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She’s got a point.
Norms The very rules I’ve observed as a male … it’s not difficult, guys.
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LADY GAGA FUCKING SNAPPED.
Pwn the lawyer Go Steph!
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Here’s a good starting point for those of you interested in learning more:
Absolutely. The programmer must develop code to work within the expected parameters. A less heated example is left vs right handed. Most hotkeys are really geared towards right handed people. It is simply a byproduct of not looking beyond your experience. Software isn’t from God.
Algorithms can be racist I have no idea who this Ryan dude is and why he has a verified Twitter account, but he has been well and truly pwned.
Source: twitter.com
i just saw a fb post where a man was arguing with a woman about the best way to make macarons and he kept insisting that she was wrong, and then eventually he was like “I’ve never personally made macarons, but if you think about it what I’m saying makes sense, i’m simply stating the obvious. i’m sure there are plenty of youtube tutorials that would show you the same thing.” and the woman replied by linking him to her instagram business page and she makes fuckin macaron towers for parties for a living and i’ve been laughing about it for a solid 5 minutes.
Mansplain Or, when he says stuff that is blindingly obvious to everyone but presents them as something new and surprising (thereby actually showing everyone what a dumbass he is). See also whitesplain.
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Congratulations, Star Wars, you have a lot of toxic men in your fanbase.
Toxic arseholes ruining things for everyone since God knows when.
Some Star Wars fans are dicks You just don’t see this with the other movie series from 1977, the one I followed, namely, Smokey and the Bandit. Agreed with the sentiments above.
Jessica Chastain is an outspoken proponent for pay equity in Hollywood, an indefatigable voice fighting sexism in story lines and bottom lines. When Octavia Spencer told her women of color need to be included in the conversation, Chastain listened. While developing a holiday comedy for the two actresses to star in, Chastain brokered a “favored nations” deal, bundling their salary and led to both women getting paid five times their original asking salary.
“I have a story, and you guys are gonna be the first to hear it,” said Spencer to a panel on Women Breaking Barriers at the Sundance Film Festival. Fifteen months ago, Chastain approached her about doing a movie together. (The two have been good friends since they both starred in “The Help”).
“She wants to do comedies, and I wanna break out of period pieces,” she said as the crowd chuckled. “I love ’em! They’ve been kind to me! But I kinda wanna play someone who resembles me in some fashion.” When the subject of pay equity between men and women came up, Spencer agreed wholeheartedly:
“We were dropping F-bombs and getting it all out there. And then I said, ‘But here’s the thing, women of color on that spectrum, we make far less than white women. So, if we’re gonna have that conversation about pay equity, we gotta bring the women of color to the table.’ And I told her my story, and we talked numbers, and she was quiet, and she said she had no idea that that’s what it was like for women of color.”
Spencer paused as she choked up. “These are happy tears!” she assured the crowd.
“I love that woman, because she’s walking the walk and she’s actually talking the talk. She said, ‘Octavia, we’re gonna get you paid on this film. You and I are gonna be tied together. We’re gonna be favored nations, and we’re gonna make the same thing.’ Fast forward to last week, we’re making five times what we asked for.”
The crowd cheered before Spencer added: “Now, I wanna go to what the men are making!”
The deal resulted in a heated bidding war, with Universal beating out Fox and Paramount. The untitled holiday comedy will be produced by Chastain with her company Freckle Films. “We’re just sitting there sipping coffee, going, ‘Oh my god! Women are in demand,‘” said Spencer.
white ppl take note
Doing what’s right Finally, justice is beginning to emerge with Hollywood pay.
I moved on her actually. You know she was down on Palm Beach. I moved on her and I failed. I’ll admit it. I did try and fuck her. She was married …
No, no. Nancy. No this was—and I moved on her very heavily. In fact, I took her out furniture-shopping. She wanted to get some furniture. I said, ‘I’ll show you where they have some nice furniture.’ I took her out furniture … I moved on her like a bitch, but I couldn’t get there. And she was married. Then all of a sudden I see her, she’s now got the big phony tits and everything. She’s totally changed her look …
Yeah, that’s her, with the gold. I’ve got to use some Tic Tacs, just in case I start kissing her. You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful—I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. I just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything …
Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.
Donald Trump, in 2005, transcribed by Politifact
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How male privilege works All guys need to read this.
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Hari Kondabolu discusses his hate for the sexist phrase “Boys Will Be Boys.” From his standup album Mainstream American Comic.
Boys will be boys I heard the phrase again yesterday, excusing sexism. Hari puts it into context.
The thing about Trump winning that a lot of people don’t realise was that it wasn’t about rural whites’ economic insecurity. That’s not to say that there wasn’t economic insecurity, but rather that rural white voters always vote GOP, and that economic insecurity is felt across all rural ethnic groups.
Rather instead look to who swung to Trump from Obama: suburban whites. Who may have also been experiencing economic insecurity, but that also didn’t cause suburban non-whites to swing to Trump, and they experienced that arguably more than suburban whites. Hence, it’s something about race for suburban whites occurring. And I’ll name it: whitelash.
It was a backlash to advances towards equality (not achieving equality mind you, just advancing) that suburban whites could always look down on as being superior to. That was the true cause of their insecurity, not economic, but rather that of privilege. Queers, Blacks, Latinx, Immigrants, Women were all displacing themselves from prior positions of inferiority.
And so there lies your insecurity: minorities. And there lies your insecure whites: suburbanites. So any time you tell us that we should pander to these poor beleaguered racist rural whites you’re taking attention away from the real racist, sexist, homophobic insecure group of white people that gave Trump his victory.
Sarah Bickerton, on Facebook, used with permission
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WTH, Utah? How can this be in 2017? Oh, it’s Girls’ Paper—that’s a possessive.
Source: facebook.com
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This week I am very happy to present a collaboration comic with my friend Chrissie, who has been generous in sharing with me her experiences of gender dynamics in a technical field, and then helping me craft them into a comic narrative.
Whenever I see Chrissie’s work I’m always impressed at the cool, creative things she does. When we were discussing this comic, she told me: “I find men persistently try to direct me lots now too, which is probably the biggest problem I consistently run into”, and my feelings around that fact are a terrible and familiar blend of frustration, sadness, and lack of surprise.
When we talk about the differences in how men and women are treated professionally, especially in technical fields, we are often dismissed with ‘everyone has to deal with that’, or ‘women need to demonstrate more confidence with their skills’, or ‘they’re just trying to be helpful’, or ‘it’s all in your head’.
It’s frustrating when we know something like this is happening, but we spend so much of our time actually trying to get people to believe that it’s a real phenomenon. I find narratives like Chrissie’s validating in that she has a comparative set of experiences and is like ‘oh yeah, people totally think I’m less competent at my job now. it’s totally a thing’. So, can guys just believe us already and get on helping it not happen?
When my wife transitioned, working in tech, she found that her coworkers and subordinates did start treating her differently. She even had one guy working under her who tried to tell her how to use a piece of software that she herself had taught him only three months before.
Mansplaining is a thing A reminder about gender roles and what we shouldn’t do to professionals.
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Ranting about feminism: it’s racist for you to ask me to overlook no diversity. And I’m not fucking doing it.
I don’t know how many of you guys know about it but this new movie, “Mad Max” just came out and has already reached critical acclaim. I haven’t seen it , but it’s supposed to be this groundbreaking masterpiece and a huge step for feminism. Which is all good and dandy In theory. But on tumblr there’s been a lot of criticism because the ALL white cast (with the minor exception of Zoe Kravitz). One of the most frustrating things about these types of movies and conversations is that there’s ALWAYS these white feminists that want to tell POC that we have to overlook lack of diversity and basically “take one for the team” (the team being feminism/woman). No. I’m not going to do it. It is fucking disrespectful and borderline racist for you, a white person, to tell minority women that we have to ignore not being represented. Since turning 18 and starting to really think about racism and the media, it is especially uncomfortable for me to watch movies and tv shows with NO people of color. This world is mostly non white and it simply doesn’t make sense for our media to not represent it. And as for feminism, this is not the first time this has happened. When Girls came out, minority women were expected to ignore the show having an all white cast because it was written and directed by Lena Dunham. And anyone who dared to not ignore this issue was considered “non progressive”. This is why I don’t identity as feminist. Because this is unacceptable. It’s unacceptable for these huge steps for feminism to not include people of color. And if you’re white and telling people to get over it, you’re a part of the fucking problem.
Okay, I don’t want to take away from some really great points you’re making about how white feminism often downplay or outright dismiss the representation of women of color, especially in discussions of mainstream media WOC are often silenced or ignored.
However, I need to point a few errors that are a common form of microaggression that I see pop up all the time in intersectional discussions of representation, specifically in regard to the recognition of indigenous women of color.
There are THREE women of color in Mad Max Fury Road. Zoe Kravitz (which you already listed), but also Courtney Eaton and Megan Gale. Eaton and Gale are biracial Maori women. The presence of Polynesian women in this film and a fictional future are incredibly important on multiple levels.
The Mad Max films are set in a post-apocalyptic Australia. In fact, the franchise began as Australian films, George Miller the writer/director/creator of this world is Australian. This is not merely a geographic location, but an important cultural context for the films.
What’s important about the location and the presence of Polyneisan women within this future world is how their very roles reflect the history of colonialism in the Pacific region. Polynesian people were forced to relocate, our cultures and even identities erased. Many of us are biracial and our own ethic identity are often erased due to a form of cultural genocide that was not unlike what was done to Indigenous people of the Americas.
Polynesian women have long been viewed as tokens of exotic beauty. Taken as trophies, and forced in to sex work. Not unlike Fragile. Some, like The Valkyrie who actively fought against colonial oppressors. While Zoe/Toast is biracial black and Ashkenzai jew, she two represents an aspect of WOC’s journey through white supremacy and colonialism which was the driving force behind the trans-atlantic slave trade.
Polynesians often are erased, or mistakenly seen as white passing often because White Western culture only teaches how to see black or white, ignoring or wholesale erasing all the many colors in between. One of the really ugly truths behind why so many indigenous people are “white passing” is because of the long legacy of us being raped by white oppressors. Many of us only being valued as “pretty” sexual objects for the enjoyment and consumption of white men.
There is a BIG difference between being white passing and having your ethnicity erase from mainstream awareness. People, even POC, default code Polynesian women as white because they only SEE the parts of our features that are stereotypically viewed to be “white.”
I immediately recognizing Fragile and The Valkyrie as women of color, and was deeply moved about how their presence and individual roles in this film reflects the struggles of many indigenous women throughout history and to see them empowered and fighting back against their oppressors made my heart soar.
Also there ARE other people of color in the film, though by virtue of the dominate culture in the film being literally white male supremacy, the only men of color we see are in the lowest cast of society. Not uncommon in colonialism either, given how white men see MOC as a threat to their power and masculinity.
My only real complaint about race in this film is the lack of Indigenous Australians in leading roles. There are a few of them crowd shots of the Citadel’s lower class, and at the end of the film we see a disabled Indigenous Australian man become the focus of a full two second shot, acting as the face of the oppressed class as he is quite literally is lifted up to salvation by women of color.
There are powerful visual moments in this film, that tell not just a story of punching down the patriarchy, but of the dismantling of colonial oppression where indigenous women play key roles in the fight and future of the world.
So please don’t steal this context from the these women. It is very important to many women of color.
busy-beaver
THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU
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I’m a Maori woman and it means so much to me to hear someone say FINALLY point this out. I wanna say this to ALL of tumblr so LISTEN UP!
The line between POC and White is very blurred in my culture. There are no ‘full’ Maori left, so everyone is biracial. I wanna point out that this is a very old way of thinking, as nowadays if you’re Maori then that’s it. YOU. ARE. MAORI.
No matter what you look like, you are Tangata Whenua (people of the land). But I’ll be using it to get my point across.
There are people with all sorts of different skin colours in my culture now and It makes me SEETHE whenever I see comments like the op. How DARE you dismiss ANYONE FROM A CULTURE THAT ISN’T EVEN YOUR OWN, just because you have been taught to only see in black and white and you can’t accept the fact that they’re from said culture JUST because they don’t ‘look like it’. For us, having people with dark skin, light skin and everything inbetween is NORMAL and we don’t question it.
So don’t you DARE say that those beautiful woman in that film ‘DON’T COUNT’ We aren’t just some three letter word that you can label us with at your convenience. ‘PoC’ is not some super secret club. You don’t get to decide who is Maori and who is not. So you take that racist BS and shove it because we’re not interested. Especially when it is coming from someone who knows nothing about our culture and the people in it.
Also, I know your intentions were good but PLEASE don’t refer to us as ‘white-passing’ as it’s just another way to isolate people within their own culture. We are Maori. End of story.
(emphasis mine)
Co-sign from this NZ-raised Polynesian woman.
We’re all mixed here. All of us. It’s so normal that we don’t put a freaking percentage on it and we realise that heritage and ethnicity is more than the colour of your skin, your particular shade of brown or how ‘ethnic’ your features are. It’s what you are.
One of my favourite parts of this movie was to see my people on a movie screen. It’s so rare for those of us of polynesian heritage to see ourselves reflected back in cinema and to see posts and articles that erase our culture or dismiss our heritage because we aren’t dark enough for someone of another culture is not only racist and ignorant, it’s also incredibly hurtful.
Yeeeeees, this. I’m biracial, and look full Korean, while my sister is equally biracial, and looks white-passing. It’s basically impossible to see Asian people in western pop culture at all, and biracial Asian people? We don’t even fucking exist. And then when we do, we’re ignored and erased – sometimes even especially by other POC. There’s this toxic mixture, the burden of white privilege which I will absolutely admit to having, combined with a lifetime of racism both experienced and absorbed, which is just this … incredible poisonous mass at the center of your very self, sewn into your DNA. And it’s nearly impossible to find a cohort because white people are … white people. … and then other POC say you’re not brown enough or different enough or whatever [blank] enough you need to be Enough. And it’s like a slap in the face. Yes, it sucks that a single ‘vaguely biracial’ person on an ensemble of otherwise all white people is often considered all the diversity that a given piece of entertainment needs – especially when that actor is actually just white (yes, I am looking at you, FIREFLY). But that doesn’t mean biracial people don’t count, that we’re not POC, that because we don’t match your idea of what we should look like we shouldn’t even be visible. It’s not a zero-sum game, and we are not the enemy.
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Yeeeah. I saw this post and was like…yes, of course the film needed more non-white people in it. BUT there was definitely more than one non-white person in that cast, and ignoring those people isn’t all that great either.
Because she’s worth it Reblogging for the great points raised, and for the knowledge that Megan Gale has Māori blood. I have been in the fashion publishing trade for a long time, knew of Megan when she was huge in Italy, and had only ever heard her being referred to as Australian. I’m happy to have been put right about her real heritage.
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The stalker that is Mr Grey
If Christian Grey wasn’t a rich pretty boy, and was say a fat, middle aged, used car salesman; 50 Shades of Grey would be made into a Lifetime Original Movie, with Mr. Grey ending up in jail. Seriously, this book raises every red flag warning signal I learned during my Military Police training. Grey is a fucking psycho. If a 4th book comes out, it’ll be about him finding a good place to dump Anastasia’s corpse.
The above, found via paikearestored.