In the 101 top-grossing family films…from 1990 to 2004, of the over 4,000 characters in these films, 75% overall were male, 83% of characters in crowds were male, 83% of narrators were male, and 72% of speaking were male. When the American Psychological Association commented on this research, they said, ‘This gross under-representation of women or girls in films with family-friendly content reflects a missed opportunity to present a broad spectrum of girls and women in roles that are non-sexualised.’

Natasha Walter, Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism, pages 69-70, 2010. (via bitemebeautiful)

Bringing this back as people have started reblogging this again and EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW THIS.

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my25yeartransmogrificationplan:

estoreal:

cockrum1970s:

having the X-Men trade outfits with the Imperial Guard must have been a lunch-hour gag about Cockrum’s distinct clothing designs. I’m glad they saw it through
uncannypanels:

X-Men #107 by Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum


The costume switch was in fact an in-joke, but not one that would be clear to most readers.  The Imperial Guard member called Fang was originally created by Dave Cockrum for a proposed Legion of Super-Heroes spinoff to be called The Outsiders. He would have been a member of a rival team including Cockrum’s LSH villain Tyr, the red-skinned baddie with a gun for a prosthetic hand.  However, Cockrum didn’t name his werewolf character Fang; he would have been called Wolverine.  When Marvel came out with a different Wolverine, Cockrum was annoyed…but he took the chance to use the character and sneak in an allusion to the shared name in the last issue of his first run on X-Men.
(Info via http://www.uncannyxmen.net/db/article/showquestion.asp?faq=4&fldAuto=315 where you can see character designs et cetera.)

Wow, this is pretty neat. Thanks for the info.

my25yeartransmogrificationplan:

estoreal:

cockrum1970s:

having the X-Men trade outfits with the Imperial Guard must have been a lunch-hour gag about Cockrum’s distinct clothing designs. I’m glad they saw it through

uncannypanels:

X-Men #107 by Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum

The costume switch was in fact an in-joke, but not one that would be clear to most readers.  The Imperial Guard member called Fang was originally created by Dave Cockrum for a proposed Legion of Super-Heroes spinoff to be called The Outsiders. He would have been a member of a rival team including Cockrum’s LSH villain Tyr, the red-skinned baddie with a gun for a prosthetic hand.  However, Cockrum didn’t name his werewolf character Fang; he would have been called Wolverine.  When Marvel came out with a different Wolverine, Cockrum was annoyed…but he took the chance to use the character and sneak in an allusion to the shared name in the last issue of his first run on X-Men.

(Info via http://www.uncannyxmen.net/db/article/showquestion.asp?faq=4&fldAuto=315 where you can see character designs et cetera.)

Wow, this is pretty neat. Thanks for the info.

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death-by-lulz:

This post has been featured on a 1000notes.com blog.

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funfitandfabulous:

What fitblr doesn’t love oatmeal? :)

funfitandfabulous:

What fitblr doesn’t love oatmeal? :)

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misantropo:

todayiwrotenothing:

the-11-doctor:

hatteress:

lierdumoa:

I know you wanted this on your dash.

This is the best thing I’ve ever seen.

if you listen you can hear it when it lands



sync: you are doing it right


Because all of the reasons!!!

misantropo:

todayiwrotenothing:

the-11-doctor:

hatteress:

lierdumoa:

I know you wanted this on your dash.

This is the best thing I’ve ever seen.

if you listen you can hear it when it lands

sync: you are doing it right

Because all of the reasons!!!

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Meouf…

That feel when a friend tells you they are doing something that you really wanna do, but you aren’t gonna ask to go cuz you weren’t really invited.

It’s not like I had anything to do this evening…

Wrote a totally unrelated lyrics set though… So I guess that’s a plus.
Mostly unrelated… It started related and drifted, so it can’t really be related anymore, right?

PS… Joshua has acknowledged he was being a whiny little bitch when he wrote this… But this is how he felt at that instant… And something did come of it.

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I never make the same mistake twice. I make it five or six times, just to be sure.

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quazza:

i am reminded that english is a flawed language every time I am forced to use “that that” in a sentence

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Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you’ll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.
Neil Gaiman (via wordsthat-speak)

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tinnyhouse:

i shit you fucking not i got weepinzard first try and now i can’t stop laughing at his dumb face and his dumb name

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travelviatardis:

bumbo-kate:

lyssalovescookies:

in 8th grade we thought it would be funny to scare our algebra teacher so when she was writing on the board we all put on dora masks and when she turned around she screamed

image

pure brilliance

those are the most developed year eights i have ever seen

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scienceheroextraordinaire:

0ver-doze:

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guaranteed to make your friends shit themselves

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inkedupkids:

things that i need in my life right now:

  • sex
  • cheese pizza
  • ice cream
  • sex
  • rough sex
  • gentle sex
  • more ice cream
  • cuddling
  • S E X
  • more pizza

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I’ve been asked to do that before… I can never really explain it… Cuz love goes beyond rationality in most cases.

I’ve been asked to do that before… I can never really explain it… Cuz love goes beyond rationality in most cases.

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lyndsayfaye:

callingoutsexists:

jeseca:

nocttis:

housewitch:

www.now.org
www.rawa.org
www.womenslaw.org
www.amnestyusa.org
www.globalissues.org
www.globalfundforwomen.org

To the men who have told me that I’m overreacting and “it’s the 21st century women are equal now”

Ditto.

Note that the “women make only 77.5 cents for every dollar that men earn” statistic applies only to white women. Women of color make significantly less.

  • Black women make about $0.68 to a man’s dollar.
  • Latina women make about $0.58 to a man’s dollar.

Source

Jesus Christ.

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