You girls are looking tres chic! @ripporcelain @jistyplaven @edenthegarden
A tuft of beautiful pomeranians. It is not fair that this person has five pomeranians and I don’t even have one.
We have a team of people who are responsible for organizing frequent employee social events, maintaining the office “feel”, and making sure work is a great place to hang out. We get served organic, vegan, farm-raised, nutritious lunches every day at work.
What your culture might actually be saying is… Our employees must be treated as spoiled, coddled children that cannot perform their own administrative functions. We have a team of primarily women supporting the eating, drinking, management and social functions of a primarily male workforce whose output is considered more valuable. We struggle to hire women in non-administrative positions and most gender diversity in our company is centralized in social and admin work. Because our office has more amenities than home life, our employees work much longer hours and we are able to extract more value from them for the same paycheck. The environment reinforces the cultural belief that work is a pleasant dream and can help us distract or bribe from deeper issues in the organization.
“We live in a country where politicians call rape a “gift from God” and suggest that women regularly lie about being raped. Where a group of young men in high school think so little of sexual assault that they thought it was fine - hilarious, even - to post pictures online of a passed out rape victim, and to live-tweet the rape, joking about the victim being urinated on. We live in a country where media as revered as The New York Times finds it necessary to describe an 11-year-old gang rape victim as “wearing makeup and fashions more appropriate to a woman in her 20s.” Where a woman can be fired because her boss finds her “irresistable” and a woman’s rape case falls flat because she isn’t married.
It’s time to acknowledge that the rape epidemic in the United States is not just about the crimes themselves, but our own cultural and political willful ignorance. Rape is as American as apple pie - until we own that, nothing will change.”
—- Jessica Valenti, The Nation (via missrep)
Jess breaking it down like a boss
(via inkdot)
What’s up my hood $30 LES street sign print (via Lower East Side | Black White – Knowlita)
Dear Miss Israel, You’re rockin that Star of David drag couture. (via Miss Universe National Costume 2012 – Part 2 | Tom & Lorenzo)
Ellen Ripley, Our Lady of Survival.
When the odds aren’t in our favor and the cards are stacked against us give us the strength to fight for our lives, face our fears and survive.
(via inkdot)
I want to say that my decorating style has matured in the last 15 years, but I dunno if that’s true.
(via newwavefeminism)
Ongoing Mexico Revolution - Ignored by the Media
Mexico, July 11, 2012. The largest protest in human history. USA and UK governments pushed the press not to publish. Google censored videos on youtube and restricted keywords on this event.
The Mexican media has blacking out the protests against their new government, who have been accused of doing everything from buying votes to buying off the media.
If the corporate media won’t spread this story, then let’s spread the story. Share this all over your pages and your friend’s pages and help support the democracy movement in Mexico.
Holy moly. Quick primer here: http://www.americasquarterly.org/post-election-mexico
(via whynotshesaid)
Here is a primer on the vacuous article template, but for those unfamiliar with it, it consists of four key sections:
1. The existence of a difficult-to-prove trend is proposed.
2. The author quotes an expert in an attempt to support the existence of the trend, but the quote actually contains no real evidence.
3. One statistically insignificant person is introduced as evidence the proposed trend exists.
4. Information is given that seemingly supports the hypothesis, but actually has nothing to do with it.
AKA THE SUNDAY STYLE SECTION
