Month: August 2017

Female Marvel Comics editor harassed online for milkshake selfie

lord-armitage:

stfuprolifers:

“…the incident has once again ignited a firestorm of discussion about the prevalence of abusive responses to both gender and racial diversity in the comic book world, and the recent increase in female staffers.

Chelsea Cain, the writer behind the female superhero comic book Mockingbird, left Twitter in October 2016 following months of harassment, while Zainab Akhtar, a British-Muslim writer, closed her Eisner Award-winning comic book journalism site Comics & Cola last year after being deluged with racist, misogynistic abuse via email and social media.“

A selfie among six Marvel colleagues enjoying milkshakes together was followed by a slew of online attacks.

I don’t like the Telegraph but whoever was writing this article nailed it with this line. 

““Can we just get off of feminism and social justice and actually print stories,” one person tweeted, to reiterate, in response to women drinking milkshakes.” 

Female Marvel Comics editor harassed online for milkshake selfie

honestlyyoungpersona:

“Blue” isn’t a race. No one is born a cop.

We’re all a part of a very racist system. Education, healthcare, law enforcement, all of it.

Sadly, at least in this country, the job attracts authoritarians and racists. Those who do good for the sake of justice are a cowed minority.

The same can be said of doctors nurses, and teachers.

The color of your clothes is not a race. Wearing a color, representing it as a group, doesn’t make you a race – generally that makes you a gang.

And a gang is a weapon that you trade your mind in for…

I had some ground meat that needed used up and an urge for some comfort food, so we ended up with meatloaf and mashed potatoes tonight. So, SNC just came back into the kitchen to paw at the (empty) oven door again, hoping to break in after some 😹

naamahdarling:

real-live-dragon:

timepunkspg:

the chemical mentioned in the article… like only if you ate 100kg of mac and cheese in one sitting… that’s how much it’d take to be toxic.

well i know what the fuck and how the fuck much im doing for dinner today

Shit, man, we have formaldehyde in our bloodstream at all times. Our own blood is full of dangerous chemicals.

I fucking hate these fearmongering food purists who want us to subsist on air and organic kale. Especially when these same dipshits are the ones on the health food bandwagons that promote eating large amounts of real weird superfoods. Like apricot kernels. Which contain a shitton of a substance that is converted in the body into CYANIDE. But hey, amygdalin/laetrile is supposedly a cancer-fighter, so we should take it so we don’t get cancer. Right?

At this point I don’t have a problem just coming out and saying I HATE health culture. No really. I hate it. I want people to just not be so fucking invested in the health of strangers.

Like, I’m old and dying. Let me be old and die and eat my mac and cheese in fucking peace please.

I truly, truly don’t give a shit if my food is killing me. Not eating would kill me sooner, and easy-fix stuff is pretty much the only way to keep myself fed. Come to my house and fix me healthy food I don’t have to pay for or shut the FUCK up.

Source: bob-belcher