Sonic bloom 2013.
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Questions to be raised:
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What the fuck is this shit on my timeline. I wasn’t aware I was living in the Bible Belt!
I really doubt the shells wouldn’t be on the top of their list of life achievements.
More likely, the story goes more like:
“The couple worked 50 hour weeks from the age of 14, started a business after getting married, raised a family and were successful enough that they could pass the reigns to their children and retire to Punta Gorda. Now they are enjoying hard-earned retirement, playing softball, sailing and spending time with their family.”
The real tragedy is that most people of our generation will never be financially secure enough to retire ourselves!
Vicky Form is a Mexican lingerie company that has recently released a campaign called ”New commandments for women.”
They read,
1. I shall never call another woman a whore.
2. No one can convince me from not wearing a condom.
3. I shall never get pregnant just to keep a man by my side.
4. No one can judge me based on the number of people I’ve slept with.
5. Is my responsibility to fight for my own (woman) rights.
6. I will not tolerate any kind of violence towards myself.
7. I will not fear or be ashamed if I find myself attracted to woman.
8. It is my decision if i want to get married or not. (and don’t deserve to be judged for it.)I find this campaign to be a ‘big deal’ for the fact that is released in Mexico. One of the most sexists, closed minded and underdeveloped countries in the world.
Not so many companies take the risk to make advertisements like this because they’re obviously going to be criticized and possibly be affected by it.
Someone is taking the risk, telling the truth, and trying to get to the minds of the people. Sharing the fact that we are all human, and have to be equally treated like it, leading to a better and more developed society.
Its a big step for Mexico, and for women.
I absolutely love this campaign! The commandments are fantastic and it is presented wonderfully!
However I question OP’s description of Mexico as one of the most sexist and under-developed countries in the world. Particularly considering its a developing country with flourishing heavy industry and a far more matriarchal set-up in terms of family life than most countries. (Far more matriarchal than North America or the UK certainly!)
I question whether OP has any knowledge of Mexico or Mexican culture at all. Sounds like extreme conjecture to me!
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What people seem to be oblivious to is that the definition of terrorism has been deliberately kept vague by both academia and our governments as it is politically extremely useful to use such a loaded term when demonising an individual or group, or justifying an otherwise indefensible act/response.
The Woolwich attackers made it clear that their actions were not intended to cause panic or harm to civilians, but were in direct response to UK foreign policy in the Middle East. They deliberately carried out the attack against a member of the British military as an “eye for an eye”. While no stable definition of terrorism exists, inciting terror or panic in a civilian population is the crux of terrorism - not the intended outcome stated by the attacker. The incident would better be described as a retaliation or politically-motivated murder.
The continued muddying of what “terrorism” is by governments and the media allows for the manipulation and incitement of fear in the masses, turning emphasis from our own country’s (and allies) illegal and heinous actions, further demonising groups that have no other way of fighting back.
The attacker even apologised for people having to see such brutality, but pointed out it is what “his people” must see every day.
While such actions are deplorable, and such an attack unacceptable, it’s not terrorism and in my opinion it is dangerous to label it as such.
Still one of my favourites. Never not going to be funny.
Props to Stevie J. RIP.
(Source: eveninarcadia)
One of my favorite quotes. Motto to live by
you do know that it was the actual soldiers who were nicknamed lambs, and the lions were the generals sending them to be slaughtered?
This is a manipulation of the original italian proverb, most famously recited thus…
“It is better to live one day as a lion, than 100 days as a lamb.”
…by Benito Mussolini
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I don’t want to make light of the boston bombings because this is going to have psychologically fucked up a lot of people let alone physically disabling others, for the rest of their lives
but adam lanza and james holmes collectively murdered 38 people last year and i heard no news…
Unfortunately the event has played into the hands of those who wish to further demonise Islam and create a culture of fear which can be manipulated to garner support for extreme policies that would otherwise have caused a civil outcry.
In the quest to erode individual rights to privacy and integrity, evens such as these can be so easily spun to forward an otherwise unrelated agenda.
Unfortunately, those who point this out are discredited as conspiracy theorists.
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What I wore, this is the source of my youth,
This dream that they sold to you,
For a hundred dollars and some change.
Consumption is in the veins,
and now I see it’s just another pair of shoes.
(Source: Spotify)
I’m sure you can see where this is going…
“I think the world would be a much better place if there were no guns. Then we could finally focus on the important things, like sword fighting, and how to kill a man with one punch.”
A picture of the Pope, made from condoms.
“If your product was any good you wouldn’t need sexism to sell it.”
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I was at a Pro-Choice rally last night, protesting outside a fundraiser event run by the “Alliance of Pro-Life Students” (APS).
APS campaign for the illegalisation of abortion in the UK, even in cases of rape, incest and high probability of maternal death.
While the geriatric conservative types, priests, ministers and tory councillors were there in force as expected; what was perhaps most shocking was the number of young women attending the fundraiser - women who apparently don’t mind others telling them what they can and can’t do with their own body.
Asked what he thought a woman should do in the event of pregnancy from rape, the organiser of the APS event said: “She doesn’t have to keep the child after its born - then she can get rid of it.”
Only a day before, news of the death of Salvita Halappanavar - a woman denied an abortion by Irish health services despite the fact that the pregnancy was killing her - hit the presses, meaning that the holding of the APS fundraiser was particularly insensitive (even by pro-lifer’s standards).
Nemo me impune lacessit.
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