me at 21.
today i found out that my favorite coffee shop refers to my favorite drink unofficially as the “dirty whore.”
Although I won’t stop drinking it or going there, I just want to say how deeply unnerving that was to hear. I wonder when they will start calling black coffees “n*ggers” or wet cappuccinos “wetbacks.”
Calling a woman a slut or a whore is a social construct. Those of you who are a member of a minority group who feel like I am overreacting and that it’s OK to use negative words in reference to women, but not in reference to race or religion simply don’t know how hard it is to believe that the only reason people will EVER love you is for your body.
Please think before you speak. Language is a part of our culture, and words can be very heavy. If there is a woman in your life that you care about, call her now and tell her that she is valuable.
wt…f…
(via mothcakes)
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If efforts fail to cap the leaking Deepwater Horizon wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico, oil could gush for years—poisoning coastal habitats for decades.
The most recent estimates are that the leaking wellhead has been spewing 5,000 barrels a day, and the oil is still flowing robustly, which suggests that the reserve “would take years to deplete,” said David Rensink, incoming president of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. “You’re talking about a reservoir that could have tens of millions of barrels in it.”
At that rate, it’s possible the Gulf oil spill’s damage to the environment will have lingering effects akin to those of the largest oil spill in history, which happened in Saudi Arabia in 1991, said Miles Hayes, co-founder of Research Planning.
During the Gulf War, the Iraqi military intentionally spilled up to 336 million gallons of oil into the Persian Gulf to slow U.S. troop advances, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Hayes was part of a team that later studied the environmental impacts of the spill, which impacted about 500 miles of Saudi Arabian coastline.
The scientists discovered a “tremendous” amount of oiled sediment remained on the Saudi coast 12 years after the spill—about 3 million cubic feet. (See “Exxon Valdez Anniversary: 20 Years Later, Oil Remains.”)
