I was thinking about how so many of those with power and authority in the Wasteland are referred to not just with their title but an honorific 'the'. So we have The Immortan Joe, The Red/Great/Dark/etc Dementus, and further down there's The People Eater, The Bullet Farmer, The Organic Mechanic, The Octoboss, The History Man. Even some of Joe's trusted subordinates carry this honorific, as the first time we're introduced to Jack he's the Praetorian Jack.

Going back to Fury Road, the same goes for most of the women whom Joe kept locked up in his harem, with a little variation. The Splendid Angharad, Toast the Knowing, The Dag, Cheedo the Fragile.

All of which made me think about Furiosa, who's tried for years upon years to escape the world of the Wasteland and service to the warlords; finally both surrendering to and drawing upon what power and authority she's amassed during that service, in order to have a chance at getting her revenge. How she mutters 'Praetorian Furiosa'. And then when she's ignored, she screams

'I am the Praetorian Furiosa!!!'

Ooo this scratches my brain nicely

Dear Americans,

Please stop using Daily Mail articles. Stop citing them as sources. Just stop.

Its cool, you don’t know these things. That’s alright. But seriously listen for a sec.

The Daily Mail is Fox News. Its Fox News on a bad day. Every story is exaggerated, sensationalised, or downright made up. 

It is not a newspaper that gives unbiased storylines. It is not a newspaper that gives accurate statistics. The Daily Mail lies.

Thanks,

The entirety of the United Kingdom

remember when the teacher dragged a tv on wheels like this kind of thing

and you knew it was gonna be an awesome day

You obviously don’t remember correctly.

You had to push it, not drag it, or this would have happened:

(x)

I HAVEN’T SCREAM LAUGHED SINCE BILBO’S FUCKYOU OUTBURST

Have you ever started to check your tumblr in the middle of getting dressed and half an hour later you’re still standing in your underwear with one sock on and also 15 minutes late.

If feminism truly is a fight for “equality”, then why do feminists* hate Egalitarians so much?

Because “Egalitarianism” creates false equivalencies and ignores the underlying social scaffoldings that enforce inequalities.

One of my students (a dude, of fucking course), just to spite me…wrote an entire argumentative essay on egalitarianism.  There’s was a whole lot of “sexism against anyone is baaaaaaad.”  And there wasn’t a damn thing I could do about it because it was clear and well-researched. 

I may take it out in the backyard later and let my dog pee on it though…

It says something about what kind of person you are that you have a problem with someone saying any kind of sexism is bad. That and letting your dog pee on student assignments.

somethingtoobrave:

Few things…. #1. Sexism against men doesn’t exist. This can’t be said enough. You know why? Because the sexism (I’m talking about true sexism, not this “nice guy friendzone incel” bullshit) experienced by men is perpetrated by the same sexist-against-women forces that feminists (the same kind the OP is mocking) fight against. So instead of whining about “sexism of any kind,” might wanna educate yourself first. Recommended reading: A List of “Men’s Rights” Issues That Feminism Is Already Working On #2. You want to complain about teachers abusing students and what kind of person they are and how that correlates to sexism, why not start with the disturbingly high amount of teachers that enforce misogynist viewpoints including that the female student majoring in their class is entering a “male” field and doesn’t belong there? Or how about we go younger and talk about high/middle/and even elementary schools across the country with teachers enforcing dress codes that sexualize a girl’s body and (here is where genuine sexism involving men and where you SHOULD be protesting) enforcing the fact that boys and male teachers/staff members are predisposed to rape/sexual assault and can’t control themselves if they see a certain part of a girl or woman’s body (ANY girl or woman’s body), or even spaghetti straps. #3. This post has been picked up by such garbage as “abuttmaleprivilege” which cries harder for heterosexual white cis men than Fox News. It has also provoked a number of the usual “Tumblr feminist” (FUN FACT: feminism, social justice, and yes, even “men’s rights activists” predate Tumblr by a looooooonnnnng time. Please stop embarrassing yourselves) accusations/whining and people smugly patting themselves on the back for their hateful beliefs based on what they think a feminist is. Here’s a few things though… A) B) If anyone calling themselves “egalitarians” rather than feminists honestly thinks they support egalitarianism, here’s a newsflash: you don’t. If the idea of an historically oppressed group that continues to be oppressed is so offensive to you as a man/men that you have to pick/co-opt a new name to separate yourself from them, YOU DON’T BELIEVE IN EQUALITY FOR EVERYONE.

#1 Sexism doesn’t exist against men? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA women don’t have power you say HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! So all those female police officers, teachers, employers, guardians, administrators, managers and College professors just have zero power to exert their own biases and bigotries upon the people who are subject to said so called none existent power HAHAHAHAH!! oh wow! And let me guess sexism couldn’t possibly exist on an individual level, Theres no way individuals could be responsible for exerting sexism BECAUSE ALL SEXISM IS INSTITUTIONALIZED. Fuck me you’re so full of shit it’s spilling out all over your key board.

#2 Why the fuck are you using the misogyny in the school system to defend this bigot who is confessing to her bigotry right here on tumblr this isn’t fucking playschool, this is fucking college and she’s allowing her own sexist(YES INDEED SHE IS CAPABLE OF SEXISM) biases influence how she approaches her students. Yes there is sexism in the universities but two wrongs don’t make a right and this person is no less deplorable than the misogynists you complain about. It is peoples futures she’s dictating after all and she does indeed swing that kind of power.

And since we’re on the topic of sexism in grade schools how about we address the real elephant in the room that is the bias against boys in academic grading. I’d have to say how we grade our children is of significantly greater concern than whether or not girls are allowed to wave their cleavage around in a professional academic institution. I don’t really see how dress codes are going to affect any girls academic output it certainly hasn’t hurt japans academic output. However biases in grading DO actually affect peoples academic out put.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/03/elementary-school-bias-boys_n_2404898.html

http://www.drheller.com/genderbias.html

http://toysoldier.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/new-study-shows-grading-bias/

That’s not to say girls don’t face their own biases in grade school

http://www.livescience.com/19552-girls-math-teachers-bias.html

But there is clearly something seriously wrong that has resulted in a steady decline in male success rate at school despite comparable test scores.

#3 what abuttmaleprivilege has said in the past, regardless of any interpreted sexism is not relevant to the current topic at hand. The only thing relevant to the topic at hand is what abuttmaleprivilege has said  about the topic at hand. To say otherwise is participating in an ad hominem which is the lowliest form of debate. It says I can’t counter this persons opinion so I’m simply going to use that persons past to call in to question their character. Once again I thought we were outside of playschool. CLEARLY I WAS WRONG!

#4 I can support equality without buying in to feminism as a political movement. Feminism is built on preconceived tenants, dogma and an assumption that the grass is always greener on the other gender. Yet at the same time it has UTTERLY AND COMPLETELY FAILED to address the staggeringly high suicide, murder, assault and homelessness rates amongst men as well as a steady decline male success rates in primary education. Not only that it has completely failed to address male victims of spousal abuse who’s numbers though lower than that of women are still comparable in severity and commonality. There are a multitude of other serious psychological, social and financial issues plaguing men that feminism has only helped to toss fuel on such as unreasonable child support payments and the bias in the legal system but frankly I don’t have anymore time to waste on an ignorant piece of shit like you so here have some links and enjoy

Spousal abuse

 http://www.mediaradar.org/docs/Dutton_GenderParadigmInDV-Pt1.pdf

Male suicide

http://www.suicide.org/suicide-statistics.html

Victims of violence

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0311.pdf

Homelessness

http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/who.html

In it’s pursuit of women’s rights, feminism has completely and utterly neglected the psychological needs and wellbeing of the opposite gender all the while painting an overly simplified, biased and frankly villainous image of the male sex while also refusing to acknowledge the sexual, social and institutional pressures that women, as active members of society, exert on both men and other women.

In short go fuck yourself you smug, self-righteous sack of shit PEACE!

-Morgan

Normally I wouldn’t honor this type of attention-seeking garbage with a reblog, but this individual has followers who I believe have made several personal threats now (including rape threats to somethingtoobrave), and why not slap down the mosquito before you block ‘n’ ignore their bile? Well, golly there, Morgan, you’ve certainly opened this up to reasonable and rational debate backed up with facts with that little ending. But what the hell, let’s dance. ”women don’t have power you say” Um, no? I never said that. Oppression of group =/= don’t have power. “So all those female police officers, teachers, employers, guardians, administrators, managers and College professors just have zero power to exert their own biases and bigotries upon the people who are subject to said so called none existent power HAHAHAHAH!!” Once again, absolutely never said that. Relevant to this: · straw man argument ”And let me guess sexism couldn’t possibly exist on an individual level, Theres no way individuals could be responsible for exerting sexism BECAUSE ALL SEXISM IS INSTITUTIONALIZED. Fuck me you’re so full of shit it’s spilling out all over your key board.” Oh, you borrowed that last part from Oscar Wilde, didn’t you! Anyway, something very important: Institutional sexism or any kind of institutionalized bigotry is not the same as discrimination. A man who is treated rudely by a woman because he is a man is not the same as a woman who makes less than 70% of what a man makes in the same position. “this bigot” You get a meme that time because that is such a profoundly ridiculous accusation to make based on even just what we’ve seen here. ”this person is no less deplorable than the misogynists you complain about.” Sigh. Let’s go through this as best as I can explain it to a reactionary troll on Tumblr who is doing this largely for attention (because people that see this reblog might not know about/can learn from this). Number one, let’s refer back to institutional bigotry versus personal discrimination. Even if somethingtoobrave had said “I can’t fucking stand men. They’re all alike,” while that would be personal discrimination, no, that would not be as bad as the misogynists I “complain” about, as I’m fairly sure that imaginary person would not threaten men with rape and/or if they were raped, go on about how it was justified. For those unaware, somethingtoobrave made a personal message to me on something she didn’t think would get reblogged/picked up by anti-feminist groups on Tumblr. That was her only mistake. For a background, an asshole (my word) in her class has repeatedly made sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, and just about every other kind of bigoted remarks one can dream up. And you know something, internet-flame-war-thrower-who-isn’t-really-reading-this-just-getting-ready-to-spew? Said dude is infamous. When she called him out for making bigoted remarks in class (not because she is an evil feminazi Tumblr Social Justice Warrior!™ but because they were clearly upsetting/insulting members of her class, including, yes, men), he reported her to the administration for “discriminating against white heterosexual men.” So some jackass bigot holds more power than (gasp!) a female college professor just trying to make the class safe for everyone. ”whether or not girls are allowed to wave their cleavage around in a professional academic institution.” Dressing for comfort in warm weather (most public schools in the country ban tank tops for girls from middle school up) isn’t quite the same as “waving their cleavage around” (never mind the fact that this is spreading to elementary schools). Interestingly, nearly all dress code restrictions address female students, not males. And before anyone can pipe up about how males aren’t the ones with “their bodies on display”, I can direct you to plenty of males with their underwear hanging out (I do not know why this fashion trend hasn’t died), in tank tops, and muscle shirts, that face little if any retribution from school officials for their clothing, and certainly not (as we’ve seen right here in this post!) the public shaming that female students encounter. And certainly bearing your boxers is not exactly attire for “a professional academic institution”, no? ”how about we address the real elephant in the room that is the bias against boys in academic grading” Not sure you understand what the expression “elephant in the room” means, but let’s go. Regarding the bias against boys in the classroom, I’m unsure why you don’t think that’s a feminist concern (actually, I’m not unsure as to why YOU don’t think it is, for reasons I’ll get into). Generally, such biases work against both genders (even if said biases initially favor the more oppressed of the two, they create a seesaw effect and work to institutionalize bigotry; see: benevolent prejudice). I hesitate to make round statements about what “all feminists” do (I know it’s shocking to someone who finds the term so offensive as to spew the bile you do, but those wearing the name “feminist” actually span the political spectrum, even on Tumblr; have a look around outside your echo chamber), but one of the most well-known feminist poems (even if people are surprised to learn it’s a feminist poem since they have the same misguided view of feminism you carry) addresses the fact that sexism affects everyone (and therefore, feminism is for everybody). “To say otherwise is participating in an ad hominem which is the lowliest form of debate. It says I can’t counter this persons opinion so I’m simply going to use that persons past to call in to question their character. Once again I thought we were outside of playschool. CLEARLY I WAS WRONG!” Yes, everyone reading this, this user who has flung name-calls at everyone and ended this with “go fuck yourself you smug, self-righteous sack of shit PEACE!” is actually calling out someone else for using (what they believe to be) the ad hominem argument. Are we all done snickering/shaking our heads? Okay, let’s go.

Definition of ad hominem courtesy ol’ Wikipedia: “An ad hominem (Latin for “to the man” or “to the person”[1]), short for argumentum ad hominem, is an argument made personally against an opponent instead of against their argument.[2]” (Sources cited because although it’s the default resource, it is Wikipedia.) You’re most welcome! “abuttmaleprivilege” is by name (as in, the name of the Tumblr in which they reblogged that post) mocking the Tumblr that addresses and dissects male privilege (aboutmaleprivilege, for anyone that didn’t get the super-witty pun). If “abuttmaleprivilege” were a personal Tumblr (like, say, this one, or somethingtoobrave’s Tumblr) this might be a different story. However, it’s a Tumblr devoted to anti-feminism, run by several moderators (although it wouldn’t make a difference even if it was run by one person). Your fourth paragraph, you know, the one you didn’t “have anymore [sic] time to waste on an ignorant piece of shit like [me]” (man, you must really hate ad hominem attacks), is based around one intensely flawed theory: All feminism and anyone and anything that identifies as feminist is a part of a group think, a singular political philosophy complete unsubjective with stated laws adhered and enforced (wow, who’d have thought Sarah Palin and Kathleen Hanna even hung out together?). This is blatantly false, as even a cursory search (warning: it will destroy your preconceived notions and the entire falsehood on which you base your “arguments”) of just this website will show you. While, yet again, the term feminist is subjective, you’ll find that most major feminist organizations (particularly here in the blogosphere) adhere to the “third wave” principle of feminism is intersectional or it’s bullshit. They are concerned with ANY kind of spousal abuse or domestic violence, the surrounding factors of suicide (including ableism and lack of access to proper mental healthcare, classism), and the factors surrounding the phenomenon of homelessness, including racism, classism, and ableism.  While I realize these things are hard to hear when you’ve based an entire philosophy around the Rush Limbaugh cartoon nonsense propagated by the very groups people fighting for true equality OPPOSE, it’s worth doing a fact-check before you throw around the term “feminist” anymore. ”In short go fuck yourself you smug, self-righteous sack of shit PEACE!” Wait, “in short”? As in, the summation of your entire argument? For someone who is worried about wasting time, you could’ve just cut to the chase. Now hold on, did you misspell “piece” or did you forget to break the sentence? I’m not sure. But really, And that’s the end of that.

Fan-bloody-tastic.

Once Upon A Time au The Avengers

(requested by wendylynndarling)