February 2012
61 posts
The myth of the eight-hour sleep →
sophia-sol:
“In the early 1990s, psychiatrist Thomas Wehr conducted an experiment in which a group of people were plunged into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month.
“It took some time for their sleep to regulate but by the fourth week the subjects had settled into a very distinct sleeping pattern. They slept first for four hours, then woke for one or two hours before falling into a...
Just to reiterate: you can be sex-aversive AND... →
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lizziegoneastray:
Why is this? Because sex-positivity is not intended to be about personally wanting to have sex; it’s about supporting the right of all people of all genders to have as much or as little sex as they want without being judged by arbitrary standards of “purity” or “experience.”…
Yeah, I’m with Kaz on this one. Sex value-neutral all the way! There is nothing...
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Just, seriously, are we still having this...
chonklatime:
ayries:
Shit that is not sexist re: Irene’s portrayal in Sherlock:
She is a sexual person
She is a sex worker
She is gay/a lesbian
She is not 100% perfect 100% of the time
She does not do literally every single thing on her own
Shit that is just generally not automatically sexist:
A woman losing
A woman needing to be helped/saved
A woman being emotional, vulnerable, etc.
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The great Stop Fucking Him post
Copied from this amazing post from 2005. It has never been more relevant. I agree with a whole hell of a lot of this.
This is not about abortion.
If you read the article in its entirety, I think that much is obvious — this is not about abortion. If this were about abortion — specifically, about fewer abortions being performed — then those interested in reducing that number...
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Watchredhead-monster:
Okay, forget everything I have ever complained about or told you to do, politically. Forget if you don’t read political posts. Stop. WATCH/READ THIS RIGHT NOW.
For those of you who for some reason cannot or do not want to watch the video, allow me to summarize. Right now there is a law that has passed the Virginia legislature that would mandate a trans-vaginal ultrasound for...
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I’M NOT OKAY WITH CHRIS BROWN PERFORMING AT THE...
tygermama:
I’M NOT OKAY WITH CHRIS BROWN PERFORMING AT THE GRAMMYS AND I’M NOT SURE WHY YOU ARE
I’m sick and tired of people acting like it’s no big deal that Chris Brown will be performing at the Grammys.
I’m frustrated that the mainstream media is covering this story like it’s any comeback story, like an exiled prince’s return to a former glory, like this is another political timeline — as...
DC Releases Nielsen survey numbers; few new...
eonism:
dcwomenkickingass:
The results of the Nielsen Survey that DC did post reboot are in and the results are depressing. In an article on ICv2, DC’s Executive Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Business Development John Rood outlined the results.
Remember the idea of bringing in new readers? The survey found that new readers comprised just 5% of the survey.
Female readers, which...
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About the Arkh Project
ardeb:
Alright, this is a more in-depth post about The Arkh Project, a follow-up to my other post about it. I’m going to stick to the technical bits of the project and leave out any feelings I have about the people working on it. I would have gotten a bit more detailed in the post I wrote the other day, but I didn’t want to bore or alienate people from reading it.
A lot of how the Arkh team is...
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reapershadcat:
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