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twitter.com/tanmorrison:

    "Boys are told from a young age that whatever they do will be excused under the “boys will be boys” mantra, and that “boys will be boys” mentality leads to what I call the “boiling frog” problem of women’s sexual boundaries. I call it that because if you put a frog into a pot of boiling water, it will jump right out, but if you put a frog into a pot of room-temperature water and slowly heat it to a boil, the frog will acclimate as it heats and never jump out, eventually boiling to death. Similarly, when we learn as young girls to tolerate “low-level” boundary violations like the ones we often are forced to suffer in silence at school, at home and on the street – bra-snapping, boob-grabbing, ass pinching, catcalling, dick flashing “all in good fun” relentless violations that adults and authorities routinely ignore – it makes it harder for us to notice when even greater boundaries are being violated, eventually leading to the reality that many women who are raped just freeze and fall silent, because that’s what they’ve been taught to do over and over since day one. You tell me what’s more infantilizing: repeatedly letting boys (and grown men) off the hook for their behavior because “boys will be boys” and we can’t ever expect any differently, or creating a consent standard in which all partners take active responsibility for their partner’s safety, and which acknowledges the truly diseased sexual culture we’re soaking in every day."
    — 2 days ago with 11603 notes
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    Because of Edison’s patents for the motion pictures it was close to financially impossible to create motion pictures in the North American east coast. The movie studios therefor relocated to California, and founded what we today call Hollywood. The reason was mostly because there was no patent. There was also no copyright to speak of, so the studios could copy old stories and make movies out of them - like Fantasia, one of Disney’s biggest hits ever.

    So, the whole basis of this industry, that today is screaming about losing control over immaterial rights, is that they circumvented immaterial rights. They copied (or put in their terminology: “stole”) other peoples creative works, without paying for it. They did it in order to make a huge profit. Today, they’re all successful and most of the studios are on the Fortune 500 list of the richest companies in the world. Congratulations - it’s all based on being able to re-use other peoples creative works. And today they hold the rights to what other people create. If you want to get something released, you have to abide to their rules. The ones they created after circumventing other peoples rules.

    The reason they are always complaining about “pirates” today is simple. We’ve done what they did. We circumvented the rules they created and created our own. We crushed their monopoly by giving people something more efficient. We allow people to have direct communication between each other, circumventing the profitable middle man, that in some cases takeover 107% of the profits (yes, you pay to work for them). It’s all based on the fact that we’re competition. We’ve proven that their existence in their current form is no longer needed. We’re just better than they are.

    "
    from The Pirate Bay’s press release regarding SOPA and PIPA (via lauratron)

    (Source: static.thepiratebay.org, via lauratron)

    — 4 days ago with 1595 notes

    lauratron:

    theflyingmouth:

    these are the greatest UFO videos i have ever seen. Man oh man. The phone call at the end of the video gave me goose bumps too. 

    THIS!

    I have seen a UFO like some of these. There is something more out there. It’s ignorant to assume we’re alone.

    — 5 days ago with 14 notes
    So True.

    So True.

    — 6 days ago

    This is the damn cutest thing I’ve ever seen. Man I want a monkey.

    (Source: swaggazzz, via lakotagordon)

    — 1 week ago with 123602 notes

    Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire - 25 or 6 to 4 - Live at the Greek Theatre (by drummingexperience) Two incredible bands, one great jam.

    — 1 week ago
    "What’s the worst thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now. You’re probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank. Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. I’ve even heard the term ‘mangina.’ Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s not royally fucked up."

    Full frontal feminism: a young women’s guide to why feminism matters

    By Jessica Valenti

     

    (via cwnl)

    (Source: ikenbot, via lauratron)

    — 1 week ago with 11033 notes
    bapeonion:

ryan gosling’s hair+makeup crew is incredible

    bapeonion:

    ryan gosling’s hair+makeup crew is incredible

    (Source: ihavenomouseandimuststream)

    — 1 week ago with 6 notes