February 2012
13 posts
“A group of boys who taunt a woman walking by are “just boys being boys.” If they...”
– Three Things Every Man Should Know About Feminism (via glittertorn)
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rabbitpalooza asked: i read your post about writting a fantasy story with an assexual character. have you ever read the book "the left hand of darkness" from ursula k le guin? it may interest you.
“Intersectionality is not optional. It is not something you can take off and put...”
– Intersectionality Is Not Optional (via satifice
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allaboutwhatever:
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The Most Feminist: [warnings for discussion of... →
sour-idealist:
Here is a point I will never tire of making:
if someone is willing to hurt themselves “for attention,”
PAY. THE FUCK. ATTENTION.
When you say someone slicing up their wrists is “just looking for attention,” when you say someone saying they’re contemplating suicide “just…
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I'm trying to write an adventure-fantasy novel,...
When I first started developing the story, I created a character with the notion that he would be the main character’s love interest. Because you always need a love interest, right?
But as I further developed the story, I really wasn’t feeling their romantic relationship. And I was just having trouble imagining the main character with anyone as a conventional love interest. And now...
“Let’s talk about rape for a moment. Rape is not what George Lucas did to your...”
– Jeffrey Rowland (via feminishblog)
I agree with the sentiment of this, but I take issue with describing rape as violating someone “in the most despicable, degrading way imaginable”. I agree that it’s one of the worst things you can do to someone, but it bugs me when people insist that I should...
Total Film’s 100 Greatest Female Characters:... →
The stats:
Out of Total Film’s list of the 100 Greatest Female Characters in movies…
Only 79 have full names, and only 73 are listed by their full name.
6 are not human women, and 3 are not humanoid.
38 are a character in someone else’s story. 25 of those are primarily a love interest.
Approximately 1/5 do not survive their film.
Almost 1/2 are victimized or imperiled in their films, and...
Why Black Widow just doesn't cut it as a token...
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I could go into canon interpretaitons and how you’re admittedly basing assumptions on nothing but the EMH show but not the EMH show it’s really just the movies, and the thirty seconds of action hero shots we’ve gotten with no one saying anything of more substance than “nah nah nah, we have a Hulk.”
I could go into how you’ve ignored any of the...
An abortion doesn't make you unpregnant.
joshishollywood:
It makes you
INVINCIBLE
January 2012
17 posts
Three goals of being a GREAT ally.
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
There are three things all allies need to aspire to:
1) Learning. This is base learning; getting the lingo, getting the philosophy behind what lingo is good and what is charged, the various terms that people in the group in question use, and whether that same lingo might be cool in one group and not cool in the other group. Get used to asking people how they would like to...
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Another post about Dean and masculinity
ilovehowyouletmefall:
I re-watched “Dream a Little Dream” the other day.
One of the things I appreciated about it was that Sam - who is supposed to be sensitive, and doesn’t hook up with women without making some kind of connection with them first - has the wet dream about a woman he doesn’t even like. But Dean - the macho womanizer - dreams about a romantic picnic with someone who loves him,...
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I've realized that my interest in politics comes...
I’ll be really interested into politics for a few months and then just go off it completely for a few months.
In other words, I did not watch the state of union address, and I probably am not going to read too much about it.
Like, I want this - and my blogspot, which is dreadfully neglected - to be quality blogs so badly, but I just cannot even right now.
I’ve started studying...
Why the friendzone is bullshit and self-proclaimed...
skalja:
angels-and-angles:
As defined by urban dictionary, the friendzone is…
“When you are expected to support a girl you really like while she searches for a smarter, richer, and more handsome boyfriend. There is little you can do without feeling like a dick. All in all, one of the meanest things a girl can do, whether they mean it or not.”
and ”The perennial location of nice guys...
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Why the friendzone is bullshit and self-proclaimed...
skalja:
angels-and-angles:
As defined by urban dictionary, the friendzone is…
“When you are expected to support a girl you really like while she searches for a smarter, richer, and more handsome boyfriend. There is little you can do without feeling like a dick. All in all, one of the meanest things a girl can do, whether they mean it or not.”
and ”The perennial location of nice guys...
Mary Crawley & Kemal Pamuk: it was rape. →
spectroscopes:
[TRIGGER WARNING: rape, rape culture, rape apology]
Acknowledging a woman’s lack of agency is not depriving her of that agency. I’m not the one depriving Mary of agency by saying that she was raped; Kemal Pamuk deprived her of agency by raping her — Julian Fellowes deprived her of agency by writing that scene the way he did. Yes: she actively made a choice to have sex with Pamuk...
“It is very hard for people to understand that equality does not mean that we are...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, Talking with Sartre (p. 12)
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Cee Lo Green is singing "Imagine" in Times Square...
That was interesting and irksome and indicative of US culture and politics
December 2011
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Currently re-living my formative years through...
OMG 90s CanRock makes me eargasm.
♪♫PUSH JUST A LITTLE TOO LATE♪♫
David Usher, your voice, why is it so askf;lidjis
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LOL, I thought it just cost $160 to get licensed...
Nope, that’s just the initial application fee. In total, all the fees come to over $2000. Two. Thousand. Dollars.
What the actual fuck.
I feel like I’m bleeding money. And I’ve almost bled out and I’m lying on the ground an inch away from death.
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One teachers approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said:...
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What I love about French
In French, “egg nog” is “chicken milk”. Now, “nog” doesn’t sound like something you’d ingest in the first place, but “chicken milk”? Much less tasty-sounding.
The French word for “bat” is literally translated as “bald mouse”. Which is great because a) bats are not bald, and b) even if they were, that would hardly...
“Enthusiastic consent” is about asking and listening. And it’s a powerful...”
– From “How I Learned to Talk (In Bed): Why This Queer Woman Cares About Consent” via Autostraddle.
I like it when consent is talked about for everyone.
(via privligedngoodlooking)
consent is about talking, and listening!
(via sexxxisbeautiful)
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IF YOU'RE CANADIAN: HELP STOP BILL C-10! →
jimcavill:
This bill is ludicrous and has no basis in experiential evidence. Please read, express yourself, and share.
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Men Get Raped Too- A response. (TW) →
stfusexists:
This is an incredible piece of writing on the phenomenon that has become a meme of sorts, “What about teh menz?”. I really enjoyed this, instant follow.
sexistculture:
You know, I just checked back in on this post, and something about this last response rubbed me the wrong way. Not because I disagree with anything it said on its own, just because I think it ignored a very real...
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