My first of 2012 and they are good ones, fierce and awesome - like this year is gonna be.
(in no particular order):
1. Adele “Set Fire to the Rain”
2. Lady Gaga “Marry the Night”
3. Nicki Minaj feat. Rihanna “Fly”
4. Kelly Clarkson “Stronger”
5. Jessie J “Domino”
— Susan Faludi (via candid-candies)
(Source: februaryyy, via leftturnatalbuquerque)
Let’s talk about breastfeeding
“I don’t want my kids to see that!” “I don’t want my husband/boyfriend to see that!” These are things I’ve heard people say when discussing breastfeeding in public. Some of you seem to think there is something wrong with the act of breastfeeding, especially in public. You think it’s obscene or sexual in some way and you wish people would just go into the bathroom or do it at home.
So, is it really breasts that make you uncomfortable?
This photoset shows how breasts are portrayed in media (specfically advertisements) vs. what breastfeeding looks like.
The ads can be seen in magazines, on the web, on billboards, posters, etc. Your children or SO can encounter them every day and yet I don’t hear the outrage or disgust that is directed at women who breastfeed.
Why are some of you more offended by breasts being used to feed children, which is not a sexual act, but are fine with breasts being presented through the lens of the straight male gaze in order to sell products that have nothing whatsoever to do with breasts? What is it about using our mammory glands to feed our young, like all mammals do, that deserves your admonishment and offense?
“Yeah, well, pooping is a natural biological function too!” Except, how can you even compare pooping to breastfeeding? Breastfeeding has nothing to do with eliminating waste. A better comparison would be that breastfeeding is like when you sit down to eat a sandwich. You eat in public, right? Why can’t babies?
(Source: oh-whiskers, via missturdle)
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4 Pieces of Relationship Advice Movies Need to Stop Giving | Cracked.com
Oh, I love this paragraph in particular:
Hollywood is still teaching women that “dumb” is “attractive,” they’re just hipsterfying it. I don’t know when it happened (maybe after Clueless?), but sometime after the ’90s, “Quirky Eccentric Weird Chick” became the new Bimbo. She’s just as insultingly one-dimensional as the archetypal Ditsy Blonde Bombshell Valley Girl character that was all over the place a decade ago, except now she wears vintage knee-socks and listens to The Smiths, and that’s supposed to be better, for some reason.
(via nunmoreblack)
(via face-down-asgard-up)
i want a tampon box with a motherfucking shark on it
I was just discussing yesterday how I long for pirate, dinosaur, and/or camo themed tampons and other hygiene products. I’m tired of this bright pink, soft blue, or “feminine”-yellow colored crap.
I’m fucking SHEDDING THE LINING OF MY UTERUS. Something that, actually, is really rather important to how our ENTIRE SPECIES has evolved, developed, and adapted to become dominant on this planet.
I want some recognition of the fact that it’s kind of badass, okay? I want pirates with peg legs and muskets and skull-and-crossbones on that fucker. I want a screaming pterodactyl descending with massive clawed talons extended to do battle with a motherfucking T-Rex with the kind of expression that tells you that it’s the primordial ancestor of the honey badger because pterodactyl don’t give a shit and hasn’t since the Triassic, y’all.
Oh, and btw, when we’re advertising for this stuff? Can we stop with this “our product helps you hide your delicate lady business from the eyes of other people” bullshit. I want a product that shows me that these hygiene things can stand up during an epic firefight with brain eating zombies and face sucking aliens. I want guns and bullets and something to blow up like somebody just invited the Mythbusters on set. I want a commercial with three or four badass folks-that-menstruate (including the non-cis woman menstruators in there!) as secret agents and doing kicks and flips to prove to me that these products can handle what I go through as a uterus-bearer.
Want me to buy this stuff? Prove I can use it during an epic demon apocalypse without my underwear getting marked by Zorro (if you know what I mean).
Can we do that? Is it too much to ask for something like that? Just no more flowers, for the love of endometriums everywhere, okay?
Relevant to my life right now.
(via hiddenmidden)
I went to Victoria’s Secret to buy a bra and ended up getting fitted (which was quite nice and I recommend) and found out that I’m not a 36D, but am in fact a 36DD. holy crap.
When I hold up the bra I bought I feel like this:
it’s HUGE.
wonderfully donethis is why i am a feminist
I actually cried when I watched this.
“This notion that these media companies are just giving us what the public wants - No. They are giving us what the media companies want, and they are giving us what the advertisers want, and they are packaging it in such a way as to make it sound like it is our fault. “
- J. Pozner (at minute 3:40)
(Source: dave-bowman, via hiddenmidden)
I fight with love & laugh with rage.
Gotta live light enough to see the humour
& long enough to see some change.
-Ani
these are the quirky musings of a 23 year old archaeologist, currently trying to figure out who she is.
Daddy Yankee ft. Pitbull - Gasolina
