displacednoble:

decepticonsensual:

scraplette:

neoyi:

obfuscobble:

saucymagpies:

obfuscobble:

shazzreplies:

“Then he assigned an official to her case, and said to him, ‘give back everything that belonged to her, including all the income from her land from the day she left the country until now.’”

THIS DOESN’T EXPLAIN ANYTHING

“ 大言壮語　ﾀﾞｲｹﾞﾝｿｳｺﾞ　big talk; boasting; bragging —vi. talk big; boast; brag “

Well, that’s what I get for having the closest book be a dictionary.

sesquipus and I happen to have a lousy Stats textbook kicking around (probably as a writing surface or a table or something).  
"Time spent on the WWW can take take only nonnegative values.”

By WWW, they of course mean (quoting the previous page): “World Wide Web”

Just to be clear, this thing was published in 2009.  We are agog.

PS: haha, our sex life is incomprehensible out of context, just like that sentence! 

“Time spent on the WWW” is a phrase so out of touch, I can only marvel at it.

“For crying out loud!…We were supposed to turn south after that last mountain range!”

(It’s a Far Side book.)

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

“He had stopped coming to meals at the staff table, an ominous sign, and on the few occasions when they had passed him in the corridors or out in the grounds, he had mysteriously failed to notice them or hear their greetings.”

I want sempai to notice me but he won’t?

“Being the artist’s model was sweet, beating the tar out of thieves was great fun, but she would under no circumstances come out of the Cornucopia box or be fired out of a cannon.”

What can I say?  I have broad tastes, but strongly defined boundaries. 😉

“To view all the educational videos marked in this book, just type the url listed below or scan the QR code to the right.”

((Momma always said I’d make a good teacher.))

“What do we do?” asked Mr. Pendansky.

…oh god.

fighting-dragons-since-1989:

lierdumoa:

benwinstagram:

tru

So I watched this music video, and this is in fact completely untrue. There are many scenes in which black/brown girls are casted.

One could conceivably argue that  any white star who features twerking in a music video is automatically being exploitative.

However, that was not my perception of this video in particular. It actually appeared to me the director took pains to portray a variety of dance styles (ballet, interpretive dance, rhythmic gymnastics, break dancing, twerking, cheerleading, etc.) all as equally valid art forms. Every performing group in the video includes a variety of ethnicities. I think I did actually see a black/brown dancer in the ballet troupe, though it’s difficult to tell. Look in the rear left of this gif:

We don’t know if they cast individual dancers or hired a dance troupe, so if black women are underrepresented that might say more about the dance troupe’s selection practices than the video director’s casting practices.

All the styles of dance, ballet or otherwise are presented in the same fashion — talented professionals being brilliant + Taylor Swift being endearingly incompetent. The black women in the video aren’t portrayed as Taylor’s dancing accessories, but rather as experts in their style:

Moreover, at the end of the video there’s a sequence showing all the different professionals being silly and dancing in a non-choreographed manner, thereby humanizing them, showing they exist outside of their role as dancers in Taylor’s video:

I think if we interpret the twerking scenes in this video as demeaning, that says more about our cultural perception of black women than it does about this particular video’s specific portrayal of black women. 

THIS!