February 2012
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What do you mean "heteronormative" isn't a word?
Or “othering”
Or “exoticized”
Stupid spell check.
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In my ask box there are 3 separate messages from...
I didn’t answer previously because:
I hate anonymous personal questions
My sexuality is personal
I don’t like claiming labels about sexuality, it seems limiting to me
I don’t feel like I owe anyone an explanation for who I’m makin’ sex with
But for the record, No. I’m not a lesbian. Thus far in my life I have only slept with men and I have enjoyed it for...
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Hey, I really like that shitty glitter effect you...
And the bold sassy text in fun colors. How did photography exist before shitty online photo editors?
BUT DON’T WORRY. YOU’RE AN ARTIST.
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“Republicans don’t even acknowledge that racism exists. There were a couple of...”
– Bill Maher (via barbiehighheels)
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“If I’m left without contraception, how can I plan my pregnancies? If I can’t...”
– The (Not) New War on Birth Control - we’re talking about it today. (via myplannedparenthood)
You can’t plan your life, silly! Didn’t you know? You’re not a person! You’re a baby machine!
Ughughugh.
(via protostellar)
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“If I had the choice between wearing a burka and a playboy bunny symbol, I would...”
– Ariel Levy (writer of female chauvinist pigs) I’m listening her talk live at my school and she definitely just inferred that wearing a burka is just as oppressive and objectifying an associating with playboy (and of course that all playboy bunnies are oppressed)
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“True gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A group that is made...”
– - Lucy, When Worlds Collide: Fandom and Male Privilege. (via seaofbadstories)
I might have reblogged this already but it’s so good I don’t care.
(via stfufauxminists)
Kyriarchy in action.
(via transstingray)
Also the study where they had women and men talking in a discussion and when women...
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“Stop degrading the act of sex by calling it ‘opening your legs.’
I’m so sick...”
– flowersarebetterthanbullets on This Post (I made this a quote, because the original picture with text was visually offensive. These pro-life people need to take a graphic design class.)
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“It reminds me of the “bike to work” movement. That is also portrayed as white,...”
– comment left on the Racialious blog post “Sustainable Food & Priviledge: Why is Green always White (and Male and Upper-Class)” (via ouiominy)
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“Through the process of socialization we learn to be sexist, even if throughout...”
– Stop Being A Bitch! A look at Sexism in Insults (via shandog)
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“No one could blame American women here if they all suddenly decided to leave the...”
– John Oliver on American contraception debates, The Bugle 183 (via sixpencesoulcake)
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Sexual Violence, Systematic and Institutionalized →
TRIGGER WARNING: Rape, sexual assault.
In an article titled “The Brutal Horror of Prison Rape, as Told by Its Victims”, Kimberly Yates and Bryson Martel tell their story of being raped while incarcerated. What stood out the most to me in their accounts was the fact that overall the violence was thoroughly ignored. Yates says that what makes her case “especially alarming is the fact that the BOP...
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“It is my opinion that the combat exclusion policy actually increases the risk of...”
– Former Army Sergeant Kayla Williams dropped a lot of wisdom in an NPR interview earlier this week. You should go read/listen to what she had to say. (via thepoliticalnotebook)
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“Instead of focusing on helping the President and Congressional Democrats get the...”
– Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz talking to Lawrence O’Donnell about the Republican fight against contraception coverage for women. (via kileyrae)
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