"3 percent of the decision-making in media comes from women. That means 97 percent of how women are portrayed is decided on by men."
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Independent Lens, PBS “Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines” (via ihopeyoucontinue4ever)
It also means that 97 percent of how men are portrayed in media are decided on by men. Something to remind MRAs and their ilk of when they complain about the stereotype of men as inept slobs, bad fathers, etc in media and advertising.
Men have the power. So when we men are shat on by the powers that be you don’t get to try and blame women for that.
And that bullshit argument where MRAs try to claim women have more power because there’s slightly more of us in the US. Doesn’t do us much good when the media is 97% controlled by men.
“Maybe your army comes and maybe it’s too much for us but it’s all on you. Because if we can’t protect the Earth, you can be damned well sure we’ll avenge it.” - Tony Stark, The Avengers
And a *Bonus* (in keeping with Marvel tradition) -
Hope everyone enjoys these as much as I do - they took long enough to make. But they’re finally finished - hey, let’s celebrate with some sleep! Good evening, all. :)
Dear gods, this is perfection.
did they actually realise this before casting them or what
“THEY WERE JUST TEENAGERS” idk man I was a crazy, stupid, reckless, and unstable teenager but not once did I ever get the urge to kidnap, drug, and rape someone
Can we talk about how fantastic it is that this starts with taking “I feel love for both Alex and Kim” as a valid premise? That nowhere does it say, “Ha lol no I don’t really, I must be mistaken?” It acknowledges that some people do choose to adhere to monogamy in spite of their experience of feeling love for more than one person, and it references a common rationalization for such a choice (i.e., one of these loves is “real love” and the other is—who the hell knows, “just love?”), but it very much depicts it as a choice to forego a relationship with one person you love over preserving a monogamous relationship with another person you love. It doesn’t depict it as, “Ha lol no being in love with more than one person isn’t a thing I’m just infatuated with Kim and clearly Alex is the only one I could possibly love.”
I spent years actively experiencing feelings of connection and love with more than one person at a time, but all I was told by standard relationship narratives was that that wasn’t a thing. And if I found myself thinking that it was a thing—if I thought at any point that I was really actively in love with more than one person—then I must be mistaken about one of them, or both of them, or all of them, or maybe the relationship I’m in isn’t the right fit, or maybe there’s just work we need to do instead of getting sidetracked by this “grass is greener” stuff, or maybe this other person is meddling and manipulative and trying to ruin my relationship, or maybe I’m just a selfish jerk who can’t stop wanting to have her cake and eat it too and everyone I think I love would be better off with other people who really do love them and aren’t selfish jerks and can do this better. It took so, so long for me to look at my experience of loving more than one person and just say, “You know what this is about? It’s about the fact that I love more than one person. That is a thing.”
I learned the other day that in some non-north american english-speaking countries these athletic/tank shirts are referred to as singlets.
petition to use that term in north america until it catches on and I never have to hear it referred to as a fucking wifebeater again.
Yeahhh… I call them “undershirts” but where I come from they are known exclusively as “wife beaters.” BUt that’s because I come from the whitest trash area of the white trash neighborhood. We didn’t have front lawns, so we had a fridge and stove sitting in the alley between houses for a year and a half. Which probably explains all you need to know about my high level of sophistication and class
No, everyone for whatever awful reason calls them “wife beaters”.
I work in costuming professionally. When I got to college, one of the first things I was ever told was to never call them “wife beaters”. There are a number of correct names that can be used for these shirts. “Wife beater” is an awful derogatory term that should be abolished forever everywhere.
Here are some other things you can call them that are more correct:
Singlet (other uses include: wrestling singlets, biketards, etc.)
Tank top (refers to old-style swimsuits)
A-shirt (short for “athletic”)
Vest (in the UK)
Idk about other Canadians, but shirts like this were always called ‘muscle t-shirts’ where i grew up. coz you got to see your hella rad muscles coz whoa tank top. i had never heard the term ‘wifebeater’ until i moved to the USA, and i remember being horrified that someone would call a shirt that.
When I first heard the term ‘wife beater’ I was so confused I was like “what kind of top is that?”; I was sent an image and I was like “…yo that’s a singlet not a wife beater what the hell”
and it’s no accident that this segment is conveniently left out of our education
Description: Gifs of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr speaking “Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionary and see the synonyms for the word black. It’s always something degrading, low and sinister. Look at the word white. It’s always something pure, high, clean. Well, I wanna get the language right tonight.”
