March 4, 2013

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    When a man says no in this culture, it’s the end of the discussion. When a woman says no, it’s the beginning of a negotiation.

    Gavin De Becker (via dandyions)

    I have noticed every time, EVERY TIME, I state a strong opinion about something on Facebook - a bunch of men will come forward to try to talk me out of it or convince me of something else. Every time. Only the men do this.

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    Some men really don’t like to be disagreed with by women. And when it comes to consent in sex-positivism, it is a tool for negotiation.

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    See also, when a woman states that she is strongly opposed to MRA (or, you know, insert whatever ideology or viewpoint) because it is anti-woman, and men try to negotiate her boundaries with her.

    (via catandkitty)

    This guy wrote The Gift of Fear and it is a wonderful book that I recommend to everyone, especially women.

    (via australian-diaspora)

    Oh my god THIS. Recently I made a Facebook status telling rape apologist MRAs to unfriend me, two cis men privately messaged me, after I unfriended them no less, to try to convince me I was wrong. 

    99% of men are just disgusting, and it makes me sad and angry.

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    TRIGGER WARNING

    This is a Scottish anti-rape PSA that is a direct response to blaming a rape victim for dressing like a slut. What do you think? Is it effective?

    ummmmm YES.

    we need PSA’s like this in the U.S. asap. this video gets to the point of what rape culture is and is very serious about it.

    WIN WIN WIN WIN

    Wow, absolutely. This was amazing, and it was only thirty seconds.

    this is fantastic

    This!! Show this in the states! 

    Fucking brilliant

    brilliant.

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    You won’t allow me to go to school.
    I won’t become a doctor.
    Remember this:
    One day you will be sick.

    Poem written by a 15 year old Afghan girl 

    This poem was recorded in a NYT magazine article about female underground poetry groups in Afghanistan. An amazing article about the ways in which women are using a traditional two line poetry form to express their resistance to male oppression, their feelings about love (considered blasphemous), and their doubts about religion. 

    Here’s the link

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    4. March 3, 2013

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    as a general rule (and always that I’ve seen in the case of MRAs)

    as a general rule (and always that I’ve seen in the case of MRAs)

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    5. February 27, 2013

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    drugdoer:

    “Girls don’t say what they mean!” Neither does anyone ever. Sorry you’re such a weirdo that you can’t understand subtext and intention and tone and sorry that you’ve blamed a woman for that

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    You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.

    John Berger Ways of Seeing  (via spartanbitch)

    This is super fucking relevant.

    And why self portraits (selfies) are often such an act of self preservation and resistance.

    (via sexxxisbeautiful)

    selfies as politics, hell yeah.

    (via tankmonster)

    #it’s okay to follow creepshots but when a celebrity’s nudes are leaked she’s a slut #it’s perfectly normal to watch objectifying porn but when a woman decides to film herself having sex she’s a whore #it’s alright for you to harass women on the street but when they approach you first it’s arrogance #it’s cool for you to fantasize about a woman who’s out of your league but when a woman you deem unattractive likes you you’re disgusted #no don’t worry you can make female bodies public property but when they discuss your masturbation habits you can be offended 

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    Princeton University psychologist Susan Fiske took brain scans of heterosexual men while they looked at sexualised images of women wearing bikinis. She found that the part of their brains that became activated was pre-motor - areas that usually light up when people anticipate using tools. The men were reacting to the images as if the women were objects they were going to act on. Particularly shocking was the discovery that the participants who scored highest on tests of hostile sexism were those most likely to deactivate the part of the brain that considers other people’s intentions (the medial prefrontal cortex) while looking at the pictures. These men were responding to images of the women as if they were non-human.

    The Equality Illusion (via floralnymph)

    More information: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/090216-bikinis-women-men-objects.html

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    [TW: Rape] Treating girls and women as less than human is not behavior contained to developing or middle-income countries like India and South Africa. Next month in Steubenville, Ohio, high school football stars Trent Mays and Malik Richmond go on trial for the rape of a 16-year-old girl last August. She was also raped repeatedly and carried unconscious from party to party, her body hauled by her limbs. Photos were tweeted and put on Instagram. In a 12-minute video made that night, another party-goer, Michael Nodianos, turned the assault into a stand-up routine, laughing at his own jokes about the “dead girl.” A sampling: “She’s deader than O.J.’s wife.” “She is so raped right now.” Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said last week that he didn’t have enough evidence to charge Nodianos with a crime.

    Kimberly Burge, The Importance of Men Seeing Woman as Human Beings (via thefreelioness)

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    nostomaniac: Marina Abramović, Rhythm 0, 1974 “This piece was primarily a trust exercise, in which she told viewers she would not move for six hours no matter what they did to her.  She placed 72 objects one could use in pleasing or destructive ways, ranging from flowers and a feather boa to a knife and a loaded pistol, on a table near her and invited the viewers to use them on her however they wanted.  Initially, Abramović said, viewers were peaceful and timid, but it escalated to violence quickly.  “The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed… I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.” This piece revealed something terrible about humanity, similar to what Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment or Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiment, both of which also proved how readily people will harm one another under unusual circumstances.” This performance showed just how easy it is to dehumanize a person who doesn’t fight back, and is particularly powerful because it defies what we think we know about ourselves. I’m certain the no one reading this believes the people around him/her capable of doing such things to another human being, but this performance proves otherwise.”

    nostomaniac:

    Marina Abramović, Rhythm 0, 1974

    “This piece was primarily a trust exercise, in which she told viewers she would not move for six hours no matter what they did to her.  She placed 72 objects one could use in pleasing or destructive ways, ranging from flowers and a feather boa to a knife and a loaded pistol, on a table near her and invited the viewers to use them on her however they wanted. 

    Initially, Abramović said, viewers were peaceful and timid, but it escalated to violence quickly.  “The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed… I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.”

    This piece revealed something terrible about humanity, similar to what Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment or Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiment, both of which also proved how readily people will harm one another under unusual circumstances.”

    This performance showed just how easy it is to dehumanize a person who doesn’t fight back, and is particularly powerful because it defies what we think we know about ourselves. I’m certain the no one reading this believes the people around him/her capable of doing such things to another human being, but this performance proves otherwise.”

    (Source: andrewfishman)