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kogla: I got you, my angel!

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:55:57 -0500

kogla:

I got you, my angel!

My new buddy

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:22:34 -0500

My new buddy

The neighborhood kids found this lil cutie & we gave him...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:30:40 -0500

The neighborhood kids found this lil cutie & we gave him some food. He’s now lurking under our porch.

The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enough people...

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:15:35 -0500

The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily so they can meet their quota of getting FREE FOOD donated every day to abused and neglected animals in their shelters.

It takes less than a minute (only about 15 seconds actually) to go to their site and click on the purple box titled, ‘Click Here to Give - it’s FREE!’. Every click gives about .6 bowls of food to sheltered dogs. You can also click daily!

Keep in mind that this does not cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate food to abandoned/neglected animals in exchange for advertising. [via.]

Go to the website here.

"like I would like a romance but sometimes I’m just like “my friends are great, why isn’t someone..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 23:19:07 -0500

“like I would like a romance but sometimes I’m just like “my friends are great, why isn’t someone dating them gdi””

- Erin also known as saint-tibbles (via sometimesfairytale)

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How ‘Slut Shaming’ Has Been Written Into School Dress Codes Across The Country

Wed, 15 May 2013 22:18:00 -0500

How ‘Slut Shaming’ Has Been Written Into School Dress Codes Across The Country:

Last month, a New Jersey middle school banned girls from wearing strapless dresses to prom. Administrators claimed that the dresses were “distracting” — though they refused to specify exactly how or why. Parents reacted strongly to the rule; some supported the dress code while others deemed it “slut-shaming.” On Friday, the school compromised by allowing girls to wear single-strap or see-through-strap dresses.

This is no isolated incident in the United States. Across the country, young girls are being told what not to wear because it might be a “distraction” for boys, or because adults decide it makes them look “inappropriate.” At its core, every incident has a common thread: Putting the onus on young women to prevent from being ogled or objectified, instead of teaching those responsible to learn to respect a woman’s body. Here are five other recent examples:

1. A middle school in California banned tight pants. At the beginning of last month, a middle school in Northern California began telling girls to avoid wearing pants that are “too tight” because it “distracts the boys.” At a mandatory assembly for just the female students, the middle school girls were told that they’re no longer allowed to wear leggings or yoga pants. “We didn’t think it was fair how we have all these restrictions on our clothing while boys didn’t have to sit through [the assembly] at all,” one student told local press. Some parents also complained, leading the school’s assistant principal to record a voicemail explaining the new policy. “The guiding principle in all dress codes is that the manner in which students dress does not become a distraction in the learning environment,” the message said.

2. A high school principal in Minnesota emailed parents to ask them to cover up their daughters. A principal in Minnetonka, MN recently wrote an email telling parents to stop letting their daughters wear leggings or yoga pants to school. He says the tight-fitting pants are fine with longer shirts but, when worn with a shorter top, a girl’s “backside” can be “too closely defined.” The big risk of having a defined backside, he thinks, is that it can “be highly distracting for other students.”

3. Two girls in Ohio were turned away from their prom for being “improperly dressed.” Laneisha Williams and Nyasia Mitchell were barred from prom this spring for wearing dresses that administrators considered “too revealing.” The girls say that they didn’t believe they were violating a dress code that said dresses couldn’t be too short or show too much cleavage. But one administrator told local news that the high school girls were only allowed to wear dresses that had “no curvature of their breasts showing.”

4. A kindergarten student in Georgia was forced to change her “short” skirt because it was a “distraction to other students.” It’s hard to imagine that a kindergartener’s outfit could be “a distraction to other students,” but a mother in Georgia told locals news there that her daughter had been outfitted in someone else’s pants — without parental permission — after the principal deemed the skirt the young girl was wearing too short.” The girl had apparently wore the skirt, and accompanying leggings, just one week before without incident.

5. Forty high school girls were sent home from a winter dance in California after “degrading” clothing inspections “bordering on sexual harassment.” A school board member’s daughter was among the 40 girls turned away from Capistrano Valley High’s February dance for wearing dresses that either exposed their midriffs or were cut too low. Before the dance, girls were apparently required to flap their arms up and down and turn around for male administrators’ inspection. The school issues image guidelines for appropriate dress on its website — though the images were nearly all of women, and the only male image depicted proper attire. One girl alleges that the principal told her, “Not all dresses look good on certain body shapes.” A grandmother of one of the girls who was turned away from the dance also said that a teacher remarked about her granddaughter, “What mother would allow her daughter to wear a dress like that?” Apparently the school did receive some praise, though, from the parents of two male students.

When most Americans think about “rape culture,” they may think about the Steubenville boys’ defense arguing that an unconscious girl consented to her sexual assault because she “didn’t say no,” the school administrators who choose to protect their star athletes over those boys’ rape victims, or the bullying that led multiple victims of sexual assault to take their own lives. While those incidences of victim-blaming are certainly symptoms of a deeply-rooted rape culture in this country, they’re not the only examples of this dynamic at play. Rape culture is also evident in the attitudes that lead school administrators to treat young girls’ bodies as inherently “distracting” to the boys who simply can’t control themselves. That approach to gender roles simply encourages our youth to assume that sexual crimes must have something to do with women’s “suggestive” clothes or behavior, rather than teaching them that every individual is responsible for respecting others’ bodily autonomy.

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Wed, 15 May 2013 21:58:12 -0500

fionastaples: The latest cover I did for Archie- Betty and...

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:13:42 -0500

fionastaples:

The latest cover I did for Archie- Betty and Veronica as little mermaids! When they sent me the script for this issue, it was a bunch of rough layouts that the great Dan Parent must have sketched and scripted at the same time. Pretty interesting! I’ve heard a lot of writer/artists work that way.

More about the Little Mermaids issue in this CBR piece.

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Tue, 14 May 2013 23:56:13 -0500

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Tue, 14 May 2013 22:51:48 -0500

jetgreguar: clupster: A beepnose weffy PUPPERS

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:30:51 -0500

jetgreguar:

clupster:

A beepnose weffy

PUPPERS

jemmalep: horniess: New Photos from my Witch Cosplay Aniba...

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:29:04 -0500

jemmalep:

horniess:

New Photos from my Witch Cosplay Aniba (Spirited Away)

Photos & Edit by FrauDoku

aaa Mero that’s amazing! *U* <3

after the NCIS season finale: THIS IS THE WORST CLIFFHANGER EVER 1 hour later, after the NCIS: LA...

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:58:27 -0500

after the NCIS season finale:

THIS IS THE WORST CLIFFHANGER EVER

1 hour later, after the NCIS: LA season finale:

nOOOPE I WAS WRONG, IT CAN GET WORSE

rosdottir: Be careful, children. The ghost of a child lives in...

Mon, 13 May 2013 23:44:10 -0500

rosdottir:

Be careful, children. The ghost of a child lives in these here woods - he may ask to join in your games, but if you anger him, he’ll drag you into the lake, and you’ll never see your mama again…

Jack Frost wasn’t just a spirit of light mischief, but was also thought to be responsible for mountain deaths, frostbite injuries, avalanches and pneumonia when he’d been angered. This has been your daily, still-stuck-in-this-fandom PSA!

garabating: Julian Landini

Mon, 13 May 2013 23:35:24 -0500

garabating:

Julian Landini

kapooyah: definite maybe

Mon, 13 May 2013 23:29:50 -0500

kapooyah:

definite maybe

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