Sometimes When You Fall, You Fly.

The Kirov’s Alina Somova. Pointe Magazine outtake. Photo by Nathan Sayers (2011).

Somova has danced all the major roles. She has beauty, stamina, elegant line. Yet reviewers still can’t decide if she’s a technical wonder with no soul, or a young artist with a soul that’s just not always visible onstage. “Dancer or circus pony?” went a 2009 headline in the London Telegraph.

somaymalou: Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev in Don Quixote...

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:12:39 -0400

somaymalou:

Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev in Don Quixote [*]

bakeddd: chocolate hazelnut shortbread click here for recipe I...

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:41:10 -0400

bakeddd:

chocolate hazelnut shortbread

click here for recipe

I just want a cookie and a nap.

Sex Toy or Baby Toy? - Take the Quiz

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:06:56 -0400

Sex Toy or Baby Toy? - Take the Quiz:

thewalltokeep-usfree:

dinobearthemighty:

2 Funny

omg

wayfaringmd: wordsthatididntsay: Wayfaringmd and I are sad we...

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:06:26 -0400

wayfaringmd:

wordsthatididntsay:

Wayfaringmd and I are sad we can’t wear button downs

dangit words, you keep beating me to the punch.

T-minus-2640 days until my reduction. I can’t wait.

stfusexists: faineemae: queenofadodi: Men had no problem violating women’s bodies while they had...

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:13:56 -0400

stfusexists:

faineemae:

queenofadodi:

Men had no problem violating women’s bodies while they had on corsets, petticoats and farthingales, so what the fuck makes you think a short skirt has anything to do with it?

Men also have no problem violating women’s bodies while they wear a niqab, hijab and burqa, some of the most covered form of clothing. So basically, what the fuck makes you think clothes have anything to do with it?

Super relevant.

Photo

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:24:29 -0400

Photo

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:03:20 -0400

realinternetho: “safe neighborhood” is white people speak for “no brown or black people”

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:03:08 -0400

realinternetho:

“safe neighborhood” is white people speak for “no brown or black people”

"[F]or the first several years the SAT was offered, males scored higher than females on the Math..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:55:07 -0400

“[F]or the first several years the SAT was offered, males scored higher than females on the Math section but females achieved higher scores on the Verbal section. ETS policy-makers determined that the Verbal test needed to be “balanced” more in favor of males, and added questions pertaining to politics, business and sports to the Verbal portion. Since that time, males have outscored females on both the Math and Verbal sections. Dwyer notes that no similar effort has been made to “balance” the Math section, and concludes that, “It could be done, but it has not been, and I believe that probably an unconscious form of sexism underlies this pattern. When females show the superior performance, ‘balancing’ is required; when males show the superior performance, no adjustments are necessary.” “”

- “Gender Bias in College Admissions Tests”, FairTest.org

And then people urge me everything is fine, of course it is, when you’re ignoring statistics that is.

(via cwnl)

Fun fact: SAT tests predict college performance pretty well for men, but they strongly underpredict college performance for women. http://spp.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/12/20/1948550612469038.abstract

HMMMM

(via brute-reason)

I think I’ve reblogged this before, but that study needs to be shared.

(via conjecturesandconversations)

dogs420: why would you ever even need that much broccoli

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:52:23 -0400

dogs420:

why would you ever even need that much broccoli

“I think a lot about what makes a strong female character. You...

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:41:57 -0400

“I think a lot about what makes a strong female character. You know, movies and TV shows, these things have influence, my own website. So I think the question of “What makes a strong female character?”, often goes misinterpreted. And instead we get these two-dimensional superwomen, who maybe have one quality that’s played up a lot. Like, you know, a Catwoman type, or she plays her sexuality up a lot and it’s seen as power. But they’re not strong characters who happen to be female, they’re completely flat and they’re basically cardboard characters.
The problem with this is that then people expect women to be that easy to understand, and women are mad at themselves for not being that simple. When in actuality, women are complicated. Women are multifaceted. Not because women are crazy, but because people are crazy. And women happen to be people!”

-Tavi Gevinson for TEDTalks [x]

in-the-land-of-make-believe: This picture just breaks my heart

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:56:45 -0400

in-the-land-of-make-believe:

This picture just breaks my heart

atapdance: somaymalou: Juliet Doherty [*] I’m done.

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:36:23 -0400

atapdance:

somaymalou:

Juliet Doherty [*]

I’m done.

popitfadatnigga: i need to watch this again. what is this? It...

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:34:14 -0400

popitfadatnigga:

i need to watch this again.

what is this? It looks hilarious.