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There has only been five female characters comfirmed playable compared to fifteen male characters.
I’m amazed at those exact numbers because 33% is the point where men will start thinking there’s a majority of women in a group.
*white guy shoots up jewish community center*
*kills 3 men*
*member of the kkk*
*yells ‘heil hitler’ before being apprehended by police*
“were still unclear on a motive for the suspect”Intentionally went into a public place with weapons to create panic in a specific group of people, but is not referred to as a terrorist.
Fuck that shit. Hate crimes = Terrorism.
PSA: Your Tumblr
So, most of you know that your facebook can be viewed/monitored by employers. But I know a girl who got fired a few weeks ago because her boss used her email from her application TO FIND HER TUMBLR – where she had said some not nice things about her boss, job and coworkers.
And after some discussion, a worker who over heard the conversation for a Staffing Company confessed that they use your email to find you on several social networking sites (Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook being the first ones they check) and that they recommend it to employers as well.
You can prevent this on Tumblr by deselecting the “let people look me up by this address” box. It also helps to never tag your name, or have your full name on your blog if it’s also searchable by search engines.
It was just brought to my attention to post this because if your out on your blog, but not IRL, your employer could potentially out you to your coworkers, friends or family. Plus I also think it’s a huge violation of privacy, since some of these blogs are outlets from your everyday life. So protect yourself fellow bloggers 🙂
Pro tips:
Don’t use the same email for your work stuff (job search, your resume, etc) that you do for your personal life. Your professional email should be some logical derivative of your birth name or legal name. It should not be fandom oriented at all. Then, if your prospective boss searches your resume email, they don’t find your fandom stuff so quickly.
If your prospective boss is not going to approve of your fandom stuff period, you weren’t going to stay there long anyway. Own your hobbies. You don’t need to shove them in people’s faces, but own them. Be proud of them; put your tasteful artwork in your cubicle, talk to your co-workers about your shows. Don’t be ashamed of it, and you will get hired at a place that you don’t need to hide your tumblr.
If you MUST bitch about your work or your boss online, lock it up. Put it somewhere that only your non-work friends have access to, if you need their commiseration. Yes, you have the right to free speech, but they have the right to know you’re unhappy. Imagine how you feel when you accidentally stumble across someone badmouthing you online — they feel the same way.
If you put it in public, the public will see it. Things on the internet cannot be considered private unless you do the work to limit the number of people who can casually see it. So be aware of what you put out there, and be willing to own those things, and to accept the consequences if someone unexpected finds it.
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Faith in humanity restored! Never judge a book by its cover!
The current pope called gay couples adopting kids child abuse and has openly spoken out against gay marriage so you know he’s still kind of scum so stop reblogging those fucking photosets about how great he is
oh god, yes, please stop. he is the same as the other one, but better at PR. oh but he doesn’t “judge” gay people: that’s nice, according to him they’re still going to hell unless they stop gaying, and atheists are still literally not human.
Oh no, please Mr Pope abrogate all your beliefs or nothing you ever do is good!
How does this make you any different from him?
October “Toby” Daye was in many ways my first “real” protagonist. She was complicated, she was sad, she was bruised and refusing to break, and she was not afraid to put her duty ahead of her desire to be liked. She bullied her way through the world she was created to inhabit, looking at every complication that stood in her way and saying “No, you move.” After a lifetime spent moving dolls through stories, it was like I finally had a real person to follow and document. I started writing her adventures, and sending them out to people I trusted to read and review. Midway through either the second or the third book—I don’t remember anymore—I got a note from one of my proofers saying “You can’t have Toby do this, she’s always been a little bitchy, but this makes her a total bitch. No one will like her if she does this.”
I panicked. I couldn’t write a series about an unlikeable character! I’d never get published, no one else would ever meet my imaginary friends, and everything I’d worked for my whole life would be over, all because Toby was unlikeable.
Then I took a deep breath, and wrote back to the proofer requesting that they do a find/replace on the .doc, and plug in the name “Harry Dresden” for every instance of “October Daye.” They did, and lo and behold, what had been “bitchy” and “inappropriate” was suddenly “bold” and “assertive.” A male character in the same situation, with the same background, taking the same actions, was completely in the right, justified, and draped with glory. He was a hero. Toby? Toby was an unlikeable bitch.
The proofer withdrew the compliant. I have never forgotten it.
It reminds me of the “bike to work” movement. That is also portrayed as white, but in my city more than half of the people on bike are not white. I was once talking to a white activist who was photographing “bike commuters” and had only pictures of white people with the occasional “black professional” I asked her why she didn’t photograph the delivery people, construction workers etc. … ie. the black and Hispanic and Asian people… and she mumbled something about trying to “improve the image of biking” then admitted that she didn’t really see them as part of the “green movement” since they “probably have no choice” –
I was so mad I wanted to quit working on the project she and I were collaborating on.
So, in the same way when people in a poor neighborhood grow food in their yards … it’s just being poor– but when white people do it they are saving the earth or something.
comment left on the Racialious blog post “Sustainable Food & Priviledge: Why is Green always White (and Male and Upper-Class)
This is fucking important.
Same concept as rich white people improvising with what they have = life hack but poor white people improvising with what they have = redneck/ white trash and black people improvising with what they have = ghetto. This has gotta stop.
(via karenfelloutofbedagain)
“Yes, being in a female dominated field, I do know what it means to be marginalized. “
oh
my
god
omg
oh my fucking god
The really ugly part is they’ve actually done multiple sociological studies on this, and guess what the result is? Men in female-dominated fields aren’t marginalized at all; they get special treatment and are fast-tracked to the top, getting more credit for their work, faster promotions, and greater pay and benefits than their female colleagues.
That’s pretty much what I expected (though sad). I’ll hold onto these if I come into contact with this guy again.
The Best Birth Control In The World Is For Men by Jon Clinkenbeard
If I were going to describe the perfect contraceptive, it would go something like this: no babies, no latex, no daily pill to remember, no hormones to interfere with mood or sex drive, no negative health effects whatsoever, and 100 percent effectiveness. The funny thing is, something like that currently exists.
The procedure called RISUG in India (reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance) takes about 15 minutes with a doctor, is effective after about three days, and lasts for 10 or more years…
Oh, and when you do decide you want those babies, it only takes one other injection of water and baking soda to flush out the gel, and within two to three months, you’ve got all your healthy sperm again.
The trouble is, most people don’t even know this exists. And if men only need one super-cheap shot every 10 years or more, that’s not something that gets big pharmaceutical companies all fired up, because they’ll make zero money on it (even if it might have the side benefit of, you know, destroying HIV).
signal boost
DUDE
dude
dude
DUDE
can this replace the normal contraception methods we have pls
I’m just going to keep reblogging this until people start paying attention, because people aren’t.
me, too.