May 2012
Study: The Objectification of Women Is a Real,... →
cryoftheancients:
kellysue:
METHODOLOGY: Researchers led by Philippe Bernard presented participants pictures of men and women in sexualized poses, wearing a swimsuit or underwear, one by one on a computer screen. Since pictures of people present a recognition problem when they’re turned upside down, but images of objects don’t have that problem, some of the photos were presented right side up...
Watchemilyisobsessed:
Leslie Knope tries impressions and accents
“Say what you will about Bristol Palin, she’s a quick study. It didn’t take her...”
– FRANK BRUNI, writing in the New York Times, “The Right’s Righteous Frauds.”
Read the whole thing.
(via inothernews)
“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s...”
– Audre Lorde (via subconciousevolution)
Chomsky: Climate Change and Nuclear Weapons →
climateadaptation:
“…there are two dangerous developments in the international arena, which are a kind of shadow that hangs over everything we’ve discussed. There are, for the first time in human history, real threats to the decent survival of the species.
One has been hanging around since 1945. It’s kind of a miracle that we’ve escaped it. That’s the threat of nuclear war and nuclear weapons....
