Well behaved women rarely make history
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Christopher Paolini does not deserve to be on a panel with George R.R. Martin, Patrick Rothfuss and the like.
“Cracking” sex crimes.
“I am betting nine out of 10 times, when a woman asks for a female detective the story is going to be untrue.”—Lt. Adam Lamboy, commander of the Manhattan Special Victims Squad, in a story about how the NYPD Special Victims Division does its job, explaining that if a woman who reports being raped requests a female detective, the request is “taken as a sign of possible deception” because the “operative theory is that women who are lying think female cops will be more receptive to their stories.”
Terrifying.
It is absolutely horrendous to think that there have been women whose allegations have been dismissed out of hand because, in the aftermath of having been brutally violated by a man, they mustered up the gumption to request a female cop with whom they’d feel safer discussing that most intimate of crimes against them.
WHAT WHAT IS THIS I CAN’T EVEN I AM SO … ugh, I need to go to bed.
Source: Newsweek
I hate this pose. This is nothing against Dinara, since god knows I’ve seen every other high fashion model do it too. I bet Tyra encourages it.
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In a poll conducted by Public Policy Polling, whose function is to “put out highly accurate polling on key political races across the country,” according to its website, 46 percent of Mississippians believe that interracial marriage should be illegal.The poll also reveals that the majority of the poll participants are male (53 percent), very conservative (40 percent) and between the ages of 45 and 65 (36 percent).One commenter wrote:“I believe God made us a different color for a reason and should be honored by not marrying outside of the race that God picked for me, however the color of one’s skin does not make him/her better than another color.”Right.But before I even consider Mississippi’s fascination with all things Jim Crow, let’s explore the premise of the poll in the first place. The goal of the poll is to identify which Republican candidate Mississippians would vote for in the 2012 presidential election.The infamously controversial Governor Haley Barbour is invariably the state’s favorite among ignorant-media-whore Sarah Palin, the God-righteous Mike Huckabee, the-Mormon-most-refuse-to-embrace Mitt Romney, the-incessant-adulterer Newt Gingrich, I-think-the-founding-fathers-ended-slavery Michele Bachman, cap-and-trade-flip-flopper Tim Pawlenty and I-don’t-believe-in-civil-rights Ron Paul.What a lovely bunch.So how on earth did Director and pollster Tom Jensen come up with that question? I mean, after asking about whether participants had a favorable or unfavorable opinion of the named candidates and how they identified themselves, why ask whether they are for interracial marriage?Is it because our President is the product of an interracial union? Is it because they consciously wanted to rile people up? Is it because, he, himself, or Public Policy, is biased on the issue to begin with? I just have a difficult time focusing on the actual poll, when this reeks of someone’s shameless effort for media attention.And if I am to focus on the findings of this poll at all, are we really surprised to see that Barbour, known for saying he doesn’t think the slavery conversation is important, would be the front runner in this state? Or what about his equally progressive brother, Jeppie, who lit-er-ally said:”I guess they’re [blacks] just goin’ through a state of being rebellious and hard-nosed and not listenin’ to white people like they used to.”I wish I was making this up.Good ole Mississippi, the state where Medgar Evers was murdered. Good ole Mississippi, the state where three civil rights workers were killed by the Ku Klux Klan. Good ole Mississippi, the state where after President Obama won the 2008 election, racial slurs and bigotry reigned supreme.One thing the poll did make clear, though, is that the racism of the past largely lives with the old. I just hope that once much of that embattled generation passes away, they will take their archaic mind-set about interracial relationships with them.But I won’t hold my breath.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljgfu8JUix1qesepao1_500.jpg)
In a poll conducted by Public Policy Polling, whose function is to “put out highly accurate polling on key political races across the country,” according to its website, 46 percent of Mississippians believe that interracial marriage should be illegal.
The poll also reveals that the majority of the poll participants are male (53 percent), very conservative (40 percent) and between the ages of 45 and 65 (36 percent).
One commenter wrote:
“I believe God made us a different color for a reason and should be honored by not marrying outside of the race that God picked for me, however the color of one’s skin does not make him/her better than another color.”
Right.
But before I even consider Mississippi’s fascination with all things Jim Crow, let’s explore the premise of the poll in the first place. The goal of the poll is to identify which Republican candidate Mississippians would vote for in the 2012 presidential election.
The infamously controversial Governor Haley Barbour is invariably the state’s favorite among ignorant-media-whore Sarah Palin, the God-righteous Mike Huckabee, the-Mormon-most-refuse-to-embrace Mitt Romney, the-incessant-adulterer Newt Gingrich, I-think-the-founding-fathers-ended-slavery Michele Bachman, cap-and-trade-flip-flopper Tim Pawlenty and I-don’t-believe-in-civil-rights Ron Paul.
What a lovely bunch.
So how on earth did Director and pollster Tom Jensen come up with that question? I mean, after asking about whether participants had a favorable or unfavorable opinion of the named candidates and how they identified themselves, why ask whether they are for interracial marriage?
Is it because our President is the product of an interracial union? Is it because they consciously wanted to rile people up? Is it because, he, himself, or Public Policy, is biased on the issue to begin with? I just have a difficult time focusing on the actual poll, when this reeks of someone’s shameless effort for media attention.
And if I am to focus on the findings of this poll at all, are we really surprised to see that Barbour, known for saying he doesn’t think the slavery conversation is important, would be the front runner in this state? Or what about his equally progressive brother, Jeppie, who lit-er-ally said:
”I guess they’re [blacks] just goin’ through a state of being rebellious and hard-nosed and not listenin’ to white people like they used to.”
I wish I was making this up.
Good ole Mississippi, the state where Medgar Evers was murdered. Good ole Mississippi, the state where three civil rights workers were killed by the Ku Klux Klan. Good ole Mississippi, the state where after President Obama won the 2008 election, racial slurs and bigotry reigned supreme.
One thing the poll did make clear, though, is that the racism of the past largely lives with the old. I just hope that once much of that embattled generation passes away, they will take their archaic mind-set about interracial relationships with them.
But I won’t hold my breath.
Source: fuckyeahfamousblackgirls
Three citizens arrested for feeding the homeless
Members of Orlando Food Not Bombs were arrested Wednesday when police said they violated a city ordinance by feeding the homeless in Lake Eola Park.
Jessica Cross, 24, Benjamin Markeson, 49, and Jonathan “Keith” McHenry, 54, were arrested at 6:10 p.m. on a charge of violating the ordinance restricting group feedings in public parks. McHenry is a co-founder of the international Food Not Bombs movement, which began in the early 1980s.
The group lost a court battle in April, clearing the way for the city to enforce the ordinance. It requires groups to obtain a permit and limits each group to two permits per year for each park within a 2-mile radius of City Hall.
Arrest papers state that Cross, Markeson and McHenry helped feed 40 people Wednesday night. The ordinance applies to feedings of more than 25 people…
Police waited until everyone was served to make the arrests, said Douglas Coleman, speaking for Orlando Food Not Bombs.
“They basically carted them off to jail for feeding hungry people,” said Coleman, who was not present. “For them to regulate a time and place for free speech and to share food, that is unacceptable.”
Regulating gatherings is a common tactic in dystopian literature and despotic times.
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This book disturbed me on so many levels. Maybe it’s not even the book so much as the people I’ve discussed it with, who defend Humbert. That … what. I don’t even know.
A gay teen describes her experience at a Utah WWASP brainwashing facility
The Utah company “Teen Escort Services” is regularly contracted to forcibly kidnap LGBT teens in the middle of the night and bring them to a detention facility for re-education. Those facilities are said to be “boot camps”, places where “trouble-causing” children can be re-educated, but seriously, when you hear the testimonies of the people who get in…
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Must be nice to be so privileged that you can mistreat an expensive item (or gift!) like that.
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I hate feeling as if I need to defend myself when someone finds out that I don’t want children. People act as if this means that I have some sort of deep seated desire to punt every child I see. I hate that I am so conditioned to feel as if I will be seen as “less” of a woman because I don’t want to procreate.
That’s exactly why I like to roll with MEN. They’re up to anything at anytime. Girls are FULL OF SHIT. I spent the best years of my life having only guys as friends.
I am so sick of this misogynistic bullshit. Some women are full of shit, some men are full of shit. Surprise! This is not based on gender, it’s based on personality. You’re just perpetuating the idea that men are better than women, “because women are bitches”.
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Is the point that models aren’t “real women” or that they’re photoshopped to death? If it’s the former, I find this incredibly offensive. Women are women are women.
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I usually love Rumi’s style, but I hate hate hate the pockets sticking out of cut-offs. That just looks so awful.
Never regret anything, because at one point it was exactly what you wanted.
This is such a stupid sentence.
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The reality is that women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently. It’s just easier this way for everyone. You don’t argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn’t eat candy for dinner. You don’t punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don’t argue when a women tells you she’s only making 80 cents to your dollar. It’s the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles.
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