[set of 4 gifs of stephen fry on QI talking: “Geneticists have established that every woman in the world shares a single female ancestor, who lived 150,000 years ago. Scientists do actually call her Eve. And every man shares a single male ancestor, dubbed Adam. It has also been established, however, that Adam was born 80,000 years after Eve. So the world before him was one of heavy to industrial strength lesbianism, one assumes.”]
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1. One in three women die or are seriously injured as a result of gender-based violence. Violence against women results in more deaths among women ages 15 to 44 than the total number of women who die because of war, malaria, and cancer.
2. An estimated four million…
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Oh my goodness, this is so horrible. Basically GMA just put teen girls on blast to gossip and slut shame other high school girls who have sex or have had sex, and seeing as none of the girls on their panel are sexually active- this seems a bit one sided. They imply that any teen girl who does have sex is doing it just to get attention. God forbid she has sex because she wants to!
For god’s sake, they didn’t even talk about teenage boys’ role in sex! They don’t even talk to boys! So they’re holding teenage girls to a pristine moral socially acceptable standard that they don’t even address with boys. And by having a panel of virgins sit around talking about the sex lives of their peers, they’re basically saying it’s ok to sit around and judge the sex lives of other girls. That’s terrible. And I mean seriously, teen males are doing the same stuff that’s apparently wrong- but we sure as hell aren’t talking about it on GMA. So boys aren’t held accountable for their slutty behavior? They get a get out of jail free card? What the fuck GMA, this is so wildly backwards.
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I really like how mammals get along ^_^
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“Haenyo – The Indomitable Diving Grandmas of Jeju Island”
They call themselves haenyo (pronounced hen-yuh), which literally means sea women and the whistling sound they made preceding their exit from the depths is called sumbisori. They are representative of a centuries old tradition, one which transformed their island in to a functioning matriarchy but a way of life which today is in danger of disappearing forever.
The island of Jeju, 53 miles south of mainland Korea, lies at the watery crossroads of the Yellow and East China Seas. Diving for conch, octopus, urchin, and abalone had always taken place there but due to large taxes was never very profitable – something men would take up if there was no alternative. That was until a canny group of women in the 18th century realized that women did not, unlike their men folk, have to pay taxes. A loophole was about to become a living.
The haenyo (sometimes spelled haenyeo) do not use oxygen tanks, which would only weigh them down and make their difficult task even harder. Their black wet suits and goggles are all they need to descend to the sea floor to collect their bounty. The skills they possess serve them well now – and did so too under the Japanese occupation of the Second World War. Many haenyo became heroines of the Korean resistance movement.
Learn more about these awesome women over at Kuriositas!
Photos by DMac 5D Mark II and Baraka50
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For the last 13 years, Lindsay Ulrich has been in a committed relationship with the same woman … But if acquaintances were to assume Ulrich and her wife, Emily Drennen, are lesbians, they would be wrong. They identify as bisexuals and are proud of it
I just ♥ this wedding photo. It’s so happy and joyful and hopeful and pretty.
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