December 2010
87 posts
This was supposed to be a much longer post, but...
sheresists:kiriamaya:
Basically, the people I like are people who are more interested in becoming right than they are in just demanding everyone see them as right. Those who prioritize learning and self-improvement can still cause harm, of course, but what matters most to me is that they’re constantly trying not to.
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“The problem with sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, classist, ableist,...”
– I Don’t Care If You’re Offended by Scott Madin (via inherhipstheresrevolutions)
“To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated...”
– Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. (via jackcassady)
“It can be really painful to have to face how fucked up shit is and how scared...”
– Kathleen Hanna (via lostgrrrls)
a-n-a-r-c-h-a:
Online, the censors are scoring big wins
The WikiLeaks affair is highlighting the Internet’s soft underbelly: the intermediaries on which we all rely to store our information and make it available. We are learning, to our dismay, that we cannot trust them. Combine that with increasing government intervention, we’re also learning that the Internet is somewhat easier to censor...
““At some point in your adult life, you’ve probably walked into a party and felt...”
– http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=94&book=9781741758498 (via natalie)
If I was Oprah I would buy 10 billion copies of this book (Screw Inner Beauty/ Lessons from the Fatosphere) and distribute them everywhere.
(via definatalie)
South Africa: Declare 'Corrective Rape' a... →
rightsandhumanity:
Please take two minutes to sign this.
[Trigger warning: image of a victim]
antagonist: I have to tell you something, quite... →
inautumn-inkashmir:
Please stop telling me how to be happy.
Please stop assuming I want to be happy.
Everywhere I go I see media products aimed at enhancing my happiness. Lose 25 pounds and be happy! Find the man of your dreams and be happy! Get that promotion and be happy! BE HAPPY. People tell me in random…
Think women have achieved equality? Think again. →
sheresists:
We Can’t Be Equal While:
Gender Roles
Men are the default and women are the Other (and therefore lesser).
Being called “girly” or a “sissy” or “pussy” are some of the worst insults you can give a man.
When a woman shows confidence in herself, she is said to “have balls”, or conversely she is a “man-eater”, “ball-buster”, or a “bitch” because she was “too” assertive.
Men are beat...
One of the really irritating misuses of...
genderbitch:
Where concepts like how huge components of transphobia arise from sexism and huge components of ableism arise from colonialism are used to basically state that there’s this Keystone that if you break it, you can break the whole arch and solve all the problems at once.
Defeat racism and you can destroy ableism, transphobia, homophobia and a few others. Defeat sexism and you can...
jazzonia:
Ethnic Studies ban in Arizona begins Jan 2011 - Via TRUTH-OUT.ORG
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but-for-the-grace:
jazzonia:
certainshadeofmoreno:
Below are the laws main prohibitions:
prohibitions against any education programs that (1) “promote the overthrow of the United States government,” (2) “promote resentment toward a race or class of people,” (3) “are designed primarily for pupils...
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I think Cosmo Sex Tips are written by people who hate women and want them infected or injured.
So really they’re just like the rest of Cosmo.
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“The state is the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies, too; and this lie...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (via fuckyeahanarchism)
“There has been a lot of celebration on Twitter about the fact that a prominent...”
– On #mooreandme, Rachel Maddow, and the curse of “Being Grateful” « Women’s Glib (via janedoe225)
somerset:cameraobscurist:measuringcups:
MAY NOT BE COOL, BUT IT’S SO WHERE I LIVE: Okay, I’m not Natalie Portman’s #1 fan or anything, but that quote…
mcqueens | bilius:
Okay, I’m not Natalie Portman’s #1 fan or anything, but that quote being circulated is from 2004. After it was released this happened:
Portman, born in Israel and of Jewish descent, told Allure the attributed quote,...
jakldjfalsdf DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY I DISLIKE...
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forestofveils:
It’s not just the fact of the gross racism, which is why I can’t watch Gone With the Wind BUT IT’S WHEN PEOPLE WHO ARE FANS OF IT DON’T GET IT.
You are living in the 21st century and you think it’s okay to make .gifs of Scarlett O’Hara beating her slave played by Butterfly McQueen? I’m sorry but fuck you. I don’t like being mean usually since I am very...
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“No means no” gave a voice to the abused, the raped, the victimized. It created a...”
– Dear Second and Third Wave Feminists With Publicly Recognizable Names | Fugitivus (via janedoe225)
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Afghan & Iraq War Logs Coverage: Naomi Wolf:... →
oilyboily:mypenisachesforyou:streamsofwikileaks:
How do I know that Interpol, Britain and Sweden’s treatment of Julian Assange is a form of theater? Because I know what happens in rape accusations against men that don’t involve the embarrassing of powerful governments.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is in solitary confinement in Wandsworth prison in advance of questioning on state charges...
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“This is how rape culture manifests for me: a decision was made for me, in direct...”
– I’d Really Rather Not Talk About This; Naomi Wolf Versus Rape Victims (Which Seems To Include Me)
This whole piece is really worth a read.
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Naomi Wolf vs. Jaclyn Friedman: Feminists Debate...
cuntymint:cuntofdoom:thefeministhub:
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/12/20/naomi_wolf_vs_jaclyn_friedman_a
I cannot believe how ignorant Naomi Wolf acts in this interview, talking as if she is the expert and spokesperson for all rape victims while at the same time actively denying and silencing the experience of the rape victim who she is directly talking to!
Are there articles where...
A Timeline
sadydoyle:
I literally shouldn’t be typing right now. Because my hands are shaking, that’s how shocked and angry I am with Keith Olbermann’s behavior. But here’s a timeline of Moore and Me:
Day 1: A protest! Oh, good, and we’re getting links! Okay! This is working! I’m energized, I’m happy, we can make this happen.
Day 2: He didn’t respond? SHIT. That doesn’t look good. But, okay, Keith...
reblog if you want your followers to ask you...
“Just because you’ve consented to choose one sexual activity, say, taking your...”
– JACLYN FRIEDMAN (via janedoe225)
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Breathing As The ‘Eternal She’
jaded16india:
As a DustyLady who completely and absolutely hates restrictive dichotomies, more often than not I’m squeezed into a tiny box of stereotypes so tight I eventually grow claustrophobic and completely disinterested, barely an inch away from completely disengaging myself from these situations. As Women Of TheBroken World, we’re supposed to be either poor, limitless, undeniably open...
“The real damage is done by those millions who want to ‘survive.’ The honest men...”
– Sophie Scholl: Die letzten Tage (2005). Quote from Sophie Scholl, a student leader of the peaceful anti-government resistance group the White Rose in 1940s Germany. She was a biology major at the University of Munich. She was beheaded by the National Socialists in February, 1943. (via...
Prolonged Solitary is Torture →
jonathan-cunningham:
Just by itself, the type of prolonged solitary confinement to which Manning has been subjected for many months is widely viewed around the world as highly injurious, inhumane, punitive, and arguably even a form of torture. In his widely praised March, 2009 New Yorker article — entitled “Is Long-Term Solitary Confinement Torture?” — the surgeon and journalist Atul Gawande...
corruptpolitics:
Nashville Police Turn Blind Eye to Domestic Abusers on the Force
According to The Tennessean, the Nashville Police Department has failed to take a zero-tolerance policy towards members of the force arrested on domestic violence charges.
Sadly, domestic abuse is two to four times more common in police families than the rest of the population. This means that...
Hospital saves woman’s life; is told by Catholic... →
rosietint:
Now, Bishop Thomas Olmstead of the Diocese has written a letter to the hospital in which he doesn’t deny that the procedure saved the woman’s life, but nevertheless deems it morally wrong and asks the hospital to promise that a life-saving abortion “will never occur again at St. Joseph’s Hospital.” That’s right: A religious leader wants a hospital to promise that it will not take...
Slut Had It Coming: This whole thing's brilliant... →
sluthaditcoming:
Claim: If you think these rape allegations against Julian Assange should be taken seriously, then you just don’t get it! Wake up and smell the set-up!
Why I’m so fucking sick of it: No really, we get it. I promise. There might be like 3 people on earth who believe the timing of Assange’s arrest…
“Obama ordered his first drone strike against Pakistan just 72 hours after being...”
– Fatima Bhutto: Pakistan Elites Turn Blind Eye To War (via storiesfrompakistan)
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“Wow!! you really sound like a whiny bitch. Did you even bother reading the...”
– Wow! You really sound like a rapist, Guy In My Comment Section! I’m sure that, if you’re not, you’re at least not unflattered by the comparison. Because of how only “whiny bitches” think rape is a bad thing, and a crime that oughtta be tried in a court, and all. WAHHHH! I believe in jurisprudence!...