February 2011
“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding...”
– Sandi Toksvig
(Sandi Toksvig is the one who pointed out to me that the Bayeaux Tapestry was made by women. She is incredibly awesome.)
(via ladiesmakingcomics, learninglog)
Sandi Toksvig is one of my favourite guest panelists on Q.I. She absolutely is awesome. (I just watched the ‘History’...
January 2011
“We need to cut these things that aren’t constitutionally mandated, that are kind...”
– —Sarah Palin, on President Obama’s State of the Union address, to Fox News’ Greta von Susteren, Jan. 26, 2011.
Dear. God.
(via technipol)
Those are obvious…ly things which need to not be gotten rid of.
Rugrats is about feminist families
aviruswithshoes:
Mrs. Pickles is the educated breadwinner, Stu often chasing his less profitable dreams
Phil & Lil’s mom, obvs (short hair, female symbol sweatshirt, clear second waver
Charlotte, ballbusting CEO who wants Angelica to have an edge in a male-privileged world
Suzie’s family, upper-middle class black family with a really accomplished mom
Chaz, sensitive single dad who...
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
– Aldous Huxley (via ageofreason)
Dragon Quest VI's English release a month too late...
tinycartridge:
Around 15 years ago, Enix America closed its doors, leaving many RPG fans to wonder what would become of SNES titles available in Japan but not yet in the U.S., like Dragon Quest VI and Tactics Ogre.
At the time Nintendo Power encouraged readers to send in their thoughts about the shuttering, and the magazine printed several letters, including this one:
“I’m now 76 years old....
“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that...”
– Douglas Adams (via ageofreason)
“You diminish the memory and meaning of the Holocaust when you use it to...”
– 400 Rabbis and leaders of all main sects of Judaism in response to Glenn Beck’s frequent use of Holocaust imagery. (via videcormeum)
“Am I arguing that girls and women shouldn’t be held responsible for their...”
– Emily Maguire, Princesses & Pornstars: Sex, Power, Identity. (via starsgowaltzing)
this.
(via sexisbeautiful)
“Two things. One: that was a horrible thing for someone to write. And whatever...”
– JON STEWART, taking on Bill O’Reilly’s defense of his comparing liberals and others to Nazis, on The Daily Show. O’Reilly basically tried to show that folks on the left were just as bad by pointing to a disgusting, anti-Nancy Reagan comment left on a Huffington Post article blog made no reference...
STFU, Sexists.: REALLY URGENT petition for Ugandan... →
stfusexists:
Please sign this letter to Theresa May calling for a halt to the deportation of Brenda Namigadde from the UK back to Uganda, which will be happening TODAY OR TOMORROW.
With David Bahati, the Ugandan politician and author of the notorious “Kill the Gays” legislation, taking an interest in her…
