caring is not an advantage

beeishappy: Stephen Colbert salutes UVA’s Class of...

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:54:13 -0700

Stephen Colbert salutes UVA’s Class of 2013 Followed by this.

numbtongue: “ So, we’ve managed to eliminate all enemy ships,...

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:38:58 -0700

“ So, we’ve managed to eliminate all enemy ships, no one on board was injured, and the successful rescue of the Kobayashi Maru crew is under way. Anything else? ”

#the fact that bones doesn’t even bother trying to hide his delight #like jim whatever you did is going to blow up in your face in point five seconds but excuse me for a minute while i SUCK ON THAT STARFLEET #ten bucks says he smacked the back of jim’s head the second they were out of there #”what did you do” #”uh beat the unbeatable test? like a badass? will you - seriously motherfuck ow do no harm bones!” #while bones mutters something about ”dumbest human alive” and ”genius my ass” and drags him to a bar and buys him a drink

Photo

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:28:15 -0700

Zach & Chris having a laughing fit

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:24:31 -0700

Zach & Chris having a laughing fit

Doctor: Tests results are back, and it all looks great.

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:41:00 -0700

Doctor: Tests results are back, and it all looks great.
Me: Wonderful! I can go back to eating like a normal person!
Doctor: .... yeah, about that...
Me: FML

“It’s really annoying, especially when you’re not a person...

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:10:29 -0700

“It’s really annoying, especially when you’re not a person who’s running around dating everybody—if you are, by the way, good for you…But there’s this weird assumption that any time people who have opposite body parts are hanging out, they’re having sex. And it’s like, first of all. No, it takes an awfully long time to get the key to the castle, thank you very much. And second of all, why can’t I just have friends?!”

Yeah, still good.

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:08:06 -0700

Yeah, still good.

“When I saw that scene from The Goblet of Fire where she stood...

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:55:20 -0700

“When I saw that scene from The Goblet of Fire where she stood in front of the steps with Daniel Radcliffe at the dance, and the way that she cried and the way that she was vulnerable—I just had an instinct about her as an actor. She got better every movie—we all saw that. The icing on the cake for me was meeting her. I know these characters so well because of the book and the screenplay and whatever part of it that I have actually lived, whether it’s the people that inspired it or whatever, that when it came to casting, I just knew. It’s hard to describe. It could be something as simple as, in the case of Emma, I knew how much she had to prove to herself. I knew how much longing she had to break out of the Hermione part, and to show herself more than anyone else had allowed her.” - Stephen Chbosky, author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

flagdemoness: kadachi9: zaynmalphurs: sourcedumal: patrickand...

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:42:38 -0700

flagdemoness:

kadachi9:

zaynmalphurs:

sourcedumal:

patrickandmarcus:

slay-z:

glitterlion:

strangeasanjles:

e-raticmenace:

nothingfromsherlock:

8gateshvnz:

aperfectillusion:

OH MY GOD!

life

Yeeeeees

What?

DO NOT FUCK THIS UP.

omg. this show will never end.

I AM GONNA FUCKING PUKE, I JUST GOT EXCITED FOR NO REASON

bruuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhh

HOLD THE FUCK UP WHAT

NO.NO. NO. NO. OMG!

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

allinye: Books that own my soul → The Harry Potter Series by...

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:39:23 -0700

allinye:

Books that own my soul → The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. Lord Voldemort’s gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust. Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

"But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:38:52 -0700

“

But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work.

We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing.

”

- Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (via beccap)

#I CAN’T WITH YOU TWO ASSHOLES GET OUT.

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:30:37 -0700

#I CAN’T WITH YOU TWO ASSHOLES GET OUT.

fatedxdestiny: seven days of arrow: day 4; favorite familial...

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:06:46 -0700

fatedxdestiny:

seven days of arrow: day 4; favorite familial relationship: oliver&thea

“I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk, but I...

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:05:15 -0700

“I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk, but I don’t know if I’d be a very convincing Hulk.”

thomin-yorkenshield: #joffrey baratheon #and the one time he...

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:01:55 -0700

thomin-yorkenshield:

#joffrey baratheon #and the one time he was not stupid

lets-go-a-few-rounds: #not bad #10/10 would bang

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:03:47 -0700

lets-go-a-few-rounds:

#not bad #10/10 would bang

"Teachers are often unaware of the gender distribution of talk in their classrooms. They usually..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:53:57 -0700

“Teachers are often unaware of the gender distribution of talk in their classrooms. They usually consider that they give equal amounts of attention to girls and boys, and it is only when they make a tape recording that they realize that boys are dominating the interactions.

Dale Spender, an Australian feminist who has been a strong advocate of female rights in this area, noted that teachers who tried to restore the balance by deliberately ‘favouring’ the girls were astounded to find that despite their efforts they continued to devote more time to the boys in their classrooms. Another study reported that a male science teacher who managed to create an atmosphere in which girls and boys contributed more equally to discussion felt that he was devoting 90 per cent of his attention to the girls. And so did his male pupils. They complained vociferously that the girls were getting too much talking time.

In other public contexts, too, such as seminars and debates, when women and men are deliberately given an equal amount of the highly valued talking time, there is often a perception that they are getting more than their fair share. Dale Spender explains this as follows:

The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.

In other words, if women talk at all, this may be perceived as ‘too much’ by men who expect them to provide a silent, decorative background in many social contexts. This may sound outrageous, but think about how you react when precocious children dominate the talk at an adult party. As women begin to make inroads into formerly ‘male’ domains such as business and professional contexts, we should not be surprised to find that their contributions are not always perceived positively or even accurately.”

- [x] (via neighborly)

As a teacher, I give girls what I hope is a lot of attention. I don’t know if I give girls their fair share, but I aspire to, especially after noticing that boys are willing to use their greater share of teachers’ attention to get girls who they feel aren’t being quiet and docile enough punished. I have therefore acquired a reputation for “caring more about the girls.” This has had two marked results: Some straight boys have gotten more hostile toward me, and most girls have gotten more confident around me. This makes me think I’m doing something right.

Longer thoughts on how this phenomenon relates to sexual harassment in classrooms, if you’re interested: The girls figured out I won’t report them if they hit boys who are sexually harassing them, I’ll only report the boys. This led to an increase in how often girls got the last word and boys got smacked in my classes, and, also, to a DECREASE IN HOW OFTEN GIRLS GOT SEXUALLY HARASSED. The sexual harassers seem to have been depending on the sort of “equal blame” and “retaliation is never warranted” and “don’t hurt others’ feelings” perspectives so many schools try to instill in kids; the sexual harassers were usually the ones bringing me into the situation by saying, “Miss, she hit me! You should write her up!” Once they figured out I was only ever going to respond, “If you don’t treat girls like that, they won’t hit you,” the girls got more confident and the sexual harassers largely shut the fuck up.

In schools, fighting against sexual harassment is often punished exactly the same as, or more severely than, sexual harassment — a lot of discipline codes make no distinction between violence and violence in self-defence, and violence is ALWAYS the highest level of disciplinary infraction, whereas verbal sexual harassment rarely is. Sexual harassers, at least in the schools I’ve been in, rely heavily on GETTING GIRLS IN TROUBLE WITH HIGHER AUTHORITIES as a strategy of harassment — creating an external punishment that penalises girls for and therefore discourages girls from fighting back. Sexual harassers are willing to use their greater share of floorspace to ask to get girls who won’t date them punished. By and large, teachers do punish those girls when they swear or hit. Schools condition girls to ignore sexual harassment by punishing them when they speak up or fight back instead.

Once the sexual harassers in my classes understood that girls wouldn’t be punished for rejecting them, they backed off around me. And there started to be a flip in what conversations I get called into — girls are telling me when boys are being nasty (too loud and dominant), instead of boys telling me when girls are being uncooperative (louder and more dominant than boys think they should be).

(via torrentofbabies)

reblogging again for the wonderful commentary.

(via partysoft)

#this is me #with my roommate #pretty much every morning #which...

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:05:45 -0700

#this is me #with my roommate #pretty much every morning #which is why I don’t throw things at her #dean should know better #or at least provide coffee #jfc #where are your manners

The bride’s cloak he held was huge and heavy, crimson velvet...

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:01:23 -0700

The bride’s cloak he held was huge and heavy, crimson velvet richly worked with lions and bordered with gold satin and rubies. No one had thought to bring a stool, however, and Tyrion stood a foot and a half shorter than his bride. As he moved behind her, Sansa felt a sharp tug on her skirt. He wants me to kneel, she realized, blushing. She was mortified. It was not supposed to be this way. She had dreamed of her wedding a thousand times, and always she had pictured how her betrothed would stand behind her tall and strong, sweep the cloak of his protection over her shoulders, and tenderly kiss her cheek as he leaned forward to fasten the clasp.

nyotas: #jim’s face though #his worldview’s been rocked ...

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:35:30 -0700

nyotas:

#jim’s face though #his worldview’s been rocked #wait?? #bones?? #you don’t just like people out of the blue it takes time and effort?? #and months of sleeping on the floor outside your room after you’ve locked them out for the fifth time because ‘some of us are doctors jim’ #’some of us have exams in the morning jim’ #’some of us don’t want to be woken up at 2am by your drunk self trying to take over my bed jim’ #i thought what we had was special?? #what do you mean you like him?? #bones?? BONES?? #and the rest of the film is just bones comfortingly stabbing jim with hyposprays to remind him that yes bones really does love him best