night of the wolf

"Studies have shown, that, indeed, introverts are more likely than extroverts to express intimate facts about themselves online that their family and friends would be surprised to read, to say that they can express the “real me” online, and to spend more time in certain kinds of online discussions. They welcome the chance to communicate digitally. The same person who would never raise his hand in a lecture hall of two hundred people might blog to two thousand, or two million, without thinking twice. The same person who finds it difficult to introduce himself to strangers might establish a presence online and then extend those relationships into the real world."
— Quiet: The Power of Introverts, by Susan Cain (via nerdyninjanicole)

Klaus’s “theme song” for season 2, according to Joseph Morgan (x)


fuckyeahfeminists: offbeatorbit: stxena: Look at this and guess what it is (hint—it’s not a penguin, it’s not a banana peel, and it’s not a flower). Have you guessed yet? Seriously, guess. “I want to get that image out,” says Seattle artist Lynn Schirmer. She was sitting in her loft in the Tashiro Kaplan Building the other day, drinking tea. “I want everybody everywhere to know what that shape is.” That shape is a human clitoris. If what you see when you close your eyes and picture a clitoris is merely a nubby button, then (A) you are normal, and (B) you are wrong. The nubby button is connected to a neck the size of the first joint of your thumb, and stretching from that neck are two arms that flare like a wishbone—arms that can be as long as three-and-a-half inches. The two bulbs that also extend from the center, which make the clitoris look like a penguin, were thought to belong to the vagina until recently. In the 1990s, Australian urologist Helen O’Connell “initiated the mainstream medical profession’s rediscovery” of the clitoris, Schirmer says, “and it took until just a few years ago to see it fully mapped via MRI and other noninvasive imaging technologies.” The result? The discovery that the clitoris has 10 times more erectile tissue than anatomy textbooks or the illustrations at the doctor’s office show. From In Her Pants, by Jen Graves lol I definitely recognized this right away. I guess I know my clitorises well. teehee :X

fuckyeahfeminists:

offbeatorbit:

stxena:

Look at this and guess what it is (hint—it’s not a penguin, it’s not a banana peel, and it’s not a flower).

Have you guessed yet? Seriously, guess.

“I want to get that image out,” says Seattle artist Lynn Schirmer. She was sitting in her loft in the Tashiro Kaplan Building the other day, drinking tea. “I want everybody everywhere to know what that shape is.”

That shape is a human clitoris. If what you see when you close your eyes and picture a clitoris is merely a nubby button, then (A) you are normal, and (B) you are wrong. The nubby button is connected to a neck the size of the first joint of your thumb, and stretching from that neck are two arms that flare like a wishbone—arms that can be as long as three-and-a-half inches. The two bulbs that also extend from the center, which make the clitoris look like a penguin, were thought to belong to the vagina until recently. In the 1990s, Australian urologist Helen O’Connell “initiated the mainstream medical profession’s rediscovery” of the clitoris, Schirmer says, “and it took until just a few years ago to see it fully mapped via MRI and other noninvasive imaging technologies.” The result? The discovery that the clitoris has 10 times more erectile tissue than anatomy textbooks or the illustrations at the doctor’s office show.

From In Her Pants, by Jen Graves

lol I definitely recognized this right away. I guess I know my clitorises well. teehee :X


Anonymous asked: When we study English Literature and read books in depth and study every single sentence and its possible meanings and the symbolism and metaphors and foreshadowing of them, do you authors actually intend for them to be seen as that? I’ve heard students say so many times that they can’t possibly mean that because it’s so in depth that the teacher is making up the meanings of a story that weren’t intended. But, do you? are they intended?

fishingboatproceeds:

1. It doesn’t matter if the meaning was intended. The job of reading is not to uncover what the author intended to say. Reading is an exercise in empathy and also an opportunity to think about the big questions of human history: What are our obligations to one another? How does the social order in which we live shape our understanding of ourselves? What ought we value? What constitutes a noble life? Can we construct meaning in human life while still acknowledging the universe’s apparent apathy toward us? What does it mean to love another, and what do we owe those we love? Is it different from our obligations to those we don’t love? What are the consequences of an unexamined life?

Those are interesting questions, and reading fiction critically is a way into them. So when you are looking at the green light in Gatsby, the question is not whether Fitzgerald intended that as a symbol; the question is whether the symbol can bring us to a place where we can have more interesting thoughts about the human condition.

2. Generally, I think that yes, authors intend their books to stand up to critical reading, even on a sentence-by-sentence basis. (You have to remember, authors spend a lot more time—a lot more—with a story then a reader does. Like, even if you spend two weeks in class thinking about Gatsby, you can rest assured Fitzgerald spent a lot more time thinking about it.) But again, I don’t really think it matters.


Deficits through the ages

governmentofcanada:

So today’s budget is aimed at trying to get us out of our deficit. But how did we wind up $33.3 billion dollars in debt anyhow? When Harper took power in 2006 Canada had a surplous of $13.8 billion. Under Martin Canada went from a $1.4 billion surplous to $13.2 billion, while under Chretien we clawed our way back from a $38.5 billion deficit to $10.6 billion in the green (that $38.5 billion thanks to Mr. Mulroney who inherited a $32.4 billion deficit from Trudeau and drove us even deeper into the hole).

Is this budget going to help or hinder Canadian economic growth?

Not being an economist I can’t say. Oh well. Go look at CBC’s chart which shows you a history of Canada’s deficit from Pearson to Harper.


5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women

The problem with this article, really, is that it’s so demoralizing, and also that it purports to speak for all men, and mostly that it’s sort of pulling all the crap out of bullshit evolutionary psychology.

And then it gives up.  It shrugs, says sorry, and moves on.  It says, “BUT WE BUILT THE PYRAMIDS TO GET INTO YOUR PUSSY!!! FEEL SORRY FOR US, WE CAN’T HELP BEING HORRIBLY DEMEANING TO YOU!!! WE ARE DOING THE BEST WE CAN ALL THE TIME BUT IT’S JUST NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU BROADS! IT’S TESTOSTERONE!”

And it’s like, shut the fuck up.

(It’s also hopelessly, hopelessly heteronormative, as I’m pretty sure all my gay male friends are not thinking about how they can fuck me 100% of the time that I’m talking to them, and their thinking about how they can fuck men 100% of the time is an entirely different matter.)

It started in an interesting cultural place and then went off the rails in a spectacular manner.  And in the end, I don’t quite believe it.  It might be true for some people, and really, fuck them?  But if I give in to this bullshit then yeah, I would not have a reason to continue to try to exist on the planet because it’s hopeless.  

Stop with the “sorry ladies, boys will be boys” bullshit and fucking take responsibility for your shit.



"You can’t spend two decades referring to other men’s daughters as b*tches and hoes, and then somehow decide that your own daughter is going to be exempt from the game. You, my brother, have given nearly every inch of your creative productivity toward murdering your daughter’s self and public image before she was even born. In other words, you brought Blue Ivy Carter into a world where most of your biggest fans will look at her and refer to her not as daddy’s little princess, but instead as a dirty little bitch. In fact, they will even get paid for it."
—

-Dr. Boyce Watkins regarding Jay-Z’s decision to stop using the word “bitch” after the birth of his daughter. (via inyearstocome)

#points for trying, though

(via laurelwreath)

Update: his reps deny he ever said this, so he is still going to use bitch when he pleases x


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glasmond:

phaibooty:

Wow. 

This made me cry


theancientworld: Throne, Roman, late 1st century A.D. “This object was not intended to have a practical function but rather was created for a ceremonial or symbolic purpose. The motif of the empty throne would come to symbolize a deity or a departed hero. The presence of the snake suggests that this one was dedicated to Apollo, who killed the dragon called Python, often depicted as a serpent. Cloth is draped over the seat in the same way that Greek and Roman chairs are depicted in vase- and wall-paintings.” (Mary Levkoff, 2008) Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Currently not on view

theancientworld:

Throne, Roman, late 1st century A.D.

“This object was not intended to have a practical function but rather was created for a ceremonial or symbolic purpose. The motif of the empty throne would come to symbolize a deity or a departed hero. The presence of the snake suggests that this one was dedicated to Apollo, who killed the dragon called Python, often depicted as a serpent. Cloth is draped over the seat in the same way that Greek and Roman chairs are depicted in vase- and wall-paintings.”


(Mary Levkoff, 2008)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Currently not on view