affectingly:

fandomsandfeminism:

bemusedlybespectacled:

afloweroutofstone:

washingtonpost:

Not the stuff of sci-fi satire. This is a real finding from a real study: Female-named hurricanes kill more than male hurricanes because people don’t respect them.

”’[Our] model suggests that changing a severe hurricane’s name from Charley … to Eloise … could nearly triple its death toll,’ the study says.”

Oh my fucking god

I am actually dying that is so fucking funny.

I….I’m actually speechless.

…AHAHAHAHA OH GOD OUR CULTURE OF SEXISM IS SO BAD WE LITERALLY KILL OURSELVES BY NOT TAKING “FEMALE” STORMS SERIOUSLY. I’M GONNA LAUGH SO HARD I THROW UP.