“ Paul Ryan is the embodiment of the machine our music rages against. ”
Tom Morello, on Paul Ryan’s claim that Rage Against the Machine is his favorite band (via maxistentialist)
Even though she grew up playing football, shooting hoops and running races against all the boys in her neighborhood, U.S. 800-meter champion Alysia Montano never wanted to be thought of as one of them.
As a result, she started wearing a flower behind her right ear to remind the boys they were getting beat by a girl.
“The flower to me means strength with femininity. I think that a lot of people say things like you run like a girl. That doesn’t mean you have to run soft or you have to run dainty. It means that you’re strong.”
(Source)
apparently people are hating on this song. I’m not much of one for celebrity, but I’ma sucker for race/gender controversy so I check it out. I know, I’m sick.
thoughts while watching it?
1) damn that girl looks like her daddy
2) this song embodies everything good about being eleven
“ You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own choices, your relationships, your jobs, your friends, where you live, what you studied in college, that you went to college at all… If that happens, you’re doing it right. ”
yeah, I kind of hate Perks, but that is entirely true. I’ll put up with a million angsty teens posting it as long as they remember it when they’re a little older and wiser.From the book The Perks of Being a Wallflower and often used on facebook statuses of teenage girls getting over their first boy experience. But when one meditates on this phrase, a whole lot of emotions might come to the surface.
And that’s what happened tonight.
Can you say why America is the greatest country in the world?
(Source: notagingeryet)
oh god i needed that today.deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan:
Instant reblog.
stop what you’re doing and watch
Not reblogging this is a federal offense.
<3
I can understand if you don’t reblog this. It just means you are not a man.
this will make a man out of me
I’m never gonna catch my breath when I see this on my dash.
I love this movie so freaking much.
always reblog, no questions asked.
Fuck they establish so much in one stupid montage and it’s so beautiful and no one can question is because it’s done so beautifully!
FACBOOK IS UNSUITED FOR THE RAGE OF WAR
YOU HAVE TO REBLOG THIS!
I wonder if Disney knows they had young girls perfectly content to grow up and become a man due to this song
(Source: 90sjamz)
This is really messed up.Gender breakdown of who is quoted in 2012 election issue coverage.
Source: 4thEstate.Net
Not cool, media.
npr:
ancient typo! I love stuff like this. Humans are humans are humans are humans.Ancient typo. Supposed to be ‘KARTHAGE’ but seems the stone carver got it wrong the first time around with ‘IARTHAGE.’ Check npr.org on Monday (6/4) for the start of a new series: ‘From Carthage to Cairo.’ (John Poole / NPR) (Taken with Instagram at Tunis, Tunisia)
