March 2013
32 posts
5 tags
4 tags
4 tags
3 tags
Reblog if a man has ever tried--no matter how...
hazellazer:
Curious how often this happens.
7 tags
4 tags
“I do feel sorry for these boys. And not only because they will be put in cages...”
– Mia McKenzie, On Rape, Cages, and the Steubenville Verdict (via sugaryumyum)
5 tags
4 tags
Bookmark this link →
Y’know how the Youtube comment section is a hellhole of terrible people spouting horrible things? Well if you pin this link to your tab, you can quickly and easily report these people for being the shitbags they are and get them shut down! Don’t just sit there getting mad - annoy and inconvenience these poor excuses for human beings, and let them know that people won’t stand for...
4 tags
8 tags
5 tags
ileolai:
Sex work by choice, sex work by necessity, and sex slavery are three different situations that require different approaches in confronting the issues that are unique to them STOP CONFLATING THE THREE
4 tags
4 tags
“From a consequentialist standpoint, a woman’s right to bodily autonomy outweighs...”
– Shakesville: The Rhetorical Power of Pig Pain (via brute-reason)
4 tags
“Consent isn’t a game where if you can avoid your partner saying “no” firmly, you...”
– We Are Standing Sill @ AVClub (via boomvagynamite)
6 tags
2 tags
“Lifestyle feminism ushered in the notion that there could be as many versions of...”
– bell hooks (Feminism is for Everybody)
9 tags
3 tags
1 tag
Please don’t message me, asking me to do your homework!
You’re currently on the internet. Use it! It’s fun!
4 tags
5 tags
2 tags
8 Studies That Debunk Male Gender Stereotypes →
nadiaaboulhosn:
nevver:
Between infancy and first grade, boys express their emotions more readily than girls. [here]
Worldwide, boys aren’t any better at math than girls. [here]
Young men are more emotionally vulnerable to troubles in their relationships than young women are. [here]
Men are less rational investors than women. [here]
Men aren’t worse than women at reading emotional cues....
5 tags
4 tags
“The difference between “all men are rapists” and “a woman cannot tell by looking...”
– Melissa McEwan at Shakesville (via boomvagynamite)
5 tags
5 tags
9 tags
6 tags
“If men and women were psychologically distinct from one another, then their...”
– Study debunks notion that men and women are psychologically distinct (via tooyoungforthelivingdead)
2 tags
From one feminist to another!
Hey there! My name’s Lizzie. I just wanted to pop on by and show you my new feminist shop, Kitschy Slut Apparel. We sell some cute ass shit, so go ahead and give it a look if you’d like! We’re actual people, not spam. I promise, hahahah. We’re just trying to get our name out there. We won’t send any messages after this! Your support and/or promotion is much...
12 tags
[TW: rape] EBONY: 5 Ways We Can Teach Men Not to... →
boomvagynamite:
Trigger warning for discussions of rape and rape culture.
Zerlina Maxwell offers ways to prevent rape without making women responsible for the crimes committed against them
I took part in a recent debate on Fox News’ Sean Hannity Show about whether women should just get guns in order to prevent rape. There I said the following:
“I think that the entire conversation is...
2 tags
13 tags
February 2013
109 posts
3 tags
Some Notes about Women on YouTube
fishingboatproceeds:
1. There are many, many wonderful women on YouTube who have broad and growing audiences. Here is a long but still incomplete list. (I’d add Grace Helbig, Hannah Hart, Natalie Tran, and Mamrie Hart, but there are lots.)
2. When women start to build an audience on YouTube, they are far, far more likely than men to be subjected to threats, harassment intimidation, and abuse....
21 tags
3 tags
Kristen Stewart: smiling is not an obligation, professional or otherwise
”She stands out on the red carpet because she does not smile broadly or pose; she usually looks slightly uncomfortable. Of her red-carpet experience, Stewart said: People say that I’m miserable all the time. It’s not that I’m miserable, it’s just that somebody’s yelling at me…I literally, sometimes, have to keep myself...
2 tags
5 tags
4 tags
6 tags
4 tags
4 Famous Black Feminists You Never Learned About... →
4 tags
5 tags
2 tags
“Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men...”
– bell hooks
This quote is never not relevant. Sexism maintains its threshold on all sides of the political spectrum.
(via eastafrodite)
4 tags
Want to Do a Small Piece of Pro-Choice Activism?
edforchoice:
***Note: E4 seem to have now taken it down! So let’s keep up the pressure on ITV!***
We’d like people to help out with this easy action!
Have you heard about the coercive, insensitive, and inaccurate “crisis pregnancy counseling” that some anti-choice organisations are being allowed to give to pregnant women? If not you can read about it here:...
1 tag
I’m not even going to talk about that fucking guy today, okay, I just can’t.
Glad I didn’t watch it, that’s all I’m saying.
12 tags
happyhomos asked: Hello! Please check out our happyhomos blog! We are a group of six UCR students hoping to redefine happiness through our queer perspective. Through talking about these experiences and glimpsing at a queer past, it makes possible a queer future. Please join us and support our cause by submitting to our blog in any form of art. We appreciate any form of participation! If you support us, we will also...
3 tags
