February 2012
10 Anthems for a Feminist Revolution: The Best... →
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Dear Nice Guy Syndrome,
bottleage:
Please go fuck yourself. Get fucked. Go away forever and never come back. This shit drives me into such terrible and ridiculous fits of rage. Anytime I see a “nice guy” complain about the trifflin’ girl that “friend zone’d” him, that girls are only into jerks, that she’s just a giant whore anyways since she doesn’t love me, or what have you, I just get so fucking asjfewjufrewurewds...
theoceanandthesky asked: YES i used to have so much internalized racism and sexism. i was cissexist too. i was a horrible person. just.. ugh.
mothsinamoshpit asked: i used to be a transphobic shitbag, it's uncomfortable to think about.
“It is far easier to talk about the tragedy of LGBTQ youth suicide than it is to...”
– Tey Meadow, J.D., Ph.D. (via gaysagainstgaga)
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Part of the reason why I can’t get behind campaigns pushing for young folx to assimilate as a way to cope. Yes, that will work for some, but using the “when you get out of high school and go to college”, and “when your on your own and find your...
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put love on hold: r0bertbrowniejr: Yesterday my... →
blurintofocus:
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 really made for girls. Sam then told her that he didn’t care and that…
Click and read, click and read. Although perhaps the part where he was most excited they were...
jumbleofnotes asked: Hey K! do you know where I can find a comparison of different menstrual cups? Or your own personal opinion, I searched the site but couldn't find much. I'm thinking of taking the plunge! (no pun intended, some look pretty plunger-like though haha)
Pro-Life Nation Launches with Interactive New... →
stfufauxminists:
nefariousnewt:
mohandasgandhi:
So, it’s okay for Christian extremists to make lists about where you can find abortion clinic physicians’ homes and all of their personal information while these doctors are being assassinated left and right and clinics, not even, Planned Parenthoods, are being firebombed but we need to hold congressional hearings on Muslims because 19...
“When the web started, I used to get really grumpy with people because they put...”
– Neil Gaiman on Copyright, Piracy, and the Commercial Value of the Web (X)
About that whole pink mace post a few days ago that I reblogged…
It’s not even so much that I’m bothered that pink mace exists. I’m bothered that, having lived in both NYC and LA, I’ve never heard someone tell a man he should carry mace to protect himself, but I’ve been asked multiple times if I own any, or been given the advice that (especially given some of...
addtodictionary asked: It would be refreshing if Disney's hero characters WERE asexual! The villains almost always are, or they often demonstrate a homosocial interest in the protagonists that's offered as evidence of their evil. Ursula stealing Ariel's voice? The various evil queens' jealousy toward princesses? etc. The moral is so often "Good thing this man can rescue you from these scary...
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karakbackwards asked: I am truly sorry but I have...
feministhistorian:
littlepixelhearts:
feministhistorian:
I am truly sorry but I have to disagree with your idea that you are for everyone being themselves and that you have no problem with gays or anything but I feel that it is not very appropriate for you to be a bigot. Again I am sorry and don’t mean to come off as offensive in any way when I call you a bigot. I just cannot say I agree...
What's the point if trying to play music when this... →
starvethebeat:
silentpunk:
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yeahgrrrl:
This actually personally offends me and everything I stand for. Call me a bitch or whatever idgaf!!
True life, I hate this too.
This just baffles me… I mean do we need tips on how to look “riot grrrl”? Really??
“Here are the products you need to be punk” - just blows my mind, not that I’m against make up at all, but this is just an...
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Why put a bumper sticker on a Ferrari? (via The... →
Lots of sexist bullshit about ladies who have or want tattoos… How many ridiculously false things can there be in one opinion piece? Let’s see:
She assumes women get tattooed as an act of rebellion
She thinks tattoos ruin a person’s body
She thinks anything women do to their body should be pleasing to a man’s eye, so anything that isn’t is something we just simply...
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Femonster: Let me just begin by saying, →
esmeweatherwax:
junk-pile:
Funny, I was just looking at pepper spray products online yesterday. My roommate keeps telling me stories about someone she knows getting followed and attacked, so I thought I’d better think harder about protecting myself. I, too, was annoyed by all the pink on the site. It’s condescending as fuck. It’s a big commercial jeer at us for feeling like we have to buy...
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“Because of Edison’s patents for the motion pictures it was close to financially...”
– from The Pirate Bay’s press release regarding SOPA and PIPA (via davidfinchers)
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“The song kicks off the record, and it’s about women realizing that they...”
– Emilie Autumn
I came across this quote recently in my work (one of my part-time jobs is handling PR for a group of local venues, so I write up quick press releases for some of the artists that come through, and this was in her press release). I was initially put off by the way her publicist/...
Did Americans in 1776 have British accents?
nickpatrick:
Reading David McCullough’s 1776, I found myself wondering: Did Americans in 1776 have British accents? If so, when did American accents diverge from British accents?
The answer surprised me.
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I’m totally fascinated by this.
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“We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost...”
– Gabe Newell (via ckoitz3)
January 2012
Fight Like a GRRRL!: On body modification and... →
hate-wizard:
Despite the fact that I just read a post that claimed I could not define what is and what isn’t racist, or cultural appropriation, because I am white, I am going to defend the use of body modification for as many cultures and peoples as I can.
So, the post claimed that white…
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I was listening to Naked Aggression in the car...
Me: Heads up... If I ever get this riot grrrl band going, I'm going to cover Naked Aggression's "Killing Floor" so I can yell, "Operation Rescue, what do you want me to do? Shove a coat hanger up my cunt?!" ...Just thought I should warn you.
Mike: By all means, you need to start that shit TOMORROW.
Me: Possible Craigslist ad headline: I want to sing pro-choice songs and yell "cunt!" Join my band!
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Top 5 Ways That White Women Continue to Discredit... →
laborreguitina:
1) Say we are too “involved” or biased in regards to the subject, and claim that you are more “objective”.
This is frequently done to silence people who are trying to tell their own story. Academia is famous for this, but it happens outside academia as well. For example, who are the acknowledged “experts” about our cultures, religions, and lives? Why are there white upper-class...
Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright... →
cultureofresistance:
wespeakfortheearth:
infoneer-pulse:
Congress may take books, musical compositions and other works out of the public domain, where they can be freely used and adapted, and grant them copyright status again, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
In a 6-2 ruling, the court ruled that just because material enters the public domain, it is not “territory that works may never...
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“I’ll say that again: If you define pro-life as preventing abortions, Planned...”
– Human Nature : The Pro-life Case for Planned Parenthood (via becauseiamawoman
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“Basically, I am sick of the ignorance, hatred and all the bullshit. The truth...”
– Henry Rollins (via ihateallyourgods)
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I can’t screencap it, since I’m on my phone, but I just saw two Fight Club gif sets in a row on my dash, from different people.
…I hardly ever see Fight Club gifs. Awesome.
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Yes, the FCC can try to fine you a half-million... →
motherjones:
The unexpected guest at your Super Bowl party this year? Graphic anti-abortion ads.
For real anti-choicers? FOR REAL? I mean, I’m not that surprised but it still pisses me off every time.
Normally, Terry wouldn’t be able to get these kinds of ads on television. So he’s launching a non-serious campaign for president (running as a Democratic challenger to...
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The Marilyn Meme (via Sociological Images) →
You’ve all seen the images that juxtapose Norma Jean on the beach with a thin modern day celebrity in a bikini, with the tag line, “Fuck society. This is more attractive than this.” (Arrow on the first “this” pointed at Jean, arrow on the second at the modern celeb.)
I don’t have to tell you all why the message is so, so, so fucked up, but I’ve gotten...
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“”You can’t spend two decades referring to other men’s daughters as bitches and...”
– -Dr.Boyce Watkins (Speaking on Jay-z’s decision to stop using the word bitch)
Best post of the day in my book.
(via jumpstart-therevolution)
Okay. So I agree with this. But. Can we also acknowledge that people do grow? That sometimes it takes a personal situation/major life event to make that...
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Dressed to Kill
rosalarian:
Whenever I complain about how females are portrayed in mainstream superhero comics, inevitably half a dozen people pop up to tell me this:
“Men are idealized in comics, too.”
Yes. Yes they are. I am aware of this. While I think the idealism is harmful, that isn’t actually what I have a problem with. (Well, not the main thing.) Because while the men are impossibly muscular and...
paperjay asked: "with the admittedly pompous caveat that it has to be local and humane;" is this really all that pompous...? asking because this is something that's been on my mind a lot lately as far as veg vs. local/humane meat