I have a new theme

I think the women are the ones with the real strength in the series, the mental strength, and you can see this divide clearly in the books — that the women are going to come to power. - Sophie Turner

Game of Women - Season Three

So she became Secretary of State instead

#light of my life

The New York Post goes after Hillary Clinton’s (completely awesome) performance yesterday with a blatantly sexist cover.

Hillary Clinton (via wine-loving-vagabond)

Hillary Schools Congress and Teaches Girls by Connie Schultz on Creators.com - A Syndicate Of Talent (via immlass)

“teenage girls are never wrong about the music that they love” is my #1 musical opinion

This is Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. She worked for UNIVAC in 1949 who made some of the first computers ever. In 1951 she discovered the first computer “bug.”. In 1952 she had an operational compiler. “Nobody believed that,” she said. “I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.” You might not know what a compiler is, but it’s the reason you have an Operating System with programs on or a phone with apps. There would be no Windows or Apple or facebook or twitter or tumblr without her. Today 14% of engineers are female. Some thing when wrong. Grace Hopper is a BAMF and more people should know.

GRACE HOOPER ROCKS!!!

personality tests were developed in the 60s in response to widespread unease in academia and the research industry with how many programmers and computer operators were women; the modern image of the programmer as having male-leaning antisocial traits was basically developed by HR managers during the johnson administration

when grace hopper was young she was basically typical of her profession and now people like her are systematically excluded

The Skyler White Effect The cognitive dissonance that happens when a female character is presented by the narrative as absolutely correct in their judgment of a male character, and yet the viewers assume she’s the bitch.

chess → asoiaf women

(sand snakes, val, meera, chataya, etc. not included because we don’t have footage of them yet)

(many of the characters play as more than one piece and many of the pieces fit more than one character so please don’t insult my choices. also, the moves+storylines are not perfect matches, sorry.)

Beatrice Wood, age 105, When asked the secret of her longevity, she would simply say “art books, chocolates and young men”.