May212013
fuckyeahfeminists: rhrealitycheck: Know Your IX aims to educate every college student in the U.S. about his or her rights under Title IX by the start of the next academic term. In 1972, Title IX of the Education Amendments prohibited sex-based discrimination in schools, guaranteeing students essential and extensive rights to freedom from sexual violence necessary for equal access to education. In 2011, Vice President Biden clarified the standards to which higher education institutions must adhere, including specific guidelines for addressing reports of sexual misconduct. Yet too many colleges today are failing to fulfill their legal and ethical obligations. In the past year, sexual violence survivors have shared their experiences of administrative neglect, disregard, and abuse at institutions including Amherst College, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Yale University, Occidental College, Northwestern University, and Rice University. Their experiences are not unique but representative of sexually hostile campus environments across the country. We believe it is time for change. Let’s make next semester better than this one. They just have a few days to reach their goal! Please contribute and signal boost! This is so important. signal boosting, please do the same!!

fuckyeahfeminists:

rhrealitycheck:

Know Your IX aims to educate every college student in the U.S. about his or her rights under Title IX by the start of the next academic term.

In 1972, Title IX of the Education Amendments prohibited sex-based discrimination in schools, guaranteeing students essential and extensive rights to freedom from sexual violence necessary for equal access to education. In 2011, Vice President Biden clarified the standards to which higher education institutions must adhere, including specific guidelines for addressing reports of sexual misconduct.

Yet too many colleges today are failing to fulfill their legal and ethical obligations. In the past year, sexual violence survivors have shared their experiences of administrative neglect, disregard, and abuse at institutions including Amherst College, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Yale University, Occidental College, Northwestern University, and Rice University. Their experiences are not unique but representative of sexually hostile campus environments across the country.

We believe it is time for change. Let’s make next semester better than this one.

They just have a few days to reach their goal! Please contribute and signal boost! This is so important.

signal boosting, please do the same!!
7AM
hammpix: For those of you who don’t understand archaeology, I have made a diagram.

hammpix:

For those of you who don’t understand archaeology, I have made a diagram.

(via nothing-rhymes-with-ianto)
7AM
paragonpostcards: Literally the American employment system. Also the British employment system.

paragonpostcards:

Literally the American employment system.

Also the British employment system.

(via nothing-rhymes-with-ianto)
7AM

From Reddit: Why Do Men Keep Putting Me in the Girlfriend-Zone?

mildlyamused:

You know how it is, right, ladies? You know a guy for a while. You hang out with him. You do fun things with him—play video games, watch movies, go hiking, go to concerts. You invite him to your parties. You listen to his problems. You do all this because you think he wants to be your friend.

But then, then comes the fateful moment where you find out that all this time, he’s only seen you as a potential girlfriend. And then if you turn him down, he may never speak to you again. This has happened to me time after time: I hit it off with a guy, and, for all that I’ve been burned in the past, I start to think that this one might actually care about me as a person. And then he asks me on a date.

I tell him how much I enjoy his company, how much I value his friendship. I tell him that I really want to be his friend and to continue hanging out with him and talking about our favorite books or exploring new restaurants or making fun of avant-garde theatre productions. But he rejects me. He doesn’t answer my calls or e-mails; if we’d been making plans to do something before this fateful incident, these plans mysteriously fail to materialize. (This is why I never did get around to seeing the Hunger Games movie. Not to name any names, but thanks a lot, Tom.) Later, when I run into him at social events, our conversations are awkward and lukewarm. This is because the moment we met, he put me in the girlfriend-zone, and now he can’t see me as friend material.

I must say that I find this really unfair. I mean, I’m a nice girl. I have a lot to offer as a friend, like not being a douchebag and stuff. But males just don’t want to be friends with nice girls like me. They can’t help it, I guess; it’s just how they’re wired, biologically. Evolution conditioned our male hominid ancestors to seek nice girls as mates and form friendship bonds only with the other dudes that they hunted mammoths with. It’s true—I know this because I studied hominids in my fifth-grade science class.

So what’s the answer? Should I take up mammoth-hunting in an attempt to appeal to the friendship centers of men’s primal lizardbrains? Should I keep making guy “friends” and then prevent them from making a move on me by subtly undermining their self-confidence? Should I just give up on those manipulative, game-playing, two-faced bastards once and for all? I don’t know. I mean, I’d really like to have a true friendship with a guy someday, but it’s so hard to trust and respect them when they never say what they mean—and you never know when you might be relegated to the girlfriend-zone.


Source

this is perfect

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May192013
“Yes, false rape accusations happen. Run the protocol anyway. I’ve heard that perhaps the military has the highest number of ‘em. True or not, RUN THE PROTOCOL ANYWAY. Because in 15 years of investigating rape accusations, I can count those that panned out as false on one hand. Meanwhile, the one time I almost skipped the protocol, the one time I almost didn’t believe a petty officer, because I was naive as an investigator and a young woman, because her commanding officer described her as “a party girl, always late, always out drinking, don’t bother with this one”, she turned out to be the victim of one of the most brutal assaults I’ve ever investigated. She shouldn’t have still been -alive-, let alone up and making the accusation. So let me repeat: five false accounts in fifteen years. And one time I almost failed a woman ‘cause of the bullshit way it’s normal to talk about us. Take your shipmates’ word, and then run the protocol. Every. Single. Time.”

 - JAG lawyer, speaking to my husband’s plant during Sexual Assault Prevention Month. (via circusbones)

Rape culture means being more worried about a handful of men being accused of a crime and then proven innocent than helping hundreds and hundreds of actual rape victims over the course of 15 years.

(via justplainsomething)

(via nothing-rhymes-with-ianto)
May122013

oneextendedhyperbole asked: You have a deep love of reading and words - you love the combinations of words that create gorgeous poetry (jfc, this sounds pretentious). You're proud of who you are too and are extremely friendly. :)

I’d say that’s about right - I do love reading and interesting word combinations :) And that doesn’t sound pretentious at all!

Generally my policy is to try to be civil and friendly to everyone, but if someone doesn’t like me for an irrational reason, there’s often not a lot of point trying to convince them otherwise. So yes, I’d agree with you there. Thankies! :D

May112013

I wanna know what people assume about me because of my tumblr.

Put an assumption in my ask. I’ll confirm or dispute it. I’m not gonna be mean or anything, I’m just very interested.

(Source: askboxmemes, via oneextendedhyperbole)

3PM

Reblog if you think reading is cool.

aroundthesunlikeateddybear:

My little sister is having a little trouble with a person at her school because she likes reading and this person deems it ‘not cool’.

I want to prove to her that there are lots of people who love reading and think it is very much cool :D

A little reblog would be amazing! Thank you!

(via falconwhitaker)

May82013
1-4m-5h3rl0ck3d: urban-pooka: mid2000snatalieportman: pushinglackadaisies: mewlymae: #’whatever you find’ #that’s a pretty broad definition #i personally would not be satisfied if i found #say #an alligator in my partner’s pants #genitalia is cool #carnivorous reptiles are not. is pansexuality not caring if you find an alligator yes If the alligator is limp, is it a reptile dysfunction? we need to get outside a pertinent observation about bisexuality and biphobia…aaaand then hello there you are tumblr.

1-4m-5h3rl0ck3d:

urban-pooka:

mid2000snatalieportman:

pushinglackadaisies:

mewlymae:

#’whatever you find’ #that’s a pretty broad definition #i personally would not be satisfied if i found #say #an alligator in my partner’s pants #genitalia is cool #carnivorous reptiles are not.

is pansexuality not caring if you find an alligator

yes

If the alligator is limp, is it a reptile dysfunction?

we need to get outside

a pertinent observation about bisexuality and biphobia…aaaand then hello there you are tumblr.

(Source: internetwhore, via notabuddhist)
April292013

Falcon Whitaker: tinctorian: do-not-feed-the-animal: i-am-fangirl-hear-me-squeel:...

tinctorian:

do-not-feed-the-animal:

i-am-fangirl-hear-me-squeel:

captainamerica-in-middle-earth:

tardisinshire:

starllex:

starllex:

why is blood so hard to wash off of your hands?

I JUST REALIZED HOW BAD THIS SOUNDS FOR THE RECORD I HAD A NOSE BLEED IM…

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