December 2011
25 posts
Oh my God, seriously?! Are we really doing...
sweetdreamr:
Found this on the personalispolitic tumblr. Was pretty sure I was going to be sick. It is from something called Relevant Magazine, and I feel the need to subject it to a patented Sweetdreamer rant. Apologies in advance, this is gonna be harsh. I woke up in a Stannis Baratheon kind of mood today.
I don’t know, everyone else seems to think this is really deep, meaningful and...
get busy living or get busy dying: If someone who... →
sweetdreamr:
pompadoursandpincurls:
you:
listen
apologize
you do not:
challenge them because you personally don’t find it offensive or you know someone who was also victimized by it and they weren’t offended.
because what the fuck is even the point of you saying that you don’t find it offensive? Are you trying to say that…
The more I read of you, the more I want to make you a nacho...
[TW for misogyny/violence against women] South... →
sweetdreamr:
pompadoursandpincurls:
xtremecaffeine:
stfurapeculture:
feistyfeminist:
Rape culture is when men feel so entitled to have access to women that they throw bowling balls at us when they are denied.
As usual… Men are afraid women will laugh at them, women are afraid men will kill them.
Let’s not even pretend we’re not all playing with a stacked deck here.
^THIS IS...
Frankincense production 'doomed' | Environment |... →
Production of frankincense could be halved over the next 15 years because of steep declines in the number of the trees that make the resin, researchers have warned.
Frankincense, used in incense and perfume, and one of the gifts brought by the three kings in the Christmas story, is produced by tapping Boswellia trees.
But the trees, which grow in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian peninsula,...
SweetDreamr's Blog: On Being 'Grateful' →
sweetdreamr:
You know, whenever I hear complaints about a woman, usually a fictional character, when she’s widely disliked by a large group of menfolk, one of the words I hear most often is ‘ungrateful’.
Because her man treats her well, she is not supposed to argue with him about anything, ever. Or…
Must Love Kids: What we talk about when we talk... →
“Perhaps the most feminist thing we can do is simply forgive our mothers whatever slights.”
Seriously? Umm, how about just stopping judging women by their relationship status or whether or not they’re mothers at all? It may be feminist to say that you’re not going to judge how a woman raises her child, but it’s a damn sight more feminist to say that whether or not a...
a bright wall in a dark room.: Keanu Reeves Week:... →
brightwalldarkroom:
I CAN ONLY SHOW YOU THE DOOR, YOU’RE THE ONE THAT HAS TO WALK THROUGH IT.
by Katie West
The other day I was watching Transformers: Dark of the Moon. (Don’t judge me.) At the beginning of that movie, there’s a depiction of the first moon landing. Sure, in the movie the entire reason for…
We may have glimpsed the Higgs boson, say Cern... →
This is going to fuck with so many scientist’s heads, I love it.
'Lost' Doctor Who episodes from 1960s returned to... →
Aaah, a xmas miracle.
“Sex-negative messages don’t keep people from having sex. They keep people from...”
– Sex-Negative Education and the Spectre of Rape « Sex Positive Activism (via queerinnature)
SweetDreamr's Blog: The Friend Zone, Part 2 →
sweetdreamr:
This will be short, but not at all sweet.
Don’t complain about being put in my ‘friend zone’. You are goddamn LUCKY if you end up in my friend zone. Why? BECAUSE I AM AN AWESOME FRIEND.
Know what makes me such an awesome friend? I will listen to your problems and NOT EXPECT A FUCKING…
Higgs boson hunters scent their elusive quarry at... →
Roll on Tuesday
Chris: Directing hate →
chris:
I’ve been mulling this one over for a while. Let’s keep the question abstract for now - though, I’ll warn you, it’s going to get very specific. At what point, and to whom, is violent language and behaviour a suitable tool for activists?
The thing is, you can’t advocate total pacifism here….
(Random thoughts here coz, too much think/too little sleep. But even in my zombified state...
my culture is not a trend.: "Indian Wannabes" →
whitepeopleinheaddresses:
From bluecorncomics:
In Z Magazine, December 1990, Janet McCloud (Tulalip) explained the basic problem with wannabes:
First they came to take our land and water, then our fish and game….Now they want our religions as well. All of a sudden, we have a lot of…
Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What... →
youmightfindyourself:
When we think of the first swinger parties most of us imagine 1970s counter-culture, we don’t picture Top Gun fighter pilots in World War II. Yet, according to researchers Joan and Dwight Dixon, it was on military bases that “partner swapping” first originated in the United States. As the group with the highest casualty rate during the war, these elite pilots and their...