June 2013
“You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked “female”.”
—Erin McKean, You Don’t Have to be Pretty (via hollabackboston)
“If you have to treat me differently because you heard I’m a feminist, you subconsciously realize that there is something wrong with your normal behavior.”
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(via pink-lips-red)
This is so true for a whole assortment of things but I’ve never been able to put it into words. Like when people find out I’m queer and they suddenly act less homophobic. I have relatives who magically stop showing their racist tendencies around people of color. Just because you don’t display your prejudice around the people you’re prejudiced against doesn’t make you a good person - it still means you’re shitty, but also extra shitty because you realize your behavior is offensive and you only display it around people who won’t be immediately harmed.
(via mscoolcat)
“As a society, we encourage girls and women to be emotionally accessible, and in touch with their feelings; we say that it’s an innately feminine trait. We say it, that is, until they have feelings that make us uncomfortable, at which point we recast them as melodramatic harpies, shrieking banshees, and basket cases.”
—Tori Amos (via home-of-amazons)
Indiana Jones and the Dendrochronological Dating of the Preserved Remains of a Wooden House from the Germanic Migration Period
DWM 275 was early on in terms of BF. We're talking 2001/2002 here, so it'll mean all of them.
Hooray! And thanks for the clarification :D
“As far as the BBC is concerned, these new stories are seen as part of the official Doctor Who canon. A great deal of responsibility comes with that status, and [BBC] Worldwide did not assign this licence without careful thought.”
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- Stephen Cole, DWM 275
BIG FINISH AUDIO DRAMAS CONFIRMED AS CANON, EXCELLENT.
(via laurel-sea)
This would be great if there weren’t some stories I really didn’t want to be canon.
(via therothwoman)
Does anybody know which stories are ‘these new stories’?
Like is Gallifrey canon or…?
“When it comes to the portrayal of the Doctor I don’t care about reproductive systems or how much pigment is present in skin. I want the actor to inhabit the role in a way that is entirely their own while still respecting the essence of the character. That takes creativity, brains and heart – the rest is superfluous. Arguing about the sex and/or ethnicity of the character misses the point. It’s the energy that matters –an intellectual curiosity, an individual flair. All that’s required of the audience is an open mind. Doctor Who is a show that forces you to re-examine your perceptions because the character and his companions are constantly changing. That is a very good thing.”
—“Doctor Who: 7 Wishes For Season 8” on What Culture
This is the kind of thinking I see a lot, even from people who consider themselves staunch feminists, or at the very least allies for our cause. It doesn’t matter if the Doctor is a woman or a POC or not, they say, as long as they are the best person for the role.
The problem is that this type of thinking assumes that the world we live in is a meritocracy, where the person who is best suited for the job gets it. Except anyone who is a woman, especially a WOC, knows that’s the exact opposite of the world we live in.
I am not receiving updates on the Doctor Who casting, so I can’t tell you with certainty what it is like, but if recent speculation is anything to go by, it’s seems pretty certain that women are not being seriously considered for the role. And after 50 years and 11 men, it’s just not possible that the Doctor hasn’t been a woman because they couldn’t find any talented actresses (Doctor as woman reimagined article). Women have systematically been overlooked for the role of the Doctor.
Furthermore, this type of thinking sets up a false dichotomy. Either the Doctor becomes a woman solely to please the feminist brigade (essentially, tokenism), or we find the “best” actor for the role. But women have so much to offer to the role of the Doctor. They too can recreate the role in a way that is entirely their own while still respecting the essence of the character. Furthermore, as I’ve argued before (Narrative piece), casting a woman as the Doctor would add so much more to the character. The Doctor would be forced to face challenges he’d never experienced before. She would be able to examine the universe with an entirely different perspective. Race and gender aren’t superfluous issues. They define us in a myriad of ways every single day.
I want the Doctor to be a woman because I believe that there is a huge pool of talented actresses who are being overlooked. And I want the Doctor to be a woman because I want to see the character grow and develop in new and fascinating ways.
(via whovianfeminism)Star Trek Into Darkness Plot Twist: Halfway through the movie, Captain Kathryn Janeway marches on screen and punches JJ Abrams in the face.
“Well it’s OK for guys to do [generally bullshit and/or sexist behavior] because cavemen—-“
motherfucker bring me a mammoth that you killed with a piece of flint on a stick while wandering on an ice sheet and maybe I’ll be impressed with that argument
wait no I won’t
I will be genuinely impressed by the mammoth, though
The Bride of Peladon
Big Finish
“I miss them all, Peri. Everybody leaves.”
Yet another Companion leaves the Doctor, and he’s feeling gloomy and the story’s getting depressing. And just when I’m about to cry… they make this joke.
This is what makes Big Finish so amazing.
I JUST FUCKING SCREAMED
BLACK GIRLS DO IT WELL: assfcuker: ok so lemme do a short thing about virginity/ tightness of... →
blackgirlsupremacy.tumblr.com
ok so lemme do a short thing about virginity/ tightness of vagina. Your vagina gets looser as you become more sexually aroused during intercourse. This is why when you normally put a finger in your vagina, its a lot tighter than when you put it in when you’re aroused. The myth that the vagina is tighter when you’re a virgin is caused by 2 things
1) cis men love the idea of “ruining” a woman’s body (as shown by porn) and they get some sort of sick pleasure from thinking that after having sex with a woman, she will never be the same again.
2) women are more anxious during their first time, which results in them being less sexually aroused and their vagina being more contracted.
if your have kids young enough, your vagina will literally return to it’s previous tightness. That’s how elastic it is. There is no way your vagina becomes “looser after having sex with lots of men”. that’s just slut shame-y bullshit.
Men who brag about shit like “her pussy was tight as hell for me. I ruined that pussy” are just bragging about the fact that they couldnt sexually arouse her enough for her to loosen enough. Which means they are awful at sex. They are bragging about being fucking awful at sex.
The only time your vagina becomes looser is with age and after multiple births.
Anyone who tell you differently is dumb.
*sips tea while reading the bolded*
lucy liu for 12th doctor
iwillincendiotheheartoutofyou:
you know what I love? everyone’s mutual love and respect for harry potter
we might not all talk about Harry Potter that much but no matter what wars between or inside fandoms are happening, Harry Potter still trumps everything else and makes it irrelevant
if someone makes a Harry Potter reference it’s immediately understood no matter what other fandoms you’re in
After all this time?
Always.
