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mineralia: Rosasite with Calcite from Mexico by Dan Weinrich
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fieldmuseumphotoarchives: Fossil Friday, Here is another great...
Fossil Friday, Here is another great example of an amazing plant model based off of fossils.These plants would have lived between the Dvonian and Triassic periods.
© The Field Museum, B83051c.
Sphenophyllum emarginatum plant model.
35mm slide
9/1/1963
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myimaginarybrooklyn: {Two unidentified rare Japanese books. If...
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heyfatchick: I’m doing [DWTS] because I was really scared when...
I’m doing [DWTS] because I was really scared when they initially asked me and I don’t operate in a place of fear and I had to conquer it.
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thefrogman: [video] [h/t: tootricky]
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vsw: Anonymous unhoused ambrotype from the Visual Studies...
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"Eight percent of college men have either attempted or successfully raped. Thirty percent say they..."
“Eight percent of college men have either attempted or successfully raped. Thirty percent say they would rape if they could get away with it. When the wording was changed to “force a woman to have sex,” the number jumped to 58%. Worse still, 83.5% argue that “some women look like they are just asking to be raped.”
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Margo Maine, “Body Wars”
There was a time that, as a person of the male persuasion, seeing this quote made me really mad. It made me mad that women would assume that I was a rapist; it made me mad that rape was becoming ‘my problem’; it made me mad because, frankly, I didn’t think it was true. I think that this is a really common male attitude when confronted with rape statistics- or, at least, it has been in my purely anecdotal experience.
But now, I know there is no excuse for that. Men need to take responsibility and look at these numbers for what they really are, and what they really, truly represent. Men, don’t be mad at the woman who is justifiably wary that more than half of the men she knows could be her potential rapist. Don’t be mad at that there’s someone trying to rain on your fun, privileged parade where rape is something that only happens on Law & Order. Don’t be mad that you can’t accept that rape is way more common than you think. Most of all, don’t be mad at the woman who was raped and is seeking justice and help for her assault just because you thinks she looks like she was ‘asking for it.’
Be mad at the man who waits in the park to prey on the women who have a right to feel safe in their own communities. Be mad at the man who takes advantage of his drunk girlfriend. Be mad at the man who pushes the issue when his wife isn’t in the mood. Be mad at the man who catcalls, who makes unwelcome advances, who cops a feel.
Don’t be angry at the woman who doesn’t entirely trust you. Be angry at the men who have made her feel that way. Don’t be a part of a problem.
Be a part of the solution.
(via bmsmith623)
To my fellow white bio-males: be mad that there are so many men out there who don’t give a shit about consent. DON’T be mad that someone has harshed your mellow with facts; you do not have a right to go through life unchallenged.
(via hobbit-hero)
A message for every asshole out there who has told me that my wariness—and sometimes outright fear—of men, especially of the straight cis variety, is stupid and unfair to men.
(via holagordita)
This needs to be on every page of every website on the internet in every language.
(via youmightbeamisogynist)
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sfmoma: SUBMISSION: Jonathan Curry little black squirrel
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what do doctors get out of fat-shaming? seriously? like what the fuck do they even gain from it? how does it affect their job? why do they do it? who does it benefit?
It’s illogical to assume someone holding prejudicial beliefs do it because they are motivated by personal gains. Most people are completely unaware that they hold any form of prejudice against specific groups of people and if they are aware they don’t take the time to reflect on it. If they did then they probably would start the process of unlearning many of those beliefs.
What you probably want to think about is how doctors are educated and work in a system that treats fat people in a very specific way. They are part of a larger system that oppresses fat people, along with other marginalized people who deal with similar forms of discrimination when seeking medical services.
The medical industrial complex on the other hand gains a great deal by offering marginalized people care that is subpar compared to groups with more power. If you are giving people subpar care where they face stigma and discrimination when they engage with medical services they are not only less likely to go to the doctor but they are also more likely to not get the treatment they really need. It makes it so you have a huge class of people that are sicker throughout their lifespan and need more intensive health services. That means they end up spending more money long term.
For people who think fat people specifically use more insurance dollars compared to thin people, in reality inequality and lack of stigma free health care services costs us more money because that doesn’t just encompass the harm done by fat phobic health care practitioners but also the racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, classism etc. that is ingrained within the industry overall.
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http://juicyjacqulyn.tumblr.com/post/68917330554/the-biggest-sign-that-concerned-people-dont
http://juicyjacqulyn.tumblr.com/post/68917330554/the-biggest-sign-that-concerned-people-dont:
The biggest sign that “concerned people” don’t give a flying fuck about health, and that it’s all 100% fat hate, is the fact that if they actually cared about health, they would care about mental health too, and never discuss anyone’s weight or health status without the person bringing it up…
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bastard son of jeff buckley
bastard son of jeff buckley
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darksilenceinsuburbia: Malcolm Venville. The Women of Casa...
Malcolm Venville. The Women of Casa X.
The British photographer Malcolm Venville has made a searing photographic record of a deranged reality. Complementing Venville’s photographs is a series of astonishingly candid interviews with the women of Casa X by the well-known Mexican writer Amanda de la Rosa. These are the portraits and testimonies of thirty-five survivors of the monster of the City, with much to say about life in a slum in Latin America: about the Mexico that horrifies, about sex, poverty, love, and the darkest side of human nature.
One night in Mexico City, Carmen Muñoz, sex worker, was roaming the streets looking for customers. Unexpectedly, she found two colleagues, both over sixty years old, sleeping on the street, covered by newspapers. After almost forty years of giving service to butchers, porters, refuse collectors and criminals, they were now long forgotten by their families and society. Carmen was confronted with what would be her own fate, like most women of her profession. Striving for dignity for all of them, she organised her colleagues and led a group that resolved to find a home where they could spend their last days in safety and warmth.
In 2006, after twelve years of work, and with the support of Mexican intellectuals and artists, the government gave them a seventeenth-century mansion, where Carmen founded Casa Xochiquetzal - Casa X. Around sixty women, all over fifty years old, receive shelter, food, and medical and psychological care. This is not just a retirement home - most of the women who live there still walk the streets. But Casa X is the only refuge for prostitutes in Latin America.
Casa X is located in the heart of the notorious district of Tepito. Although only eight blocks from the historic centre of Mexico City, Tepito is a micro-universe, where life is lived in a unique fashion. For nearly 500 years it has been a place of impunity, crime, smuggling, violence and prostitution. The neighbourhood did not submit to the Aztec Empire, or to the Spanish conquistadors, or to the current authorities. Tepito has an identity that goes beyond its boundaries. It has its own social organisation, myths, heroes, slang, and even its own local deity, La Santa Muerte (Holy Death). The women of Casa X are stuck at the bottom of the ladder of this world, and keeping the memories of it in their bodies.
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annetdonahue: turntherecordover: How the Media Failed Women in...
How the Media Failed Women in 2013
Minus Rihanna and Miley, completely agree. Get ready for rage, friends.
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themilitantbaker: Fat politics are near and dear to my heart,...
Fat politics are near and dear to my heart, not only because I’m quite the fatty myself, but also because all body inequality has a lasting effect on every single person involved.When we hate one type of body, we start to hate them all. We compare and critique, hating our failures and then hating others who appear to be more successful. Then we start to hate those who are failing more than us so that we don’t feel so bad about those guys that we hate because they’re succeeding! Hate. Hate. Hate. It’s a lot of hate, and it’s vicious. VICIOUS I tell you!And it goes oh so much deeper than that. Body hate is internalized at a very young age; killing our sense of self-esteem and teaching us that we must change in order to be okay.Guess what?81% of 10 year olds are afraid of being fat. And they’re more afraid of fat than they are of cancer, war, or losing both of their parents.Because of this, a survey of girls 9-10 years old showed that 40% of them have already tried to lose weight. Body image is closely linked to self-esteem and low self-esteem in adolescents can lead to eating disorders, early unsafe sexual activity, substance use, and suicidal thoughts.95% of people with eating disorders are between the ages of 12 and 25. Certain eating disorders have a 6x higher mortality rate. Low self-esteem is closely linked to depression and over 60 Americans commit suicide everyday due to this diagnosis. Approximately 91% of women are unhappy with their bodies, and only 4% would openly call themselves beautiful.And it’s all for naught.It’s all for nothing, y’all. There is no truth in the lie that certain bodies are good and certain bodies are bad. All bodies just are and whatever that looks like is okay. Not only okay, but perfect, I would say!The reality is that everything we believe about body worth is wrong. We’ve learned to hate certain shapes and sizes because of American history and the economic story hidden within. In “Why We’ve Learned to Hate Ourselves”, I talk about the organization of class systems, the creation of Patriarchy, Tuberculosis, WWII, and newly independent housewives. ALL of these things have been building blocks for the best business scheme in history. We have been given an idyllic body that is presented as gospel; one that 95% of women in this country are not born with, and then we are told that we must somehow achieve this impossible physique. Preferably by attempting to purchase perfection through creams, diet pills, surgeries, laser treatments, special cereals, and expensive meal replacements.We buy all of these things so that we can somehow, mayyyyyybe someway become something that, yeah… we will never be. I will never become the worlds definition of perfection. Most of my friends around me won’t either. In fact, the large majority of women will never achieve the ideal female figure that we’re taught to worship. Ever. And so, with failure hanging heavily around our necks, we stunt our opportunities, relationships and quality of life.Though this is need not be, it currently it is and affects us all.While body hate leaves no person unscathed, there is a group that it sure does like to hang out with an awful lot… The Fatties.
Those Fatties, I’ll tell you what. They exist solely to flaunt themselves as a repulsive and diabolic mockery of what bodies are supposed to be. HOW DARE THEY TAKE UP SPACE ON THIS PLANET.
Are ya still with me?I say this facetiously of course, but know that those few sentences above resonate for more people than you care to count. And this is why we’re here today.I loved the Feminist autocompletion series, and I am well versed in what the internet has to offer when you type in things like feminism, sluts, gender equality and other supposedly controversial words. I personally spend a lot of time researching body image related subjects and so I’m also aware of what gems pop up when you type in something like, say, “fat people”.I may be used to reading this kinda junk by now, but that doesn’t make it any less alarming when the top searches for fat people include things like: fat people are disgusting, don’t have feelings, deserve to be bullied, and should die. This immense hatred baffles me; a persons body shape is so benign that it only affects those who inhabit it. Yet, it is socially acceptable to hate, loathe, harass, antagonize, persecute and bully a person based on a clothing size.If you’re needing a reminder of what bullying is, here’s a quick gist:So, real talk.The reality is that fat shame, hate, and oppression is THE most encouraged form of bullying that we face today. It is not only highly prevalent, but it is cheered on by the majority that believes that larger bodies are inherently wrong. This is aided and abetted by all media; both in entertainment material and advertising. In fact, it’s quite UN-popular to stand in favor of fat acceptance, and god forbid you preach of fat love.
We have a long way to go.There are shelves of books dedicated to why this is (and we don’t have the space to explore that entire concept in one post) but lets be sure to remember this: we have been conditioned to loathe and fear a fat body. We are not born a body bigot, we learn it. We absorb lucrative lies and judge others (and ourselves) based on this made-up law of superficial worth.Okay, but lets say that I’m wrong (I’m not) and that bigger bodies are bad (definitely not) because by having them you’ve somehow failed (you haven’t). Okay, say all those things have a grain of truth, and fat is indeed some sort of social failure. This is still not reason enough to hate, hurt, and bully another human being. Especially when the subject of contention is something that has nothing to do with you or anyone else. No excuse.One of my favorite quotes is from Ragen Chastain who write at Dances with Fat and she says:"Fat people have the right to exist in fat bodies regardless of how we got fat, what being fat means, or if we could be thin through some means – however easy or difficult.There are no other valid opinions on this.We have the right to exist without shaming, bullying or stigmatization, period.”Can I get an AMEN?All this fat hate has gotta stop.As long as we continue to demonize and degrade one body type, we will never reach true body acceptance as a society. And until we reach true body acceptance as a society, we will continue to see low self-esteem, depression, eating disorders, sabotaged relationships, employment inequality, sky high suicide rates, and all sorts of other social infirmities. No more please. No more.Every body is a perfect body. There ain’t no wrong or “more right” way to be, and that’s a fact.SO, YOU’RE INVITED TO MAKE YOUR OWN POSTER AND SHARE IT WITH THE WORLD!No need to include the Google autocomplete (unless you want to of course), but feel free to make a poster with your OWN slogan that challenges weight hate and size discrimination! Whatever speaks true to you, make it a poster and share it on The Militant Baker’s Facebook! I’ll be making a photo album to showcase them all and share with the entire world!
Hop to it!Social revolution awaits!
xo,
Jes
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