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"Although most boys figure out how to bring themselves to orgasm by age thirteen, half of girls do..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:01:27 -0400

“Although most boys figure out how to bring themselves to orgasm by age thirteen, half of girls do not have their first orgasms until their late teens, twenties, or beyond. Teenage girls widely agree that they get the message loud and clear that masturbation is something boys do, but girls do not, cannot, or should not. The cultural focus on intercourse tells young women to expect they will begin to experience sexual pleasure once they have sex with a man (whether or not they are even interested in sex with men). Nearly all teen boys, on the other hand, experience sexual pleasure long before they get their hands—or other body parts—into a partner’s pants. Despite the massive advances in women’s equality, young women’s sexuality is stuck in a surprising paradox. Young women are sold provocative clothes but are not taught where to find their own clitoris. Many girls give their boyfriends oral sex, but are too uncomfortable with their own bodies to allow the guys to return the favor. It is still a radical act to say that women need and deserve access to information about their own sexual pleasure—not just about the risks and negative consequences of sex.”

- (via compulsives)

lonelyantics: Avenging Spider-liberty bonds-Man #5

Tue, 21 May 2013 04:01:06 -0400

lonelyantics:

Avenging Spider-liberty bonds-Man #5

If you lose your way tonight That’s how you know the magic’s...

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:25:35 -0400

If you lose your way tonight
That’s how you know the magic’s right

brianmichaelbendis: Guardians of the Galaxy #3 Variant - Leinil...

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:46:12 -0400

brianmichaelbendis:

Guardians of the Galaxy #3 Variant - Leinil Yu

julibernal: That age.

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:16:59 -0400

julibernal:

That age.

feministdisney: xelamanrique: starksnark: snowwhitesev...

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:06:50 -0400

feministdisney:

xelamanrique:

starksnark:

snowwhiteseviltwin:

stickersthesuccubus:

feministdisney:

flopehoats:

elizabitchtaylor:

gbg-g:

interstellargeek:

feministdisney:

xelamanrique:

look who’s finally joined!

look who got pushed to the side

Wow, move Tiana over one and suddenly all the PoC princesses are in the very back. I mean, did the people that made this lineup not see how racist this appears?

Mhmm. So not surprised

ew i hate the redesign and also why would you put Mulan in the outfit she wore to see the matchmaker, which she hated because it didn’t really represent her?

GOD DAMMIT MULAN IS NOT A PRINCESS SHE MARRIED A GENERAL

I like how someone read all this and at the end of it all was truly outraged that…

Mulan is in the lineup

I love how all of them were gussied up an glitz’d and glamour’d EXCEPT Pocahontas.
Like she looks like she was thrown in as an afterthought.

They actually redesigned her, but people got pissed off that she was redesigned.

Y’all are shitty. You want change and then when it’s given, you all rage.

Just stop.

And guess what? The ones in the center are the most popular - they’re put there because they’re the ones most likely to get attention. Why would they put someone less popular in the front? There’s a reason the frontman of a band is usually in the front in pictures - they’re the ones most easily recognized. It’s simple marketing.

you know what i don’t understand? the fact that you guys are complaining about a bunch of FUCKING CARTOONS! get the fuck off my post!

“it’s simple marketing” says the person who comes to the conversation 500 years late. Please, try to convince me that Mulan is not a fan favorite, I’m waiting.

And you know what? If a company consistently markets white princesses as central to the brand- and they ALWAYS do, either just throwing in one WoC princess or 0 for smaller group merchandising, then yeah, people will associate the front princesses more with being princesses. Go back to marketing 101, you have a hand in creating the market for your product.

Also like, what is that logic even? Like the marketing of the entire line up would be off, they would lose money, just by putting Tiana and Jasmine- who are both also pretty popular princesses actually- up closer to the front?? Really. You won’t even be able to find stats for who the most popular princesses are- you’re just assuming it couldn’t be the women of color. I disagree. Although I can only find not super official stats, they do indicate that Jasmine and Mulan are favorites of the fandom.

Also lol at this last guy- when I reblogged it from you it had like 10 posts, and it’s not like you drew the thing yourself. Go back to the library and pick up a psych book on child development so that you can figure out why cartoons are not immune from critique

Dowager Countess of Fandom and Stick Figures: kellysue: Question about the Fake Geek Girl shirts — Do you want them...

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:56:01 -0400

Dowager Countess of Fandom and Stick Figures: kellysue: Question about the Fake Geek Girl shirts — Do you want them...:

kellysue:

Question about the Fake Geek Girl shirts —

Do you want them in ladies cuts?

The point of the joke was that they were for men, but if there are women who want them, I think I can make that happen. (On a woman it’s a different joke… or a blatant refusal to be cowed or…

cosmicbrownie: Little girl dressed as Stan Lee at Motor City...

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:48:55 -0400

cosmicbrownie:

Little girl dressed as Stan Lee at Motor City Comic con!!!

beben-eleben: A Daddy’s Letter to His Little Girl (About Her...

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:29:22 -0400

beben-eleben:

A Daddy’s Letter to His Little Girl (About Her Future Husband)

Dear Cutie-Pie,

Recently, your mother and I were searching for an answer on Google. Halfway through entering the question, Google returned a list of the most popular searches in the world. Perched at the top of the list was “How to keep him interested.”

It startled me. I scanned several of the countless articles about how to be sexy and sexual, when to bring him a beer versus a sandwich, and the ways to make him feel smart and superior.

And I got angry.

Little One, it is not, has never been, and never will be your job to “keep him interested.”

Little One, your only task is to know deeply in your soul—in that unshakeable place that isn’t rattled by rejection and loss and ego—that you are worthy of interest. (If you can remember that everyone else is worthy of interest also, the battle of your life will be mostly won. But that is a letter for another day.)

If you can trust your worth in this way, you will be attractive in the most important sense of the word: you will attract a boy who is both capable of interest and who wants to spend his one life investing all of his interest in you.

Little One, I want to tell you about the boy who doesn’t need to be kept interested, because he knows you are interesting:

I don’t care if he puts his elbows on the dinner table—as long as he puts his eyes on the way your nose scrunches when you smile. And then can’t stop looking.

I don’t care if he can’t play a bit of golf with me—as long as he can play with the children you give him and revel in all the glorious and frustrating ways they are just like you.

I don’t care if he doesn’t follow his wallet—as long as he follows his heart and it always leads him back to you.

I don’t care if he is strong—as long as he gives you the space to exercise the strength that is in your heart.

I couldn’t care less how he votes—as long as he wakes up every morning and daily elects you to a place of honor in your home and a place of reverence in his heart.

I don’t care about the color of his skin—as long as he paints the canvas of your lives with brushstrokes of patience, and sacrifice, and vulnerability, and tenderness.

I don’t care if he was raised in this religion or that religion or no religion—as long as he was raised to value the sacred and to know every moment of life, and every moment of life with you, is deeply sacred.

In the end, Little One, if you stumble across a man like that and he and I have nothing else in common, we will have the most important thing in common:

You.

Because in the end, Little One, the only thing you should have to do to “keep him interested” is to be you.

Your eternally interested guy,

Daddy

dragonsigma: thequeenofscream: beeishappy: Stephen Colbert...

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:11:01 -0400

dragonsigma:

thequeenofscream:

beeishappy:

Stephen Colbert salutes UVA’s Class of 2013 Followed by this.

FUCKING THANK YOU.

Colbert you fantastic wonderful bastard you

maymay: “Repeat Rape: How do they get away with it?”, Part 1...

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:02:55 -0400

It turns out that if you ask the right questions in just the right way, some men will actually tell you that they're rapists. They'll just…admit it.

The key is, don't use the word rape. Just ask them what they've done.

Researchers asked 1,882 men: "Have you ever tried to have oral sex with someone by using (or threatening to use) physical force—twisting their arm, holding them down, etc.—if they did not cooperate?"

and: "Have you ever had sexual intercourse with someone, even though they didn't want to, because they were too intoxicated to resist your advances?"

120 answered yes.

(That's rape.)

1,882 men…

120 rapists.

They admitted to a total of 483 rapes and attempted rapes. 483!

Whoa.

maymay:

“Repeat Rape: How do they get away with it?”, Part 1 of 2. (link to Part 2)

Sources:

College Men: Repeat Rape and Multiple Offending Among Undetected Rapists,Lisak and Miller, 2002 [PDF, 12 pages]

Navy Men: Lisak and Miller’s results were essentially duplicated in an even larger study (2,925 men): Reports of Rape Reperpetration by Newly Enlisted Male Navy Personnel, McWhorter, 2009 [PDF, 16 pages]

By dark-side-of-the-room, who writes:

These infogifs are provided RIGHTS-FREE for noncommercial purposes. Repost them anywhere. In fact, repost them EVERYWHERE. No need to credit. Link to the L&M study if possible.

Knowledge is a seed; sow it.

Caelitus Mihi Vires: juvjuvychan: williamcarstair: dear marvel fans who are being...

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:34:52 -0400

Caelitus Mihi Vires: juvjuvychan: williamcarstair: dear marvel fans who are being...:

juvjuvychan:

williamcarstair:

dear marvel fans who are being incredibly racist and butthurt over the fact that johnny storm might - MIGHT - be cast with a black actor

there is no such thing as “black washing”

there is no such thing as “black washing”

there is no such thing as “black washing”

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS BLACK WASHING SHUT THE FUCK UP WITH YOUR “HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF A TRADITIONALLY BLACK CHARACTER WAS PLAYED BY SOMEONE WHITE” BULLSHIT SHUT THE FUCK UP ARE YOU LITERALLY THAT SELF IMPORTANT AND IGNORANT?

BECAUSE MARVEL COMICS SO CLEARLY ARE IN A SURPLUS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CHARACTERS IT’D BE A SHAME TO SEE RACE NOT BE A BARRIER IN CASTING

BECAUSE THERE’S AN INCREDIBLE NUMBER OF BLACK SUPERHEROES SO THEY NEED TO BE PLAYED BY WHITE ACTORS TO EVEN OUT THE PLAYING FIELD

BECAUSE THERE’S AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF REPRESENTATION OF ANY RACE OTHER THAN WHITE DUDES IN MARVEL COMICS

O K A Y

When Marion Cotillard and Tom Hardy were cast as Taila Al Ghul and Bane (both of whom are canonically POC in the comics) and people complained, fans cried “oh well Nolan just got the best actors for the job!”

Well, I guess MBJ is just the best fucking actor for the job then huh?

Parker logic.

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:01:16 -0400

Parker logic.

visualgraphic: Lead Us by Smithe

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:59:35 -0400

visualgraphic:

Lead Us by Smithe

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Mon, 20 May 2013 16:01:55 -0400

wardencarverhawke: pantslessinanity: I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that if...

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:08:49 -0400

wardencarverhawke:

pantslessinanity:

I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that if you want me to tag anything for TumblrSavior, don’t feel like you’re bothering me. Leave me an ask and I’ll make it so.

You are especially welcome to do it on anon if you’d like

"I think mainstream American Superhero comics lag a little behind other expressions of teenage life..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:55:42 -0400

“

I think mainstream American Superhero comics lag a little behind other expressions of teenage life in culture, and if you do that, you’re risking writing comics that appeal to the parents of teenagers rather than the teenagers themselves.

In terms of blocks, I suspect a good chunk of it comes out of comics being a visual medium. Text is a great obfuscator of content. You can read a book, and your parents will never know that it contains matter they’d have trouble with, because they’re never actually going to read it. But comics, being visual, are transparent. At a glance, they can judge it — and so often judge it at a glance, without actually reading it.

So you walk a line. I started “Young Avengers” with the scene for a number of reasons, but one of them was certainly seeing if Marvel would let me do it. If I weren’t able to write that, I’d have had to bow out of the gig, because there would be no way of doing anything I thought worth doing.

Marvel didn’t even raise an eyebrow.

I think the biggest blockade to the creation of the content is creators not choosing to create the content.

”

- From my new interview about Young Avengers over at CBR, which finds me in a pugnacious somewhat wanky mode. (via kierongillen)

fyeahlilbit2point0: Fearless Defenders #5 by Amanda Conner.

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:44:39 -0400

fyeahlilbit2point0:

Fearless Defenders #5 by Amanda Conner.

TotalRandomness: mugglibus: liking a piece of media does not automatically mean you...

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:42:20 -0400

TotalRandomness: mugglibus: liking a piece of media does not automatically mean you...:

mugglibus:

liking a piece of media does not automatically mean you think it is perfect or agree with its creators

even if you are not openly critical of it

because you don’t HAVE to be openly critical of it

there is an enormous difference between being an apologist for something and…

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Mon, 20 May 2013 14:35:22 -0400