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The only person who can hurt your feelings is YOU Words can’t hurt you unless you let them.
Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me. It’s a familiar refrain to most of us, and within the sentiment is an idea absolutely vital to any kind of functioning democracy (or any functioning society, really): there is an irreducible distinction between being physically hurt and having your feelings hurt and this demarcation must be absolute. Physiological versus psychological. Objective versus subjective. The blurring of these categories leads to all kinds of terrible consequences, because totalitarianism, and a violent one at that, is the only possible outcome. Both the right and the left practice blurred lines to some degree, but I see the major impetus…
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The “make me beautiful” photoshop experiment Esther Honig sent a picture of herself to 40 photoshoppers across the globe with one request: “Make me beautiful.” Check out the results.
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What would happen if no men showed up for work tomorrow? A thought experiment, assisted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in appreciation of our men.
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It’s true: only men pay tax Men – all men – support women – all women – whether they like it or not.
A study from New Zealand shows fairly definitively that we (women), as a group, don’t pay any taxes. Sure, we file tax documents and have taxes deducted from our paychecks and pay out consumer taxes at the cash register, just like men do, but in the final tally, uh…well, look at this: GROSS TAX PAID + BENEFITS CLAIMED = NET TAXES PAID Let me explain. If you pay out, say, $100 every paycheck to the IRS, but every month, you claim $200 in benefits, you have not paid a single penny in tax. In fact, you have claimed twice what you have paid. You are $100 up, and the rest…
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I have a soft spot for Black pro athletes and their inability to manage money Yes, they're public figures. Yes, jocks are dumb as a box of ass hair. There is no excuse for the media—or you—to celebrate their downfall.
Porn and virtual girlfriends ‘significant factors’ in Japan’s low birth rate By the year 2065, 38% of the population will be aged 60.
If your children are fat, you are failing as a mother Being poor, lazy, or tired are invalid excuses for tossing a frozen pizza at your fat, unhappy kid.
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These technologies will end racism in our lifetime And there's nothing you can do about it.
Racism has plagued humanity forever, or at least since we came across neanderthals in some god-awful primeval forest 60,000 years ago and promptly wiped them out for looking different. It maims, it hurts, it kills. And when the YouTube comment section is one long whitesplaining diarrhea streak derailing the vital conversation you are trying to have with your video, racism is just plain fucking annoying. But this is the turning of eras. Because this is the future, and science can now cure racism. I present to you the weapons of our liberation. Magnets Trancranial magnetic stimulation-induced immigration acceptance A study published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience found…
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Girls want (and need) more female superheroes Girls are just as strong as boys.
After 50 years of communism, Cuba finally gets the Kardashians The Kardashians are among America's first ambassadors to Cuba after thawed relations.
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Black Panther went 100% diversity and has achieved 100% on Rotten Tomatoes Black Panther just claimed the title of best movie in cinematic history, and that's no coincidence.
RIP Citizen Kane. Reviewers and audiences agree and Black Panther just claimed the title of best movie in cinematic history. That’s no coincidence. Black Panther famously bet the farm on diversity and went full black everything, and it paid off in equal measure. The masterpiece Marvel movie has achieved an unprecedented 100% TomatoMeter and 97% “Want to See” rating on premier movie rating website RottenTomatoes, with independent thinkers in other outlets all joining in on the orgiastic heaping of praise. Related: ‘Black Panther’ early buzz is hailing the movie as a defining cinematic moment — Washington Post Keen observers will note that it certainly didn’t hurt when pasty cave trolls…
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11 groundbreaking women comic book artists that prove male artists are mediocre The female names that any serious comics geek should know and celebrate.
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4chan is trying to stop black excellence and they will fail White supremacist harassment and terror platform in #WhiteFragility throes.
Reviews are starting to trickle in for Black Panther (hint: ecstatic), the highly anticipated Marvel film that explores what Africa would have been like if it hadn’t been for the meddling of white colonialists, and nerds on dark corners of the internet are not happy. Trolls on the white supremacist harassment platform 4chan are now creating waves of threads tackling the question: in a post-Black Panther world, how can we stop blacks people from getting uppity and realizing their true value? Because of course they are. Threads for the anti-black awareness campaign appear to have taken off in earnest after actors donned royal attire for the LA premiere, and now…
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WWF has a new paramilitary force that shoots and tortures poachers and I want to have sex with it 'The Jungle Brigade' is officially the title of my newest fantasy.
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Internet hero edited all the men out of Saving Private Ryan, and it’s beautiful Epic response to the MRA douche who edited all the women out of The Last Jedi.
Not much needs to be said about Star Wars: The Last Jedi. It has one of the highest scores ever achieved on Rotten Tomatoes and is widely hailed by critics as a cinematic masterpiece. Audiences agree, which made it the highest grossing movie of 2017. And Disney achieved this feat in part by employing progressive practices such as reserving almost all of the major characters for PoC, WoC, and Women. So little did it surprise anyone when the toxic waste slushing through 4chan decided to launch a trolling campaign against the company for daring to be nice to minorities. The hate campaign’s crowning achievement: The Last Jedi: De-Feminized Fanedit, a…
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If your children are fat, you are failing as a mother Being poor, lazy, or tired are invalid excuses for tossing a frozen pizza at your fat, unhappy kid.
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Are women and people of color being excluded from cryptocurrency? An examination of the needlessly complex process of obtaining cryptocurrency, and how the space is perfectly designed to keep out women and people of color.
You’ve heard of Bitcoin’s atmospheric rise from pennies to thousands of dollars. TV, radio, internet — it’s everywhere. And maybe you’ve had the thought that you might very well want to become one of these Bitcoin millionaires. Easy, right? Even the old folks are doing it. Just head on down to the corner shop, buy a few Bitcoins, stash them away and leave your descendants something grander than holiday trinkets and quaint cutlery. Not so. The process of obtaining Bitcoins is so labyrinthine and headache-inducing that what was proclaimed to be a democratizing system is actually one of the unfairest systems ever devised. As of 2018 it is still the…
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We hate sugar babies because they’re competition They are a new generation of women—who believe in total body autonomy. Opposition comes down to sour fucking grapes.
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Strange fruit: when women lied and men died History's interjection to the notion that #MeToo accusers are incapable of lying or being motivated by malice or financial gain.
From 1882 – 1968, an estimated 4,743 men were lynched in the United States, often after an accusation of rape, prompting the NAACP to claim ‘[w]hites started lynching because they felt it was necessary to protect white women’. We now know that many of these women lied, and men died. Emmet Till was only 14 years old when he was beaten to death for the crime of ‘whistling at a white woman’. Many years later, Carolyn Brant admitted that she lied, to protect her husband. They went on to profit financially from the boy’s death. Till was hardly alone. A mob of 1500 beat and hung three Black circus workers…
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The internet is toxic – here are five possible cures The Internet can be a tremendously awful place. Here are some ideas for solutions from thinkers all over the world.
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Top 5 allegations in the ‘Shitty Media Men’ list A deep dive into the anonymous Google Docs spreadsheet accusing 77 'media men' of anything from awkward DMs to rape—and some legit funny stuff.
A few weeks ago, after the Harvey Weinstein allegations hit, some girls in the media industry put together a Google Doc with names of guys who have been accused of sexual harassment and what have you. It was distributed to other girls in the media industry, who could anonymously edit the document. They were instructed to not send the list to any men and to not flip out if any of their friends were on it. The list was an incredibly dumb idea (2018 update: man named by ‘Shitty Media Men’ list sues its creator, Moira Donegan, for $1.5 million), and it was only a matter of time before someone…
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4 TV shows & films that made me comfortable about my sexuality And 1 that should have—but didn’t.
Years back, after a trip to the LGBT Museum in San Francisco, I made the decision to publicly come out to my friends and family. It wasn’t a huge surprise to those close to me; It’s not as though I’d ever hidden it. I had just never taken the opportunity to talk about it so openly. My sexuality was always something that was just a natural part of me. It was as natural as my having two arms. Or green eyes. It was something I was born with and I didn’t feel the need to scream about it. But after coming out, I realized how important that declaration is. After…
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Science agrees: an orgasm a day keeps the doctor away As if we needed another excuse.
