February 2012
21 posts
Things to Think About: So, I kind of feel like... →
solitarelee:
thinksaboutstuff:
solitarelee:
thinksaboutstuff:
So, I kind of feel like another blog of this type on tumblr is kinda pointless. Reason 1 would be that there are approximately 10000000 more just like it but much better.
Reason 2: I created this so I could rant about political junk an’ all away from my “main” account, but really. There is just…
I know how you feel. :/...
Things to Think About: So, I kind of feel like... →
solitarelee:
thinksaboutstuff:
So, I kind of feel like another blog of this type on tumblr is kinda pointless. Reason 1 would be that there are approximately 10000000 more just like it but much better.
Reason 2: I created this so I could rant about political junk an’ all away from my “main” account, but really. There is just…
I know how you feel. :/ Sometimes I have to take a few days of...
So, I kind of feel like another blog of this type on tumblr is kinda pointless. Reason 1 would be that there are approximately 10000000 more just like it but much better.
Reason 2: I created this so I could rant about political junk an’ all away from my “main” account, but really. There is just too much to rant about. Too many manipulative politicians, religious nutjobs, people...
I just want to reiterate that this law in... →
licketydo-licketyda:
reallyfoxnews:
Again, forcing or coercing someone into being vaginally/anally/orally penetrated with or without force is rape. Being forced to be vaginally penetrated with an object in order to receive an abortion is rape.
“As an unnamed lawmaker told a fellow Virginia delegate, a woman already consented to being “vaginally penetrated when they got pregnant.””
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“Rape culture is telling girls and women to be careful about what you wear, how...”
– I might just copy and paste this so I can have this perfect answer ready when people say things like “but how does this “rape culture” actually affect women?” (via holdmecloser-tonydanza)
This. THIS. Read it. Now read it again. Now the next time you victim-blame, or rag on women for any of the...
Being friendly and nice to the significant other's...
Kindness ends when they start making sexist generalizations and pulls the whole “women are just drama and men are chill so I have more guy friends”. DAMN, it’s lucky that every single person who says shit like that is the exception to the rule amirite?
I realized have no non-snarky way to reply to that BS anymore. The nicest thing I can do is not respond at all.
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LOL so many people reblogging that thing about...
“Stop being mean, he changed!”
“Bitch isn’t a gendere specific term anymore so it’s not so bad!”
“Be happy for him!”
Fuck that. People have every right to call someone, even someone who has changed, out on their bullshit. If they made their living off of being sexist as fuck, people can and will criticize them for it all they fucking want....
White History Month?
ifilikeityoulikeit:
Well of course there is a Tumblr dedicated to the ignorant folks of, let’s just say America, who are confused as to why there isn’t a White History Month. Someone should have told them we have White History Life.
Note: @jtyler_spence rocking his “NObama” avatar. On the other hand, after further investigation, his Twitter profile does say “Christ In Everything.”
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Misc. Rant #?
I’ve always felt the pressure to “be better than that”.
Especially in queer and feminist circles. I’m always being told by outsiders that I have to “be better than that”. Form logical, rational arguments to appeal to people. Treat them with respect and dignity. I should never lower myself and get emotional or angry. Instead composure and control is necessary to...
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To My Old Master →
blkcowrie:
In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdan Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdan — who, since being emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family — responded spectacularly by way of the letter seen below (a letter which, according tonewspapers at the...
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Thoughts?
I am a person who has a uterus. However I’ve never really felt fully comfortable ascribing myself to being a “girl” or “woman” or “female”. I also really don’t understand or agree with a decisive binary divide. As I’ve grown up, learned, and explored, I realize I feel the label I most closely relate to is that of a gender fluid femme.
However,...
Birth control pill recall amid pregnancy fear -... →
stfuconservatives:
bluntlyblue:
Pfizer said on Tuesday it was recalling about a million packets of birth control pills in the United States because they may not contain enough contraceptive to prevent pregnancy.
“As a result of this packaging error, the daily regimen for these oral contraceptives may be incorrect and could leave women without adequate contraception, and at risk for unintended...
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Fuck people who say "abortion is the easy way...
They have no idea what they fuck they’re talking about.
January 2012
50 posts
Today in "I didn't know they were Black!!": Ludwig...
coelasquid:
theafrosistuh:
SOURCE
The true identity of Ludwig van Beethoven, long considered Europe’s greatest classical music composer. Said directly, Beethoven was a black man. Specifically, his mother was a Moor, that group of Muslim Northern Africans who conquered parts of Europe—making Spain their capital—for some 800 years.
In order to make such a substantial statement, presentation of...
“You can’t spend two decades referring to other men’s daughters as b*tches and...”
– -Dr. Boyce Watkins regarding Jay-Z’s decision to stop using the word “bitch” after the birth of his daughter. (via zombiemovies)
Wait.
Wait.
Why are we reblgging this? What are we trying to say here? That we agree with this Dr. Boyce Watkins whoever the heck he is? Because I think that is a...
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On Being an Object and Then Not Being an Object
butchnorfemme:
[Trigger warning for street harassment, feeling/being powerless, assault, rape culture, etc., and because, Christ, this made me want to throw up at my desk. Also, I bolded the parts that I felt strongly about.]
Source: Alice Bradley, finslippy
I keep trying to write this post, and every time I’m taken aback at how angry I am, how very furious, and I don’t want that, I want to...
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Hard Truths: Affirmative Action →
racismschool:
How many times have you heard “I can’t get a job because ofAffirmative Action” or some variation of this line?
There is an ongoing rhetoric about how white men are the new minority. This idea that they, themselves feel the need to perpetuate. For the rest of the day, I am going to talk about that.
It’s not a law. That’s right, it’s an “Initiative.” What does that mean? Well, it...
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“For poor minorities, entrepreneurship in small business is the key to future...”
– -Newt Gingrich (via gagaforpolitics)
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Anonymous asked: “White privilege: Being white,...
Absolutely.
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“There’s nothing wrong with being gay, I just don’t want children...”
– (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
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CIRCULAR LOGIC.
Starting claim: If a woman is dressed in something revealing, she is advertising herself and wants sex. If she gets raped, it’s because she was “asking for it”. But if she was truly asking for it, it would be consensual. Rape is non-consent.
It’s not a question of what you personally think of the way a person is dressed. IT’S ABOUT CONSENT. It’s whether or not...
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Going to start a tag/series of "shit that pisses...
Mainly quotes and stupid stuff people say worded so that the ridiculousness is obvious.
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“‘Slut’ is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say ‘yes’....”
– angels-and-angles (via mikroblogolas)
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Bear Cave: laineyyyyy: ebullientefflorescence:... →
laineyyyyy:
ebullientefflorescence:
ticktockdeathclock:
r0bertbrowniejr:
Yesterday my mom posted a picture on Facebook of my 5 year old brother Sam wearing a pair of shoes he picked out for his first day of preschool.
She explained to him in the store that they were…
Something happy for this blog! Too cute.
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“I’m pro-choice because the personhood of a embryo/fetus is irrelevant: no person...”
– — excerpted from Raising My Boychick, a blog on parenting
(via oceanevolution)
I’m certain I’ve reblogged this before but holy shit does this hit the nail on the head.
(via navybluecigarettes)
Things that made me want to be violent today.
At the hospital, an employee talking on their phone in the elevator said “that’s so retarded.”
At the nursing home, some male staff member telling me to smile more, despite seeing me for all of 3 seconds.
Um. Yeah. Ok. Fuck off.
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Things to Think About: You know what the surest... →
solitarelee:
thinksaboutstuff:
You tell someone that they are weak. They are fragile. They need protection. They are not intelligent. Coddle them. Teach them to sew instead of fight. To be silent instead of protest. Prevent them from acting out by systematically punishing them for doing anything that you didn’t teach…
What I found the most interesting was how this can also be applied pretty...
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“It is illegal for women to go topless in most cities, yet you can buy a magazine...”
– Violet Rose, in Three Steps to Better Sex (via muffdiver)
This reminds me of the post going around which contrasted the pathologizing of public breastfeeding with the gratuitous, objectifying images of women’s breasts that can be found in advertising.
The legal and social message is that our...
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Feminist history is complicated.
iamateenagefeminist:
feministhistorian:
One thing I’ve noticed over the past year is how feminist history is either seen as good or bad. There is no discussion on how the feminist movement actually was. Feminist history is not all good or all bad. No one person is all good or all bad. They are complicated and able to hold contradictory views. It has been over simplified to “1st and 2nd wave...
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White people lack empathy for brown people, brain... →
knowledgeequalsblackpower:
The participants – all white – watched simple videos in which men of different races picked up a glass and took a sip of water. They watched white, black, South Asian and East Asian men perform the task.
Typically, when people observe others perform a simple task, their motor cortex region fires similarly to when they are performing the task themselves. However, the...
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You know what the surest way to control people is?...
You tell someone that they are weak. They are fragile. They need protection. They are not intelligent. Coddle them. Teach them to sew instead of fight. To be silent instead of protest. Prevent them from acting out by systematically punishing them for doing anything that you didn’t teach them. Tell them that they must rely on you for protection, intelligence, happiness, and survival. You...
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Argument from my Facebook today (abridged).
Friend: Posts video Shit White Girls Say…to Black Girls” is not racist.
Me: “LOL white people crying reverse racism.”
Friend: “I kno rite.”
Person 1: “Anyone can be racist towards anyone else regardless of race.”
Me: “Racism implies power. Black people portrayed in stereotypes every day which affects public image. White person portrayed...
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You cannot be a feminist and not consider race or...
I know there will be many people who will agree with this just as there will be many people who do not. But there is no “shared woman’s experience”. People’s race, ethnic group, color, where they live, are all necessary to assessing the different way sexism manifests itself in different places and cultures, and how ethnic stereotypes play into it. So feminists with white...
Anonymous asked: Does it upset you when a woman...
No…
I like feminism because it gives women the ability to do whatever they want. I don’t like that women are constantly told what to do and who to be by society. That’s a huge reason why I identify with feminism, I don’t like being told what to do or who to be.
So why would I try to tell other women what to do or who to be?
A question selected from the ever-popular collection...
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I watched the movie "Darjeeling Limited" the other...
By the end I couldn’t help but think. The one brother leaves his pregnant wife at home without telling her that he’s going to this foreign country for an extended period of time.
It felt like… wow. People are going think “that was kind of a shitty thing to do but he gained personal and spiritual enlightenment and is coming back a better person so whatever it was OK in the...