September 2011
“Atheists are routinely asked how people will know not to rape and murder without...”
– 10 Myths Many Religious People Hold About Atheists, Debunked (via sourdoughislife)
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“The American Academy of Pediatrics would like to correct false statements made...”
– American Academy of Pediatrics Press Release (via stfuconservatives)
IT IS A SHOT THAT CAN PREVENT CANCER. FUCK YOU REPUBLICANS FOR OPPOSING THIS.
(via drst)
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“Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a...”
– Barry Switzer, former football coach for college and professional teams, giving what I think is a marvelous definition of privilege.
(via cognitivedissonance)
Pretty friggin’ spot on.
(via yarr-metis)
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“If you’re looking for sympathy you’ll find it between shit and syphilis in the...”
– David Sedaris (Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays)
“In experiments first reported in 1998, Baumeister and his collaborators...”
– Willpower — By Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney — Book Review - NYTimes.com (via robot-heart-politics)
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Sex As A Social Construct
jawdust:
stfufauxminists:
captainjackjohnson:
I find it highly amusing how feminists can say that “sex is a social construct”, and then go on to define gender. And then when asked “Don’t you mean gender?” they go “No, sex is a social construct…” and then go on to define gender.
They throw around this pseudo-philosophical rhetoric in which they talk about how “sex fails as a definition...
“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and...”
– Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn (via braveandbittersweet)
"How to Live with a Huge Penis" →
Guys, look at this. Just look at it. There’s a link so you can read the first few pages.
“It’s written by a reverend and a doctor!”
“Why are left-wing activist groups so keen on registering the poor to vote? ...”
– Conservative columnist Matthew Vadum, in his column “Registering the Poor to Vote is Un-American” for The American Thinker.
I literally do not know what to say this, other than the subtlety used in the past by folks like Vadum is dead. They do not want those in poverty to vote for fear their rich...
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
– Carl Sagan (via hip-)
“Kill all my demons, and my angels might die too.”
– Tennessee Williams (via laceofpearls)
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List of things that are different:
escarpinsdiamant:
somanypeopleinmysuitcaseheart:
politeness and chivalry
feminism and misandry
abortion and infanticide
miscarriages and infanticide
the morning after pill and infanticide
birth control and infanticide
the original anime of something and the 4kids version of said anime
butter and i can’t believe it’s not butter
pokemon and digimon
calling someone out on their white...
“We definitely don’t want to live in a world where boys routinely see women...”
– Margaret Hartmann, “Porn Star Publicly Breastfeeds Baby, Gets Accused of Promoting Pedophilia” at Jezebel. (via aaabbbbbbiiieee)
August 2011
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“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure...”
– George Carlin (via tblant)
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countingpetals:
alexbracken:
What The Water...
It is hot as balls outside.
“What I am vexed with is the idea that, by having an abortion, a woman is somehow...”
– How To Be a Woman, Caitlin Moran
This is quite simply one of the single most honest, touching and convincing pro-choice arguments I have ever read.
(via petitefeministe)
I’ve finished packing, but now I’m trying to clean my room. My mother threatened to clean it out herself.
Holy shit, my room is a quagmire of despair. Why have I kept all this stuff?
HENDRIX. IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS. I’M SO HAPPY I COULD PUKE.
“In any case, shaming teh fatties for being “unhealthy” doesn’t fucking help. If...”
– Don’t You Realize Fat Is Unhealthy? « Shapely Prose (via robot-heart-politics)
READ THIS.
“Because for every story of tragedy there are 10 stories of courage and...”
– Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, when asked how she manages to not feel overwhelmed by all of the suffering she sees in the world (via apsies)
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I have narrowed my list of potential grad schools (Master’s in social work) to 18. I want to cut it down further to 12.
Washington University in St. Louis*
U Penn (Philadelphia)
NYU
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)*
Case Western (Cinncinati)
Smith College (Northampton, MA)*
University of Illinois Chicago*
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Virginia Commonwealth University...
Psychological association calls for legalization... →
stfuhomophobes:
The American Psychological Association is calling on state and federal officials to stop anti-gay legal measures and to legalize same-sex marriage.
The scientific and professional organization’s guiding body voted unanimously at its annual meeting this week in Washington to declare its support for “full marriage equality for same-sex couples.”
The resolution “clarifies the...
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“If you are a woman, if you’re a person of colour, if you are gay, lesbian,...”
– Margaret Cho (via fuckyeahfemmes)