I’m in love with this
"A woman’s worst nightmare? That’s pretty easy. Novelist Margaret Atwood writes that when she asked a male friend why men feel threatened by women, he answered, “They are afraid women will laugh at them.” When she asked a group of women why they feel threatened by men, they said, “We’re afraid of being killed."
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http://www.pbs.org/kued/nosafeplace/articles/nightmare.html (via alullaby)
This reminds me of a discussion we had in school, and one girl was talking about living in fear of her safety because she is a girl, and this guy chimed in and was all “It’s hard for guys too! I’m so awkward around girls! It’s embarrassing!” Yeah, not the same thing, exactly?
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This reminds me of an article about online (heterosexual) dating that I read a while ago. It listed men’s and women’s worst fears about meeting someone from online. The highest ranked fear that men had was that their date would be fat, whereas the highest ranked fear that women had was that their date would turn out to be violent and kill them.
I think that says a lot.
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Always reblog. Also, this is the dynamic between most privileged and oppressed groups. I don’t feel like most people understand that.
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A friend asked me the other day why I “waste” so much time reading “the same news from different sources”… Well, here’s why:
If you woke up in Paris this morning and read le Monde with your petit déjeuner, the first thing you’d hear about is the UN Secretary-General warning that Syria is on the brink of civil war. The New York Times has instead chosen to focus on the attack on UN peacekeepers. A person in Kuala Lumpur would have to flip through quite a bit of the New Straits Times before reading about Syria, in an article syndicated from the UK’s conservatively inclined Telegraph. The NST has also, via Bernama (Malaysia’s equivalent to Reuters or the AFP), emphasised Malaysia’s position against sanctions by running a vague, official statement alongside the Telegraph piece.
Left-leaning readers in the UK perusing the Guardian over their morning cuppa, would’ve read about Syria’s human rights abuses. In Melbourne, however, the goings-on in Syria are relegated to the the Age’s deplorably late “World” section, in a piece carrying the headline “87 dead in new Syrian massacre” (syndicated from the AFP).
Which brings me to my point:
If you read one paper, you are getting one view of the world. I rather like hearing from a number of sources, and piecing things together myself, particularly if I’m to then venture an opinion on it. Far too many people have strong opinions on things they know very little about. Read first, conclude later.
Great advice. I’m embarrassed that this didn’t occur to me sooner, thanks for the post.
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I’m starting up a video blog of news reviews, here’s my first one.
It’s about a defamation case that Cardinal Pell was filing against an Australian comedian.
WHERE? WHERE CAN I PURCHASE THESE TIGHTS???
(Source: irrelevanttendencies, via juicyjacqulyn)
I love this photo, so, so much. This is not giving a fuck.
Well, this is me, naked, jumping into a very much public lake (right behind those trees is a highway) in broad daylight.
I love being a fat/PALE jersey shore girl. breaking the stereotype. :D
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Greetings, tumblr.
I decided to audition for channel V’s host search. Everyone was saying how much they luuuuuuurve music, so I decided to go in a completely different direction. I don’t expect to win, but this did serve as the perfect procrastination from the MANY hours of assignment work I’m going to have to put in soon. Sigh.
I don’t know whether people’s votes count, but I’d still like a couple of hearts next to my name. It’d make me feel like less of a doofus. So, if you feel the need, vote for me here:
http://presentersearch.vmusic.com.au/presenter.aspx?id=101549
(Source: joeydeangelis, via juicyjacqulyn)
