eat it like a CANADIAN

caterinasforzas: “You talked to one of my lieutenants. He has,...

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:52:49 -0400

“You talked to one of my lieutenants. He has, over the years, played the role repeatedly and with great conviction. More often than not, he’s done so to protect my identity. Other times, it was because I suspected a potential client might.. struggle with my gender. As if men had a monopoly on murder.”

#let me explain to you how genius the deconstruction of Irene Adler is #because in making her a conscious manipulation; an artful and purposeful creation by moriarty in order to ensnare sherlock #they have destroyed The Woman; the one individual who eclipsed the whole of her sex and at whose feet Sherlock fell #they’ve taken the goddess down off her pillar and revealed the woman in the fridge was a doll all along #Irene Adler is only a story; can only ever be a story; because there is no Woman #only women #and they are villains as well as heroines and they are clever even when they make mistakes and they can hold the world together whether to take advantage of it or to save it for the people they love but there is no Woman #there never could be #and Sherlock had to learn that #elementary #the best goddamn show #your favs could never

"Swear to God, I can’t stand to hear a woman claim that she thinks like a guy and hates women because..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:05:41 -0400

“Swear to God, I can’t stand to hear a woman claim that she thinks like a guy and hates women because they’re all catty. That’s misogyny. The very fact that you, as a woman, think differently than how a socially-stereotyped woman is supposed to think is proof that our gender “norms” are fucking us over. Women are not all alike. Some of us like football. Some of us like talking on the phone. Some of us like religion. Some of us are emotional. Some of us speak three languages. Some of us have boyfriends. Some of us have girlfriends. Some of us wear lipstick. Some of us don’t shave our pits. Some of us have kids. Some of us worry we’ll drop our best friend’s baby. Now please stop claiming that you don’t act like a woman. It doesn’t make you a special fucking snowflake. It makes you a perpetrator of misogyny.”

- (via bobthespider)

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Fri, 17 May 2013 04:15:59 -0400

renlybaratheeon: you don’t know true agony unless you’ve gone from watching 5 seasons in 2 days to...

Fri, 17 May 2013 04:14:57 -0400

renlybaratheeon:

you don’t know true agony unless you’ve gone from watching 5 seasons in 2 days to 1 episode a week

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Fri, 17 May 2013 04:00:06 -0400

I spent a lot of time with you thinking I was second best, but...

Fri, 17 May 2013 03:57:54 -0400

I spent a lot of time with you thinking I was second best, but you know what? I am good.

oohtheyhavenibbles: soapboxopera: oohtheyhavenibbles: i’m...

Thu, 16 May 2013 02:25:27 -0400

oohtheyhavenibbles:

soapboxopera:

oohtheyhavenibbles:

i’m taking the practice tests on the icbc site and i can’t stop laughing at answer c

I’m fairly sure I got this question

really? awesome. i’m taking the learner’s test on monday so if the questions are this easy… :D

Ooh good luck! I’m sure you’ll do great. And yeah, I found that a lot of the questions on the test were quite similar to the practice one

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todayisbrightlywoven: this dumb girl in my choir came in THIRTY-SEVEN MINUTES LATE to rehearsal and...

Wed, 15 May 2013 22:19:56 -0400

todayisbrightlywoven:

this dumb girl in my choir came in THIRTY-SEVEN MINUTES LATE to rehearsal and like that would be stupid normally but this wasn’t an ordinary rehearsal

it was a rehearsal at government house

because we are singing for a fucking Prince saturday

AND WHY ARE YOU INCAPABLE OF BEING ON TIME

voldemortandco: zubat: Blood is thicker than water but maple syrup is thicker than blood so...

Wed, 15 May 2013 22:14:24 -0400

voldemortandco:

zubat:

Blood is thicker than water but maple syrup is thicker than blood so technically pancakes are more important than family.

are you canadian

Favourite IT Crowd character: Maurice Moss

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:08:58 -0400

Favourite IT Crowd character: Maurice Moss

"I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not possibly have scored more..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:00:59 -0400

“I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not possibly have scored more than 80, by my estimate. I always took it for granted that I was far more intelligent than he was. Yet, when anything went wrong with my car I hastened to him with it, watched him anxiously as he explored its vitals, and listened to his pronouncements as though they were divine oracles - and he always fixed my car.
Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man devised questions for an intelligence test. Or suppose a carpenter did, or a farmer, or, indeed, almost anyone but an academician. By every one of those tests, I’d prove myself a moron, and I’d be a moron, too. In a world where I could not use my academic training and my verbal talents but had to do something intricate or hard, working with my hands, I would do poorly. My intelligence, then, is not absolute but is a function of the society I live in and of the fact that a small subsection of that society has managed to foist itself on the rest as an arbiter of such matters.
Consider my auto-repair man, again. He had a habit of telling me jokes whenever he saw me. One time he raised his head from under the automobile hood to say: “Doc, a deaf-and-mute guy went into a hardware store to ask for some nails. He put two fingers together on the counter and made hammering motions with the other hand. The clerk brought him a hammer. He shook his head and pointed to the two fingers he was hammering. The clerk brought him nails. He picked out the sizes he wanted, and left. Well, doc, the next guy who came in was a blind man. He wanted scissors. How do you suppose he asked for them?”
Indulgently, I lifted my right hand and made scissoring motions with my first two fingers. Whereupon my auto-repair man laughed raucously and said, “Why, you dumb jerk, He used his voice and asked for them.” Then he said smugly, “I’ve been trying that on all my customers today.” “Did you catch many?” I asked. “Quite a few,” he said, “but I knew for sure I’d catch you.” “Why is that?” I asked. “Because you’re so goddamned educated, doc, I knew you couldn’t be very smart.””

- Isaac Asimov (via skinnybaras)

neil-gaiman: mercurialme: I knew y’all would have a gif set of...

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:51:23 -0400

neil-gaiman:

mercurialme:

I knew y’all would have a gif set of this by morning.

Truth.

oohtheyhavenibbles: i’m taking the practice tests on the icbc...

Wed, 15 May 2013 02:28:02 -0400

oohtheyhavenibbles:

i’m taking the practice tests on the icbc site and i can’t stop laughing at answer c

I’m fairly sure I got this question

scienceing: mybluedecember: princess-munchkin: How the fuck...

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:20:39 -0400

scienceing:

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 needs to be more women scientists in the world.

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"I wanted to write this to tell other women that the decision to have a mastectomy was not easy. But..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:15:50 -0400

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I wanted to write this to tell other women that the decision to have a mastectomy was not easy. But it is one I am very happy that I made. My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

It is reassuring that they see nothing that makes them uncomfortable. They can see my small scars and that’s it. Everything else is just Mommy, the same as she always was. And they know that I love them and will do anything to be with them as long as I can. On a personal note, I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.

”

- By ANGELINA JOLIE

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/opinion/my-medical-choice.html?_r=1&

(via piratesherlyholmes)

vgkait: It is the start of the year 2000, and something is...

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:51:35 -0400

vgkait:

It is the start of the year 2000, and something is wrong.

Husbands and wives wake up next to each other, scared. They don’t know who the person in the bed with them is. Who is this person? Why are they in my house? Is this my house? Is this their house?

They go out to investigate. A five-year-old child uses a Windows 98 computer in the living room. The child turns around, and asks, “Is it time for me to go to school, mommy?”

The world is in panic. The President of the United States, who awoke in the Oval Office with no knowledge of being elected, calls for a large-scale investigation.

After weeks of asking adults and children alike what is going on, and looking at the various public records, they realize that the children are not confused at all. The adults can only remember what last happened in 1989. However, the children that can speak say that they were born anywhere from 1991 to 1996. Public officials can only draw one conclusion.

To every adult, the 1990s never happened. The children, however, cannot have come from nowhere.

It doesn’t take long after this conclusion for them to realize that only 90s kids remember the 90s.

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Tue, 14 May 2013 20:10:19 -0400

tifferini: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D - Official Trailer (x)

Tue, 14 May 2013 19:15:42 -0400

tifferini:

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D - Official Trailer (x)