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Man In Space

All you have to do is listen to the way a man

sometimes talks to his wife at a table of people
and notice how intent he is on making his point
even though her lower lip is beginning to quiver,
 
and you will know why the women in science
fiction movies who inhabit a planet of their own
are not pictured making a salad or reading a magazine
when the men from earth arrive in their rocket,
 
why they are always standing in a semicircle
with their arms folded, their bare legs set apart,
their breasts protected by hard metal disks.

By Billy Collins

mxme: My friend Sean Risley. There are two tattoos I did visible on this photo. Free tattoo for the first one to point them out. Nah Joking about the free tattoo. (ɯɹɐǝɹoɟ ʇɟǝן uo sǝןƃuɐıɹʇ pǝɹ puɐ snxǝןd sıɥ uo puoɯɐıp ɥʇıʍ ןןnʞs uʍop ǝpısdn :ɹǝʍsuɐ) I’d kill for a tattoo from this person. holy mother. 

mxme:

My friend Sean Risley. There are two tattoos I did visible on this photo. Free tattoo for the first one to point them out.

Nah Joking about the free tattoo.

(ɯɹɐǝɹoɟ ʇɟǝן uo sǝןƃuɐıɹʇ pǝɹ puɐ snxǝןd sıɥ uo puoɯɐıp ɥʇıʍ ןןnʞs uʍop ǝpısdn :ɹǝʍsuɐ)

I’d kill for a tattoo from this person. holy mother. 

♦ 2 weeks ago

Wild Beasts remixes Lady Gaga.

Interview: here

Oh. Nice.

› Police hunt for man suspected in seven attacks on women

lesparapluiesrouges:

Someone is attacking women from behind in the Whyte Avenue area, from 75th Street to 117th Street, as far out as 64th Ave, from 10pm to 4:30am. They only have vague descriptions of the guy so far — “between five-foot-four and six-feet tall, and about 150 pounds, with a slim build. He was wearing blue jeans and might be wearing a white, black or grey hoodie” — because it’s dark and they all happened in poorly lit areas, which is most of those neighbourhoods considering all the trees and whatnot.

At least they’re not victim blaming, which has happened with EPS before. 

“It’s a heinous crime. None of these women are doing anything wrong. They should be able to walk home alone but unfortunately there are people out there who do these things and we’d like to catch them,” Det. Rob Chan, with the southeast division criminal investigation unit, said Tuesday.

THANK YOU. (though it is completely ridiculous that I have to praise a police department for not victim blaming, because what the hell even is that.)

On the other hand, it makes me absolutely livid that I just had to ask my boyfriend to come meet me if it’s after dark and I’m walking to his place, because there are trees and alleys and I won’t feel safe otherwise.

Livid that these attacks are being labelled by police as “opportunistic”, because yeah, it’s dark and women are alone — god forbid a woman would ever want to walk alone, in her own neighbourhood, after grocery shopping or the bar or whatever — and this motherfucker knows he can get away with it.

Livid that they’re getting more violent, and who knows how much worse they’ll get or how many more will occur until they catch this asshole (or he gets bored, but do these fuckers ever get bored?)

Livid that some people will probably think this isn’t a huge deal, and blame the victims for walking alone and therefore asking it.

Livid that I even have to think about taking precautions.

Just. Fuck everything, sometimes.

Be safe, friends.


(via maybeedmonton)