When I was 10, I saw
my first episode of Law & Order, SVU
a woman screamed
and her pretty pink dress ripped
the scene cut to black but then
she sat in a station
hair mussed and mascara running
and she seemed broken
and empty
and that’s when I began to prepare
for the inevitable.
GOLDENHEARTEDROSE’S GIVEAWAY OF RANDOMNESS!
I recently hit 1300 followers, which to me is truly astonishing and amazing and I am so grateful to all of you! I’ve wanted to do a giveaway for awhile now, so here it is.
Included in the giveaway are the following:
Short dropstitch scarf knitted by me
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Barnes and Noble edition; the one pictured is mine, but you will get your own brand spanking new copy)
Eight fandom tea samples all created by the lovely Cara McGee (Reichenbach Reunion, Reichenbach Recovery, Clara Oswin Oswald, River Song, Martha Jones, Amy Pond, The Woman, and Lestrade).
Seven “blooming teas” (Peach, Honey Grapefruit, and Jasmine).
One Wuyi Ensemble sample from Adagio Teas.
Eight buttons from 221B Con
One keychain attachment, drawn by Cara McGee
One box of Twining’s Lady Grey Tea.Not pictured, but also included: One $10 gift certificate from Adagio Tea and one copy of “Loud Hands: Autistic People Speaking” (the latter in either Kindle or print - it’s up to you!)
THE RULES:
You do not have to be following me.
You may reblog up to five times.
You must live in a place where tea can be shipped, so if you live in Australia, we’ll have to work something else out (sorry, folks!)
You must provide an address if you are chosen as the winner.
Winner must have their askbox open and must respond within 48 hours of notification of winning.
Giveaway runs until 9pm EST on June 22, 2013.
“I asked all of the gay male students in the room to raise their hand if in the past week they touched a woman’s body without her consent. After a moment of hesitation, all of the hands of the gay men in the room went up. I then asked the same gay men to raise their hand if in the past week they offered a woman unsolicited advice about how to “improve” her body or her fashion. Once again, after a moment of hesitation, all of the hands in the room went up.
These questions came after a brief exploration of gay men’s relationship to American fashion and women’s bodies. That dialogue included recognizing that gay men in the United States are often hailed as the experts of women’s fashion and by proxy women’s bodies. In addition to this there is a dominant logic that suggests that because gay men have no conscious desire to be sexually intimate with women, our uninvited touching and groping (physical assault) is benign.”
Gay Men’s Sexism and Women’s Bodies by Yolo Akili (via ihatenietzsche)
(Source: goodmenproject.com)
