Look, Listen, and Take Heed: Women, Keep Your Virtue.
(I must have watched this ten times and I still laugh at the “uncle”)
In psychology, the false-consensus effect is a cognitive bias whereby a person tends to overestimate how much other people agree with him or her. There is a tendency for people to assume that their own opinions, beliefs, preferences, values and habits are ‘normal’ and that others also think the same way that they do. This cognitive bias tends to lead to the perception of a consensus that does not exist, a ‘false consensus’. The need to be “normal” and fit in with other people is underlined by a desire to conform and be liked by others in a social environment.
This bias is especially prevalent in group settings where one thinks the collective opinion of their own group matches that of the larger population. Since the members of a group reach a consensus and rarely encounter those who dispute it, they tend to believe that everybody thinks the same way.
Ancient moon priestesses were called virgins. ‘Virgin’ meant not married, not belong to a man-a woman who was ‘one-in-herself.’ The very word derives from a Latin root meaning strength, force, skill; and was later applied to men: virle. Ishtar, Diana, Astarte, Isis were all all called virgin, which did not refer to sexual chasity, but sexual independence. And all great culture heroes of the past…, mythic or historic, were said to be born of virgin mothers: Marduk, Gilgamesh, Buddha, Osiris, Dionysus, Genghis Khan, Jesus-they were all affirmed as sons of the Great Mother, of the Original One, their worldly power deriving from her. When the Hebrews used the word, and in the original Aramatic, it meant ‘maiden’ or ‘young woman’, with no connotations to sexual chasity. But later Christian translators could not conceive of the ‘Virgin Mary’ as a woman of independent sexuality, needless to say; they distorted the meaning into sexually pure, chaste, never touched. When Joan of Arc, with her witch coven associations, was called La Pucelle-‘the Maiden,’ ‘the Virgin’ - the word retained some of its original pagan sense of a strong and independent woman. The Moon Goddess was worshipped in orgiastic rites, being the divinity of matriarchal women free to take as many lovers as they choose. Women could ‘surrender’ themselves to the Goddess by making love to a stranger in her temple.
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| — | Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor in the book “The Great Cosmic Mother -Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth” (via sacredwoman) |
Video: Hilarious Teachers’ “Dance Dare”
Set to the song “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” by the late Whitney Houston, teachers at Abby Kelley Foster High School in Worcester, MA, channeled their disco days in hallways, the music room, a stairwell, and even the art closet. The educators feature such moves as the “The Point,” “The Robot,” and the aptly named “Reach Back, Grab Your Ankle, and Pump.”
CLICK THE SQUARES.
THE WHOLE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS.
OMFGGGG
OMG THIS IS TOTALLY FREAKING WICKEDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!
MY LIFE HAS FOREVER CHANGED
So, now you’re an addict.
You must click all the squares.
Don’t.
My eyes HURT. DON’T DO IT.
PLEASE.
Oh, well, maybe just once.
i didn’t even read that caption and i did it anyway and now i’m half blind
