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thisiswhiteprivilege: History textbooks should all be titled “White Fanfiction.”

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:06:45 -0500

thisiswhiteprivilege:

History textbooks should all be titled “White Fanfiction.”

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:59:40 -0500

Reblog this is you would listen to someone who was suicidal, depressed, anorexic, trans, gay, anything and anyone's problems.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:59:04 -0500

Mostly signs (some portents): Why you should care about surveillance

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:51:22 -0500

Mostly signs (some portents): Why you should care about surveillance:

mostlysignssomeportents:

I got tired of people savvying me about the revelations of NSA surveillance and asking why anyone would care about secret, intrusive spying, so I wrote a new Guardian column about it, “The NSA’s Prism: why we should care.”

We’re bad at privacy because the consequences of privacy disclosures…

(tw!) "I was Raped at Disney World and Nobody Cared"

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:27:45 -0500

feministdisney:

via xo Jane

I couldn’t believe this when I read the headline. I would understand if it was difficult to handle a rape case that happened several weeks previously, but the way the company and its counselors shut her down and blamed her for it is absolutely disgusting and abhorrent. Leaves a really bad taste in my mouth about this program: note that it was very difficult for her to report the rape at all.

For friends and others currently in the program or planning to be, putting my best vibes your way and hoping you never have to go through something like this.

It took a lot of strength for this person to report what happened to them even after everything they went through.

Go to title link above for full piece, a lot of it is in excerpts here below. Again: TW for rape, and rape culture

I had heard about the Disney College Program from a few friends that had an amazing time working for the company and thought it would be better than nothing. Add the unlimited access to their theme parks, warm weather, and four extra months to figure out what to do with my life and it sounded pretty ideal.

I was accepted into the program and arrived in mid-August. After a few days of orientation, I started work on Main Street U.S.A. in the Magic Kingdom.

Three weeks into the program, I was raped by one of my co-workers.

I don’t feel a desire to share every detail from that night, but I’ll give you the bare bones: He and I went to a party together, we went back to his apartment later, and I said “no,” but he wouldn’t stop.

For two months I kept everything that happened that night to myself. I told my roommates that things went fine and I had a good night. I didn’t know how to feel about what happened. In the beginning, I told myself it was a misunderstanding; maybe he hadn’t heard me. I blamed myself; I should have yelled louder. I should have pushed harder. I should have punched him and ran out of the room. I always thought that if I was ever raped I would beat the guy up. Does that mean I wasn’t raped?

I finally decided to talk to someone after the first time I ran into him outside of work. He showed up at my friend’s Halloween party dressed as the Phantom of the Opera, which made seeing him that much more unnerving. I spent the rest of the night watching him hit on girls, worrying, and wondering whether or not I should tell my co-workers what happened.

I made an appointment to see one of the counselors in Disney’s Employee Assistance Program. I tried to be optimistic.Of course they’ll listen to me. It’s Disney, a company built on childhood innocence and happiness. Wouldn’t they want to fire an accused rapist immediately? (Spoiler Alert: No.)

I recounted everything that happened that night while the counselor stayed silent and seemed at least mildly sympathetic. When I told her we had been drinking, her face changed from “concerned” to “you made a mistake.” Still, I told her, I said “no” the entire time and he never listened.

The first thing she said to me was “Well, now you know not to be hanging around boys in the middle of the night. You know what they want.”

Take a few seconds and re-read that. Now let’s unpack it.

A certified counselor was insinuating that it was my fault that my coworker decided to rape me — as if I should have known better than to interact with any man after dark. Not only that, but she was advising me to approach every interaction with a man as if he is a potential rapist, including every man that works at Disney World. If I react to a man with anything less than hostility after sundown, whatever happens is my fault.

I told her that “no” means “no” whether it’s day or night. That was apparently too radical an idea for her, as she said nothing in reply. She continued to make excuses for my rapist.

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:19:57 -0500

"While there is nothing wrong with enjoying “style,” per se, it’s important that we start teaching..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:15:28 -0500

“While there is nothing wrong with enjoying “style,” per se, it’s important that we start teaching girls that a lot of “fashion” (as an industry) is built around keeping girls feeling ugly so that they will buy things.”

- 7 Things We Need To Start Teaching Girls In School | Thought Catalog (via brute-reason)

nhyworks: “Why should we care about women’s representation in video games?” “Nobody is going to...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:42:19 -0500

nhyworks:

“Why should we care about women’s representation in video games?”

“Nobody is going to want a female protagonist!

“Their target audience isn’t big enough to warrant any games!”

“Women aren’t as capable as men, they don’t belong in video games!”

“If more women started playing video games, maybe then they’d have a say in the matter!”

Air Force promotes highest-ranking gay officer

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:20:28 -0500

Air Force promotes highest-ranking gay officer:

gaywrites:

Air Force Major General Patricia Rose became the highest-ranking openly gay officer in the military when she was promoted on May 31.

According to OutServe-SLDN, Rose’s wife, retired Naval Officer Julie Roth, pinned her wife’s second star at a small ceremony led by Rose’s direct supervisor, General Janet Wolfenbarger, the Air Force’s first female four-star general.

Rose, a reservist, is the Mobilization Assistant to the Commander, Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. She has served in both aircraft maintenance and transportation in seven different commands as a logistician. Her reserve assignments include command of the 36th Aerial Port Squadron at McChord AFB, Washington.

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Socialism Art Nature: What war on women?

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:19:51 -0600

Socialism Art Nature: What war on women?:

socialismartnature:

Number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan and Iraq: 6,614.

Number of women, in the same period, killed as the result of domestic violence in the US: 11,766.

Approximately 3 women in the U.S. are killed every 24 hours by a spouse or a known intimate. (Over 1,000 every year).

Homicide as a result of domestic violence accounts for 30% of all homicides against women every year.

FOX News likes to talk endlessly about how evil “the Taliban” is and how we have to go “over there” and kill them all in order to protect women. But they don’t have shit to say about those very same conditions of misogynistic murder and sexual assault against women right here in the U.S.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/soraya-chemaly/50-actual-facts-about-dom_b_2193904.html

http://www.ncadv.org/files/DomesticViolenceFactSheet%28National%29.pdf

https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/jr000250g.pdf

http://www.dvrc-or.org/domestic/violence/resources/C61/

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Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:46:15 -0600

buzzfeedfood: Some fortune cookies don’t even try.

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:40:39 -0600

buzzfeedfood:

Some fortune cookies don’t even try.

theremina: Swing to Infinity Inside Thilo Frank’s Mirrored...

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:36:40 -0600

theremina:

Swing to Infinity Inside Thilo Frank’s Mirrored Room.

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Sun, 10 Feb 2013 02:38:07 -0600

futureimagination: picassowouldapprove: In Paris, An...

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 02:30:53 -0600

futureimagination:

picassowouldapprove:

In Paris, An Inflatable Trampoline Bridge

clearly i havent been living yet