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multifandomshitshow: Welcome to the hockey fandom. Our season finales last for two months and we...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:30:21 -0400

multifandomshitshow:

Welcome to the hockey fandom.
Our season finales last for two months and we cry the whole time.

gunslingerannie: europeansdomusicalsbetter: stockade: You’...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:57:40 -0400

gunslingerannie:

europeansdomusicalsbetter:

stockade:

You’re welcome

This is the most useful thing I’ve ever reblogged.

Toews getting ready for game 3 of the stanley cup finale.

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:54:05 -0400

Toews getting ready for game 3 of the stanley cup finale.

When Snooki met Jonathan Toews……… @ The Much Music Video...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:49:33 -0400

When Snooki met Jonathan Toews………

@ The Much Music Video Awards 2010

"Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I’ve heard educated white people..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:45:47 -0400

““Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I’ve heard educated white people say, ‘slavery was 400 years ago.’ No it very wasn’t. It was 140 years ago…that’s two 70-year-old ladies living and dying back to back. That’s how recently you could buy a guy.””

- Louis C.K. (via 30thcenturyboy)

Sylvester Magee, the (probable) last American born into slavery died in 1971.

The last living child of former American slaves, Mississippi Winn, died in 2010.

Slavery in the territory that is now the United States lasted more than 330 years. We will be 330 years removed from slavery in the year 2195.
(via fishingboatproceeds)

alittlecoconuttart: [Article excerpt] New Study Shows Hillary...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:47:09 -0400

alittlecoconuttart:

[Article excerpt]

New Study Shows Hillary Clinton’s Face Makes Women More Confident

Tess VandenDolder Apr 25th at 1:07 pm

In the study individual men and women were asked to give a speech in front of a panel of six strangers. For some there was a picture of Bill Clinton on the back wall and for others there was a picture of Hillary. Overall the men spoke longer and were judged as better speakers than the women, except for the group of ladies who spoke while looking into Hillary’s baby blues. That group blew the men out of the water as far as the length of their speeches and overall confidence and success in conveying their ideas publicly.

The conclusion researchers drew from this study was that when women are exposed to powerful female role models in leadership positions they gained instant boosts in confidence and the ability to achieve at high levels. ”Female political role models can inspire women and help them cope with stressful situations that they encounter in their careers, such as public speaking,” the authors of the study wrote. ”A lack of female powerful role models leads to a vicious circle, because if women fail to take leadership positions, they also fail to provide role models for junior women to follow.”

i-am-beard: rarararambles: rarararambles: Yeah, I may have...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:53:02 -0400

i-am-beard:

rarararambles:

rarararambles:

Yeah, I may have teared up like a giant baby. Holy shit. BEST flashmob ever. EVER.

Fact: This still gives me goosebumps.

I miss playing. :[

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edwardspoonhands: tyleroakley: Russell Brand Destroys MSNBC...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:49:00 -0400

edwardspoonhands:

tyleroakley:

Russell Brand Destroys MSNBC Talk Show Host for Treating Him Like Shit

“Casual objectification” is an excellent term for not only what these people were doing to him, but for pretty much the entire institution of “celebrity.”

Also, Russell Brand is very funny. These people have no idea how to handle intelligent discourse blended with humor. They are speaking very different cultural languages. It’s a fascinating thing to watch.

territorialcreep: an autobiography

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:42:49 -0400

territorialcreep:

an autobiography

"In one recent study, more than 100 university psychologists were asked to rate the CVs of Dr. Karen..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:12:56 -0400

““In one recent study, more than 100 university psychologists were asked to rate the CVs of Dr. Karen Miller or Dr. Brian Miller, fictitious applicants for an academic tenure-track job. The CVs were identical, apart from the name. Yet strangely, the male Dr. Miller was perceived (by both male and female reviewers) to have better research, teaching, and service experience than the luckless female Dr. Miller. Overall, about three-quarters of the psychologists thought that Dr. Brian was hirable, while only just under half had the same confidence in Dr. Karen. The same researchers also sent out applications for the position of tenured professor, again identical but for the male and female name at the top. This time, the application was so strong that most of the raters thought that tenure was deserved, regardless of sex. However, the endorsement of Karen’s application was four times more likely to be accompanied by cautionary caveats scrawled in the margins of the questionnaire: such as, ‘I would need to see evidence that she had gotten these grants and publications on her own’ and ‘We would have to see her job talk.’””

- Cordelia Fine, Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference (via cockchomp)

THIS IS REALLY FUCKING IMPORTANT AND INCREDIBLE

(via beloquacious)

Oh hey, just in case you think academia is a haven of progressivism and open-mindedness. Women also have a much harder time obtaining tenure if they are trying to raise a family, while men who have children are more likely to be awarded it.

When I was in graduate school, I attended a “Junior Women Scholars and the Profession’-type mini conference, at which one of the senior scholars told us that, if we wanted to have kids, it was better to do it while we were finishing our degrees. Because then you could prove you were able to handle a baby + research and it would be better to take a semester off as a grad student than a semester off as junior faculty.

All of this is despite the fact that, in the US, hiring committees are not legally allowed to take into account your family status. They aren’t even allowed to ask if you’re married, if you have kids, or what your plans are for kids in the future. It usually comes up somewhat awkwardly during campus visits, where they have to disclose benefits and how the tenure process works.

Like most of the rest of the US, universities and colleges tend to lag woefully behind the rest of the world in offering women choices other than “rock” or “hard place,” and also do not accord men time off for paternity leave, thus ensuring that academic women have to shoulder the weight of those choices. So yay, institutionalized sexism!

(via theletteraesc)

When people tell me I’m doing too much at uni, they should really know shit like this.

(via najalater)

captainfantoewstic: theirdarkness: keithbrook: peekaaboo: peekaaboo: while his teammates wore...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:01:43 -0400

captainfantoewstic:

theirdarkness:

keithbrook:

peekaaboo:

peekaaboo:

while his teammates wore suits to meet nhl draft top prospects

this is what our captain wore

bonus gif because it is accurate

Tazer, just keepin’ it REAL

why do you hate suits, Tazer.

because an ass and thighs like that can’t be contained, obviously.

bryanthephotogeek: Samantha Bee is a role model.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:35:05 -0400

bryanthephotogeek:

Samantha Bee is a role model.

This is Jesse, the roughest toughest cowgirl in the whole...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:32:34 -0400

This is Jesse, the roughest toughest cowgirl in the whole West. She loves critters, but none more than her best pal, Bullseye. This is Rex, the meanest most terrifying dinosaur who ever lived! The Potato Heads, Mr. and Mrs. You gotta keep ‘em together ‘cause they’re madly in love. Now Slinky here is as loyal as any dog you could want. And Hamm, he’ll keep your money safe, but he’s also one of the dastardly villiains of all time, evil Dr. Pork Chop! These little dudes are from a strange alien world: Pizza Planet! And this is Buzz Lightyear, the coolest toy ever! He can fly and shoot lasers! Sworn to protect the galaxy from the evil Emperor Zurg. Now Woody, he’s been my pal for as long as I can remember. He’s brave like a cowboy should be. And kind. And smart. But the thing that makes Woody special is that he’ll never give up on you. Ever. He’ll be there for you, no matter what. You gotta promise to take good care of these guys. They mean a lot to me.

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gaptaincanada: its a love story baby just sAY YES

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:56:42 -0400

gaptaincanada:

its a love story baby just sAY YES

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