The Grand Year of '07

Daryush ‘Roosh’ Valizadeh, 36, calls himself the ’King of Masculinity’ but has faced anger from around the world for his views on rape

He posted an article advocating legalization of rape on private land and has said women’s value is dependent on 'fertility and beauty’

This weekend he was planning 'tribal meetings’ for his followers in 45 countries but called them off because of 'death threats’

New Study Finds No Link Between Gaming And Sexist Attitudes

“A few days ago a German longitudinal study was published that explored the connection between gaming and sexist attitudes. The results broadly show that playing videogames doesn’t make people sexist.”

 “In order to ensure a degree of reliability in these findings, there are also two elements that should be highlighted. The first is the fact this was a longitudinal study and the second is who funded the research.

Longitudinal studies are undertaken over a period of time, with snapshots of data taken within that. In this instance large samples of participants from the age of 14 and up were included in three waves of testing over a few years, starting back in 2011. That’s a lot of data and, more importantly, it also predates any current controversy regarding the belief that playing games somehow makes people sexist.

As for who funded the research if it were a games publisher then that would call the study into question, as they would clearly have a vested interest in the results. In fact it was independently funded by the European Research Council.”

The study: “Sexist Games = Sexist Gamers? A Longitudinal Study on the Relationship Between Video Game Use and Sexist Attitudes

ABSTRACT:

From the oversexualized characters in fighting games, such as Dead or Alive or Ninja Gaiden, to the overuse of the damsel in distress trope in popular titles, such as the Super Mario series, the under- and misrepresentation of females in video games has been well documented in several content analyses. Cultivation theory suggests that long-term exposure to media content can affect perceptions of social realities in a way that they become more similar to the representations in the media and, in turn, impact one’s beliefs and attitudes. 

Previous studies on video games and cultivation have often been cross-sectional or experimental, and the limited longitudinal work in this area has only considered time intervals of up to 1 month. Additionally, previous work in this area has focused on the effects of violent content and relied on self-selected or convenience samples composed mostly of adolescents or college students. 

Hooters is running their annual Valentine’s Day promotion, seen in full below:

Confirmed via Snopes, the promotion consists of receiving free wings for shredding a picture of your ex.

With all the violence women have faced recently (from the New Year’s Eve attacks in Cologne to just a few weeks when Janese Jackson-Talton was shot for saying “no” after a man hit on her) this seems like an especially ill-timed and tone deaf promotion.

Though the promotion doesn’t specifically say ex-girlfriend/wife, it’s a basic fact of life that Hooters is most often populated by male customers, which means it’s not a far leap to assume the majority of pictures being run through the shredder will be of women. 

Even the ad for the promotion features a women prominently, with just a small sliver of a man’s face peeking out behind her.

2015: The Year South Park Finally Got Old

(via themarysue)

Comedian Owen Benjamin says Beyoncé did a “KKK dance routine” at the Super Bowl

The Blaze also noted that the host, presumably Shabazz, also said that “blacks are ‘too scared’ to drag whites out of their houses, skin them, hang them in trees, drag them behind trucks, and pour acid on them. http://joeforamerica.com/2015/05/new-black-panther-leader-bomb-nurseries-to-kill-white-babies/#

Holy shit

Wow, I was pretty much neutral on the old Black Panthers, but after hearing this, I’m pretty sure I’ll never support Beyonce’s work (I thought she was pretty meh and overrated to begin with, but this is just shocking). And if she or anyone else didn’t have knowledge of this, then that’s even worse because she was giving a salute to an anti-semitic hate group without even knowing.

Georgia students occupy universities to protest racist Supreme Court decision                                 

Just like there’s nothing wrong with being gay, but I’m sure as fuck not going to call myself gay even though I’ve never meet a male I was attracted to. Because that’s not what the fuck gay means. 

You can be gay without being attracted to dudes, and straight dudes are attracted to dudes. See, I can make up dumb shit too. 

“ gender is a social construct “

No its not, it’s a term we use in language to refer to people’s biological sex.

“ and being trans or cis is defined by how you feel you fit into the current ideas of gender. “

Jesus tap dancing Christ, you’re fucking saying anyone who isn’t a walking stereotype must be trans, no that’s fucking bullshit. 

“ as a dysphoric trans person, if someone wants to call themselves trans because they don’t really connect with the idea of gender, or are non-dyphoric but feel happier than they currently are using different pronouns, or even just connect with the idea of being trans and choose to define themselves as trans, then they are trans. “

1- I’m not buying. 2- You being ok with people reducing a term to meaninglessness doesn’t mean its fine. You’re no authority on the matter.

“ there is much more, in my experience, to being trans than dysphoria. shut the fuck up. “  

biological sex is a construct too pal, and does this mean you see trans people as the gender they were assigned at birth? you’re making your transphobia pretty obvious

1- I’m not buying 

not buying what? that i’m trans? that i experience dysphoria? i talk abt both those things frequently on my blog, and other than that i dont know what proof to give you. would you like to see some sort of certificate?

  2- You being ok with people reducing a term to meaninglessness doesn’t mean its fine. You’re no authority on the matter.

i’d say that I, a trans person, have far more authority than you, a cis person, do.

Correct - a biological construct.

* you’re making your transphobia pretty obvious*

No one cares.

*why are you telling a trans person what makes me trans? how would you know?*