January 2012
20 posts
White people lack empathy for brown people, brain... →
The participants – all white – watched simple videos in which men of different races picked up a glass and took a sip of water. They watched white, black, South Asian and East Asian men perform the task.
Typically, when people observe others perform a simple task, their motor cortex region fires similarly to when they are performing the task themselves. However, the UofT research team, led by...
ad astra per aspera: 17.01.2012 →
whatshipsarefor:
I thought travelling would make me bolder. I seem to have become shyer.
I am comfortable exploring by myself, and going for adventures when no one is looking. (Especially to places with interesting names and interesting artefacts; last week I discovered the Queen’s Butt, which is not what it…
This sounds, oh, so very familiar.
I hope whatever you plan, or don’t...
“One of the smartest things the Nazis did was to co-opt rationality and to co-opt...”
– Derrick Jensen (via cultureofresistance)
The View From My Brain: do you ever info-dump on... →
goldenheartedrose:
nofrigatelikeabook:
It feels like I’m writing a mental diary entry, or having a one-sided conversation with someone who never responds. I’ll start doing it without realizing it while I’m pacing around or sitting on my bed or when I’m trying to fall asleep.
It’s…
I rarely do this with “myself”. That is, I’m alone, but it’s usually in the form...
Beautiful Boy - Lisa Ekdahl
December 2011
24 posts
“We’re living in a den of thieves. And it’s contagious.”
– Regina Spektor (via nezua)
maymay:
The next plan could be no plan, to be not to have a plan. You could wander, probably for anywhere from 6 weeks to 6 months, and let that be the thing you did before the thing you’re going to do.
Where it’s at.
Derrick Jensen: There’s this absolutely extraordinary book called The Nazi Doctors by Robert Jay Lifton, and in this book he describes how it was that men — people, but men in this case — who had taken the Hippocratic Oath could work in Nazi death camps. And what he found was that many of the doctors who worked in the death camps actually cared very deeply for the health of the inmates. And, you know, Mengele was, you know, horrible. But a lot of the sort of straight-line doctors were just — they would do whatever they could. They would give them an extra scrap of potato to eat or - the inmates. Or they would hide them from the selection officers who were going to kill them. Or they would -
Amy Goodman: To keep their experiments going?
Derrick Jensen: No, no, no. They would hide them from the selection officers who were going to kill them. They would do this to protect the inmate for that day. They would put them to bed, you know. They would actually do everything — if they were in pain, they would give them aspirin to lick. They would do what they could to help, except for the most important thing of all, which is they wouldn’t question the existence of the entire death camp itself. So they would find themselves working within the rules, however they could, to try to improve conditions marginally. And in retrospect, of course, that’s just not sufficient. And as a longtime activist, I see myself and other activists doing the same thing, that what we do is we do everything that is allowed by those in power to attempt to stop their destruction. But the problem is, whenever we figure out a way to use their rules to actually stop them, they change the rules.
“If your experience is that your water comes from the tap and that your food...”
– Derrick Jensen (via cultureofresistance)
True for so many things.
“Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and...”
– - George R.R. Martin (via indisposablehero)
This is one of the most beautiful quotes I think I have ever read. I love it, and I will treasure it for my entire life.
(via draodoir-mna)
Lord of the Rings Scholar to Write Hobbit Cookbook... →
fuckyeahthehobbitmovie:
Tolkien scholar Astrid Tuttle Winegar got a book deal with Quirk Books to write A Hobbit’s Cookbook: Eleventy-one Sweets, Snacks, and Savories Inspired by Middle-Earth. The “unofficial culinary journey” will not actually be exclusive to hobbits but will also feature foods for “elves, orcs, and even Gollum.” Gollum eats? Okay.
Anyway, recreating Hobbit food is not a new...
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“All of this is typical girl-fear. Once you realize that The Exorcist is,...”
– Rookie, The Season of the Witch (via azelie)
wow, mind blown. never going to look at the exorcist the same way ever a-fucking-gain.
(via witchnymph)
whoa.
(via loveyourchaos)
November 2011
21 posts
“If we teach women that there are only certain ways they may acceptably behave,...”
– Harriet J on Another post about rape (via archenemies)
Oh my god, this. All of this.
(via one-bite-at-a-time)
“There is an argument that it’s OK to draw women in this hyper-idealized and...”
– Jamie McKelvie, Female Super-Hero Characters and Sex (via elliottmarshal)
“This pattern — women can dress like men, but men don’t dress like women —...”
– via Sociological Images (via aminamithri)
YES
(via donotcallmeashley)
can i print this and hang it up everywhere?
(via jayandsilentboob)
yes, this. especially as a genderfluid person, for the longest time even the thought of dressing up in women’s clothing was a no-no for me, but still, there’s...
axis of haterade: White people just like to talk... →
notesonascandal:
thecurvature:
I mean, I am white, so I’ve been taught how to do this by example my entire life.
“Why are you assuming the sign writer meant BLACK crack dealers? Is it because you are racist and assume that all crack dealers are Black?”
No, you jackass.
I assume that when you tell cops to go arrest more people on drug related offenses, the ones they’re going to arrest are...
“I say that intentionally.
I am not a lesbian. Not bi. Not straight. Not pan....”
– Femmes and Family: I am Queer Intentionally (via spiritd3sire)
This is awesome, and really brings me closer to identifying with queer. Something I’ve felt restricted from.
(via puteveryonetosleep)
I’ve reblogged this before, but it is so relevant.
(via loveyourchaos)
“That’s pretty much what the schools are like, I think: they reward discipline...”
– Noam Chomsky (via cultureofresistance)