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Puss Puss
May
31
“All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honor, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Eorl and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death”
“What do you fear, lady?” he asked.
“A cage,” she said. “To stay behind bars, until use and old age and accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire” Lady Eowyn to Aragorn in Return of the King (via lipstick-feminists)
“What do you fear, lady?” he asked.
“A cage,” she said. “To stay behind bars, until use and old age and accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire” Lady Eowyn to Aragorn in Return of the King (via lipstick-feminists)
May
30
Income inequality, as seen from outer space. More trees = wealthier neighborhood.
Featured here: Chicago, Boston, Oakland
May
25
Buffy vs Edward: Twilight Remixed
Description:
In this remixed narrative Edward Cullen from the Twilight Series meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer at Sunnydale High. It’s an example of transformative storytelling serving as a pro-feminist visual critique of Edward’s character and generally creepy behavior. Seen through Buffy’s eyes, some of the more sexist gender roles and patriarchal Hollywood themes embedded in the Twilight saga are exposed in hilarious ways. Ultimately this remix is about more than a decisive showdown between the slayer and the sparkly vampire. It also doubles as a metaphor for the ongoing battle between two opposing visions of gender roles in the 21ist century.
Whether you’re a feminist or a fangirl or you just like to learn, these six “Tropes vs Women” episodes of Feminist Frequency are absolutely fascinating. Host Anita Sarkeesian makes sure you’ll never look at entertainment the same way.
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There are exactly three countries on Earth that do not provide guarantees for paid maternity leave. Papua New Guinea and Swaziland are two of them. Care to guess the third?
idgaf what nan one of y’all hoes say
obama is amzing
IF you don’t understand what that little boy really asked and what this President really did. You ain’t never NEVER gone truly get how this country works and why I will rail on his politics till be fingers gets weary and my throat hoarse but on basic in my chest
GUT LEVEL
I love this President . I love him like family.
what BA said. exactly what BA said.
“[F]or the first several years the SAT was offered, males scored higher than females on the Math section but females achieved higher scores on the Verbal section. ETS policy-makers determined that the Verbal test needed to be “balanced” more in favor of males, and added questions pertaining to politics, business and sports to the Verbal portion. Since that time, males have outscored females on both the Math and Verbal sections. Dwyer notes that no similar effort has been made to “balance” the Math section, and concludes that, “It could be done, but it has not been, and I believe that probably an unconscious form of sexism underlies this pattern. When females show the superior performance, ‘balancing’ is required; when males show the superior performance, no adjustments are necessary.” ”
“Gender Bias in College Admissions Tests”, FairTest.org. (via vaginawoolf)
We were told our English Lang GCSEs were often about sport or politics because boys often underperformed in that exam. I can’t even fathom the number of things wrong with this kind of thinking.
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i don’t understand how this is “unconscious” they saw numbers of both males and females and only made adjustments for the males. that is pretty damn blatant and conscious to me.
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