Supergreak

Hasta la vista, Kansas. I’m California bound.

One of the greatest difficulties the left faces in reaching out to masses of people in America is its profound disrespect of spirituality and religious life. Books like Stephen Carter’s The Culture of Disbelief remind us that more than 80 percent of the people in this nation lay claim to religious faith, whether it be Islam, Judeo-Christian faith, Buddhist faith. People on the left need to acknowledge—we need to grapple with—the question of religion.

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bell hooks (via readyokaygo)

in particular we need to stop treating people with devout religious faith as if they are somehow unintelligent or delusional

a prof of mine pointed this out about conservative Christians who don’t want their children reading Harry Potter because they believe witchcraft is the province of Satan

instead of approaching this from the perspective of religious tolerance and arguing that it’s wrong to stereotype people who practice magic as devil-worshippers, a lot of people come at it like LOL WITCHES AREN’T REAL U SO STUPID

this might be a problem for more people than just the Christians in question, if you get my drift.

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YES. Stop assuming that when you meet someone who’s not a foaming-at-the-mouth weirdo and who shares your liberal values that they must be also be atheists. The only explanation I can think of for why people assume they can bond with relative strangers over their disdain for people of faith is that they don’t expect to be able to hold a rational, adult conversation with someone who IDs as religious, so they think “We get along because this person is intelligent [like me]” and project all their other beliefs onto that stranger and is shocked and dismayed when they’re like, “Shut up, no. You’re being an asshole.”

Let’s be clear, i’m not saying atheists are assholes. I’m saying you’re an asshole if you assume the only reason I’m capable of having a normal conversation with you is because I’m a right-thinking person like you so I can’t possibly believe in anything silly, like a god. If you think it’s impossible for someone who disagrees with you on fundamental issues to be sane, you’re the problem. Grow up.

Here’s the thing: religious people with liberal ideas are actually not uncommon. At all. You just don’t notice them because they allow their voices to be subsumed into the broader progressive movement rather than shrieking about the way their religious views support their liberalism because they know their religious views are irrelevant to anyone outside their religious community, whereas people with crap social ideas also like to be super loud about how you should care about how their crap social ideas are interwoven with their faith. Many of their coreligionists despise them as much as you do, if not more, because they keep having to explain that they aren’t representative of them.

This post is brought to you by someone who was raised with a bizzaro-world approach to Christianity (which is the kind most people seem to be thinking of when they mock it) and can tell you that other Christians dismiss my parents as weirdos. Related: this is also why when I tell people why I’m no longer Christian, I’m super specific about which problems I had with which forms of it.

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Contrary to Popular Belief…

calico-kat:

thescienceofjohnlock:

averypotterseniorfeels:

bbc-booknerd12888:

I do not watch Sherlock just to see Benedict Cumberbatch

I am not going to see Star Trek Into Darkness for the same reason

I do not watch Doctor Who just to see David Tennant

I do not watch The Avengers movies just to see Tom Hiddleston

I do not watch the Iron Man movies just to see RDJ

I do not watch anything just for hot guys

I can still appreciate that they are really hot

BUT:

What’s wrong with watching Sherlock just to see Benedict Cumberbatch?

What’s wrong with seeing Star Trek Into Darkness for the same reason?

What’s wrong with watching Doctor Who to see David Tennant?

What’s wrong with watching the Avengers movies just to see Tom Hiddleston?

What’s wrong with watching the Iron Man movies just to see RDJ?

What’s wrong with watching anything just for hot guys?

One of the worst aspects of a patriarchal society is the erasure and shaming of women’s sexuality. For example:

Romance fiction was the largest share of the U.S. consumer market in 2011 at 14.3 percent. (x)

And remember: The market share is often vastly disproportional to the number of books printed. (I believe this is the case with e-books where everything is being digitized and people are buying up romance and scifi.) Knowing romance authors, many of these books are smart, well written, plotty and…yes, sexy.

Now see how many slurs about romance novels you can remember in fifteen seconds. Go!

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I watched a highly mediocre horror movie the other day because Zoe Saldana was in the credits. Because I enjoy her acting, because she’s smart and engaging in interviews, and because she’s hot.

Sometimes I pull up an episode of Supernatural and flip to a scene because I feel like staring at Crowley.

I am seriously considering the choice of watching episodes of shows I don’t care a flip about because of my giant creeper crush on Mark Sheppard.

These things are completely different from watching all the movies I have watched by Karl Urban because I’m almost guaranteed to enjoy whatever script he picks.

They’re sometimes completely different from how I choose movies off my Nextflix reel or at the box office, but not always. (i.e. Zoe Saldana is unbelievably sexy but that is, in fact, not the central reason I will be viewing Star Trek.)

What I’m trying to say is…

Never ever feel as if you need to defend or justify yourself if you’re engaging with media because it tickles your sensual- and sexuality.

It’s the niggling little ways “slut shaming” is ingrained in our society that we’re tricked into reinforcing that really…make me rant for several paragraphs.

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andratien:

lightsaroundyourvanity:

So the angels are expelled from heaven.

Metatron is running the show.

And there’s really nobody who can get up there to stop him.

EXCEPT

If he can hack into Sam & Dean’s heaven, he can certainly hack into Metatron’s white room. He can even make a quick stop to flip Naomi’s power switch back on, and together they can be the swaggiest badasses to ever save the pearly gated community.

OMG. I want an Ash and Naomi team up to save the world fanfiction.

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fuckyeahfanficflamingo:

[IS IT POSSIBLE TO SLASH A MAN (Fanfic Flamingo) WITH HIS OWN FACIAL HAIR]

Don’t challenge fandom, just don’t, ‘cause I remember the Girl Scout Cookies fic, and I remember Sorting Hat/Giant Squid, and I remember unicorn/rainbow, and I remember Hamburger Helper Mitt/Pillsbury Doughboy (or at least I think that’s what it was).

Slashing a man with his own facial hair is nothing to these people you’ll probably get new fics inspired by this very fanfic flamingo.

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lol fandom,

Jerakeen: hinoneko: initiala: A little girl in my 4th grade class came up to me...

hinoneko:

initiala:

A little girl in my 4th grade class came up to me after recess and said, “I got married at recess!” and I said “Oh? I didn’t know anyone was ordained under the age of twelve.” and she asked me what ordained meant and I explained and then she said “Oh, well, no, my…

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initiala:

A little girl in my 4th grade class came up to me after recess and said, “I got married at recess!” and I said “Oh? I didn’t know anyone was ordained under the age of twelve.” and she asked me what ordained meant and I explained and then she said “Oh, well, no, my wife and I were married by the slide, but we’ll be happy together anyway.”

So apparently on school playgrounds, slides are already legalizing same-sex marriage.

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The Effect of Time Spent Packing on How Organized I Am,

or

“I Have No Fucks Left To Give”

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the unfathomable mental engineering of “I’ve got those two piles of crap left to pack and these four boxes. Will it all fit.”

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and if I used the big shelf for the plastic shelf pieces, will that work?, looks like nope, maybe, just tape them all together,

winchestercodependency:

sonofabitchblog:

winchestercodependency:

kototyph:

sonofabitchblog:

Season Nine: The Winchesters’ Home For Wayward Angels

GIVE IT TO ME NOW

#CAS BRINGS THEM #IN TWOS AND THREES #’THIS IS GAMRIEL WE SERVED IN KUSH’ #THIS IS JIBRAIL HE WATCHES OVER THE CRIPPLED’ (via kototyph)

SAM RAIDS THE CLOSETS
“I DON’T KNOW IF WE’VE GOT ENOUGH PLAID FOR ALL OF THESE”

I THINK THEY’RE GOOD