i'm just me. and that's how a playette's gotta be.

Which social theorist is the hardest to read?

Which social theorist is the easiest?

I find Derrida to be a pretty tough read. so full of confusing!!

The easiest reads, to me, are those who actively aim for accessibility in their writing, like bell hooks or Patricia Hill Collins. Super smart ladies who don’t want to alienate potential readers by being real academicy jargony.

lilacs, sweet peas, evening scented stocks, and lily of the valley smell like my childhood.

tatennant-ismybrotp:

aflawedfashion:

this just made my life

this may be my favourite gif set. gawd i love donna.

pomocats:

…New theories of action and agency have emerged. These new theories of “identity-politics” have shifted explanations, for action from “interests” and “norms” to identities and solidarities, from the notion of the universal social agent to particularistic categories of concrete persons. Based on the assumption that persons in similar social categories and similar life-experiences (based on gender, color, generation, sexual orientation, and so on) will act on the grounds of common attributes, theories of identity- politics posit that “I act because of who I am]’ not because of a rational interest or set of learned values.

Margaret Somers, from “The Narrative Constitution of Identity: a Relational and Network Approach”

oh hey! i remember reading this article once upon a soci class.

i feel like this quote is kinda misrepresentative of somers’ point though. it’s been a while, but from what i recall somers wasn’t advocating for an i-act-because-of-who-i-am identity politics. rather, she was warning against the essentialism that often accompanies the category-based solidarity found in identity politics. so instead of ‘i act because of who i am’ she argued that the self is engendered through narrativity and that a person’s identity is contextually dependent on relational and historic processes. so basically identities are constructed through (different types of) narratives, not categories. or something?

femfreq:

“The Great Debate” by The Escapist’s Cory Rydell and Greg Carter

Of all the criticism thrown at Anita Sarkeesian, the bitching about her decision to disable YouTube comments in the face of an an organized campaign of harassment is the most misguided. It’s a dumb position for a couple of reasons. First, it implies that anyone who makes a video is honor-bound to lend their credibility and popularity to the opposing argument, they are not. Second, it implies YouTube comments contain anything that could remotely be called criticism, they do not. “I hope you get raped,” is not criticism. “Feminazi whore,” is not criticism. “Make me a sandwich,” is not criticism, nor is it funny.

this is great. now if only those ignorant asshats would realise the irony of using an online medium to complain about how disabling YouTube comments prevents them from engaging in discourse about the video through an online medium…

oldmanasante:

Comedian Aisha Tyler owned all the trolls hating on the fact that she was selected to be a presenter at the 2012 Ubisoft E3 press conference. In the form of a poem. I think I’m more infatuated with this woman than ever before.

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Dear Gamers

I play.

I’ve played since I was a little kid.

Since I begged my dad to buy me a Nintendo LCD Donkey Kong, Jr.

Since I blew through three weeks’ allowance playing Defender at the laundromat.

Since you were a twinge in the left side of your daddy’s underoos.

I’ve been a gamer since I made friends with a girl in the 5th grade just to get at her Atari.

Since I missed the bus playing Galaga after school.

Since I missed the start of Return of the Jedi playing Tempest in the theater lobby.

You think you know. You don’t know.

I’ve been a gamer since before you could read.

Since I aced midterms after staying up all night playing Evil Tetris.

Since I became dorm champ at Leisure Suit Larry.

Since I double-wielded on Time Crisis 3 at Fuddrucker’s.

I was a voice in not one, but two major video game titles.

I hosted the Reach Beta tutorial.

I was a Gears of War superfan panelist at ComicCon.

I hosted the Ubisoft presser at E3 2012.

I didn’t do any of it for the money.

For most I got paid next to nothing, and for some, less than that.

I did it because I love video games.

Because I’ve dreamt since I was a kid of being in one of the games I love.

How many games have you done voices for?

How many cons have you repped at?

Your buddy’s Unreal Tournament garage deathmatch doesn’t count.

I go to E3 each year because I love video games.

Because new titles still get me high.

Because I still love getting swag.

Love wearing my gamer pride on my sleeve.

People ask me what console I play.

Motherfucker, ALL of them.

I get invited to E3 because real gamers know I’m a gamer.

I don’t do it for the money.

I have plenty of money.

I don’t do it for the fame.

Fuck fame.

I do it because I love video games.

I don’t give out my gamertag because I don’t want a mess of noob jackholes lining up

to assassinate me on XBL.

I don’t give a shit what you think about my gamerscore.

I don’t play to prove a point.

I don’t play to be the best.

I play because I love it.

I play.

I’ve been playing my whole life.

I’m not ashamed of it.

I don’t apologize for it.

It’s who I am.

To the core.

I’m a gamer.

So to all the haters out there who claim I don’t play;

To the GAF dicks,

Gamespot trolls,

To every illiterate racist douchebag on Youtube:

Flame away. Go nuts.

Post every jackass comment your heart desires.

I’ll still be playing when your mom’s kicked you out of her basement

and you have to sell your old-ass console

and get a real job.

For now, I say to you respectfully,

and I mean this from the bottom of my heart,

GFYS.