Candy frosting and techno gore

kawaiiwigs: Click for source.

Sat, 25 May 2013 09:42:54 -0400

kawaiiwigs:

Click for source.

stephaniepepper: an aged clifford and emily elizabeth aka...

Sat, 25 May 2013 09:41:01 -0400

stephaniepepper:

an aged clifford and emily elizabeth

aka clifford fan art???

darkskiesfilm: The Count Down Begins. Own Dark Skies on...

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:26:19 -0400

darkskiesfilm:

The Count Down Begins. Own Dark Skies on Blu-Ray™ May 28^th

toadlyoko: So in middle school we weren’t allowed to have any drinks aside from water but I kept...

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:51:55 -0400

toadlyoko:

So in middle school we weren’t allowed to have any drinks aside from water but I kept sprite or the clear kool aid in a water bottle and felt like I was someone who made moonshine during the prohibition era.

rainwood: Indigenous people of Brazil trying to prevent their...

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:40:42 -0400

rainwood:

Indigenous people of Brazil trying to prevent their eviction from an old indigenous museum which they have been living in for the past 7 years.

On March 22nd all of the inhabitants and their supporters were forcibly removed or arrested.

The building is being destroyed to make a parking lot :(

overwhelmedbyfeels: We need to talk about Marina. (2/4)

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:36:21 -0400

overwhelmedbyfeels:

We need to talk about Marina. (2/4)

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ex0skeletal: Saiful Haque http://saifuldesigns.blogspot.com/

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:42:20 -0400

ex0skeletal:

Saiful Haque

http://saifuldesigns.blogspot.com/

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suicideblonde: Fan Bing Bing at the Cannes Film Festival...

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:31:00 -0400

suicideblonde:

Fan Bing Bing at the Cannes Film Festival premiere of Jeune & Jolie, May 16th

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tokesuo: pets

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:36:48 -0400

tokesuo:

pets

The Problem with 'Boys Will Be Boys'

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:22:13 -0400

The Problem with 'Boys Will Be Boys':

For months, every morning when my daughter was in preschool, I watched her construct an elaborate castle out of blocks, colorful plastic discs, bits of rope, ribbons and feathers, only to have the same little boy gleefully destroy it within seconds of its completion.

No matter how many times he did it, his parents never swooped in BEFORE the morning’s live 3-D reenactment of “Invasion of AstroMonster.” This is what they’d say repeatedly:

“You know! Boys will be boys!”

“He’s just going through a phase!”

“He’s such a boy! He LOVES destroying things!”

“Oh my god! Girls and boys are SO different!”

“He. Just. Can’t. Help himself!”

I tried to teach my daughter how to stop this from happening. She asked him politely not to do it. We talked about some things she might do. She moved where she built. She stood in his way. She built a stronger foundation to the castle, so that, if he did get to it, she wouldn’t have to rebuild the whole thing. In the meantime, I imagine his parents thinking, “What red-blooded boy wouldn’t knock it down?”

She built a beautiful, glittery castle in a public space.

It was so tempting.

He just couldn’t control himself and, being a boy, had violent inclinations.

She had to keep her building safe.

Her consent didn’t matter. Besides, it’s not like she made a big fuss when he knocked it down. It wasn’t a “legitimate” knocking over if she didn’t throw a tantrum.

His desire — for power, destruction, control, whatever- - was understandable.

Maybe she “shouldn’t have gone to preschool” at all. OR, better if she just kept her building activities to home.

I know it’s a lurid metaphor, but I taught my daughter the preschool block precursor of don’t “get raped” and this child, Boy #1, did not learn the preschool equivalent of “don’t rape.”

Not once did his parents talk to him about invading another person’s space and claiming for his own purposes something that was not his to claim. Respect for her and her work and words was not something he was learning. How much of the boy’s behavior in coming years would be excused in these ways, be calibrated to meet these expectations and enforce the “rules” his parents kept repeating?

There was another boy who, similarly, decided to knock down her castle one day. When he did it his mother took him in hand, explained to him that it was not his to destroy, asked him how he thought my daughter felt after working so hard on her building and walked over with him so he could apologize. That probably wasn’t much fun for him, but he did not do it again.

There was a third child. He was really smart. He asked if he could knock her building down. She, beneficent ruler of all pre-circle-time castle construction, said yes… but only after she was done building it and said it was OK. They worked out a plan together and eventually he started building things with her and they would both knock the thing down with unadulterated joy. You can’t make this stuff up.

Take each of these three boys and consider what he might do when he’s older, say, at college, drunk at a party, mad at an ex-girlfriend who rebuffs him and uses words that she expects will be meaningful and respecte, “No, I don’t want to. Stop. Leave.”

The “overarching attitudinal characteristic” of abusive men is entitlement

areyoubakura: hiding the potato You just ate half of a fucking...

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:43:01 -0400

areyoubakura:

hiding the potato

You just ate half of a fucking raw potato

How could you do this to yourself

offensivehomestucktext: suggested by anonymous (ﾉﾟ0ﾟ)ﾉ~

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:08:43 -0400

offensivehomestucktext:

suggested by anonymous (ﾉﾟ0ﾟ)ﾉ~