I AM BETTINA

January 4, 2013 • 148,442 notes • • yaoikuza

moniquill:

immortal-sunlight-chaos-heart:

thegoddamazon:

thelittlekneesofbees:

A loving family.

Loved this movie.

This movie always gave me so many feels as a kid.

my favorite <3

No guys, I need to stop and talk about something in this movie and how fucking revolutionary it was; something that I haven’t seen in a movie before or since.

This is a movie about a kid who leaves her birth family.

Not a kid who find that they have a secret lineage or something that allows them to find their ‘true family’ - this is a movie about a kid whose true birth family is made up of bad people. So she gets out. And that is played as the right thing to do. She isn’t punished for it or made to feel bad about ‘abandoning her family’. There isn’t an underlying ‘but they’re your family and you have to love them’ or ‘they’re your family and they love you even if they don’t show it well or do hurtful things’ message of the kind that I see OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER in media. Matilda gets out and livess happily ever after because of it.

We need a million more movies like this to counter the metric shit ton of movies that directly counter this message.

matilda was and will always be a superhero to me

Bolded the part that I’m re-blogging for.

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October 16, 2012 • 1,220 notes • • bindersfullofwomen

bindersfullofwomen:

This binder full of ladies is not impressed.

Perfect GIF is perfect.

October 4, 2012 •

The Kissing Sailor, or “The Selective Blindness of Rape Culture”

As the author describes, this reveals an “uncomfortable truth.”

October 3, 2012 • 68,883 notes • • barackobama

barackobama:

And that means the first presidential debate is tonight at 9pm ET. We’ll be watching at barackobama.com/debate, featuring a livestream, a live blog, and a few other live things, probably. See you there.

Also?:

September 18, 2012 • 865 notes • • lizdexia

WHY DOESN’T UGLY BETTY GET MORE CREDIT ON THE INTERNET

thatneedstogo:

tobey:

babsissuchafuckinglady:

luckythinks91:

WHY DOESN’T UGLY BETTY GET MORE CREDIT ON THE INTERNET

chocolatejigglypuff:

Why doesn’t Ugly Betty get more credit on the internet?

Betty, Hilda, and Wilhemina are all WOC who get shit done

You’ve got Alexis, a trans woman character who also gets shit done

Marc and Justin have the gay stuff covered (and Justin’s coming out storyline was basically the best thing ever, suck it Glee)

This is just a bulletpoint to address how great Amanda is, like just in general, because Becki Newton is a super beautiful lady WHO IS ACTUALLY REALLY FUNNY, SO THERE, IT IS POSSIBLE JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT

Despite the title, it’s actually very body-positive and Betty is both pretty comfortable with herself and also scores some super hot guys despite being “ugly for a fashion girl” (and the entire idea is that she’s actually not ugly at all next to normal people, only within the fucked-up confines of the fashion industry)

I MEAN SERIOUSLY THOUGH BETTY SUAREZ IS A MODERN HEROINE WHO GOES FROM PICKING UP AFTER HER BOSS TO BECOMING A MAGAZINE EDITOR IN LONDON WHY DON’T WE TALK MORE ABOUT THAT

it doesn’t get credit on the internet because of all the reasons listed

you know how social hierarchies can’t withstand poc’s and women being treated like people no matter what their decisions on life are.

I’ve never watched ugly betty but it sounds amazing

LOVE this show.

I was *just* having this conversation with a friend yesterday

Preach.

September 17, 2012 • 1 note •

Small Waist, Large Breasts, Big Problem

On bra shopping and body policing.

September 14, 2012 • 62 notes • •

thegreg:

mattstopera:

politicsbuzz:

Mitt Romney really said this and a bunch of other *interesting* things in an interview with Kelly Ripa today.

LOL NOOOOO

Uh, Peanut butter sandwiches and chocolate milk.

This answer is NOT in response to: “What is your favorite midnight snack?” No, peanut butter sandwiches and chocolate milk are Mitt Romney’s favorite GUILTY PLEASURE.

Can someone please explain to this fucking guy what a guilty pleasure is?

A guilty pleasure is sitting on your couch on a rainy Sunday in your (non-magic) underwear eating Cheetos and watching reruns of Growing Pains for 14 straight hours.

A guilty pleasure is going to McDonald’s and ordering a 20 piece nugget for yourself along with one packet of every dipping sauce so you can have a tournament of deliciousness.

A guilty pleasure is rocking out in your car to the deep tracks of a Wilson Phillips album.

Sorry dude, but the lunch of an average kindergartner does not constitute a guilty pleasure. And that is not even the most laughable or cringe worthy exchange in this joke of an interview.

I mostly love how every time the Romney campaign attempts to humanize this fucking guy it explodes in their faces with the power of one thousand nuclear supernovas.

“A guilty pleasure is going to McDonald’s and ordering a 20 piece nugget for yourself along with one packet of every dipping sauce so you can have a tournament of deliciousness.” I laughed SO LOUD.

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September 14, 2012 • 1 note •

How I feel trying to explain to people why they should vote

(or am supposed to call this “GPOY”?)

September 14, 2012 • 4,237 notes • • The Huffington Post

There is no such thing as not voting; you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard’s vote.

David Foster Wallace (via azspot)

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September 14, 2012 • 26,283 notes • •

thatneedstogo:

stfusexists:

arrozyfrijolesyo:

I’m in love with her. Such a bad ass sign.

GPOY

YESSS.

Love.