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Wisdom, the oldest wild banded Laysan albatross has returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge and Battle of Midway National Memorial. Wisdom’s return flight to the island is an especially remarkable feat considering her senior status - approximately 67 years old. However, her voyage to Midway Atoll which spanned tens of thousands of miles is overshadowed only by the news that Wisdom’s nest was no longer empty - containing an egg and soon a future albatross chick.
🗳️ Danica Roem ( Virginia - House of Delegates )
🗳️ Gerri Cannon ( New Hampshire - School Board of Somersworth )
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Way to go voters! Congratulations to everyone elected! You have rekindled hope!
You missed one!
Phillipe Cunningham ( Minnesota - City Council of Minneapolis )
The soccer gender pay gap is ridiculous
Assume I’m dead and rotting when this isn’t reblogged from my dash.
Update from April 2017: Source: CNN Money, http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/05/news/us-womens-soccer-equal-pay/index.html “The U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team is getting a raise, bigger bonuses and the same per diems as the men. The women’s team announced Wednesday that it had struck a new labor deal with U.S. Soccer, the sport’s governing body. For months, the women have said that their pay and treatment is unequal to the men’s team. The women will also get better hotel and travel accommodations and will be reimbursed for the years when their per diems were less than those of the men.” Finally some good news for the USWNT!
Reblogging with the bit that gives the outrage some closure.
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Chris Hemsworth photographed by Bruce Weber for Vanity Fair magazine
Wait, does he really have an “Oh, The Places You’ll Go” tattoo? Because if he does, I so totally hope that Thor has one, too, and got it because Darcy bought him that book for his birthday.
It will give him personal strength before Ragnarok.
As the subject of Slave Leia has cropped up again, I thought I’d repost some of my thoughts on the subject.
A while back I posted this:
I’ve said it before, but I hate that the gold bikini is regarded by such a huge part of the fandom as being “sexy.” Within the film it’s presented as being nothing but degrading and a way to humiliate a strong female character…who kills the very person who does it to her in a very visceral way. She would never dress up in that outfit for Han and he would never ask her to. In fact, I think it’s significant that he’s blind the entire time she’s wearing it and never once sees her in it.
Someone then reblogged that post complaining that the film objectifies and sexualises her, that she’s silent once she’s put in the bikini and that she becomes passive, waiting for the men in the film to rescue her. To which I replied:
Except that’s not what happens at all. Go watch the scene again. Yes, she doesn’t speak, I’ll give you that, but she’s already given Jabba a warning that’s he’s going to regret capturing her when he first captures her. We first see her in the gold bikini when Luke enters the palace and confronts Jabba. It’s a tense scene, the focus is entirely on Luke and what he’s saying…this is Luke’s plan, and despite what the audience may think, it’s playing out probably exactly as they planned it. It doesn’t make much sense for her to be making defiant statements about Jabba’s doom here, for one thing they want Jabba to be overconfident at this point. And look at how she’s shot and her performance, the camera is not positioned in such a way for us to leer at her. There’s no slow pan up her body, no shots lingering on her exposed flesh. And she is not posing for the male gaze, she’s clearly both uncomfortable and defiant. She’s not pouting or posing demurely. And, secondly, she is NOT rescued by the male heroes. That’s just not what happens. She strangles Jabba to death with the chain he’s used to oppress her, then she gets Artoo to cut her chains. After escaping she points the sail barge’s guns at the deck and destroys it. At no point do the male characters give a single thought to rescuing her, precisely, one assumes, because she’s Princess fucking Leia and they know full well that she can rescue herself. This is a rescue of Han, not Leia, Han is blind and vulnerable throughout the entire opening of the film. Han is presented as the damsel in distress here, not Leia. The sexualisation of Slave Leia is something that has been perpetrated by a section of the fandom and by popular culture. It’s not in the movie. And that’s what makes me so angry about it. The film is clearly commenting that the objectification of women is vile and is perpetrated by disgusting men like Jabba (because while Jabba is an alien he clearly represents a certain type of misogynistic, powerful man) and that women should not accept such treatment. Sadly, the view that Slave Leia is sexy is so pervasive that it retrospectively colours our perceptions of those scenes. They must have been male gazey because otherwise why would everyone think she was so hot? The sad fact is that too many men are unable to recontextualise their pre-adolescent fantasies when returning to the movie as adults.
And I’ll finish with Carrie Fisher’s own thoughts on the subject:
“The thing that killed me about this setup was, okay, you put me in this bathing suit - but then I have to stop talking from here on? Strip me, and I’m silent! I am defiant with everyone else - Tarkin, Darth Vader - but this slug really shuts me up. Any defiance I had in the other movies, all gone.
I was so very happy to kill [Jabba]. It meant I could talk again. They asked me if I wanted a stunt double to kill Jabba and I said, ‘Really, really not. I really, really want to kill him myself.’” Carrie Fisher.
She is silent, but she’s pissed off and glaring. She’s defiant with every other muscle in her body. There are other ways of fighting back. (Note: Padme was also silent in the arena in Episode 2.) And she didn’t really need to talk. I think it expressed a rage colder than ice for the character, usually so fiery, to be so pissed off as to be beyond speech. When I saw the original as a 10 or 12 year old, I figured she was quiet because she planning how everyone in that room was going to die.
And I’m glad Ms. Fisher recognized the need to kill the slug herself.
The only time Leia accepted Luke’s help was in getting off the barge. Which was just a repeat of the time he swung her across the gap in the Death Star. But this time, instead of hiding her head against his chest, she kept her eyes open as they jumped the gap. So, it showed a level of trust in Luke that she didn’t have before, and a level of bravery and certainty in herself she didn’t have previously, as well.
What kills me is that in the cons, the Slave Leias will ignore a very important fact. She wore boots. They weren’t fancy sandals. She wasn’t barefoot. They were ankle boots meant for walking across the hot Tattooine sands and superheated concrete to get to the sail barge. Because slaves walked. They weren’t carried. And you don’t waste medical supplies on decorations.
By “adjusting” the footwear, they further disable the character. After all, impractical to no footwear has been a way by which women have been oppressed for eons on our planet, much less in a Galaxy Far, Far Away.
