8:08 pm 7,889 notes
Jackie Chan has the best story ever about Bruce Lee
Actually the best.
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Thanks #XboxOne #E3 press conference for revealing to us exactly zero games featuring a female protagonist for the next generation.
— Feminist Frequency (@femfreq)Above is a tweet I made this afternoon in reaction to the fact that none of the games presented at Microsoft’s Xbox One E3 press conference featured female protagonists. Below are some of the Twitter replies to that observation which exemplify the male privilege and male entitlement endemic in the gaming community today. This is also a window into what it’s like to be a female video game critic on twitter.
1. @simplyflyin
3. @Triosem
6. @SethForsman
7. @Beefheart82
8. @AzEHeaD15
9. @NickFuckypu
10. @JLB_esquire
11. @MathiasKaizer
12. @About20Donuts
13. @RogerLateralus
14. @izashid29
15. @BEATandDELETE
16. @B_Razz
17. @twerk_king69
18. @Epsilon_Five
19. @Spyrolic
20. @itwasagoodtime
21. @JerkfaceMcGee
22. @patq911
23. @r0bz0rz
24. @JimPhee
25. @Pootslap
26. @Pokefan1223
27. @Aurini
28. @yutt
29. @HennersQuack
30. @GabeAsterd
31. @MundaBric
32. @DoctorWatkins
33. @xTheShad0wZ
34. @GangWarlord
35. @le_mec
36. @coolguyquietess
37. @OldMiley
38. @TheChad118
39. @dodgykebaab
40. @urafaget
41. @BJ_Dickson
42. @Bloodergo
43. @Uneternal
44. @The_Master_E
45. @TheVidyaBoy
46. @danier_san
47. @ReissDJO
48. @mrdizzy
49. @IntelMiner
50. @AliAdelMohamed
1:54 pm 14,800 notes
8:47 pm 55 notes
So, one of my very good friends showed me this video with the following commentary:
”To know before pressing play:
3:10 pm 37,564 notes
THIS.
(Image description: 2 animated gif images. overlayed with text
1: White man asking a black man, “is there an organisaiton like NAACP for white people?”
2: Black man responding, “The Congress and the Senate”)
(Source: leoyesokay)
11:22 pm 43 notes
Xi’an/Shaanxi food photo diary!
- 肉夹馍 / cumin lamb burger in a crispy flatbread (only failing of Xi’an Famous Foods is that their flatbread is a little too soft)
- 羊肉泡 / flatbread soaked in lamb and cilantro broth
- Egg and peppers on steamed bread
- Pickled vegetable and vermicelli buns
- 大荔 specialty!! Griddled bread stuffed with sesame seeds and nuts
- Mung bean starch noodles, bok choy, and pork soup
- 凉皮 / cold wheat flour noodles with spicy vegetable clumps
- Chopped beef and vegetables drenched in chili oil
- Whole steamed fish
- Typical banquet appetizer spread with century eggs, cold vegetables, and cold meat cuts
Not a single bowl of rice in sight. :) Go wheat or go home. Oh, and 90% of everything pictured is spicy, because why else would you have taste buds.
Oh man, it makes me kind of sad that I’m terrible at eating spicy Chinese food because I want to try everything here.
*dies* china…..i must go back to you…..
Effects Of Thinking White People Are “All Like That”:
- Literally nothing other than white people having their feelings hurt on the internet
- I’m not joking there is no real world consequence of this
Effects Of Thinking People of Color Are “All Like That”:
- Saudi student is literally surrounded by FBI for cooking rice under terrorist suspicions
- White people literally can not associate positive words with Black faces because of racism
- More white people use drugs but Black people are sent to jail for drugs at 10 times the rate that white people are
- Black people who “sound Black” earn less money than those who don’t because of associations with stereotypes. Black people who “sound Black” are less likely to get called back for jobs
- Black children grow up literally associating being Black with being bad and ugly
- White people when tested shot more unarmed Black subjects than armed and unarmed white subjects
- Hate crimes increase after Boston tragedy
- Moroccan High School Student is linked to Boston tragedy for being Brown
- Bangladeshi man is beaten by people out of racism
- NYPD Commissioner wants Black and Latino men to fear him after the police targeted literally 90 percent Black and Latino men in New York and humiliating them by frisking them in public under the assumption that they had weapons. Studies found that white men were the ones who overwhelmingly had weapons while Black and Latino men didn’t
- White people blaming and convicting Black men for crimes they never committed and everyone believing them because of racism
- Stop and Frisk, ruled unconstitutional was practiced by New York police disproportionately and unfairly affecting 90% Black and Latino men because of racism
- Universities throwing racist ‘Fiesta Party’ homogenizing culture with extreme racism
- Here are some of the numbers on hate crimes against People of Color and btw, Neo Naziism is increasing!
- Every 28 Hours an African American is Extrajudicially Murdered in the U.S.
- Black people 3 times more likely to be arrested for Marijuana
- Black people receive much harsher sentencing than white people for the same crimes do I need to go on?
But yeah, white people’s feelings :*(
2:50 pm 17,258 notes
zuky:
This is the story of a racist myth that began with a light-hearted letter to the New England Journal of Medicine in 1968 and subsequently exploded in North American culture — in direct opposition to every shred of scientific evidence — becoming so prevalent that credulous eaters buy into it to the point of experiencing its effects on a purely psychosomatic basis.
It’s often been called “Chinese Restaurant Syndrome” and its premise is that MSG in Chinese food results in unpleasant allergic reactions. Interestingly enough, higher quantities of MSG in non-Chinese foods are not reported to have the same effects. MSG is a naturally occurring amino acid, and some of the highest levels of MSG a North American consumer is likely to ingest come in vine-ripened tomatoes, aged cheese, and dry-aged steak — yet there is no reported medical phenomenon known as “Italian Food Syndrome” or “American Steakhouse Syndrome”.
Monosodium glutamate was first isolated from the seaweed kombu, commonly used in the Japanese broth dashi, by biochemist Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University in 1908. He named its taste umami because it differed from the five conventional flavours of sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and spicy. Ikeda patented his discovery and MSG became commercially available in 1909. It was found to enhance flavours with one third of the amount of sodium as traditional salt, i.e. sodium chloride. In this sense, monosodium glutamate is probably healthier than sodium chloride because it achieves flavour with reduced sodium levels.
MSG was immediately popular in Asia and became common in the North American food industry after World War II, used in baby food, canned soup, vegetable juice, frozen food, as well as seasoning mix brands such as Accent. Yet somehow in the 1960s, this popular food additive became associated with Chinese food and deemed a health hazard. Why? Because Chinese people, culture, and food have been targeted by widespread and effective racist hate campaigns in North America since the 19th century, buttressed by wild claims that the Chinese are “unclean”, carry diseases, are sexually-deviant opium addicts, inscrutable and sneaky, a Yellow Peril.
The 1968 letter to the New England Journal of Medicine which solidified the myth of MSG was actually written by a Chinese immigrant named Robert Ho Man Kwok, who described “numbness at the back of the neck, gradually radiating to both arms and the back, general weakness and palpitation” after eating in American Chinese restaurants. The letter opened the floodgates to a barage of letters and related articles complaining of headaches, dizziness, paralysis of the throat, tingling in the temples, tightness of the jaw, irregular heartbeat, depression, hyperactivity, and all manner of digestive ailments.
Given this preponderance of anecdotal evidence, numerous scientific studies have been performed since then attempting to identify this “Chinese Restaurant Syndrome”. The funny thing is that no study has ever been able to do so. When people don’t know that they’re consuming MSG, they don’t suffer adverse reactions. All national and international food safety bodies have concluded that MSG is perfectly safe. People in Japan eat MSG every single day and the Japanese have the longest life expectancy in the world.
Fear of MSG is a racist remnant of the Chinese Exclusion era which exists only in North America and has been thoroughly debunked by science. Yet racist socialization is so powerful that people actually experience physical effects such as headaches, depression, and indigestion based solely on their indoctrinated fear of Chinese people and Chinese food. Think it over next time you eat parmesan cheese or a vine-ripened tomato.
12:41 am 3,142 notes
lots of love this mother’s day for everyone who has a complex relationship with their mom, everyone who has ceased communication with their mom for reasons of self-preservation, and every person whose mom is deceased
(via susurrations)
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