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nicerunningday: Mary Cain 4’04”62 1500m at Oxy High Performance...

notannakarenina — Sat, 18 May 2013 11:10:38 -0400

nicerunningday:

Mary Cain 4’04”62 1500m at Oxy High Performance Los Angeles.

rangerkimmy: #OH NO KAWAII PLOT TWIST

notannakarenina — Sat, 18 May 2013 11:09:49 -0400

rangerkimmy:

#OH NO KAWAII PLOT TWIST

fuckyeahyoga: Naked yoga! NSFW. Why are you tumblin at...

notannakarenina — Sat, 18 May 2013 11:07:59 -0400

fuckyeahyoga:

Naked yoga!

NSFW. Why are you tumblin at work?

(Okay that’s a silly question. The better question is - Why would you NOT tumblr at work?)

ineedtothinkofatitle: firstladysexyfineass: The thing about micro aggressions is that eventually...

notannakarenina — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:23:12 -0400

ineedtothinkofatitle:

firstladysexyfineass:

The thing about micro aggressions is that eventually you have enough of it

And you end up blowing up

And people look at you funny like ”why are you so angry its just spilled milk”

Ok but you always spilling milk on me tho

runningforeternity: this is making me tear up

notannakarenina — Wed, 15 May 2013 22:53:03 -0400

runningforeternity:

this is making me tear up

fromfatty2fit: fitnessfoodfabulous: Friendly reminder that 99.9% of us in the fitblr community are...

notannakarenina — Wed, 15 May 2013 12:06:59 -0400

fromfatty2fit:

fitnessfoodfabulous:

Friendly reminder that 99.9% of us in the fitblr community are not professionals and that we can only answer based on our experience/research and therefore you should always consult a professional (doctor, nutritionist, therapist) with serious questions.

^ Please read this.

fatsmartandpretty: “I don’t care about your diet” print...

notannakarenina — Wed, 15 May 2013 12:04:15 -0400

fatsmartandpretty:

“I don’t care about your diet” print available on etsy

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notannakarenina — Wed, 15 May 2013 11:01:22 -0400

fuckyeahcracker: Effects Of Thinking White People Are “All Like That”: Literally nothing other than...

notannakarenina — Tue, 14 May 2013 11:23:00 -0400

fuckyeahcracker:

Effects Of Thinking White People Are “All Like That”:

Literally nothing other than white people having their feelings hurt on the internet

I’m not joking there is no real world consequence of this

Effects Of Thinking People of Color Are “All Like That”:

Saudi student is literally surrounded by FBI for cooking rice under terrorist suspicions

White people literally can not associate positive words with Black faces because of racism

More white people use drugs but Black people are sent to jail for drugs at 10 times the rate that white people are

Black people who “sound Black” earn less money than those who don’t because of associations with stereotypes. Black people who “sound Black” are less likely to get called back for jobs

Black children grow up literally associating being Black with being bad and ugly

White people when tested shot more unarmed Black subjects than armed and unarmed white subjects

Hate crimes increase after Boston tragedy

Moroccan High School Student is linked to Boston tragedy for being Brown

Bangladeshi man is beaten by people out of racism

NYPD Commissioner wants Black and Latino men to fear him after the police targeted literally 90 percent Black and Latino men in New York and humiliating them by frisking them in public under the assumption that they had weapons. Studies found that white men were the ones who overwhelmingly had weapons while Black and Latino men didn’t

White people blaming and convicting Black men for crimes they never committed and everyone believing them because of racism

Stop and Frisk, ruled unconstitutional was practiced by New York police disproportionately and unfairly affecting 90% Black and Latino men because of racism

Universities throwing racist ‘Fiesta Party’ homogenizing culture with extreme racism

Here are some of the numbers on hate crimes against People of Color and btw, Neo Naziism is increasing!

Every 28 Hours an African American is Extrajudicially Murdered in the U.S.

Black people 3 times more likely to be arrested for Marijuana

Black people receive much harsher sentencing than white people for the same crimes do I need to go on?

But yeah, white people’s feelings :*(

la bonne vie: There Is No Such Thing as Cardio (Actual Science)

notannakarenina — Mon, 13 May 2013 10:57:40 -0400

la bonne vie: There Is No Such Thing as Cardio (Actual Science):

twoscoopsgethuge:

Resistance training to momentary muscular failure improves cardiovascular fitness in humans.

PDF

Abstract:

Steele J, Fisher J, McGuff D, Bruce-Low S, Smith D. Resistance Training to Momentary Muscular Failure Improves Cardiovascular Fitness in Humans: A…

While this is awesome if you’re only trying to get in shape, if you’re trying to run track or train for a sport that involves running or if you happen to LIKE cardio (shocking! lots of people like running and biking and swimming etc!), then of course you should keep doing cardio things and keep running. Like… try to train for a 2-mile race just by weight lifting… (or try to train for rugby without doing any running or sprinting!)

idk things like this kind of bother me. Weight-lifting is AWESOME, but I feel better about myself/life/the world after doing an hour long run outside than I do after doing a hard lift in a gym, and no one should stop doing the style of workout they enjoy just because something on the internet (even with lots of scientific evidence) suggested it’s less efficient.

tl;dr do the fitness stuff you enjoy or that is tailored for your sport. if you’re short on time, only doing weight-lifting seems like a good idea.

Other people have thoughts on this?

womenandsports: Caster Semenya, from South Africa, competes in...

notannakarenina — Sun, 12 May 2013 14:16:47 -0400

womenandsports:

Caster Semenya, from South Africa, competes in the women’s 800-meter race during the Prefontaine Classic track and field meet in Eugene, Ore. , Saturday, June, 4, 2011. Semenya finished in second place. (via Photo from AP Photo)

thatzak: You hear their voices in your head.

notannakarenina — Sun, 12 May 2013 10:28:53 -0400

thatzak:

You hear their voices in your head.

sleepydumpling: To all of you for whom Mother’s Day is painful rather than joyous, my thoughts are...

notannakarenina — Sat, 11 May 2013 23:18:46 -0400

sleepydumpling:

To all of you for whom Mother’s Day is painful rather than joyous, my thoughts are with you. Particularly those of you who suffered at the hands/words of abusive mothers.

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notannakarenina — Sat, 11 May 2013 19:06:29 -0400

deadpon-and-weible: impsexual: Because telling fat people that...

notannakarenina — Sat, 11 May 2013 18:52:26 -0400

deadpon-and-weible:

impsexual:

Because telling fat people that they are in fact humans that deserve dignity and respect automatically means you’re ~*GLORIFYING OBESITY*~

By the way, don’t dribble on to me saying you worry about a fat person’s ‘health’. That’s just a bullshit excuse to voice your unwanted opinion on a fat person’s body considering you wouldn’t give a single flying fuckadoodle about someone’s health if they were skinny. Besides another person’s health is none of your damned business anyway. Run along now and preach to a choir that actually cares.

I’m going to be honest, so long as you’re not hurting anyone, you can eat soy sauce and milk duds all day long for all I care.

thank you so much for this comic imp.

awwww-cute: One of my friends got chased by little piggies...

notannakarenina — Sat, 11 May 2013 18:51:07 -0400

awwww-cute:

One of my friends got chased by little piggies during his bike ride

thisisthinprivilege: I thought you might be interested in an...

notannakarenina — Sat, 11 May 2013 13:50:38 -0400

thisisthinprivilege:

I thought you might be interested in an article I wrote about how people treat me differently now that I am a fat man vs. when I was perceived to be a fat woman:

Male Privilege and Transitioning From a Fat Woman to a Fat Man

I am a fat man. Once, I was perceived to be a fat woman. My transition has taught me a lot of things that I might not have otherwise engaged with if I had lived my life as a cis person. Transitioning really highlights male privilege and how society can treat you completely differently based on what gender it perceives a person to be. As soon as I started ‘passing’, I found I was treated with a respect that wasn’t often given to me as a woman. My personal space and boundaries were no longer violated, I was no longer talked down to, and people suddenly respected my right to privacy and my right to be left alone. I was no longer treated as if I simply existed for men’s pleasure.

Similarly, my body was no longer overtly criticised. Fat women are disproportionately targeted in Western society. They are subjected to public humiliation and discrimination every day, simply because of their bodies. They are stared at in the streets, they are under-represented in media (and then, only as the butt of a joke), and they are targeted with verbal and physical violence.

Fat men are also at the mercy of some stereotypes – laziness being the most common. However, I can now exist as a fat man largely without comment. I can shop for clothes in most stores rather than being turned away at the door and told that they don’t stock my size. Clothing companies cater to my needs, considering my body type ‘average’ (even if I am on the short side). Most clothing stores that cater to men stock from small to XXL and many beyond that. Meanwhile, despite the fact that the average dress size of a woman in the US is a size 14, many clothing outlets aimed at women will not stock above a size 12. Some stores such as Abercrombie do not stock above a women’s size 10 whilst simultaneously stocking XL and XXL in men’s sizes.

This imbalance, and the effect it has had on my life and the way that people perceive me, is one of the clearest and most startling examples of male privilege and sexism that I have encountered. It all comes down to the patriarchal view that women are somehow obligated to make themselves attractive to men. That men are entitled to gaze upon and comment upon women’s bodies.

When I was perceived to be a fat woman, there was a real sense of not just disgust, but a poisonous, malignant contempt. People (most commonly men) commented on my appearance like I somehow owed it to them to be, in their view, attractive. Like I was breaking some kind of cardinal rule because I was happy with my body without their approval. Now, in complete contrast, I am barely given a second glance.

Occasionally, I still face discrimination as a fat man, but it’s not as vehement, societally sanctioned nor pervasive as it once was. My treatment has changed simply because of the way that society perceives my gender. This is male privilege in action. We live in a society that has built a whole industry on bullying women for not being what is considered ‘attractive enough’ to men. Think about that the next time you want to stare at a fat woman on the bus.

Michael Young

http://www.therainbowhub.com/home/male-privilege-and-transitioning-from-a-fat-woman-to-a-fat-man/

athleticsistas: Long jumping at the NYC...

notannakarenina — Sat, 11 May 2013 12:13:16 -0400

athleticsistas:

Long jumping at the NYC Armory.

http://nic-nac-patty-wack.tumblr.com

so-treu: deafmuslimpunx: theballetblog: Dance Theatre of...

notannakarenina — Fri, 10 May 2013 11:00:46 -0400

so-treu:

deafmuslimpunx:

theballetblog:

Dance Theatre of Harlem

Love the flesh-colored ballet shoes they’re all wearing.

they dye them. i had to do the same back when i was in an all-Black ballet company as a youth. it’s part of the inherent white supremacy of ballet that you still can’t buy pointe shoes in anything other than pink, for the most part.

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notannakarenina — Thu, 09 May 2013 20:34:01 -0400