Not my Homework

kadamfangirl:

Yahoo! needs to just leave Tumblr be. Yahoo! ruins things. Does anybody Yahoo! things? No. Anybody here remember when they acquired Geocities? They RUINED Geocities and then nobody stayed. The only part of Yahoo! that’s even remotely useful is Yahoo!Answers. I know 1.1 billion dollars is a huge sum of money, but Tumblr’s something special.

Look, there’s all kinds of things that people love about Tumblr, and one of the most seen is ‘Facebook makes you hate people you know; Tumblr makes you love people you’ve never met.’ Tumblr isn’t perfect, and there’s some real jerks out there, but there’s also a lot of really good people.

People who help others get fluffy chickens.

People who educate us about feminism, rape culture, and other important issues that just aren’t being talked about elsewhere.

People who stay up all night on days when they have school or work just to talk to somebody who feels like they just can’t take it any longer. Groups of people who anonymously gather together to provide support.

We fangirl over Winchester brothers and cry over fallen angels, and we melt into goo over baby cats and puppies and even wombats and baby weasels. We post pictures of cars, actors, and fashion, coffee, and foods. We talk about our lives; our failures and our achievements, our successes and losses. 

We’re a community, brought together for different reasons and under different circumstances. We like different things and we ship different people and we have different fandoms, and some of us don’t even have OTPs and fandoms, but we’re all part of Tumblr.

Tumblr, for me, is the last decent social media website out there. I feel brave here, confident, and that my voice can be heard. I’ve found out about issues I didn’t even know exist. Learned things I’d have never sought out.

I know everything changes, and I don’t know what changes Yahoo! would bring, but I don’t want it. Tumblr is special. Don’t let some big corporation ruin it for us all.

Tumblr doesn’t need changing.

Tumblr doesn’t need Yahoo!.

(via whentheman-comesaround)

And in that moment she realizes her power as a woman, without the armor, without having a sword, without killing people, without exerting strength or without exerting the more masculine elements of her personality which she’s focused on and that she’s pushed, and in that moment she embraces her womanhood and femininity.

(Source: thorins-arkenstone, via heysammy)

forever-classyx:

Oh my gosh people, be nice to your waiter/waitress, it’s not their fault that your food is cold or if it’s under cooked.  Be nice to the cashiers who are still training and can’t ring up your items as quickly as you want.  If a stranger smiles and says hello to you, smile and say hello back!  It’s just common courtesy, I don’t understand why people have to be so rude.

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shortformblog:

Idea: What if the federal government gave someone like Neil DeGrasse Tyson a “Science Laureate” role, like we do for poets? Sound like a good idea? Fortunately, members of Congress are already working on it.

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gaulthique:

letswakethesun:

The Huffington Post:

“In response to Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffriesnot wanting “not so cool” kids or women who wear size largeto wear his company’s clothes,Greg Karberhas come up with a funny and creative way to readjust the Abercrombie & Fitch brand.

He’s giving their clothes to the homeless.

After scouring his local thrift shop’s “douchebag section,” Karber heads to LA’s Skid Row to dole out the clothes among the homeless population. Watch the stunt and find out how you can be involved in one man’s troll-job on a company with some pretty unflattering business practices in the video above.”

Right on.

“Hey, I’m trying to insult this brand because I don’t like it so will you wear some free clothes i bought with the brand’s logo on it because people like you wearing these clothes would be considered an insult? C’mon it’s like charity.”

Does anybody remember that thing that happened a few years back when some company wanted to pay homeless people to wear shirts with advertisements on them (or something along those lines). It was considered incredibly disrespectful and exploitive to the homeless people involved and was generally frowned upon.

This is giving me those vibes.

Also: I know it’s offensive and whatever that the CEO of Abercrombie has such a blatant business plan, but can you really fault the guy? He want’s his brand to have a certain image so he markets his clothes to the people that fit that image. It’s no different than any other brand out there that has a target customer. People need to realize that this is a private company in a capitalistic system; he can run his company however the fuck he wants to as long as he has the money to stay in business. He is not obligated to produce clothes that fit/suit everybody that might want to wear them.

(via crownedcorvid)

blogofpureevil:

rikxy:

Do you want a happy ending to the prematurely-eradicated series “Todd & The Book of Pure Evil”? #ReanimateTodd

If you’ve ever loved a show that has been cancelled just as many massive plot twists were revealed, please check this out. All us Toddies need is this film to finish the story & bring it all together

Also check out the show if you like bloody deaths, metal, & brilliant Canadians. - Then you will understand THE COMPLETE NEED TO RAISE MONEY FOR THIS FILM.

lets keep passing this around guys!

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louderdecibelle:

koizumim:

really though

if breasts, butts and legs are so distracting to men, to the point they cant function

why arent they that distracting to lesbians

and at that point

why isnt the penis bulge and legs not distracting enough to gay men to warrant men being put under the same dress codes

#spoilers: its because its bullshit

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mybluedecember:

princess-munchkin:

How the fuck does Bill Nye expect this to happen? What do you want to do, force women to enroll in science courses, regardless of whether or not they want to do it? Just for the sake of having “enough” women? Why the fuck do these fractions matter so much? It’s not like people are holding guns to our head and threatening to kill us if we become interested in science.

Maybe, just maybe, a lot of us DON’T FUCKING WANT to be scientists. Is that a crime?

Hi there, princess-munchkin. Female engineering student here. 

Bill Nye is not saying that you HAVE to be a scientist, and you are right that no one is holding a gun to my head because I am interested in science, but let me tell you some of the struggles of being a woman in the STEM fields. 

1) Because I am a woman, I am not expected these fields. I first fully realized this when I was in high school, on my robotics team. See, although my robotics team was about 50% female, most of the women were part of the “business administration” side of things: finance, marketting, PR, membership, etc. Was this a problem? Absolutely not. But I was there to be an engineer, and specifically, to be the robot programmer. This was met with a lot of hesitation at first from some of the other students (all of whom happened to be male. This is not necessarily a bad thing.) You see, all of the robot programmers before me were guys. Computer programming is just a thing that guys do, or so they thought. Even after I had proved myself to the mentors on the team, many of the students still underestimated my abilities. There were rumors going around that I wouldn’t have been able to program the robot at all if the lead software mentor wasn’t there to help me. This was just flat-out false, but it wasn’t until I won an award for the team that the other students actually saw my merit. 

2) There is not a lot of encouragement for women to go into these fields. I first noticed this when I was in elementary school. I was always interested in math, science, you name it, but many of my teachers and family members pushed that to the side for a long time. When I asked for legos for christmas, I would get ballet slippers. In fact, for a long time, I was training to be a professional dancer. I loved to dance. I loved math more, but no one seemed to notice that about me. It wasn’t until I had a long conversation with one particular teacher in high school that I decided to look into engineering. I had never even considered it as an option before, because no one decided to encourage me to pursue my interest in science. If it hadn’t been for that teacher, I would probably not be at the school I am at right now. 

3) For a long time, Engineering/Science/Math WAS a “boys only” club. Let me tell you when some of the top technical schools and societies started letting women in:

• RPI, The oldest tech school in the country, founded in 1824. Started admitting women in 1942 to “replace men called to war.” Campus housing for women wasn’t constructed until 1966. 
• Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honors Society - Founded in 1885. Started admitting women in 1968.
• Caltech - Currently rated #3 in undergraduate engineering. Founded in 1891. Started admitting women in 1970. 
• Georgia Tech - Currently rated #5 in undergraduate engineering. Founded in 1885. Started admitting women in 1952. 

Do you see the implications of this? Engineering has been a part of our society since around the late 1800s (in the case of RPI, since the 1820s), but women weren’t even allowed in for the most part until the 1950s, regardless of their merit. 

4) Because of the fact that it was a “boys only” club for such a long time, there are not a lot of women engineers and scientists to look up to. When you’re reading your physics, chemistry, and math text books, the majority of those theories were came up with by men. It is true that much of our history was written by White Men, but this does not mean that the fact that there are few women scientists to look up does not matter. 

So, as you can hopefully see, princess-munckin, or anyone else that shares the opinions of princess-munchkin, Bill Nye was not arguing that women that are not interested in STEM should go into those fields anyway. But he IS arguing against all of the systematic barriers set up against women who ARE interested in engineering and science. There are several women out there who are just as good as the boys at math and science, but will never pursue their interests because it just doesn’t seem like an option. That was me for a long time. I am super grateful for the fact that I fought against that, and that I ended up where I am. 

if you don’t like science, fine. Don’t be a scientist. But if one day you have a daughter and she shows interest in being a scientist, PLEASE encourage her. Because Bill Nye is right, there need to be more women scientists in the world. 

(Source: scienceing, via crownedcorvid)

sad-teeth:

So today Angelina Jolie had double mastectomy, which is the removal of one’s breasts, to prevent Breast cancer. So instead of praising Angelina on her bravery, men on Twitter decided to ridicule her, even calling her stupid for removing her breasts. For those of you on Tumblr that are attacking Feminists about being delusional about sexism against women and misogyny here’s your fucking proof that sexism and misogyny exists. 

(via crownedcorvid)