December 2010
30 posts
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vladislava:
madamethursday:
Using someone’s spelling/grammar against them or to invalidate what they say or to form an opinion about them is, in my opinion, a first cousin to the tone argument because it doesn’t address the substance of someone’s statement but rather the method in which it was delivered, and requires that someone meet another’s standard to be allowed into and recognized in a...
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“Worries go better with soup than without.”
– Yiddish proverb (via quellequaintrelle) (via vladislava)
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“I don’t feel that putting my mouth on someone’s cock is an inherently submissive...”
– Mistress Matisse: The Politics of Blowjobs (via sexisnottheenemy)
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the black swan is really just a movie of natalie...
janedoe225:
yeah…
I found the scenes with the director to be so, so disturbing. so incredibly disgusting and exploitative. I do think pressure to be sexual/sexual aggression can be significant in a woman’s exp but did it have to be addressed like that?- where the director isn’t called out for his sexual harassment. and in the end the Black Swan (the “sexual Nina”) was...
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“Mansplaining: when dudes explain to women subjects that the women in question...”
– Attention Rebellious Jezebels - Mansplaining Redux
Double bonus points deluxe if one of the wimminz somewhere agreed with you at some point. (A wimminz agreeing with a man that something isn’t sexist immediately invalidates any woman who is offended by it.)
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janedoe225:
Dad-isms: Things I’ve Learned So Far: …and he could not see the irony (not a Dad-ism)
jgh-2:
atticwindow:
dad-isms:
…I was talking to a twenty-three year old young man tonight after asking his opinion on dating nowadays and he said, “I am the worst person to ask really”.
I said, “why”?
He said, “because I don’t understand females…every one I meet ends up cheating...
“The United Nations and all its agencies and funds spend about $30 billion each...”
– There is a large gap between what countries are prepared to allocate for military means to provide security and maintain their global and regional power status, on the one hand, and to alleviate poverty and promote economic development, on the other.
Spending for peace vs spending for war
(via...
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lipstick-feminists:microaggressions:
Any guy: You should be careful in college. Me: I’m careful. I stay aware and alert. I have campus security and the police on speed dial, and I’ve taken a couple self defense classes. Any guy: Oh, well, you know self defense classes for women are useless. You’re so small, I could totally take you. Me: No, not really. It’s not based on...
“I thought you were shallow and silly cuz you’re always dancing and smiling, but...”
– white cis hetero guy after I called out homophobia. So generous with his backhanded compliments (via microaggressions)
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“You’ll be fine! Just talk like a white person.”
– A white job-training counselor speaking to a young man of color about his upcoming job interview. (via microaggressions)
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“Fuck these patriarchal beauty standards”. I hear you loud and clear, but women...”
– Lamesha, Grrrl Perspective (via tulletulle)
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FWD/Forward: We Are Not Your Props →
I don’t know how else to say this because I feel like I have been saying it for years, and no one is listening:
We are not props. We are not symbols. We are not rhetorical devices. We are human beings. We have free will and bodily autonomy.
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microaggressions:
The day after a party I ran into the host and she said, “My husband absolutely loved you, he said you broke all the stereotypes!” This party was hosted by the department chair of a college program and I was the only Native American person there.
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Licia Ronzulli Brings Her Baby to EU Parliament. →
sexismandthecity:
“I know you have to be worried all the time about being raped, even on campus,...”
– (via microaggressions)
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the...”
– Kahlil Gibran (via girlinboyclothes)
“I think the most basic prerequisite for being a feminist is recognizing that...”
– Lena Chen in the ch!cktionary (via sluthaditcoming, naomiwaxman) (via ateaquitudobem) (via thewomaninsideme) (via janedoe225)
Speaker's Corner: Siblings Rarely Share...
This report that NPR did on Morning Edition this morning was great. It tackles why we tend to end up so different from our siblings despite having the same family. It is truly fascinating. […]
There are three theories about why this is true. […]
#2: Environment (This is SO interesting)
Though from the outside it appears that we are growing up in the same family as our...