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thats-just-the-way-we-roll: milkywaywhite: Animals With...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:31:04 -0400

milkywaywhite:

Animals With Stuffed Animals Of Themselves

Here are some animals hanging out with stuffed animal versions of themselves, which is clearly a thing that animals should be doing a lot more often.

THIS IS THE CUTEST THING EVER!!

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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:06:19 -0400

ilymorgannn: HERE WE SEE THE NASTY VICIOUS PITBULL IN IT’S...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:33:52 -0400

ilymorgannn:

HERE WE SEE THE NASTY VICIOUS PITBULL IN IT’S HORRIFYINGLY NATURAL HABITAT

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Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:34:04 -0400

jaclcfrost: hotels can’t be boring to me they’re just fun even if i’m sitting in the room watching...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:48:11 -0400

jaclcfrost:

hotels can’t be boring to me

they’re just fun

even if i’m sitting in the room watching tv or riding the elevator or sleeping it’s just fun for some reason like they’re average every day things but in a hotel everything is way more amusing and interesting and just simply being in a hotel is fun to me and i don’t understand

"In one recent study, more than 100 university psychologists were asked to rate the CVs of Dr. Karen..."

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:43:37 -0400

““In one recent study, more than 100 university psychologists were asked to rate the CVs of Dr. Karen Miller or Dr. Brian Miller, fictitious applicants for an academic tenure-track job. The CVs were identical, apart from the name. Yet strangely, the male Dr. Miller was perceived (by both male and female reviewers) to have better research, teaching, and service experience than the luckless female Dr. Miller. Overall, about three-quarters of the psychologists thought that Dr. Brian was hirable, while only just under half had the same confidence in Dr. Karen. The same researchers also sent out applications for the position of tenured professor, again identical but for the male and female name at the top. This time, the application was so strong that most of the raters thought that tenure was deserved, regardless of sex. However, the endorsement of Karen’s application was four times more likely to be accompanied by cautionary caveats scrawled in the margins of the questionnaire: such as, ‘I would need to see evidence that she had gotten these grants and publications on her own’ and ‘We would have to see her job talk.’””

- Cordelia Fine, Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference (via cockchomp)

THIS IS REALLY FUCKING IMPORTANT AND INCREDIBLE

(via beloquacious)

Oh hey, just in case you think academia is a haven of progressivism and open-mindedness. Women also have a much harder time obtaining tenure if they are trying to raise a family, while men who have children are more likely to be awarded it.

When I was in graduate school, I attended a “Junior Women Scholars and the Profession’-type mini conference, at which one of the senior scholars told us that, if we wanted to have kids, it was better to do it while we were finishing our degrees. Because then you could prove you were able to handle a baby + research and it would be better to take a semester off as a grad student than a semester off as junior faculty.

All of this is despite the fact that, in the US, hiring committees are not legally allowed to take into account your family status. They aren’t even allowed to ask if you’re married, if you have kids, or what your plans are for kids in the future. It usually comes up somewhat awkwardly during campus visits, where they have to disclose benefits and how the tenure process works.

Like most of the rest of the US, universities and colleges tend to lag woefully behind the rest of the world in offering women choices other than “rock” or “hard place,” and also do not accord men time off for paternity leave, thus ensuring that academic women have to shoulder the weight of those choices. So yay, institutionalized sexism!

(via theletteraesc)

I was trying to explain this in class last week. The others were like, “But here at university everyone knows about this, and there are only so few female tenured profs because they want kids.”

Ding dong, you’re wrong. (Also, that’s a horribly weak argument: whose fault is it that women have to choose between their jobs and having a family to the extent that it becomes a criterion for exclusion?)

now make her named KaRenda Miller and see what happens.
(via katiacambia)

juvenileambition: THIS BEAUTIFUL WOMAN -Was RAPED along her...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 22:02:14 -0400

juvenileambition:

THIS BEAUTIFUL WOMAN

-Was RAPED along her best friend while her husband was tied up and forced to watch.

-Was diagnosed with uterine CANCER

-Had to get a DIVORCE because her husband was gay

What did she do about it all?

-Create a television show with her ex based on their divorce and friendship that still holds strong.

-Laughs just as hard today as she has in the past.

-Fights for the rights of the gay and lesbian community

-Works for the U.S. State department for the Public Diplomacy Envoy for Women’s Health Issues.

-Launched the ‘Cancer Shmancer’ movement, a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring that all women’s cancers be diagnosed while in Stage 1, the most curable stage.

-Has won the following awards: Jon Wayne’s Institute’s Woman of Achievement award, Gilda Award, City of Hope Woman of the Year award, Hebrew University Humanitarian award, Albert Einstien’s College of Medicine’s Spirit of Achievement Award, City of Hope’s Spirit of Life Award, and the ”My Aid Award” for her achievements in support of cancer prevention and rehabilitation.

-She has been cancer free for 12 years.

Now tell me she is not an AMAZING Woman.

When people say they “Hate her” because of her voice, I just want to punch them straight in their faces.

I LOVE FRAN DRESCHER.

AND SHE’S A BOMBSHELL! What an inspiration :’)

steph-was-here: what if when we feel phantom movements on our body they’re really bug ghosts

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 20:46:41 -0400

steph-was-here:

what if when we feel phantom movements on our body they’re really bug ghosts

fuckyeahyoga: twofiftypointeight: I feel awkward posting this...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 10:20:44 -0400

fuckyeahyoga:

twofiftypointeight:

I feel awkward posting this on here but oh well!

Thighs are perpendicular to mat! A lot of people don’t do that in camel!

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Sun, 09 Jun 2013 10:16:09 -0400

gerileigh: alesha: Rue needs!! When’s her birthday? I will...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 10:12:55 -0400

gerileigh:

alesha:

Rue needs!!

When’s her birthday? I will totally get her this! Haha.

November 10!! Definitely gonna have a big first birthday bash.

Rue needs!!

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 22:20:10 -0400

Rue needs!!

doctom666: Today we launched a new billboard as part of our...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 09:53:01 -0400

doctom666:

Today we launched a new billboard as part of our ongoing efforts to educate the public and change perceptions about pit bulls in our area. If you’re on Midlothian Turnpike just east of Powhite Parkway, keep your eyes peeled!

source: Pinterest

I’ve been so down lately. Like everything is moving around me, and I’m doing nothing....

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:50:16 -0400

I’ve been so down lately. Like everything is moving around me, and I’m doing nothing. And I feel stuck. And I wanna go on adventures. And I thought they said all of these feelings were done after high school. I’m the same person with more choices, more responbility, and more god damn bills.

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Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:23:19 -0400

"It’s taboo to admit that you’re lonely. You can make jokes about it, of course. You can tell people..."

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:17:05 -0400

“

It’s taboo to admit that you’re lonely. You can make jokes about it, of course. You can tell people that you spend most of your time with Netflix or that you haven’t left the house today and you might not even go outside tomorrow. Ha ha, funny. But rarely do you ever tell people about the true depths of your loneliness, about how you feel more and more alienated from your friends each passing day and you’re not sure how to fix it. It seems like everyone is just better at living than you are.

A part of you knew this was going to happen. Growing up, you just had this feeling that you wouldn’t transition well to adult life, that you’d fall right through the cracks. And look at you now. La di da, it’s happening.

Your mother, your father, your grandparents: they all look at you like you’re some prized jewel and they tell you over and over again just how lucky you are to be young and have your whole life ahead of you. “Getting old ain’t for sissies,” your father tells you wearily.

You wish they’d stop saying these things to you because all it does is fill you with guilt and panic. All it does is remind you of how much you’re not taking advantage of your youth.

You want to kiss all kinds of different people, you want to wake up in a stranger’s bed maybe once or twice just to see if it feels good to feel nothing, you want to have a group of friends that feels like a tribe, a bonafide family. You want to go from one place to the next constantly and have your weekends feel like one long epic day. You want to dance to stupid music in your stupid room and have a nice job that doesn’t get in the way of living your life too much. You want to be less scared, less anxious, and more willing. Because if you’re closed off now, you can only imagine what you’ll be like later.

Every day you vow to change some aspect of your life and every day you fail. At this point, you’re starting to question your own power as a human being. As of right now, your fears have you beat. They’re the ones that are holding your twenties hostage.

Stop thinking that everyone is having more sex than you, that everyone has more friends than you, that everyone out is having more fun than you. Not because it’s not true (it might be!) but because that kind of thinking leaves you frozen. You’ve already spent enough time feeling like you’re stuck, like you’re watching your life fall through you like a fast dissolve and you’re unable to hold on to anything.

I don’t know if you ever get better. I don’t know if a person can just wake up one day and decide to be an active participant in their life. I’d like to think so. I’d like to think that people get better each and every day but that’s not really true. People get worse and it’s their stories that end up getting forgotten because we can’t stand an unhappy ending. The sick have to get better. Our normalcy depends upon it.

You have to value yourself. You have to want great things for your life. This sort of shit doesn’t happen overnight but it can and will happen if you want it.

Do you want it bad enough? Does the fear of being filled with regret in your thirties trump your fear of living today?

We shall see.

”

- You’re Not Making The Most Of Your 20s by Ryan O’Connell (via arpeggiated)

Woah

(via theconstantstranger)

verbosetherapy: I think you can tell a lot about a person by which death in Harry Potter hurt them...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 21:38:36 -0400

verbosetherapy:

I think you can tell a lot about a person by which death in Harry Potter hurt them the most.

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Thu, 06 Jun 2013 15:43:30 -0400

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Thu, 06 Jun 2013 11:37:34 -0400

Six Seasons and a Movie: unicarna: I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but I’m just so...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 22:02:10 -0400

Six Seasons and a Movie: unicarna: I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but I’m just so...:

unicarna:

I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but I’m just so freaking tired of sexuality being an issue. Period. And I don’t just mean an issue as in people not accepting yours, but also such contexts as “is it true your daughter is a lesbian?” Because jfc even if you don’t mean to…