“Eight percent of college men have either attempted or successfully raped. Thirty percent say they would rape if they could get away with it. When the wording was changed to “force a woman to have sex,” the number jumped to 58%. Worse still, 83.5% argue that “some women look like they are just asking to be raped.”
—Margo Paine, Ph.D. (Body Wars)
February 2011
“Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the 20th century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap peoples brains, and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.”
—Arundhati Roy
“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. ‘This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar,’ she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. ‘My question to you is this–what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.’ It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions?”
—Sandi Toksvig (via thatswhatshesaidquotes)
“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, ‘She doesn’t have what it takes.’ They will say, ‘Women don’t have what it takes.’”
—Clare Boothe Luce in a speech to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. (via thatswhatshesaidquotes)
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In a few weeks, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) will hold controversial Congressional hearings to investigate alleged extremism in American Muslim communities. Our recent PRRI/RNS Religion News Poll, conducted by Public Religion Research Institute in partnership with Religion News Service, reveals three powerful forces shaping how the public thinks about these hearings and American Muslims: fear, fairness and Fox News…
Finally, the survey revealed a remarkable Fox News effect on attitudes about the upcoming hearings and American Muslims. Holding other characteristics constant (e.g., party affiliation, age, education, gender, etc), those who most trust Fox News to give accurate information on current events and politics are four times as likely as those who most trust other TV news sources to say the upcoming hearings are a good idea. Trust in Fox News was the strongest single independent predictor of views on this issue—stronger than party affiliation, religious affiliation, education, or a range of other demographic factors.
The Fox News effect was evident even among generally conservative subgroups. Take for example the question of whether American Muslims want to establish Islamic or Shari’a law as the law of the land in U.S., an accusation that has been made by some conservative commentators, such as Sean Hannity on Fox News and the fear behind a successful 2010 ballot initiative in Oklahoma.
Only 23 percent of Americans hold this concern. But this question reveals a chasm between Fox News trusting Republicans and Fox News trusting evangelicals on the one hand, and their peers who trust other television news sources on the other. More than 4-in-10 (41 percent) Fox News trusting Republicans and nearly half (49 percent) of Fox News trusting white evangelical Protestants believe American Muslims want to establish Shari’a law in the U.S. In contrast, the attitudes of Republicans and white evangelical Protestants who trust other news sources are roughly comparable to the general population.
” —Robert P. Jones for the Washington Post
Read of the rest of the article: Fear, Fairness and Fox News: Three Forces Shaping How We Think About American Muslims
(via reallyfoxnews)
“Men’s lives are being damaged by sexism - we can’t separate it out from how sexism affects women. Because every time someone calls a guy a “pussy” or a “mangina,” every time someone tells a little boy not to “throw like a girl,” the not-so-subtle message is that there is something inherently wrong with being a woman. And that’s a message I think we could all live without.”
—Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide To Why Feminism Matters (via cupkacie)
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“Eye me up for I am fucka|lova|amiable. I am pretty and chunky and young, I am godless and demanding, neurotic and gutsy. I am sexual and dreamy and painfully extra intraverted. I am full of fantasy and lies astonishment and a greed to have and a greed to love and a greed to taste impossibilty, and a greed to fuck.”
—Courtney Love age 19, Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love (via dirtyblondedoll)
“Recognize that you are not the center of the universe.
Figure out how the idea of winning and losing fits into your relationships.
Be as vulnerable as you possibly can.
Recognize vulnerability and empathy as strengths.
Don’t allow the fact that other people have been assholes to you make you into a bitter and abusive person.
Commit to the revolution as a method of psychological and physical survival.” —kathleen hanna, bikini kill zine (via y-all)
Figure out how the idea of winning and losing fits into your relationships.
Be as vulnerable as you possibly can.
Recognize vulnerability and empathy as strengths.
Don’t allow the fact that other people have been assholes to you make you into a bitter and abusive person.
Commit to the revolution as a method of psychological and physical survival.” —kathleen hanna, bikini kill zine (via y-all)
“In 1784, five years before he became president of the United States, George Washington, 52, was nearly toothless. So he hired a dentist to transplant nine teeth into his jaw—having extracted them from the mouths of his slaves.”
—The sorry legacy of the founders
Equality Myth: Today in Awful Statistics: Women in the Military More Likely to be Raped by Fellow Soldiers than Kiled in Combat →
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That sexism and misogyny is still rampant in the military is not in itself surprising, but we were shocked to discover just how bad it is:
“There are three types of women in the Army,” says Rebecca Havrilla, a former sergeant and explosive-ordnance-disposal technician. “Bitch, dyke, and…
“A law under consideration in South Dakota would expand the definition of “justifiable homicide” to include killings that are intended to prevent harm to a fetus—a move that could make it legal to kill doctors who perform abortions. The Republican-backed legislation, House Bill 1171, has passed out of committee on a nine-to-three party-line vote, and is expected to face a floor vote in the state’s GOP-dominated House of Representatives soon.”
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South Dakota Moves To Legalize Killing Abortion Providers | Mother Jones (via bluntlyblue)
This is…insane. I’m almost speechless. Legalizing murder?! Very Pro-Life…
