June 2012
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“We thank you, dearest white savior, for neglecting to address the ‘war on women’...”
– Colonialism Feminism. An excerpt from the famous and most excellent letter to Mona Eltahawy. It’s not recent but it always remain relevant.
Go on. Save us.
(via mehreenkasana)
SALTED.
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“Free speech as a legal concept only guarantees you the right to speak. It...”
– “Not Okay”: MovieBob on Sexism and Harassment in Nerd Culture. (via jerrymuffinbutt)
(via lettherebecramp)
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“The founding fathers, it turns out, passed several mandates of their own. In...”
– If Health Insurance Mandates Are Unconstitutional, Why Did the Founding Fathers Back Them?
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Classist justice
saschaeatsteeth:
myintersection:
Far too often, I’ve heard radical queers and feminists, in their hipster garb, talking their academic jargon about checking one’s privilege and being accountable, and in the same breath mocking poor people. It’s not always explicit. Actually, in social justice circles, it hardly ever is. Many of you know not to say words like ghetto or white trash, or at least...
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“What do you think street harassment is about? Sex? Benign flattery? Attraction?...”
– International Anti-Street Harassment Week: 10 Things You Can Do To Stop Street Harassment (via ellielamothe)
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“But most of all, stop thinking that what people so loathingly refer to as the...”
– -Taylor Callobre, The “Good Guy” Myth (via grrrlstudies)
reblog every time
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#635
thisiswhiteprivilege:
White privilege is making the very first Black Disney Princess… and then make her spend the majority of her movie as a frog, design her white sidekick to look more like a princess than she does, , make her love interest racially ambiguous, and have her villain be a caricature of a black religion.
Submitted by marrymejasonsegel
Mod note: And then expect black people to be...
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“Firstly, a great many readers will defend any kind of criticism on feminist (or...”
– http://tigerbeatdown.com/2011/08/26/enter-ye-myne-mystic-world-of-gayng-raype-what-the-r-stands-for-in-george-r-r-martin/ comment #30 (via squareroot-1)
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I actually may switch my essay topic
geeknip:
But here’s entry one on the Things I Am Told I Am Unusually Passionate About:
1. The inaccuracy of gender ratios in almost every fiction work I have seen about social insects. The most immediate examples that come to mind are Antz, A Bug’s Life, and Bee Movie. In the vast majority of bee, ant, and termite species, almost all the members of a hive or colony are female. The only males...
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Dan Savage is RIGHT about Biblical slavery and... →
transstingray:
zjemptv:
A couple weeks ago, Dan Savage was the keynote speaker at the National High School Journalism Convention, where he discussed social media, anti-gay bullying, and his It Gets Better Project. While addressing the role of religion in homophobia, he said:
We can learn to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about gay people, the same way we have learned to ignore the bullshit...
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“The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the...”
– John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (via antisocial-socialist)
WHOOPS
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The Top 6 Reasons Why You Should Hate Dan Savage
queerandpresentdanger:
TW for pretty much everything
forgetpolitics:
1. Dan Savage hates trans people and uses transphobic slurs.
“Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives. Perhaps I’m a transphobic bigot, but I honestly think waiting a measly 36 months to cut your dick is a sacrifice any father should be willing to make for his 15-year-old son....
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“If a group of people comes to you and says, “This thing that you are doing is...”
– A Complete Guide to ‘Hipster Racism’
just don’t read the comments, whatever you do.
(via darling80m)
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“For the first eight years of our marriage, [Michelle and I] were paying more in...”
– President Obama in North Carolina today on why Congress has to act to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling (via barackobama)
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“Yes, we live in a sexist culture, in which women have no good choices when it...”
– Greta Christina (What I May Do With My Naked Body: A Reply to Azar Majedi About the #NudePhotoRevolutionaries Calendar)
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“It is the height of privilege to think that everyone must listen to what you...”
– Say what you want, but no guarantees I’ll listen (via biyuti)
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Who’s really hurting Aspen’s environment —... →
When we traveled to the area, we found two very different Aspens. The dominant, commercial Aspen was an idyllic, post-industrial refuge with stretch Range Rover limousines, toy poodles with diamond-encrusted collars, world-class ski slopes, and Hollywood celebrities who spend just a few weeks a year in multimillion-dollar single-family homes.
The other Aspen is a place where foreign-born...
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Bathtub photo lands coal activist in child-porn... →
“Gunnoe’s planned testimony included this photo [removed] of a child bathing in water that is the color of a pumpkin, offset at the far end of the tub by a cluster of bath-fun bubbles. Gunnoe wanted to show the committee this photo, but the presiding politicians decided it was inappropriate. (The child was, as bathing children generally are, unclothed.) So the activist presented other...
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“I’ve seen a ton on the facebooks about “thanking veterans for their service.” As...”
– An anti-capitalist veteran (via elitc)
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“[T]ake the notion of “political correctness”. It is true that movements of...”
– Phil Agre on Political Correctness (via jonathan-cunningham)
Any time someone brings up “well I’m not ‘politically correct’” it calls for a mega-side eye. Because, what? Your desire to say whatever you want however you want to say it trumps the comfort and well-being of the people around you?
(via...
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“Arguments about the so-called redistribution of wealth are mistaken in assuming...”
– Everything Is Obvious: Once You Know the Answer by Duncan J. Watts [Download] (via sociolab)
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“Speaking from the perspective and the tradition of lesbians of color, most if...”
– Emi Koyama’s “Whose feminism is it, anyway?” (via wewantrevolutiongirlstylenow)
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Social Justice Problems
on tumblr: guys we need to have a serious discussion about the erasure of nonbinary trans* people
in real life: ok, I guess I have to explain why "feminist" is not an insult
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“The Conversation about women’s bodies exists largely outside of us, while it is...”
– -Ashley Judd (The Daily Beast)
GOD BLESS YOU ASHLEY JUDD
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“Without Black Studies, what would we know of black protest of Jim Crow, slave...”
– I don’t have enough church fans to wave my “Amen!” with what T.F. Charlton says it on the R today on how Schafer Riley’s attacks on Black Studies scholars Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, La TaSha B. Levy, and Ruth Hays decenters them and became (yet another) attempt for white society to (once again!)...
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tinydragongina:
If you laugh at jokes about raping people I will laugh at my fist punching your throat because sure it’s violent and demeaning but I think it’s funny so why aren’t you laughing get off the floor and stop whining I am trying to assert that my desire to make a joke out of your traumatic experience is more important than your pain it’s called Freedom of Speech read a book.
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“It is impossible, in this space, to list all of the monstrous things that this...”
– Joseph N. DeFilippis, from Ronald Reagan: The Real Legacy.
I think this is appropriate considering how people want to buy a vial of his blood.
(via istormedthebastille)
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Most people who complain about "why do we all need...
ad-mirandam:
telegantmess:
have likely never felt the flood of relief that there is a WORD FOR WHAT YOU ARE after spending years wondering if you were broken, what was wrong with you, feeling ridiculously isolated and having other people complain about things you can’t change about yourself. If there’s a word for it, that makes it a real thing.
Knowing that I am real, that I am not alone, has...
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“A colonized mind is capable of seeing ONLY the options laid out by the coloniser...”
– Debra White Plume dropping some truth bombs (via selchieproductions)
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“But most of all, stop thinking that what people so loathingly refer to as the...”
– Taylor Callobre, The “Good Guy” Myth (via ellielamothe)
ALWAYS REBLOG
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“The problem I have with many of the more militantly vocal advocates of “gender...”
– Lisa Harney (x)
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“Poverty is not simply having no money — it is isolation, vulnerability,...”
– Megan Lee (via sociolab)
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Patriarchy in action: the New York Times rewrites... →
So here’s what I want to say to all that:
Women invented all the core technologies that made civilization possible. This isn’t some feminist myth; it’s what contemporary anthropologists believe. Women are thought to have invented pottery, basketmaking, weaving, textiles, horticulture, and agriculture. That’s right: without women’s inventions, we wouldn’t be able to carry things or store things...
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“Dude, you’re so edgy and politically incorrect. It’s totally ironic and...”
– I don’t know where I came across this, but it’s witty as fuck (via octagon-surgeon)
Hehe, this is like my favorite response to the “I don’t try to be PC” argument: whoa! so brave! it takes real courage to buck the thoughts and feelings of others while you say whatever you want! BRAVO!!!
I want to...
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"Minority Privilege", "Reverse Racism" and stuff... →
bankuei:
Most higher education scholarship money goes disproportionately TO WHITE PEOPLE, not people of color.
75 percent of college scholarships go to non-hispanic white students even though such students are only 62 percent of the overall student population:
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