A new study released by the Entertainment Software Association has revealed that adult women now occupy the largest demographic in the gaming industry. Women over 18 made up a whopping 36 percent of the gaming population, followed by adult men at 35 percent.
Teenage boys, who are often stereotyped as the biggest gamers, now lag far behind their older female counterparts, making up just 17 percent of the gaming demographic. (x)
I still get hate for this. Keep sharing it!
This includes mobile “gaming” like Candy Crush which messes up the whole metrication you dumbass. Use your common fucking sense, Karen the soccer mom isn’t playing Overwatch.
Blah blah blah
“Women aren’t true gamers! They play Candy Crush!”
“Women aren’t true artisans! They are crafters!”
“Women aren’t true artists! They have hobbies!”
“Women aren’t true chefs! They are cooks!”
I am so tired of this bullshit.
Video games are video games are video games.
“Though this stereotype has long persisted, and even been used as a hiring tactic, the new data suggests there’s little if any truth to it—especially not when you consider that the average adult woman has been gaming for 13 years.
Sorry, male gamers of Reddit and 4Chan, but Angry Birds only came out five years ago. Unless you want to try to argue that women have just been playing Bejeweled for the last 13 years, the math just doesn’t add up.
And while the total audience for mobile social games is now bigger than ever, the audience for computer and video games is now an even 50-50 split between male and female genders.”
tfw you’re telling people to use their common sense but your own common sense somehow did not persuade you to read the article linked above or the study provided
I know I’ve posted about this a few times already, but I just want people to be aware than Sia knew all about Autism Speaks and how awful they were prior to recent events. Several fans very politely approached her and informed her about it and she even acknowledged them in both situations, only to turn around six months later and pretend she had no idea. That is part of the reason why people, especially autistic people, are so upset.
Yes, her casting a non-autistic person as an autistic character is bad, but to deny that she knew anything about a hate group she actively chose to partner with when she very well did, makes this all the more abhorrent. Especially considering she’s demanding ppl to waste their money on her movie and “give it a chance” while responding aggressively to hurt autistic ppl who are criticizing her. She just wants to make money and using a marginalized group of people as her personal cash cow. It’s really as simple as that.
Please spread this. I know celebrities get away with a lot, but even if we can’t hold her accountable, people deserve to be aware.
Everyone, you need to boycott Sia. She is planning to release a movie called Music, which was worked on with Autism Speaks. For those who don't know Autism Speaks is a autism hate group who pretends to help autistic people, but instead just spreads misinformation about them.
When people called her out for being a hypocritical bitch, she just deflected criticism.
And despite claiming to have done research on this, she didn't know this is an issue. She's a liar and doesn't care about autistic people. As a person with autism, this is insulting and I'm afraid of what misinformation will be spread by her movie. Boycott Sia at all costs, her albums, songs, and especially this movie. Let her know that Autism Speaks does not speak for us.
Hi just letting y’all know that Sia, the artist, is making what is essentially a big “F you” to autistic people. She is collaborating with Autism Speaks which is an organization that believes autism is something to be cured and treats autistic people like burdens. It is another run of the mill inspiration p**n movie for non autistic people and able bodied people to feel like they have compassion and understanding for us. For any of you who are not autistic and are able bodied, please do not support this film as it perpetuates bad stereotypes about autism and disabled individuals.
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RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE.
When I was at one of my lowest (mental) points in life, I couldn’t get out of bed some days. I had no energy or motivation and was barely getting by.
I had therapy once per week, and on this particular week I didn’t have much to ‘bring’ to the session. He asked how my week was and I really had nothing to say.
“What are you struggling with?” he asked.
I gestured around me and said “I dunno man. Life.”
Not satisfied with my answer, he said “No, what exactly are you worried about right now? What feels overwhelming? When you go home after this session, what issue will be staring at you?”
I knew the answer, but it was so ridiculous that I didn’t want to say it.
I wanted to have something more substantial.
Something more profound.
But I didn’t.
So I told him, “Honestly? The dishes. It’s stupid, I know, but the more I look at them the more I CAN’T do them because I’ll have to scrub them before I put them in the dishwasher, because the dishwasher sucks, and I just can’t stand and scrub the dishes.”
I felt like an idiot even saying it.
What kind of grown ass woman is undone by a stack of dishes? There are people out there with *actual* problems, and I’m whining to my therapist about dishes?
But my therapist nodded in understanding and then said:
“RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE.”
I began to tell him that you’re not supposed to, but he stopped me.
“Why the hell aren’t you supposed to? If you don’t want to scrub the dishes and your dishwasher sucks, run it twice. Run it three times, who cares?! Rules do not exist, so stop giving yourself rules.”
It blew my mind in a way that I don’t think I can properly express.
That day, I went home and tossed my smelly dishes haphazardly into the dishwasher and ran it three times.
I felt like I had conquered a dragon.
The next day, I took a shower lying down.
A few days later. I folded my laundry and put them wherever the fuck they fit.
There were no longer arbitrary rules I had to follow, and it gave me the freedom to make accomplishments again.
Now that I’m in a healthier place, I rinse off my dishes and put them in the dishwasher properly. I shower standing up. I sort my laundry.
But at a time when living was a struggle instead of a blessing, I learned an incredibly important lesson:
THERE ARE NO RULES.
RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE!!!
(by Kate Scott 2018)
Finally, a sane celebrity who doesn’t bend the knee to feminist bullshit.
My god I love her.
I know people are gonna get salty af about this but by God she’s RIGHT.
When Brad Pitt did Fight Club, he was cutting weight for every single scene to maintain his physique at 155. I’ve you’ve ever cut weight, you know how horrible that must have been. He did it because they needed a “look”.
Changing Tatum said his Magic Mike body doesn’t last for more than five days. He starved down and dehydrated his already fit physique for a “look”.
The male soldiers on Spartacus: Blood and Sand were eating pretty much chicken and veggies for every meal to maintain a “look”.
Why is this such a big deal? Because all these characters are considered physical goals for men. These are actual unobtainable physical standards for men. Male body image issues get swept under the rug so often that some people don’t even think they exist.
You want proof? Just check out that scene in Captain America: First Avenger where Cap just transformed into that beautiful beefcake of a man. Agent Carter’s actress just HAD to touch them muscles, it was completely unscripted.
Chris Evans had to wear shirts so small they physically hurt, and he dislocated a shoulder during the helicopter scene in Civil War. But who cares, girls got to wet their panties watching Captain America flex.
If we are talking about unrealistic physical standards of male fitness given to us by movies, I would like to mention Hugh “Wolverine” Jackman here.
Yeah, he is ripped, isn’t he?
Well, it is true, but to get that kind of definition, he went through 36 hour period of dehydration, which caused him to temporarily lose 10 pounds of “water weight”.
Thus during the fight scene he was filming, he was a hair breadth from blacking out whole time, just to look unrealistically muscular.
As he said during interview with Steven Colbert, “If You go three days without water, You will die. Then, when You are halfway there they shout ‘Roll it!”
It’s the same with professional bodybuilders who get into periods of extreme fasting and dehydration to lower their fat-to-muscle ratio to inhuman levels, all in hopes of making their muscle definition a bit better.
According to experts, healthy body fat percentage for a healthy male ranges from 8% to 20%, depending on height, lifestyle and numerous other variables.
Fitness model and professional bodybuilder Helmut Strebl also known as “World’s Most Shredded Man” as he supposedly managed to get his body fat percentage below 5%…
… But only when he partakes in competitions, since it is not humanly possible to live with such low fat percentage of one’s body for longer periods of time.
I mean, yeah, he keeps a draconian training regime, as well as a very strict diet even off-season, but looks much more human then…
There are documented cases of incredibly fit and muscular bodybuilders fainting on the stage in the middle of their flexing routines, as well as several who outright died, because of cardiac arrest caused by their blood becoming too thick, due to long dehydration…
And let’s not forget about Muscle Dysmorphia, colloquially known as “Megarexia” or “Bigarexia”.
Yeah, it’s a thing, but it’s barely talked about, since it’s apparently not manly to admit to having problems like that, which also creates problems with researching this particular disorder…
So… Thanks Hollywood?
I had no idea that most people who looked like this are dehydrated until I read posts like this.
dehydrated to the point theyre about a day away from actual organ failure okay so chris hemsworth is a absolute god of a man, but hollywood says ‘thats not good enough’ and for the thor movie he has to spend several days having the juice squeezed from his body untill he looses about a gallon of whats supposed to be him so that he can do 2 days of shooting scenes without his shirt, after which he has to have recovery time before he is hospitalized because i am not joking about ‘one day away from organ failure’ thats the benchmark- look at chris hemsworth and process that he is told he isnt suitable for a shirtless scene without prepping for three days and nearly fainting
real feminism acknowledges the unhealthy standards that men are held to. radfems brush them off as non-existent
guys, feminism is for you, too. it’s for all of us.
Unrealistic body images helps no one and actively hurts men too!!
since the discussion of that they put henry cavill through for the witcher is floating around my blog, i want to add this too,.
one of the reasons producers get away with this in men and no one criticizes it is because we are fed the lie that this body type is 1) attainable and 2) healthy.
We know starving women down to skinniness is unhealthy, but you see an overmuscled man and you don’t immediately think dehydration.
i love this whole thread but uh
this IS feminism. being able to speak out about that? that’s the most feminist thing she could have done. don’t call it bullshit, because this is IMPORTANT. these men are being starved and dehydrated and basically just hurt over and over again so that people can drool over their muscles and no one (by which i mean the audience) realizes something is wrong. so don’t say that this isn’t feminism, because it is. it really, really is.
^^^
I think it’s important to acknowledge that these unhealthy body standards exist for everyone. It’s also important to acknowledge they have different processes behind them.
Women have to lose weight and be unhealthy to appeal to men, to look sexy according to the male gaze. Even playing strong fighters, women have to look small and thin. Men have to “buff up” to fulfil a power fantasy that’s also about pleasing men. Most women would find the body builder pictured above far more attractive in his healthier state than dehydrated, and the same is true of Hugh Jackman and Chris Hemsworth. Anyone remember that post with the Hugh Jackman covers from (iirc) Men’s Fitness and Good Housekeeping? The difference in how men want to see men look vs how women want to see them.
The above pictures appeal to men and what men think women want, more than actual women. This does not mean unrealistic standards for men are ok! They aren’t. Eating disorders in men are on the rise. I just think it’s important to understand that there are different sets of processes going on and that all of it is down to patriarchy, not some kind of equal opportunity sexism.
My knee jerk reaction was to scroll on when I saw that ‘bend to feminist bullshit’ comment but I glad I read through anyway. Good discussion, all valid points, wish I could delete that one comment but at least it got called out and explained. ‘Feminism’ is for everyone.
If a girl is to do the same superman thing where he takes off his disguise, we just look pervy. Not the same effect
First of all: bullshit.
Secondly: If you are not doing the Linda Carter spin, then you’re doing it wrong.

how did you do that so smoothly?
thats some broadway musical shit
But seriously, I think I love you.
heck no, i’m callin dibs
Sorry friend, thatseanguyblogs called dibs first. ;)

Well, we never got around to making a wedding gif, but still super-married and loving it. Happy Valentine’s Day!
I mean … how can you not reblog?
i feel like it’s a sin not to reblog this.
honestly ^
I can’t resist this post.
nerd goals.
ain’t this the sweetest T_T #goals
❤❤❤
At this point, just fucking wear it so we can all get passed this.
with adobe flash going the way of the dinosaur it really solidifies that the old net is dead, and our children will grow up in a world in which the web is a highly commercialized hell hole instead of a lawless zone free of civilization.
So this is how the cowboys felt huh
A moment of silence for all the poorly animated flash videos and games on newgrounds that shaped our childhoods
“We’re fixing up this spaceship that belongs to our new friend Meap.”
“Meap, he’s the most adorable thing in the world.”
“Really? Are you sure there’s nothing, or no one that’s more adorable?“
“No, not a chance.”
PART 2
“Okay. I jury-rigged Ferb’s old GPS device, to create a cute tracker.”
“It locks on to the cutest thing in the area,”
“so it should lead us right to Meap.”
“Let’s see if we can get a signal.“
“Got something!”
“Oh, that’s probably me. Sorry.”
“No. It’s three miles in that direction.”
Part 3
“Isabella, want to come with me and help me find Meap?“
“Sure!”
“I still haven’t gotten my”
“‘you wouldn’t know cute if it bit your legs off’“
“accomplishment badge.”
“Cool!”
“Let’s go!”
Part 4
“Hmm, I’m having trouble picking up his cute signal.”
“Phineas, since you obviously won’t figure this out on your own,“
“I think I’m the one causing the cute interference.“
“Don’t be silly Isabella.”
“I took into account your cuteness, and adjusted the cute-meter settings accordingly from the beginning.”
“See, look what happens when I change it back to normal.”
Bonus Depiction Of Me Right Now:
Part 5 (from a different episode)
“So, do I know romance or what?”
“what.”
“I said, do I know romance or-”
“I heard you.”
Part 6 (this time with Candace)
“So that’s Uncle Phineas and Ferb as kids?“
“That’s right.”
“And that girl looks like Aunt Isabella.“
“Did you hear that? Aunt Isabella!”
“That means I’m gonna marry Phineas!”
“Or Ferb.”
*clicks tongue*
We didn’t deserve this show
Local kids brutally murder a girl they know
Baby elephant seal vs adult elephant seal
Baby Elephant Seal:
Same Adorable round creature, a couple years later:
And when he decides to engage in a Romantic Duel:
Some fun facts about the Elephant Seal:
- Roughly the same shape and size as Jabba The Hutt and Five Times as Horny
- can move at 30ft per second on land which is way faster than you think and a lot faster than most of you can sprint
- known to attack and kill great white sharks
- Dives over a mile under water and stays down there for an hour and a half, presumably because the frozen darkness resembels whatever hell dimension it came out of
- Male and Femal elephant Seal skulls, compared with a Grizzly bear Skull:
There are many picturees of people standing irrespeonsibly close to Elephant seals, presumably before being mauled and mashed to death, so we’re going to use this image of an average-sized woman and an educational statue:
- Fuck That.
- Don’t approach wildlife kids, but SUPER don’t approach any kind of marine mammal because they are HUGE and FURIOUS and FULL OF TEETH AND MALICE.
- Also severely endangered and let’s be honest the world would be a lot sadder without the occasioal horrifying sea monster in it.
avatar: the last airbender characters as different types of crocs
aang:
katara:
sokka:
toph:

zuko:
azula:
ty-lee:
mai:
Reminder that this cop hasn’t been arrested but the man who filmed the video of him after he maced the child has.












