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geekykristie:

A trans woman will be playing a trans woman on Elementary.

More and more I feel like Robert Doherty was at some point a hardcore Sherlock fan who became fed up and went “I SHALL MAKE MY OWN SHOW WITH WOMEN AND MINORITIES EXPLORING ADDICTION STIGMA, ALSO MYSTERIES.”

Bless him. 

(via blameitonthesilence)

thepeoplesrecord:

Racist anthropologist publishes more problematic racist nonsense; other anthropologists outraged
March 3, 2013

It became one of the fiercest scientific arguments in recent times: are the Yanomami Indians of the Amazon rainforest a symbol of how to live in peace and harmony with nature or remnants of humanity’s brutal early history?

Now a debate that has divided anthropologists, journalists, human rights campaigners and even governments has been given a fresh burst of life by the publication of a lengthy memoir by outspoken US anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon.

Chagnon has spent decades studying and living with the Yanomami (also known as the Yanomamö) and wrote the best-selling – and hugely controversial – Yanomamö: The Fierce People. In that book, which came out in 1968, he portrayed the 20,000-strong tribe, who live in isolated jungle homelands in Venezuela and Brazil, as a warlike group whose members fought and battled each other in near-constant duels and raids. He described Yanomami communities as prone to violence, with warriors who killed rivals far more likely to win wives and produce children.

His analysis was criticised as a reductive presentation of human behaviour, seen as primarily driven by a desire to mate and eliminate rivals. Opponents of that view believed the Yanomami were still pursuing a lifestyle dating from mankind’s early past, when people lived mostly peacefully in smaller communities, free from modern sources of stress and far more in equilibrium with their surroundings.

Chagnon’s new 500-page book, Noble Savages, is set to reignite the argument. In it he launches an impassioned defence both of his work and life among the Yanomami and an equally spirited attack on his critics and fellow scientists. The book’s subtitle perhaps sums up his attitude to both groups: “My life among two dangerous tribes – the Yanomamö and the anthropologists.”

Chagnon describes life in the rainforest spent constructing villages, hunting for food, and, as shamans take powerful hallucinogens, bloody raids on rival groups. “The most inexplicable thing to me in all of this was that they were fighting over women… I anticipated scepticism when I reported this after I returned to my university,” he wrote. He was not wrong. His research created a huge storm and accusations that it allowed Amazonian tribes to be depicted by governments and outside interests as bloodthirsty savages who deserved to lose their land to the developers.

Chagnon defends himself from that charge, using much of the book to attack fellow scientists’ conclusions and saying that too many anthropologists are ignoring the pursuit of pure research in favour of becoming activists for the civil rights of their subjects.

“In the past 20 or so years the field of cultural anthropology in the United States has come precipitously close to abandoning the very notion of science,” he writes.

But Noble Savages has prompted a fresh wave of attacks on Chagnon. Last week a group of prominent anthropologists who have worked with the Yanomami issued a joint statement.

“We absolutely disagree with Napoleon Chagnon’s public characterisation of the Yanomamö as a fierce, violent and archaic people,” they said. “We also deplore how Chagnon’s work has been used throughout the years – and could still be used – by governments to deny the Yanomamö their land and cultural rights.”

One of the signatories, Professor Gale Goodwin Gomez of Rhode Island College, who has also spent several decades studying the tribe, told theObserver she was dismayed that Chagnon had published a new book. “This is just another attempt to grab attention. I have lived in Yanomamö villages and have never needed a weapon,” she said.

Human rights organisation Survival International, which campaigns on behalf of indigenous peoples, has also attacked Chagnon. “Chagnon’s work is frequently used by writers… who want to portray tribal peoples as ‘brutal savages’ far more violent than ‘us’,” said Survival’s director, Stephen Corry.

The group also published a statement from Davi Kopenawa, spokesman for a Yanomami group in Brazil, that was critical of Chagnon’s core conclusions. “For us, we Yanomamö who live in the forest, the anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon is not our friend. He does not say good things, he doesn’t transmit good words. He talks about the Yanomamö but his words are only hostile,” he said.

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I hate that this is even framed as a debate. Publishers should be more responsible with the work they publish; there’s no excuse for racist anthropologists. 

(via gwebarchaeology)

Art school is going to do it… I can feel the pressure already… 2013 is the year I develop better “work dress” habits

I’m probably going to get some shit for this, and I regret that I’ve been away from the news all day packing and running last minute errands so forgive me if I seem somewhat removed in any way? But I am tired of the fact that my entire facebook feed is people shouting “THIS IS A TRAGEDY WHY ARE PEOPLE POLITICIZING THIS.” Because outrage is a legitimate emotional response. Because the urge to try to make better, to stop if from happening again, to fix what can’t be fixed, is a human response. Because frustration is an emotional response.

It’s not some ~twisted~ ploy to take people’s guns away from them and stop them from not having protection from the ~Redcoats~?!?!?! That is fucking paranoia.

Real life is “politics” and shouldn’t be pushed aside and ignored because it isn’t convenient for you. THAT IS HOW TRAGEDIES HAPPEN. And the reason it gets PUSHED ONTO THE TABLE is because it otherwise gets FORGOTTEN AND DISMISSED. 

I just really hate when people think politics is some sort of game and isn’t people’s every day lives. Kinda like the whole ~social justice tumblr~ shenanigans where people talk about their lives and dealing with shit and other people come in and tell them not to be advocates of their own experiences? Like what the fuck.

I will grant people that I haven’t seen any mainstream media today. Maybe that’s part of it. Maybe that’s most of it? But idk. I still think this needed to be said. If you’re yelling at the media, don’t yell it at your friends. Your facebook wall, your twitter feed, we don’t care. Write a letter to the fucking media instead, if you want to tell them shame. 

MYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYyy

ROOMMATE IS A DOUCHEBAG, IT’S D-

O-U-C-H-E

MY ROOMMATE IS A DOUCHEBAG

THE SEC-OND HALF’S B-A-G

MY ROOMMATE LIKES TO ACT THIS WAY

AND IF YOU ASK ME WHY I’LL SAAAAAAAAY

because he doesn’t understand how to share towel racks or that maybe you shouldn’t blast music and sing along to it at 8 am and then leave the house where I sleep in the living room because i don’t have my own and NOT LOCK THE DOOR

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abigaillarson:

China Glaze stole my artwork, and they’re selling products with my artwork horribly, outrageously, shamefully photoshopped, no less. If you see it in a store, please don’t buy it. I’m now trying to contact their people to have some compensation, or to have the product pulled, but I doubt they’ll listen to me. So please just don’t give them your money.

Here’s a link to their website.

And here’s a link to the original.

(via gothiccharmschool)

Egyptian and Mayan and Tiki themes are done so distastefully SO OFTEN

also, good job, calling it “land of legends”

that is a sticky hot mess you are boiling there

my future is going to be nonstop trying to deal with problematic bullshit halp

Can we talk about how much I hate the word “phallic” when applied to architectural rhetoric discussions

What if the “sublime vastness” you’re studying is how fucking cavernous something is?