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hey, take my survey on social media & typing patterns pls :~)

h-hey… tumblr. i’m making one of my semi-annual posts today because i created a Google Forms survey yesterday (originally posted on my twitter) and wanted to spread it here too. it concerns typing patterns on social media & what i’m tentatively describing as “the lowercase aesthetic.” (you know, the thing i’m meta-cognitively practicing right here, right now)

here’s the survey!

i intend to write a digital-culture oriented paper on the subject in a few months’ time, but the critical literature on the “phenomenon” is just.. non-existent. so while i am not a student of the social sciences (humanities all the way babey), i decided to use this as a means to conduct some informal/initial research. it’s 49 questions (some of which optional, some of which used to gather demographics), and i would be really appreciative if you could take it & tell your friends!! i’m going to leave it open for a while, and thanks to twitter, i have already gathered 900 responses—wowwww! so thankful.

anyway, if you have the time, please take it! replies/quote tweets on twitter are raving that it is “actually fun” and “interesting,” with one user saying that it made him “want to fight [me].” so take that for what you will.

i am of course open to receiving direct suggestions through my ask or on twitter, but there’s also a space provided on the form. thanks a lot, y’allll!

this is rly weird.. i haven’t actively used tumblr in so long! like four years! or more! so i’m coming to do that thing where i shamelessly promote my twitter/instagram, follow ur boi glamydia into the void:

@sampmcc

also i shaved for the first time in forever today and unironically saved my mustache ahahaha i feel like such a Dad

hi! i haven’t been active on this blog (or any) for so long, but i wanted to inform anyone still following me that ur boi will be graduating summa cum laude (and w other departmental honors related to my majors!!) in two weeks. :-)

it’s been a wild ride for lil ole glamydia! but i am happy to say that i will be continuing my studies at the graduate-level in august. /angel emoji

i hope life has treated y'all well. blessings.

oh and i’ll be in Argentina (Córdoba & BA) for most of May if y'all have any sugerencias (!!)

aubreyludgate:

citymod:
the music, the turn, the delayed stare. this is true comedy in highest form.
My first thought when I woke up was this video

hoodbypussy:

Évolution inversée
“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”
― Pablo Picasso

rfmmsd:

Sculptor & Artist:
Kanemaki KaoruShun
【タユタ・カプリス】
2014
年楠に彩色
H 125 × W 39 × D 39
“「タユタ」＝「揺」
＜気持ちが揺れて定まらないさま＞
ごく僅かな時間の中で揺れ動く相反した想い。見えている感情、心
の奥に隠してる感情を一人の少女像の中に体現しました。”

hey

What is almost impossible for some people to contemplate is that there are human cultures where rape is virtually unknown. Societies where women don’t calibrate themselves, for their entire lives, to its threat. More than 40 years ago, anthropologist Peggy Reeves Sanday, professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, conducted an extensive cross-cultural study of rape involving more than 150 human societies around the word. She found that 47% of societies she studied had no rape, 36% had some incidence of rape, and 17%, of which we are one, were definitively rape prone.

What marked cultures where rape was missing were that women had authority in the community that was not related to reproduction — they were political or religious leaders and made valued economic contributions to society; feminine qualities were valued by communities; the relationships between men and women was not defined as hierarchical; boys were taught to respect girls and women (something altogether different from learning to protect them); these societies were stable and peaceful, making reliance on brute male physical dominance less likely; divinities were not uniquely male; and, lastly, these cultures had great respect for their environments and did not destructively exploit them.

On the other hand, rape-prone societies like ours are those which tolerate, encourage and often glorify violence as a marker of masculinity starting in early childhood. Boys learn that to be men meant being aggressive, competitive and dominant; work and access to authority are more rigidly sex segregated; women have minimal, if any authoritative roles in public or religious life or sports; femininity and feminine qualities are considered inferior and routinely mocked; “women’s work” is undervalued and considered demeaning to men; and, women’s roles were largely restricted to reproductive ones, their reproduction more likely to be regulated by men.

Sound familiar?

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—	Our ‘Rape Problem’ Can’t Be Solved By Colleges \| Soraya Chemaly (via bobdylansgrandson)

tigeressss:

goals for 2015:
less upsetti, more spaghetti

soulbrotherv2:

Sexual Relations Between Elite White Women and Enslaved Men in the Antebellum South: A Socio-Historical Analysis
By Jacqueline M. Allain
Sexual Agency, Power, and Consent
According to one historian, “few scholars… have viewed the relationships of enslaved men and free white women through the lens of sexual abuse in part because of gendered assumptions about sexual power” (Foster, p. 459). This is in keeping with both the standard feminist conceptualization of rape as a tool of patriarchal oppression3 as well as the traditional (un-feminist) notion of women as too weak, emotionally and physically, to commit serious crimes, let alone sexual abuse, and the idea that men cannot be raped (Bourke, 2007, pp. 219, 328). However, it is becoming increasingly clear that women, too, are capable of committing sexual offenses and using sex as a means of domination and control (Bourke, pp. 209-248).
[Continue reading at Student Pulse: The International Student Journal.]

moma:

“Modern art spreads joy around it by its color, which calms us.” – Henri Matisse, born today in 1869.
[Henri Matisse. Dance (I). Paris, Boulevard des Invalides, early 1909]

walmart books #same

No but seriously i used to have a cat that looks exactly like yours and i live in your area. This is probably really creepy byee

Anonymous

did you take her to the shelter?? you monster

I haven’t updated in a while so enjoy this video of my kitty licking a Pringle