Joy, gladness, serenity, madness, ecstasy.
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“FEMEN needs to recognize that Muslim women do in fact have agency, and the idea that Muslim women are helpless, passively indoctrinated by the alleged evils of Islam, and desperately need of Western feminist help is oppressive and orientalist. Patriarchy is not specific to Islam — although there are inarguably extreme and truly saddening examples of misogyny in the Muslim community, patriarchy is a global issue. Furthermore, feminism is not only a Western institution — to assume that Muslim women need someone to “speak for” them is insulting to all the grassroots political organizing and activism that Muslim feminists have done. It’s disturbing how a the rhetoric of “women’s liberation” has been co-opted to justify aggression, violence, and prejudice against Muslim communities. In what way is it appropriate to “rescue” women by indulging in and re-circulating essentializing, stereotyped, and offensive depictions of their culture?” -
The raven is sometimes known as “the wolf-bird.” Ravens, like many other animals, scavenge at wolf kills, but there’s more to it than that. Both wolves and ravens have the ability to form social attachments and they seem to have evolved over many years to form these attachments with each other, to both species’ benefit.
There are a couple of theories as to why wolves and ravens end up at the same carcasses. One is that because ravens can fly, they are better at finding carcasses than wolves are. But they can’t get to the food once they get there, because they can’t open up the carcass. So they’ll make a lot of noise, and then wolves will come and use their sharp teeth and strong jaws to make the food accessible not just to themselves, but also to the ravens.
Ravens have also been observed circling a sick elk or moose and calling out, possibly alerting wolves to an easy kill. The other theory is that ravens respond to the howls of wolves preparing to hunt (and, for that matter, to human hunters shooting guns). They find out where the wolves are going and following. Both theories may be correct.
Wolves and ravens also play. A raven will sneak up behind a wolf and yank its tail and the wolf will play back. Ravens sometimes respond to wolf howls with calls of their own, resulting in a concert of howls and calls.(via saandusti)
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I’m 100% packed! I just have to get all my stuff to Sean’s house and into the truck, and then we’re leaving really really early in the morning to avoid traffic. The apartment’s been ours since the 18th, and now we’re finally moving in!!
SANTA CRUZ :’)
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*internal screaming*
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today in headaches
So please stop sayng you have a “migraine” today when you have no idea how bad it is to just puke because you smelled a cigarette and your head couldn’t take it.
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I love when cats are kneading on you and purring but their faces look so deathly intent and serious.
Like…LMFAO are you sure you’re content, cat? ARE YOU SURE?
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New haircut + new laptop! Countdown to moving day: 4 days! Countdown to end of finals: not soon enough
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So one time in one of my Drawing classes at community college, there was a middle-aged guy in the class who kept drawing literally nothing but Arnold Schwarzenegger in his weight training days. They were drawn recreations of him all greased up in like, teeny tiny spandex and shorts and stuff. During critique he’d introduce each piece by REVERENTLY speaking of what a good example of male anatomy this was and what amazing shadows and masculine curves he loved to draw when he drew Arnold. That is literally all he drew until he just stopped showing up to class one day to never return.
I’m like 98% he dropped the class because my teacher told him he had to draw anything other than Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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“[F]or the first several years the SAT was offered, males scored higher than females on the Math section but females achieved higher scores on the Verbal section. ETS policy-makers determined that the Verbal test needed to be “balanced” more in favor of males, and added questions pertaining to politics, business and sports to the Verbal portion. Since that time, males have outscored females on both the Math and Verbal sections. Dwyer notes that no similar effort has been made to “balance” the Math section, and concludes that, “It could be done, but it has not been, and I believe that probably an unconscious form of sexism underlies this pattern. When females show the superior performance, ‘balancing’ is required; when males show the superior performance, no adjustments are necessary.” ” —“Gender Bias in College Admissions Tests”, FairTest.org
And then people urge me everything is fine, of course it is, when you’re ignoring statistics that is.
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