hagfem:

terfcicle:

parttimepup:

pettydabblerinthedorkarts:

sparklejamesysparkle:

Jayne Mansfield explains how her career began on England’s BBC television in 1960. Though Jayne had an IQ of 163 and could speak five languages and play the piano, violin and viola with aptitude, she was never taken seriously by Hollywood and became typecast in the persona of a busty “dumb blonde”. She once remarked in frustration: “No one cares about 163.
They’re more interested in 40–21–35.”

The passive agressive snark in this is fantastic

Male executives used femininity and sexuality to try and hide her intelligence and aptitude. If you don’t prettify yourself and genuflect to the patriarchy with your appearance then they will do it for you!

this really show how threatened men are by women as well as how they literally view femininity (and women) as weak and less-than.

It’s depressing how many intelligent, generous, kind, accomplished women get remembered for nothing but their looks. Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield…

mulletlove:

the idea that humans are a garbage species is so obnoxious no one talks about the peaceful parts of history and prehistory because they aren’t as exciting as us killing each other but um homo sapiens have been doing awesome things all over for a long time….we survived the fucking ice age…we made it through the sinai desert….we shared the savana with big cats before we ever made a weapon, we wove baskets from literal plants and halved blades from flint to handles we made, carved harpoons from bone and fought megafauna for our loved ones, cooked food and took care of the elderly and buried our dead, painted pictures and shared stories, built homes from clay and mud and straw, made instruments so we could dance and sing…it is so easy to focus on the negative and i get it ok we are in the middle of a mass extinction event that specific humans are at fault for but listen: they don’t want you to remember it hasn’t always been like this…we were and are so much more than evil

“Perhaps the cause of our contemporary pessimism is our tendency to view history as a turbulent stream of conflicts — between individuals in economic life, between groups in politics, between creeds in religion, between states in war. This is the more dramatic side of history; it captures the eye of the historian and the interest of the reader. 

“But if we turn from that Mississippi of strife, hot with hate and dark with blood, to look upon the banks of the stream, we find quieter but more inspiring scenes: women rearing children, men building homes, peasants drawing food from the soil, artisans making the conveniences of life, statesmen sometimes organizing peace instead of war, teachers forming savages into citizens, musicians taming our hearts with harmony and rhythm, scientists patiently accumulating knowledge, philosophers groping for truth, saints suggesting the wisdom of love. 

“History has been too often a picture of the bloody stream. The history of civilization is a record of what happened on the banks.”

Will Durant, “The Gentle Philosopher” (2006)

suzie-guru:

theadventureto-be:

johns-potato:

featherleaf:

the-laughofthemedusa:

scarimor:

westwoodandthebeegees:

devilpetal:

zorobro:

transhumanisticpanspermia:

I love everything about this photoset

The lack of condescension in cultural sharing

The nonsexualization

The contextual foreignness of firm breasts in a society that doesn’t use bras

This is funny and charming

By far one of my favorite posts.

I love that across cultures, every woman grabs their boobs.

My friend is an army wife and spent some time with her husband on his Pacific posting. One day the locals invited the families from the British base for a big get-together. It was going really well but after a few hours the British women noticed that a lot of the local babies were crying, so my friend asked one of the mothers if there was something wrong, like a bug going round or something. The mother replied,

“Oh no, they’re just very hungry.”

So my friend asked, “Why don’t you feed them?”

And the mother said, “We will when you’ve gone. We use our breasts to feed them and we don’t want to embarrass you.”

And my shocked friend said, “But we do that too!”

So all the British mothers who had babies sat down and whipped out their boobs to feed them (whether they were hungry or not) and the relieved local mothers then did the same.

Two things:

– because western ladies usually cover their boobs the local ladies weren’t sure whether western women use boobs for what they’re supposed to be for

– women everywhere are considerate of other women

I also really love this photo set because, far too often, we only see pictures of African women as anthropological archetypes. They are treated like exhibits to be studied, similar to exotic animals or landscapes, rather than human beings.
I LOVE these pictures, because here we have women of two different cultures laughing and talking and playing around. You can see their personalities shining through and I LOVE IT

Women 🙌🏾

this is one of those photosets that fills me with the rocket-fuel equivalent of hope and optimism

Reblogging this beautiful post before it becomes a tumblr crime

That last comment broke my heart, honestly. This has always been one of my favorite photo sets because of everything it presents: confidence, curiosity, personalities shining through the lens, positive interactions between cultures––

––and now it’s going to be goddamn BANNED because of “female presenting nipples.” 

You’re inflicting so much harm with your decision, @staff and @support. You’re erasing so much more than you could ever realize. 

This photoset is beautiful because it presents bodies as what they are – not objects solely for titillation, but as something everybody across the world has, and that they hold the potential of positive connection. 

Shame on you, @staff. Shame on you. 

a very short star wars meta

uncle-whisky:

jumpingjacktrash:

in the first movie, when leia got rescued, she was expecting some kind of actual military operatives with things like a plan and an exit strategy and a working vehicle. this is why she was so salty about instead being rescued by basically the duke brothers and an angry carpet in a past-warranty space winnebago.

like when the bad guys capture a diplomat you’re supposed to send mission impossible, not cheech & chong

Leia wanted a full D&D party, and what she got was a Rogue with no Bluff, a wizard who left his spell sheet at home, and a barbarian who made charisma his highest score.

theroomyouneverenter:

theroomyouneverenter:

girl in language class: so why are you taking Italian? 🙂

me thinking about my plan to go back in time and raw Leonardo Da Vinci so hard he can’t walk for three days: I love the food

to clear things up because some of you clearly cannot fucking read: i am a homosexual man who is willing to go back in time and put my entire penis inside of historical figure Leonardo Da Vinci’s rectum in an act of anal sex and then go on to live a lavish and intellectually stimulating lifestyle as his beloved top. i don’t know what a video game is and i don’t care.