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ABC: we’re going to hire a racist to make a racist show to appeal to the racist demographic that elected Trump

*the racist does something racist*

ABC:

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10 Of The Most Ridiculous Things Ever Said About Women In History

1. When Aristotle Said Women Are Defective Men

“The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities; we should regard the female nature as afflicted with a natural defectiveness.”

2. When St. Thomas Aquinas Said Women Are Sperm Accidents

“… A female is deficient and unintentionally caused. For the active power of the semen always seeks to produce a thing completely like itself, something male. So if a female is produced, this must be because the semen is weak or because the material [provided by the female parent] is unsuitable, or because of the action of some external factor such as the winds from the south which make the atmosphere humid.”

3. When Napoleon Said Women Are Just Slaves

“Nature intended women to be our slaves… they are our property; we are not theirs. They belong to us, just as a tree that bears fruit belongs to a gardener…. Women are nothing more than machines for producing children.”

4. When Cato The Elder Argued That All Women Are Wild Animals

“Woman is a violent and uncontrolled animal, and it is useless to let go the reins and then expect her not to kick over the traces. You must keep her on a tight rein…. Women want total freedom or rather – to call things by their names – total licence. If you allow them to achieve complete equality with men, do you think they will be easier to live with? Not at all. Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters.”

5. When Pliny The Elder Warned That Menstrual Blood Is Poisonous

“On the approach of a woman in this state, must will become sour, seeds which are touched by her become sterile, grafts wither away, garden plants are parched up, and the fruit will fall from the tree beneath which she sits. Her very look, even, will dim the brightness of mirrors, blunt the edge of steel, and take away the polish from ivory. A swarm of bees, if looked upon by her, will die immediately.”

6. When Plutarch Did Not Approve Of Independent Lady-Emotions

“A wife should have no feelings of her own, but share her husband’s seriousness and sport, his anxiety and his laughter.”

7. When Friedrich Nietzsche Was Basically Just Friedrich Nietzsche

“Finally – woman! One-half of mankind is weak, typically sick, changeable, inconstant – woman needs a religion of weakness that glorifies being weak, loving, being humbled as divine.”

8. When Jean-Jacques Rousseau Said Ladies Only Need To Be Taught About Men

“The whole education of women ought to be relative to men. To please them, to be useful to them, to make themselves loved and honored by them, to educate them when young, to care for them when grown, to council them, to console them, and to make life agreeable and sweet to them – these are the duties of women at all times, and should be taught them from their infancy.”

9. When Sigmund Freud Despaired Of Grown Ladies’ Sexuality

“The sexual life of adult women is a ‘dark continent’ for psychology.”

10. When James Joyce Was A Bit Of An Idiot

“Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.”

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“Women are also rejected. Women also spend their teen years pining after dreamy boys who will never love them back. You don’t see us going around murdering people over it. You don’t see us setting up internet communities for the purpose of talking about how evil and shallow men are for not taking us to pound town. Women don’t go around killing men who don’t like them, because if you’re a woman in this society, a boy not liking you is the least of your problems. It is nowhere near the shittiest thing you’re going to be expected to “just deal with” in your life — one of those things being the fact that we are expected to “just deal with” how men are sometimes going to murder a bunch of people because they felt entitled to romantic attention from women. We are expected to “deal with” that, while never bringing up the terms “male privilege” or “male entitlement” or “toxic masculinity” and why those things so often lead to mass murder, on account of how that might really hurt the feelings of the men who have been gracious enough to not go on killing sprees.”

— That Is Not What ‘Lovesick’ Is | Wonkette (via holyfiiire)

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Lisa Simpson’s bookshelf, from the Simpsons Library

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Saw this on my Twitter feed today and it was so awesome I had to share it. Go work hard and let it all pay off! Sometimes it does!

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This post needs to be shared in all the blogs.

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okay not only is this twitter account fucking gold but its also so accurate i could cry

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qwhite interesting

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wait….are any americans aware that the cia overthrew the democratically-elected premier of iran in 1953 because he wouldn’t concede to western oil demands….and how that coup was the reason for the shah’s return to power, the iranian revolution, and the resulting fundamentalist dictatorship…..like, america literally dissolved iranian democracy and no one knows about it???

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This made my day

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Great news guys 🎉 

So if women wear makeup at work we’re “frivolous” and it harms our leadership chances.. but if we don’t wear makeup we are being unprofessional and are deemed less competent.

So we just need to think of a way for women to not have faces and we’re all set 🤔

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Are you looking for a specific X-Files fic? Here’s a way to find it.

Hey guys! This is really, really exciting. I’m posting this news on someone else’s behalf. A fellow phile and lover of fic has created an extremely simple to use search engine for for fic: liminalfic.org

“Liminal is a simple search engine for X-Files fic. I noticed how hard it was to search for stories when you couldn’t search for words or even categories (contains the word “duck” and is an NC-17 Krycek/Phoebe Green AU? you know you wish you could find that), and with the fic distributed all across the internet. This fixes that. Note: To avoid archiving against the wishes of any authors, no stories are hosted on Liminal directly–I’m just making it easier to find them. Currently only stories from Gossamer are completely searchable, but I’m slowly adding fic from all the other old sites as well. Enjoy!“ – the creator. 

The phrase “simple search engine” is wonderfully, blessedly serious. Gossamer can be notoriously difficult to navigate.

You can search by episode:

etc. 

You can search for your extremely specific trope:

You can narrow by pairing, genre, and POV. I wanted to find a fic that I read and all I could remember was that it was post-One Son, and that it included the words “pigs” and “forgive”. Holy hell.

I found it.

This is incredible. 

I tend to avoid Gossamer because if I’m looking for something particular, I know it’s not the best archive to give me what I want. This website changes that completely. I’m absolutely psyched to use it.

We’re a unique fandom because of how much we interact with the past. This helps us preserve that connection, and gives us access to great fic we might never have stumbled upon otherwise. 

Give it a whirl!

liminalfic.org

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60 Things People Born Between 1975-1985 Will Truly Understand