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Cameron Esposito: Tell your rape jokes. Expect to be challenged on them.

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:51:06 -0400

Cameron Esposito: Tell your rape jokes. Expect to be challenged on them.:

Seems like every 6 months or so - maybe once a year - there is a debate about rape jokes. Here’s how it goes:

A dude tells jokes about rape or deals with hecklers in way that includes rape. A woman hears these jokes or is the heckler. She publicly states that she is upset or didn’t like the joke…

Hello: We need to talk about the Friendzone

Tue, 07 May 2013 09:31:18 -0400

Hello: We need to talk about the Friendzone:

yeti-detective:

How is this even a thing? I’m a dude. I get it. Girls can be scary. They look just like humans, but they make Weird Things happen in your pants-area. It must be magic. They are the Gargamels to your dick’s whatever-Smurf-your-dick-is.

(Sidenote: the makers of The Smurfs meant for each Smurf to…

guttersnipercomics: This is a piece that Ziah Grace and I had...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:22:22 -0400

guttersnipercomics:

This is a piece that Ziah Grace and I had submitted before CA got shuttered. It’s an in-depth wrap-up of the first year of the newly-relaunched Valiant Comics. I’m pretty proud of it. Enjoy.

Donald Glover talking about the comments he received during his...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:43:48 -0400

Donald Glover talking about the comments he received during his campaign to be the next Spider-Man (x)

“I was talking about it with Dan Eckman, who directed my Bonfire video. Can you imagine that trailer? That would be dope. Like it makes sense… a poor black kid in Queens. Like it just fits.”

Racebending.com: Quoting myself because it's relevant to an argument going on on my dash...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 21:01:22 -0400

Racebending.com: Quoting myself because it's relevant to an argument going on on my dash...:

moniquill:

Where is it that your piece is set that there just aren’t any POC there? I mean, I’m sure there are places like that. Wherever it is that white people fly to when they take white flight comes to mind. Maybe you’re writing a story set in a gated community in the suburbs of Portland…

Everything Rhymes With Alcohol: technicolorcloset: everythingrhymeswithalcohol: **TRIGGER WARNING:...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 21:27:51 -0400

Everything Rhymes With Alcohol: technicolorcloset: everythingrhymeswithalcohol: **TRIGGER WARNING:...:

technicolorcloset:

everythingrhymeswithalcohol:

**TRIGGER WARNING: RAPE CULTURE**

So, tonight I went to a screening of Evil Dead. One of the hosts was chud.com. The rep from the site is getting the audience pumped up for the movie and then says that it has “the second best rape…

Sigh. Nick was my old editor when I wrote (briefly) for CHUD ten years ago. For a guy who’s clearly over forty now, he’s sure as fuck shown himself to be an immature prick.

Fucking fuckers

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 17:16:09 -0500

me: (out shopping, looking all fly with my Marvel comics tote bag featuring several characters)

dude: nice bag.

me: thanks. (keeps on shopping)

dude: do you even know who all those characters are?

me: uh... yeah?

dude: ok then, who's that guy? (points at a character on the bag)

me:

me: wait, are you asking me to prove that I'm enough of a fan enough to carry this bag?

dude: (smirks) that's what I thought. He's called the Silver Surfer. I bet you don't even know his real name.

me: does it matter? (starts to edge away before I start punching throats)

dude: psh, you're not a real fan.

me:

me: (slowly unsheathing my Wolverine claws)

me: how many pairs of chromosomes do humans contain in their cells?

dude: uh... what?

me: explain the function of cellular mitosis?

dude:

me: what is the purpose of myelin sheath with regards to the formation of new neural pathways?

dude: what are you even talking about?

me: oh, well it seemed that you were implying that if I don't know as much about the Marvel universe as you do, then I can't possibly be considered a real fan. This is me implying that because you don't know as much about the human body as I do, you can't possibly be considered a real human being.

dude:

dude:

dude:

dude: Um, I... wow. You're right. Have a nice day. (starts to shuffle away)

me: his name is Norrin Radd.

dude: (looks extremely embarrassed)

geardrops: fursasaida: the-cinnamon-peelers-wife: mochente: H...

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 20:54:44 -0500

geardrops:

fursasaida:

the-cinnamon-peelers-wife:

mochente:

Hari Kondabolu tells a feminist dick joke.

Fuck. Yes.

So I thought I should let everyone know that I’m in love, no big deal.

oh my god

dhpoco: From Colorlines in May. HT Natalia Cecire (@ncecire)

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 20:50:32 -0500

dhpoco:

From Colorlines in May. HT Natalia Cecire (@ncecire)

Clifford Unchained: The Problem with Sequels

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:45:16 -0500

Clifford Unchained: The Problem with Sequels:

dudehugespeaks:

Here’s the problem with video game sequels, as opposed to linear/film ones.

In a game, the users are used to the cadence of the experience. However airtight each game mechanic is. They are, quite literally, learning a new “language” with each new game that they’ve never laid their hands on…

CC Studios: Eff This Video - It's Raining Spiders In Brazil

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:29:20 -0500

CC Studios: Eff This Video - It's Raining Spiders In Brazil:

cc-studios:

If there’s one thing everyone can agree on, it’s that we all love cute-ass videos. Well, almost all of us. Welcome to Eff This Video, the column where Liz Shannon Miller explains to you why your favorite videos are some bullshit.

OKAY. Before I even click play on this bitch, let me…

"Subscribers may choose not to receive promotional or marketing telephone calls or postal mailings..."

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:50:57 -0500

“Subscribers may choose not to receive promotional or marketing telephone calls or postal mailings regarding the Covered Services by contacting us at 1-888-425-2088 for placement on Cablevision’s “Do Not Call” list or by contacting us at 1-888-425-2090 for placement on Cablevision’s “Do Not Mail” list. Please note, any Subscriber requests after May 1, 2010 to be placed on the “Do Not Mail” list will only be effective for the 12-month period following such request. If Subscribers wish to continue to remain on the “Do Not Mail” list, Subscribers will need to make another request upon the expiration of the previous request. Please also note, “Do Not Call” and “Do Not Mail” requests may take up to thirty (30) days to become effective.”

- I would not advise calling that number: the experience is not pleasant. I have yet to make it successfully through to the end of the process, to no-call Nirvana. And if I ever do, they’ll just start calling me again after 11 months anyway. Basically, never give Cablevision your phone number, because once you do, you’ll never get them to stop calling you.

Optimum Online - Privacy Policy - Customer

(via felixsalmon)

Someone in comments asked, “why isn’t Chuck Schumer all over this?” The answer is $50,000 worth of donations.

Michl Hartny.: I Just Wrote This To DC Comics

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:30:22 -0500

Michl Hartny.: I Just Wrote This To DC Comics:

michaelhartney:

Hi, DC!

My name’s Michael Hartney. I’m as big a Superman fan as you’ll ever meet. I have bought Superman comics every Wednesday since I learned to read, which was nearly 30 years ago. Superman was the subject of my blog and my one-man show. My name is tattooed on my arm in Kryptonian, for Zod’s…

heartfelt-fancyfeast: thatsonofamitch: fisherpon: The Musings...

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 09:07:20 -0500

heartfelt-fancyfeast:

thatsonofamitch:

fisherpon:

The Musings of Lauren Faust

Ma nigga Lauren Faust

Faust reaches Hussie levels of canon-trolling.

thanks for being a good sport tho

ktempest: mumblingsage: shakethecobwebs: jamthedevilbackintheb...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:20:30 -0500

ktempest:

mumblingsage:

shakethecobwebs:

jamthedevilbackinthebox:

thumbcramps:

Wow. I’m sure you’ve all seen this girl’s fantastic tardis dress floating around here the last week or so. She hand painted the inside and everything, and she just looks plain great. But of course, I see it posted on facebook, and the slew of comments begin.

I don’t think it’s a mystery as to why I, as a bigger girl, spend the week before a convention crying because I’m so nervous about what people are going to say about me just because I want to dress up and have fun like everyone else. And there is something really, really fucking wrong with that.

This girl is as beautiful as she is clever! If we on Tumblr are only good for one thing, it’s turning situations like this around! Let’s signal boost this and get it back to her so she knows how much we love it! ALLONZ-Y

Let’s talk about how douchebags like this perpetuate fat-shaming culture and how they are exactly the kinds of twits who say shit like “fat and beauty are mutually exclusive!!!!” while also being the same sexist dickheads who would be like “oh she’s sexy in in a tardis dress???? she’s not a REAL nerd!!!! she’s just a whore who wants attention!!!!”

I say we set them on fire.

“Cool, but not particularly attractive”? EXCUSE YOU, Daniel Marquis. EXCUSE YOU and your blighted aesthetic comprehension.

Also I’m not sure how you can have a sexier costume than actually cosplaying Sexy, so on that note let’s revoke the fake geek boy’s credentials. Along with raging at the fatshaming.

Fuck you, you fat shaming fucks. Fuck.

This girl is perfect and so is her costume.

This is so babies: Why Does Plagiarism In Editorial Cartooning Persist?

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:18:31 -0500

This is so babies: Why Does Plagiarism In Editorial Cartooning Persist?:

mattbors:

Editorial cartoonist Bill Day hit his fundraising goal on the crowd funding site Indiegogo this week: $35,000 to keep drawing editorial cartoons for a year. Day is syndicated through Cagle and, like the rest of us, can’t make a full time living with the rates we are paid. Since he…

Lessig Blog, v2: Prosecutor as bully

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 20:32:53 -0500

Lessig Blog, v2: Prosecutor as bully:

lessig:

(Some will say this is not the time. I disagree. This is the time when every mixed emotion needs to find voice.)

Since his arrest in January, 2011, I have known more about the events that began this spiral than I have wanted to know. Aaron consulted me as a friend and lawyer. He…

andrewvachss: The recent events in Steubenville, Ohio,...

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:28:47 -0500

andrewvachss:

   The recent events in Steubenville, Ohio, require us to confront the reality that a “rape culture” exists in this country, as well as in so-called “Muslim” theocracies around the world.

   I say “so-called” because I do not believe that the Koran in any way supports the subhuman conduct some bizarrely call “honor rape“ any more than I believe that the Bible supports the brutalizing of women. (Of course, a collection of so-called ”Christians“ would have us believe it demands all manner of perversions, including this creature’s claim that the Bible supports the death penalty for children.)

   Most underpinnings of rape culture are not so overt. How many juries have decided an accused rapist’s guilt or innocence based on the attire or occupation of the victim? Why is virtually all “rape porn” designed to show that “she really wanted it all along?” How many people refuse to believe that “a handsome man would never stoop to raping an ugly woman”? How many secretly believe that any underage male student victimized by a female teacher is someone who “got lucky?”

   Even attempts to measure the infusion of rape myths into our culture can have the effect of *creating* those myths. Consider this:

Race and prior victimization did not appear to affect the general acceptance or rejection of rape myths among this sample of college women. It is interesting to note that although most women in the sample rejected the rape myths, one rape myth received an unusual degree of support. This myth is the following:

   “One reason that women falsely report a rape is that they frequently have a need to call attention to themselves.”

-Carmody and Washington, “Rape Myth Acceptance among College Women,” 16 Journal of Interpersonal Violence 424, 432 (2001).

   Other rape myths examined in this study were accurately isolated and clearly presented, (for example: “Women who dress provocatively are asking to be raped.”) But, in the excerpt above, which part of the convoluted statement is the “one rape myth?” Is it that women falsely report rapes? Or that women do so “frequently?” Or, perhaps, that women who “falsely” and “frequently” report a non-existent rape do so out of a “need to call attention to themselves?” The plain reading of that statement is that women falsely report rapes, and that they do so “frequently.” The only question presented is whether they do so because they “have a need to call attention to themselves.” Unable to ask for clarification, the respondents had only their own interpretation of the statement to react to, making their responses to the statement useless. Worse, the myth that “women falsely report rape frequently” may have been unwittingly propagated to some respondents.

   It’s time to acknowledge that a rape culture exists, not just in “other places,” but here in our own country. We don’t have “honor rape,” but plenty of American judges believe rape victims “ask for it.”

   Sadly, we need only look to Congress’ refusal to continue funding for the Violence Against Women Act for all the proof any reasonable individual would ever need. So now what, America?

gailsimone: bigbardafree: How is it even possible, with panels...

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 07:33:32 -0500

gailsimone:

bigbardafree:

How is it even possible, with panels like this, that Babs/Dinah isn’t a canon couple?

It does seem impossible!

Harassment in nerd spaces, and encouraging honesty

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:51:53 -0500

Harassment in nerd spaces, and encouraging honesty:

Everyone who attends cons of any sort needs to read this. Period.