For everyone going crazy about Khanberbatch’s shirtless scene, I present to you the chest of Ricardo Montalban instead.
That’s not his real chest
That’s a very common rumor, but Nicholas Meyer and Leonard Nimoy have both testified that it’s his actual chest. Even into his sixties, man kept fit as hell.
So in other news, Quicksilver is going to be in X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Anybody else think Fox is just trying to fuck with Avengers 2? Can the dispute over usable characters for each studio be resolved as easily as “Well we put him in our movie first, so you can’t have him neener neener”?
I wouldn’t surprised. Fucking Fox, trying to screw with Joss Whedon AGAIN.
P.S. the amount of Jewish that this Evan Peters kid is SO NOT is staggering. I guess they never explicitly said Magneto was Jewish in the film canon, especially since they seem to be sticking with Erik Lensherr as his birth name instead of a pseudonym.
Final word:
I’m not remotely as upset about a white actor playing an Indian character in a pre-existing franchise as I am about the fact that there are no Indian characters being made the leads of new franchises.
All right, I said I wasn’t gonna have any more part in this discussion, but let me just say this:
Ricardo Montalban was born in Mexico to two Spanish immigrants. Making him full-blooded European, and thus every bit as Caucasian as Benedict Cumberbatch.
In his first appearance as the obviously Indian (judging by the name) Khan Noonien Singh, he had a hairpiece and a fake “tan” to make him look more like an Indian, because this was the 1960s in Hollywood, when you got Greeks to play Hispanics, and Hispanics to play Indians.
I say this not in an attempt to shut down people complaining about “whitewashing” in Into Darkness, or shut down anybody complaining at all about the deficit in roles for non-white people; I say this to point out that the farcical artificiality of racial separation is nowhere demonstrated better than it is in the classification of “Hispanic” as an ethnicity.
Why is there very little utility to women’s clothing? Why don’t we get pockets which actually open? Why do we have to put up with the ‘false pockets’ that are frequently sewn onto women’s jackets and pants to give visual interest without ruining the ‘line’ of the garment? Why, when pockets are actually present, are they so rarely large, stable, or loose enough to accommodate a phone or a wallet? And why, given this is the case, do women go on to cop so much flack for carrying handbags around with them?
Oh wait. Is this one of those double standards which we feminists are always going on about; one of those innocuous little things which everybody just accepts because it is the norm?
Women carry handbags. It is known.
But why? I have watched my male friends get ready to go out. They slip their wallet into one pocket, their keys into another, their phone into a third pocket, and some of them even still have spare pockets large enough to carry a novel for the journey. Those of my friends who wear women’s clothes, though, face an entirely different situation. If they are wearing the right jeans or jacket, they may have up to two usable pockets (not at all guaranteed). However, in most cases they won’t have any pockets at all. Utility and style rarely meet in women’s fashion, so they grab a bag.
Contrary to all the jokes, most women don’t ‘have’ to leave the house with everything they pack in their day-to-day handbag. Most of the items in a woman’s everyday handbag are in there because, if she’s going to have to carry it anyway, she might as well make it worth her while. Excuse us for making use of the one useful item we find in our wardrobes.
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Kara, “The Feminist and the Handbag” (via athenasaurus) Oh lord, don’t get me started on this. This is a little thing that highlights a big equality problem between men and women. We need the same supplies as men to do the same job. When I stocked shelves it was impossible to find pants that would hold my wallet, my box knife, my badge, my keys, my gloves (I worked dairy/frozen) and my phone. I actually ended up not carrying my wallet or keys at all. Fuck if I’m carrying a purse *ever* but that certainly wouldn’t have helped on the job. My husband? He holds all of that plus his insulin, packets of honey in case his blood sugar drops (or a vial of glucose tablets), glucometer, headphones, markers, and pencils. With plenty of room to spare. I’ve even seen him slip paperback books into empty pockets. When we bought sweatpants together so we could start working out? I had zero pockets. He had four. Four. When we wanted some boots for added protection working around 1.5-ton pallets and slippery surfaces, he was able to go to the nearest store and buy steel-toed, non-shock, no-slip boots in his size, no problem. I had to look online to find mine. Because women don’t work dangerous jobs. I hate shopping for clothes in general, but when it has to be online it really sucks because you never know if they will actually fit or be decent quality. Especially because, guess what, women’s sizes are far less standardized than men’s.
I’m going to guess this is all some remnant from the “women should be in the kitchen, not out in the world doing practical things” days that has held over and made it harder for us to…you know, do practical things, even nowadays. If I ever end up working a job like that again, I’ll probably just buy men’s pants and hem them for my 5-foot-tall frame, because I deserve the same supplies for my job that men do. And no, I don’t care if the men’s jeans don’t highlight the curve of my ass superbly. Do they hold up under tough conditions? Do they carry what I need carried? Practicality and efficiency only in my wardrobe, please.
(via solluxisms) I remember watching I think it was Project Runway and the contestants had to design a new uniform for female postal workers. The one designer put utilitarian pockets on her design, and the judges yelled at her for it. They said something about it not being flattering, because you know, the key part of any uniform is not that it works for the job, but that it shows off your body in the best light possible. |
For everyone going crazy about Khanberbatch’s shirtless scene, I present to you the chest of Ricardo Montalban instead.
Just out of curiosity, I need to know how many Animorph fans there are out there! If you don’t know, Animorphs was a book series and the covers all looked like this:
I’d really like to know if there are any other fans out there!
welcome to the tumblrmorphs. we’re like a short angry fandom that’s very self-conscious of its size.
So basically, we’re all Marco.
westeros’s celebs read mean tweets (ps: all tweets are real)
I can’t decide if they were answering in character or not…
“I eat the hate of non-believers for breakfast.”
Definitely in character. :P
![raccooneyedbitch:
bombarrows:
quadrangledreality:
lightningsshadow:
paranoidandroid42:
yes i’m a boy
yes i play videogames ;]
don’t hit on me silly girls xoxoxo
wft boys don’t play videogames
get back in the garage and fix my car.
another fucking “gamer boy” They all just want attention they cant even play well!
He’s just a slut with a controller.
That console isn’t even plugged in you fucking whore.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzk61g0hKW1rpj5z4o1_r1_500.jpg)
yes i’m a boy
yes i play videogames ;]
don’t hit on me silly girls xoxoxo
wft boys don’t play videogames
get back in the garage and fix my car.
another fucking “gamer boy” They all just want attention they cant even play well!
He’s just a slut with a controller.
That console isn’t even plugged in you fucking whore.
Excuse me but Into Darkness has been out for a week, why are there no posts talking about the fact that Cucumberpatch makes the face that suggests he’s going to steal christmas
I mean really
im laghing so hard at this
What are we, some separate species?
It is from Community, guys who wrote that article, you could have asked somebody on here and we would have told you.
Points for trying to describe it, but I wouldn’t really call it a Cheshire Cat smile.
