Esoterica

May 29

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To the owners of the 155 messages I got in the short time that I posted that thing on Whedon.

masteradept:

dittojessie:

I skimmed through all your shit. And then I deleted the whole lot of it. I refuse to educate, handhold, and try to explain to you why Whedon is problematic if none of you give a shit about what I’m talking about. Particularly when so many of you were insulting me while making your “argument”. 

Here are some links about Whedon and feminism to start you off. The racism stuff, I just can’t. I refuse to educate people I don’t care about in terms of race. I absolutely refuse. 

http://www.themarysue.com/reconsidering-the-feminism-of-joss-whedon/

http://www.overthinkingit.com/2009/12/23/joss-whedon-feminism/

http://thehathorlegacy.com/joss-whedon-and-feminist-cookies/

http://naamenblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/critiquing-joss-whedon/

http://feministatsea.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/why-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-is-not-a-feminist-show/

http://reason.com/archives/2003/08/01/why-buffy-kicked-ass

http://wondercow.blogspot.com/2005/05/joss-whedon-is-misogynist-homophobe.html

http://meloukhia.net/2009/05/is_joss_whedon_a_feminist_buffy_and_female_empowerment.html

http://meloukhia.net/2009/05/feminism_and_joss_whedon_the_demon_women_of_buffy.html

http://meloukhia.net/2009/05/feminism_and_joss_whedon_misogynist_villains_in_the_whedonverse.html

http://waxbanks.typepad.com/blog/2006/07/is_joss_whedon_.html

http://meloukhia.net/2009/04/is_joss_whedon_a_feminist_the_women_of_fireflyserenity.html

http://thehathorlegacy.com/doctorhorrible/

http://mordicai.livejournal.com/1563373.html

http://gerrycanavan.blogspot.com/2009/03/dollhouse-rape-culture-and-women-in.html

http://milescochran.deviantart.com/journal/Why-Dollhouse-should-be-put-in-the-attic-214195090

http://yuki-onna.livejournal.com/463167.html

http://open.salon.com/blog/voicegal/2009/02/14/foxs_dollhouse_one_more_excuse_for_misogyny

http://selfportraitas.com/archives/2009/04/reasons_dollhou.html

And I’m sorry, if you don’t see how sexist Dollhouse is, THEN NONE OF THESE LINKS WILL HELP YOU. For the love of all that is bright and beautiful in this world, I don’t see why people are so damn insistent that Dollhouse is female empowerment.

And another P.S. to this: can we all agree that “you’re entitled to your opinion” and “we’ll have to agree to disagree” are just passive aggressive bullshit ways to try and end a conversation when a debate gets too hard, too hot to handle, or when you never wanted to hear the other person out in the first place? Cause I swear to FUCK, the use of those two terms sets my brain on fucking fire with rage. 

Wait..people really do not see how non-feminist, racist, sexist and just douche Whedon is. Fuck people take the gotdamn blinders off.

memosfromfury:

[Submitted by: nottheworstthing

The next person caught telling junior agents that Stark is a “semi-reformed supervillain” will be liable for any medical expenses that ensue.]

bad-dominicana:

freshmouthgoddess:

so-treu:

The Haitian Revolution, which erupted from slave revolts in August 1791 and ended with the Declaration of Independence in January 1804, culminated in the violent eradication of the French Antillean colony Saint Domingue, the abolition of slavery in the territory, and the founding of Ayiti, the first free black republic in the world: as historical event, it is arguably one of the most important moments in American hemispheric history, if not in the modern world. Revolutionary heroes—Boukman Dutty, Biassou, Jean-François, Toussaint Louverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Henri Christophe, and Alexandre Pétion—and their nemeses, or French military antagonists—Napoléon Bonaparte, General Victor-Emmanuel Leclerc, and General Donatien Rochambeau—have dominated the historiography of the era. Culturally, the heroic gestures of the revolution also inspired European and American artists and writers throughout the nineteenth century, as a small but important wealth of literature reflecting on the Haitian revolutionary heroes attests.

Revolutionary heroines, however, have remained obscured within literary, historiographical, and even hagiographical narratives from this era, despite the fact that the impact of the Haitian Revolution was felt, as historian David Geggus writes, “from the Mississippi Valley to the streets of Rio.” One exception among a few others, though her origins still remain obscure, may be Dédée Bazile, more popularly known as Défilée-la-folle, or Défilée the Madwoman. To Arlette Gautier’s lament in Les Soeurs de solitude that women who fought in the Haitian Revolution “have remained nameless except for Sanite Belair, Marie-Jeanne Lamartinière for Saint-Domingue and the mulatto Solitude in Guadeloupe,” Joan Dayan ripostes in Haiti, History, and the Gods that both Madiou’s Histoire d’Haïti and Ardouin’s Etudes sur l’histoire d’Haïti “mention women during the revolution”: “Not only the fierce Sanite Belair, who refused to be blindfolded during her execution, and Marie-Jeanne Lamartinière, who led the indigenes in the extraordinary Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot, and Défilée, but also Claire Heureuse (her real name was Marie Claire Félicité Guillaume Bonheur), the wife of Dessalines, who saved many of the French he had ordered massacred.” For Dayan, women’s presences, like their absences, are rich with suggestive possibilities: when and where women are evoked in the revolutionary historiographies, the historians often do so to reify their bodies, minds, and creative contributions within patriarchal notions of history, nation, and historical embodiment. As Dayan suggests, “We need to consider how these women are mentioned, [and] how their appearances work within the historical narrative. Their stories are something of an interlude in the business of making history. Bracketed off from the descriptions of significant loss or triumph, the blanches [white women] raped and butchered or the noires [black women] ardent and fearless became symbols for la bonté, la férocité, or la faiblesse (goodness, ferocity, or weakness).” More pointedly, Dayan asks, “What happened to actual black women during Haiti’s repeated revolutions, as they were mythologized by men, metaphorized out of life into legend?”

(source)

as freshmouthgoddess was just saying.

shaking my head at all of this ! even I was not aware of their full names. That shit angers me!! Because i am told repeatedly that my only place in Haitian society is to breed , labor, be the mule , that will take care of everyone. That My greatness will only happen when I have a son that will carry out his great destiny. So while white supremacy is killing all of us . It is the Haitian men who contributes to the erasure of Haitian women. We are like the women of Sparta. our worth is only celebrated when we birth sons destined for great thing > See she was the mother of …

but never  celebrated as warriors. healer, Priestess , Great mambos! never ! nope . we must carry on in obscurity. which is why i think the Nation of Haiti was a nice dream. If Dessalines had survived . we could have been great. I  will choke on the bitterness   i carry in my soul. that the men of this country would erase their own history. that I will never be of importance. and that i I were they would kill me for it.  more than anything  i think the fact that they erase Haitian women from the society will be our real downfall. As i said . The founding Mothers did not die for this shit. when they fought alongside the men . what they wanted was freedom for all of us. not for the Haitian women to gain a brand new oppressor in the form of Haitian men.  They must be rolling in their grave. seething with so much anger. I would.

we’ve all been deleted from our own history books as black women. by our men.

not. isolated. incidents.

dynamicafrica:

Kenya to open Africa’s first underwater museum

Kenya is on the brink of building Africa’s first underwater museum, which will be dedicated to studying marine life and shipwrecks.

Designs of the proposed museum, which is expected to be open in 2014, have already begun with the help of US architects and a budget for construction costs is being discussed at government level.

“Apart from studying shipwrecks that happened in the Indian Ocean Coast, we will also be studying the marine life that exists [there]… Construction is set to begin soon and it is expected to be fully operational in the next two years,” said Cesar Bita, head of archaeology at the National Museums of Kenya.

Kenya will be one of the few countries in the world to have an underwater museum. The US and the United Kingdom have such facilities as well as China, which has the world’s largest underwater museum. Egypt is carrying out studies to also construct an underwater museum but it has not advanced its initiative like Kenya.

The museum will be located in the shores near the town of Malindi, a popular tourist destination. “Shipwrecks attract a lot of fish which feed on micro-organisms on the wood [of the ships] and they are also a habitat for the fish and several other aquatic species. We will partner with many organisations in the study of marine life,” said Bita.

“The marine life that we aim to study is several species of fish, turtles, and even dolphins because there seems to be a relation between feeding and the shipwrecks,” Bita added.

Human remains from the shipwrecks will also be archived in the museum records.

“Building an underwater museum is a good idea but expensive. It is happening when the government has put at least one percent of its annual budget on scientific research and innovations. Other areas however need to be prioritised, such as the science of development,” said Prof Germano Mwabu from the department of economics at the University of Nairobi.

He said more should be invested in health research such as malaria, which affects millions of people in the country each year.

(via hamburgerjack)

But can we talk about how the same folks who want to down black women for not speaking on the issues of others enough (no matter what we reblog or write, we’re still not doing enough according to some folks) never seem to show up when black bodies are being demeaned?

sourcedumal:

searchingforknowledge:

epicinvain:

slytherinmyswagkorra:

mykelblank:

icedtea-for-elephants:

osobigbear:

the-unpopular-opinions:

I know I submitted this a long time ago and I just had to respond.

WHAT! what??????QUEEE??????? and what makes this worse is he is comparing blacks natural hair to cancer…..which last i checked isn’t all that natural. THEN HAS THE NERVE TO SAY HE/SHE ISN’T A RACIST!!fuuuccckkkkk

Sigh… White people. 

I need to make a gif of my wtf/side-eye face for moments like this cos wtf the fuck is this shit.

Today has been one of THE worst days of the internet. What the fuck is wrong with people?

Dear white people. Your opinions on our hair are completely invalid.   Fuck off and die. 

Sincerely, a natural hair wearing poc. 

I’ve filled up so many fucking bingo cards on this one post.

Hey “not racist” white people? Where the fuck are you? Where are y’all asses at to come collect your fucking cousins who think this bullshit??????

“I’ve seen a ton on the facebooks about “thanking veterans for their service.” As a veteran let me just be very straightforward and honest with you. We didn’t “serve our country”; we don’t actually serve our brothers/sisters or our neighbors. We serve the interests of Capital. We never risked our lives or spent months on deployment away from our family and friends so they can have this abstract concept called “freedom”. We served big oil; big coal; Coca-Cola; Kellogg, Brown, and Root and all the other big Capital interests who don’t know a fucking thing about sacrifice. These people will never have to deal with the loss of a loved one or the physical and/or psychological scars that those who “serve”, and their families, have to deal with for the rest of their lives. The most patriotic thing someone can do is to tell truth to power and dedicate yourself to building power to overthrow these sociopathic assholes. I served with some of the most real and genuine people I’ve ever met. You’ll never see solidarity like the kind of solidarity you experience when your life depends on the person next to you. But most of us didn’t join for that; we joined because we were fucking poor and didn’t have many other options.” — An anti-capitalist veteran (via elitc)

(via crouchingocelot)

“True the Black woman did the housework, the drudgery; true, she reared the children, often alone, but she did all of that while occupying a place on the job market, a place her mate could not get or which his pride would not let him accept.And she had nothing to fall back on: not maleness, not whiteness, not ladyhood, not anything. And out of the profound desolation of her reality she may very well have invented herself.” —

Toni Morrison

#2chainzvoice TRU.

(via unapproachableblackchicks)

(Source: legacy.library.ucsb.edu, via notesonascandal)

ai-yo:

raceinmyfandom:

vogueflo:

A great example of just how fetishized Asian women are. >:|

This honestly makes me unbelievably angry—we can work as hard as we like and succeed in whatever we can and be the best people possible, but the only thing people want to view us Asian women as are exotic, sexualized fetishes on the same level as feet and leather collars.

Just…fuck this shit.

****

I wanted to draw a realistic version of Korra and so I needed refs of Asian and Inuit women. Googling Inuit wasn’t a problem, but man was I scared to type in Asian. I mean seriously, I just did a search and one of them is “Asian jailbait.”

So let’s reiterate:

Notice for Europe and America it’s mostly flags national animal symbol and maps.

Africa a few maps but mostly scenery and wild animals

And the Asian one really just speaks for itself doesn’t it and that’s a damn shame when you type that in and hit with nuff porn.

This is why I do not click on the African tag when I am in public there is so much porn there.

(via hamburgerjack)