That mustard sweater, though… *shudders*

That fourth shot reminds me  of another one of my favourite scenes of the first season, when Sarah is helping Alison at the party and Felix comes over to be a bartender and she opens the door, they see each other and just burst out laughing.

Good times…

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themexicansnob:

mybluedecember:

princess-munchkin:

barbeauxbot:

deducecanoe:

ruthpower:

Bill Nye is my favorite

Dawkins needs to get over himself

Bam. Dawkins is a jerk.

How can anybody be that hostile to Bill Nye. Look at him. It’s like Bill Nye’s innate goodness and love for humanity and science is repelling him.

How the fuck does Bill Nye expect this to happen? What do you want to do, force women to enroll in science courses, regardless of whether or not they want to do it? Just for the sake of having “enough” women? Why the fuck do these fractions matter so much? It’s not like people are holding guns to our head and threatening to kill us if we become interested in science.
Maybe, just maybe, a lot of us DON’T FUCKING WANT to be scientists. Is that a crime?

Hi there, princess-munchkin. Female engineering student here. 

Bill Nye is not saying that you HAVE to be a scientist, and you are right that no one is holding a gun to my head because I am interested in science, but let me tell you some of the struggles of being a woman in the STEM fields. 

1) Because I am a woman, I am not expected to excel in these fields. I first fully realized this when I was in high school, on my robotics team. See, although my robotics team was about 50% female, most of the women were part of the “business administration” side of things: finance, marketting, PR, membership, etc. Was this a problem? Absolutely not. But I was there to be an engineer, and specifically, to be the robot programmer. This was met with a lot of hesitation at first from some of the other students (all of whom happened to be male. This is not necessarily a bad thing.) You see, all of the robot programmers before me were guys. Computer programming is just a thing that guys do, or so they thought. Even after I had proved myself to the mentors on the team, many of the students still underestimated my abilities. There were rumors going around that I wouldn’t have been able to program the robot at all if the lead software mentor wasn’t there to help me. This was just flat-out false, but it wasn’t until I won an award for the team that the other students actually saw my merit. 

2) There is not a lot of encouragement for women to go into these fields. I first noticed this when I was in elementary school. I was always interested in math, science, you name it, but many of my teachers and family members pushed that to the side for a long time. When I asked for legos for christmas, I would get ballet slippers. In fact, for a long time, I was training to be a professional dancer. I loved to dance. I loved math more, but no one seemed to notice that about me. It wasn’t until I had a long conversation with one particular teacher in high school that I decided to look into engineering. I had never even considered it as an option before, because no one decided to encourage me to pursue my interest in science. If it hadn’t been for that teacher, I would probably not be at the school I am at right now. 

3) For a long time, Engineering/Science/Math WAS a “boys only” club. Let me tell you when some of the top technical schools and societies started letting women in:

• RPI, The oldest tech school in the country, founded in 1824. Started admitting women in 1942 to “replace men called to war.” Campus housing for women wasn’t constructed until 1966. 
• Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honors Society - Founded in 1885. Started admitting women in 1968.
• Caltech - Currently rated #3 in undergraduate engineering. Founded in 1891. Started admitting women in 1970. 
• Georgia Tech - Currently rated #5 in undergraduate engineering. Founded in 1885. Started admitting women in 1952. 

Do you see the implications of this? Engineering has been a part of our society since around the late 1800s (in the case of RPI, since the 1820s), but women weren’t even allowed in for the most part until the 1950s, regardless of their merit. 

4) Because of the fact that it was a “boys only” club for such a long time, there are not a lot of women engineers and scientists to look up to. When you’re reading your physics, chemistry, and math text books, the majority of those theories were came up with by men. It is true that much of our history was written by White Men, but this does not mean that the fact that there are few women scientists to look up does not matter. 

So, as you can hopefully see, princess-munckin, or anyone else that shares the opinions of princess-munchkin, Bill Nye was not arguing that women that are not interested in STEM should go into those fields anyway. But he IS arguing against all of the systematic barriers set up against women who ARE interested in engineering and science. There are several women out there who are just as good as the boys at math and science, but will never pursue their interests because it just doesn’t seem like an option. That was me for a long time. I am super grateful for the fact that I fought against that, and that I ended up where I am. 

if you don’t like science, fine. Don’t be a scientist. But if one day you have a daughter and she shows interest in being a scientist, PLEASE encourage her. Because Bill Nye is right, there needs to be more women scientists in the world. 

Also reblog because all engineers are awesome no matter the gender

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If you’ve never played QWOP before, give the first link a few shots, then check out the second one:

http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html

http://geekologie.com/2013/06/video-of-guy-cosplaying-as-the-spazzy-qw.php

”Chloe, I’m not doing this over webcam.”

”Well, you can’t come over because Aubrey will be back soon.. So..”

”No.”

”Please.. Come on.. Look. It will be fun.”

Best. Reaction shots. Ever.

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velvetlovepocket:

“If You Know Someone Who Doesn’t Believe Sexism Exists, Show Them This”
Link here: [x]

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rnace:

whimmy-bam:

themaraudingdetective:

grapefruitshampoo:

THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING AND BRILLIANT THING EVER

This is what happens when women write ad campaigns for other women *dies from the hotness*

omg even the old guy was fit wtf

I was amused by the meek “but I’m a lesbian” comment. Awww.

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amyspalding:

latentpower:

awkwardsituationist:

cambridge university students were asked on campus why they needed feminism. here are 60 answers. click the link for over about 600 more.

This is amazing

Fuck yes!!!

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So just re-watched all of Orphan Black in a few days (not a very extreme marathon, but there are only so many free hours in my work days). Aside from this show’s obvious qualities, here are some things that I simply have to mention, whether or not they’ve already been brought up (still busy catching up on this tag, sorry).

- When Sarah and Paul get it on in the kitchen that first time, Paul looks down between them and he seemed so focused that for a second there, I thought he was gonna say something like “Didn’t you get a Brazilian just a few days ago..? WTF?”

- Contrary to every other character on every other show and film, *ever*, Sarah actually digs a deep-ass grave for Katja. Nice touch and so refreshing.

- No matter how many times Vic attacks Felix and goes for the throat, Felix never wusses out.

“Go ahead, say it’s my fault. Say it’s my fault!”

“It’s. Your. Fault.”

Hah!

- I covet Alison’s laundry baskets.

- Love and relate to Felix’s suburbaphobia and wanting to keep “those kinds of people” out of his city. My husband and I lived in Vancouver’s glorious West End for over a decade, so we totally get that.

- Character I love in spite of myself and against all better judgement: Vic.

His best line? “Stay in school.” What a magnificently self-aware moment.

Runner-up line: “I’m an addict, I guess.” (love it for the delivery)

Also, it’s refreshing how much gay-bashing or homophobia is *not* involved in any of his interactions with Felix. You wouldn’t expect it at all from this type of character (or rather, what other mediums have done with this type of character). Or did I miss a time?

- So you know that scene where Donnie is acting weird and rifling through the dresser, Alison confronts him and he says he was just looking for some scissors to cut off a tag? Alison spots a pair right on top of the dresser, which is both funny and suspicious, natch. Well, the kicker comes later on when we see that Alison has a fucking scissor *carousel* in another room. I laughed so hard, I gotta tell ya.

- Had another good laugh when Cosima gently mocks Delphine’s use of “a jogging”. This is exactly the type of thing that my Belgian granny used to say. In fact, I think I may very well have heard that exact expression from her.

Also, back when I lived in Quebec, I recall many a time where my ex and I had a ciggie right after a vigorous game of tennis. Yes, “the French” (and by that I mean French speakers) smoke *a lot*. It’s a valid and earned stereotype.

- I was a little surprised that after Amelia warns Sarah about Mrs. S, she immediately goes to see ProClone to sign the contract. Wouldn’t she have been a bit worried about Kyra and wanting to confront her mother ASAP? Or was it just that she was very close to the deadline imposed on her?

mayorfrench:

dany crowd surfing is the zou bisou bisou of the GoT universe

Word.

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drewsbravenewworld:

ladysaviours:

remember when the Bomb Girls writers implied that Kate slept with Ivan and so little attention was paid to it that it was essentially a footnote in the storyline.

remember when KATE “NEARLY HAD HER HAND BROKEN FOR LOOKING AT A MAN” ANDREWS DECIDED TO HAVE SEX WITH SOMEONE AND…

At some point in the last episode (I think), Kate mentions to Ivan how he saw the scars on her back. I think that’s what clued me in, but I’m not positive…

I don’t think they had sex… I do remember other people thinking they did though because of Kate’s swagger in a certain ep… I don’t think Katie Kate would go that far with Ivan before a wedding. She probably would with someone else though ;) you really think our writers would breeze over a complicated topic like that?!

Obviously, I want you to be right about this. Heh.