The hilarious double standard “Mexicans are lazy, and too stupid/can’t be bothered to learn English” and “Mexicans are taking all our jobs”. So, you’re saying that you lost your job to a lazy person who doesn’t speak English, how bad at your job were you?
OH SNAP!
HAHAH
YOOOOO
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Amazon Unveils a [Horrifying] Fanfic Publishing Platform
Today, Amazon announced the imminent launch of its newest endeavor, Kindle Worlds, a publishing platform for fanfiction. When I read the announcement, I was horrified, then angry, then sad. I want to take a moment to explain why this is such a tragedy.
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… a sun-kissed “Salut à tous!” from Willy in Cannes, sent via Zap Mode
If you dont do anything else tonight. Press Play. I was laughing, singing and cheering.
PRESS PLAY.YOU WILL NOT REGRET THIS
OMG!!!!! Thank you for posting this, it is glorious!!!
These two are SO CUTE! <3
Please Reblog if you DID NOT HAVE the sex talk from your parents.
Alternatively
Reblog THIS ONE if you DID get the talk.
To be fair, my parents and I had a very strangely trusting relationship, because I really did…
I never got the sex talk. I never got the periods talk either. I learned everything I wanted to know from the 1980 edition of the World Book Encyclopedia. I used to just start with the first one and read cover to cover, then pick up the next, and fall asleep reading it. I learned way more than I ever wanted to know about pretty much everything.
No talk for me! I got “I hear your cousins told you a lot, so uh, if you have any questions…” Sex was honestly *never* talked about in our house. Mom and I were both too awkward about that kind of thing. And see, this is why sex ed is important in schools! Plenty of parents don’t tell you anything. Not helpful. Sex ed at school explained a lot.
I got books, but we were all happier for it.
When my parents were thinking about having another kid, they realized they were going to have to make sure I knew where babies come from, but they figured out the easiest way to handle it and just added a book on reproduction to my to-read pile.
Yup. Where Did I Come From? around age 6 or 7, and my parents called it a day. (It actually does a great job of covering the topic! I may do the same thing if I end up having kids/said kids read as voraciously as I did.)
Yep. At some point there was a copy of Where Did I Come From? hanging around my house, and then at some later point it was joined by a copy of What’s Happening to Me?. No sex talk from my parents that I can remember until I was older and it was of the “not that you should be be having sex, but if you did, you’d be careful and use protection, right? Okay good let’s stop talking about this” variety.
I got “The Care and Keeping of You” American Girl book. That took care of the period talk, and the sex talk… just never happened. Although, to be fair, I don’t really expect my parents to know enough about lesbian sex to teach me anything relevant.
Josephine Baker, later known as ‘Bronze Venus’, ‘Black Pearl’ and ‘Créole Goddess’ was born in America in 1906 and later moved to France to become a singer, dancer, and actress. She was the first African-American woman to star in a major motion picture, and became famous worldwide.
Though she grew up as a maid in wealthy white households she eventually became an exotic dancer in France, famously appearing in next to no clothing, and became a French citizen in 1937.
Ernest Hemingway referred to Baker as ‘the most sensational woman anyone ever saw’ and she received approximately 1500 marriage proposals in her life time. She became a muse for Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, and Christian Dior. She had a variety of exotic pets including a cheetah named Chiquita, a chimpanzee named Ethel, a pig named Albert, a snake named Kiki, a goat, a parrot, parakeets, fish, three cats, and seven dogs.
When WWII broke out, Baker became a volunteer spy for France, and assisted the French Resistance by smuggling messages written in invisible ink on sheet music. She made great efforts to aid those in danger of enemy attack, sent Christmas presents to French soldiers, and smuggled information she gathered in Spain back to France by pinning notes containing the information on the inside of her underwear. She was awarded the Medal of Resistance with Rosette and later named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.
Baker also aided many civil rights movements by refusing to perform to segregated audiences and storming out of a club in Manhattan with actress Grace Kelly after she was refused service. She worked with the NAACP and spoke at a Washington march alongside Martin Luther King Jr. as the only official female speaker. Baker was actually asked by Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow to take his place as leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, but Baker declined on the grounds her twelve adopted children ‘were too young to lose their mother’.
Baker died in 1975, four days after her final show, attended by such names as Mick Jagger, Shirley Bassey, and Liza Minnelli.
Oh and she was queer and had a relationship with Frida Kahlo. All around badass.
Still waiting for her movie. And appearances in period dramas.
I heard there was a movie in the works[http://www.inquisitr.com/658074/rihanna-to-play-josephine-baker/] and that they were eyeing Rihanna for the role.
Imo, that’s a no.
And I’ve only ever seen her in Midnight in Paris, but I don’t think they said her name.
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Excerpt:
Coming out of his trance after waking a basketful of red clover, he discovered Rosethorn was missing. He found her in the farthest corner of the room, her back to him and her hands over her face. Rosethorn – who terrified most of those with sense and everyone without it – was crying. Worse, she wept in the soft, dull way that meant she’d been at it for a while.He wrapped his arms fiercely around her waist, resting his cheek on her back. “I’ll find that light-fingered woman if I have to turn over every rock between here and the Bight of Fire,” he whispered passionately. “Wherever she took the coin she got from selling your medicines, it ain’t far enough to dodge me. I’ll cut her in bitty chunks for you, would you like that? You could grill her over a fire and then feed her to sharks, like you always threaten me Wouldn’t that be fun?”
“I’m sorry,” Rosethorn whispered. “I didn’t mean to do this.” To hear her apologize for a fit of weeps just as the girls did nearly broke his heart.
- Briar’s Book
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