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patriarchy in action

I don’t know if you know this but

men can lose their virginity too 

I don’t know if you know this, but society doesn’t place any fucking value on men’s virginity…nor has it ever systemically trained men to think of themselves as only being worthy of marriage if they’re still a virgin.

Society doesn’t tell men they’re tainted or dirty when they lose their virginity it praises them.

Society’s never PAID men’s families for their virginity…NOR HAS IT EVER PROMISED WOMEN who do good that they’ll get to “have sex with a 1000 virgin men” when they go to heaven.

GET THE FUCK OUT MY REBLOGS WITH YOUR BASIC ASS SHENANIGANS.

Fucking incredible. What an ass… ROFL

Reblogging for the awesome comments. ^

“I don’t know if you know this, but society doesn’t place any fucking value on men’s virginity…nor has it ever systemically trained men to think of themselves as only being worthy of marriage if they’re still a virgin.”

I’ll take your bet and raise you every single movie about male teens since ever.  Why?  Because men have the opposite problem.  As boys, we’re told we’re pathetic, or worthless, or “gay” by our peers if we’re virgins.  The system’s broken on both sides.  Is it worse on women?  Almost certainly.  But let’s not pretend men don’t have to deal with too.

(And I’m sorry, but if anyone’s expecting the groom and/or bride to be virgins on their wedding day, they need to be reminded what year it is.)

It could be argued that young men are being ostracized for being virgins cause being a virgin is for women. 

From what I understand of it, patriarchy isn’t harmful to just women, it’s harmful to people.

For the 2000th some time, I’ve made this argument multiple times….and none of you random people reblogging this seem to understand this:

Men being mocked for being virginal is incomprabable to the violence women face for any of their sexual practices [inactivity or otherwise].

The original caption of this photo was all encompassing “patriarchy in action” [including the damage patriarchy does to men] but alas people like you who don’t follow me reblogged this mindlessessly and flew off the handle either individualizing the post, ignoring previously mentioned information, deleting information, or adding previously mentioned information.

-_- 

Have a good day.

I LOVE THIS POST!!!!!!!!!!!!

jtotheizzoe:

If you’re ever concerned that the internet is going to run out of awesome, this TCA (Krebs) Cycle rap to the tune of Thrift Shop by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis should remind you that there’s plenty more to be found.

I’m gonna pop some caaaarbs, only got a lil’ glucose in my pathwaaaay

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fuckyeahdinoart:

Giganotosaurus and Tapejaras by ~Onikaizer

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stopkillingourworld:

rhamphotheca:

Whale only known from bones washes up on beach in New Zealand

by Jeremy Hance

In 2010, a whale mother and male calf were found dead on Opape Beach in New Zealand. Although clearly in the beaked whale family—the most mysterious marine mammal family—scientists thought the pair were relatively well-known Gray’s beaked whales (Mesoplodon grayi). That is until DNA findings told a shocking story: the mother and calf were actually spade-toothed beaked whales (Mesoplodon traversii), a species no one had ever seen before as anything more than a pile of bones.

“This species is the least known species of whale and one of the world’s rarest living mammals,” write scientists in a new paper in Current Biology on the discovery.

Scientists have known of the spade-toothed beaked whale for over 140 years, but only from a pair of skull fragments and a single mandible. No one was even sure if the species was extinct or not.

(read more: MongaBay)

(photos: T - Gray’s Beaked Whale, NOAA; B - beached Spade-toothed Beaked Whale, NZ Dept. of Conservation)

It’s sad they died.  :(

This is kind of awesome. It sucks that they died but that we have the bodies as specimens now? We can learn a lot more about them from this surely, and the more we know the closer we are to being able to keep this from happening.

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ilovecharts:

I have the attached (albeit humorous) chart and am submitting in response to this chart. This rebuttal chart was actually posted just over two weeks ago, on this very Tumblr account! Anyway, onto the pithy part: the rebuttal.

True, thorough temperature studies only span the past couple hundred years. But we have data from other sources- ice cores, tree cores, geologic strata, the Milankovitch cycle (and other related cycles)- that allow us to construct a general trend that allow us some clue into what the Earth’s climate was like in the past, long before we could have ever personally taken temperature measurements. (Though maybe there’s a Neanderthal cave somewhere with some kind of tedious, well-kept temperature data on some invented scale, but barring such a discovery, we do with what we can.)

The trend that is constructed from this data is somewhat noisy and does have uncertainty. However, uncertainty does not mean that we throw our hands up and say “we don’t know exactly how this works, so we don’t have to take this seriously.” That’s not the way science is done. In science, we look at what we can say based on the data and report the limitations our models have. Other people can then look at our data, collect their own, add to our model, and improve upon it until we have an increasingly clearer picture about what is going on with what we’re looking at.

In the case of this particular subject, the model projected forward says that at the present day, we should be on a general cooling trend. However, we clearly are not. Global average temperatures continue to rise, and year-over-year, we continue to have record warm temperatures, increased frequency of severe weather, all the stuff that our climate models predict (more-or-less- again, there’s some uncertainty). We can see it more clearly if we super-impose the concentration of CO2- the major “greenhouse gas” besides water vapor- over top of global average surface temperature, as is done here. As you can see, as we get closer to the present day, the concentration of CO2 has risen beyond historical levels back 400,000 years, and the surface temperature- which should be descending, according to the rough “period” of the temperature curve- is actually increasing. (That graph is taken from NOAA’s ice core data- I think it’s by a guy named Vostok Petit, or something like that.) I think the correlation- while it doesn’t necessarily prove causation by itself- speaks for itself, by wiggling its eyebrows and nodding very suggestively.

Besides, we can see what happens when the concentration of “greenhouse gases” are too high when we look at the next-closest planet to our Sun: Venus. Its atmosphere is mostly CO2, and its surface temperature is 900 deg F. We will (probably) not face those kinds of temperatures, but left unchecked, the solar blanket we create by adding more CO2, more methane, and more water vapor (and other gases) into the atmosphere will warm the Earth. It’s not a question of “maybes,” it’s a question of “how long.”

Besides, suppose that EVERYTHING I just said is wrong, and that every climate scientist is completely off-base and that the Earth is NOT warming. All the steps that we would have taken- in our apparently false-delusion- to clean up our environment, promote better efficiency of electronics, power plants, vehicles, and so on, would have only been to our benefit. The only possible cost would be passed on to companies that had to reinvest in themselves to be more efficient and cleaner, but I believe that the overall return- whether there is warming or not- will far outweigh those costs.

Anyway, I’ll get back off my soapbox so we can go back to looking at more memes and wasting time on the internet.

- Wayne

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insideofthisworld:

Monsanto’s advertisements tell an impressive tale of the agribusiness giant’s achievements: Feeding a growing population. Protecting natural resources. Promoting biodiversity. It sounds wonderful, but unfortunately, there’s a catch: These claims are often exaggerated, misleading or downright false. Monsanto’s products—and the practices they promote—may sustain the company’s profits, but the evidence shows that they stand in the way of truly sustainable solutions to our food and farming challenges.

(via Monsanto Fails at Improving Agriculture: UCS Spreads the Word | Union of Concerned Scientists)

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stopkillingourworld:

thepeoplesrecord:

Monsanto’s GM seeds contributing to farmer suicides every 30 minutes
October 28, 2012

In what has been called the single largest wave of recorded suicides in human history, Indian farmers are now killing themselves in record numbers. It has been extensively reported, even in mainstream news, but nothing has been done about the issue. The cause? Monsanto’s cost-inflated and ineffective seeds have been driving farmers to suicide, and is considered to be one of the largest — if not the largest — cause of the quarter of a million farmer suicides over the past 16 years.

According to the most recent figures (provided by the New York University School of Law), 17,638 Indian farmers committed suicide in 2009 — about one death every 30 minutes. In 2008, theDaily Mail labeled the continual and disturbing suicide spree as ‘The GM (genetically modified) Genocide’. Due to failing harvests and inflated prices that bankrupt the poor farmers, struggling Indian farmers began to kill themselves. Oftentimes, they would commit the act by drinking the very same insecticide that Monsanto supplied them with — a gruesome testament to the extent in which Monsanto has wrecked the lives of independent and traditional farmers.

To further add backing to the tragedy, the rate of Indian farmer suicides massively increased since the introduction of Monsanto’s Bt cotton in 2002. It is no wonder that a large percentage of farmers who take their own lives are cotton farmers, the demographic that is thought to be among the most impacted. Dr. Mercola, an osteopathic doctor that has been educating the world about natural health for many years, recently saw the destruction of traditional Indian farmers first hand. Dr. Mercola found out about the notorious ‘suicide belt’ of India, where 4,238 farmer suicides took place in 2007 alone.

Many families are now ruined thanks to the mass suicides, and are left to economic ruin and must struggle to fight off starvation:

‘We are ruined now,’ said one dead man’s 38-year-old wife. ‘We bought 100 grams of BT Cotton. Our crop failed twice. My husband had become depressed. He went out to his field, lay down in the cotton and swallowed insecticide.’

In India, around 60 percent of the population (currently standing at 1.1 billion) are directly or indirectly reliant on agriculture. Monsanto’s intrusion into India’s traditional and sustainable farming community is not only concerning for health and wellness reasons, but it is now clear that the issue is much more serious.

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oh my god…. I don’t call it Mon$atan for nothing.  

I truly hate monsanto. So much.

scientificillustration:

Anglerfish in Creatures of Light by American Museum of Natural History on Flickr.

The Museum’s latest special exhibition Creatures of Light: Nature’s Bioluminescence features a model of Linophryne algibarbata on the hunt. Creatures of Light is open now through January 6, 2013.

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skullandbone:

Deer Skull Sketch by bparker321 on Flickr.

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prehistoric-birds:

By ~T-PEKC:

Title: Archosaurian rivalry
Depicted animals: Avisaurus archibaldi (left) and Brachychampsa montana (right).
Time and place: Late Maastricthian, North America 
Formation: Hell Creek
Media: Pencils (2B and 5B)
October, 2012.

This drawing is my entry for the current Hell Creek’s Art Challenge [link]

References: Both of the depicted archosaurs are based on skeletal drawings by Scott Hartman.

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