vivienvalentino:

Sameer and The Chief quickly volunteer as their time with Diana have inspired them to fight for a cause. Charlie, however, hesitates. You see Charlie can’t shoot anymore. His PTSD is too overwhelming and he’s afraid he’s become useless. “Maybe you’ll be better without me,” he says, pained by the idea that he’s too “broken” to help.“But who will sing to us, Charlie?” Diana asks. It’s a simple question that brings a smile to Charlie’s face, a song in his heart, and the group continues on their way.

On the surface, it’s a tender moment. One that shows just how close this group has become since dropping onto the front lines of World War One. But with one simple line, Wonder Woman has redefined what it is to be a man.

Patty Jenkins’s Diana, doesn’t ask Charlie to continue to fight for her. She doesn’t need him to kill for her. She doesn’t try to encourage him or make him feel guilty for not being able to kill anymore, or turn him away because he’s can’t. She simply asks him to do what he can. She simply asks him to sing, and tells us that we don’t need to fight to be strong enough to stand beside Wonder Woman. - “But who will sing to us, Charlie?” The Defining Power of Wonder Woman

fozmeadows:

tessacrowley:

lily-peet:

nevertrustamanwho:

femmebosskoopa:

imamisfittoy:

sardonicblisters:

yayfeminism:

A New Hampshire Republican State Representative anonymously created the “Red Pill” subreddit.

Wow.

these aren’t just bullshitter dweebs in their mom’s basements trolling the internet, these are men who formulate the way we implement laws and who govern the way we live our lives.

^^^ Hello, yes, everyone needs to see this. It’s not always a bunch of nobodies trolling around on 4chan. It’s, doctors, lawyers, judges, businessmen, bankers, law enforcement, etc. People who have pulls on society. They literally don’t see other groups besides themselves as human or equal

…holy shit like this is bad really really bad but so much clearly so if you’ve ever read the scum that floats to the top of the Red Pill. Like basically he was just outed as the creator of a neo-nazi misogynist pro-rape forum explicitly to recruit online loners and groom them like it’s EVERYTHING we’ve been saying these people do but this is like, the hive.

For the anon asking why not trust red pill guys

Fuck Conservatives

Fun fact: the Red Pill was 90% of the reason I left reddit. I think it’s important everyone understands why, without having to subject yourselves to actually looking at the subreddit.

The Red Pill is a confluence of gross misogyny, rape culture, and vile social darwinism, all tied up under the banner of it being the “truth” behind some grand lie that is PC culture; that is to say, taking the red pill to withdraw yourself from the Matrix, a metaphor nearly as dated as the ideals they espouse.

If you think I’m exaggerating, I’m not. I spent nearly two years on reddit before toxic bullshit like this drove me out. These people build an elaborate construct about treating women like property and sexualizing children because ~evolution~ programmed them to like it, and ~evolution~ can’t possibly be wrong, as though club-wielding Neanderthal brutes are something to aspire to and not something we left behind millennia ago.

They’ve created an incredibly detailed fantasy about how women are evolutionarily predisposed to react to certain behaviors of “alpha males” (another false equivalence; the theory of the alpha male comes from a since-disproved theory about wolf behavior), and how the trick to success in sex is about taking on these characteristics which, spoiler alert, explicitly encourage treating women like garbage.

I cannot overstate how incredibly toxic the Red Pill is and how disgustingly large the community became by the time I left reddit. I wish I could say I was surprised that a Republican senator founded it, but this is the kind of shit they’ve been legislating for years.

master-of-duct-tape:

Chris Evans and Mckenna Grace, Gifted Interview (x)

wilwheaton:

micdotcom:

Republicans in Congress fear Donald Trump’s Breitbart-fueled internet mob

• Trump and his top aides have a plan to keep Republicans in Congress in line: A band of conservative internet trolls stoked by Breitbart News.
  
• In the 2016 election, Breitbart’s ability to stoke the far right and morph it into a vulgar, hate-spewing internet mob in order to browbeat Republicans into supporting Trump became a powerful political weapon. 
  
• And that’s poised to continue with Bannon by Trump’s side in the White House.
  
• “We met with probably, on the low boundary, 30 members of Congress,” Rick Wilson, an anti-Trump Republican consultant, told Mic in an interview. 
  
• “And over and over and over again they said things like, ‘Well, I hate Trump, he’s an asshole, he’s a dang liberal, but if I say anything, Breitbart’s going to send his people after me and they’re going to threaten my staff and threaten me and I’ll have nothing but Sean Hannity kicking the shit out of me.’” Read more
  

If these Republicans in Congress can’t stand up to Trump, if they can’t handle a bunch of shitty Internet trolls, then they aren’t worthy of their office.

They took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Their oath of office doesn’t include a clause that says, “unless a bunch of deplorables yell at you on the Internet.”

Respect your fucking office and your goddamn responsibility to the country, you fucking cowards.

micdotcom:

Watch: George Takei has a vital message for those misusing and misremembering Japanese internment.

sylviebret:

_{“Warsaw, Bucharest, Sao Paulo, and Berlin. I’m the only person who’s found a connection between them.”}