iloveyoulessthanpunk: Hi, there. I’m wearing a shirt that reads “Kill Me”. If you saw me at a party or on the street would you promptly murder me? What about if I had a few drinks? What if I was walking alone at night?I’m guessing that you wouldn’t if you’re a sane individual. The cops wouldn’t overlook your crime because of what I’m wearing because that’s silly. I wasn’t literally asking for you to kill me based on my choice of clothing.Who would take that defense seriously? My friends wouldn’t blame me for being murdered and my killer would be behind bars almost instantly. So, why is it okay to rape someone because they’re wearing promiscuous clothes? Why does THEIR choice of clothing excuse THEIR attacker? It doesn’t. You’re silly if you think otherwise. The less guilt on the attacker. The more guilt on victim. Stop. Victim. Blaming. One slight wording issue: “promiscuous clothes” ??? My clothes do not sleep around. And my clothes don’t say whether I sleep around or not. And even if my clothes slept around, I slept around, or whatever else, that’s no excuse for rape. Clothes are not consent. It is also important to note that most rape is committed by someone the victim already knows. Random attacks on the street are not the majority of rapes in any country. So strike the walking down the street idea and highlight the part at the party, because that’s the far more common scenario.
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iloveyoulessthanpunk:

Hi, there. 
I’m wearing a shirt that reads “Kill Me”. 
If you saw me at a party or on the street would you promptly murder me? 
What about if I had a few drinks? What if I was walking alone at night?
I’m guessing that you wouldn’t if you’re a sane individual. 

The cops wouldn’t overlook your crime because of what I’m wearing because that’s silly. I wasn’t literally asking for you to kill me based on my choice of clothing.Who would take that defense seriously?

My friends wouldn’t blame me for being murdered and my killer would be behind bars almost instantly. 

So, why is it okay to rape someone because they’re wearing promiscuous clothes? Why does THEIR choice of clothing excuse THEIR attacker? 

It doesn’t. You’re silly if you think otherwise. 
The less guilt on the attacker. The more guilt on victim. 

Stop. Victim. Blaming.

One slight wording issue: “promiscuous clothes” ??? My clothes do not sleep around. And my clothes don’t say whether I sleep around or not. And even if my clothes slept around, I slept around, or whatever else, that’s no excuse for rape. Clothes are not consent.

It is also important to note that most rape is committed by someone the victim already knows. Random attacks on the street are not the majority of rapes in any country. So strike the walking down the street idea and highlight the part at the party, because that’s the far more common scenario.

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Enough ladies. I get it. You have periods.

Two and a Half Men co-creator Lee Aronsohn’s tells THR he doesn’t much care for lady-centric sitcoms. (via newsweek)

He applauded women like Whitney Cummings, Chelsea Handler and Tina Fey securing a voice to discuss formerly taboo subjects on TV.

“But we’re approaching peak vagina on television, the point of labia saturation,” he added.

The current female TV boom contrasts with Two and a Half Men mostly portraying women as bimbos, something Aronsohn isn’t about to apologize for.

“Screw it… We’re centering the show on two very damaged men. What makes men damaged? Sorry, it’s women. I never got my heart broken by a man,” Aronsohn earlier told the Toronto conference during a keynote address.

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#ENOUGH DUDES. WE GET IT. YOU MASTURBATE. #ENOUGH DUDES. WE GET IT. YOU LIKE GETTING YOUR DICK SUCKED. #ENOUGH DUDES. WE GET IT. YOUR WIFE WITHHOLDS SEX. #ENOUGH DUDES. WE GET IT. #NO REALLY. #ENOUGH DUDES. #DONE. #WITH. #THEM. 

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This whole interview is BEYOND rage-inducing. What an absolute piece of shit. 

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Well, he and his shit show can fuck right on off.

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Source: hollywoodreporter.com

Doctor Who Confidential Rewatch » 6x08: River Runs Wild

Whatever cereal grain that is, it is not corn. Wheat or barley, perhaps, but not corn. </pedantic grain identification PSA>

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naught but facetious twaddle: The River Song Conundrum, And What I Plan To Do About It

ladyofsandwiches:

…So then I had an insane idea.

I proposed to my very good friend and partner-in-crime a reimagining of season 5, 6, and possibly 7, of Doctor Who, as run by Steven Moffat, one in which River Song was exactly who she claimed to be the first time we saw her - a 51st century archaeologist. Not Amy and Rory’s daughter, not part-Time Lady or whatever, but completely human (or, as human as they got in the 51st century).

And then we decided to write this out.

Moffat, if your character and writing require your fans to do headcanon contortions or write copious amounts of fanfic to fill your flipping plot holes, there are problems with your writing. Thanks for the character, but I’m off to this AU, which I expect to like much, much better.

alasihavetransfiguredmyfeet: android-pigstina: sourcedumal: masteradept: brassparker: amuzed1: kit-kat-o-graham: fabraycohenchang: musicaltheatreconfessions: I don’t like black Fiyeros. I know he was black in the book, but I something just doesn’t connect. That awkward moment when someone misses one of the main points of Wicked - that judging someone or defining someone by skin colour is a shitty thing to do, and that skin colour doesn’t define what people can and can’t do. Green skin is more acceptable than having black skin… I think it’s a new standard now, according to a few. Is there a similar secret about the Black Elphabas? (yes, they DO exist, but you’d never know because she’s freaking GREEN in the show. Well, unless you read the program like I do)  “Something just doesn’t connect.” That’s called a lack of empathy. You might wanna have that checked out. Please… Or they are just a racist fuck. Yep. Definitely RACIST. I can’t even believe what I’m reading right now. I mean jesus fuck, man, what the hell are you on? *sigh* Fellow whiteys, please stop being racist douchebags. See also: South Pacific
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kit-kat-o-graham:

fabraycohenchang:

musicaltheatreconfessions:

I don’t like black Fiyeros. I know he was black in the book, but I something just doesn’t connect.

That awkward moment when someone misses one of the main points of Wicked - that judging someone or defining someone by skin colour is a shitty thing to do, and that skin colour doesn’t define what people can and can’t do.

Green skin is more acceptable than having black skin… I think it’s a new standard now, according to a few.

Is there a similar secret about the Black Elphabas? (yes, they DO exist, but you’d never know because she’s freaking GREEN in the show. Well, unless you read the program like I do) 

“Something just doesn’t connect.” That’s called a lack of empathy. You might wanna have that checked out. Please…

Or they are just a racist fuck.

Yep. Definitely RACIST.

I can’t even believe what I’m reading right now.

I mean jesus fuck, man, what the hell are you on? *sigh* Fellow whiteys, please stop being racist douchebags.

See also: South Pacific

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Q:<p>Is &#8220;Mad, Impossible Amy Pond&#8221; better than &#8220;The Girl Who Waited&#8221;&#160;? That&#8217;s my choice of titles for Amy Pond. And I&#8217;d also choose the pithier &#8220;Just As Important&#8221; for Donna.</p>

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Not really. The part that would really irk me about “Mad, Impossible Amy Pond” would be the mad part. It’s made clear that Amy has issues with abandonment, and mental health but this is trivialised and played for laughs. Given this, and the fact that very often mental ill-health is not taken seriously in our culture, “Mad, Impossible Amy Pond” makes me quite uncomfortable. 

And, on a more personal note, linking the idea of being mad and being impossible (in the sense being difficult or uncooperative) is very troubling. A lot of people don’t understand the reasons why mental health issues manifest themselves in the ways they do. For example, why someone may be triggered by something seemingly innocuous or be unable to do, what may seem, a simple task. Therefore they get frustrated with the person who is not behaving a societally normal or acceptable way, which is unhelpful for all involved. 

Really though, I find the whole idea of companion titles just unappealing. I mean, I understand why a lot of people like them, especially when it comes to things like making graphics. But, personally, I find it very simplistic. I don’t won’t characters which can be summed up in a word, or a simple sentence. I want rich, complex, talented, skilled, flawed, troubled characters. 

Thanks for the reply. I, too, am not thrilled about Companion titles, but I understand why fan artists like to add text (username: fontgoddess). Also, for Donna, “Every Bit as Important” is the verbatim quote, and I think it’s even better because she applies it to herself.

True, the label of “mad” may be problematic, but there is a great deal of variance in people’s feelings about the word within the community of those with psychiatric/mental health issues. For some, the term is a badge of honor and a way to gain ownership and levity in situations that may otherwise be very hard. So, while the term may be problematic, it is also a term the Doctor applies to himself (“madman with a box”) — which implies a level of kinship between them and may be a label of mutual outsiderdom rather than a statement of mental instability, especially with “mad” being paired with “impossible.” I don’t think it’s a problem to be impossible, as compliance seems not to be a quality in any of the best companions and certainly not Amy Pond.

I would post this as a reblog, but Tumblr works strangely for answers, disallowing reblogging as the default for whatever strange reason. Anywho, thank you, @Feminist Whoniverse, for providing a forum for thoughtful feminist fandom and critique of the Whoniverse. I much appreciate the thoughtful discussion you curate!

Spam 'n Rice.: [tw : rape] sexy violence / sexual violence

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derica:

Bell Hooks on rape in film:

Particularly in areas around erotica and sexual violence, people want to deny the direct link between representations and how we live our lives. I think that it’s possible to embrace the knowledge that there’s a direct link between representations…

The most well-crafted rape scene I’ve ever seen in a film (and the only one that gave me positive feelings rather than triggering, sickening ones) is the one in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (note I mean the real one, the Swedish one, not David Fincher’s Anglocentric garbage) where Lisbeth kicks a butt plug into her rapists’ ass. I mean yeah, technically she is raping him, but he fucking deserves it. She’s a hero of mine.

What the fuck? No, not even the biggest scumbags of the earth deserve to be raped. Not that that statement surprises me, coming from your racist, abusive ass… I love Lisbeth, don’t get me wrong, but anyone who thinks she’s a good example of a hero is either a scumbag, or completely missed the point. She’s flawed, she’s incredibly fucked up. Yet she still does heroic things, which does not excuse her horrible actions.

Uhh no. Bjurman deserved what he got. He raped her violently, repeatedly, for hours. He choked her almost to death, he punched her, all while she was tied up. Oh, and he would only give her money for her food and rent if she had sex with him. He had the power to withhold her money, to rape her repeatedly, and to get her sent to a mental institution if she resisted or tried to report him. She took that power from him. What she did was entirely justified. It was justice. She was violated and assaulted. It is her right to seek whatever justice she desires.

What the fuck do you think she should have done? Oh and don’t bother replying to this if you haven’t read the books because if you haven’t, you’re just talking out of your ass about something you don’t even understand.

No, it’s not anybody’s “right” to force sex on a nonconsenting person. That’s just… what the fuck.

She could’ve beat him bloody; we know she’s capable of that. Hell, she could’ve kicked his ass and left him bound, tattooed like the pig he was. Anything but fucking rape, really.

Wait wait what?

It was okay of her to tattoo his stomach, nonconsensually. It was okay for her to taze him, tie him up, and beat the shit out of him, all without consent, but it was somehow crossing a line to kick a buttplug into his ass without lube? the same buttplug that he shoved into her ass without lube? So once his asshole enters the situation it’s unfair? that he be violated a tiny amount of the way that he violated her? Why is she justified in violating his consent by beating and tattooing him but not by kicking a buttplug into his ass? Where is this magic line that makes it all of a sudden not okay? I am having a really hard time understanding your logic.

The difference? One is rape, the other isn’t.

why is assault and nonconsensual tattooing justified and rape isn’t? what makes it not okay? and actually answer the question instead of talking in circles around it this time?

Because rape isn’t an act of anger, revenge, justice. It’s a consciously planned act, carried out to somehow prove the rapist’s domination and the victim’s inferiority. Sexual violence can never be framed as simple justice.

Um, sexual violence is on the continuum of violence. Perpetuating a cycle of violence of any sort is not just, healing, or otherwise useful. It’s continued violence and degradation. I don’t see why this argument is excusing any sort of violence except for the sake of Lisbeth’s self-defense and perhaps the utility of the warning label affixed to her attacker (even those things are terrible in that the system is so screwed up that it cannot be trusted to defend and protect Lisbeth as a ward of the state and remove her attacker as a threat to her and others). Arguing that one sort of violence is okay without condemning other violence is disturbing. Retribution may be satisfying in a plot, but it is not nearly so simple and satisfying in real life.

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She lives upstairs, but she goes downtown.: I'm sorry for the really depressing post but I feel like actual shit.

ithoughtitwassmokinghot:

What is the point in anything? You can all judge me, but I get depressed over the stupidest things. I literally just burst into tears watching a video of someone meeting Alex and people meeting Amanda. …

1) Have you been screened for actual depression? Or are you being treated for depression? Sometimes stuff like this feels worse because of the neurotransmitters in your brain. Being easily upset and crying over everything is not normal, barring recent personal catastrophe. It should not be your daily life.

2) There are reasons you admire these women and it’s not just because they’re attractive and successful and play amazing characters. Do you admire their resolute action? Compassion for others? Meaningful friendships? You are perfectly capable of embodying the aspects of these women and their characters that you find admirable and attractive. Do things you find meaningful in ways you think are admirable. Maybe you like them because these are things you’re already working on doing and you gain strength from seeing models of those traits you want to embody yourself. Chances are you are not completely unlike them, even if you feel that way sometimes.

3) Fat? Ugly? Bitch? That is a terrible way to think of yourself or to imagine others thinking about you. There is nothing wrong with being fat unless it is causing you serious health problems. Being fat does not make you ugly, as there are a wide variety of internal and external qualities that other people find beautiful and attractive. There is no such thing as a universally beautiful person who is attractive to everyone. There is no physical aspect or feature that is so horrific that it cannot be made up for by the internal self-acceptance and other good qualities of a person so marked. I have seen burn victims who are beautiful because they still smile and are compassionate and human and are not hamstrung by what they worry people think of their scars. True beauty is an inside-out thing, and that is a cliché built on truth. As for the “bitch” part, are you cruel, mean, nasty, selfish, and inhumane? I highly doubt it, as I’ve followed your postings and have seen not even a hint of those qualities. [also, I looked at your “this is me” page and, sweetie, you have a Christina Hendricks/Catherine Tate thing going on. objectively not ugly.]

4) You are worth a great deal. You have inherent value through your humanity. You are studying and you have aspirations and you can achieve your goals. You have the ability to make the world a better place for yourself and others. Please don’t give up, even when you are tired and things seem very hard. You are valuable and you possess power to change things.

5) *hug*

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your-bespoke-psychopath:

why can’t we have a show where sisters actually get along and care about each other.

why can’t we have a show where one sister isn’t demonised and the other isn’t turned into a victim and a saint.

why can’t we have a show where a married couple is actually happy and you know, TOGETHER, without freaking drama?

‘Upstairs, downstairs’ - I am looking at you.

I’d like to see shows where people have healthy, supportive relationships with each other, especially romantic partners and families. I know that every relationship has problems, but I’m tired of every relationship I see in pop culture devolve into infidelity and backstabbing and doubt. Why can’t the writers have conflict come from something else and let some characters just have each other’s backs? [Except for you, United States of Tara, xoxox for a family and marriage that avoid this tired trope.] Related: why are so many story conflicts based on people just not talking to one another? I know that people don’t communicate perfectly, but when they never talk to each other directly and then have horrible things happen on multiple occasions because they don’t ever converse and share information, I begin to think the characters are stupid and the writers even more stupid.

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So, that Captain Planet’s Planeteers = the kids from The Magic School Bus all grown up pic going around? Add the fact that someone’s pointed out that River Song (from Doctor Who) and Ms. Frizzle with her Magic School Bus look eerily similar and have similar crazy technology.

Now, in my head, there is a whole crack universe where River Song is a professor, but also has taught elementary school science with a TARDIS-Bus because it’s not like her entire life was about the Doctor. I mean, he spent 200 years avoiding death. Alone. She had time on her hands after they’d exchanged their first/last kiss in Stormcage and might not have been showing up all that many nights anymore. It’s unclear how old she is in the Library, as she hinted in “Let’s Kill Hitler” that she might be taking her age down gradually, “just to freak people out” meaning we just know she hasn’t regenerated (obviously) but her actual age is anyone’s guess. So she taught kids science so they could then be effective Planeteers (because that’s totally alien technology there) and it’s no good to save the planet from aliens all the time if humans ruin it themselves.

This is what would happen if Marry Poppins was a science teacher. But she’s obviously a different Time Lord, so, um, yeah. River Song: totally a science teacher. With a doctorate and the ability to time-travel.

Steve Jobs, accessibility, and changing the world

I think the things that stop or significantly impede people with any sorts of differences frequently get in the way of everybody else — they just never quite notice because they can go around or overcome what is for them a small inconvenience. I think Steve Jobs realized that the things that make technology accessible for the outliers make technology better for everyone.

People were critical of what they saw as paltry charity from Jobs when they were editorializing as he retired as Apple CEO just weeks ago. I think the man who made accessible technology that used to cost $10,000 cost LD Resources » Blog Archive » Steve Jobs’ Legacy]

Source: ldresources.org

design craftsmanship

  • The ideas in your last paragraphs are more important and bigger than just writing code. I'm going to make a few minor adjustments to your wording and arrangement:
  • You don't craft something that lasts using clear, well-built components and including clear documentation for yourself. You write it for the person who takes over the job from you; think maintainability and not quick deployment.
  • Your product is not the visible, short-term, immediate outcome — your product is a mix of technologies fit for the purpose on hand to deliver a great experience for the end users.
  • This idea is about design and craftsmanship — designing things that don't waste the time or energy of anyone, from yourself to whoever inherits the maintenance of what you've built, whether it's an object or a system. Taking the time to do it well enough so a future person can update what needs to be updated and not need to fiddle with anything else is a statement that you are a craftsman who builds things good enough to last. You value your work and respect the maintenance staff, clients, and users enough to not demand extra time and resources later for something you can put the time and resources into now. The up-front investment in craftsmanship is far cheaper than the sometimes invisible theft of ongoing friction and the very noticeable, disruptive, and expensive cost of starting from scratch in the future.
  • You can have a messy, ugly, tangled inside if the product is short-term and disposable — look at everything that Wal-Mart sells. But if it's not any harder or more costly to have well-crafted innards for something that will last then there is no reason to do anything but make well-crafted innards and something that will last.

Source: wait-till-i.com