Lampworked borosilicate glass.
Misogyny doesn’t mean men being sexist towards women. It means PEOPLE being sexist towards women.
Misandry doesn’t mean women being sexist towards men. It means PEOPLE being sexist towards men.
The effects of misogyny aren’t enforced by men. They’re enforced by PEOPLE.
The effects of misandry aren’t enforced by women. They’re enforced by PEOPLE.
Women can be misogynists. Men can be misandrists.
People, stop treating sexism as an “us versus them” thing. It never has been and will never be an “us versus them” thing.
Yes, totally.
And I’m female and have definite misogynistic tendencies in certain areas. Because I’m a person.
So what?
And I’m also a misanthrope. (A lot of the unbearable, screeching blogs on tumblr should provide a few clues as to why and how I came to be a misanthrope….cuz humans actually write all that shit. For you youngsters out there, try imagining life before the internet when we had to hear it in person and watch the arms flailing and the eyes bugging, often desperately trying to dry the spittle flying onto us etc.)
I never understood why cunt was such a bad word.
It really sounds funny.
But lately it’s just been rolling off my tongue.
Or out of my fingertips.
I’d rather be called a cunt than a bitch…it’s far less sexist, and a million times funnier. (Okay, and truer….) And as an added bonus, it opens the door for me to pull out my arsenal of even funnier names to counter with.
A photographer for over sixty years, Roger Mayne is best known for his post-war studies of London neighborhoods. Click-through for a photo slideshow of a selection of his work, now on display at the Gitterman Gallery: http://nyr.kr/N7zq0u
Nightmare Before Christmas Cupcakes - brown sugar pound cupcakes filled with nutella (by Danielle)
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Hagia Sophia (from the Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, “Holy Wisdom”; Latin: Sancta Sophia or Sancta Sapientia; Turkish: Aya Sofya) is a former Orthodox patriarchal basilica, later a mosque, and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey. From the date of its dedication in 360 until 1453, it served as the Greek Patriarchal cathedral of Constantinople, except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin Patriarch of Constantinople of the Western Crusader established Latin Empire. The building was a mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931, when it was secularized. It was opened as a museum on 1 February 1935.[1]
The Church was dedicated to the Logos, the second person of the Holy Trinity, its dedication feast taking place on 25 December, the anniversary of the incarnation of the Logos in Christ.Although it is sometimes referred to as Sancta Sophia (as though it were named after Saint Sophia), sophia is the phonetic spelling in Latin of the Greek word for wisdom – the full name in Greek being Ναός τῆς Ἁγίας τοῦ Θεοῦ Σοφίας, “Church of the Holy Wisdom of God”.
Famous in particular for its massive dome, it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture and is said to have “changed the history of architecture.” It was the largest cathedral in the world for nearly a thousand years, until Seville Cathedral was completed in 1520. The current building was originally constructed as a church between 532 and 537 on the orders of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian and was the third Church of the Holy Wisdom to occupy the site, the previous two having both been destroyed by rioters. It was designed by the Greek scientists Isidore of Miletus, a physicist, and Anthemius of Tralles, a mathematician.
The church contained a large collection of holy relics and featured, among other things, a 49 foot (15 m) silver iconostasis. It was the seat of the Patriarch of Constantinople and the religious focal point of the Eastern Orthodox Church for nearly one thousand years. It is the church in which Cardinal Humbert in 1054 excommunicated Michael I Cerularius – which is commonly considered the start of the Great Schism.
In 1453, Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmed II, who subsequently ordered the building converted into a mosque. The bells, altar, iconostasis, and sacrificial vessels were removed and many of the mosaics were plastered over. Islamic features – such as the mihrab, minbar, and four minarets – were added while in the possession of the Ottomans. It remained a mosque until 1931 when it was closed to the public for four years. It was re-opened in 1935 as a museum by the Republic of Turkey.
For almost 500 years the principal mosque of Istanbul, Hagia Sophia served as a model for many other Ottoman mosques, such as the Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque of Istanbul), theŞehzade Mosque, the Süleymaniye Mosque, the Rüstem Pasha Mosque and the Kılıç Ali Paşa Mosque.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llroag7ZfP1qhccsgo1_500.jpg)
Hagia Sophia (from the Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, “Holy Wisdom”; Latin: Sancta Sophia or Sancta Sapientia; Turkish: Aya Sofya) is a former Orthodox patriarchal basilica, later a mosque, and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey. From the date of its dedication in 360 until 1453, it served as the Greek Patriarchal cathedral of Constantinople, except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin Patriarch of Constantinople of the Western Crusader established Latin Empire. The building was a mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931, when it was secularized. It was opened as a museum on 1 February 1935.[1]
The Church was dedicated to the Logos, the second person of the Holy Trinity, its dedication feast taking place on 25 December, the anniversary of the incarnation of the Logos in Christ.Although it is sometimes referred to as Sancta Sophia (as though it were named after Saint Sophia), sophia is the phonetic spelling in Latin of the Greek word for wisdom – the full name in Greek being Ναός τῆς Ἁγίας τοῦ Θεοῦ Σοφίας, “Church of the Holy Wisdom of God”.
Famous in particular for its massive dome, it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture and is said to have “changed the history of architecture.” It was the largest cathedral in the world for nearly a thousand years, until Seville Cathedral was completed in 1520. The current building was originally constructed as a church between 532 and 537 on the orders of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian and was the third Church of the Holy Wisdom to occupy the site, the previous two having both been destroyed by rioters. It was designed by the Greek scientists Isidore of Miletus, a physicist, and Anthemius of Tralles, a mathematician.
The church contained a large collection of holy relics and featured, among other things, a 49 foot (15 m) silver iconostasis. It was the seat of the Patriarch of Constantinople and the religious focal point of the Eastern Orthodox Church for nearly one thousand years. It is the church in which Cardinal Humbert in 1054 excommunicated Michael I Cerularius – which is commonly considered the start of the Great Schism.
In 1453, Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmed II, who subsequently ordered the building converted into a mosque. The bells, altar, iconostasis, and sacrificial vessels were removed and many of the mosaics were plastered over. Islamic features – such as the mihrab, minbar, and four minarets – were added while in the possession of the Ottomans. It remained a mosque until 1931 when it was closed to the public for four years. It was re-opened in 1935 as a museum by the Republic of Turkey.
For almost 500 years the principal mosque of Istanbul, Hagia Sophia served as a model for many other Ottoman mosques, such as the Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque of Istanbul), theŞehzade Mosque, the Süleymaniye Mosque, the Rüstem Pasha Mosque and the Kılıç Ali Paşa Mosque.
Human fertilization is the union of a human egg and sperm, usually occurring in the ampulla of the uterine tube. The result of this union is the production of a new individual of the human species (homo sapiens), complete with a unique set of the 23 pairs of chromosomes that genetically specify a human organism, the sperm and the egg each providing 23, for a total of 46 chromosomes. It is also the initiation of prenatal development. Scientists discovered the dynamics of human fertilization in the nineteenth century.
The process of fertilization involves a sperm fusing with an ovum—usually following ejaculation during sexual intercourse. It is possible, but less probable, for fertilization to occur without sexual intercourse, artificial insemination, or In vitro fertilization. Upon encountering the ovum, the acrosome of the sperm produces enzymes which allow it to burrow through the outer jelly coat of the egg. The sperm plasma then fuses with the egg’s plasma membrane, the sperm head disconnects from its flagellum and the egg travels down the Fallopian tube to reach the uterus.
In vitro fertilization (IVF) is a process by which egg cells are fertilized by sperm outside the womb, in vitro.
Once upon a time, it was acceptable to beat women. That’s not cool, but it’s also not cool that the modern day is the exact opposite. In the modern day, men shouldn’t hit girls; we are simply expected to put up with unpleasant behaviour. A feminist would probably argue, “No one should have to hit anyone”, but the truth is that some people not only deserve it but need it in order to be put straight.
A fair few years back now, I was being harassed by a woman who can only be described as a bully. I’d receive verbal abuse and often a slap whenever she had a chance to do so, simply because she knew that social rules dictated that I couldn’t do anything about it. It’s probably not heterosexually expected for a man to be bullied by a woman, but its only made possible because of this misandristic rule, because its accepted that no matter what a woman does, a man should be expected to turn the other cheek, because she’s a woman. After about six months of this, she still had not relented.
On one particular night, she decided it would be fun to start emptying cartons of milk over me and my friend. When I told her to stop, she continued. She came right next to me and began emptying another carton over my shoulder. In the moment, I reacted instinctively. In one movement, I pushed her arm away and slapped her hard across the face. She reeled, and never laid a hand on me again after that.
“You should have just gone home,” someone told me afterwards. No, I should not have done. Just leaving her to it and going home was what I had been doing for the past six months, and it had not made being around her any more pleasant. I had disowned friends who associated with her and shunned places where she liked to hang out, so uncomfortable was I in her presence. People stick so adamantly to “Men shouldn’t hit women” that they try to justify her actions, because she must have had a reason to hate me and that clearly justifies everything she had done up until that point. It does not. I was entirely morally justified in what I did, and she truly deserved it, yet constantly I’m reminded that what I did was wrong, when it was not, and how apparently I’m morally obliged to find a strong woman to fight my battles for me, and if I can’t then that’s just tough, because she’s a woman, I’m a man and it’s my moral obligation to put up with her.
This woman is an example of the kind of person who is able to exist when people are told they’re not allowed to stand up to a bully “Because she’s a woman”. Truly horrible people like this are allowed to exist because reprimanding someone for this behaviour is considered worse than the behaviour itself. Because there is this double standard, there exists a type of woman today who could not have existed a century ago, one who is capable of acting in a way so evil that it would get a man’s head kicked in, but without any repercussions for her horrible behaviour. It’s wrong. Equality has a long way to go as long as girls like this are tolerated.
Funny thing…I was JUST thinking about this subject this week. I have a temper, and was abusive to men in the past. I didn’t really expect them to put up with it, and when they’d finally hit me back I didn’t hold that against them. They didn’t hit me hard enough to leave a bruise or injure me, they were just trying to stop me and defend themselves. I was raised that it’s ‘okay’ to hit someone back if they hit you first, and although that meant it was okay for me to hit someone who’d hit me, I didn’t see why that road wouldn’t be a two-way street. That is, of course, as long as they didn’t hit me harder than I hit them.
Now when they hit me first, that was a different story…. -tmc
This up to 1000 years old snow has metamorphosed into highly pressurized glacier ice that contains almost no air bubbles. Thus it absorbs the visible light despite the scattered shortest blue fraction, giving it its distinct deep blue waved appearance. This cavity in the glacier ice formed as a result of a glacial mill, or moulin.
Rain and meltwater on the glacier surface is channelled into streams that enter the glacier at crevices. The waterfall melts a hole into the glacier while the ponded water drains towards lower elevations by forming long ice caves with an outlet at the terminus of the glacier. The fine grained sediments in the water along with wind blown sediments cause the frozen meltwater stream to appear in a muddy colour while the top of the cave exhibits the deep blue colour.
Due to the fast movement of the glacier of about 1 m per day over uneven terrain this ice cave cracked up at its end into a deep vertical crevice, called cerrac. This causes the indirect daylight to enter the ice cave from both ends resulting in homogeneous lighting of the ice tunnel.
Yup I can die now happy and content :)
