ginnydear:

i cannot stress this enough, young ladies. 

find a slightly older female friend. like… two to ten years older than you. they will save your life, they will teach you so much, they will give you such great life lessons. they are so vital and helpful and important. 

nidoranduran:

I love the phrase “I’m all for equality but isn’t this going a bit too far?” because like. It acknowledges that the issue is a matter of equality and tries to soften the ideological blow of what’s about to be said with the waiver that in most situations equality is totally cool by them, but on this occasion, there is an excess of equality here. Too much equality. This makes people too equal and they cannot in good conscience stand by it. Slow down this equality at once before we get too carried away on people being equal.

phoenixcollective:

reblog if you would be fine sharing a restroom with a transgender person

blackbutrfly:

crime-she-typed:

micdotcom:

It’s official: Williams surpassed previous record-holder Maria Sharapova with a total $28.9 million earned last year, Forbes announced Monday. But despite surpassing the previous record holder, there remains one important caveat: Williams is still a victim of the pay gap — and is mad as hell about it.

YASSS BOO GET THAT MONEY HONEYYY 💋💅🏾

Good.

jesuisquoijesuis:

When it comes to fiction, I think it’s really important to remember that context matters. And that’s referring both to the context of the work and the context of the time. It’s impossible to have good representation without taking those things into account.

I’m completely for all PoC getting represented in heroic roles, but PoC are not interchangeable. Different types of stories are not equally important for all PoC. I’m not saying that one is better than another. I’m just saying they’re different, and that should be acknowledged.

The Dr. Strange movie is rightfully getting called out for being racist. But these same people that are calling it out? They’re also the people talking about how Oscar Isaac or Pedro Pascal should have been cast in the titular role instead. Now, I love Oscar Isaac. I think he’s a very good actor. I haven’t seen anything with Pedro Pascal, but I’m sure he’s talented, too. But either of them being Doctor Strange wouldn’t fix the problems with that movie, because they are still not Asian. Having one of them as the lead wouldn’t change the fact that the movie is racist. Sure, maybe in the comics, the character was never actually Asian and so could technically be played by a Latino actor, but I still think that’s gross, even if doing so did remove the white saviour vibe from the comics, for mostly the same reasons that the movie as it is is gross - someone that’s not Asian goes to Asia to learn the secrets of Asian mysticism from someone else that’s not Asian, then eventually surpasses all actually Asian people in different aspects of their culture and lifestyle.

I said that context of the time is important, and in a lot of cases it is, but in this, I think all that really matters is the context of the work and how heavy the Asian influences are. There will never come a time when Dr. Strange has no Asian themes or imagery. There will never come a time when he should be played by a white actor or a non Asian PoC.

Another example that comes to mind is Quantico. Would I have liked some of the minor PoC characters like Iris and Brandon to get more screentime and development? Sure. I’d have loved to have more of them and less of some of the white characters. But I also think it’s incredibly important that in a show about terrorism, three major good characters - including the show’s lead - were not only PoC, but belonged to demographics that are frequently looked at in this day and age with fear and suspicion in the Western world. It is so huge that we got to see two Arab women and an Indian woman as heroes and a white man as a terrorist. It would have been okay if we’d had some other PoC as the hero, but in the context of the world we live in, I don’t think it would mean nearly as much as what we got does. Alex may not have been written with an Indian actress in mind, but her being Indian made her being suspected of being a terrorist while being completely innocent far more meaningful to me.

Alex, Raina, and Nimah are all so different. They got to be real, complex people, instead of walking stereotypes. They’re characters in a show about terrorism. Two of them are Lebanese and the third is Indian. One of them is Muslim, one is Hindu, one is an atheist. And not one of them was the terrorist, and that is hugely important to me. We live in a world and a time where people with those backgrounds are stereotyped as terrorists. That makes it necessary for fiction to have them as heroes opposing terrorists.

In the 1940s, Japanese Americans that had never committed any sort of crime were sent to internment camps because of the attack on Pearl Harbour. The stories that weren’t told then that someone should have - Japanese Americans that were fighting in the US military while their families were being detained, those that were being detained.

During the Cold War, propaganda in both the Soviet Union and the United States resulted in an inability to see the other side as people. This was the same era as the Civil Rights Movement in the US. Star Trek, the groundbreaking series that it was, gave us Chekov and Uhura and Sulu.

There will come a time when it won’t be so hugely important to have Arab and Indian characters as the good guys in fiction about terrorism. A time when the context of the real world changes so that people don’t default to looking at those characters as terrorists. And when that day comes, it’ll be equally nice to see all PoC in the heroic roles in that type of fiction. But right now? Now, the fear that people in the West have is terrorism. Not domestic terrorism by white people. But external threats, or threats from Arabs and Indians within. That fear results in prejudice. And fiction can play a role in reducing that.

Context matters. No two people have the same experiences, and no two groups face all of the same struggles. We’re not interchangeable, and it’s important to remember that.