June 2011
97 posts
“Fifteen to eighteen percent of girls under twelve now wear mascara, eyeliner and lipstick regularly; eating disorders are up and self-esteem is down; and twenty-five percent of young American women would rather win America’s Next Top Model than the Nobel Peace Prize. Even bright, successful college women say they’d rather be hot than smart. A Miami mom just died from cosmetic surgery, leaving behind two teenagers. This keeps happening, and it breaks my heart.
Teaching girls that their appearance is the first thing you notice tells them that looks are more important than anything. It sets them up for dieting at age 5 and foundation at age 11 and boob jobs at 17 and Botox at 23. As our cultural imperative for girls to be hot 24/7 has become the new normal, American women have become increasingly unhappy. What’s missing? A life of meaning, a life of ideas and reading books and being valued for our thoughts and accomplishments.” —“How To Talk To Little Girls” by Lisa Bloom (via twofish)
Teaching girls that their appearance is the first thing you notice tells them that looks are more important than anything. It sets them up for dieting at age 5 and foundation at age 11 and boob jobs at 17 and Botox at 23. As our cultural imperative for girls to be hot 24/7 has become the new normal, American women have become increasingly unhappy. What’s missing? A life of meaning, a life of ideas and reading books and being valued for our thoughts and accomplishments.” —“How To Talk To Little Girls” by Lisa Bloom (via twofish)
my aunt, who wears a scarf, was buying strawberries
and some old white dude who was loading more strawberries onto the platform suddenly started telling her about his adventures in syria and lebanon and how he is well traveled
and my aunt was like, i could not get away from him fast enough.
she’s pakistani. so. what does she care or know about syria and lebanon. shit.
s’kinda like the old white dude at the supermarket who started talking to me about how he took his wife and son to thailand
i was just like, wth, i’m from the philippines
(it’s sad that after that i was like, well, i usually get china or korea, so i guess this is an improvement)
Hacked data reveals US Marines contract killers, hunting migrants on the border →
bsnorrell.blogspot.com
The hunting and murder of migrants by US Marines along the Arizona border was among the first facts revealed, after LulzSec hacked the Arizona Department of Public Safety on Thursday.
Describing the hacked data, Boingboing.net, said, “There are countless mundane documents covering hours worked, officers’ personal information and other stuff of minimal journalistic interest. But the bulletins often offer fascinating stories of law enforcement encounters, such as this one with off-duty Marines patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border with assault weapons.”
The data describes heavily-armed US Marines, working on contract, to hunt migrants:
“In other incidents reported in October, U.S. Border Patrol agents encountered two subjects who claimed to be members of the Border Watch Group the Blue Lights based on the Caballo Loco Ranch. The subjects, armed with pistols and at least one M4 rifle, were dressed in full desert camouflage uniforms, similar to those of the United States military. They stated they were not members of the Minutemen, but paid contract employees who ‘get the job done’ and ‘were not just volunteers.’ They possessed valid United States Marine Corps identification cards.”
As it released this data, Lulz Security said in a statement, “We are targeting AZDPS specifically because we are against SB1070 and the racial profiling anti-immigrant police state that is Arizona.”
The fuuhhhhhh??? This is totally not acceptable. :-|
…holy sh
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Dutch couple dumps adopted Korean girl | angry asian man
What the hell? How can people behave this way? A Dutch couple has sparked outrage by giving up a seven-year-old South Korean girl they…
Afghanistan war: every death mapped →
guardian.co.uk
Between 2004 and 2009, data released by Wikileaks last year shows 24,498 deaths - over 4,000 of them civilians caught up in the conflict. As Barack Obama announces a drawdown of US troops there, we have taken that data and mapped it.
no seriously does anyone else not see this
IN GEORGIA
THEY ARE MAKING PRISONERS AKA MOSTLY BLACK MEN WHO WERE ARRESTED LIKELY ON RIDICULOUS POT CHARGES
WORK IN THE SUN PICKING VEGETABLES
SO RICH WHITE PEOPLE
CAN MAKE MONEY
come on are they just getting lazy now?? they’re not even trying to hide it.
“
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal’s program to replace fleeing migrant farm workers with probationers backfired when some of the convicted criminals started walking off their jobs because field work was too strenuous, it was reported Wednesday.
And the state’s farms could lose up to $1 billion if crops continue to go unpicked and rot, the president of the Georgia Agribusiness Council warned.
” —
from the article ‘Georgia immigrant crackdown backfires’ by Reid J. Epstein:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/57551.html
(via ellnw)
1. file a bill that scares away migrant farm works
2. force prisoners to labor in the hot sun as their replacement
3. try to convince people that the prison industrial complex has nothing to do with slavery
(via weexist-weresist)
