March 2012
“Someone who acts like his manly attentions are like some kind of amazing favor...”
– Question #174: Dating secrets of THE TERRIFYINGLY AMAZING « CaptainAwkward.com
*snicker*
“When looking at unemployment, we need to look not at small businesses struggling...”
– Cultural Framings of Unemployment: Happenstance, Not Inevitable Systemic Outcome – this ain’t livin’
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“Geeks, or, er, highly specialized people, are prey to a particular kind of...”
– #195, #196, and #197: Meet more people. « CaptainAwkward.com
“This positions unemployment as a purely personal happenstance; it’s simply luck,...”
– s.e. smith @ Cultural Framings of Unemployment: Happenstance, Not Inevitable Systemic Outcome – this ain’t livin’
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Obama Winning GOP Primary →
letterstomycountry:
Hilarious headline. The lead photo definitely adds a certain je ne sais quoi:
h/t sarahlee310
U MAD REPUBLICANS
“If anything, women have shown in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that they are...”
– Tammy Duckworth (Iraq war vet, Congressional candidate, double amputee, former Black Hawk pilot) is her amazing self in an interview with The American Prospect. (via thepoliticalnotebook)
“I FEEL LIKE THE ENTIRETY OF SEASON THREE SHOULD COME WITH A COMPLIMENTARY...”
– Mark Watches ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’: S03E21 – Graduation Day, Part I
“The gendered implications behind dismissive attitudes about pet-lovers run very,...”
– s.e. smith @ Our Tangled Relationship With Animals – this ain’t livin’
I love cats, I think, partly because they don’t tax me emotionally the way spending time with humans does. I’m an introvert, and with cats there’s no pressure to act a certain way or be...
“With Norway’s high tax burden comes a 36 hour work week (with a mandatory...”
– ginandtacos.com » Blog Archive » NEW MATH
On Women and Pay Negotiations
teamvalkyrieftw:
So there was this reddit thread going around recently: I work for a large multinational tech company, I regularly hire woman for 65% to 75% of what males make. I am sick of it, here is why it happens, and how you can avoid it.
Obvious solution! Women just need to negotiate for themselves! Oh my god, Ladies, why did we never think open our fucking mouths about this before?! I’m...
February 2012
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xoJane: Women Need To Start Talking About Money →
There’s this sort of culture built up around Not Talking About Money for women, and I’d argue that culture is incredibly persistent and also incredibly damaging. Grown-ass women have a hard time talking about money, women have trouble mentoring each other through money problems, and young women often get limited financial education and are just sort of thrown into a shark-infested pool2 and left...
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Pudding the Cat Saves Owner’s Life Hours After... →
Cats are so awesome.
“When I started writing The Beheld, I thought I used makeup to make myself look...”
– Beauty, and What It Means: No/Makeup
I am so calling makeup The Toothpaste Of The Man from now on.
“For every minute that any one of us spends distracted by some belief we have...”
– Body Image Warrior Week post from Rosie Molinary
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“It’s like very major event is Minaj vs. Gaga vs. Perry vs. Jessie J vs. Rihanna...”
– BRIT Awards Fug Carpet/Grammys Better Played: Jessie J - Go Fug Yourself: Because Fugly Is The New Pretty
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ouyangdan:
kamidoodles replied to your photo: I am going to go out on a limb and say that this…
awesome!
Thanks!
Cue the “MY PARENTS HIT ME AND I TURNED OUT JUST FINE!” crowd…
My response:
my dad hit me and I turned out fucked up.
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PSA:
ouyangdan:
Hitting children is wrong. Full stop.
If you can’t think of a better way to discipline a child, a tiny human who is smaller than you, you need to re-evaluate your approach.
There is NOTHING that a child, who is on the losing end of the power imbalance, can do that warrants striking them. Ever.
Children are an oppressed class of humans. They have no rights, very little protections,...
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“Nothing can take the sting off of economic problems like watching millionaires...”
– Billy Crystal hosting the Oscars (via foreverconflicted)
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“An announcer lady informs us that no baseball film has been nominated for Best...”
– cleolinda: Oscar liveblog #2
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Tumblr Staff: A New Policy Against Self-Harm Blogs →
alexmuninn:
staff:
One of the great things about Tumblr is that people use it for just about every conceivable kind of expression. People being people, though, that means that Tumblr sometimes gets used for things that are just wrong. We are deeply committed to supporting and defending our users’ freedom of speech,…
Ooooookaaaaayyyy… if you really think this is a priority, tumblr dudebros on...
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“Anyway, George comes up to me the first day of filming and he takes one look at...”
– carrie fisher, wishful drinking. oh god george lucas what are you even. also did you know mark hamill was so intent on making his garbage disposal strangulation look realistic that he burst a bood vessel in his eye? now you do. (via isabelthespy)
loooool george lucas, you ass.
(via deltumbles)
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Owl bags
rosa—sparks:
A woman with an owl canvas tote just walked up the bus stop, took one look at me, with owl purse and wearing my owl hat, bowed and said,
‘Hoot.’
Damn right.
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RLLY IMPORTANT PLS READ
unknowablewoman:
anotherhookerblog:
pregnant-teen-mom:
new blogging goal
never to re-blog/post a picture of a normatively attractive thin white fashionable girl again
(not because I have anything against them but because there are enough people re-circulating those images on the internet already and they don’t need my help)
A couple of months back I said something along the line of ‘I...
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