Wow. This post is incredibly inaccurate and rather insulting in its simplistic assumptions that athletic people are always skinny and fat people do nothing physical. I’ve gotta say it, I can’t think of another word to describe this post but fatphobic. Being chubby isn’t the end of the world; you don’t have to defend fictional characters from the imagined insult of *gasp* not being skinny!

Check this out, for example: http://ninamatsumoto.wordpress.com/2010/12/18/athletic-body-diversity-reference-for-artists/# Athletes of various shapes and sizes. The idea that there is one right way for women to look, even fit women, is insulting. Don’t you realize how horrifying this logic is? This post just makes me sad that being fat is perceived as such a horrible thing, and that people deny reality by presuming that anyone who “moves [their] body a lot” must be skinny.

I won’t even address the idea that people who live in the sea have to be athletic.

coffeewithants:

genderbendingriotqueer:

intellectual-stupidity:

pooniepants:

theirregularhat:

raffsstuff:

nasty-daddy:

espineux:

There were three employees and two servants.

…and here I was, thinking these things were never accurate.

“Oh you bad thing!” and she hit his hand with a smart rap, but reddened and looked pleased nevertheless. ~ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Not sure I buy the accuracy

“The killer robot accepts her new identity so easy you have to wonder if she’s just faking amnesia and was always looking for a good reason to go on a killing spree.”
Choke- Chuck Palahniuk

No me gusta

“The god was a true giant, as large as any Astartes warrior as an Astartes warrior was to a normal man”

Soooo another words I’m packing like hell?

“Notable achievements.” I shit you not. Thanks, Game of Thrones. Accurate.

“What do I care about his reputation?” - Brave New World

LMFAO. SO MANY INTERPRETATIONS. PERFECT.

“For two weeks, there was a gaping wound in the center of my body.” - Cunt

FML

“The gay and lesbian movement is America’s longest-running sex scandal.”

Alright.

“Yes.” - Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett

heheh …That would’ve been more appropriate for someone with a sex life.

caper-cranes:

kneadingpeetasdough:

crestaeverdeen:

aimmyarrowshigh:

wtf, cw. wtf.

ALL OF THIS IS WRONG

NO

JUST NO

NOOOOOOO

lipstick-feminists:

[WOMEN WHO HAVE ABORTIONS DO SO BECAUSE THEY VALUE LIFE AND BECAUSE THEY TAKE VERY SERIOUSLY THE MYRIAD RESPONSIBILITIES THAT COME NOT JUST WITH BIRTH, BUT WITH NURTURING A HUMAN BEING./CHARLOTTE TAFT]

amyamychan:

serpentine913:

Clifton Brown and BBoy Machine + Photographer Matt Karas + “Get It Out”

Amazing photos, amazing dancers, just amazing. :D

An even bigger issue is that if people think social justice is about niceness, it means they have fundamentally misunderstood privilege. Privilege does not mean you live in a world where people are nice to you and never insult you. It means you live in a world in which you, and people like you, are given systematic advantages over other people. Being marginalised does not mean people are always nasty to you, it means you live in a world in which many aspects of the cultural, social and economic systems are stacked against people like you. Some very privileged people have had awful experiences in life, but it does not erase their privilege.

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—	The Revolution Will Not Be Polite (via hiphopcheerleader)

(trigger warning: rape, rape jokes) Here is why I refuse to take rape jokes sitting down…

Because 6% of college-aged men, slightly over 1 in 20, will admit to raping someone in anonymous surveys, as long as the word “rape” isn’t used in the description of the act—and that’s the conservative estimate. Other sources double that number (pdf).

A lot of people accuse feminists of thinking that all men are rapists. That’s not true. But do you know who think all men are rapists?

Rapists do.

They really do. In psychological study, the profiling, the studies, it comes out again and again.

Virtually all rapists genuinely believe that all men rape, and other men just keep it hushed up better. And more, these people who really are rapists are constantly reaffirmed in their belief about the rest of mankind being rapists like them by things like rape jokes, that dismiss and normalize the idea of rape.

If one in twenty guys (or more) is a real and true rapist, and you have any amount of social activity with other guys like yourself, then it is almost a statistical certainty that one time hanging out with friends and their friends, playing Halo with a bunch of guys online, in a WoW guild, in a pick-up game of basketball, at a bar, or elsewhere, you were talking to a rapist. Not your fault. You can’t tell a rapist apart any better than anyone else can. It’s not like they announce themselves.

But, here’s the thing. It’s very likely that in some of these interactions with these guys, at some point or another, someone told a rape joke. You, decent guy that you are, understood that they didn’t mean it, and it was just a joke. And so you laughed.

Or maybe you didn’t laugh. Maybe it just wasn’t a very funny joke. So maybe you just didn’t say anything at all.

And, decent guy who would never condone rape, who would step in and stop rape if he saw it, who understands that rape is awful and wrong and bad, when you laughed? When you were silent?

That rapist who was in the group with you, that rapist thought that you were on his side. That rapist knew that you were a rapist like him. And he felt validated, and he felt he was among his comrades.

You. The rapist’s comrade.

And if that doesn’t make you feel sick to your stomach, if that doesn’t make you want to throw up, if that doesn’t disturb you or bother you or make you feel like maybe you should at least consider not participating in that kind of humor anymore, not abiding it in your presence, not greeting it with silence…

Well, maybe you aren’t as opposed to rapists as you claim.

“

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Why Rape Jokes Are Never “Ok” (via twofish)

I reblogged a very similar thing like six months ago with these same numbers that I’m about to talk about, but I think they’re important, so here they are again!

I learned this summer that, while a very small percentage of men (and yeah, I’m just talking about men right now) actually rape, a) 91-95% of the ones who do are repeat offenders, averaging six attempted or completed rapes per offender (sourced below), and b) almost every rapist thinks most other men are rapists.

Relevant: this article (especially the third bullet)

Repeat offender statistics:

Lisak, David and Paul M. Miller. 2002. ”Repeat Rape and Multiple Offending Among Indetected Rapists.”
McWhorter, Stephanie K., Valerie A. Stander, Lex L. Merrill, Cynthia J. Thomsen, and Joel L. Milner. 2009. ”Reports of Rape Reperpetration by Newly Enlisted Male Navy Personnel.”

(via coffeewithants)

bunny-leech:

ajacquelineofalltrades:

menshevixen:

bananakarenina:

villa-kulla:

Reporter: I have a question to Robert and to Scarlett. Firstly to Robert, throughout Iron Man 1 and 2, Tony Stark started off as a very egotistical character but learns how to fight as a team. And so how did you approach this role, bearing in mind that kind of maturity as a human being when it comes to the Tony Stark character, and did you learn anything throughout the three movies that you made?

And to Scarlett, to get into shape for Black Widow did you have anything special to do in terms of the diet, like did you have to eat any specific food, or that sort of thing?

Scarlett: How come you get the really interesting existential question, and I get the like, “rabbit food” question?

The respect given to you if you’re a man in the entertainment business, and the respect given to you if you’re a woman in the entertainment business: all perfectly summed up in one idiotically thought out line of questioning.

You know, I always did like Scarlett Johannson.

Dat side-eye.

Let me just hug you forever Miss Johannson.

first class grade A H.B.I.C.

sideofdork:

kemetically-ankhtified:

coalition of gtfo

edits make the world better.

eschergirls:

sepulchresilence submitted:

Here’s yet another excerpt from Christopher Hart’s Drawing Cutting-Edge Anatomy. How ironic that, in a book about drawing superheroes, he says that women shouldn’t have visible stomach muscles. He says they’re gross. What’s gross is the way he sees women as nothing more than dolls to throw into your comics to add sex appeal.

For the sake of accuracy, he really needs to rename these books “Drawing Christopher Hart’s Fantasies” since he doesn’t teach you how to draw as much as draw in a really specific style that he likes and avoid things that are unappealing to his specific tastes.