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In the 101 top-grossing family films…from 1990 to 2004, of the over 4,000 characters in these films, 75% overall were male, 83% of characters in crowds were male, 83% of narrators were male, and 72% of speaking were male. When the American Psychological Association commented on this research, they said, ‘This gross under-representation of women or girls in films with family-friendly content reflects a missed opportunity to present a broad spectrum of girls and women in roles that are non-sexualised.’
Natasha Walter, Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism, pages 69-70, 2010. (via bitemebeautiful)
Bringing this back as people have started reblogging this again and EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW THIS.
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Angelina Jolie writes about her preventative double mastectomy in an essay for The New York Times.
But I am writing about it now because I hope that other women can benefit from my experience. Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action. ….
I wanted to write this to tell other women that the decision to have a mastectomy was not easy. But it is one I am very happy that I made. My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer. ….
I choose not to keep my story private because there are many women who do not know that they might be living under the shadow of cancer. It is my hope that they, too, will be will able to get gene tested, and that if they have a high risk they, too, will know that they have strong options. Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.
oh my god wow.
listen guys. if I was in the habit of recommending horror films, THIS WOULD BE TOP 5.
it’s scary as shit.
(Source: ghoulishgarycom, via allonsydocteur)
★ Who is your favourite villain?
YE :)
#love it when white people laugh nervously
^
(Source: divorcedreality, via always-tete)
This scene absolutely destroyed me. Major kudos to the always-watchable Paul Dano.
this scene is honestly so fucking intense.
cut to me ugly-crying in the middle of the third row.
(Source: mayablanca, via win-win)
The tragedy of Obama’s presidency is that he’s too much of a Ravenclaw and not enough of a Gryffindor.
(also Hillary as “the good kind” of Slytherin is a close second-to-everything)
Surprisingly, perfectionists are often procrastinators, as they can tend to think “I don’t have the right skills or resources to do this perfectly now, so I won’t do it at all.”
My entire educational experience summed up in one sentence.
My entire life summed up in one sentence.
(Source: loptr-laufeyjarson, via hype-society)
