February 2012
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“I am not a woman trapped in a man’s body. This body is no man’s; it is mine, it...”
– little light, the seam of skin and scales (Taking Steps)
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Once more, with feeling: Being "polite" is not a...
kiriamaya:
[trigger warning for rape, religious abuse]
My parents are always very “nice” and “polite” when they tell me they refuse to call me my name. That one pastor who wanted to forcibly poison me with testosterone was very “civil” when “suggesting” the idea to me. And my rapist was very “kind” when he was grooming me for what was about to happen.
There’s a certain subset of activists who...
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“A man who assisted in autopsies in a big urban hospital, starting in the...”
– “The Way It Was” — Mother Jones Magazine — Abortion before Roe v. Wade. (via ellielamothe)
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Woman Gets Super Sweet Valentine’s Day Note Asking... →
Dear Diary,
Today, people suck and I hate them.
Love, Cinnamon
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7 billion reasons to empower women →
ellielamothe:
(CNN) If fertility rates continue at expected levels, the world’s population is likely to reach 10.1 billion in the next 90 years. Based on conservative estimates, the number of people in the world should pass 8 billion in 2023, 9 billion by 2041 and 10 billion at some point after 2081.
Just take a moment to think about that. By 2100, we could have nearly 50% more people on...
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grey-eyedathena:
daniedandylion:
People need to shut the fuck up with this pansexual bullshit. It doesn’t exist. It’s just another stupid thing that’s trendy because everyone wants to be unique all of a sudden.
UNFOLLOW ME.
Pansexuality is trying to show that the gender bianry system —implied by the term BIsexual— is shit. A gender binary system is oppressive, it puts people into an assumed...
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“Society has a problem with female nudity when it is not … ”—Badu pauses to get...”
– Erykah Badu: June/July Cover Story [Pg 1] | VIBE (via sexisbeautiful)
Yes, perfect.
(via alienshexv)
BADU!
(via newwavefeminism)
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[warnings for discussion of self-harm, suicide,...
sour-idealist:
Here is a point I will never tire of making:
if someone is willing to hurt themselves “for attention,”
PAY. THE FUCK. ATTENTION.
When you say someone slicing up their wrists is “just looking for attention,” when you say someone saying they’re contemplating suicide “just wants attention,” hell, beyond that, when someone is consistently getting themselves in huge trouble and...
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PSA:
applesarefuckinghealthy:
ouyangdan:
Hitting children is wrong. Full stop.
If you can’t think of a better way to discipline a child, a tiny human who is smaller than you, you need to re-evaluate your approach.
There is NOTHING that a child, who is on the losing end of the power imbalance, can do that warrants striking them. Ever.
Children are an oppressed class of humans. They have no...
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French Socialist Party presidential candidate...
nilecrocodile:
gnimaerd:
nilecrocodile:
golden-zephyr:
In a February 12 interview on Canal Plus TV, François Hollande, Socialist Party candidate for president in the upcoming elections, proposed as a “solution” to the presence in France of Roma European Union (EU) citizens “the creation of camps … to accommodate them”.
The association of a “solution” in relation to specific racial groups...
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My biggest pet peeve.
deaf-aspie:
youaresimplyradiant:
When people treat others who have forms of autism or other mental retardations like they are worth nothing.
the sweetest people I know have autism, Aspergers syndrome, or mild mental retardation. they have a child-like mind and are the absolute best people to be around. They can teach you that life is not a big rush, and to slow down and enjoy the simple...
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on asoiaf, -isms, and the "fandom police"
villainesses:
As you may have noticed, there’s been a post going around the ASoIaF/GoT fandom asserting that those fans who have taken it upon themselves to call out problematic statements they see in the tags are running a dictatorship of sorts, in which there are definitive rules about which characters you’re allowed to like and dislike. In particular, the comments appended to the post as it...
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How To Have Sex With An Aspirin Between Your Knees →
sexxxisbeautiful:
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
Just in case you haven’t yet had time to work this out for yourself.
oh my this is the best.
This article wins ALL THE AWARDS
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A jealous girlfriend is a faithful girlfriend. If...
dduane:
smilewithnofears:
^ same thing with guys
Um… this sentiment (whether about guys or girls) is truly vile.
Jealousy isn’t a manifestation of love. It’s a disease. It says “I think I should own you, and I can’t trust you.”
Jealousy is the opposite of faithfulness. Jealousy is about fear and anger. Faithfulness says “I trust you and I know we’re together even when I don’t have my eye...
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A Plea
geeknip:
I hate, hate, hate having to do this. But earlier this week, as you may have noticed, I had a severe manic episode, more than my bipolarity has ever caused before. And my psychiatrist has commanded that I double my dosage of Abilify. My fucking most expensive medication, Abilify. As in going from $180 copay WITH INSURANCE that I had budgeted for to $360 that I do not have. And I am...
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TENNESSEE RESTAURANT THROWS OUT ANTI-GAY LAWMAKER →
stfuconservatives:
karmabum submitted
A restaurant in Knoxville, Tennessee refused to serve state Sen. Stacey Campfield (R), the man who sponsored the state’s “don’t say gay” bill, compared homosexuality to bestiality, and most recently told Michelangelo Signorile that it’s virtually impossible to spread HIV/AIDS through heterosexual sex. “I hope that Stacy Campfield now knows what if feels...
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Things You Shouldn’t Say To… →
journeytoanewcreation:
People suffering from depression:
“Stop being so negative!” “You choose to be sad” “You don’t even have anything to be sad about” “There are millions worse off than you, just get a grip!”
People struggling with self-harm:
“You’re just doing it for attention!” “Those cuts aren’t even that bad” “You don’t even have a reason to cut/burn yourself” “You freak! Hide your...
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“It’s not that Chris Brown is categorically unforgivable. It’s more that he’s no...”
– VICE on Cord’s Chris Brown post.
(via thenoobyorker)
Why the fuck can’t more people understand this?? We went through the same goddamn thing with Michael Vick and all those rapist athletes (OH LOL WAIT NEVERMIND NONE OF THEM WERE EVER CONVICTED BECAUSE THEY WERE PROBABLY ALL WHITE GUYS...
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so this next rant was going to be about BDSM and kinky shit like that but it’s exhausting and stupidly long and I need to go to bed
so
I think I’ll just finish it later
and maybe once I’ve had some time to stop freaking out I’ll actually be able to write something that isn’t a zillion pages long and actually makes sense instead of just being...
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Rant 1: Girls are like goddamn human beings, not...
So this evening I went to my weekly knitting class. I’m the youngest person there by a long shot, so I always feel a bit like the odd one out, but it’s always a pretty good time anyway. Except today one of the knitters started talking about the poetry unit she’s teaching in her 6th grade English class and the “shape poem” she found that she just loves and shows to her...
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Brace yourselves, the rants are coming
So there have been some things today that have made me really angry and upset and I’m going to be posting long ranty posts about them instead of doing my work because I really need to vent
just fyi
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I’m Not Okay with Chris Brown Performing at the... →
ellielamothe:
“We’re glad to have him back,” said executive producer Ken Ehrlich. “I think people deserve a second chance, you know. If you’ll note, he has not been on the Grammys for the past few years and it may have taken us a while to kind of get over the fact that we were the victim of what happened.”
Here is what this quote says to any woman who’s ever been abused:
By blacklisting...
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Can Kanye run up on stage and punch Chris Brown in...
octobones:
“Yo, I’mma let you finish. But I just want to remind everybody that this asshole is a woman beater.”
yes please
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“If you are a white woman and you want to call yourself a feminist, you must...”
– ladyatheist (via mamaatheist)
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Kristen Stewart: smiling is not an obligation,... →
ellielamothe:
“Stewart is often a target of a specific kind of body policing: the “smile, baby” requirement. When she appears on the red carpet and does not assure us with her teeth that she is simply thrilled to be reduced to a presence, a dress, a posture, she is often the target of harassment for her expression.
Despite the fact that this attention is often negative and always demanded,...
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“You know I was married for 23 years to the love of my life, and he died six...”
– Washington State Representative MAUREEN WALSH, Republican, on why she voted to legalize marriage equality in her state.
Dear New Jersey governor Chris Christie and others in the Republican Party who continue to demonize those who want marriage equality: this is what courage, and not cowardice,...
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Just A Quick Note to Atheists (From an Atheist)
moniquill:
thefullmetalbitch:
Being an atheist does not erase privilege. This includes white privilege.
This also includes cis privilege, CNDP privilege, and het privilege.
Seriously, being an atheist does not erase your white privilege.
Criticizing exclusively (majority) non-white religions is racist. This includes Islam.
The existence of white Muslims does not invalidate this...
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girlofgallifrey asked: I totally agree that slut shaming is awful, and the implication that a woman who shaves her business is in some way shameful should rightfully be stomped out. HOWEVER. I can't say with absolute certainty, but I think the "fucking creepy" comment might have more to do with the idea of removing all the hair leaning toward the prepubescent look, and infantilizes women. I don't...
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“Proposition 8 served no purpose, and had no effect, other than to lessen the...”
– Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt (via jessethorn)
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“This kind of faux concern about teenage girls and sexual activity has nothing to...”
– Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism (via ellielamothe)
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On the Difference Between Good Dogs and Dogs That...
redheadbouquet:
On the Difference Between Good Dogs and Dogs That Need a Newspaper Smack
Imagine, if you will, a small house, built someplace cool-ish but not cold, perhaps somewhere in Ohio, and inhabited by a dog and a lizard. The dog is a big dog, something shaggy and nordic, like a Husky or Lapphund – a sled dog, built for the snow. The lizard is small, a little gecko best adapted to...
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Types of cis bigots I am quite tired of (a bit of...
kiriamaya:
[warning for cissexism]
The Fundiegelical: “You may think you’re ‘happy’ by wearing the clothing of the opposite sex, but you’re living in sin and you’re going straight to hell! Jesus loves you.”
The “Enlightened” Liberal: “But gender doesn’t even matter, because deep down, we’re all the same. So why is it such a big deal what I call you?”
The TERF: “By embracing a gender role...
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LOST: SELF-RESPECT
youcallme-sexy:
mymustacheissincere:
gublerwood:
I don’t know, you guys. I’m really at a loss here. I can’t find my self-respect. It seems I have misplaced it. Here’s a photo of me with my self-respect fully intact:
See? Look at how happy I look? I’m fully clothed and you can just see the self-respect radiating off of me.
But somewhere in between that picture being taken and this...
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“Men have called me a man-hater, a feminazi, frigid, a bitch… but in my mind it...”
– Heartless Bitches International (via ratbrat)
Heartless Bitches is awesome.
(via fromonesurvivortoanother)
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“Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of...”
– Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via moonsafaris)
“You have probably never heard of British-born Cecilia H. Payne (later Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin), who in 1923 came to the United States to study stellar...
