March 2012
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feministhistorian:
“True gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A group that is made up of 50% women is perceived as being mostly women. A situation that is perfectly equal between men and women is perceived as being biased in favor of women. And if you don’t believe me, you’ve never been a married woman who kept her family name. I have had students hold that up as proof of my...
February 2012
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miucciawho asked: That guy is CM Punk, a wrestler. :)
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“When your mother hits you, do not strike back. When the boys call asking your...”
– “Unsolicited Advice to Adolescent Girls With Crooked Teeth and Pink Hair,” Jeanann Verlee (via ideaofnorth)
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“This is my cunt. I like the word cunt because it feels right to me, kind of cozy...”
– Evoe’s Story (via wrenna)
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What can I do to help?
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
latenightmusingsofaninsomniac asked you:
I’m really sad about all of this. Why can’t my body be mine? Why are other people telling me what I can and can’t do with it? How can men sit there and tell me I don’t have the right to choose what I think is right for my body? What can I do to help? I’m only 19, but I really want this sexism to stop. I want people to stop...
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“Men, in return, thrived. The ego candy they feasted on by virtue of...”
– Why Patriarchal Men Are Utterly Petrified of Birth Control — And Why We’ll Still Be Fighting About it 100 Years From Now (via janedoe225)
An absolutely fantastic article. Amazing. Please go read it.
(via missworded)
This article was incredible. Read it now, or save it for later- just make sure...
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A guide for those that don't have the STA and...
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earthwindandherpes:
I’ve been meaning to write about this. Last night my friend RD broached the subject with me. He’s had a crush on me for a while (mostly reciprocal) but we haven’t really hung out much in the past. Once during a heart-to-heart over the phone, I told him about the HSV. He didn’t say anything about it then and it wasn’t spoken about until last night. He...
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Just bought 6 boxes of Girl Scout cookies from a...
I will think of all the anti-choicers and backwards politicians while eat a whole box for dinner.
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“I’ve had librarians say to me, “People in my school don’t agree with...”
– David Levithan - Supporting Gay Teen Literature (via cake-light)
SERIOUSLY! I’m sick of LGBTQ culture being treated as just some political issue. Queer people aren’t just a handful of people who want to get married, okay? We’re real, and we’re fucking important, and we need to be represented...
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why Joani decided to write books about sex for...
notablankbook:
Back in the 80s, Joani wrote The Playbook for Kids About Sex and then A Kid’s First Book About Sex. They’re kids’ books all right, written around a first or second grade level, and they don’t talk about where babies come from. There’s plenty of books about that. Instead, these books talk about privacy, body parts, nudity, different kinds of touch, and even intercourse. ...
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“We’re not surprised that a woman would wear pants, but a man in a skirt or dress...”
– Gwen Sharp, Embodying Gender Differences (via wewantrevolutiongirlstylenow)
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“I absolutely reject the premise there is anything wrong with Black people...”
– Elaine Brown, Secretary of the Black Panther Party, professor of sociology. (via ifury)
THIS.
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LIFE!
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Exactly. There is no such thing as “acting white.” Blackness is its own fucking entity that is rich and multifaceted.
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lol if...
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Gender roles and language
anotherlgbttumblr:
Gender roles and language can be dealt with in three ways (probably more, but I wanna talk about these three now):
- You can be oblivious to it. You can never question the language people have used to describe you, the roles they have put you in and the way they have taught you to talk about yourself.
- You can know that gender roles and language have power over you. That...
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Total Film’s 100 Greatest Female Characters:... →
The stats:
Out of Total Film’s list of the 100 Greatest Female Characters in movies…
Only 79 have full names, and only 73 are listed by their full name.
6 are not human women, and 3 are not humanoid.
38 are a character in someone else’s story. 25 of those are primarily a love interest.
Approximately 1/5 do not survive their film.
Almost 1/2 are victimized or imperiled in their films, and...
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I saw a post by Ryking just now
coldbitterness:
And I’m not gonna reblog it because fuck that shitstain I don’t feel like talking directly to him, I’d make more headway talking to my toothbrush
But the post was a question asking “if Chris Brown had beaten up a man three years ago, would anyone still care?” tagged with, among other things, “misandry” and “hypocrisy”
And wow so I have a lot of (sad, angry) feelings about that...
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One Town's War on Gay Teens (by Sabrina Rubin... →
lostgrrrls:
[CONTENT WARNING: discussion of suicide, anti-gay bullying]
Asked on a radio program whether the anti-gay agenda of her ilk bore any responsibility for the bullying and suicides, Barb Anderson, co-author of the original “No Homo Promo,” held fast to her principles, blaming pro-gay groups for the tragedies. She explained that such “child corruption” agencies allow “quote-unquote gay...
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Contraceptives 101
katoya318:
With all the contraceptive methods available to women today, how do you know which is best for your body? Your choice will depend on your health, sex life, comfort level, and plans for pregnancy. You also need to consider effectiveness, cost and side effects. Find out which form of birth control is right for you. Plus: How much do you know about women’s health? There are four types of...
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