The Rebirth of Slick

"Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:57:05 -0500

“Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.”

- Dream Hampton. (via theblacksophisticate)

blackgirlwhiteboylove: andyjk14: xjeremyjohnsonx: damseling: ...

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:47:07 -0500

blackgirlwhiteboylove:

andyjk14:

xjeremyjohnsonx:

damseling:

TRIGGER WARNING: RAPE

The asshole holding the sign that says You Deserve Rape is Dean Saxton, he attends the University of Arizona and goes by the name of “Brother Dean Samuel” That’s also him with the racist ass “Ghettopoly”

Per the comment on Buzzfeed

“I can’t wait till he graduates college and a future employer finds all this crap. No one’s going to want to take on this sexual harassment/racist liability. I say we KEEP publishing this stuff, KEEP his name out there, and ensure he dies in a gutter with only his disgusting sign to keep him warm.”

What better place to put it than tumblr?

Please reblog

Maybe we can make this the new “Mitt Romney sucks pass it on”

Why yes. Yes we can OP.

Please reblog and shame this pratt

Please reblog this.

buzzfeedceleb: George Takei responds to fans of traditional...

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:43:04 -0500

buzzfeedceleb:

George Takei responds to fans of traditional marriage.

"Are we a lost generation of our people? Add us to equations but they’ll never make us equal. She who..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 09:46:29 -0500

“Are we a lost generation of our people?
Add us to equations but they’ll never make us equal.
She who writes the movie owns the script and the sequel.
So why ain’t the stealing of my rights made illegal?
They keep us underground working hard for the greedy,
But when it’s time pay they turn around and call us needy.
My crown too heavy like the Queen Nefertiti
Gimme back my pyramid, I’m trying to free Kansas City.
Mixing masterminds like your name Bernie Grundman.
Well I’m gonna keep leading like a young Harriet Tubman
You can take my wings but I’m still goin’ fly
And even when you edit me the booty don’t lie
Yeah, keep singing and I’mma keep writing songs
I’m tired of Marvin asking me, “What’s Going On?
March to the streets ‘cuz I’m willing and I’m able
Categorize me, I defy every label
And while you’re selling dope, we’re gonna keep selling hope
We rising up now, you gotta deal you gotta cope
Will you be electric sheep?
Electric ladies, will you sleep?
Or will you preach?”

- Janelle Monae- Q.U.E.E.N.

PREACH GIRRRL!

(via glitterandplastic)

Win!

dumbesttweets: Shit an ignorant white girl...

Wed, 15 May 2013 09:09:39 -0500

dumbesttweets:

Shit an ignorant white girl says….

…….

myfitness-app: How to Maximize Those Butt-Toning Squats! If...

Tue, 07 May 2013 11:34:04 -0500

myfitness-app:

How to Maximize Those Butt-Toning Squats!

If strong, sculpted legs are what you’re after, you’ve got to become one with the squat. The basic exercise targets glutes, hamstrings, quads, and core, so incorporating it into your strength-training workouts is definitely worth your while. Here are some ways to get more bang for your butt — er, I mean buck — when doing squats:

Focus on your heels: When doing a squat, make sure to shift your weight back onto your heels and lower the body as if you’re about to sit in a chair. This proper form helps to put even more focus on the glutes and hamstrings and takes pressure off the knees. It also offers a stable surface that enables you to get low to the ground, which is what makes the move so effective.

Try variations: Target lower body muscles differently by changing the position of your feet. Squat with your big toes together, feet out wide, and try one heel or both heels lifted, or even one leg lifted (to get legs like Cameron Diaz). Step on a Bosu ball and squat on a wobbly surface to work your core, and try twisting variations for even more of a challenge. Check out this list of different squat variations.

Multitask with weights: Squats focus on the legs and butt, but you can make it a total-body move by working your upper body at the same time. Grab a set of dumbbells or a resistance band and while squatting, do front raises, biceps curls, overhead presses, lateral arm raises, and overhead triceps extensions.

Take your squats for a walk: While squatting, take steps forward or backward as if you’re walking, or take steps out to the side. Make it even harder by tying a resistance band around your ankles for even more of a burn. Learn how to do squat walks with a resistance band here.

Add a jump: Work your heart and leg muscles by adding a jump between reps. Get into your squat position. Bend the knees and lower down and, as you’re coming up, press off the balls of your feet into an exploding jump, then land in squat position and repeat. This is also a great move for challenging your core and balancing abilities.

Hold it: Traditionally you move the torso up and down as you do your squats, but if you lower down and hold the position for 15 or more seconds, you’ll really feel the burn. While lowered, you can also pulse up and down ever so slightly for 15 seconds before coming all the way up.

"As Americans, we have this naïve assumption that people all over the world are struggling and way..."

Tue, 07 May 2013 11:05:53 -0500

“As Americans, we have this naïve assumption that people all over the world are struggling and way behind us. They’re not. Sweden and South Korea have more advanced high speed internet networks. Japan has the most advanced trains and transportation systems. Norwegians make more money. The biggest and most advanced plane in the world is flown out of Singapore. The tallest buildings in the world are now in Dubai and Shanghai. Meanwhile, the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world.”

- 10 Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America http://bananenplanet.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/10-things-most-americans-dont-know-about-america/ (via curlycherie)

There are two areas where the USA is way out in front of the rest of the world: war and prison. The technology of killing is the main investment of US national energy, and of course the semi-public semi-private incarceration economy is flourishing while schools and roads crumble. In many other quality-of-life terms — housing, healthcare, public transportation, public access to technology, mental health support, support for people with disabilities, childcare, primary education, maternity support, social safety net — I think a lot of US Americans personally know that things are not exactly rosy but see no options for fixing it.

(via zuky)

omoyoruba: somethinaboutvictoria: iamdavia: super-mayne: i...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:54:32 -0500

omoyoruba:

somethinaboutvictoria:

iamdavia:

super-mayne:

i will reblog this for ever and ever.

I’m dying! 😂

lmfbo

LMAO! Reblogging again because relevant

Dear People Trying to Eliminate Affirmative Action: NYC Elite Schools Illegally Screened Out Qualified Black and Latino Kids

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:52:07 -0500

Dear People Trying to Eliminate Affirmative Action: NYC Elite Schools Illegally Screened Out Qualified Black and Latino Kids:

n-g-r-latina:

Can people stop telling me how being black is going to help me get into medical school now?

I went on a date last night

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:51:52 -0500

I went on a date last night:

I went on a date last night and then you texted and asked, again, whether I would come there. Start our days with coffee, end with you making dinner. Forever. I feel myself tug towards yes and then I remember why it will always be no with you and I.

There are people in your life who are going to love you for all of the wrong reasons. They will love you for the best part of your face, the best part of you naked, the best mood on your best day, the best story you ever wrote, the best outfit you ever wore.

They are going to miss the scar on the underside of your nose from the time your older brothers dared you to run across a pile of logs. They won’t know that you fell on a hidden nail just as you completed the challenge. They’ll miss the scar on your finger, too from the time you were seven and closed a swiss army knife on it. They won’t understand that these are two of only a handful of things you can remember about your childhood. They’ll notice that you have great tits, but they’ll miss that your thumb tucks into their palm when you’re walking together and that your eyes have darker circles when a migraine is coming. They won’t know you get migraines. They won’t ask where the story you wrote came from, so they’ll never know that it was true. They’ll love it because it feels real to them. They’ll miss knowing the sweatshirt full of holes that they criticized you for wearing was your dads. You might tell them some of these things along the way, but they will remember the best things instead.

They will love your good moods, your energy, your sense of humor, but miss that you never turn to them, but rather to a shower or a pillow or the back of your throat to shed tears. They won’t ever consider you strong.

When the parts that aren’t your best come out, some people will shield their eyes as if you have just forced them to look directly into the sun for hours until their irises burn. They’ll silently make you promise to never show them that again. Those things are not to be shown. Be at your best so I can love you. I would love you more if only you never show me those things.

And you do not marry those people. You do not sit and sleepily drink coffee with those people. You leave those people and you remind yourself that they missed the better parts of you.

Hmm. This makes so much sense. Long story short if you can’t love me at my best AND worst……If you can’t deal with all the good and effed up things in my life, that isn’t real love.

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Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:14:00 -0500

strugglingtobeheard: ave-atque-vale: foradayofsky: marpotish: ...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:25:43 -0500

strugglingtobeheard:

ave-atque-vale:

foradayofsky:

marpotish:

phaelsafe:

Anita Sarkeesian faces backlash for disabling Youtube comments.

In celebration of International Women’s Day, people are taking to the Internet to complain about Anita Sarkeesian. The first installment of her long-awaited video series about sexism in video games was released yesterday, inspiring an inevitable torrent of backlash. Aside from suggestions that she “stole” the Kickstarter funding for the Women vs. Tropes in Video Games series, much of the criticism is because she disabled comments on the YouTube video.

[…]

Leading the charge against Sarkeesian’s decision is Tumblr user amazingatheist, who posted a ten-minute video entitled “Who’s The Damsel Now?“ Arguing that Sarkeesian’s “censorship” of YouTube comments counteracts her message about strong women, and that her TED talk about online harassment amounts to “whining,” amazingatheist says:

“What are you afraid of, Anita? Why can’t people have a discourse about your material? Why can’t people make their opinions towards your content known? I understand that some comments will be abusive in nature — probably most will — but so what?”

Ironically, the existence of this response means by definition that amazingatheist is making his opinion known, as well as participating in a discourse about Sarkeesian’s material. [READ MORE]

The amazingatheist destroyed his own chance at participating in these discussions by being a misogynistic MRA. Just in case, that link needs a trigger/content warning so TW: rape, misogyny, abusive language.

The woman got bombarded with rape and death threats when she talked about the idea of doing this series. And people are up in arms about her not wanting to deal with that during her actual work??

So aside from the misogyny aspect here (and that isn’t to downplay it at all, because holy fucking shit you ASSHOLES,) I would like to point out something that appears to be lost on 95% of the denizens of The Intertubes:

No one is required to let you air your opinion in their space.

This includes the comments section of anything they upload to YouTube.

Seriously, the number of people who think that they are somehow owed the right to comment on things boggles me. You want to bitch about someone’s videos, comment on news articles, disagree with someone’s Facebook post? Go do it in your space. No one owes you shit.

And in particular, no one you are abusive and violent toward owes you shit.

I’m still boggling at this bit: “I understand that some comments will be abusive in nature — probably most will — but so what?”

Abusive in nature…but so what?

That comment says everything, doesn’t it?

After all, who fucking cares about what it’s like to receive death threats, rape threats? About what it’s like to have people barge into your space to pour violent, abusive vitriol all over your work? They are owed that opportunity, apparently. They are owed the opportunity to abuse you, and if you deny them that, you’re “censoring” them.

I would like everyone to think about that for a moment. @amazingatheist thinks it’s OK to threaten & abuse women he disagrees with - he’s done it himself, and he’s certainly never had any problem with anyone else doing it.

Abuse is OK. But protecting yourself from abuse? OH NO, CAN’T HAVE THAT.

What a shitstain.

reasons i disable all comments on my videos. fuck all that noise. they mad when people they want to abuse set boundaries.

g33kgasm: I’m loving that actresses are speaking out more, to...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:00:48 -0500

g33kgasm:

I’m loving that actresses are speaking out more, to idiotic sexist questions.

Actors should start doing the same.

aestheticrequiem: crackerhell: blackkatemoennig: It amazes me...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:05:04 -0500

aestheticrequiem:

crackerhell:

blackkatemoennig:

It amazes me how many arabic names like Aaliyah and Jamal, etc etc, are reduced to ‘ghetto’ names when given to black children

it’s not just arabic names

any set of names that became popular amongst black ppl thanks to being OWNED by a certain group are considered “ghetto”, including many Western European names and some Asian names

I love my name

intoasylum: Yes

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:52:34 -0500

intoasylum:

Yes

wordsaretimeless: I see Egypt in her eyes and Sudan in her skin I see Somalia in her face and...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:41:32 -0500

wordsaretimeless:

I see Egypt in her eyes and Sudan in her skin

I see Somalia in her face and Zimbabwe in her waist

I see the Congo in her thighs and Ghana in her hips

I see Senegal in her hair and Nigeria in her lips

I see Rwanda in her walk and Kenya in her dance

I see Uganda in her grace and Liberia in her smile

I see Sierra Leone in her will and Mali in her poise

I see Africa in her heart

bilbutt-baggins: testoster0ne: how do woman not orgasm when inserting tampons. like isn’t just...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:02:13 -0500

bilbutt-baggins:

testoster0ne:

how do woman not orgasm when inserting tampons.

like isn’t just like having sex idgi?

This sounds like a Mitt Romney diary entry.

Lmao

"Even if Saldana manages to look like Simone, it still leaves another question: Why not just hire a..."

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 21:15:04 -0500

“Even if Saldana manages to look like Simone, it still leaves another question: Why not just hire a dark,-skinned actress? Surely this is what Simone would have wanted…there is no greater evidence of how tragic things are for dark-skinned women in Hollywood than the fact that they can’t even get hired to play dark-skinned women.”

- - Dr. Marc Lamont Hill (Columbia Univ.) on Zoe Saldana’s casting as Nina Simone (via black-culture)

legallyunderage: delicatewhit: All The Time - Jeremih This...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 21:03:49 -0500

legallyunderage:

delicatewhit:

All The Time - Jeremih

This song tho!!!!

evepostapple: Make Your Own Alkaline Vitamin Water Find...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:05:05 -0500

evepostapple:

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