How the media controls people.
The Woolwich attack has only just happened. A man was murdered violently on the streets by two people.
The government and the media have both jumped to some very serious allegations.
The BBC are already saying it’s a suspected terrorist attack. Creating panic in London.
No eye witnesses have said that they heard them say ‘Allahu Akbar’ at the scene yet the BBC has reported it. Seems like racial profiling to me. So the BBC is being racist.“According to senior Whitehall sources the people carrying out the attack were heard to say Allahu Akbar [God is Great], said our political editor.” what fucking sources.
Two men were shot by the police and are in hospital, so how did ITV manage to get a recording of one of the guys? Someones camera phone. If it is the guy who murdered him then it was a political attack.
Itv report says “Baghdad style violence comes to London”. At least 95 people died in bombings in Iraq on Sunday.
IDK things just don’t add up to me.using http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22630303 is my guide for this. They keep updating.
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They’ve straight away jumped on the “soldier” stuff as well. :/
There are only 2 reasons they have done that and both are dodgy.
1. They are near an army base.
2. They were wearing a help for heros shirt.
Both are very very unstable ground.
How the media controls people.
The Woolwich attack has only just happened. A man was murdered violently on the streets by two people.
The government and the media have both jumped to some very serious allegations.
The BBC are already saying it’s a suspected terrorist attack. Creating panic in London.
No eye witnesses have said that they heard them say ‘Allahu Akbar’ at the scene yet the BBC has reported it. Seems like racial profiling to me. So the BBC is being racist.
“According to senior Whitehall sources the people carrying out the attack were heard to say Allahu Akbar [God is Great], said our political editor.” what fucking sources.
Two men were shot by the police and are in hospital, so how did ITV manage to get a recording of one of the guys? Someones camera phone. If it is the guy who murdered him then it was a political attack.
Itv report says “Baghdad style violence comes to London”. At least 95 people died in bombings in Iraq on Sunday.
IDK things just don’t add up to me.
using http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22630303 is my guide for this. They keep updating.
The collection at the British museum is truly the most awe inspiring in the world
Such fucking babes. <3
Problems with being a male
Having emotions is seen as weakness
Admitting weakness is seen as an even greater weakness
Being called a sexual deviant or a pervert because you were expressing your sexuality
A girl beating you in any physical competition makes you inferior
Being superficial makes you a pig but a woman being superficial is fine
Makeup isn’t even an option
Not living up to the insanely unrealistic ideal of manhood automatically makes you gay
Being gay is seen as weak
You can’t control the size of your “manhood”
You can’t report sexual assaults because being a male victim is worse than being the rapist
No male specific support groups or movements
Unequal parental rights
Extreme feminists treating you less than human
Women can blame all men or say they are all the same but if a man blames women they’re sexist pigs
People dismissing your problems automatically because the universe is obviously rigged in your favour in every scenario imaginable
No one will read this past the title-That’s because emotions are seen as something for women by society, and women are looked down upon.
-That’s because weakness is seen as something feminine by society, and again, therefore looked down upon especially for men.
-What? Heterosexual men are never looked down upon for expressing their sexuality, unless they harass people, in which case they deserve to be looked down upon. Non-heterosexual women and non-binary people also are called sexual deviants and perverts for being non-heterosexual, so if you were talking about non-heterosexual people, this is something that happens across the board.
-That’s because society sees girls as inferior.
-Please. Men are not at all looked down upon for being superficial. Women are constantly criticized as a whole for being superficial so…
-Well, it is an option? But again, it’s something that’s seen as something for women, and women are looked down upon.
-The next two come from heterosexism. But in the same way, women not fitting gender roles also often causes them to be labeled gay. Actually, women not being interested in a specific man often causes them to be labeled gay. And we won’t even get into how non-binary people like me are treated.
-There’s a lot of cissexism involved in calling penises “manhood”s and implying that all men have them. Associating large penises with manhood is something that, again, comes from cissexism. But clearly you don’t care about cissexism, or you wouldn’t have perpetuated it.
-I do think there needs to be more resources for men who are victims of sexual assault. However, the reason women who are victims of sexual assault are considered more “normal” is because society expects and allows men to rape women. And men who are victims being shamed is a direct result of the patriarchy.
-There are both of these. It is not the fault of people who aren’t men that your support groups and movements are misogynistic and awful.
-That’s, again, because of the patriarchy and child-raising being seen as a “woman’s task.”
-Oh please, “extreme feminists” don’t treat you as less than human. And even if they did, men treat women as less than human regularly. It’s not even an extreme viewpoint for men, it happens all the time.
-Wow! Maybe it’s because men have privilege over women??
-No, it’s actually because your “problems with being men” ARE DIRECTLY THE BACKFIRE OF THE SYSTEM MEN HAVE CREATED AND STILL CONTROL. And then when MRAs like the OP blame women for the oppression THEY INSTITUTED, it actually perpetuates the patriarchy. So yes, people will scoff at that. Especially when you only care about things like heterosexism when they apply to men.
Rope [1948] directed by Alfred Hitchcock
baby sloths taking a bath.
highlights include: squeaking, flower-eating
oh my god
they hang the sloths up to dry
They hang them on clotheslines OMG. Slothlines? This is too cute to exist.
This is exactly like Tyler’s bath-times.
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Barbie and Ken.
(Source: poisoned-apple)
euniko submitted:
sexual superhero
LOL XD
Originally from Mundsen’s Bar (the comic has since been removed from the site for a reason I don’t know), and written by Martha Thomases and Valerie (D’Orazio) Gallagher, and drawn by Norm Breyfogle.
Summer Glau practicing fight choreography for the movie, Serenity (2005). Her kicks are amazing for not having any martial arts experience. She only did ballet. It makes me wish that more ballerinas got into martial arts. Their flexibility is perfectly suited for it.
omg I love gif sets I love tumblr I love watching this a lot
All of this presupposes that there is only one right way to look like and be a woman. And it’s infuriating. On the one hand, whenever I go out in public or post pictures online, a part of me is deathly afraid that I’ll be insulted or worse. I desperately want to be accepted as the woman I am. On the other hand, I hate that in order to feel safe, I’m expected to fit into the very narrow box that is labeled “woman.” Tips on how to pass always seem to say that you should avoid building muscle mass and avoid wearing clothes and makeup that are too costumey, that you should try to hide your shoulders and soften your features. Trans women are often told that if we want to pass, we have to try our hardest to be petite, soft, have just the right amount of femininity, and not stand out too much. But what if I want to be a different kind of woman? What if I want to look like Grace Jones or Kate Moennig? What if I want to look like Beth Ditto or Dolly Parton? They’re all cis women; don’t they pass? Meyllen Djneres (via muffinsandcouture)
if you honestly think martha jones is needy then you are due for a rewatch because i really, truly do not comprehend in the slightest how you have managed to get that impression. good episodes to watch to demonstrate how ‘needy’ is possibly the worst way to describe martha are every one she’s ever been in
I think that’s the main objection to her though, that she *wants* to be treated as an equal but she’s like the only one who never steps up and basically makes the Doctor treat her like an equal. Maybe she was a great character, but she was always better in UNIT than she was with the Doctor.
She was a terrible companion.
Okay, first things first, let’s be clear here - whether the Doctor treats Martha as an equal or not is on him, not her. Not once did she give him cause to doubt her, in fact the opposite is true - time and time again she proved herself capable and more than worthy of his trust. For heaven’s sake, Turlough was introduced as an antagonist yet Five showed him far more kindness and forgiveness from the get-go.
Surely demonstrating ability is far more deserving of trust and equality than simply asking for it, although if you insist that for some reason she needs to ask when Rose, Donna, Amy, Rory, and Clara never did (I could write a whole nother thing about Mickey’s treatment on the show), she explicitly asks him to trust her - something that is pretty damned near impossible if you don’t view the other person as an equal - in 42 when he’s possessed by the living star. He’s a patient, she’s an almost qualified medical doctor and still he won’t believe in her even when she asks him to. Of all the companions he’s had, Martha was almost certainly the best qualified in that situation but still it wasn’t enough. Let’s also not forget when she demanded that the Doctor stop the ‘one more trip’ thing and decide to either let her stay on or take her home. He took her home, only staying because of a freak coincidence on the television news. Yes, she specifically requested that he decide if she was to be his friend or just a passing fancy, and he was prepared to let her go. Or was she simply not strong enough when she sat down and made the Doctor tell her the truth about Gallifrey in Gridlock.
Yes, she was such a terrible companion, walking the earth for a year while millions died around her and her family was being tortured. I can’t believe how terrible it is that she was abruptly transported to the moon and didn’t lose her cool and panic, but was perfectly capable of logic and reason. How terrible that when she was abducted on New Earth she helped her abductors to survive a macra attack. How terrible that she cared for the Doctor while he was human, despite the fact that he treated her worse than usual and no one recognised her personhood or her experience. And heaven help us, she was such a terrible companion getting a job in a shop to support the Doctor because he’s so terrible with things like money.
You are right though, she was better in UNIT. There she got to be Dr Martha Jones, not Ten’s Rose substitute. Without his consistent lack of respect (he took her to a time where it was NOT SAFE for her and told her outright that he COULD NOT guarantee her safety. There was no out. They were being pursued. He could have taken her any where, any time. He chose a period where she would be treated poorly, with no end in sight.) we got to see her shine, shine like she had for the whole of her time on Who, only this time there was no Doctor ignoring her achievements or expecting a small smile and a quick hug to be sufficient thank you. Martha Jones wasn’t a terrible companion, she was just the victim of being the poor one who was the rebound.
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Josephine Baker, later known as ‘Bronze Venus’, ‘Black Pearl’ and ‘Créole Goddess’ was born in America in 1906 and later moved to France to become a singer, dancer, and actress. She was the first African-American woman to star in a major motion picture, and became famous worldwide.
Though she grew up as a maid in wealthy white households she eventually became an exotic dancer in France, famously appearing in next to no clothing, and became a French citizen in 1937.
Ernest Hemingway referred to Baker as ‘the most sensational woman anyone ever saw’ and she received approximately 1500 marriage proposals in her life time. She became a muse for Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, and Christian Dior. She had a variety of exotic pets including a cheetah named Chiquita, a chimpanzee named Ethel, a pig named Albert, a snake named Kiki, a goat, a parrot, parakeets, fish, three cats, and seven dogs.
When WWII broke out, Baker became a volunteer spy for France, and assisted the French Resistance by smuggling messages written in invisible ink on sheet music. She made great efforts to aid those in danger of enemy attack, sent Christmas presents to French soldiers, and smuggled information she gathered in Spain back to France by pinning notes containing the information on the inside of her underwear. She was awarded the Medal of Resistance with Rosette and later named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.
Baker also aided many civil rights movements by refusing to perform to segregated audiences and storming out of a club in Manhattan with actress Grace Kelly after she was refused service. She worked with the NAACP and spoke at a Washington march alongside Martin Luther King Jr. as the only official female speaker. Baker was actually asked by Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow to take his place as leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, but Baker declined on the grounds her twelve adopted children ‘were too young to lose their mother’.
Baker died in 1975, four days after her final show, attended by such names as Mick Jagger, Shirley Bassey, and Liza Minnelli.
Oh and she was queer and had a relationship with Frida Kahlo. All around badass.
FACTS ABOUT THINGS:
- TUMBLR WAS GETTING TOO EXPENSIVE. THEIR OPTIONS WERE TO EITHER SELL IT OR SHUT IT DOWN.
- YAHOO SAYS THEY’RE GOING TO LET IT RUN AS AN INDEPENDENT BUSINESS. IN THEORY, NOTHING WILL CHANGE EXCEPT FOR WHO’S LEGALLY OWNING IT.
- NOW EVERYONE CALM DOWN.
