Coworker: So there’s a new transgender comic book character? Batgirl’s…roommate?
Me: Yeah, isn’t that great?
Coworker: So … what are we saying about Batgirl?
Me: That they’re … roommates?
Coworker: Are they (air-quotes) roommates?
Me: 
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What exactly does “normal” to dark skin mean? So dark skin isn’t normal? Dove is fucked up.
What the hell
yeah my friend showed me this and what can i do
2013, every body.
Ok. I’m convinced that bottles of DOVE LOTION and it’s distributors are racist fucks.
plus dove sells skin-lightening products in a lot of countries
Dove are also owned the same company who owns lynx
(google ‘the lynx effect’ for your daily dose of misogyny) Dove are evil fucksbut guuuuuuuys ~*~real beauty campaign~*~!!!!!!!
I say this all the time when some white feminist talks about dove’s ‘real beauty’ campaign. They’ve been peddling skin lightening cream to desis for years
^real talk
It’s official, the SHIELD TV series just got picked up for its first season on ABC!!! Also, I hear there may be a trailer out on Sunday/Monday?
THIS IS REAL, RIGHT?
IM NOT DREAMING, RIGHT?
WOOOOOOOW
Mmm, white people castings. Do you smell that? It’s social justice warriors priming for battle.
Dude, don’t be a Tumblr Douche. It’s completely reasonable for people to be annoyed when TV shows are all set in an alternate universe where white people make up 95% of the population and are given almost all of the “important” roles.
weren’t they originally talking about having several POC characters?? What happened to the POC?! ugh, shame on you SHIELD, I was excite and now I am disappoint
The 13 Creepiest Things a Child Has Ever Said to It’s Parents
The 3rd one. Omg
Fucking nope.
motherfucking children tho!
(Source: katara)
(Source: beyondtheplanetsandthestars)
(Source: stewardssons)
“Don’t pussy out on me now. they don’t know. they don’t know shit. you’re not gonna get hurt. you’re fucking Barretta. they believe every fucking word ‘cause you’re super cool.”
(Source: bickle)
The Cicadas are Coming (to the Northeast)
When I think childhood summers, I remember long days, sno-cones, playing outside, and that the ever-present hum of cicadas. Their wing-beating buzz was, and is, the ambient soundtrack to warmer months.
The northeastern US is about to get a visit from a very special bunch of these sporadic summer visitors. Certain groups of cicadas only rise to the surface to breed every 17 years, littering the ground with their exoskeletons and bodies, and the air with their constant call.
When the soil temperature begins to steady in the mid-60’s, “Brood II” magicicada nymphs will hatch underground and crawl to the surface by the billions, and the air from Georgia to Connecticut will start to come to life. While not every cicada species hatches in 17-year patterns, these particular “broods” may follow the pattern to avoid predators predicting their arrival or to keep from going extinct during long periods of cold weather. For many of you, this may be the first time in your life that this group has hatched.
- Let Cicada Mania (yes, that’s a real website) tell you how to see this year’s “periodic cicadas”, some theories of cicadas and prime numbers, and what years other periodic cicada broods will hatch in your area.
- Help WNYC and Radiolab track soil temperatures with home-made cicada thermometers, and follow the Swarmageddon in real-time.
- Teachers: Make the cicada brood arrival part of your lesson plan with this activity.
Most of all, get out there this summer and just stop. Listen, look and take a moment to appreciate just how much life is lurking under and above us at any moment.
And watch where you step. Crunch.
FUCK CICADAS
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I think that we’re going through an adolescence in America when it comes to race. You know, it’s like we’re almost grown up. You have these little moments as a country where it’s like, ‘Wow things are getting better.’ And then you have one where it’s like, ‘Wow, no they’re not.’
Here’s what Brad Paisley has to say for himself in re: “Accidental Racist.” (via entertainmentweekly)
Okay, Paisley seems to admit that he is seeing racism as “more relevant than it [was] a few years ago” and I can appreciate that he wants to have a discussion (yes, welcome to this century, you have some catching up to do). His later arrival is problematic enough, but my biggest problem here is that Paisley seems to think the only problem to be dealt with here is the burden of slavery that we’ve inherited from our forbearers (“we’re all left holding the bag here, left with the burden of these generations”; “it’s very hypocritical to feel like it’s just the South’s fault.”). He discusses New York City’s electoral state of mind in 1860 but never addresses issues of race in the modern world. No part of his explanation addresses the real facts of racism today, nothing that he’s said here indicates an awareness that racism is something that is continually perpetrated, that racism is a cycle which has to be consciously stopped. Without that awareness, this just comes off as a Southern man whining that he’s being made to feel guilty when he wears his Confederate flag shirt, to which I say well, maybe if you’re feeling guilty then there’s something to feel guilty about.
Olga Smirnova and Semyon Chudin in Diamonds
