May 2011
139 posts
princesshannen asked: I would like to shed some light on those women who appear to be fully functioning and fully supportive of women's rights (and general equality) and yet vehemently deny being a feminist; I used to be one of them. To these women, feminist is a woman who burned her bra in the 1970s, a woman who doesn't shave, a woman who hates men, and a woman who is fighting for things like workplace...
maeby-quick asked: I'm saying 'fuck feminism' because I feel that most (not all) feminists look down their noses at old-fashioned values and roles. We could also theorize about how if women weren't all taking prime jobs, maybe more men would have good enough jobs to support their wives to be able to afford to stay home with their children. Then there's the everlasting and eternal argument...
:: goodbye again ::: something i do not... →
sugarfreemagnolia:
The way i understand it, it’s about equality. nothing more, nothing less. equal worth and value and respect and opportunity, as a human being. how can any decent woman, with a brain in her head and some degree of self-worth (and this is coming from someone with possibly some of the lowest self-esteem of anyone you’ll ever meet), NOT be a feminist? and for that matter, how...
066. I just want to be a wife and a mother. Fuck...
maeby-today:
I’d just like to point out: Feminism has nothing to do with that… so why are you saying fuck it? Feminism is just giving women the choice to NOT be a housewife/mother if they don’t want to be. Feminism isn’t saying that you can’t. It’s just saying everyone should be able to choose for themselves.
“When we talk about rape as something that happens to 1 in 6 women, it is...”
– Liza-the-second, in a comment on Guest blogger Starling: Schrodinger’s Rapist or a guy’s guide to approaching strange women without being maced, from Shapely Prose (via ilnestjamaistroptard)
When people say "You shouldn't hit a girl," etc, I...
lemonsinthetoilet:
…Um, you shouldn’t hit anyone?
Curiouser and curiouser.: privilege a poem for men... →
captainjellyfish:
D.A. Clarke
privilege is simple: going for a pleasant stroll after dark, not checking the back of your car as you get in, sleeping soundly, speaking without interruption, and not remembering dreams of rape, that follow you all day, that woke you crying, and privilege is not seeing your stripped,…
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Turkish Women Advised To "Stay Home" If They Don't... →
congruity:
So now women ‘deserve it’ because they are going outside.
And more signs that slutwalk (and much more civil protest beyond that) is necessary.
When you see slut shamers on your dash.
arana-discoteca:
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Rape: Surprisingly Not Like Having a Flat Tyre,... →
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Rape: Cheaper than bullets →
crisscrosscutout:
In wars it has traditionally been men who fight and die. Often women would also like to be a part of war but they are not allowed for a whole variety of sexist reasons. It is however common to use women as a way to demoralize an enemy quite effectively. After all -
This saying is quite true. Just today I listened to a story about how families in Misurata are being tied up...
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The Pervocracy →
feministthought:
Tagline says it all. “Sex. Feminism. BDSM. And some very, very naughty words.”
Definitely check this out, if for nothing else at least for the monthly multi-part mocking of every new issue of Cosmo.
Pols and advocates outraged over proposed axing of... →
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On Tumblr Nudity And Post-Feminism →
imryanw:
I wonder if the nudity—on otherwise non-pornographic blogs—really is feminism or female insecurity masquerading as confidence, with women unsuccessfully trying to reclaim their own sexual objectification to prove that they can move beyond it. I wonder (but I don’t judge) what this phenomenon is all about.
imanassspankme asked: I was wondering if you could post this so your followers can see. In Vegas we're trying to organize a SlutWalk and we need as much support as we can get.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/SlutWalk-Vegas/204942992877019
http://twitter.com/#!/SlutWalkVegas
Those are our Facebook and Twitter links. We're in the early stages of organizing but we need all the help we...
http://www.facebook.com/pages/SlutWalk-Vegas/204942992877019
http://twitter.com/#!/SlutWalkVegas
Those are our Facebook and Twitter links. We're in the early stages of organizing but we need all the help we...
Towards my personal Sex-Positive Feminist 101 by... →
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The Last Action Heroine: Why Tough Actions Don't... →
When Vin Diesel and the artist formerly known as The Rock finally clash in a haze of testosterone, protein supplements, and baby oil in Fast Five, it’s a predictable muscle-y pleasure. When spindly Saoirse Ronan coolly takes out a room fully of armed guards in Hanna, it carries a charge: We might have known it was coming, but no one onscreen did.
Where the going gets fuzzy is when these titles...
The sexiest trait on any human being is feminism.
scienceforlove:
True facts.
Feminist Pet Peeve
iamateenagefeminist:
I know that in the long run and the big picture this might not mean much, but I absolutely fucking hate it when someone address mail with “Mr and Mrs. Charles Jones”.
Way to erase the woman completely….
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The Observatory: Because Who Doesn't Want to be... →
purveyorofnonsense:
Jennifer Hafer, an economics researcher, analyzed the U.S. prostitution market and found that affluent, educating women are entering the prostitution market:
Contrary to assumptions that women enter the prostitution market only because they are desperate – that they need money to pay bills or buy drugs – the study indicates that many women, especially educated, affluent...
Best Article I've Read on SlutWalk So Far →
gardenvarietygnome:
It has an amazing mix of well-reasoned criticism and support for the ideals that are and should be behind SlutWalks.
Slutwalk – in its slick branding – runs the risk of facilitating the dominant discourse of ‘liberated’ women as only those women wearing mini-skirts and high heels in/on their way to professional jobs. In reality, capitalism mediates the feminist façade...
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feministblackboard:
“It can’t be any more obvious that we live in a patriarchal society if ”feminist” is a bad word.” -Ellen Page
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tumblinfeminist:
FOOL PROOF SEXUAL ASSAULT PREVENTION TIPS. I’d seen the text a while ago and decided to make it into a picture. If anyone knows original source for the quote please let me know!
I actually find this kind of offensive… It’s like they’re portraying that people who sexuality assault others would actually have a bone in their body to care. They don’t. They never...
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“If there’s one thing that we see rarely — if at all — in porn, it’s laughter....”
– Hugo Schwyzer (Some laughter with the lovemaking, please: on porn, performance, and deadly seriousness)
filed under: reasons why queer porn is the best.
(via sexisbeautiful)
This just made me feel better about my problem of laughing during sex… Which is never, ever at the guy I’m having sex with,...
Watchxitdedragon:
Sexy Girls Have it Easy
Do “sexy” girls get more things for free than plain looking girls?
Delusions of Grandeur: Trigger warning: rape →
corruptpolitics:
“I’m a bit too late to the party here, but there’s actually something interested to be said about this. I’m involved with some rape crisis activism, and one of the metaphors that activists use when talking about date rape is that of drunk driving. Thirty years ago, the…
The Frailty Myth: Redefining the Physical...
Can women be equal to men as long as men are physically stronger? And are men, in fact, stronger? These are key questions that Colette Dowling, author of the bestselling The Cinderella Complex, raises in her provocative new book. The myth of female frailty, with its roots in nineteenth-century medicine and misogyny, has had a damaging effect on women’s health, social status, and physical...
The Vagina Poem
pomovelociraptor:
Shut the fuck up and don’t say that I’m bitchin
How you’re making comments about women and the kitchen.
There’s no special license that comes with y-chromosomes
And I’m sure as hell not going to college to sit around at home.
You don’t respect women, I come after you with a hatchet.
I might just castrate you like Nurse fucking Ratched.
I want to rap this and dance around...
Political Wives →
randallus89:
An interesting look at the concept of political wives as the fairy-tale story for “smart girls”.
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The Awkward Topic: Hymens and Vaginismus
amerrygirl:
I realize this is an awkward topic/post, but I think its also important. So I’ll put the rest under a ‘readmore’ break, for those of you who want to avoid it. :) “Society has purported this idea that when a woman “loses her virginity” (aka “breaks” the hymen), its going to be painful, there’s nothing you can do about it, and you just have to grit your teeth and bear it.
I...
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Girls Club →
indoorsports:
I’ve thought recently that pop music has really been embracing man-repellingstyle. Chains, spikes, blades, and comically abstruse runway fashion everywhere (think Lady Gaga’s Alexander McQueen hooves).
Beyoncé’s metal talons and post-apocalyptic lady army in the “Run The World (Girls)” video particularly struck me. The video exemplifies that style that has defined the past...
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Female characters are people, too! →
albatrossing:
-Why do you write such strong female characters?
Joss Whedon: Because you’re still asking me that question.
I’ve been thinking, what makes a strong female character? What is it about certain women in certain stories that makes the women who watch and read them feel fantastic about themselves? What is it that makes us smile to ourselves and think “Yes, I want to be like her”...
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Jonathan Cornachio: Feminism →
cornachio:
It’s sad that we still have to identify people as feminists, it should be the other way around. Good people see women as tantamount to men and want society to see that too, it’s that simple. Those who fight against women’s rights, the ones who make it difficult for them to find equality, should have to don some sort of title, not us. Think about it, we don’t identify everyone who...
