Every Sexist Commercial You’ve Ever Seen [x]
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Crossposts from tumblr (for posterity)
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Accept the word of One-Who-Knows.
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Watch: Hilarious Party Over Here sketch gets at the dark truth behind “mansplaining.”
The “dark truth” behind mansplaining: it’s total bullshit. Most of the time these kind of things aren’t what “mansplaining” is. More than half the time “mansplaining” is just a male person saying something to the contrary. That’s it; that’s mansplaining. When it’s not a means to shit on men for the actions of a few (much to the dismay of the last comment in the gifset), it’s an out on having to answer for some kind of wrongdoing. Especially when it comes to pseudo-scientific buzz topics.
But, you know, as a male myself I expect that some woman or feminist will drop by and either preach at me the ways that they think this action is justified or try to dismiss my point with some kind of “sassy” remark.
So, please, femsplain it to me. ;B
–Mod Griaule
HAHAHHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA
THIS comment on THIS gif set…well, you can’t write this stuff.
to the dude that just mansplained what mansplaining is
how do you fuck up this badly
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Netflix’s new site is a giant “f*ck you” to Comcast and Time Warner
Netflix launched a site late Wednesday night called Fast.com, where — in one click — anyone browsing the internet can see how fast their internet speed is. Although it’s great for consumers, some internet providers might not be happy about the new website.
Follow @the-future-now?
Fuck Comcast
Netflix didn’t invent that it’s been around
Netflix didn’t invent speed checks, but this site is Netflix’s.
Okay, so here’s why Netflix speedtest is so brilliant.
Most of us know about Speedtest.net, right? Well Comcast and Time Warner know about it too. They know customers use it to check to see if they’re getting what they are paying for. Comcast techs even tell customers to check their speed with Speedtest.net.
So, to make sure people think they are getting good speeds, Comcast and Time Warner prioritize traffic going to Speedtest.net. When you check your speed there it’s artificially inflated. That is NOT the speed you are getting when you browse tumblr and that is definitely not the speed you get when you watch Netflix.
Comcast and Time Warner can not artificially inflate the results by prioritizing traffic to Fast.net unless they also prioritize traffic to Netflix, and they definitely do not want to do that.
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C-3PO to Han Solo in Empire: Sir, I don’t know where your ship learned to communicate, but it has the most peculiar dialect.
this isn’t gone into at all but I like the idea that the Falcon, bashed together from illegal aftermarket parts, familiar with all corners of the galaxy but with no real home, speaks her own patois that works reasonably well everywhere rather than learning several formal machine languages (I imagine there are relatively few of those compared to the range of lifeforms’ languages, but still)
3PO is fluent in over six million forms of communication, so he’s surely familiar with various pidgins, creoles, and so on, but if the Falcon’s sort of created one for herself then obviously translating it will be a more involved job
protocol droids probably have algorithms for parsing pidgins and creoles by identifying the parent languages and predicting how the language will behave based on the parents’ vocabulary/grammar and the general processes of creole formation
I like the idea of the Falcon getting impatient with 3PO because he keeps asking her to repeat herself and she’s like who the hell are you and why can’t you understand plain talk when you hear it
revisiting this thought: imagine Rey, who has met about a thousand different droids and computers and learned to speak whatever language they speak
she starts talking to the Falcon’s computer because something is broken, again, and it takes her all of five minutes to pick up the peculiar dialect because it’s similar to one common among smugglers’ ships she’s repaired, though it has a few idiosyncracies that are new to her (in part because it’s honestly just older than most things she’s run into)
soon enough instead of plugging in a droid to find out what’s wrong she’s just yelling at the Falcon from upside down in a compartment full of sparks and the Falcon is insulting her repair skills and insinuating some really unpleasant things about her parentage and Rey’s like JUST TELL ME WHERE THE SHORT IS ALREADY YOU CAN TRASH-TALK ME WHEN YOUR CIRCUITRY’S NOT SETTING ME ON FIRE
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I made a trashcan for people’s hopes and dreams.
They couldn’t make a trash can big enough for mine.
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this is the best thing ive ever seen
its like bff necklaces but instead of “bff” theyre “im going to Fucking Destroy you”
Okay so this is definitely an appropriate gift for that special nemesis, but given the particular role of antibodies in the immune system, “you are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand” is also an apt meaning and there has never been a better time to be alive
*slips the virus pendant over ur head gently* fight me
I HAVE A MIGHTY NEED
I read it as wearing the virus myself and giving the antibody one to bae like “I am a danger to everyone around me, but you are safe”
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#WhiteCoats4BlackLives: Health Care Workers Stage Nationwide Protests Against Police Brutality
Medical students from more than 70 schools protested racial profiling and police brutality through the social media initiative #WhiteCoats4BlackLives.
100 medical students at the USC Keck School of Medicine participated in a protest
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University students
University of Illinois College of Medicine students
USC students
Howard University students
University of California, Irvine students
Virginia Commonwealth University students
Morehouse School of Medicine students
Boston University medical students
Mount Sinai Hospital hospital staff and students
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine students
SUNY Downstate Medical Center students
SUNY Downstate Medical Center students
Medical College of Wisconsin students
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University students
Temple University students
University of California, San Francisco students
University of California, San Francisco students
University of California, San Francisco students
Georgetown University School of Medicine students
UC Davis School of Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis students
100 medical students at the USC Keck School of Medicine participated in a protest.
University of California, San Diego students
Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons students
Columbia University Medical Center students
New York Medical College students
University of Minnesota medical students
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine students
Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine students
Albert Einstein College of Medicine students
Brown University Alpert Medical School students
“We feel it is essential to begin a conversation about our role in addressing the explicit and implicit discrimination and racism in our communities and reflect on the systemic biases embedded in our medical education curricula, clinical learning environments, and administrative decision-making.”
Source
Standing together!
#BlackLivesMatter
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If quality of advertising is a health indicator of a social network, then Tumblr has entered palliative care.
I dunno, I for one am very interested in the “red-hot nostril drill” snoring solution to my significant other.
I am slightly concerned for your significant other.
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