#NeedsMoreLikes

[LockeCJ]

That thread is a fantastic example of how valuable community members like @anon50609448 are.

[ChuckV]

Trump not welcome on Ellen DeGeneres show

I think I prefer the old Modus.

[Mindysan33]

The new Republican health care bill classes rape, PTSD, and domestic abuse as excludable pre-existing conditions

Fail, baby; FAIL.

Seriously folks… do we have that sort of a memory here that we forget what this is riffing off of?

[milliefink]

All feminists want to be raped, says Red Pill Reddit thread boss. Is he New Hampshire State Rep. Robert Fisher?

Thank you. Representation matters, aka this picture with US representatives congratulating themselves over the passage of the health care bill in the House: [image] It was with some trepidation that I clicked on this thread, but I could not stay away. If I could say one thing about the subjugation of one sect over another and have it truly sink into deep, deep consciousness, it is this about sexism: When women discuss casual and overt sexism (up to and including its most shocking form, rape)…

[milliefink]

Yet another white guy cast in a non-white starring role

Well, I suppose that would seem equivalent if you completely ignored history. White people have been enforcing white cultural norms by co-opting and covering over existing culture for centuries. Whitewashing roles is just one aspect of that. If you replace a black or Asian part in a production with a white person, that representation is gone. Whiteness is simply too omnipresent to be erased by putting a person of color in the role of a white historical figure. Also, because so few roles are wri…

[anon26470017]

Gendered objectification

So, this is very interesting… it’s got spoilers and it’s very much Not Safe For Work:

Just, just because

[LockeCJ]

Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell, RIP

I treat people who are suicidal, as well as survivors of suicide loss. I think part of the difficulty is that people often assume that suicide is the result of “selfish” thinking (“My life is terrible/It will never get better/They’ll miss me when I’m gone”) when it is just as likely to be the result of “burden” thinking (“People would be happier/free/relieved if I was gone”). Both kinds of suicidal thinking are pure garbage. These kinds of thoughts are not exclusive to depression diagnoses. It’s…

For @Mangochin, also because it’s awesome.

[Melz2]

Attraction vs Objectification

Welp, I’m glad we got that sorted then. So now that no women anywhere in the world are being treated like second-class citizens, I guess all us feminists can go do something else now. Oh, was that too sarcastic? Maybe it’s just that my lifetime of experience as a woman is the total opposite of your statement. And maybe I’m just tired of my experiences being ignored because you’d rather live in your bubble than believe the women who tell you what their lives are like.

[Slartibartfast]

Thanks, Melz. This is my first link in NeedsMoreLikes.

[Melz2]

De nada.

Here’s another one that needs All the Likes, even though I still believe the post that contains it should not have been split:

Attraction vs Objectification

Louis CK. He’s a funny man, his observations are very keen, his temerity is laudable. Yet his observations on the stupidity of culture do not look beyond the cultural constructs that underlie it. He knows a thing is wrong, he rages against its stupidity yet fatalistically accepts that that’s the way things are. It is part of his charm. But that’s not THE problem. You were meant to look at it that way.Objectification happened even before you saw it. This is objectification: [image] But so …

[TobinL]

for a brand new mutant here

Who makes the clips that keep bread bags closed?

Since the Atlas Obscura does not reference them, here is some more information about Occlupanids, and their taxonomy, and their incredible diversity. http://www.horg.com/horg/?page_id=2

you have to click the link he pasted to get it.

[LearnedCoward]

A round up of Trumpian events

Two men in Portland, OR are dead because a violent racist shitstain cut their throats when they tried to stop him from harassing two women of color. Fuck every single person who voted for the Republican party. Fuck them. No. There is no excusing their continued support for a party whose rhetoric and policies are giving “people” like this the courage of their fucked up convictions. Fuck Trump, fuck Sessions, fuck Paul Ryan, fuck Mitch McConnell, fuck Steve King, and fuck every. single. one. of t…

[Nightflyer]

Attraction vs Objectification

(TL;DR: Lets please stop dismissing the female opinions on this topic, especially since we’re discussing female vs male issues here!) I think this topic has taken a decidedly ominous turn over the last few days, mostly around the idea that “no, you’re wrong, here’s the data”. When it comes to the scientific method, results, interpreted correctly, really should be the bedrock of decision making and inform our public debate. But, as any good scientist knows, the results can only be as good as yo…

[chgoliz]

Watch other NATO leaders grimace as Trump claims they owe money

Uhm, no. It went more or less like this: US: “so, we’re having pizza at your house, since we’re already here anyway. Hey, I own a great pizzeria, we’ll order from there.” UK: “alright, I’ll have two with pepperoni. Here’s the cash” France: “actually I think I’ll just make myself a salad, but I’ll eat with you” Italy: “eh, I’m kinda skint, but I’ll bring the best chairs I got, ok? And you can take them with you if you go to the park later.” Germany: “we don’t really eat, last time we tried …

[Nightflyer]

Fareed Zakaria: "Liberals think they're tolerant, but they're not."

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. That says you get to talk. Doesn’t say anyone to stick around to listen. Nor, you will note does it say anything about taking turns. In fact, one could even argue that due to their positions, walkouts and protests of Pence an…

[tachin1]

Thank you

[chgoliz]

Fareed Zakaria: "Liberals think they're tolerant, but they're not."

I live in the deep South of the United States, Alabama to be exact. I recently finished “S-Town” (https://stownpodcast.org/), which is a podcast about Woodstock, Alabama, and its inhabitants, focusing in particular on a character worthy of Flannery O’Connor. This real person rails against all the same things we often rail against here about ills in the US, yet in an accent that forces us to examine our own prejudices. Case in point: “For a Northern, liberal NPR listener, hearing such things le…

[milliefink]

Bravo!

¡Ask a Mexican! tackles BurritoGate

Actually, no, that’s not the definition of racism, very or otherwise. Racism requires privilege, specifically institutional privilege. In the United States, and here in Portland, the apparatus of institutional privilege is white supremacy. There are plenty of bigots in this country, of all shapes and sizes. Only one class- whites, has the power to impose biases on other classes. That is racism. No, it’s not simple really. The gains whites have made over the past five centuries at the expense …

[Melz2]

Someone hung a noose inside National Museum of African American History and Culture

The notion that we’ve “come far” only seems to be one held seriously by people who don’t fully understand the extent of the exploitation and oppression of minorities in the US in general, but especially African Americans. Whenever I hear someone complain about affirmative action or political correctness or whine that it’s all fixed now and people are just milking it or “playing the race card” I just want to stand on a table and scream. 265 years of slavery. 100 years of segregation and aparthe…

[GulliverFoyle]

Suburban Chicago library set to fire only African American librarian who spoke out about racial equity

In response to the idea of a hypothetical display on Du Bois, you replied, As Dubois was a Stalinist, I’d suggest trying non-totalitarians to balance out a presentation on his work. Now you’re asking why I said that’s a cartoonish caricature. Basically, as @ChuckV said, he was far more than that. I mean, imagine if a patron were to ask you (I think you said you’re a librarian?), “Who was J. Edgar Hoover?” Would you reply, “Oh him? He was a closeted-homosexual.” I imagine not, because ther…