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“What’s Wrong with First World Problems”

This times a million, plus the fact that everyone talking about “first world problems” is bragging about them.

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melodiesndesires:

my entire college experience in a nutshell. 

앜ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 아 막짤ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 아 통쾌해 뭐야이거

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ianbrooks:

Massive Art Nouveau Mural by a’shop

Made with 50 different colors and over 500 cans of graffiti, these artists recently produced this stunning Goddess on the side of a 5-story high apartment building. Your graffiti is inferior.

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 That’s the second-biggest Catherine Tate I’ve ever seen.

edman:

uhouse:

awyeahmona:

[Photoset: Three images of people of color in casual dress, holding up photos of various appropriative, racist Halloween costumes (blackface; stereotypical “Indians” with streaks of war paint, construction paper headdresses, a sign that says “ME WANTUM PIECE…..NOT WAR”; someone in a stereotypical “Mexican” costume with a sombrero and moustache riding a donkey), with serious, unhappy expressions. Text on each photo reads: “We’re a culture, not a costume. This is NOT who I am, and this is NOT OKAY.”]

delacroix:

I posted all five of the “we’re a culture, not a costume” posters earlier in the week, and I had to delete them because the reblogs made me so angry I couldn’t respond in a reasonable way anymore. It’s bothered me since then, but I try to walk the line between outrage and anger because a lot of people stop listening when I cross it and I don’t want to alienate anyone. I don’t want people to think I hate white people because my heritage is mostly white and I don’t hate any culture. 

But it is really exhausting and upsetting trying to get through to a person who’ll rant for six paragraphs about someone wearing a band t-shirt when they don’t listen to the band, but then absolve themselves of any wrongdoing in donning a bastardized representation of a culture, your culture, by telling you that you’re “too sensitive” because they’re “not doing it to be offensive” so you should “get over it and stop whining.” It’s really hard not to take that personally and be infuriated by that attitude. 

The bottom line is that when a white person dresses up as a person from a subjugated culture, they are being racist—even if it’s just Halloween, even if they aren’t trying to be offensive, even if they have black friends, even if their mother’s uncle’s cousin’s grandpa was 1/128th Cherokee, even if they’re German and not offended by Lederhosen costumes. And telling the people they’re dressing up as how to feel about it or to “get over it” is also being racist. 

Racism is not individual acts of meanness. That’s what we call prejudice. Racism is a system of racial dominance fueled by privilege. It is prejudice + power, and it’s what most colonized systems in the world were founded on: white supremacy. And, when a white person dresses up as a fake Native or wears blackface, they’re asserting their power over people. They’re being oppressive by promoting stereotypes that erase a culture’s place and issues in modern history and by telling them how they should feel about being on the losing end of a system that works to a white person’s advantage. And it doesn’t make a difference if that’s not the intention because racism is about impact, and that’s absolutely the impact those actions have. 

I know I’ll get reblogs on this that upset me because there’s always someone who’ll say “I can do what I want.” And that’s true. But having the right to do something and it being the right thing to do are not the same thing. And, honestly, it should bother a person who isn’t prejudiced to actively contribute to a system of oppression built on erasing people through federal policy and cultural attitudes. It really should. 

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This.

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delisubthefemmecub:

therapsida said: “trans-normative’?? What does that mean?

in response to this part of my previous post: “begin filming for my thesis (which I imagine to be a documentary film centering the voices of people whose experiences can’t be described by trans-normative…

saucy-sarah:

The Native American poster. My computer was acting cray earlier, so it wouldn’t upload. But here it is!

scarfmouse:

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peacelovemusichappyness:

saucy-sarah:

There’s more:

Students Teaching About Racism in Society is a Student Org at Ohio University. I’m the President, any questions… MESSAGE ME! :)

These are all amazing.

YES.

I’VE BEEN WAITING FOREVER TO SEE A POST LIKE THIS <3333333333333333

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cwnl:

Gender Myths in the Bedroom & Beyond

The difference in men’s and women’s attitudes toward sex are often taken for granted. Men want sex, women want commitment; men look for attractive mates and women go after social status.

But not all psychologists are on board with these gender-essentialist statements.

In a new review, University of Michigan psychologist Terri Conley and colleagues sift through psychology studies and find gender differences aren’t always as black-and-white (or pink-and-blue) as they seem. Here are six gender differences that may not be innate after all.

1. Men want “sexy,” women want “status”

An underpinning of evolutionary psychology is that men look for sexy women who are likely to provide them with attractive, healthy offspring, while women are more concerned than men about getting a high-status mate who can be a good provider.

When psychologists ask research subjects (mostly college students) to imagine their ideal mate, that is indeed what they typically find. But when people in an actual speed-dating event rated the importance of attractiveness and status, these gender differences evaporated, according to a 2008 study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

When the research participants met potential dates face to face, there was no difference in the way they rated their romantic interest based on those people’s attractiveness and earnings. So it seems real-world attraction may go beyond simple stereotypes.

“Thinking about ‘ideal’ elicits more stereotypical thoughts about women and men — and what women and men ‘should’ do,” Conley wrote in an email to LiveScience. “When someone evaluates a real person, it is a little different.”

2. Men want many sex partners, women want far fewer

If you ask a lot of men and women how many sex partners they’d want in a given period of time, the numbers provided by men average higher than the women’s numbers. But it seems that a few randy fellows at the top are skewing the results as a whole.

Calculating an average does not always give you the clearest view of the data. (If, for example, researchers asked 10 men how many sex partners they wanted in the next year and nine said “one” while one said “20,” the average would be 2.9, and you might expect that any given man wants about three sex partners in a year.)

If you look instead at the “typical” response to the question of how many partners people want, you find that the majority of both men and women offer the same answer: one.

Again, survey responses may be more about what people believe they should say, rather than what they really want, Conley said. That issue may be exacerbated because most sexual preference studies are conducted using college students, she added, and the young men are eager to conform to expectations of masculinity.

How about how many sexual partners men and women actually have? Studies generally find that men report more partners than women. But in 2003, researchers reported in the Journal of Sex Research that if you trick research participants into believing that they are hooked up to a lie-detector test, men report the same number of sexual partners as women.

3. Men think about sex more than women do

The cliché that men think about sex every seven seconds is not true. And while it’s true that men think about sex more often than women do, they also think about other bodily needs, such as food and sleep, more than women do.

In a study published in 2011 in the Journal of Sex Research, psychologists asked research participants to record their thoughts throughout the day. They found that men pondered sex 18 times a day to a woman’s 10 times a day, but men also thought about food and sleep proportionately more than women. That suggests sex doesn’t hold as vaunted a position for men as you might expect.

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나는 칼 맑스를 증오한다  “I Hate Karl Marx” by Rainer Ganahl