The World is just a Great Big Onion

"…I like being weird. Weird’s all I’ve got. That and a sweet style."
-The IT Crowd
fuckyeabadasslatinas: NO. ME. GUSTA. I’m so hot, I melt racist exoticizing pieces of shit into puddles of skin and bone. 

fuckyeabadasslatinas:

NO. ME. GUSTA.

I’m so hot, I melt racist exoticizing pieces of shit into puddles of skin and bone. 

I had to. Bow tie with a denim vest? I’m there. And I’ve been searching for a plum red lipstick for about three ions now. I’m just going to give in and buy one at the MAC counter tomorrow. —> Femmes in malls during stressful times is part self care part self destruction. 

(Source: fyeahasianglow, via fuckyeahhardfemme)

postapocalypticfashion: When Aisha Tyler was selected to be the presenter for the 2012 Ubisoft E3 press conference, she received an unprecedented flood of hate from trolls who complained about the fact that she knew nothing about gaming. Too bad haters didn’t do their homework first, because as it turns out Aisha Tyler knows more about gaming that all of us put together. Her Facebook response was awesome and predictably went viral. In case you missed it, here’s her masterpiece. Haters, take note. Dear Gamers I play. I’ve played since I was a little kid.  Since I begged my dad to buy me a Nintendo LCD Donkey Kong, Jr. Since I blew through three weeks’ allowance playing Defender at the laundromat. Since you were a twinge in the left side of your daddy’s underoos. I’ve been a gamer since I made friends with a girl in the 5th grade just to get at her Atari. Since I missed the bus playing Galaga after school. Since I missed the start of Return of the Jedi playing Tempest in the theater lobby. You think you know. You don’t know. I’ve been a gamer since before you could read. Since I aced midterms after staying up all night playing Evil Tetris. Since I became dorm champ at Leisure Suit Larry. Since I double-wielded on Time Crisis 3 at Fuddrucker’s. I was a voice in not one, but two major video game titles. I hosted the Reach Beta tutorial. I was a Gears of War superfan panelist at ComicCon. I hosted the Ubisoft presser at E3 2012. I didn’t do any of it for the money.  For most I got paid next to nothing, and for some, less than that. I did it because I love video games. Because I’ve dreamt since I was a kid of being in one of the games I love. How many games have you done voices for? How many cons have you repped at? Your buddy’s Unreal Tournament garage deathmatch doesn’t count. I go to E3 each year because I love video games. Because new titles still get me high. Because I still love getting swag. Love wearing my gamer pride on my sleeve. People ask me what console I play. Motherfucker, ALL of them. I get invited to E3 because real gamers know I’m a gamer. I don’t do it for the money. I have plenty of money. I don’t do it for the fame. Fuck fame. I do it because I love video games. I don’t give out my gamertag because I don’t want a mess of noob jackholes lining up to assassinate me on XBL.  I don’t give a shit what you think about my gamerscore. I don’t play to prove a point.  I don’t play to be the best. I play because I love it. I play. I’ve been playing my whole life.  I’m not ashamed of it. I don’t apologize for it. It’s who I am. To the core. I’m a gamer. So to all the haters out there who claim I don’t play; To the GAF dicks,  Gamespot trolls,  To every illiterate racist douchebag on Youtube: Flame away. Go nuts. Post every jackass comment your heart desires. I’ll still be playing when your mom’s kicked you out of her basement and you have to sell your old-ass console and get a real job. For now, I say to you respectfully, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, GFYS.

postapocalypticfashion:

When Aisha Tyler was selected to be the presenter for the 2012 Ubisoft E3 press conference, she received an unprecedented flood of hate from trolls who complained about the fact that she knew nothing about gaming. Too bad haters didn’t do their homework first, because as it turns out Aisha Tyler knows more about gaming that all of us put together. Her Facebook response was awesome and predictably went viral. In case you missed it, here’s her masterpiece. Haters, take note.

Dear Gamers

I play.

I’ve played since I was a little kid. 

Since I begged my dad to buy me a Nintendo LCD Donkey Kong, Jr.

Since I blew through three weeks’ allowance playing Defender at the laundromat.

Since you were a twinge in the left side of your daddy’s underoos.

I’ve been a gamer since I made friends with a girl in the 5th grade just to get at her Atari.

Since I missed the bus playing Galaga after school.

Since I missed the start of Return of the Jedi playing Tempest in the theater lobby.

You think you know. You don’t know.

I’ve been a gamer since before you could read.

Since I aced midterms after staying up all night playing Evil Tetris.

Since I became dorm champ at Leisure Suit Larry.

Since I double-wielded on Time Crisis 3 at Fuddrucker’s.

I was a voice in not one, but two major video game titles.

I hosted the Reach Beta tutorial.

I was a Gears of War superfan panelist at ComicCon.

I hosted the Ubisoft presser at E3 2012.

I didn’t do any of it for the money. 

For most I got paid next to nothing, and for some, less than that.

I did it because I love video games.

Because I’ve dreamt since I was a kid of being in one of the games I love.

How many games have you done voices for?

How many cons have you repped at?

Your buddy’s Unreal Tournament garage deathmatch doesn’t count.

I go to E3 each year because I love video games.

Because new titles still get me high.

Because I still love getting swag.

Love wearing my gamer pride on my sleeve.

People ask me what console I play.

Motherfucker, ALL of them.

I get invited to E3 because real gamers know I’m a gamer.

I don’t do it for the money.

I have plenty of money.

I don’t do it for the fame.

Fuck fame.

I do it because I love video games.

I don’t give out my gamertag because I don’t want a mess of noob jackholes lining up

to assassinate me on XBL. 

I don’t give a shit what you think about my gamerscore.

I don’t play to prove a point. 

I don’t play to be the best.

I play because I love it.

I play.

I’ve been playing my whole life. 

I’m not ashamed of it.

I don’t apologize for it.

It’s who I am.

To the core.

I’m a gamer.

So to all the haters out there who claim I don’t play;

To the GAF dicks, 

Gamespot trolls, 

To every illiterate racist douchebag on Youtube:

Flame away. Go nuts.

Post every jackass comment your heart desires.

I’ll still be playing when your mom’s kicked you out of her basement

and you have to sell your old-ass console

and get a real job.

For now, I say to you respectfully,

and I mean this from the bottom of my heart,

GFYS.

(via fuckyeahhardfemme)

What is a ‘radical’ anyway? According to the dictionary, it’s a person with strong convictions who uncompromisingly advocates for them, who favors drastic political, economic, and/or social reform. Although as a trained botanist, to me radical means something else- the primary root. The foundation. In my mind, if you’re Indigenous and you seek truth, work toward implementing positive change and uplifting the people, and defend Earth and our ancient ways, you must be a radical under the first definition. And if you’re any good, you’ll eventually become the second definition.

—Ruth Hopkins (via rematiration)

(via fuckyeahradicalquotes)

I'm Glad Reagan Dead - Killer Mike

mama-panther:

The end of the Reagan Era, I’m like ‘leven, twelve, or
Old enough to understand the shit’ll change forever
They declared the war on drugs like a war on terror
But it really did was let the police terrorize whoever

[…]

But thanks to Reaganomics, prisons turned to profits
Cause free labor is the cornerstone of US economics
Cause slavery was abolished, unless you are in prison
You think I am bullshitting, then read the 13th Amendment
Involuntary servitude and slavery it prohibits
That’s why they giving drug offenders time in double digits
Ronald Reagan was an actor, not at all a factor
Just an employee of the country’s real masters
Just like the Bushes, Clinton and Obama
Just another talking head telling lies on teleprompters

[…]

They only love the rich, and how they loathe the poor
If I say any more they might be at my door (Shh..)
Who the fuck is that staring in my window
Doing that surveillance on Mr. Michael Render
I’m dropping off the grid before they pump the lead
I leave you with four words,
I’m glad Reagan dead

(Source: , via mehreenkasana)

Enidris Siurano Rodríguez, Puerto Rican High School Student, Penalized For Refusing To Stand During Pledge Of Allegiance

political-linguaphile:

Enidris Siurano Rodríguez may only be in 10th grade, but she knows if she wants to make a change, she has to stand… or in this case, sit for it.

The Puerto Rican-born 15-year-old is making a statement for her cause: raising consciousness about the political situation of the island of her birth and emphasizing her disagreement with U.S. government policies towards the island due to its territorial status.

Since 7th grade the honor student and gifted violinist,who moved to the U.S. mainland when she was three years old,decided not to participate during the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag in her Maryland high school, and stayed silent and seated during that time as a way to protest.

“I did it when I began to understand the current political situation of Puerto Rico,which I do not like,” Siurano told Puerto Rican daily El Nuevo Día. “I do not agree with the way the United States treats Puerto Rico… I think Puerto Rico has an undemocratic situation, I dislike the idea that a government so far [from the island] tells us what we can and cannot do. “

…

Recently, the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland accused the Montgomery County Maryland Public School of violating Siurano’s rights after at the beginning of the year her teachers confronted her several times and sent to the principal’s office. Authorities told the teenager that while she didn’t have to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, she had to stand up every morning during that time.

According to the ACLU, Siurano’s mother was also informed that if her daughter keeps up her protestshe would be removed from class. Since then, teachers have constantly asked the student to stand up by her teachers in an effort the legal organization describes as a way to intimidate her and make her flinch.

…

In Maryland, even though the statute demands that schools say the pledge every day,students that don’t want to do so can be excused, TakePart reports.In an interview with the site David Rocah, staff attorney at the ACLU of Maryland, said the reasoning for telling Rodriguez she must stand “was because she felt Siurano was being disrespectful to military families and the kids from military families in the school.”

This is a seriously gross violation of rights. As Siurano’s compatriot, Ricky Martin tweeted in solidarity: ”The right to free speech also includes the right not to speak. Too often this is forgotten”. 

(via fuckyeabadasslatinas)

If your ancestors cut down all the trees, it’s not your fault, but you still don’t live in a forest.

—Pam Oliver, a professor in the UW-Madison sociology department, explaining the historical roots of racism in the United States to her undergraduate students (mostly middle-class and White). (via cabell)

(via jleighe)

tobeymacguire:

when straight guys ask how lesbian sex works i feel really bad for their girlfriends because if you dont understand how to have sex with a girl in any way other than repeatedly putting your dick in her you are having some really bad sex

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muckrakingiswomenswork: kyu-bee: In case you didn’t think “brown people are terrorists, white people are mentally ill” was a valid observation, here is someone who believes exactly that. Unabomer, mcveigh, and lets not forget olympic park/abortion clinic bomber eric rudolph didnt use guns they used bombs and had stated political agendas/manifestos which they used acts of terror to promote - as terrorists do by definition. They were also privileged white men. So not only is chuck woolery a pathetic cheese bag irrelevant out of work game show host of the lowest caliber - he is in fact wrong

muckrakingiswomenswork:

kyu-bee:

In case you didn’t think “brown people are terrorists, white people are mentally ill” was a valid observation, here is someone who believes exactly that.

Unabomer, mcveigh, and lets not forget olympic park/abortion clinic bomber eric rudolph didnt use guns they used bombs and had stated political agendas/manifestos which they used acts of terror to promote - as terrorists do by definition. They were also privileged white men.

So not only is chuck woolery a pathetic cheese bag irrelevant out of work game show host of the lowest caliber - he is in fact wrong

(Source: kyu-bee, via lizzpride)

Since 9/11, Muslim American terrorism has killed 33 people, while politically motivated attacks from white supremacists and other right-wing extremists killed more than 200 people, according to a study from the Combating Terrorism Center at the US Military Academy. Since 2010, no one has been killed or injured by Muslim American terrorism. Why do so many Americans have the knee-jerk reaction that “it’s probably the Muslims?

feministfilm:

I didn’t wanna contribute to anymore of this bullshit, but it’s on my mind and I’m agitated. FUCKING LENA DUNHAM APOLOGISTS, EVERYWHERE, ON MY DASH, GETTING PAYCHECKS, SAYIN’ STUFF, ON THEIR BLOGS, EVERYWHERE. FUCKING LENA DUNHAM APOLOGISTS. It’s one thing to be a fan, or to enjoy her work, but it’s another thing entirely to defend her against “the haters,” as if people calling a racist scumbag by her name is some kinda cruel witch hunt.

Listen, we all like shit that’s problematic. We’ve been through this! Like, y’all, I’m a feminist and I’m getting a blink-182 tattoo on my butt. We all like shit that’s fucked up! And we have the right to! We have the right to like whatever we want, because Feminist Film is published in America and therefore obligated to uphold a rights discourse. Free speech in a free market means Lena Dunham gets big moneys to write for cable TV and Americans everywhere get to blog about it.

But if you’re spilling virtual ink to defend fucked up white people on the principle that too many people are criticizing them for racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, privilege, etc. then you are a fucking pig who can go to hell. No other words about it!

I’m starting to think boring white people with aspirations for fame have a lotta stake in this woman’s success ‘cause it gives them hope that they’ll succeed someday, too. Lena Dunham: instillin’ hope in the overprivileged mediocre since 2010.

In conclusion: Lena Dunham is the worst, if you have a problem with people criticizing her then it is because you wanna uphold white supremacy, ‘cause it’s not like girlfriend’s getting fired anytime soon, and nobody’s trynta take a way your goddamn HBO. STOP. ALL Y’ALL. STOP. IT.

After the last mention, we got a few messages and notes from people who were blessed to have missed the beef with Lena Dunham. After the cut, there are a few links to the best critiques and the worst offenses.

Good night, enjoy your cable tv. (I know I will.)

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