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Half Brain Dead, Half Book Smarts: It's International Women's Day!
The following .gif post is taken from Ann Friedman’s blog. Check that shit out.
The year is 2012. Women were basically just hanging out.
You know, doing lady stuff.
We’d gotten used to the fact that, for decades, people have been trying to tell us what to do.
That we should…
OMNIA MUSIC: Going Viral
The feedback to the “Grace” Official Music Video has been incredible! In 2 days, we reached 1000 views and in 3, we are now almost at 2000. Still need to add a couple of 0’s to that to make it go viral, but it’s an amazing start. We’ve even gotten a wave of pledges after the release of the video,…
True gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A group that is made up of 50% women is perceived as being mostly women. A situation that is perfectly equal between men and women is perceived as being biased in favor of women.
And if you don’t believe me, you’ve never been a married woman who kept her family name. I have had students hold that up as proof of my “sexism.”
My own brother told me that he could never marry a woman who kept her name because “everyone would know who ruled that relationship.” Perfect equality – my husband keeps his name and I keep mine – is held as a statement of superiority on my part.
- Lucy, When Worlds Collide: Fandom and Male Privilege (via ceedling)
(Source: seaofbadstories, via ceedling)
We All Have a Story: Ways Gender-Privileged Men Can Challenge Sexism
(This list will be forever in-progress. Please add on as you see fit).
- Challenge sexist jokes, such as dumb blonde jokes or jokes about rape.
- Avoid using words such as “bitch”, “hoe”, “slut.”
- Recognize when you “zone out” when women are speaking, when you value a man’s opinion…
(via 40h4error)
Some more posters, featuring quotes from Caitlin Moran, Josie Long (it was only right seeing as she went to my school!) and Tina Fey
again feel free to use!
(via theriotmag)
(via 40h4error)
The Rule, Dykes to Watch Out For
Responses to the bullshittery that is “friendzoning”
(via ltstarbuck)
GENDERED DENTAL DUTY
This commercial for Invisalign (a substitute for braces) is a new twist on an old theme: women are responsible for everything health, child, and chore related. The ad is, literally, “a message to moms.”
What I hope for is a country that sees women as whole human beings whose morality is related to their compassion, kindness and ethics - not whether or not they have sex. I think there’s a common misconception about my book/work on this issue that I have some problem with virgins or being abstinent until marriage. I don’t have a problem at all - in fact, I don’t care. It’s none of my business; and it’s certainly not the business of schools, government, medical establishments, etc. I want you to be able to make the choice not to have sex free of shame and fear in the same way I want that for those who do have sex. I don’t think it’s a ton to ask.On the “precious gift” front. The gift that you give to your spouse should you chose to marry (assuming you’re allowed to) is your love and partnership. The longer young women are taught to think of their sexuality as “gifts” - something that’s separate from them that’s to be given away or lost or opened or whatever the latest terminology is - the longer we’re going to be seen as less than full human beings.
(Source: lipsredasroses, via bulletsbyhermouthful-deactivate)
There Is No Terminal 3
I haven’t posted in a while, but felt that this was worth sharing. While there is no incontrovertible proof that the author was targeted simply because she is female, the truth is that women do face greater danger than men when traveling along. There is no safe public space for women.
Iris from Greek Mythology
I have a few friends who are straight male dominants, and they’re both feminists. They fight rape culture, work for pro-choice causes, and check their privilege as needed. They’re happy to work under women, and listen to women, hell they’re friends with female dominants, and even though they don’t play with these women, they respect them and treat them as equals. So, how can these good, decent, kind hearted, egalitarian men enjoy tying up their girlfriends and beating them?
Because their girlfriends consent, because their girlfriends enjoy it. It’s not about man dominating woman because he’s man and she’s woman and that’s how it goes. It’s about two lovers, one who is sexually aroused by delivering pain/dominance/etc and another who is sexually aroused by receiving pain/dominance/etc.
(via sexisnottheenemy)
