Ankerwycke

Emperor Palpatine may no longer be the Vicar of Christ on Earth,...

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:12:41 -0500

Emperor Palpatine may no longer be the Vicar of Christ on Earth, but he’s still due for a crimes-against-humanity trial in the Hague.

ohhitumblr: Goddaughter can’t read yet, but maybe she will...

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 11:04:00 -0500

ohhitumblr:

Goddaughter can’t read yet, but maybe she will within the next year or so.

It doesn’t have to be a pop-up, but I’m pretty sure she loves The Very Hungry Caterpillar because of the pop-ups.

And I hope she finds this one day and smiles, too!

(I also hope she’s a militant feminist who appreciates the rest of my tumblr too)

I suggest Stephen Biesty’s Incredible Cross-Sections Pop-Up Book. It’s a little early, perhaps, for some of the detail, but it’s a book that would grow with her, and would expose her to the awesomeness of LIFE with all of its bits and pieces. I credit him, the DK Science Encyclopedia, and Eyewitness Books for my love of complexity, and random facts.

IMO, kids are never too young to start learning complicated things. They’re just too young to understand them as fully as they will. And failing to expose them to such things will only stunt their growth.

EHRMAGEHRD FURRMYNISM

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:30:22 -0500

EHRMAGEHRD FURRMYNISM

ALL OF THIS IS ME baseln: @moutheyes is dat u?

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:16:34 -0500

ALL OF THIS IS ME

baseln:

@moutheyes is dat u?

nihilnovisubsole: The Ultimate Dandies by Karl Lagerfeld...

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:16:03 -0500

nihilnovisubsole:

The Ultimate Dandies by Karl Lagerfeld for Numero Homme

Man, dandyism is a little outside my eras of interest, but look at that craftsmanship.

Just look at it.

Also, there’s a lot of curly hair in this picture.

Into bottom center (therefore center right and top right). Absolute center is an embarrassing orientalism.

free-parking: These color photographs were all taken in the...

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:14:06 -0500

free-parking:

These color photographs were all taken in the Russian Empire between 1909 and 1918.

Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii was a Russian photographer born in 1863. After studying chemistry with Mendeleev and later with Adolf Miethe, Gorskii started developing his own techniques and processes of color photography, giving it a quality that impresses even today.
In 1909, he convinced the Tsar Nicolas II to send him on a trip across the Russian Empire to document its impressive diversity. It was a 10-year project, during which Gorskii took over 10,000 pictures.

The diversity of the people, and the shockingly modern colors of their portraits, make them impossible to forget. They are our contemporaries, now that they stopped hiding between the unfocused black-and-whiteness.

They are almost too present. [via]

I NEED A BOOK OF THESE, STAT

Raging Man-Hater: Ok here’s where I get lost:Privilege (in the social justice world) is...

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:16:01 -0500

Raging Man-Hater: Ok here’s where I get lost:Privilege (in the social justice world) is...:

ohhitumblr:

ankerwycke:

That’s not what privilege is. Privilege is a phenomenon created from the arrangement of power structures (social, political, economic, and/or cultural) so as to protect certain defined classes of people from a hardship suffered by other, usually disadvantaged classes of people.

That a ciswoman can usually make use of a larger bathroom than a transwoman (since gender-neutral bathrooms tend to be single-stall and fewer in number than their gendered counterparts), or, mutatis mutandis, a cisman a transman, is a form of privilege.

Not all forms of privilege are equivalently evil (in kind or degree), and it comes in many shapes, sizes, and hues. In fact, most forms of privilege consist in accretions of smaller, subtler privileges that are harder to identify and flush. (Hence, perhaps, the Magical Persistence of Sexism in the Workplace, among other things.)

Men are the leading perpetrators of sexism, followed by certain classes of women. There’s nothing wrong with acknowledging that, in my view.

Can you give an example of a cissexist thing you think is misattributed?

I disagree— I think it’s actually very harmful to blame sexism on women. Especially since that sexism is a result of internalized misogyny, which exists as a result of the oppression of the female sex class by the male sex class. So if we go around shouting “OMG SEXISM” at women, we get to ignore the real root of the problem— men.

And if we work with the definition of privilege as outlined in your reply— protection from hardship suffered by other classes of people— this hardship suffered by the trans community is the result of not conforming to assigned gender roles. Gender roles are a function of the patriarchy used to uphold the oppression of women. Women are a not privileged class in this system.

The misattribution I see the most frequently (at least on tumblr) is the framing of abortion/reproductive health rights as a women’s issue. @vialisa explains this here very concisely, so I will refer you to her post.

As to that misattribution: totally agreed that we can talk about abortion as a “women’s issue” completely validly, because the class of “women” is real and the principal target of the evangelical and Catholic hierarchies driving most of the anti-reproductive rights and pro-state legislation of bedroom behavior rearguard actions in this country.

I also think that there are also many times and places where it would be creditable for movement members to acknowledge the “women’s reproductive health” issue as a member of a deserving class of interrelated issues that underpin much of the privilege structures in modern society, some of which are trans issues.

When one movement member castigates another for not checking cis-privilege, rather than mentions it constructively, s/he does the other a disservice. There are many ways to think about most things, and we all make mistakes or omissions, sometimes calculated to a particular rhetorical end, sometimes not.

But I’d rather not venture into territory that allows one’s major ideological concern (which, for you, is feminism) to implictly monopolize legitimacy over multifaceted issues. And people can reasonably disagree as to the exact proportions in play. The important thing is to recognize the similarities and pursue the differences in accordance with the fora in which they’re to be presented and the goals they’re to accomplish. Is this fair, you think?

Raging Man-Hater: Ok here’s where I get lost:Privilege (in the social justice world) is...

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:51:09 -0500

Raging Man-Hater: Ok here’s where I get lost:Privilege (in the social justice world) is...:

meretricula:

ankerwycke:

ohhitumblr:

Ok here’s where I get lost:

Privilege (in the social justice world) is benefiting from the oppression of others.

So when we talk about cis privilege, I get confused.

That’s not what privilege is. Privilege is a phenomenon created from the arrangement of power structures (social, political, economic, and/or cultural) so as to protect certain defined classes of people from a hardship suffered by other, usually disadvantaged classes of people.

That a ciswoman can usually make use of a larger bathroom than a transwoman (since gender-neutral bathrooms tend to be single-stall and fewer in number than their gendered counterparts), or, mutatis mutandis, a cisman a transman, is a form of privilege.

Not all forms of privilege are equivalently evil (in kind or degree), and it comes in many shapes, sizes, and hues. In fact, most forms of privilege consist in accretions of smaller, subtler privileges that are harder to identify and flush. (Hence, perhaps, the Magical Persistence of Sexism in the Workplace, among other things.)

Men are the leading perpetrators of sexism, followed by certain classes of women. There’s nothing wrong with acknowledging that, in my view.

Can you give an example of a cissexist thing you think is misattributed?

Also it may help to take a step back and look at it in a broader context? People who conform to gender norms are rewarded by our society: they’re “prettier”, they have an easier time getting jobs, they can’t be fired for expressing their gender identity, people don’t assume they’re unfit to be a parent or stare at them in the street. Both men and women who are cis benefit from that, although there’s a lot of unpacked gender politics going on too (is it okay in some situations for a woman to want to be a man but not for a man to want to be a woman, why is “sissy” a worse insult than “tomboy”, etc.) and I think that’s where you were going with the original post but I’m not sure. /my $0.02 which nobody asked for

Preach it! With you 100%.

Raging Man-Hater: Ok here’s where I get lost:Privilege (in the social justice world) is...

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:50:01 -0500

Raging Man-Hater: Ok here’s where I get lost:Privilege (in the social justice world) is...:

ohhitumblr:

ankerwycke:

That’s not what privilege is. Privilege is a phenomenon created from the arrangement of power structures (social, political, economic, and/or cultural) so as to protect certain defined classes of people from a hardship suffered by other, usually disadvantaged classes of people.

That a ciswoman can usually make use of a larger bathroom than a transwoman (since gender-neutral bathrooms tend to be single-stall and fewer in number than their gendered counterparts), or, mutatis mutandis, a cisman a transman, is a form of privilege.

Not all forms of privilege are equivalently evil (in kind or degree), and it comes in many shapes, sizes, and hues. In fact, most forms of privilege consist in accretions of smaller, subtler privileges that are harder to identify and flush. (Hence, perhaps, the Magical Persistence of Sexism in the Workplace, among other things.)

Men are the leading perpetrators of sexism, followed by certain classes of women. There’s nothing wrong with acknowledging that, in my view.

Can you give an example of a cissexist thing you think is misattributed?

I disagree— I think it’s actually very harmful to blame sexism on women. Especially since that sexism is a result of internalized misogyny, which exists as a result of the oppression of the female sex class by the male sex class. So if we go around shouting “OMG SEXISM” at women, we get to ignore the real root of the problem— men.

And if we work with the definition of privilege as outlined in your reply— protection from hardship suffered by other classes of people— this hardship suffered by the trans community is the result of not conforming to assigned gender roles. Gender roles are a function of the patriarchy used to uphold the oppression of women. Women are a not privileged class in this system.

The misattribution I see the most frequently (at least on tumblr) is the framing of abortion/reproductive health rights as a women’s issue. @vialisa explains this here very concisely, so I will refer you to her post.

I wasn’t blaming women for sexism; that’s a straw-man argument and I don’t appreciate it. And there is a rich, complex range of expression between acknowledging as part of constructive discourse that “some women can be sexist to other women” and assigning fault for sexism to women exclusively, or even primarily.

Under my definition, privilege is relative. Just like class. Which is why we we find ‘class’ in the language of privilege to begin with. Some women (as a class) enjoy a bundle of privileges that transwomen do not. That makes them ‘privileged’ in a universe of discourse that (as it must, to be just) admits the existence and validates the experiences of transpeople.

Sexism is not the only form of injustice in the world, though it is a principal one, and considering sexism through the lens of privilege helps to site it as an influential, pervasive, terrible force - among many others.

Raging Man-Hater: Ok here’s where I get lost: Privilege (in the social justice world) is...

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:55:08 -0500

Raging Man-Hater: Ok here’s where I get lost: Privilege (in the social justice world) is...:

ohhitumblr:

Ok here’s where I get lost:

Privilege (in the social justice world) is benefiting from the oppression of others.

So when we talk about cis privilege, I get confused.

Because I know that trans people experience oppression for not conforming to the gender that was assigned to them at birth.

But…

That’s not what privilege is. Privilege is a phenomenon created from the arrangement of power structures (social, political, economic, and/or cultural) so as to protect certain defined classes of people from a hardship suffered by other, usually disadvantaged classes of people.

That a ciswoman can usually make use of a larger bathroom than a transwoman (since gender-neutral bathrooms tend to be single-stall and fewer in number than their gendered counterparts), or, mutatis mutandis, a cisman a transman.

Not all forms of privilege are equivalently evil (in kind or degree), and it comes in many shapes, sizes, and hues. In fact, most forms of privilege consist in accretions of smaller, subtler privileges that are harder to identify and flush. (Hence, perhaps, the Magical Persistence of Sexism in the Workplace, among other things.)

Men are the leading perpetrators of sexism, followed by certain classes of women. There’s nothing wrong with acknowledging that, in my view.

Can you give an example of a cissexist thing you think is misattributed?

Raging Man-Hater: Ok here’s where I get lost:Privilege (in the social justice world) is...

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:55:00 -0500

Raging Man-Hater: Ok here’s where I get lost:Privilege (in the social justice world) is...:

ohhitumblr:

Ok here’s where I get lost:

Privilege (in the social justice world) is benefiting from the oppression of others.

So when we talk about cis privilege, I get confused.

Men are the leading perpetrators of sexism, followed by certain classes of women. There’s nothing wrong with acknowledging that, in my view.

Can you give an example of a cissexist thing you think is misattributed?

"Liberal feminism basically teaches: internalize the male gaze, perform for the male gaze and only..."

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:18:39 -0500

“Liberal feminism basically teaches: internalize the male gaze, perform for the male gaze and only then will you be empowered.”

- (via angrywomanistcritic)

This is not the feminism I know in my peers, but it definitely reminds me of the feminism of our parents.

thefluffingtonpost: PHOTO OP: Intense Concentration Via...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:50:54 -0500

thefluffingtonpost:

PHOTO OP: Intense Concentration

Via lafar.

I AM SEEKING IT, SEEKING IT, ALL MY THOUGHT IS BENT ON IT.

ohhitumblr: fokade: ohhitumblr: convertedinvader: ohhitumblr:...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:39:26 -0500

ohhitumblr:

fokade:

ohhitumblr:

convertedinvader:

ohhitumblr:

convertedinvader:

ohhitumblr:

hedonisticparadise:

assortedthoughtsofelah:

itsaboxaballoons:

vampirehunter93:

itsaboxaballoons:

oratorasaurus:

This kind of emotional violence towards young males really needs to stop.

oh man! someone wrote a random scary quote on a picture with no source! guess we better wrap it up, eh?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/07/steubenville-rape-case-splits-town-between-big-red-and-guy-fawkes.html

Page 3. Second to last paragraph. A woman actually said this about her child.

ah

get back to me when you care about actual violence against women

as opposed to mothers trying to teach their sons not to commit any

Keep in mind, this will only happen to the boy if he rapes someone. So what’s the problem here? Hopefully this is the threat he needs to not become a rapist.

This comment was in a news story about a young woman being raped and violated and humiliated and you’re more worried about a hypothetical threat of violence if this kid turns out to be a criminal? Seriously bro, go and drink cyanide.

I’m gonna go ahead and call this sound parenting advice.

I seriously hope none of you are ever going to reproduce.

Here’s the thing: the motive may be right, but the method is certainly not.

That is, while teaching that rape is bad is certainly important, a mother threatening to mutilate and murder her own son is not the way to do it. It’s severely abusive. Not to mention that abusive upbringing has been shown to INCREASE criminal tendencies in people.

But what’s more disturbing is how you don’t even recognize it as abuse. Because since it’s a male child, all you see in him is the potential rapist. You no longer perceive boys as human beings, but monsters in the making, and thus approve of conditioning by threats of violence instead of teaching by reasoning like how actual human beings (which definition is apparently limited to girls and women in your interpretation) are taught.

This bullshit is why we need the MRM.

You missed the part where if he’s not a rapist nothing happens to him…

You missed the fact that a graphic threat of violence is going to emotionally impact a child either way, especially coming from someone they likely trust, like their mother.

You missed the fact that this was in response to the very real violence of a girl being brutally raped. Yeah, the threat of violence might be emotionally damaging, but somehow women manage to exist in public (no thanks to fedora wearing shitheads like you).

But yeah sure let’s be more concerned about the hypothetical violence toward someone who will only experience said violence IF HE RAPES SOMEONE.

Yeah see, you don’t understand, that’s still psychological abuse. A child of 9 wont understand it and may be left damaged.

Dear Lord.

Again, we’re prioritizing the hypothetical damage to a male child over the actual rape of a female child. Good job.

The best part is that I’m not even the person who originally brought this up— I’m the most recent one. It’s clear that y’all care more about picking a fight than this child’s mental health.

How the fuck did this thread even happen?!

UH HUH!

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:37:01 -0500

UH HUH!

Reform the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to reflect the realities of computing and networks in 2013..

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:30:09 -0500

Reform the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to reflect the realities of computing and networks in 2013..:

Because we deserve laws that match, not mock, reality. (via Facebook, January 16, 2013 at 04:57PM)

You Are Not Alone: The fight for electronic privacy reaches Beacon Hill

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:30:36 -0500

You Are Not Alone: The fight for electronic privacy reaches Beacon Hill:

And this is why Massachusetts is the best. (via Facebook, January 16, 2013 at 04:50PM)

This cat and my mother have a lot in...

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:25:05 -0500

This cat and my mother have a lot in common.

thefluffingtonpost:

Cat Ridiculed for Liking All His Own Photos

An area cat named Twiskers is facing the ire of his social media followers this evening after it was discovered that he was artificially inflating the like counts on his Instagram photos by liking them from various accounts he’d set up.

“It’s shameful,” said Tom Detlund, a former-follower of the cat. “I was a huge Twiskers fan — he takes gorgeous landscapes — but when I found out he was boosting his like counts in fraudulent ways, I unfollowed immediately.”

Twiskers has lost at least 12 followers since last night, according to social media tracking web sites.

Via zulumeow.

ugh

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 06:00:00 -0500

Awake for the past 2 hours and it’s almost 6 AM. At least this unhealthy sleep cycle will make getting up for a 5:30 AM flight tomorrow easier.

The 6 Best Dresses At The Golden Globes

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:30:08 -0500

The 6 Best Dresses At The Golden Globes:

YES. (via Facebook, January 15, 2013 at 10:55PM)