things that need to be in my closet for summer asap:
- dolce vita rompers
1 week ago on May 15, 2012 at 05:36pm
Posts tagged ugh.
My favorite story out of this is Malia, when she was 4, she had a little dance thing. Well, Michelle was gone that weekend so I’m taking her to ballet. And I get her in her little leotard and her little stuff. I did her hair, put it in a little bun.
We get to the dance studio and one of the mothers there right away comes up to Malia – she thinks she’s out of earshot of me and she says, ‘Sweetie, do you want me to redo your hair?’ And Malia who she’s 4 says, ‘Yes please, this is a disaster’ you know, she didn’t want to hurt daddy’s feelings.
President Obama talks about styling Malia’s hair - Black Girl with Long Hair
Oh my God I am dying of the cute.
America’s Dad
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so Sigur Ros just got on my Clint Mansell Pandora playlist and I am trying very hard not to cry/wail/be emotionally distraught rn
2 months ago on March 20, 2012 at 02:12am
I…don’t agree. Halloween is about making costumes, and everything should be fair game. This political correctness grates at my last nerve. No one is meaning to offend your culture, they’re wearing a costume that portrays a person that just so happens to share your heritage. Of course, I’d prefer if they were accurate portrayals, but there’s only so much you can do if you’re already giving in and paying the 20-50USD for a prepackaged costume instead of making it yourself (almost always a better option, IMO.)
The bolded bit is mine. The reason why these are so terribly offensive is the people in the photos holding the signs are the accurate portrayal. Those sort of costumes are a way of saying “I view your entire culture as something so small and insignificant that I can sum it up with a stereotype, and can put on and discard your history for a frivolous holiday.”
I’m astonished you have to be told that blackface is never okay. It ties into the history of blackface mistrels, who repeatedly stole the songs of ex slaves and made money off them while the people from whom they were stolen were still treated little better than chattel.The geisha is a continuation of the western sexualization of Asian women, a relic from colonialism where Asian women are small, delicate and easy to push around. It’s something that women of Asian descent in the west, have to deal with on a daily basis.
Likewise reducing all Arabic people to terrorists. Mexicans are not donkey-riding slackers.
It’s offensive as shit because it boils an entire history down to the very worst stereotype associated with that culture.
Of course, maybe I’m biased because I’ve personally never been offended by the Goth costumes hanging around and have a “aw, that’s cute. Wrong, but cute that they’re trying” attitude toward it all, but that’s just me.
Dressing up as a Goth is about on par with dressing up as a doctor. The stereotype for goth is “spooky, listens to depressed music.” Rather than “blows up planes” or “will love you long time for a dolla.” It’s not even in the same league. Furthermore, if you start copping shit for being Goth, or you need to go stealth for a job interview or a housing application, you can put on a bit of colour and you’re free of the stereotypes. None of the people in the pictures up there can take off their ethnicity. If those costumes are fine, then those people are always in costume.
Reblogging for commentary because some people just don’t get it.
also reblogging for commentary
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Thank you for devoting your time in Congress to drafting bills that legalize the murder of pregnant people in order to prove how very pro-life you really are.
(via someecards)So, tell me how this creates jobs.
Jobs for funeral-preparation, obviously. Someone’s gotta make sure those morgues are staying full!!
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When boarding, Abbassi says she was on the phone with a Verizon representative in order to activate her smartphone. When the plane was getting ready to depart, Abbassi alleges she told the representative “I’ve got to go.”
Soon after, there was an announcement that an “administrative delay” would hold up the flight, at which point a TSA agent came on board and asked Abbassi to get off.
From the complaint:
Once at the jetway the TSA agent explained to [Abbassi] that the flight attendant believed that she had been acting suspiciously. Although the flight attendant admittedly could not adequately hear [Abbassi], she reported that [Abbassi] might have uttered ‘It’s a go’ into her cell phone.Shortly after, the complaint alleges, the TSA agent determined that Abbassi was not a security risk, and said she could re-board the plane. But at the gate she was told that the captain would not let her board because the crew was “uncomfortable” with her on the plane.
So the TSA cleared her and the crew still didn’t want to let her re-board. Tell me that’s not just plain old hateful racism and nothing else.
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I sense a pattern.
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