Today, I made some calming manatees, but most of them are the wrong size to go on the site.
Oh well. Would you like them?
Things no one tells you:
- Having sex doesn’t make you a whore.
- Not having sex doesn’t make you a saint.
- You don’t have to have kids if you don’t want to.
- You are the only person who has rights over your body.
- You are no one to judge others.
- “Femininity” is not anti-feminist.
- Verbal harassment is not flattery.
- If something makes you uncomfortable, you don’t have to endure it.
- You don’t owe anything to anyone.
(Source: viva-la-vulva-zine)
ALICIA.
I WATCHED THIS SHOW OBSESSIVELY WHEN IT WAS ON CARTOON NETWORK.
LIKE, I RECORDED IT AND EVERYTHING.
OMG TOTALLY SPIES
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“I grew up in a very secular society. I have atheist parents. My morality never came from religion or from scripture, but that doesn’t mean I can’t have the same values or ethics.”
(Source: askarsswedishmeatballs)
and the words ‘feminists don’t really hate all men’ come up because of course we have to separate ourselves from any of the ‘crazies’ that might be around that really DO hate men, for whatever reason.
i dont hate men, but i view most men with a lot of suspicion until otherwise notified. its a fucking survival mechanism. its a survival mechanism when men tell me that i ‘obsess’ over street harassment and rape and yet i EXPECT to be harassed when i step out of doors because it happens 8 out of 10 times in some form or another, whether being solicited for prostitution while walking to the bus station or screamed at about my weight on the way back from a meal i deprived myself of food for. when men try to explain to me what i can and cannot care about, write about, think about, process.
its a survival mechanism when i’m a rape survivor, an abuse survivor, a survivor of psychological manipulation, when i read magazine after magazine about how to make myself more appealing, more malleable, more tractable, more soft-spoken, less opinionated about ‘unwomanly’ things like politics art and literature, more toned, more lean and sexually available so that i can score myself my very own Dude for everlasting love. when my sexuality and gender identification/presentation become fetishized and/or denigrated.
because people think that a woman or a person perceived as a woman (as your humble author is) expressing a thought of anger to all the men in this society who have imposed themselves on her body and time and attention and mind in acts of violence or manipulation or entitlement is the same as a man who does these things and feels justified in doing them. because saying out of frustration and anger and fear and exhaustion and sadness that you hate men makes you a crazy to be distanced from and put aside into your own very special label as to not ruin the rest of Good Feminism.
i dont give a shit about Good Feminism when i am literally expecting to be harassed the minute i walk outside. today it was a car full of young men screaming at me from their car driving behind me which caused me to panic and burst into tears. there is nothing i can do. there is nothing i can salvage from that experience. and i’m supposed to let it go, to move on, to keep forgiving and forgetting.
because even as feminists, we have to make sure the men think positively of us. no hatred. no anger. no exhaustion. no fear.
Truth all over this post.
Ewww. That’s super gross.
Just letting you know.
Unoriginal AND misogynist. Charming. Hey, can you tell the one about women belonging in the kitchen???
I need feminism because THERE ARE STILL PEOPLE WHO THINK THIS WAY
GUYS, WOMEN AREN’T PEOPLE LOL
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Feminists. (via popmuslim)
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
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Let me reiterate that for you all …
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
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I think you’ve missed a crutial point though, let me point it out:
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
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I’m going to go ahead and guess that more men are killed by their wives or girlfriends in the United States than in Pakistan, considering women commit quite a few domestic murders in the united states each year.
(via espionagis)
The point is that we think of the Middle East as a terrible place for women with oppressive laws and honor killings, when the truth is that technically it’s more dangerous to be a woman here.
(via stfuconservatives)
Thank you, espionagis, for taking this very relevant and striking post and saying “BUT WHAT ABOUT TEH MENZ?”
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Hal Sparks | You’ve been saying those phrases backwards. Now, stop it. (x)
See! Michael agrees with me!
Ahahah. Love This.
(Source: antiquers)
I’m not gonna deal with the commentary below ‘cause I don’t wanna and I’m on my Bobby Brown. (Late 80s R&B reference—deal with it.) I will say this though:
EVEN IF I were to accept the argument that people of color can be racist against whites (and to be absolutely clear, I do not under any circumstances accept this argument), thus conceding the premise that this type of racism occurs at all, the idea that this type of discrimination is so rampant, so damaging to white people everywhere is simply laughable. Really?
Can you catch a cab in the city? ’Cause I can’t. Have you ever fit some vague description and stopped by police officers? ‘Cause I have. Have you ever been denied housing because, upon meeting the landlord, magically someone else took the apartment not twenty minutes before you arrived? ’Cause I have. Ever heard stories of lynchings of distant relatives drunkenly whispered by aunts and uncles? ‘Cause I have. Ever been denied services, ever had someone grip the bag a little tighter or turn their wedding ring when you’re in their presence or had people feel as if touching you without permission was wholly acceptable because you look “different.” Yes, yes, yes to all three.
This “what about me” pathology is so sickening. How dare you compare being allegedly bullied by the one black girl in your school to more than four hundred years of race-based, systemic enslavement, under resourcing and intentional psychological trauma against people of color in this nation. The temerity it takes to audaciously declare that your experience and history is in anyway similar or equitably damaging to those of POC is wholly representative of the high level of privilege you possess. How dare you? And I’d seriously like an answer to that. Please tell me how that equates?
You cannot have this, too. Steal and appropriate our cultural artforms, gentrify our neighborhoods, lay claim to historic figures, whitewash us from the broader American culture and there is little we can do stop you. But to lay claim to some false history of racist and disenfranchisement as a means of alleviating one’s self and one’s ancestors to the continued systems of racism and oppression against POC in this nation, is beyond boundary of acceptable.
**steps off soapbox** I’m done. May tumblr become my happy place again.
i erased everything else but this because the rest of the nonsense below makes my blood boil and i don’t need that. but really, this is good. it’s a man’s perspective, but it is 100% truthful in their experiences and with pointing out exactly how even if we were “racist” against white people, how not the same it is as racism towards people of color.
(Source: asderathosoriginalthoughts)
