Things to Think About

My initial comment here was going to be along the lines of “are you fucking kidding me?”, but I quickly realized that no. It doesn’t surprise me at all.

And yeah, commercial itself is kind of old news.

Bawwwwww he defriended me :)
I hurt the poor cis white man’s feelings.

sexism

“It’s only urban sophisticates - usually under the age of 40 - who choose to find them distasteful. It is the ‘language hygienists’ who choose to see them as discrimination,”
“So when bus drivers, cabbies and shopkeepers use words like “luvvie”, “darling” or “flower”, they are being “affectionate, not patronising”
“It’s folksy - part of a tradition in this country…”

Forgive me if I’m wrong, but tradition is not a valid reason to uphold behavior that is demeaning, dehumanizing, offensive, or threatening. Fuck. That. Shit.
And what the fuck is this?

“I think the best way to deal with being called ‘love’ or ‘babe’ if you didn’t like it, would be to say something humorous to get the message across - something like’thanks stud muffin’.”

Yeah, sure. Respond to feeling demeaned and dehumanized with good humor because it’s less likely to hurt the delicate feelings of the poor bus driversdespite the fact that it’s giving mixed signals, and is likely the same shit people have to deal with every fucking day but the moment they actually speak up about it in a clear, direct way they’re written off as being “too emotional” or “too politically correct”. Because it’s obviously the feelings of the bus drivers is what matters here.
Not calling people derogatory terms is soooooo urban sophisticate. And if you feel offended or threatened, the appropriate response is always a smile and a jest!
The more I see shit like this, the less I feel like being that nice, accommodating feminist. And I don’t care about run-on sentences right now >(

“It’s only urban sophisticates - usually under the age of 40 - who choose to find them distasteful. It is the ‘language hygienists’ who choose to see them as discrimination,”

“So when bus drivers, cabbies and shopkeepers use words like “luvvie”, “darling” or “flower”, they are being “affectionate, not patronising”

“It’s folksy - part of a tradition in this country…”

Forgive me if I’m wrong, but tradition is not a valid reason to uphold behavior that is demeaning, dehumanizing, offensive, or threatening. Fuck. That. Shit.

And what the fuck is this?

“I think the best way to deal with being called ‘love’ or ‘babe’ if you didn’t like it, would be to say something humorous to get the message across - something like’thanks stud muffin’.”

Yeah, sure. Respond to feeling demeaned and dehumanized with good humor because it’s less likely to hurt the delicate feelings of the poor bus driversdespite the fact that it’s giving mixed signals, and is likely the same shit people have to deal with every fucking day but the moment they actually speak up about it in a clear, direct way they’re written off as being “too emotional” or “too politically correct”. Because it’s obviously the feelings of the bus drivers is what matters here.

Not calling people derogatory terms is soooooo urban sophisticate.
And if you feel offended or threatened, the appropriate response is always a smile and a jest!

The more I see shit like this, the less I feel like being that nice, accommodating feminist. And I don’t care about run-on sentences right now >(

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 they gave that consent of their own free will.
And consent does not look like fishnets or a skirt.

You just don’t say to someone ”sure, you were mentally/emotionally/physically abused against your will by some criminal, but you must have secretly wanted it based on what you were wearing/how much you drank/where you were.”

‘Slut’ is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say ‘yes’. ‘Friendzone’ is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say ‘no’.

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thekingdomofarthur:

jennthemusical:

the-white-prophet:

americangothgirl:

icoulduseinsouciantmaybe:

fuori-dal-mondo:

b-mommy:

talldarkbishoujo:

super-eklectic1:

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misswednesdayaddams:

skycry:

but you can see her arms

how immoral

she must have really low self esteem

why cant she just respect herself

Oh my god she’s so trashy. Ladies don’t show their bare arms like that, seriously cover that shit up okay.

Uuuuggggh. This is why I hang out with gentlemen. It’s just so much easier to hang out with men rather than these trashy looking women showing the bodies to the world and having no self-respect.

hoes den lost their minds exposing their damn shoulders all willy nilly have some class you whores!!

STRUMPETS AND HARRIDANS, THE LOT OF THEM.

SCARLET WOMEN

JEZEBELS

HARLOTS

NAUGHTY LADIES OF THE NIGHT

PINCHCOCK

TROLLOPS

HUSSIES

VILLAGE BIKES

TIMESHARES

BY OUR LORD WOMEN.

COVER YOUR SHAME.

YOU ARE NO LONGER FIT TO WED

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onlyslightly:

Fixed it.

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You can’t spend two decades referring to other men’s daughters as b*tches and hoes, and then somehow decide that your own daughter is going to be exempt from the game. You, my brother, have given nearly every inch of your creative productivity toward murdering your daughter’s self and public image before she was even born. In other words, you brought Blue Ivy Carter into a world where most of your biggest fans will look at her and refer to her not as daddy’s little princess, but instead as a dirty little bitch. I fact, they will even get paid for it.

-Dr. Boyce Watkins regarding Jay-Z’s decision to stop using the word “bitch” after the birth of his daughter.

[cont. discussion]

I have learned that trying to explain to people that “strippers =/= sluts” is a losing battle.

Let alone trying to convince them that “slut” is a sexist term used to degrade and oppress women based on nothing more than the assumption of their sexual activity.

It would be hilarious to portray the female characters realistically. If you chose the female character in your FPS she would have to move very slowly, dragging the gun around. You could build in some extra shake to the crosshairs to represent hopeless accuracy. Every time you needed to reload your gun, instead of just pressing a button, you’d have to find a male character and go through some flirting dialogue options to persuade him to do it for you. One out of every four missions the game would tell you that you were sitting out this one due to ‘women’s issues’.

Men who are oh-so-offended by women characters in their video games.
Complaints such as “women wouldn’t be able to do ____ or _____ as well as men! Why aren’t there intelligence and strength penalties for female characters? It’s unrealistic.”

In games where you are fighting dragons or Locusts or any other number of fictional things, it’s the fact that women characters are as able and intelligent as the male characters that makes it unrealistic. Forget about women who are in the military, or professional sportsmen, or hunters, or professors, scientists, you name it.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, “It’s a girl.

Shirley Chisholm (US politician 1924-2005)

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