Category: General

feminismfuckyeah:

Surely the best protest sign at a women’s equality demonstration, ever.

pettyrevenge:

So, I work tech support for a very large tech company and I help provide support for desktop and laptop computers that my company makes. Guy calls in, he is having a hard time troubleshooting his mail application. It’s receiving mail but isn’t able to send mail.

This is a pretty common call, sometimes our mail program likes to delete the SMTP password line if anything else changes to help prevent any kind of fraudulent/spam emails from being sent by your computer.

I assure him I’ll be taking care of this problem the best I can and I start to ask a few probing questions when he stops me and asks to speak to a senior advisor.

Me: I know what the source of the problem is most likely and should have this solved in 2-3 minutes, may I ask why you want to speak to a senior advisor?

Customer: This is nothing personal but I just don’t feel that a woman will be able to fix my email problem.

Me: I assure you that I already likely know what the problem is, how to solve it, and it will be quicker than holding 8-10 minutes for a senior advisor. My gender does not prevent me from helping you with your email.

Customer: Just get me to a senior advisor. I am not going to let you help me.

So I asked him to hold for a few while I get in contact with a senior advisor. I called one up and he was male. Explained the situation and got off the phone. Called a second time, got another male. Explained the situation and got off the phone. Called a third time, got a female senior advisor. Explained the situation, she was DELIGHTED to take the call.

(changing names due to confidentiality)

I merged the calls.

Me: Hello, Ron? Are you still there?

Ron: Yes.

Me: Thanks for holding. I’ve got a senior advisor on the line per your request. Her name is Katrina. I’ve caught her up to speed as to the problem with your mail program and she will be further assisting you from here.

Sorry, sexist pig. You aren’t getting your way. You will realize that women have brains, too. Just because my skin is softer and my chest sticks out further than yours does not mean I don’t know how to direct you to fill in the password slot in your SMTP mail settings. Jerk.

arma3000:

damnanime:

seto-kaibae:

Twinkle Twinkle fucking why

Can’t I draw the other eye

What the fuck’s up with your nose

Fuck those folds in all your clothes

Twinkle Twinkle fucking shit

Fuck this art, I’m done I quit.

Little artist, please don’t cry,
I’ll help you draw that fucking eye.

If your features seem rather whack,
Flip the canvas and drive them back.

If traditional is more your trend,
Then notice senpai Wilhelm Bendz!

If all this seems a total waste,
Then fucking cheat with cut and paste.

Making art’s a no-rules fight,
Uh, beware my power, Green Lantern’s light.

THIS POST!

tinierpurplefishes:

pyoorkate:

tinierpurplefishes:

autisticnarset:

fituring:

neverexisted:

A single sperm has 37.5MB of DNA information in it. That means that a normal ejaculation represents a data transfer of 1,587.5TB.

Now that’s a lot of information to swallow

how do I delete other people’s posts

now i’m picturing this as a spray of the equivalent amount of data on floppy discs

DSDD, SSDD, DSSD or SSSD?

3?, 3 1/2?,  5 1/4? or 8??

The image in my head was 3 1/2“ SSSD, the 360K ones.

See, you can tell my age by the fact that I thought 5 1/4” dsdd… Although at least we’re not considering it in terms of compact cassettes…

buzzfeed:

blackmattersus:

This story contains a description of sexual assault.

Over spring break in April 2015, 13-year-old G. stopped eating and sleeping. She started having panic attacks and complained of excruciating pain. When G.’s friends and mother asked what was wrong, G. refused to tell them. Then, later that month, the video started to spread.

A boy in G.’s eighth-grade class at Spring Creek Community School, a public middle school in Brooklyn, had filmed himself penetrating G.’s mouth and anus. G. said she had been raped. The boy claimed the sex was consensual. To G.’s horror, the video he secretly filmed of her was shared all over Brooklyn.

“It was the most awful thing,” said G., who is identified by her middle initial to protect her privacy. “It was bad enough that everyone knew what happened. But knowing that they had seen the video was that much worse.”

No school principal wants to deal with such a catastrophe. But under the federal gender equity law Title IX, schools that receive federal funding have to thoroughly investigate all claims of sexual harassment and assault. Above all, schools must ensure that students aren’t denied their right to an education on the basis of sex.

When G. reported her rape, Spring Creek’s response denied her that very right, according to a federal complaint G.’s attorney filed against the New York City Department of Education in November 2015.

“Everyone was blaming things on me,” G. said. “It was so much pressure. I couldn’t take it. At times I felt like giving up on my life.”

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Two weeks after her assault, G.’s friends helped her tell a school staff member what had happened, according to the complaint. He asked her if the sex was consensual, but when she said it wasn’t, he did not report it to other administrators or police, despite state mandatory reporting laws.

Later that month, G. reported the rape and the video to the principal. The principal called the police and G.’s mother, then told G. to leave school while they got the situation under control. Her presence would just “make things worse,” the principal said, according to the complaint.