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Location: Madison, WI |
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Number of Posts: 5133 |
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Age/Gender: 21 / F |
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Zodiac Sign: Gemini |
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About Me: Born and raised in Colorado but now living in Wisconsin, where I study anthropology and Spanish. I'm sarcastic and feisty, twisted and morbid. I have a dirty mouth. Dead baby jokes are hilarious. I read when I have time. I fucking love sushi, cheese, and chocolate covered pretzels. I'm really clumsy and awkward. The world's first and only fairy-pirate.
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Bling: 16 piercings:
1/2 lobe x2, 0g lobe x1, 14g cartilage x2, left eyebrow, right nostril,
septum, 10g tongue, horizontal nipple x2, standard navel, inverse navel, vch, nape, left tragus
2 microdermals on ribs
9 tattoos:
Fairy on lower back, Fairy wings across shoulders, old-school rose on left thigh, 'D-Unit' on inner right ankle, Calico Jack's flag (skull with crossed swords) on left calf, 'Classy Broad' on upper thighs right under my ass, old school diamond on twat, birthday in Maya glyphs on right ribs, monkey from Nazca Lines on right ribs
1 scarification:
Claddagh on right calf |
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Music makes my world go round: Puscifer, The Blood Brothers, Social Distortion, A Perfect Circle, Sublime, Jack off Jill, Marilyn Manson, MSI, Garbage, Alkaline Trio, Scarling, The Distillers, Ramallah, The Misfits, The Transplants, Talking Heads, Lamb of God, Rage Against the Machine, Tsunami Bomb, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Cherry Poppin Daddies, Sex Pistols, so many more, and if you read all this I'll give you a cookie. |
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Quote of the moment: The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
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Reading is fun: Lewis Carroll, Terry Pratchett, Edgar Allen Poe, Federico García Lorca, Christopher Moore, Michel Foucault, Gabriel García Márquez, Pablo Neruda, so many more |
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<3: Tattoos. Piercings. Anthropological theory. Cashews. Cake. Hablar en español. Hanging from hooks. Sushi. Fairies. Beer. Reading in Spanish and English. Traveling. America's Next Top Model marathons. Spooning. The motherfuckin rodeo. Project Runway. My friends. My dogs. Jimmy John's. Giraffes. The circus. Zombies. Pirates. Bad words. Cashews. Hippies. Pressies.
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Do not less than three: Hair on people's clothes. Drama. Uggs. Sorostitutes. Losing jewelry and o-rings. Pretentious douchebags. Pizza. People trying to be someone they're not. The Bush administration. Bad grammar and spelling. Packing. Unpacking. Bill. I fucking hate the dentist.
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Posted: 09/23/08 at 04:40 PM |
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| White Privilege |
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My boyfriend sent me this article yesterday, and I thought it brought up some very good points:
This is Your Nation on White Privilege
By Tim Wise
Sep 14, 2008, 02:51
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For those who still can't grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help.
- White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because "every family has challenges," even as black and Latino families with similar "challenges" are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.
- White privilege is when you can call yourself a "fuckin' redneck," like Bristol Palin's boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes with you, you'll "kick their fuckin' ass," and talk about how you like to "shoot shit" for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.
- White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in six years like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of, then returned to after making up some coursework at a community college), and no one questions your intelligence or commitment to achievement, whereas a person of color who did this would be viewed as unfit for college, and probably someone who only got in in the first place because of affirmative action.
- White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town smaller than most medium-sized colleges, and then Governor of a state with about the same number of people as the lower fifth of the island of Manhattan, makes you ready to potentially be president, and people don't all piss on themselves with laughter, while being a black U.S. Senator, two-term state Senator, and constitutional law scholar, means you're "untested."
- White privilege is being able to say that you support the words "under God" in the pledge of allegiance because "if it was good enough for the founding fathers, it's good enough for me," and not be immediately disqualified from holding office--since, after all, the pledge was written in the late 1800s and the "under God" part wasn't added until the 1950s--while believing that reading accused criminals and terrorists their rights (because, ya know, the Constitution, which you used to teach at a prestigious law school requires it), is a dangerous and silly idea only supported by mushy liberals.
- White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make people immediately scared of you. White privilege is being able to have a husband who was a member of an extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the Union, and whose motto was "Alaska first," and no one questions your patriotism or that of your family, while if you're black and your spouse merely fails to come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with her kids on the first day of school, people immediately think she's being disrespectful.
- White privilege is being able to make fun of community organizers and the work they do--like, among other things, fight for the right of women to vote, or for civil rights, or the 8-hour workday, or an end to child labor--and people think you're being pithy and tough, but if you merely question the experience of a small town mayor and 18-month governor with no foreign policy expertise beyond a class she took in college--you're somehow being mean, or even sexist.
- White privilege is being able to convince white women who don't even agree with you on any substantive issue to vote for you and your running mate anyway, because all of a sudden your presence on the ticket has inspired confidence in these same white women, and made them give your party a "second look."
- White privilege is being able to fire people who didn't support your political campaigns and not be accused of abusing your power or being a typical politician who engages in favoritism, while being black and merely knowing some folks from the old-line political machines in Chicago means you must be corrupt.
- White privilege is being able to attend churches over the years whose pastors say that people who voted for John Kerry or merely criticize George W. Bush are going to hell, and that the U.S. is an explicitly Christian nation and the job of Christians is to bring Christian theological principles into government, and who bring in speakers who say the conflict in the Middle East is God's punishment on Jews for rejecting Jesus, and everyone can still think you're just a good church-going Christian, but if you're black and friends with a black pastor who has noted (as have Colin Powell and the U.S. Department of Defense) that terrorist attacks are often the result of U.S. foreign policy and who talks about the history of racism and its effect on black people, you're an extremist who probably hates America.
- White privilege is not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is when asked by a reporter, and then people get angry at the reporter for asking you such a "trick question," while being black and merely refusing to give one-word answers to the queries of Bill O'Reilly means you're dodging the question, or trying to seem overly intellectual and nuanced.
- White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW has anything at all to do with your fitness for president, while being black and experiencing racism is, as Sarah Palin has referred to it a "light" burden.
- And finally, white privilege is the only thing that could possibly allow someone to become president when he has voted with George W. Bush 90 percent of the time, even as unemployment is skyrocketing, people are losing their homes, inflation is rising, and the U.S. is increasingly isolated from world opinion, just because white voters aren't sure about that whole "change" thing. Ya know, it's just too vague and ill-defined, unlike, say, four more years of the same, which is very concrete and certain.
White privilege is, in short, the problem.
Tim Wise is the author of White Like Me (Soft Skull, 2005, revised 2008), and of Speaking Treason Fluently, publishing this month, also by Soft Skull. For review copies or interview requests, please reply to publicity@softskull.com
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