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can we just appreciate how cute this is

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Tumblr, teaching more about rape culture than they do in school

tumblr, knowing more about rape culture than governments do

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How to French kiss.

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Illustrator Shamekh Al-Bluwi’s Ingenious Cut-Outs Turn Any Landscape into Clever Clothing Designs

Love this.

Beautiful

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Salavat Fidai Carves Miniature Artworks Onto the Tips of Pencils

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With a steady hand and eye for detail, artist Salavat Fidai carves miniature artworks onto the tips of lead pencils. Fidai, who hails from Ufa, Russia is also a painter and illustrator and works not only in miniature but larger scale paintings as well.

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do you ever miss someone but never let them know because you have this feeling that they are doing just fine without you anyways? 

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Powerful & creative imagery

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I have always been fascinated by these ‘world of 100 people’ things, I remember spending hours thinking through the ones on a poster at church when I was 9 or so. It really, really makes some really important stuff so blindingly clear, in numbers we can understand. And it should, I hope it does, inspire us to act. 

Amazing post.

The reason these work so well is because the human brain is actually incapable of comprehending the actual amount in people in the world. Our mind unassisted can only understand numbers up to a certain amount. Even 83% of 7 billion is difficult to grasp because we know that’s a Fuck ton, but on the flip side 17% of 7 billion is a Shit load. So our brain realy can’t comprehend the gravity of what exactly is the difference one fuck ton and one shit load. But when you take away the percent, remove this gigantic 7 billion number, and bring it down to 100, all of a sudden out brains go “oh! I know what 100 is! I can understand this!” And things are a lot clearer.

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Here’s 7 Hacks To Make Your Dog’s Life Even Better (And Safer)

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These Hilarious Fake Paint Names Make Home Decor Way More Fun

You could mull over the subtle differences between paint colors like off-white, bone white and sand white, or you could turn to comedian Jeff Wysaski of Obvious Plantfor his brutally accurate take on the subject.

Wysaski, the brains behind the “honest wine labels” prank from earlier this year, spoke with The Huffington Post about his newest project: altered names on paint chips.

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“Want to play a game of rape? No? That’s the spirit!” Ladies and Gentlemen, an 18 year old man told me this joke while I was in the process of researching for this paper because he found my topic so… Laughably ridiculous. Because how could I? A privileged woman, possibly think that pornography can lead to violence, especially rape?

 My generation is trapped. We are misled, and we are tricked into thinking the ideal intimate relationship is biased on what we read, watch, and hear in our everyday lives. And how could you blame us? It is EVERYWHERE. It’s in our music. It’s the TV we watch, and most of all, it’s on our beloved, vivacious internet. It is through the internet that most teens and young adults learn, and why wouldn’t they? My generation has all the information they could possibly want right at their fingertips. But what do you think is the most popular site we are using? Twitter? Instagram? Facebook? How about Google, the most popular search engine used in the world? Well folks, in May of 2004 and internet trafficking study was conducted, concluding that porn sites were visited three times more than Google, Yahoo!, and MSN combined. [1]

As porn becomes more and more available, it has also managed to devastate people, relationships, and society as a whole, skewing our perception of relationships, intimacy, and men and women. [2] This often called “adult material” is often viewed by younger and younger audiences, and has become a socially acceptable rite of passage for most boys. What’s more disturbing is that many teens never get the chance to discover what healthy relationships are like before they start “learning” how to treat their partner through pornography. Pornography typically consumed with violence, domination, infidelity, and abuse. [3] Harmful images and themes that affect how people view others, especially women. This was very prominent when I conducted a survey, asking 113 teenage boys between the ages of 14 and 18 if they believed porn degrades women, 52 said no, it didn’t. This should speak for itself. Porn objectifies women into being no more than animals, objects, possessions, even play things. What’s more concerning is when I asked women of the same age the same question, 22 out of 76 said no. Because they asked for it. They wanted it. They choose to become a part of that business, the business of objectifying and abusing women on camera for the world to see. Women are in porn to display their confidence and sexuality, because they are secure in how the look and are empowering and sexy.  

A majority of the people I surveyed that preached pornography does not degrade women, I observed, started defending themselves without prompt immediately after they answered. Both men and women responded similarly to what is above, emphasizing the entertainers “choice” of being in the industry. However, countless studies and interviews have shown that VERY few women who are in the pornography industry, do it by choice. During one interview, a former pornstar named Regan Starr confessed,

“I got the &*%$ kicked out of me …. Most of the girls start crying because they’re hurting so bad …. I couldn’t breathe. I was being hit and choked. I was really upset and they didn’t stop. They kept filming. [I asked them to turn the camera off] and they kept going.”

Does this sound consensual? Because to me it sounds like she, and “most of the girls” were violently raped, and it was caught on tape, for entertainment. Porn is a lie, a rape caught on camera by producers who want nothing more than for customers to buy into the idea that porn is a legitimate form of  entertainment made by glamorous people. And women who conduct edgy and sensual acts because it’s what they want it; it’s OK for the user to enjoy it because the man and women they’re watching seem to be enjoying it. But behind the film editor’s eye you will see a different part of the porn industry. An evil part. You will see porn actors who are constantly being threatened, emotionally, verbally, and physically abused by agents and directors, forcing them to do things they do not want to do. [5]

Now let me show you how watching this type of film impacts people. In a study of 854 women in prostitution across nine countries, 49% said that porn had been made of them while they were in prostitution, and 47% said they had been harmed by men who had either forced or tried to force their victims to do things the men had seen in porn. [6]  Think of it this way, whenever a person watches porn, their brain is busy connecting whatever is happening on the screen, to sexual arousal. So when a person is watching a sexually stimulating piece of film, that features violence and abuse, there is no questioning the connection between sexual assault and hardcore pornography. Especially when being viewed by the susceptible youth on the internet, discovering the idea of sexuality for the first time. It’s like learning to drive a car by playing hours of Mario Kart. You get the bare essence of concept, but once you’re behind the wheel you are in something drastically different from the virtual world you have been experiencing. Endangering yourself, and others.

So I’ll be honest, I’m scared. Not by the fact that pornography exists, but by the men and women I surveyed, who would everyone once and awhile… laugh… because they thought a rape fantasy was kinky

Citations

[1] Porn More Popular than Search. (2004). InternetWeek.com, May 31.

[2] Paul, P. (2007). Pornified: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families. New York: Henry Hold and Co., 3, 19.   

[3] Bridges, A. J., Wosnitzer, R., Scharrer, E., Chyng, S., and Liberman, R. (2010). Aggression and Sexual Behavior in Best Selling Pornography Videos: A Content Analysis Update. Violence Against Women 16, 10: 1065-1085; Paul, P. (2010).  From Pornography to Porno to Porn: How Porn Became the Norm. In J. Stoner and D. Hughes (Eds.) The Social Costs of Pornography: A Collection of Papers (pp. 3-20). Princeton, N.J.: Witherspoon Institute.   

[4] Amis, M. (2001). A Rough Trade. The Guardian (U.K.)

[5] Dines, G. (2010). Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked our Sexuality. Boston: Beacon, 70–73; Amis, M. (2001). A Rough Trade. The Guardian (U.K.), March 17.

[6]  Farley, M. (2007). Renting an Organ for Ten Minutes: What Tricks Tell Us about Prostitution, Pornography, and Trafficking. In D. E. Guinn and J. DiCaro (Eds.) Pornography: Driving the Demand in International Sex Trafficking (p. 145). Bloomington, Ind.: Xlibris.