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We stopped freaking out about the “Oh my god, women want to wear pants!” thing a really long time ago. Women wandered into the traditionally masculine realms of self-expression and ambition and now it’s just normal.
Not so with masculinity. It is still as rigid and well defended as ever, despite a few David Bowies or Johnny Depps in the mix. Just look at last year’s total freaking meltdown about a J. Crew catalog that carried a photo of a woman painting her young son’s toenails. Just look at the way the more delicate boys of the world are bullied by their classmates and accused of being gay. Just look at the gender imbalance in the diagnosis of Gender Identity Disorder in children, with gender disordered pre-pubescent boys outnumbering girls at a rate of up to 30 to 1. When a girl is boyish, or even claims she’d rather be a boy, it’s cute. She’s a tomboy. When a boy is girlish, wanting to wear dresses or try on some makeup, it’s a mental disorder and needs an immediate medical intervention.
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— The Smart Set: Walk Like a Man - May 16, 2012 (via blua)
(Source: sociolab, via lauratron)
10:06 am • 25 May 2012 • 2,125 notes
deantrippe:
Heartwarming Tearjerker of the Day at TDW.
Four-year-old comic book fan Anthony Smith is deaf in his right ear and has hearing damage in his left. He also refused to wear his hearing aid (which he calls “Blue Ear” because it is blue), because “superheroes don’t wear hearing aids.” So in a long-shot attempt to help her son, Anthony’s mom emailed Marvel for ideas.
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Not only did Anthony receive an image of the superhero Hawkeye, who lost 80 percent of his hearing back in the ’80s and wore hearing aids — Anthony also received a drawing, by Nelson Ribeiro in Collected Editions, of a brand-new superhero: “Blue Ear.”
Now, with his hearing aid back in, Anthony is able to “fight battles and help people.” His preschool, for hearing-impaired kids, recently hosted a superhero week to inspire the students to overcome their limitations.
Anybody else wanna tell Nelson Ribeiro he’s the raddest? Good on ya, dude.
3:08 pm • 24 May 2012 • 123 notes
i don’t know what else to say that i haven’t already about how miserable i am that i don’t have a place to go in st. elmo. 10 days.
(Source: cheolyongs, via love4teacups)
5:46 pm • 21 May 2012 • 10,912 notes
giving a tour at ruby falls is part karate poses, part science, and part bad rock puns
3:00 pm • 15 May 2012 • 1 note
emmyc:
deathbloodninja:
Lindsay is a badass. <3
and then I dealt with it and everything was good
2:39 pm • 15 May 2012 • 615 notes
newest hole in my head: rook piercing. it hurt, but not as bad as my tragus. it is pretty sore right now. i’ve wanted a rook for awhile. finally got one cause i was at standard and i had $35 and my day was stupid.
the girl i was supposed to meet to see if we wanted to be roomies did not call or answer my texts/calls. my skidplate broke on my car and i got completely soaked in a storm trying to deal with it. i have two weeks left living in my beloved st. elmo before i either move in with some lady off the st. elmo mailing list with 10 dogs that offered her house as back-up or back to my parents’ house. i was pretty mad earlier, then pretty sad. now i’m just blank and trying not to touch my ear.
2:25 am • 15 May 2012
