i sat at my laptop wagging back and forth for three minutes before i realized what i was doing. mirror neurons: at work!
Someone requested a post of all of the current Strong Female Characters, so here you go.
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you dork, that is not how you soccer.
(Source: crisssy101, via cat-shaming)
"What’s so interesting about the cicada sounds is, when you just hear it for the first time you just hear white noise—you just hear ssshhhhhhh. Just noise. But when you know what’s going on, you can hear the different parts of the orchestra."
— David Rothenberg teaches you to hear all the parts of the cicada sex orchestra in our brand-new short. (via wnycradiolab)
"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.’"
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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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BREAKING: Minnesota Senate Passes Marriage Equality, Will Become Law. The vote was 37-30. Gov. Mark Dayton will sign the bill into law Tuesday.
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In impoverished urban neighborhoods in Africa, children face many obstacles to obtaining a good education. One is simply getting to school.
Those who can’t afford bus fare must often walk for miles and risk being mugged - or worse - on the way.
In the latest installment in our “School Year” series, set at a Cape Town high school, The World’s Anders Kelto joins one student on his long morning walk. http://ow.ly/kZnPS
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