a public university, 14 new cars, or $431,360 for retirement.

how I feel when I look at this and have the disparity laid out in such tangible terms

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fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Queen Tamar ruled over the kingdom of Georgia in Caucasus between 1184 and her death in 1213. Her ruling years are commonly known as the “golden age” of Georgia, she is remembered as “The king of kings and queen of queens”. That says a lot, doesn’t it? She married a Russian prince in 1185, but they divorced two years later and she married a man of her own choice since her first marriage was political (and childless).

She died in 1213 and was declared a saint by the catholic church. And if you believe this fresque painting of her, she was absolutely beautiful.

I always really liked the name Tamar…

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aatombomb:

We were discussing homosexuality because of an allusion to it in the book we were reading, and several boys made comments such as, “That’s disgusting.” We got into the debate and eventually a boy admitted that he was terrified/disgusted when he was once sharing a taxi and the other male passenger made a pass at him.

The lightbulb went off. “Oh,” I said. “I get it. See, you are afraid, because for the first time in your life you have found yourself a victim of unwanted sexual advances by someone who has the physical ability to use force against you.” The boy nodded and shuddered visibly.

“But,” I continued. “As a woman, you learn to live with that from the time you are fourteen, and it never stops. We live with that fear every day of our lives. Every man walking through the parking garage the same time you are is either just a harmless stranger or a potential rapist. Every time.”

The girls in the room nodded, agreeing. The boys seemed genuinely shocked. 

“So think about that the next time you hit on a girl. Maybe, like you in the taxi, she doesn’t actually want you to.”

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bingo

(Source: andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com, via norsed)