May 2013
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You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job...
– When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials arent’ buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)
April 2013
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March 2013
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January 2013
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August 2012
3 posts
Archaeologists Officially Declare Collective Sigh... →
jangojips:
Very good read. :)
This article reminds us that: “It’s when you mate, not what you ate” that determines evolutionary success of an individual.
Hoyes, a paleoethnobotanist who specializes in reconstructing prehistoric subsistence, stated that only thing unifying the myriad diets that she’s studied has been their diversity. “You simply do not see specific, trans-regional trends in...
July 2012
20 posts
We don’t lift weights in order to look hot, especially for the likes of men like...
– Zoe Smith, 18 year old weightlifter currently representing Great Britain at the Olympics, responding to tweets labelling her muscles “unattractive” and “unfeminine”. (via rawwomen)
Update: photos show one of the largest tombs ever...
archaeologicalnews:
A view of a burial chamber at the archeological site of Atzompa.
A view of the building (top) where archeologists found a burial chamber at the archeological site of Atzompa.
An archeologist brushes off dust at a burial chamber at the archeological site of Atzompa.
Archeologists work at the entrance of a burial chamber at the archeological site of Atzompa. More.
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http://what-if.xkcd.com/
Just about the best thing I’ve ever seen…
What WOULD happen if you could pitch at 90% of the speed of light?
True gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A group that is made...
– - Lucy, When Worlds Collide: Fandom and Male Privilege. (via seaofbadstories)
I might have reblogged this already but it’s so good I don’t care.
(via stfufauxminists)
Kyriarchy in action.
(via transstingray)
Also the study where they had women and men talking in a discussion and when women...
Sometimes I find someone on Tumblr or even in real life that is has so much in common with me, down to being socially awkward and I’m all:
“Let’s be… friends… I think… maybe?”
And their like… “Eeeeer.”
Doesn’t really seem to work out.
Then today I realized:
Well duh, socially awkward and socially awkward together just makes for...
You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to...
– Aaron Freeman “You Want A Physicist To Speak at your Funeral”
(source: npr)
imprudent.: aboutmaleprivilege: People who tell me... →
aboutmaleprivilege:
People who tell me I should not be using “bitch” to respond to misogyny: I don’t think you’ve read enough comments beneath videos and articles of women doing sports, science, or anything else awesomely. When I read these comments, I don’t see anyone telling them to…
Most days I am alone.
Most days I am content.
Today I am alone and lonely.
*sigh*
June 2012
11 posts
So I got a navel piercing today. It hurt like a fucking bitch. The pain is mostly gone now, 4 hours later. However I’m now psyching myself out, afraid it’s going to reject after reading horror stories on the internet.
I should live in naive bliss because then I wont be making up signs of rejection in my head. Damn curiosity.
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imprudent.: sillyunicorntime: bookstores and... →
sillyunicorntime:
bookstores and libraries should be like churches, man
you’re not allowed to judge anyone in a bookstore no matter what kind of books they’re looking at
literary nuts can read trashy romance novels
adults can sit cross legged on the floor and read picture books
…
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May 2012
28 posts
Then there’s gender attribution, whereby we look at somebody and say, “that’s a...
– Kate Bornstein, Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of US (via queerandpresentdanger)
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Funny how people in this country are so obsessed...
We live in a society where everyone's fighting for...
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imprudent.: guys/dudes has got to go →
treyfuckingcasen:
zoedangerawesome:
viviandemilo:
I’m trying to think of good gender neutral replacements for ‘hey guys/you guys” and “dude/dudes” (I say dude WAY TOO MUCH oh my god why do I talk like such a bro?) in my oh-so-Californian vocabulary. I’m struggling to stop…
Dude= unmarked: general term all conclusive of both male and female
SEE MILICIC, I LEARNED! XD