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Beyoncé | ‘Grown Woman’

OMG YES!!!

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Scarlett Johansson with Destiny’s Child in 1998

LOOK AT BEYSUS

love this outfit

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Bf made me a paper rose because the roses he bought me died

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likeloveadore: Omg I also am a feminist hip hop lover. AHHHHH :(

Ugh its so annoying isn’t it! Why can’t it just be all nice songs?

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Who says North is up?
Upside Down maps (also known as South-Up or Reversed maps) offer a completely different perspective of the world we live in.
Technically speaking, even referring to the earth with words like “up” or “down” or comparing places with words “above” or “below” is flawed, considering that the earth is a spherical body (it’s actually slightly “fatter” at the equator) and flying through 3 dimensional space with no reference of up or down. However, the issue of “up” and “down” does become an issue when viewing the surface of the earth projected onto a flat piece of paper (a map). And the effect of the orientation of a map is more significant than you might realize.
As all maps require orientation for reference, the issue of how to layout the map orientation is as old as maps themselves. As map orientation is completely arbitrary, it is not surprising that they differed throughout time periods and regions.
The convention of North-up is usually attributed to the Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy (90-168 AD). Justifications for his north-up approach vary. In the middle ages, East was often placed at top. This is the origin of the term “The Orient” to refer to East Asia. During the age of exploration, European cartographers again followed the north-up convention…perhaps because the North Star was their fixed reference point for navigation, or because they wanted (subconsciously or otherwise) to ensure Europe’s claim at the top of the world.
In modern times, reversed maps are made as a learning device or to illustrate Northern Hemisphere bias. Different from simply turning a north-up map upside down, a reversed map has the text oriented to be read with south up.
The famous “Blue Marble” photograph of the Earth taken from on board Apollo 17 was originally oriented with the south pole at the top, with the island of Madagascar visible just left of center, and the continent of Africa at its right. However, the image was turned upside-down to fit the traditional view.
While the orientation of a map might seem harmless, it can have a significant effect on one’s perception of the world, and the relative importance of the different place in it.
In speech, we often refer to places being “above” or “below” others. Think of how you would say you’re about to travel to the state or country to your north or south (to go “down” to Kentucky from Indiana, or “up” to Canada from the US). Without even mentioning geography, ask any grade school student whether Mexico is “above” or “below” the United States. We’re all familiar with the “land down under”. As we often correlate importance to relative height (think how a citizens of a country will fly their flag higher than all other flags), the north-up convention reinforces the idea that northern bodies are more important than their southern neighbors. Suddenly, traveling “down” to the South might have an inference much deeper than geographic location.
After looking at the map more closely, you may realize that the South-Up orientation may change your perception of the relative status of different places. For example, South America suddenly looks to have more prominence, and Africa and the Middle East completely dwarf Europe. Likewise, tucking Northern Europe, Canada, and Russia away at the bottom of the map, subconsciously takes away their status.
To summarize, unconditionally accepting the north-up map convention without at least appreciating the effect stands at odds with viewing all people and places within the world equally. x x

WHEN A DRUNK HEART TO HEART WITH MY FRIEND GETS REALLY INTENSE

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My inability to reconcile my stance on Feminism with my love for Hip Hop

So, I’m pretty sure that there are many many intelligent women out there, who, as I do, love hiphop. I mean I know there are! But this is something I always feel really awkward about bringing up, because I don’t have any answers to the really obvious questions. My mum (yes thanks for making me feel so guilty for years) annoyingly managed to bring up the topic every time I listened to hiphop in her presence, which was most days when I still lived with her. The usual points are, hiphop is totally misogynistic! Hiphop treats women as hoes and bitches and nothing more! It objectifies women! and so on.

I know this is true and there are many examples of dickheads rapping about women in the most disgusting way possible (lil wayne, tyler the creator, rick ross, etc. etc. etc.) there are lyrics referring to rape, using women, referring to them as hoes, the list is endless. But I think there has to be a distinction. Although technically Jurassic 5, De La Soul, and others are of the same genre as said douchebags mentioned above, I feel there’s a line distinguishing what may be acceptable as hiphop lingo that’s not to be misunderstood for an emotionally charged message, and what’s clearly just an insult. This line is thin and wavy, or so I like to think. I like to think this because sometimes there are rappers I really like who’s songs have clever and deep lyrics that you could really just read out as poetry, who then turn around and so a song like “dem bitches should all get low and suck my @£%>!” and I’m like no. Why did you just?! ugh so then I have to pretend that I’ve never heard that particular song in order to justify continuing to listen to the rest of their stuff.

The problem with this is that its assigning certain values to famous people, like oh this rapper must be a feminist because of all of this deep stuff he’s gone through and raps about with a woman he loved and appreciated deeply. But realistically they’re just human being expressing themselves. I’m not sure if the world were scrutinising me my every action would be in accordance to my self-proclaimed “values”! Have I done unfeministic things? Yes, and I’m a woman. The difference is of course that these people have become famous, and role-models in the process. We expect role-models to show us how to do things properly, not how to talk to a woman so disgustingly that she’ll have a breakdown.

Conclusion: should I love hiphop? I have no clue, but I do! Some rappers (lupe “hurt me soul”, big krit “children of the world”, and others) try and tackle the issue which is great but what about all the rest of the BS in hiphop, what do we do about that?!

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Did Suzie’s nails! Leopard fade in coral and pale blue (weird lighting)

Game of Thrones gifs

Ahhhh can’t I go on any website without GoT gifs being thrown at me!!! I haven’t watched it yet I’M STUDYING (on tumblr/pinterest/soundcloud…) PLEASE LORD TAKE THESE GIFS AWAY UNTIL I GET HOME!

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