Notes to Self

"No, the future of sex is not using MMS to send a mobile phone video of you whacking off to another..."

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:37:04 -0500

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No, the future of sex is not using MMS to send a mobile phone video of you whacking off to another mobile phone video that you ‘accidentally’ post to that Tumblr blog you forgot was auto-crossposting to Facebook and Twitter.

It’s what you do with yourself after everyone sees it.

And when someone returns the favor.

”

- Melissa Gira Grant » Here’s Your Fucking Jetpack: The 00’s & the Sex Future That Wasn’t

bmckinney: Rare In Utero Images Glimpse Animals Inside the...

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:00:15 -0500

bmckinney:

Rare In Utero Images Glimpse Animals Inside the Womb

ARE YOU SHITTING ME.

Totally amazed and freaked out now.

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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:55:31 -0500

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"Everyone’s really, really, really hooked on the idea that Duggar is taking “irresponsible risks with..."

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:51:32 -0500

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Everyone’s really, really, really hooked on the idea that Duggar is taking “irresponsible risks with her health”, meaning, of course, her uterus and vagina, and furthermore that this is our business. Really, folks? Aren’t there any balls we could play, here?

Poking our noses into people’s reproductive choices on the basis of whether or not we consider them “healthy” is not ok. This is a bit of a pro-choice trial by fire, I think. There are lots and lots and lots of valid critiques of the Quiverfull movement. LOTS. The idea that a particular woman, who gives every appearance of having made a free choice to use her uterus and vagina in a particular way, should not do so simply because she might wet her pants now and then, or because a future pregnancy might be “higher risk”, even though she is fully aware of and accepts these risks, is not ok.

Can you see the similarities here? Do you really want it to be ok to hate on people who choose pregnancy despite having had a previous C section? Do you want it to be ok to hate on people who choose pregnancy despite having a disability? Do you want it to be ok to hate on people who choose pregnancy even though their fetus has, or might have, a disability? Do you want it to be ok to hate on people because they choose pregnancy even though they are over 35? Do you want it to be ok to hate on people who make a free, informed choice to say “no” to obstetric procedures, or “no” to contraception, or “no” to sterilisation? Does “no” really mean “no”, does “yes” really mean “yes”, to you? Or do you place limits on that? Do you think people’s reproductive autonomy is none of your business only right up until a certain point, with that line being drawn at “the health of the mother/fetus”?

Because all these choices, and all these “no”s, have been used as excuses to perpetrate hatred, and discrimination, and State- and medical-sanctioned violence upon marginalised bodies. Do you want to be part of that?

”

- Things that are not our business, Duggar edition. — Hoyden About Town (via clingtomymouth) (via seaponies) (via tiredofbeingignored)

"I draw a radical distinction between the symbolic and the substantial. As a critical supporter of..."

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:38:50 -0500

“I draw a radical distinction between the symbolic and the substantial. As a critical supporter of Barack Obama, engaged in over 50 events for him from Iowa to Ohio, I knew that at a symbolic level something could happen that was unprecedented. And it did happen. At that symbolic level, I can understand the tears, I can understand the jubilation, I can understand the euphoria. But I always knew there was a sense in which he, now heading the American empire, was tied to the shadow government, tied to CIA, FBI, tied to the establishment waiting to embrace him. It was clear when he chose his economic team, when he chose his foreign policy team, he was choosing, of course, the recycled neo-liberals and recycled neo-Clintonites, that substantially you’re going to end up with these technocratic policies that consider poor people and working people as afterthoughts. Beginning with bankers, beginning with elites.”

- Cornel West (via langer) (via unburyingthelead)

Please god no not another round of “you can’t be a feminist if you believe in...

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:37:44 -0500

Please god no not another round of “you can’t be a feminist if you believe in capitalism.” I DON’T WANT TO GO BACK TO WOMEN’S STUDIES 101!

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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:33:05 -0500

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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:30:28 -0500

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"Something that the public chewed up was Britney’s bout with mental illness. Anyone who has..."

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:29:13 -0500

“Something that the public chewed up was Britney’s bout with mental illness. Anyone who has ever been diagnosed with mental illness can tell you how much they long to keep it private, because mental illness carries with it a social stigma. Any woman who dares reveal to anyone that she has any degree of mental illness runs the risk of having that person use that information against her in the future. We have all heard the story of the Ex who has “Mental Issues” and that is why she is unreasonable and shouldn’t be allowed to have children, you know.”

- Transcontinental Disability Choir: The Public Consumption of Britney | Bitch Magazine

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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:22:54 -0500

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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:09:18 -0500

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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:40:25 -0500

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"WHAT??? “…the unfortunate events that happened”?? As if a girl was walking along and a rape fell..."

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:24:24 -0500

“WHAT??? “…the unfortunate events that happened”?? As if a girl was walking along and a rape fell from the sky and landed on her??? Disgusting.”

- I teach them.: 7th Grader Raped at School, Officials Rush to Victim-Blame

SERIOUSLY.

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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:09:32 -0500

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Internet Viewing Expression #2.

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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:02:51 -0500

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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:00:52 -0500

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"The audience in at least the first Moscow shows was filled with members of the Communist Party, who..."

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:16:13 -0500

“The audience in at least the first Moscow shows was filled with members of the Communist Party, who received tickets from the government as a perk. Most of that audience took a long while to warm up to Joel’s energetic show, something that never had happened in other countries he had performed in. As a result, a minor international incident occurred when he famously flipped over an electric keyboard during the second Moscow show as a show of frustration that the lighting engineers would not turn down the house lights. The lighting engineers were more concerned with the amount of light being adequate for filming, as a documentary film crew was filming the concert. According to Joel, each time the fans were hit with the bright lights, anybody who seemed to be enjoying themselves froze. In addition, people who were “overreacting” were removed by security.”

- Billy Joel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

“A minor international incident.” Love it.

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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:29:40 -0500

tiredofbeingignored:

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garconniere:

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everything about this photo is SO HOT.

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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:24:27 -0500

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"I am afraid to wear a skirt, For fear of being whistled at, For fear of being winked at, For fear or..."

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:19:10 -0500

“I am afraid to wear a skirt,
For fear of being whistled at,
For fear of being winked at,
For fear or sexual assault,
For fear of attempted rape,
I am afraid to wear heels,
For fear of being whistled at,
For fear of being winked at,
For fear or sexual assault,
For fear of attempted rape,
I am afraid to,
Because,
I have experienced these things.”

- Anishinaabekwe: Poem: I Am Afraid (via clingtomymouth)