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marynesq: Double Trouble - sea-ess-eye Yup, that’s my new...

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:55:36 -0400

Double Trouble - sea-ess-eye

Yup, that’s my new favorite story.

I can’t write properly in english but here’s the thing : Both young Emma and young Regina appear in Storybrooke and fall in love immediatly. David find them and bring them home. Fatally, Regina comes at the Charming’s place and then begins the most awkward rommate ever. The adults have to keep an eye on the teenagers and try to find how and why they are here. In parallel, everyone learn many things about the past of both Emma and Regina.

Seriously this is brilliant, a very mind blowing, cute, clever and fun way to put in the light every questions about Regina and Emma what are not answered on the show. The dynamic between Regina and little Emma is ADORABLE, and the way Emma reacts over all this mess is a really interesting point of view about the character.

Well, 10/10 for Double Trouble !

If you have Netflix, check out National Geographic's "The Science of Evil."

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:47:26 -0400

onceuponameta:

TRIGGER WARNING applies for images and graphic descriptions of murder, war, prison violence, and torture.

"Through a career that has included crotch-grabbing, nudity, BDSM, Marilyn Monroe fetishizing, and a..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:36:37 -0400

“Through a career that has included crotch-grabbing, nudity, BDSM, Marilyn Monroe fetishizing, and a 1992 book devoted to sex, Madonna has been viewed as a feminist provocateur, pushing the boundaries of acceptable femininity. But Beyoncé’s use of her body is criticized as thoughtless and without value beyond male titillation, providing a modern example of the age-old racist juxtaposition of animalistic black sexuality vs. controlled, intentional, and civilized white sexuality.”

- All Hail the Queen? (http://bitchmagazine.org/article/all-hail-the-queen-beyonce-feminism#.UZvUyP56MrU.facebook)

blows raspberries at the past few days

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:35:00 -0400

shouldertappingghosts: If I was a famous author I would publish a book with ten different endings...

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:32:17 -0400

shouldertappingghosts:

If I was a famous author I would publish a book with ten different endings which all went to print with varying degrees of rarity, but not tell the fans about it so that I could watch their confusion as they disagree over how the story ended. Then when they figured it out I would ‘come clean’, telling them that I had released eleven alternate endings and watch them panic again as they all try to find the last ending.

In 1985 a New Orleans man drowned at a party attended by 100...

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:07:56 -0400

In 1985 a New Orleans man drowned at a party attended by 100 lifeguards who were celebrating having made it through the summer without a drowning at a city pool

michaelshiatusbeard: scarfshipping: yours-truly-calliope: This...

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:43:53 -0400

michaelshiatusbeard:

scarfshipping:

yours-truly-calliope:

This is a useful resource…

i’ll be the most creative murderer the world has ever seen

two types of people

Confession: I do care about this stuff and hate it when people use my knives in ways they were not made for.

*has a Cutco set*

nezua: Yes, I do understand the workings of the DSM; I remember...

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:32:57 -0400

nezua:

Yes, I do understand the workings of the DSM; I remember its inception (which was very controversial, as essentially it was a collusion with doctors and insurance companies to provide structure to most efficiently diagnose, treat, and BILL (a greater amount of) people), and being familiar with these topics was an important part of my schooling, and later practice. First in clinics as an intern, and then as someone employed as a counselor, where I’d have to be ready to understand and deal with the various types of people who were on my caseload.

Most younger people or laypeople today talk about “Personality Disorders” as if they are gospel. The notion as we understand it today, as well as all accompanying criteria, are recent. And, as I said, controversial. Though as time goes by, of course, the idea becomes near ubiquitous, and soon people are thinking and acting as if this is the only way we can think of people.

So, in the DSM, a personality disorder will be presented as a collection of traits and behaviors. And to be diagnosed, you need to meet some not all of them. It can be a grab bag. But it tells us nothing about anything, really. Why are you acting that way? Why do you feel that way? Is it your diet? Is it your environment? Is sociopathy, for example, biological? Are you born with it? Can you develop it from, say, too much insulation from humans? Or is it more fixed? Are you in so much physical pain over something else that you are acting a certain way?

The DSM will not help you there. Research still goes on to get answers. Personal relationships between client and therapist seek answers. The DSM is not an answer book. It is more like a recipe book. And many people are able to “ID” as one or more of these by bypassing a closer look (doctor) altogether and read the criteria list like its a quiz online. So part of what happens is the labeling opens up wider and wider. But what is that labeling telling us, really?

(Oh, and to respond to your statement: if someone “IDs” as a sociopath, you’d be a fool to feel safe around them. That you do not simply means you are being wise.)

Despite how much stock I do or do not put into these phenomena, or what my thoughts and feelings might be on observing the ever-increasing numbers of people diagnosed under these (controversial) criteria, as well as self diagnosing/ID’ing as you pointed out…let me move away from the specialized talk and return to the immediate: my original comment that started this entire bizarre interaction (I mostly mean with another person, not you).

Hateful people get online and attack me and my friends (people of color) for standing up against bias, environmental destruction, theft of indigenous resources, misogyny, vilification in the media of people like us and our parents and grandparents, racism, and so on. So, PoC, when just talking about our lives and how our families and ourselves have been and are currently affected—and actually trying to push toward a just society (aka Social Justice), are smeared, slurred, swarmed on, and otherwise attacked online….by people who deride the idea of “social justice.” They sneer and drip derision on the term. (It seems perverse, no? To sneer at a just society? A fair society? Who would do this?? But it is an idea that would make perfect sense to a sociopathic mind.)

I was pushing back.

So in jumping in and pushing back on my comments by citing the rights of sociopaths not to be talked about thusly, your actions as well as this other person’s are…what? Serving what? To side with the ubiquitous racist attacks against PoC and our idea of how a better world would look in order to…what? To do what? To stand up for sociopaths.

I mean, if that’s what y’all wanna do, okay. Seems a bit odd to me, but that’s okay. We all make our decisions, priorities, choose sides.

—-

one more small thing: i wish people would stop misusing the word “community.” it does not just mean “group of people.”

laughingstation: More FUNNY POST here! Government subsidies...

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:14:14 -0400

laughingstation:

More FUNNY POST here!

Government subsidies for corn (which is used to make high fructose corn syrup, which is used to sweeten soda)?

There is an island which is so densely populated by poisonous...

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:05:54 -0400

There is an island which is so densely populated by poisonous snakes the Brazilian Navy has quarantined it and a biologist once said that when on the island you are “never more than three feet from death.”

Women of color all over the world: We need feminism because we are told our naturally dark skin is unattractive and it needs to be lighter in order to have better economic opportunities, become more appealing to men (of all races), and treated with more respect by society.

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:03:31 -0400

Women of color all over the world: We need feminism because we are told our naturally dark skin is unattractive and it needs to be lighter in order to have better economic opportunities, become more appealing to men (of all races), and treated with more respect by society.
White women: OMG how is that a feminist issue?? We are called pale if we don't tan. It's totes the same thing.
WOC: Really?!?!

An Irish youth snatched a homeless mans pet bunny from his arms...

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:06:49 -0400

An Irish youth snatched a homeless mans pet bunny from his arms and threw it off the bridge they were standing on, the homeless man immediately jumped after it and resuscitated the bunny before he passed out and firefighters saved him, the youth was later convicted of torture and animal cruelty.

"When I was a kid, you know I immigrated to the States in 1978, and I’m six years old and watching TV..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:06:24 -0400

“When I was a kid, you know I immigrated to the States in 1978, and I’m six years old and watching TV and I didn’t see any Asians on television. And you turn on Star Trek and there’s this Asian guy not chopping anybody up. He’s honorable, a helmsman of a spaceship, and it was a big, big deal for me to see that and have a role model.”

- John Cho (x)

The only Asians I remember seeing on mainstream TV when I was a kid were Sulu on Star Trek, nameless Asians loading trucks in the background or dying on MASH (which was all about funny lovable white US Americans waging war on Asians), and the “ancient Chinese secret” Calgon laundry detergent commercial.

(via zuky)

Was the same when I was a kid. That moment of seeing George Takei not being overly-stereotyped when I was a kid was a powerful one. I think the only place I had really seen other Asians on the screen was finding the rare (because I was a kid in mountains, far from the rest of the community) movie that had Asians in it. Unfortunately, a lot of those were the “white guy learns martial arts, beats up Asians because ‘Merika” type movies. Which, of course was not TV. They were still the “Asian other” just as in MASH backdrops. Anyway, what I’m trying to say is that Sulu always has a special place in my heart. Star Trek helped me get through some bad emotional spaces as a kid, and I think part of what made it welcoming was having POC, especially George Takei ( since I’m JA too, and the other Asian American actors who came later), represented on screen in positive and whole characters, with names instead of “Solider #1, Henchman #4, Ninja #18”.

(via reallifedocumentarian)

(Proper) representation matters.

(via angryasiangirlsunited)

"You are fucking precious. If these niggas can’t get that understanding into their heads and act..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:05:02 -0400

“You are fucking precious. If these niggas can’t get that understanding into their heads and act accordingly, then fuck them.”

- (via notesonascandal)

"The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while,..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:03:11 -0400

“The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”

- Assata Shakur: An Autobiography (via caramelblackness)

"People accuse me of being aloof and other such shit. But whatever it is, it gets me what I want,..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:02:57 -0400

“People accuse me of being aloof and other such shit. But whatever it is, it gets me what I want, even if that is left the fuck alone. I don’t want nobody’s half-assed mess. And alone will ALWAYS be better than half-assed.”

- (via notesonascandal)

gunslingerrr: PSA: Emotional and Verbal abuse are both still abuse. They are just as scaring as...

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:18:05 -0400

gunslingerrr:

PSA: Emotional and Verbal abuse are both still abuse. They are just as scaring as Physical abuse. No matter how trivial or small someone makes it seem, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO PUT UP WITH IT AND IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT.

Confession: Being struck, yelled at, belittled, degraded, or humiliated did not do great things for my character. All it did was hurt.

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:10:00 -0400

sexistfacebookdudes: Oppressors complaining that it’s unfair that there are programs or...

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:57:53 -0400

sexistfacebookdudes:

Oppressors complaining that it’s unfair that there are programs or services which are only for oppressed groups, is like shooting someone then complaining that they got to have more visits to the hospital than you.

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Tue, 21 May 2013 14:56:22 -0400