Monkeys with Jetpacks

Du Jour means teamwork!

I love this movie so much.

(via mayndoo)

picturaculminis:

wantstothrill:

blueshoesandbluemountains:

thedailywhat:

LMFAO Cover of the Day: After months of rearranging, 18-year-old Noah finally figured out how best to cover LMFAO’s “Sexy & I Know It” — and his rendition has just been named the day’s trending video by NBC’s Today show. You can almost see him blushing as he shares his big news with fans on Facebook and Twitter. Pretty obvious what’s going on here — Noah’s sexy and he doesn’t know it.

[hypervocal]

Holy moley O______O

Fuck oooooooooooff. This is amazing. If a rip of just the song part somehow made it’s way to me…. I wouldn’t complain. Just saying.

I NEED LIKE TEN ALBUMS BY HIM IMMEDIATELY. IMMEDIATELY.

WHAT JUST HAPPENED. WHO ORDERED THESE FEELS?

airawyn reblogged your post: Tumblr iPad app?

Tumblita is the best one I’ve found. Still hoping they’ll add…Savior-style filters,…

Many thanks. I almost wrote “Fancy thanks.” I don’t even know.

*hugs* Hang out soon?

Saw “Empire of Passion” last night. Not what I was expecting. Nothing in it was expected, in fact, but it had that inexorable, intangible feeling of destiny as it moved slowly forward. I’m pretty sure I liked it.

(trailer is in French because the film was a Japanese-French co-production. The film itself is in Japanese, although with French credits and intertitles)

Drunk or Exhausted: To the trans folks opposing Radfem 2012 in London

mresundance:

drunkorexhausted:

You are showing your misogyny. I support your right to trans-only spaces.

The problem is exactly that: you think we belong ONLY in trans-only spaces, and fail to grasp that just because a person is transsexual or transgender, that does not automatically mean they are ONLY transsexual or transgender. You seem to think that trans women belong in their own special gender category, some “other” gender category that is “not female”.

You misunderstand how transsexual and transgender work, both as labels and identities. A person is a transsexual MAN or WOMAN  or (insert designation of choice here). Transsexual is more or less a DESCRIPTOR for a certain type of PERSON. Just as lesbian is a descriptor in many cases, or queer.

It also functions, as I noted, as an identity. By saying we have the right to “trans only spaces” just as women have the right to “women only spaces”, you clearly seem to think that trans = special sparklypoo hearts unicorn gender that is “other” and trans women are “not female” or “not woman”.

In fact, I’d go so far as to do what the Quakers did for the Black Panthers during the civil rights movement in the US. The Quakers and the Black Panthers had diametrically opposing politics (like radical feminists and trans activists) but when the Panthers wanted to meet and needed a safe space to do it, the Quakers would form a circle around them, holding hands, to prevent white supremacists from invading their space.

This is a false analogy on so many levels. But the biggest problem with this analogy is the fact that you think that trans and feminist activists have diametrically opposing politics. We do not. The same patriarchal system which enforces heteronormativity and binary gender is the thing that both trans and feminist activists fight against. THE SAME. OPPRESSIVE. SYSTEM.

We are ON. THE. SAME. SIDE.

The same patriarchal system which tries to block people’s access to birth control and abortion is the same system which blocks trans people from medical treatment. The same system which says that a “woman deserved it” when she was assaulted says “that trans woman deserved it” when she turns up dead. The same system which has silenced women and dismisses their contributions to culture, both in the present and in the past, has erased trans women and their presence in modern culture and in the past altogether. The same system which punishes women for not acting “feminine” enough, or looking “feminine enough”, also punishes trans women for how they look and act and insists they will never be women.

Often, many of the same root arguments come into play in all of these cases, though there are intersections of race, class, nationality, culture and gender which complicate things. But often, the root argument is tethered to the essential, innate “inferiority” of women and trans people on some level, or the basic idea that women and trans people are inferior and this is innate and therefore, unquestionable.

It is a feminists’ job to QUESTION this system. It is what makes a person a feminist and not someone who is delivering lip-service on behalf of “equality”. This questioning means even questioning the essential nature of what it means to be “female” and what “woman” is (how can we define that? really? Because every definition we have has been deeply rooted in an patriarchal context).

And ultimately this is the kind of questioning that trans activists DO, not because we have the luxury of choosing to do so, but because we must in order to be who were are.

So really, not only are we on the same side, but trans activists have valuable insights and information which we would happily share — if these supposedly “radical” feminists cared to listen.

Why can’t trans women show born women the same courtesy? No one is saying you’re not women, you’re just not female and your experience of womanhood is fundamentally different to mine because of that. Not worse, not better, just different. I would like to stand in solidarity with you but I can’t if your boot is on my neck.

See above.

Trans women and trans activists can’t owe you the same “courtesy” because you have failed to even acknowledge that trans women are WOMEN and while their experiences are fundamentally different from a cisgender women, so is every woman’s experience from the dawn of human history to the present. Cisgender women do not all have the same experience by virtue of having the same “plumbing” (and I doubt all of you actually have the same plumbing, genetically and/or biologically, given the fact there are intersex people and intersex women in the world). Trans women do not have the same experiences by virtue of being trans.

Also, trans women ARE born female. Your definition of “female” and “woman-born woman” is dependent entirely on biology. Patriarchal arguments are often as well, such as “women cannot be trusted with power in government because they will PMS and go crazy” or “women are  home-makers because they can have children” or any other such bullshit.

It is incredible to me that so many supposed radical feminists cannot see the correlation between their biological essentialism — which they use to exclude trans women — and the same biological essentialism which are present in patriarchal, sexist arguments.

And again — how do we judge what a “woman” is when all of our definitions are dependent on problematic, patriarchally defined definitions of “woman”? We can’t.

And if we were really truly radically, we would understand this and begin to do the honest, hard work of examining these truths — as feminists do — and trying to build something that was not just borrowing and enforcing the same old sexist patriarchal ideas, issues, and problems under a new label of “radical feminism”.

I do stand in solidarity with these so-called radical feminists. I do believe that women need women only spaces, despite how problematic that can be. But showing solidarity also means that I — and others — have the obligation to question and hold people accountable when we see them doing something harmful. A social movement does not improve or make progress by without continually questioning and re-evaluating its goals and purposes. And when people call others out on certain behavior or ideas, it is not because we are hateful, or that we are opposed to the same end-goal. On the contrary, it is because we would all like to arrive at the same end-goal — together, rather than divided — that we call problems to your attention.

Trans people and trans activists want the same things as feminists. But we cannot have these things when supposedly radical feminists continue to perpetuate sexist and patriarchal ideas which are oppressive and detrimental, not just to trans people, but to feminists and people in general. These supposedly radical feminists really need to examine their attitudes and their choices and question if what they are doing is in the broader, fundamental interest of the rights and equality of ALL women. Not just “women who I are women according the personal definition I am comfortable with”.

All. Women.

And yes, this includes (trans) women. Because they are women, born and bred.

HEARTS AROUND THIS RESPONSE.

It seems like Tumblr doesn’t have an official IPad app? Just an iPhone app. Is there a good iPad app out there, third party or otherwise?

trenchkamen:

thegabbicave:

ameadragon:

lostfrostprince:

hawkandhandsaw-az:

Fuck Yeah Feminist Thor. 

oh my god bless you, Thor

PRAISE THOR

CAN FEMINIST THOR BE A THING

This man is suddenly way more appealing to me.

Booyah, good person.

theumbrellaseller:

hemsworthss:

science bros.

There are no words to describe my feelings about this relationship. But I’m going to try.

First of all, their parallels. Both geniuses, top of their field. Both suffered an accident that physically changed them, forever, and not in a wholesome Spider-Man kind of way. Both try to do what they can to help others despite their own issues; Banner heals people, Tony works on developing clean energy. And both struggle, in their own way, with duality; Tony and Iron Man, Bruce and the Hulk. Two identities, one body. Only difference is Iron Man’s bad side is Tony.

I mentioned somewhere that Tony sees a bit of himself in Banner because they both have a monster inside them that they can’t control, a creature that springs fully formed from the id, the base impulses and the nasty stuff at the back of the mind. Bruce’s is a giant green rage monster. Tony’s trashed a party in Iron Man 2. Banner has a control over his that Tony hasn’t quite achieved yet; don’t think I didn’t notice Tony pouring himself a whiskey when confronting Loki. Tony is envious, fascinated, and most of all, impressed by Bruce’s control.

So he doesn’t walk on eggshells around Bruce like the others, because that’s not what Bruce needs. Tony sees Bruce’s restraint, sees the quiet, brilliant man making self-deprecating jokes in the corner of the room, sees the way people look at him like he’s going to snap any second, and thinks “nope”. Tony does what no-one else aboard that Helicarrier does. He trusts him. He makes jokes and jabs him and teases him and above all, treats him exactly how he would treat anyone else— he has a great regard for Bruce’s brilliance, and tells him so, but he doesn’t try to ignore the Hulk in the room. When he says “wow, you’ve really got a handle on this, haven’t you?” he’s not saying “gosh, it’s incredible you haven’t snapped yet and killed everyone on board” he’s saying “I know you have a handle on this, you wouldn’t be here if you didn’t, so I’m gonna poke you with this sharp object to prove it”. And you can see Bruce relax, and smile, and trust him back.

But then Tony goes even further, and invites Bruce to come to his R&D department. I’m pretty sure the two of them drive off together in Tony’s car at the end of the movie to do just that. And, okay, sure, Bruce is smart, but Tony’s tech is his baby. How many people get invitations to come and see his work? He invites Bruce because he recognises his brilliance, yes, but there’s another reason. He’s inviting Bruce to come down and work with him after this is over. He’s giving Bruce something to do next, a purpose, an alternative to disappearing into the ether to be alone with his monster. Tony knows from experience that being alone with your issues doesn’t end well, so for what’s only the third time in his life he extends the hand of friendship to a guy he’s known barely an hour.

And then, he tells Bruce to let the beast loose. Not just because they need him to fight, but because it will help him. If Bruce can take this thing that he sees as a curse and turn it into a gift, well, that’s going to lift him out of a very dark place. I’m not saying Tony knew about Bruce’s attempted suicide, but I think he had a suspicion that Bruce had been, in his words, “low”. So he encourages Bruce to take all that crap and pain and the Other Guy and use him to help people; after all, that’s what he did.

And it pays off. Nobody— nobody— thinks Bruce is going to turn up for that final battle. You can see the look on Natasha and Steve’s faces when Tony asks if Bruce turned up yet. They’ve counted Bruce out. Guy’s a mess, right? He’s too volatile. Doesn’t play well with others. He could never work as part of a team. No-one thinks he’ll come through when it matters. Except Tony. He has faith in him, and that faith is rewarded. It’s no wonder the Hulk is the one to catch Tony. Tony’s the one who helped let him out. He’s just returning the favor.

This times infinity.

(via trelkez)

Seriously, Moviefone?

Once upon a time, there was an amazing blog called Cinematical. And it was good. Then it was absorbed into parent company AOL’s movie website Moviefone, which promised no changes. Except eventually it stopped being “Cinematical” and just the news page for Moviefone. And the writing got more sensationalistic and less interesting and then they published a sexist “satire” about how girly girls should pretend to like The Avengers for their boyfriends. This that is so ridiculously unfunny, that it makes me see red.