November 2010
Pansexual Pride: REBLOG THIS IS YOU CARE ABOUT TRANS RIGHTS →
pansexualpride.tumblr.com
Currently, the local (Conservative) MP in London, Ontario is running a poll on his website asking the following question:
“Should Parliament support the NDP MP’s Bill to amend the Canadian Human Right Act to add gender identity and gender expression as grounds for prohibited…
Straight Questionnaire
1. What do you think caused you to be straight?
2. When and how did you decide that you were straight?
3. Is it possible that being straight is just a phase that you may grow out of?
4. Is it possible being straight stems from a neurotic fear of others of the same sex?
5. If you’ve never slept with a person of the same sex, is it possible that all you need is a good gay or lesbian lover?
6. Who have you told that you are straight? How did they react?
7. Why do straight people feel compelled to seduce others into your life-style?
8. Why do you insist on flaunting your heterosexuality? Why can’t you just be what you are and keep quiet about it?
9. Would you want your children to be straight knowing the problems that they’d face?
10. A disproportionate majority of child molesters are straight. Do you consider it safe to expose children to straight teachers?
11. With all the societal support marriage receives, the divorce rate is spiralling. Why are there so few stable relationships among straight people?
12. Why do straight people place so much emphasis on sex?
13. Considering the menace of overpopulation, how could the human race survive if everyone were straight?
14. Could you trust a straight therapist to be objective? Don’t you fear (s)he might be inclined to influence you in the direction of her/his own leanings?
15. How can you become a whole person if you limit yourself to compulsive, exclusive heterosexuality, and fail to develop you natural, healthy gay potential?
16. There seem to be very few happy straight people. Techniques have been developed that might enable you to change if you really want to. Have you considered trying aversion therapy?
• Adapted from “Are You Still My Mother” by Gloria Guss Back.
Warner Books, 1985. Questionnaire attributed to Martin Rochlin, Ph.D. West Hollywood, CA.
“At every photo shoot, they want to make me sexy, put on shitloads of makeup, make me look like a rock chick. It just felt like I was being pushed to be something I wasn’t: ‘Oh, look at Hermione, she’s all grown up now!’ But that’s just not me. I don’t get my flash out. I mean, I wear minidresses, but I try to do it tastefully. You don’t want to see too much. I hate seeing big, huge cleavage. My reaction is, Put it away! If it’s too much, it’s just vulgar. I think it’s so much sexier to be understated. It’s more intriguing to be sexy in a less obvious way.”
—
Emma Watson, Marie Claire | December 2010 (via de-lumiere)
EVEN HER PERSONALITY IS SEXY.
(via yesitdid)
Play
Whenever Scabior was on screen, I was just like
My friends were like
And then when I was like “He could snatch me any day.”
They were just like
They are missing out.
xx
Harry Potter series from Hermione's point of view:
- Hermione Granger and the Time I Got Two Idiots Out Of A Crisis
- Hermione Granger and the Time I Got Two Idiots Out Of A Crisis
- Hermione Granger and the Time I Got Two Idiots Out Of A Crisis
- Hermione Granger and the Time I Got Two Idiots Out Of A Crisis
- Hermione Granger and the Time I Got Two Idiots Out Of A Crisis
- Hermione Granger and the Time I Got Two Idiots Out Of A Crisis
- Hermione Granger and the Time I Got Two Idiots Out Of A Crisis
I need to stop reading The Advertiser
Or, more accurately, the Letters to Editor section. It makes me so mad.
Today, we have gems of wisdom such as:
“The vast majority of people are against gay marriage”
(Not according to http://www.australianmarriageequality.com/newopinionpoll.htm, which states that 62% of Australians support gay marriage)
“You don’t need religion to tell you that homosexuality and heterosexuality are not equivalent”
“Homosexuality is where something has gone wrong”
“Sex is inherently male/female and its essential purpose is propagation of the species”
(Oh, so you don’t have sex for pleasure? Once your wife is past childbearing age, will you divorce her? Ignoring the assumption of this twit that you need marriage for sex…)
I am angry. How are people this ignorant? Can I please slap them?
Want to Express Hatred Toward Gay People? There's an App for That... →
gayrights.change.org
Ever wished your iPhone could be used to foster homophobia and extreme anti-choice views? Well, consider that wish granted, because Apple has approved an iPhone app for a project known as the Manhattan Declaration. Started with the help of convicted felon Chuck Colson, the Manhattan Declaration is a document signed by a number of anti-gay activists pledging to revive the culture wars and stop same-sex marriage.
Spelled out in the Manhattan Declaration are a set of principles that boil LGBT people down to little more than deviant cretins. According to the Manhattan Declaration, society should refer to gay relationships as “immoral sexual partnerships,” and all people of faith should adopt a belief that “LGBT people erode marriage.” Colson, as the Declaration’s author, even went so far as to say that gay people will destroy the family unit, and could bring down civilization as we know it.
Nothing like a little extremism to start the morning.
So why would Apple sanction an iPhone app that sends these same messages? That’s a question that Jeremy Hooper over at Good As You is wondering. Hooper perused through the Manhattan Declaration’s app, and took the survey that the Manhattan Declaration allows iPhone users to take. Not surprisingly, anyone who responds to the survey with answers that favor LGBT equality get told they’re wrong and inaccurate.
Among the questions that the app asks users are: (1) Do you believe in the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman?; (2) Do you believe in protecting life from the moment of conception?; (3) Do you support same-sex relationships?; and (4) Do you support the right of choice regarding abortion.
Hooper answered the questions like most pro-equality, pro-choice folks would do, and was promptly told by the Manhattan Declaration: “SURVEY COMPLETE! 0%, You answered 0 out of 4 questions correct. [sic]”
So much for an objective survey, right?
The application also allows users to wade through a series of right-wing talking points that call for the elimination of choice for women, as well as an end to same-sex marriage. And then for kicks, the app also tells users that there’s no such thing as separation of church and state.
Apple, for their part, has given the app a rating of 4+. What does that means? According to their rating system, it means that the app contains “no objectionable material.” Say what?
Because it sure seems like if you’re going to call same-sex relationships “immoral sexual partnerships,” or if you’re going to accuse gay people of “eroding marriage,” or if you say that gay people don’t deserve basic civil rights, that should at least fall into the category of “objectionable.”
Send Apple a message that applications that support hate and division have no place in the iTunes Store. It’s bad business, and all it does is foster a climate of homophobia where people who support LGBT equality are told that they’re “immoral” and wrong. That’s not an iPhone app. That’s bigotry.
Congratulations, this post has made it onto The Best of Tumblr Blog! Trust me, this is big stuff right here. Found on the blog of tommic
Submitted by bulbalicious
Free Hugs!
<hugs>
“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them.”
—John Waters (via bookshelfporn)
“There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good.”
—Edwin Denby (via ishouldhavebeenahippie)
“Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them.”
—Laurie Halse Anderson, frequently challenged author (via athousandswifts)
Play
“Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.”
—Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals (via jjoongie)
Fun fact of the day: Shakespeare used a "your mum" joke in Timon of Athens..
Painter: “Y’are a dog.”
Apemantus: “Thy mother’s of my generation. What’s she, if I be a dog?
You are a smart girl who has so much going for her. Pretty, intelligent and respect for others.
not many people hold these qualities these days.
xx
Thank you ^^
This house is getting a little crowded. I want to leave.
