Margaret Cho (via anorable)
This is exactly how I feel about being a woman (especially a queer, fat woman) in academia.
(via ecrivaine)
(Source: caffeine-molecule)
These days, I strive to be a bitch, because not being one sucks. Not being a bitch means not having your voice heard. Not being a bitch means you agree with all the bullshit. Not being a bitch means you don’t appreciate all the other bitches who have come before you. Not being a bitch means since Eve ate that apple, we will forever have to pay for her bitchiness with complacence, obedience, acceptance, closed eyes, and open legs.
“You need to have a dirty mind to be in the business of mass communications. Or, at the very least, you need someone with a dirty mind on your staff. Because you do not want to give the sixth grader in all of us this kind of viral amusement.” — Charles Apple, The Visual Side of Journalism. (More sixth-grade humor in his post.)
There’s a desperate competition which leads newscasts to provide what the public wants, not what the public needs. I realize that’s an elitist point of view, but that’s what journalists are paid to do.
Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles points to the ultimate ‘inconvenient truth’ for climate change deniers. They can’t hold back the flood anymore. Their arguments have too many holes. They are being overcome. By reality.
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?
My laptop and my headphones.
