“I really just want to encourage and inspire people to use their freedom in a positive way and in a way that is inspiring to other people. I want to continue to pass down the seeds of change within the world. I think that it can start with just one person. Just like a rumor can get carried on, so can inspiration.” Beautiful People-Janelle Monae
This organization was created as the first Japanese lesbian organization in 1971. One of its founders describes peoples reactions to its existence:
“We got a flood of letters from all over Japan, mostly from middle-aged women in their 40’s and 50’s, explaining that they were married but had…
Steampunk influence on high-end fashion (x) @ Dolce & Gabbana at Milan Fashion Week Fall 2006
This is a really important thing.
fucking mansplaining
“Let the record show, that you can be a United States Senator for 21 years, you can be 79 years old, you can be the Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and one of the most recognizable and most widely-respected veteran public servants in your nation, but if you are female while you are also all of those other things, men who you defeat in argument will still respond to you by calling you hysterical and telling you to calm down. They will patronize you and say they admire your passion, sweetie, but that of course, they only deal with facts not your silly, girly, strong feelings. It is inescapable. You can set your watch by it.”
Someone explain to me why Rachel Maddow is not president because this 17-minute clip is reason enough for me.
This is important. Vitally. If you don’t have time to watch this now, it is 17 minutes long, like it and come back to it when you can. I have never heard a more clean or educated argument for a ban on assault rifles or high capacity magazines. I have studied this debate closely, and Rachel Maddow constructs the clearest side I have ever heard.
Also, it is totally fucking bullshit that someone would have the balls to patronize Diane Feinstein like that is beyond me. You are a US senator, you had better have enough respect to know the background of the people you are talking to.
rooo:
There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.― Dalai Lama XIV
