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dorkly: The Sims Career Ladder

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:07:06 -0400

dorkly:

The Sims Career Ladder

greydelisle: LEGEND has it that certain hard-KORR fans will be getting a treat this summer! Just in...

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:05:05 -0400

greydelisle:

LEGEND has it that certain hard-KORR fans will be getting a treat this summer! Just in the NICK of time!!!!

If only I could decipher this complex code!

How to Draw Comic Book Women the Rob Liefeld Way

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:10:14 -0400

How to Draw Comic Book Women the Rob Liefeld Way :

eschergirls:

By Tadja Dragoo who wanted to share a Liefeld parody walkthrough she made. :) Click on the link to see the full version complete with step by step instructions. (I had the pictures turned into an animated gif with her permission.)

coelasquid: chutohanpa: Art&Animation by Todd...

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:03:02 -0400

coelasquid:

chutohanpa:

Art&Animation by Todd Lockwood
http://www.tolo.biz

It literally just occurred to me watching this that the head tracking thing birds do keeps their heads from bobbling around while they fly.

mopinks: I laugh and cry and groan every time I see this comic...

Fri, 17 May 2013 03:25:32 -0400

mopinks:

I laugh and cry and groan every time I see this comic because I just feel it so DEEPLY

Same

zambiunicorn: raideo: tf2maelgwyn: buzzfeedceleb: George...

Fri, 17 May 2013 03:24:39 -0400

zambiunicorn:

raideo:

tf2maelgwyn:

buzzfeedceleb:

George Takei responds to fans of traditional marriage.

Mr Takei, I would marry you in a heart beat

oh my god I love this man

ahhhhhhhhhhblessu

fuckyeahfeminists: Costco CEO Craig Jelinek supports raising...

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:19:49 -0400

fuckyeahfeminists:

Costco CEO Craig Jelinek supports raising the minimum wage.

Costco announced record profits today, averaging $10,000 in profit per employee compared to $7,400 at Walmart.
The secret to Costco’s success is paying employees well, providing benefits, and giving them an opportunity to unionize.

So large corporations’ excuses that treating & paying workers well would damage profits are all a crock of shit.

reginaldqmonster: The third one.

Thu, 16 May 2013 01:28:56 -0400

reginaldqmonster:

The third one.

reginaldqmonster: The second one. Moar Reggie reblogs!

Thu, 16 May 2013 01:27:48 -0400

reginaldqmonster:

The second one.

Moar Reggie reblogs!

reginaldqmonster: The first one. Rebloggin’ my Reggie...

Thu, 16 May 2013 01:27:30 -0400

reginaldqmonster:

The first one.

Rebloggin’ my Reggie comics again to remind people that it’s become active again!

bonapartist: so i was looking up stuff about birth control throughout history and

Wed, 15 May 2013 22:22:26 -0400

bonapartist:

so i was looking up stuff about birth control throughout history and

theamericankid: Tumblr needs more of this….whatever this is.

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:40:00 -0400

theamericankid:

Tumblr needs more of this….whatever this is.

thegrandstonedblood: mybluedecember: princess-munchkin: How...

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:09:42 -0400

thegrandstonedblood:

mybluedecember:

princess-munchkin:

How the fuck does Bill Nye expect this to happen? What do you want to do, force women to enroll in science courses, regardless of whether or not they want to do it? Just for the sake of having “enough” women? Why the fuck do these fractions matter so much? It’s not like people are holding guns to our head and threatening to kill us if we become interested in science.

Maybe, just maybe, a lot of us DON’T FUCKING WANT to be scientists. Is that a crime?

Hi there, princess-munchkin. Female engineering student here.

Bill Nye is not saying that you HAVE to be a scientist, and you are right that no one is holding a gun to my head because I am interested in science, but let me tell you some of the struggles of being a woman in the STEM fields.

1) Because I am a woman, I am not expected these fields. I first fully realized this when I was in high school, on my robotics team. See, although my robotics team was about 50% female, most of the women were part of the “business administration” side of things: finance, marketting, PR, membership, etc. Was this a problem? Absolutely not. But I was there to be an engineer, and specifically, to be the robot programmer. This was met with a lot of hesitation at first from some of the other students (all of whom happened to be male. This is not necessarily a bad thing.) You see, all of the robot programmers before me were guys. Computer programming is just a thing that guys do, or so they thought. Even after I had proved myself to the mentors on the team, many of the students still underestimated my abilities. There were rumors going around that I wouldn’t have been able to program the robot at all if the lead software mentor wasn’t there to help me. This was just flat-out false, but it wasn’t until I won an award for the team that the other students actually saw my merit.

2) There is not a lot of encouragement for women to go into these fields. I first noticed this when I was in elementary school. I was always interested in math, science, you name it, but many of my teachers and family members pushed that to the side for a long time. When I asked for legos for christmas, I would get ballet slippers. In fact, for a long time, I was training to be a professional dancer. I loved to dance. I loved math more, but no one seemed to notice that about me. It wasn’t until I had a long conversation with one particular teacher in high school that I decided to look into engineering. I had never even considered it as an option before, because no one decided to encourage me to pursue my interest in science. If it hadn’t been for that teacher, I would probably not be at the school I am at right now.

3) For a long time, Engineering/Science/Math WAS a “boys only” club. Let me tell you when some of the top technical schools and societies started letting women in:

RPI, The oldest tech school in the country, founded in 1824. Started admitting women in 1942 to “replace men called to war.” Campus housing for women wasn’t constructed until 1966.

Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honors Society - Founded in 1885. Started admitting women in 1968.

Caltech - Currently rated #3 in undergraduate engineering. Founded in 1891. Started admitting women in 1970.

Georgia Tech - Currently rated #5 in undergraduate engineering. Founded in 1885. Started admitting women in 1952.

Do you see the implications of this? Engineering has been a part of our society since around the late 1800s (in the case of RPI, since the 1820s), but women weren’t even allowed in for the most part until the 1950s, regardless of their merit.

4) Because of the fact that it was a “boys only” club for such a long time, there are not a lot of women engineers and scientists to look up to. When you’re reading your physics, chemistry, and math text books, the majority of those theories were came up with by men. It is true that much of our history was written by White Men, but this does not mean that the fact that there are few women scientists to look up does not matter.

So, as you can hopefully see, princess-munckin, or anyone else that shares the opinions of princess-munchkin, Bill Nye was not arguing that women that are not interested in STEM should go into those fields anyway. But he IS arguing against all of the systematic barriers set up against women who ARE interested in engineering and science. There are several women out there who are just as good as the boys at math and science, but will never pursue their interests because it just doesn’t seem like an option. That was me for a long time. I am super grateful for the fact that I fought against that, and that I ended up where I am.

if you don’t like science, fine. Don’t be a scientist. But if one day you have a daughter and she shows interest in being a scientist, PLEASE encourage her. Because Bill Nye is right, there need to be more women scientists in the world.

bless u female engineering student, and fuck you princess munchkin. Honestly “I CANT BELIEVE BILL NYE IS SAYING WE SHOULD ALL HAVE TO BE SCIENTISTS GAH THE PATRIARCHY”

shut the fuck up

"You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 03:38:50 -0400

“You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple the unemployment isn’t interested in purchasing the assets of the generation who just blew an enormous housing bubble and kept it from popping through quantitative easing and out-and-out federal support? Curious.”

- When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials arent’ buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)

Every time someone says we’re a lazy and entitled generation I’m going to show them this

They should be happy most of us haven’t moved to the moon yet

That actually sounds like a good idea at this point

(via setfabulazerstomaximumcaptain)

While there’s a lot of entitled kids, that is nothing new at all.
(via madelinelime)

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Wed, 15 May 2013 03:37:11 -0400

rosalarian: Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy, in case you...

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:22:02 -0400

rosalarian:

Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy, in case you hadn’t heard. How dare she remove those ticking time bombs from her chest, amiright? Like, hasn’t she learned by now that her body is public domain and we all get to vote on what she does with it? Sheesh, how selfish can ya get.

liberalsarecool: College Republican meme.

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:30:51 -0400

liberalsarecool:

College Republican meme.

chipperwhale: Honestly there are several better tutorials about...

Tue, 14 May 2013 05:14:54 -0400

chipperwhale:

Honestly there are several better tutorials about drawing dicks on the internet, but people kept asking. Just a little sheet of misunderstandings people have.

Wangs are so fun to draw.

new-ways-to-complain: conservativegirlonpolitics: That was the...

Tue, 14 May 2013 03:42:37 -0400

new-ways-to-complain:

conservativegirlonpolitics:

That was the most informative thing I have ever been told by a duck

And I have been told a lot of things by ducks.

reginaldqmonster: The third one. I made another one and it...

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:24:14 -0400

reginaldqmonster:

The third one.

I made another one and it didn’t take 9 months this time! (Actually it kind of did I am a liar)