June 2013
27 posts
- 12-year-old girl: I don't want kids when I grow up.
- Society: You'll change your mind when you get older. You're only 12. You're too young to know what you want.
- 16-year-old girl: I'm pregnant.
- Society: How could you be so stupid? Do you know anything about safe sex? You should be ashamed.
- 20-year-old woman: I'm a single mother with an infant son.
- Society: You should've gone to college first. You need a stable career before you can support a child.
- 33-year-old woman: I'm married and my spouse and I both have stable careers. I have two young daughters now.
- Society: You're not staying home? Who's going to take care of them? You're just going to put them in day care while you work? That's selfish of you. You can't expect to raise decent kids with a full-time job.
- 45-year-old woman: I just had my first child.
- Society: Why would you have a child when you're that old? Do you realize the health risks of being pregnant at your age? When your kid is a teenager you'll be a senior citizen. That's inconsiderate of you.
- 60-year-old woman: I haven't had any children.
- Society: Your life must be so unfulfilling. Is there something wrong with you? Why didn't you want kids? How strange.
On TV and the Lecture Circuit, Bill Nye Aims to Change the World →
nytimes.com
If he were a politician, college students would be his base. Instead, he is something more: a figure from their early days in front of the family TV, a beloved teacher and, more and more these days, a warrior for science. They, in turn, are his fans, his students and his army.
I wonder if this was all part of his master plan. Get in at the ground floor. Make a goofy, fun science show, try and get kids excited about science. Then back off, learn a lot, make a lot of connections. Wait until those kids are getting out in the world, then spring on them and give them a boost EXACTLY when they need it most. When they’re hitting the point where they are actually adults and are going back to school in the hopes of bettering themselves and they need a *push* because they have now seen the bleak, horrifying reality of the world he saw coming years and years ago and he knows we are now ripe for the scientific picking. When they are settling down and starting families and sending children off to school.
This man is a genius of foresight.
Why I think my dad's a hunter
He “works” with guys named Sam, Dean and Crowley
He has a really huge “hockey bag” that we’re not allowed to look in
We have an outrageous amount of salt in the basement
(that’s just the start, there’s more in the garage)
He also really likes his leather jacket.
UPDATE: HE’S ALWAYS ON BUSINESS TRIPS AND ONCE CAME HOME FROM A “HOCKEY GAME” WITH A HUGE CUT ON HIS NECK
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For most of America, Psy is a funny name, a funny face, and a funny personality. He doesn’t sing in English and most people just don’t get it leaving most of them to not take him seriously. It’s easy to strip the significance behind “Gangnam Style” down if you don’t know what it means and solely find entertainment in the Asian guy shaking his hips. But what most people don’t realize is that Psy doesn’t take himself seriously. He’s a satirist and political dissident. “Gangnam Style” was a commentary, not just a fun pop tune with a silly dance.
Gangnam is Seoul’s wealthiest and flashiest neighborhood. For South Koreans, Gangnam represents the ideal life of excess and consumerism. Psy’s character in the video is a wannabe Gangnamite. He dreams he’s living the flashy, excessive lifestyle while he’s really just like everyone else, swimming in a public pool and riding the subway. But never in the video does it seem that Psy’s character is unhappy. He’s content to play in a children’s playground and meet the girl of his dreams in the subway. “Gangnam Style” is much more that we have made it, but that’s not surprising considering Psy’s background and how little we know about it.
In America, it seems like “Gangnam Style” was Psy’s big break when in fact the song had been released on his sixth studio album and his music career hadn’t been about making flashy and catchy songs. He believes music is the key to overcoming the intolerance embedded in his country’s political systems. Throughout his career, his songs have been banned for inappropriate content and have been surrounded by controversy, not to mention the fact that he fought his mandatory military draft.
Psy is a voice for his people. He’s fighting the oppression and intolerance he sees in his culture through his music. And by ignoring his worth and his value, we’re reducing the culture of South Korea into a short man with funny pants doing a ridiculous dance.
” —Opinion: American media chooses to undervalue artists like Psy from “Gangnam Style” (via kpop-confessions)
Musings of an Ist: the-assbutts-havethe-phonebox: What I really want is for the Doctor to... →
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the-assbutts-havethe-phonebox:
What I really want is for the Doctor to just have a normal companion again. Someone who isn’t extraordinary. Someone who works in a shop, for example, or is going to university, or is just a temp. Someone who doesn’t die a million times, someone who doesn’t…
MRAs don’t actually care about “mens rights”. They just want bad things to stop happening to straight white middle class men. They could not care less about homosexual men, men of color, transmen, poor lower class men living in poverty, or any other man who’s genuinely oppressed.
