20Something Lesbian Feminist

mollylenoxward: Michael Hastings’ advice to young journalists....

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:35:01 -0400

Michael Hastings’ advice to young journalists. I’ve both sought out and been given plenty of advice, but this has always been some of the best.

Rest in peace.

fishingboatproceeds: Great video about shessomickey about the...

Wed, 29 May 2013 10:32:40 -0400

fishingboatproceeds:

Great video about shessomickey about the challenges and rewards of advertisements, and how advertising revenue (from, say, giraffe sex videos) can finance the creation of other things (like Thoughts from Places videos).

I believe in capitalism, to be clear. Without capitalism, we’d never have tumblr or YouTube, because both had huge start-up and maintenance costs before they could become self-sustaining. (Tumblr still isn’t self-sustaining; YouTube supposedly is, although google doesn’t break it down publicly).

I don’t feel bad taking money from advertisers, and I’m not opposed to advertising. But I do think advertisers dramatically undervalue expensive, time-consuming projects like CGP Grey’s channel and also Crash Course (which is not financially sustainable through advertising). I also think advertisers undervalue YouTubers like shessomickey, who have hundreds of passionate and dedicated viewers but make at most a handful of dollars per video.

I’d pay $5 a month to support shessomickey, and there are probably a hundred people like me. That means that YouTube ads are undervaluing her relationship with her audience by a factor of around 100. Capitalism tells us, then, that we have a very inefficient market on our hands.

We’re not going to remove advertising from life or from YouTube. I don’t want to. I want to create an NPR Model for YouTube, one where people can CHOOSE to support the content creators they like and value without being threatened by a paywall. I think a lot of people will choose to support big projects like Crash Course, and I think a lot of people will choose to support individuals like Shessomickey, who may not have a gajillion subscribers but do make content that small but passionate audiences find important and valuable.

It’s kind of like being a Liverpool FC fan. I know I don’t HAVE to give the club money in order to be a fan. But I’m not just a fan: I’m a supporter. I buy home and away jerseys every year, partly so that I can wear them, but also partly because I know that money goes to club and helps pay the salaries of the players and the maintenance and training and grounds staff.

(p.s. I’ll be posting a series of “#wall of text” posts about boring video and publishing business stuff in advance of my leave [wife is expecting a baby soon]. This is the first one.)

That moment when one of the girls from your floor for the five seconds you went to NYU shows up on your Tumblr dash being mad smart. HEY AMANDA HOW ARE YOU?

cheriiiiiiiiiiiiiii: I’d like to thank this post for showing up...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:09:42 -0400

cheriiiiiiiiiiiiiii:

I’d like to thank this post for showing up on my dash right now.

It drives me nuts when I see queer kids...

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:14:05 -0400

It drives me nuts when I see queer kids...:

adayinthelesbianlife:

andyouhavetogivethemhope:

adayinthelesbianlife:

andyouhavetogivethemhope:

adayinthelesbianlife:

riotingfeminist:

adayinthelesbianlife:

It drives me nuts when I see queer kids screaming about fuck marriage and so on and so forth. It’s a privileged position. Marriage equality is Really, Really Important if you’re a poor LGBT person.

Supreme Court Oral Arguments about Prop 8 are now live.

I guess……

Many gay men live in poverty. Even more lesbians live in poverty. And about 65% of transgender individuals are reported to earning much lower wages than the average heterosexual. Marriage and domestic partnership benefits help lift LGBT people out of poverty: tax benefits, adding spouse to work benefits such as health insurance, pension plan, and more.

There are many pressing issues, such as youth homelessness, violence against queer people and so on, and it is a good thing to work on all of these issues concurrently rather than favour one thing over another, but today it is Marriage Equality’s day.

so why don’t we address the actual issues that are causing poverty, rather than trying to create some kind of false solution through marriage? what i’m saying is that society’s reliance on marriage to bring all people out of poverty does nothing but stymie some of the bleeding. its like trying to put a bandaid on a laceration that needs stitches.

Well, the main cause of poverty and violence against queers is lack of equality, lack of opportunity, being seen as second rate, defective, perverted. Legal exclusion, discrimination, has this effect on our families and our children-it gives the world ammunition to treat us different, to beat us up, to not employ us, to not give us permission to see our partner at the hospital, to ask us to leave the premises. Marriage may be considered a silly, outdated institution by some, but this is the world we live in, and putting unrealistic ideology before the urgent survival and happiness of human beings is problematic in my opinion.

i totally get being realistic, which is why i do support marriage equality, but at the same time, remain skeptical of the mainstream gay rights movement throwing nearly the entirety of its multimillion dollar budget behind marriage equality. for example, HRC spent nearly $5 million dollars on winning marriage equality in new york. $5 million dollars in one state, for one issue. imagine how many homeless queer and trans* kids that could house. if we’re going to talk about solving immediate crises and saving lives, then we need to start housing queer and trans* homeless youth, end employment discrimination, etc, etc. also i would argue the main cause of poverty among queer and trans* people is discrimination, not marriage inequality, hence the need for anti-discrimination legislation. we need a multifaceted approach for a diverse population.

I don’t disagree with you. These issues are so complex and multifaceted that no single measure could ever have a holistic effect and for every one positive measure there will be the population of a small country shouting “but what about…!”. I suppose I am fast forwarding a few years from now when average families across the country see a queer couple on the cover of a mainstream magazine, with some ridiculous caption over it like “Our wedding bliss! Exclusive photos!”, and rather than going “where the fuck has this world come to” they think “wow, they look great”. Marriage equality I believe will have a significant domino effect.

The community is going to have a big decision to make when marriage equality issues are suddenly no longer the big idea around which we all rally. If you care deeply about something, advocate for it. Whether you like marriage equality or not, it would be ridiculous to let all of the organizing and effort that went in to this movement just disappear after it ended.

NYC 2013: POLLS: Quinnipiac University

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:41:58 -0500

NYC 2013: POLLS: Quinnipiac University:

mayornyc2013:

There’s going to be a serious effort to cover as many of the polls in this race as possible. Alas, I am no Nate Silver, so I will most often rely on other people’s interpretations of the numbers when I cannot make sense of it myself.

The Survey: 2/20-2/25 // 1,017 New Yorkers (655 Democrats) //…

My fancy new side project about the NYC mayoral race. I made graphs!

seananmcguire: missmaceymouse: laurelizab: catversushuman: Ha...

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:28:00 -0500

seananmcguire:

missmaceymouse:

laurelizab:

catversushuman:

Have a great weekend!

xo

Yasmine

RAPUNZEL AND CATS THIS IS MY ULTIMATE FAIRYTALE OH MY GOD

HOLY this is the best story ever

Yes good. MAGIC HAIR AND CATS.

This would probably be the most effective way for me to find a girlfriend at this point.

grumblemumblegrumble.

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:50:00 -0500

I’m happy the president wants to make sure that queer people are equal with all people. After all, I am queer. But I have trouble celebrating that. Obama is a public servant. I elected him, along with a bunch of other queer people. Beyond the fact that LGBTQ people are PEOPLE and that our rights are a matter of all human rights, officeholders typically appeal to and support the policy objectives of the people who elected them.

We should EXPECT Obama to stand up for us, not just be excited that he gave us a little shout out.

So when is the Tumblr Les Miserables sing-a-long meetup?

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:55:09 -0500

imwithkanye:

notnadia:

Not.

Kidding.

Ummmm coming soon! To a theater near you.

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Fri, 21 Dec 2012 21:36:27 -0500

http://mollylenoxward.tumblr.com/post/37258722049/what-happens-to-16-million-email-addresses-when-the

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 08:32:00 -0500

http://mollylenoxward.tumblr.com/post/37258722049/what-happens-to-16-million-email-addresses-when-the:

mollylenoxward:

Information is opportunity in the digital age, and so it shouldn’t be surprising at the Democratic party wants Obama’s email list.

The estimate of exactly how many emails he has is 16 million, about 6 more million than a data journalist who spoke at my college in September or early October had…

Go follow that blog. This one is mostly just random fun stuff, that one is the one I actually use.

"God’s a numerologist…and kind of a dick."

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 21:20:00 -0500

“God’s a numerologist…and kind of a dick.”

- Rachel Maddow, responding to the fact Romney got 47% of the vote at the Public Forum w/ Tony Kushner at Joe’s Pub earlier this evening (12/2/2012)

ariinspired: See actors are normal people too. They even take...

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:50:44 -0500

ariinspired:

See actors are normal people too. They even take the subway.

SARAH PAULSONNNNNNN, i love you.

Tomorrow (well technically today now, but it’s not ‘tomorrow’ until I wake up in...

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:04:12 -0500

Tomorrow (well technically today now, but it’s not ‘tomorrow’ until I wake up in the morning), I will live-tweet in a semi-official capacity from my college newspaper’s twitter account as the election comes to a close. I am probably the only one who particularly cares about the fact this is happening (the live-tweeting, not the election).

I AM SO NERVOUS.

I Make Up For It With Cunning and Guile: A developmentally disabled woman in SF needs your help

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:06:56 -0400

I Make Up For It With Cunning and Guile: A developmentally disabled woman in SF needs your help:

stfuconservatives:

geekquality:lucillebruise:losertakesall:

We have this regular customer. Let’s call her Natalie. She’s absolutely beloved on Haight street - they know her in every store. She comes in to the bookstore 6 nights a week, and I imagine that’s how often she…

bookshop: nextian: 10/22/12: Marco Scutaro in the rain during...

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:06:53 -0400

bookshop:

nextian:

10/22/12: Marco Scutaro in the rain during Game 7 of the 2012 NLCS

Okay, I’m queuing this one so you’re all unprepared tomorrow.

So, Marco Scutaro. Venezolano. Signs as a free agent in 1994. First makes it to the Major Leagues in 2002. Spends so long as a “player to be named later”, the fodder of late-season trades and butt of a million jokes, that he makes into an actual documentary about the careers of players to be named later in 2005. Scutaro is so unknown that when he first meets his first major league manager, Bobby Valentine, it goes like this:

SCUTARO: Hey, I’m Marco Scutaro.
BOBBY VALENTINE: Oh, hey, kid! It’s nice to meet you. Sit down, sit down. So can I sign something for you? Do you live around here?
SCUTARO: …Marco Scutaro, your new infielder, sir.
BOBBY VALENTINE: …Oh.

Long, awkward pause.

Plays for the Mets; is pretty good. Plays for the A’s; is pretty good. Plays for the freaking Blue Jays; is on fire, but it’s the Blue Jays. Plays for the 2011 Red Sox, a team noted mostly for making the Houston Astros look like kings of good decisions. Resigns himself to the fact that he’s been playing baseball for SEVENTEEN YEARS and in the majors for ten and he’s just never going to be anything special. Because he’s an all-around amazing guy, never shows a single frown about this, never gives up. He’s 35. And to top off the indignities, is traded to the fucking Colorado Rockies.

Gets traded at the deadline to the Giants.

Instantly becomes the second baseman we’ve dreamt of for years. Helps us win the division. Helps us win the NLDS, in the sense of “help” that means “practically does it single-handed, although Buster Posey definitely helped as well.”

Game 2 of the NLCS. Matt Holliday, a Cardinals outfielder, slides into second base in the nastiest, most brutal way, and takes out Scutaro like he’s made out of tinfoil and toothpicks. Scutaro refuses to leave the game, and belts a single—straight to Holliday, who totally fucking misses it, allowing three runners to score. Then he is literally dragged out of the game by his manager, who has to actually pry him off the equipment to get him to leave before his hip falls in. The injury isn’t too bad. He’s still hurting. He refuses to play light. He refuses to even consider it. He’s going to keep playing.

He ends up with a .500 batting average for the postseason, which means that he got a hit every other at-bat, which is god damned near impossible. He also plays exquisite defense, including a catch at second base that was described as “the best possible play you could make at second base.” The Giants are down 3-1 (it’s a best of 7 series), but they refuse to be eliminated, forcing a Game 6 and then a Game 7.

And in Game 7, not only does Scutaro hit like a madman…

…the last out is Holliday hitting a pop-up straight to Scutaro’s sweet glove.

Now he’s the MVP of the NLCS, at 36 (his birthday was two days ago). He’s going to the World Series on Wednesday.

And that is why I love baseball.

and this post is why i love fandom, oh my god *blubbers*

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Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:28:28 -0400

textsfromtheanchordesk: (914): Dave, I love you but you’re...

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:35:04 -0400

textsfromtheanchordesk:

(914): Dave, I love you but you’re barking up the wrong lesbian. You sir are the competition. You don’t threesome with competition.

People on twitter think they can troll me with lies, and that I won’t ask for sources AND do...

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 01:02:29 -0400

People on twitter think they can troll me with lies, and that I won’t ask for sources AND do my own damn fact-checking. Other people may let you get away with that nonsense, but not me. Get your act together, trolls. Your bullshit will not be tolerated here.

"I had my father get sick when I was 22. And I was poor, alright. And my father had an ulcer, and it..."

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 22:16:38 -0400

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I had my father get sick when I was 22. And I was poor, alright. And my father had an ulcer, and it exploded and you know all these toxins get in your blood. And basically, my father died, whatever, 50 days after his ulcer. So I had a father get sick while I was poor.

My mother got sick when I was rich. And my mother, you know… I don’t really want to get into it, but my mother was sicker than my father. And my mother’s alive. My mother’s fine, OK? I remember going to the hospital to see my mother and wondering, ‘Was I in the right place?’ Like, this was a hotel. Like it had a concierge, man.

People don’t… if the average person really knew the discrepancy in the health care system, there’d be riots in the streets, OK? They would burn this motherfucker down!”

”

- Chris Rock [video]

Bringing this back, because some people don’t seem to understand that there is a discrepancy in the quality of care among poor, middle-class, and wealthy people, NO MATTER HOW DEBILITATING THEIR RESPECTIVE DISEASES MAY BE.

(via cgdageek)

Forever reblog.

(via missgingerlee)

Chik-fil-a: Not For Feminists, Either

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 20:22:54 -0400

mollylenoxward:

Donations to anti-LGBTQ organizations are totally legal.

Discrimination against working mothers is not.

Read about what Molly W has to say about it on THE F BOMB.

http://thefbomb.org/2012/08/chick-fil-a-not-for-feminists-either/

I WROTE IT. GO READ IT. :D