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nbcparksandrec:

It’s National Splurge Day. You know what to do.

It really is:

Treat yourself excessively, to anything you want. And, to excess if you desire. Isn’t that a great thing? Maybe, you’re on a diet, and that special dessert is too many calories. Maybe, you want to buy a steak, and the budget is a little tight. Toss out the reservations, and go for it today.

(I wonder if the reason I’ve never heard of “National Splurge Day” before and yet every year we can’t escape knowing all about, say “Black Friday” or “Cyber Monday” is that the news media is complicit in the idea of mass consumerism benefiting enormous corporate entities in a way that they just aren’t at all in something that is about ‘treating yo’ self’ right. One is about you and whatever makes you happy and one is about giving your money to companies that don’t care about you and already have a lot of money…

I take it back. I don’t wonder about it at all.)

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comedycentral:

Every single politician using social media needs to see The Daily Show’s guide to using Twitter.

Click the gif to watch the clip.

Jessica Williams is my favorite thing about The Daily Show. She’s unrepentantly angry, funny as hell, and drop dead gorgeous. This new hairstyle has my jaw on the floor, for serious.

theatlantic:

‘Star Wars’ Needs a New Approach to Gender—Not Just More Women

Because, after all, the lack of women in Star Wars is not arbitrary. Star Wars is a genre picture—and the genre is, broadly, boys’ adventure. The series is devoted to battles, adventure, politics, more adventure, and more battles. Girls certainly can—and certainly do!—like all of those things. But the fact remains that the genre has historically been focused on boys. Which means that it has been a lot more concerned with providing points of identification for guys than with points of identification for girls. It’s not an accident that it’s Leia rather than Han who ends up in the swimsuit and chains, right? (Even though she remains, even in chains, badass.)

Genre and gender, then, are tied up together. Sci-fi imagines different worlds—but those different worlds are governed in no small part by particular narrative expectations. The galaxy isn’t as far away, nor as teeming with possibilities as it looks.

Read more. [Image: 20th Century Fox]

If we’re definitely not gonna get a Mara Jade or a Jayna Solo or a Teneniel Djo (which is 99.9% likely that we won’t) or any more Ahsoka Tano (which is still improbable, but more likely, since she’s a recent creation) then yeah. Star Wars needs a gender sea-change. 1 woman of note in an entire trilogy may have cut it in the 80s (BTW, it didn’t) but it definitely won’t cut it now.

ornamentedbeing:

Topless dueling?

I know it’s a long text but it’s worth the read!

“The most intriguing duel fought between women, and the sole one that featured exposed breasts, took place in August 1892 in Verduz, the capitol of Liechtenstein, between Princess Pauline Metternich and the Countess Kielmannsegg. It has gone down in history as the first “emancipated duel” because all parties involved, including the principals and their seconds were female… Before the proceedings began, the baroness pointed out that many insignificant injuries in duels often became septic due to strips of clothing being driven into the wound by the point of a sword. To counter this danger she prudently suggested that both parties should fight stripped of any garments above the waist. Certainly, Baroness Lubinska was ahead of her time, taking an even more radical take on the (at the time) widely dismissed theories of British surgeon Joseph Lister, who in 1870 revolutionized surgical procedures with the introduction of antiseptic. 

With the precautions Baroness Lubinska recommended, the topless women duelists were less likely to suffer from an infection; indeed, it was a smart idea to fight semiclad. Given the practicality of the baroness’ suggestion and the “emancipated” nature of the duel, it was agreed that the women would disrobe—after all, there would be no men present to ogle them. For the women, the decision to unbutton the tops of their dresses was not sexual; it was simply a way of preventing a duel of first blood from becoming a duel to the death.

… 

It is humorous that most recounts of this historic event fail to mention two important things: the winner of the duel (Princess Metternich) and the reason why the women came to arms in the first place—they disagreed over the floral arrangements for an upcoming musical exhibition.”

^ best part of the entire article. 

WHERE IS THIS WOMAN’S MOVIE?

allyrhodesmusic:

THE MOST UNDERAPPRECIATED JOKE OF ALL TIME 

Pretty much.

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