a quick jaunt to the edge of sanity.

GAWDDDDD these ladies. 

How is it possible I’m THIS attracted to them?

Send help, immediately.  

fashiontipsfromcomicstrips:

thevintageskeletonblog:

The Dark Knight Rises by The Vintage Skeleton

I’d really like this on a t-shirt, please.

szymon:

Famous logos and their non-latin adaptations | Fedex logo adaptation by Graham Smith

AND HAIR GROWS BACK: all i can say is thank gawd i don’t watch glee anymore• rachel gave...

theburgerkhaleesi:

all i can say is thank gawd i don’t watch glee anymore

• rachel gave up on nyada to date her abusive idiot boyfriend then sort of haphazardly remembers she’d rather be in nyc than OHIO

• kurt never ever ever stops talking about nyc/nyada/how great everything will be once he’s at nyada/nyc

•…

theburgerkhaleesi:

banished—quasiroyal:

talldarkbishoujo:

blaquerose:

wilwheaton:

(via Condescending Wonka)

Dear Mr. Wheaton

As a black bisexual woman I’m going to have to kindly ask you to STFU and worry about your own privileges, before calling anybody else out on their shit.

You have this Condescending Wonka joke on here and totally disregard all Black and other POC LGBT people and their families that are fighting hard for marriage equality and paying the price for it. You think this shit is funny? You consider this a fact? Yet where is your outrage at the many Black LGBT voices that are silenced in the LGBT community? I don’t seem to recall you using your voice to bring attention to Cece McDonald, I doubt you even know who she is.

How about, instead of reblogging asshole memes that are geared towards causing frictions between two oppressed groups while ignoring the intersections between them, you instead sit down and work out your own issues that you have with race, sex and class so you can become a well informed ally of these people. Because if this is how you plan to continue showing your support for marriage equality, I as both a bisexual and a black person do NOT want you speaking for me.

1. Fuck you.

2. If you want to question my masculinity, like a schoolyard circle of curses, like a swordfight with lightsaber erections, save your breath. Because contrary to what you may believe, not every problem can be solved by “growing a pair.” You can’t arm-wrestle your way out of chemical depression. The CEO of the company that just laid you off does not care how much you bench. And I promise, there is no lite beer in the universe full-bodied enough to make you love yourself.

3. Man up? Oh that’s that new superhero, right? Mild-mannered supplement salesman Mark Manstrong says the magic words “MAN UP,” and then transforms into THE FIVE O’CLOCK SHADOW, the massively-muscled, deep-voiced, black-leather-duster-wearing superhero who defends the world from, I don’t know, feelings.

4. See I don’t drink a lot of beer… you know, because I’m not a “real man,” but I’m pretty sure that, of all the beers in the world, Miller Lite… is not the most flavorful brew. It kind of tastes like… whatever insecure jackass wrote these “man up” commercials got rejected by a beautiful, no-nonsense bartender, drank a six pack of REAL beer alone in his apartment, and then Miller bottled his tears.

5. You ever notice how nobody ever says “woman up?” They just imply it. Because women and the women’s movement figured out a long time ago that being directly ordered around by commercials, magazines and music is dehumanizing. When will men figure that out?

6. “Man Up” assaults our self esteem by suggesting that competence and perseverance are uniquely masculine traits. That women—not to mention any man who doesn’t eat steak, drive a pickup truck, have lots of sex with women and otherwise conform to gender norms absolutely—are nothing more than, background characters and props in a movie where the strong, stoic, REAL man is the hero. More than anything, though, it suggests that to be yourself—whether you, wear skinny jeans, listen to Lady Gaga, rock a little eyeliner, drink some other brand of light beer, or write poetry—will cost you.

7. How many boys have to kill themselves before this country acknowledges the problem? How many women have to be abused? How many trans people have to get assaulted? We teach boys how to wear the skin of a man, but we also teach them how to raise that skin like a flag and draw blood for it.

8. Boy babies get blue socks. Girl babies get pink socks. What about purple? What about orange, yellow, chartreuse, cerulean, black, tie-dyed, buffalo plaid, rainbow… there are so many beautiful colors and combinations of colors. Yet boy babies get blue socks. And girl babies get pink socks.

9. I want to be free, to express myself. Man up. I want to have meaningful, emotional relationships with other men. Man up. I want to be weak sometimes. Man up. I want to be strong in a way that isn’t about physical power or dominance. Man up. I want to cry if I feel like crying. Man up. I want to ask for help. Man up. I want to be who I am. Man up.

10. No.

http://goodmenproject.com/ethics-values/ten-responses-to-man-up/

Exploring the mess we are in around male sexuality

“The bullying and shame, coercion, and intimidation to be a certain way sexually. The gay jokes, the “small penis” jokes, the “pussy” jokes, the rape, misogyny, misandry, the violence, Matthew Shepard, Penn State, The Catholic Church, and the shame and self-hatred toward our own bodies.”

It’s all connected. It’s time we change the way we all look at sex. Change the way YOU look at sex.

doctorwho:

The Doctor and The Torch

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fangirlingforeverz:

sirlordcrumpley:

stopwhitewashing:

queerhairyvag:

sarahreesbrennan:

lipstickandrollers:

larepublicadedet:

shortiduwop:

I had to do more research because this blew my mind. I found this article on Crack.com

One of the defining silver screen sex symbols, Rita Hayworth was born with the much less American-sounding name, Margarita Carmen Cansino.

She was raised in a Spanish dance family, and spent much of her childhood dancing in bars (see? It’s totally a legitimate way to raise a kid.) After Hayworth, er, Cansino’s father moved the family to Hollywood, the 16-year-old signed with Fox studios. She tried a few minor roles, but never got her big break. Fox studios decided not to renew her option.

The Metamorphosis:

Columbia Pictures came along and, not being much for political correctness, pretty much told Cansino that her lack of success was due to her being way too Spanish-y. So, Cansino agreed to go along with a few surgical processes, such as:

A. Painful Hairline Electrolysis

Cansino had a low hairline, which pegged her as a Latina. This is the same discrimination which kept Vega out of the World Warrior tournament, until he wore a mask to conceal his hairline.

Cansino submitted to getting electric shocks to kill her follicles and stop them from growing. Keep in mind this is the 1930s, when “anaesthesiology” usually meant “stroking your hand while you chugged from a flask of bourbon.” Next time you have a hot hair curler or a live wire, poke yourself in the forehead with it several hundred times. Now you’re as pretty as Rita Hayworth… well, not yet, you still need some…

B. Skin Lightening

Now that you’ve got fresh shock marks on your forehead, scrub them with this bleach solution. That’s exactly what Cansino did, all over her entire body. Skin lightening is a dangerously unregulated practice even now, but it was significantly worse 70 years ago. But, Cansino wasn’t done yet, before she signed with Columbia, she also had to have a…

C. Hair Color and Name Change

Carmen Cansino became Rita Hayworth. Her dark hair was died auburn. The transformation complete, Rita Hayworth now looked Saltine enough for Columbia:

Not five years before, the young immigrant’s daughter was dancing in smoky bars for coins. After her “honky-fication,” she became the hottest thing in sanctioned Armed Forces self-pleasure. A picture of her kneeling on a bed in a nightgown sold 5 million copies. Her likeness was fashioned on the side of atomic bombs.

Columbia starred Hayworth in many successful pictures, most notably, Gilda. Rita Hayworth found herself dancing with stars like Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. Eventually, she settled down and married a prince.

The next time somebody tells you the path to success is “just be yourself,” tell them Rita’s inspirational story. It’s all about skin-bleaching.
Read more: 5 Celebrity Careers Launched by Ethnic Makeovers | Cracked.com 

Woah. Those 2 pics look nothing alike. Wow

I can’t believe people didn’t know this? It’s been generally known stuff about Rita for years…

I have had this picture open in a tag for weeks, so I figured I’d reblog it. Just, the contrast…perform a hugely painful and utter transformation of yourself: it’s scary to think that’s what women are asked to do.

its scary to think that’s what popular women of color are forced to do to assimilate into white culture.

dont think this is a simple case of “go on a diet and you’ll be famous!”

this a complete erasure of this woman’s race so she’d appear more white. 

Santoine: I think we reblogged this before, but here it is again

she was so pretty. and this is really horrifying. however, I would like to point out that this was a long time ago, when blackface was still used for the portrayal of black characters. We’ve come a long way. I’m not saying it is not hard for a woman of color to get a job in show business, it probably is. At least harder than for a white woman. But it isn’t nearly as extreme as this. 

A long time ago?

Skin bleaching is so popular for a reason.

It’s still as extreme, just more insidious.

Gawd I wish could say this would never happen today but IT TOTALLY CAN AND DOES. 

(via stopwhitewashing)

irresistible-revolution:

withrevolutionarycries:

talldarkbishoujo:

ethiopienne:

this was some grade-A white woman bullshit

that entire show was grade-A white woman bullshit tbh

this movie should have just been called “Ugly Americans” though

i think the most histerically hypocritical issue with this bullshit film is that they were actually able to travel to Dubai (right?? am i wrong about the place) AND film the movie AND get actors to act in it—-but then spent half the movie talking shit about how conservative and backward and repressive the culture is? THEN HOW GOES YOU FILMING THAT SHIT.

fucking what? only the enlightened/poor folks showed up to play repressed Brown people in your movie.

As someone who grew up in the UAE (mostly in Dubai but I visited Abu Dhabi several times), this shit is not only racist and disrespectful, it’s wildly exaggerated. Dubai and Abu Dhabi are incredibly cosmopolitan, and if some fool ass white woman dropped her condoms and started going off, most Emirati folk (btw, the UAE is almost 90% expatriate populate, so most of the populance isn’t wearing burqas or dishdashas) would just laugh.

Oh, and btw, in the UAE you can buy condoms in the damn store same as the USA.

Signed,

Brown Girl who grew up hot and fashionable and having sex in the UAE.

(via dumbthingswhitepplsay)

trubr0wn:

patrickandmarcus:

heygawgeous:

liketheesun:

thedailyfeed:

Can you imagine going to prison for 10 years for a crime you didn’t commit? This high school football star and NFL hopeful, who was wrongly jailed for rape, was finally exonerated after the woman who accused him admitted she lied.

[Brian Banks, 26,] spent more than five years in prison and another five on parole. He had to register as a sex offender and was still wearing an ankle monitor during yesterday’s hearing.

“If I can do this, I can get through anything,” he told The Daily just after leaving a Long Beach, Calif., courtroom. “This was my hardest part, and, as they say, good things go to people who hustle while they wait.”

I cried when I saw this on the news this morning..

it was a white bitchhhh

Lock her ass up

and this is far from the first time this has happened ._.

Wanetta Gibson isn’t white, but definitely a bitchhhh. She should serve Brian’s would-be jail sentence. 

(via dumbthingswhitepplsay)

So I was just reading some Jezbel article about male-to-female street harassment. You know, those cat-calls and whistles that are passed off as “harmless compliments”, that in reality remind women that their bodies aren’t their own in public spaces. That the public sphere is a masculine space, and reminds the ever-constant potential for sexual violence. 

I absolutely agree with all of that, that any man intending to compliment a woman should think long and hard about how to be respectful when doing so. 

But, what about me? 

I find a lot of times that sexual assault and sexual violence are issues that are intensely segregated between gay and straight people. You know when feminists (male and female alike) have those signs that say “clothing/alcohol/etc. don’t cause rape, men do”- to me, that says “men have the potential to be rapists, but never victims”. Which I find offensive and incomplete. 

I’m a man. I date men. Aren’t I also a potential victim of sexual assault? 

The best version of that sign carries the banner “rapists cause rape” (which totally exist). Keeping it gender neutral includes both genders, and everything in between (or not even on the same spectrum) as both potential victims AND as potential aggressors. 

Here’s my point: as an out gay man, I feel I often “enjoy” certain privelges with women (and their bodies). Many women I know don’t “feel threatened” by me (solely because my dick doesn’t get hard whensee their boobs) and most of the time, I can make a comment on a woman’s body and she will almost always hear my voice/see my mannerisms/correctly assume I’m gay and take it as the biggest compliment of her life.

I’m not trying to downplay the issue of sexual violence, but I often feel that because I’m not sexually attracted to women, they refuse to see me in the same way they see straight men- they don’t see me as a man, they see me as a gay man.

The constant presence of this extra modifier emphasizes that I’m not a man in the same way my brothers and father are. They’re men. I’m a sub-category of men. I’m an other. 

Which, just so you know, as a cisgender male (EXACTLY like my brothers and father) is pretty fucking insulting trying to tell me I’m not a man. 

I guess what I’m getting at is sexual harassment, whether public or private, is never OK. The sex/gender of the recipient is irrelevant. The sex/gender of the aggressor is irrelevant. Respect is what matters. Human decency is what matters. 

understanable:

The only things coming between a contestant winning American Idol and losing is a penis and pigmentation.

(via dumbthingswhitepplsay)

surethang:

erosum:

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