February 2012
61 posts
We are taught that we are free, that life is fair, and that the choices we make create the life that we live.
Marx calls this false consciousness.
Sociology teaches us that social forces act on us, they do things to us, they can enable or constrain us based on the groups that we belong to.
Genderism. Racism. Sizism. Heterocentrism.
Through sociology we then realize that what we are told is...
“I am looking to study how gender is lived in the world, but sometimes I am...”
– genderfork (via pansexualpride)
Proposition 8: What Happens Next? →
bencrowther:
the narrow focus of the opinion might convince the Supreme Court to pass on this case. “The grounds for the opinion, I think, do make it somewhat less likely that the Supreme Court will take it,” said Boies, because it “just applies to California,” which has a number of characteristics that are different from other states, “including that citizens of California were clearly...
Ugh…. Need more theraflu….
Nocturnal →
Definitely making this a ritual
Loki wears a fez now,It's better than those horns:... →
ladyatheist:
Crude historical depictions of African Americans as ape-like may have disappeared from mainstream U.S. culture, but research presented in a new paper by psychologists at Stanford, Pennsylvania State University and the University of California-Berkeley reveals that many…
I choose to be gay.
Deal with it.
I hate myself for missing you. I feel like I should be stronger than that. Like everyone expects me to be stronger than that.