December 2011
occupyonline:
DOCUMENTARIES: Knowapower put up a nice, comprehensive list
I haven’t seen all of these, but that all sound interesting.
Affluenza
A documentary movie entitled “Affluenza” in 1997 is an innovative film that diagnoses a serious social disease. It is caused by commercialism, consumerism, and rampant materialism that are having a disturbing impact on our families, communities,...
“Taylor Swift’s lyrical message to teenage girls is clear: BOYS. That’s it. Just...”
– From the article:
Why Taylor Swift Offends Little Monsters, Feminists, and Weirdos
(via msandrogynous)
Name a mainstream female artist who doesn’t sing about boys. Name me a male artist who doesn’t sing about girls. I have no clue why people choose to arbitrarily call out Taylor Swift for “only”...
Derail of the Day-"It only has power if you give...
lebanesepoppyseed:
When someone uses a slur and a person from the marginalized group that the slur disparages calls that shit out, there are is a common reaction that piss me the fuck off and is downright abusive in how it twists why the call out is happening and how it should go down.
“Well, it’s up to you get offended or not”
“It only has power if you give it power”.
“You can’t let every...
I'm trying REAL hard not to cuss out some folks
super-eklectic1:
so i’m not gonna read the threads on racial posts because many white folks are showin their asses. This is how it goes every time…..
POC: ah man how come there aren’t any minorities in this film/tv/book/any other form of media?
Whole bunch of white folks: OMG! why are you complaining? ugh they got the people they thought were best for the part! It’s not realistic to put...
“…Ron Paul never does the hard, right thing. He always does the easy,...”
– Ron Paul’s ‘Principles’ (via azspot)
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Anti-Pattern Theater: How to Get Women to Quit →
paxvalkyrie:
How do you piss off a technical woman so she will leave your team? It’s easy. Just go and lob a few complaints about her behavior that would never apply to a guy. The easiest one of these is to say “you’re being too emotional”.
One person’s experience which, sadly, is not an isolated experience.
50 Amazingly Helpful Time-Tested Tips for the... →
1. For cleaning smelly hands after chopping onions or garlic, just rub them on a stainless steel spoon. The steel is supposed to absorb the odor.
3. If you happen to over-salt a pot of soup, just drop in a peeled potato. The potato will absorb the excess salt.
11. Burned a pot of rice? Just place a piece of white bread on top of the rice for 5-10 minutes to draw out the burned flavor. Be careful...
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The 30 Most Important Cats Of 2011 →
Cats. They are why we do what we do — why we continue to persevere in the face of a fearful present and an uncertain future. But they are so much more than just the unheralded inspiration for our greatest accomplishments — for instance, they are also furry and they roll around on the floor a lot. Let’s take a look back at the most important ones from this year.
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TAKING TO THE STREETS DOES MATTER →
There’s this idea that gets thrown around during periods of protest that ‘taking to the streets doesn’t make any difference.’ People sneer at protesters, asking them what, exactly, they are doing to bring about change in society, with their marching around and signs and chants. Even in the case of protests that involve the creation of substantial infrastructure, of organised workshops and classes,...
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How Sons of Anarchy Got Racism Right →
For far too long, writers have been using racism a way to practice lazy characterization. It perpetuates the lie that all racists are horrible and hateful people – and not folks who happen to harbor irrational biases toward people of different racial or ethnic backgrounds. However, by using racism as a lazy way to make someone evil, writers have painted themselves into a corner. Audiences have...
A Feminist Movie Review by Siskel & Ebert →
University of Minnesota doctoral candidate Chris Miller sent in a fascinating episode of Siskel and Ebert, a long-lasting TV show devoted to reviewing movies. What is amazing about this episode is the frankness with which the movie critics — Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert — articulate a feminist analysis of a group of slasher movies.
The year? 1980.
First they describe the typical movie:
A woman...
Short Skirts Magically Turn Women Into Bitches →
Bitchiness (at least as defined by this study) is rooted in the same set of beliefs as the requirement in other parts of the world where women wear burqas. We demand that women cover up to protect men from temptation because we don’t believe that men are capable of self-control. We also pressure women to cover up as a sign of solidarity with other women; modesty is, as this research reminds...
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WB taps Tom Cruise to play Billy Cage–née Keiji... →
Starship Troopers, another science fiction novel about an international army fighting aliens, featured a Filipino protagonist named Juan Rico. In the 1997 film adaptation, his name was changed to “Johnny” and he was cast with a white actor. An opportunity for an Asian American actor in the genre of science fiction was completely lost.
Science Fiction/Fantasy is a genre that has characters with...
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Love In The Time Of Facebook →
I want to ‘like’ literally every single thing you post just because it came from you. I knew I was really into you when I stopped worrying about what your Facebook friends would think of me ‘liking’ almost all of your status updates or links or photographs. And when you post something on my Wall, I wish I could ‘like’ it a little harder than I ‘like’ things that other people post; I wish there...
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“The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows....”
– Assata Shakur (via frass)
On Men Who Don't Like Women in Makeup →
paxvalkyrie:
Most of the time, when men say they prefer “natural beauty,” they don’t mean that they’re ready for us to start leaving the house the way we roll out of bed in the morning. They mean that they want us to look perfect without appearing to try.
Basically, it’s a trap.
I love when people write things down so I don’t have to.
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