August 2011
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Being ugly isn't all that bad. At least I'll never...
Can we just talk about this Tumblr post for one minute? Really? Only beautiful/pretty girls and women get raped? Since when? I don’t even need to get into the child aspect of this to our followers. Rape is not a punchline, and what really enrages me is that it is women continuing to get this more notes. It’s already at 70,000+ Seriously, STOP THE REBLOGGING. RAPE IS NOT A JOKE...
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“Femmephobia can also be seen in marketing. We have diet soda, and we have diet...”
– On Femmephobia | No, Seriously, What About Teh Menz? (via zaftiggles)
Can I just say that I would LOVE it if I could walk into Home Depot and find that instead of selling shoddily made, pink-ified, “women’s” tools, they just sold “light” versions of tools for people with less body strength and/or...
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shebs:
As audiences continue to debate whether The Help is an inadequate racial drama or a crowd-pleasing discussion starter, Treme actor Wendell Pierce has joined the fray. “The movie The Help was painful to watch,” he tweeted last night. “This passive segregation lite was hurtful.” Pierce went to a screening with his mother, who told her son for the first time that she, too, had once been...
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“The civil rights movement was complex and vast and included white heroes as well...”
– ‘The Help’: A movie about a white woman who told the story of the suffering of black women (via pantslessprogressive)
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karnythia:
Why Hollywood keeps whitewashing the past
crystalsavestheday:
“This isn’t the story of beleaguered domestics standing up for themselves during a time of American apartheid. It’s the story of a perky proto-feminist writer (Emma Stone’s “Skeeter” Phelan) cajoling black women into standing up for themselves by telling her their stories and letting her publish them in book form. It’s...
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The Help & "love"
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readnfight:
White people need to find ways to form relationships with people of color, based on what white people perceive as love, that are not also relationships where their own domination over the person of color is unacknowledged or taken for granted. That ain’t love! Is The Help a book and movie about real love, or is it about how wonderful white women are, to the point that being...
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Kanye West' protege and #3 Billboard Chart... →
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How Harry Potter's Hermione suffered a very... →
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padaviya:
“I can’t.” What? Did Hermione Granger really say “I can’t” during the climactic battle in the final chapter of the Harry Potter film saga? Presented with her chance to destroy one of the horcruxes she had put her life on the line to hunt, she backs away and needs her almost-boyfriend Ron to insist that of course she can. Sorry, filmmakers, that quavering...
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on mystique.
gyzym:
So, there is a post on my dash containing some Mystique hate; it is not the first post I’ve seen like it, and I’m sure it won’t be the last. I’m not reblogging it and adding this as a commentary because (to my own continual surprise) I’ve gained some recognition in the XMFC fandom, and I have absolutely no desire to bring wank down upon the head of the OP or those who reblogged the post....
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Lindsay Miller on Tiger Beatdown: The Girl Who... →
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librariansoul:
For a long time, despite urging from the various nerds in my life, I didn’t bother to get into the new Doctor Who. (I still have never watched the original series.) But about a year ago, my partner and I moved to a new state so I could go to grad school. Bereft of our former social life, we spent a lot of time snuggling on the couch watching TV, and we got a...
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Racialicious - Race, Riot Grrl, the Black Rock... →
