April 2013
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Heart Hungry: The Life and Times of Hamburger... →
warcrimenancydrew:
i know this is not gonna sit well with people, but i honestly don’t think white people can and should ever make satires about race. it’s not that you’re making bad satire (well, it is actually), but it’s also that you think you can make satires about something which doesn’t actually affect you and where you actually have power.
satire is about resisting power and the status...
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so I just realized something the other day. I’d never really quite understood it when people criticize street harassment by saying stuff like “I’m not dressing for YOU, I’m dressing for ME; the way I dress is about making me feel good, not getting attention,” because obviously the way you dress in public is very much mediated by how you want other people to view you....
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Dear Feminist (specifically the really angry one... →
robotaverage:
patrickandmarcus:
thetomska:
I’ll be brief.
We want to understand. We want equality. So you need to stop being such a raging fucking asshole whenever we try and talk about the subject. We’re going to get it wrong at first and you need to understand this because your ridiculously aggressive knee-jerk reactions to every little mistake we make is making us too scared to even...
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Did A California Company Just Prove Marx Right?
letterstomycountry:
Morning Star is a California company that is responsible for processing 40% of California’s tomato crop. They also have no management. (Via Reason.tv):
Morning Star has many of the usual positions that one would expect at an ordinary company: there are floor workers, payroll personnel, folks that handle the mail and outside communications, and so on. The difference is...
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stfufauxminists:
elizabitchtaylor:
I’m such a nice girl, I’m so sick of being fuckzoned!!!!!!!
What’s the fuckzone you ask? it’s this zone that guys put you in where they only want to fuck you; they don’t want to have a friendship with you and they aren’t satisfied with emotional commitment, they just want sex!!!!!
I’m a nice girl!!!! Stop putting me in the fuckzone!!!!!!!
Oh my god can I...
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“Men who want to flirt with women have to realize: Women live in a state of...”
– Attention, Space Cadets: Do Not Proposition Women in the Elevator (via ellielamothe)
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The Pervocracy: Teenage Panic →
…I was so convinced that I had been bad and would be punished, I believed biology itself would punish me. It didn’t help that I’d grown up hearing about how pregnancy and STIs were “consequences” for sex. Health class, parents, teachers, media, and peers had always talked about these things not as risks that adults have to manage, but as dire fates (or worse,...
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television-and-tea:
fandomsandfeminism:
Things that ACTUALLY EXISTED FOR REAL IN EUROPEAN HISTORY: Non-white people, mostly those of North African and Middle Eastern heritage who were immigrants, merchants, missionaries, mercenaries advisors, and scholars; female leaders, including the famed Warrior Queen Boudicca; and queer folk, seriously, Shakespeare wrote sonnets for dudes.
Things that...
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“When women scream you wonder what’s wrong with them. When men yell you get...”
– A girl in my creative writing class said this in response to a story we read about witnessing intimate partner violence and it really fucked with my head because I’ve never, ever, ever, thought of it that way. (via girl-hair)
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kyssthis16:
shartonnay:
deadlydinos:
If slurs are “just words”, why do the words “you’re a racist” offend you so much?
BOOM.
Yes, inquiring minds want to know……….
whoops
March 2013
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“Sociologists use the term “androcentrism” to refer to a new kind of sexism, one...”
– Androcentrism: It’s Okay to Be a Boy, but Being a Girl… » Sociological Images
I think the ‘women are required to do femininity and simultaneously punished for it’ bit sums up 90% of sexism in one sentence.
(via shashirosa)
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“You may not agree with a woman, but to criticize her appearance — as opposed to...”
– Hillary Clinton (via ellesugars)
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“I suspect it’s difficult for men to imagine a world in which their bodies have...”
– Stop Catcalling Me (via albinwonderland)
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“What people don’t understand is when we say “Teach men not to rape,” we’re not...”
– Kalitena on Facebook (via oldloveinyoungbodies)
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“Life is tough for white people in America. A few hundred years of presumed...”
– Gawker.com “The White Student Suing to Overthrow Affirmative Action Was too Dumb to Get into Her Chosen College” (via newbatteri)
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[cw rape] What If We Responded to Sexual Assault... →
alimarko:
stfuhypocrisy:
(Quite possibly the greatest thing you’ll read all day)
Calls for Men to Be Blindfolded in Public In response to claims that men are unable to restrain themselves from committing rape if they see women in skimpy clothing, members of law enforcement agencies around the country have called for men to blindfold themselves when they are in places where they might...
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"I'm just not attracted to X"
andythenerd:
I’ve noticed quite a lot of “I’m just not attracted to X” in my years, where X happens to be a member of society that is explicitly propped up as “revolting” by the media and the general public. X includes trans people, black people, fat people, etc. “I’m not racist, I just can’t” I’ve heard. And you know what? I’m not debating whether someone “can”, or whether someone “should”, as...
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rosesollux:
peanutbutterandjamzee:
rosesollux:
peanutbutterandjamzee:
why does everyone hate MRAs without even trying to know us
i’m a good puppy who likes men’s rights and i’m nice and why do people think we’re all douchebags
mean :C
SERIOUSLY CAN PEOPLE START USING REACTION IMAGES THAT MAKE EVEN THE SLIGHTEST BIT OF SENSE I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU’RE TRYING TO TELL ME HERE
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“An even bigger issue is that if people think social justice is about niceness,...”
– The Revolution Will Not Be Polite (via afrafemme)
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I am so sick and tired of people calling female...
actualcanadiansherlockholmes:
lennat:
Women.
Are.
Not.
There.
To.
Be.
USED!
Do you ever read something that changes the entire way you think?
Holy shit.
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Ten Numbers the Rich Would Like Fudged | Alternet →
questionall:
1. Only THREE PERCENT of the very rich are entrepreneurs.
According to both Marketwatch and economist Edward Wolff, over 90 percent of the assets owned by millionaires are held in a combination of low-risk investments (bonds and cash), personal business accounts, the stock market, and real estate. Only 3.6 percent of taxpayers in the top .1% were classified as entrepreneurs based...
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applyforhugs:
What if gun control laws were like abortion laws?
letfreedomlulz:
fuckyeahfeminists:
What if gun rights were regulated like abortion rights? Here’s a list of just some of the hoops you’d have to jump through before you could own a gun:
Only one store in the entire state would sell guns. (See: Mississippi, Arkansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming for states with only...
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maarnayeri:
The thing about MRA’s though is that they could actually be fighting for men’s rights and livliehoods that are challenged by patriarchy.
They could help men of color who are hypermasculized while simultaneously being denied bodily autonomy through white supremacist heteropatriarchy, which inevitably leads to violence, poverty and exaggerated incarceration rates.
They could help...
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teachthemhowtothink:
traversant:
archetypalboner:
“Women are more likely to be attracted to personality and men are more likely to be attracted to physical appearance.”
Woah maybe that’s because we teach women to see men as people and we teach men to see women as objects.
Ding ding ding ding ding.
That moment when you read something so freaking obvious you’re embarrassed and ashamed you...
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“Many men who harass women say their intent is to compliment them, but why do...”
– Stop Street Harassment: Holly Kearl (via tinybows)
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“Further, though, the TOMS campaign — like the million shirts — misses the...”
– The 7 Worst International Aid Ideas (via stfuconservatives)
“BUT AT LEAST THEY HAVE SHOES HOMG I <3 TOMS”
- white people everywhere
(via sara-huynh)
Get SoleRebels instead (http://www.solerebelsfootwear.co/)
THIS
I’m so fucking tired of this one white girl I know who is all about TOMS...
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“It always struck me that men actually might benefit from the “bumbling idiot”...”
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mousesinger (via swordssoarewords)
for people who say “but teh menz are portrayed negatively in media toooooo!! there are negative stereotypes of men also!! it hurts men as much as women!!”
lol no plz stop
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Consider donating to help me out? →
cinnamon-anemone:
faketransgirl:
For a while I’ve put off asking my online friends for help in such a direct way. I think for a lot of mentally ill people, one of the hardest struggles is knowing when to ask for help and what to ask for, and it’s especially difficult to ask directly for money, since that’s viewed rather badly. However, I could really use the help. I’m applying for...
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“If you make fat jokes about Adele, you’re being a dick, and I’m referring to...”
– Adam Hills, showing off just how amazing he is. (via colestclair)
wow, a white man criticizing a woman for body-shaming another woman… by body-shaming her? because if anything will solve the problem of women judging each other’s appearances, it’s clearly MEN judging women’s...
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When you say: Can't you take a joke?
I hear: I want you to submit to being bullied for my entertainment and convenience.
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“Rape jokes are not jokes. Woman-hating jokes are not jokes. These guys are...”
– Thomas Millar, Meet the Predators (via ellielamothe)
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“The fact that “love your body” rhetoric shifts the responsibility for body...”
– look at the medusa straight on.: on “loving your body.” (via vladislava)
just think about how easily they turn this rhetoric against trans people. while radical self acceptance can be part of transition, the anti-trans people demand radical self acceptance body acceptance instead of transition....
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johnwaters:
one time my poc friend was calling out a racist white person for talking about reverse racism and she was like “listen up blue eyes white dragon” and to date that is the funniest thing i’ve ever heard
