ThePrettiestOne

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backdoorteenmom:

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azaeliabanks:

Fuck this bitch. She’s “upset” w the gay community??????? Umm wtf its not my fault or any other Gay man’s fault she’s ugly and looks like she has aids like????????

#IM SCREAMING THAT COMMENT LITERALLY PROVES HER POINT

I’m sorry, but I’ve had more verbal shit flung at me by cis-gay men than I can count. I don’t even go to pride anymore because I get panic-attacks over what could be said to me. I’ve had cis-gay men tell me (while walking down the damn street/getting groceries/whatever) to lose weight, insult my clothing, tell me my hair looks like shit, and call me a “breeder” because I was holding hands with my partner. Not to mention the insults hurled at me about my bisexuality (“Bitch, you’re faking it!”). So, yeah, some cis-gay men are misogynists because they are MISOGYNISTIC FUCKING MEN. All men can choose to be a misogynistic asshole or not, it doesn’t matter what your sexuality is. 

I’m actually taking a human sexuality course right now, and I was shocked at the assumptions one cis-gay man was making about women. He thought that women who are on their periods are “disgusting,” and “smelled.” Whenever a slide of a vagina was shown for anatomy purposes he had to moan, and groan about how gross vaginas are. I’m sorry, but that misogynistic attitude is damaging to women. 

The abuse that we hurl at each other needs to stop. 

TLDR: It doesn’t matter what your sexuality is, you can still be a misogynistic asshole. 

I hate to say it, but she’s 100% right. We need to clean up our community. We need to be standing with women and not against them.

i’ve had cis gay dudes touch me inappropriately because they think they are allowed to due to being “non threatening” because they’re gay
so like yeah. cis gays need to fucking step up on their not being misogynistic trash policies.

i think that misogyny isn’t purely a cis-male thing and that everyone really needs to step their game up and work on not being assholes in general, but it is important to highlight that it doesn’t matter what your identity is, no one has the right to make anyone else feel uncomfortable, and identity does not excuse any form of threatening or inappropriate speech or action.

assholes are assholes, straight or gay.

okay but to this whole “assholes are assholes” and “it doesn’t matter”

It fucking matters because cis gay men have been playing the “I can’t be misogynist, because being a gay man is just like being a woman” card since forever. They’ve also built up a particularly racist and violent set of cultural tropes for themselves in regards to how they treat the bodies of women (both cis and not), especially non-white (and if I’m being super specific, BLACK) women.

So let’s stop with this tiptoeing around bullshit.
Like…not for nothing, Rose McGowan literally grew up in the queer community (seriously, look it up). She’s not just speaking out of her ass or trying to stir up shit. She’s talking from a specific history/exposure to THIS. SPECIFIC. MISOGYNY.

If y’all wanna talk about internalized misogyny, or hetero misogyny, by all means, go for it. But the woman is talking about a specific group and their specific sense of entitlement to women, womanhood, and women’s bodies.

That time I was out on a double date, me & my girlfriend at the time + my friend and her partner (who is a trans man), in the ~one non-dancey gay bar~ in our town, and this cis gay man turns to his friend and L O U D L Y says “ugh, I fucking hate breeders.”

like

ARE YOUR EYES WORKING? ARE YOU OKAY?!?!

[emmisnotshortforemma]

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at some point Our Heroine (I don’t know her name, I don’t know anything about her) is walking through the woods, and stumbles across a girl wearing a red hood, who has a finger in her mouth and is drooling a bit.

"Oh lord," says the wolf behind her, "not another one!"

The wolf and Little Red Riding Hood are partners. Sometimes he kills her and sometimes she kills him and sometimes they’re lovers and sometimes they’re mortal enemies. It’s just the way things are. She always reappears on the path, and he always finds her. Pas de deux.

And then one day Little Red Riding Hood showed up without a mind. And the wolf, not knowing what else to do, takes her back to his den and feeds her and tries to figure out if this is just the latest variation on the theme, or if something else is going on.

And then another one shows up. Which is outside all experience—there’s one Little Red Riding Hood, she’s an archetype after all. And then another one and another, and they can utter maybe a word or two and aren’t housebroken and the wolf is collecting them because he simply doesn’t know what else to do and Our Heroine goes to his den and finds a dark room full of grimy girls wearing rags, staring out with bright, feral eyes, and eating the meat the wolf brings them raw.

"One of them got sick once," said the wolf miserably, "and I left to find medicine for her, and by the time I got back, they’d eaten her, too."

"Why don’t you just…let them go?" say our heroine, who can tell that the wolf is on the last edge of exhaustion, and isn’t sure there’s anything left in the girls to be worth saving, even assuming they’re actual people and not something else entirely.

"If I let them go," says the wolf, "they try to go to Grandmother’s House."

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Ursula Vernon (via fuckyeahursulavernon)

It’s been years, and I still am not any closer to knowing the end of this story.

It’ll come to me someday, I hope.

harborwillow:

x

I love her

cardboardcommunist:

And for all the people out there who want to criticize like “Why do you need two bedrooms?” or “Get a better job if you want luxuries.”

1. You’re being deliberately horrible to other people. Stop.

2. If you are a parent, you probably need a couple of bedrooms so you and your children have a place to sleep. Or maybe you aren’t a parent, you’re living with a partner or a friend or a relative who is unable to work. Same thing, you need space to sleep and call your own. Not cramming everyone into one bedroom or making someone take the couch every night isn’t really a luxury.

3. The whole idea of the minimum wage when it was first implemented was that it would be enough to support a family on one person’s wages. Food, shelter, medicine, et cetera. And now, one person’s wages can’t even cover housing for the family *anywhere in the country* let alone food or medicine or anything else.

This isn’t trivial — this means tons of people are homeless and hungry and sick. This means that they labor as long and as hard (or usually longer and harder) as everyone else and they still can’t afford a warm place for their family to sleep.

I don’t think it is at all a stretch to say that people working for minimum wage are being robbed, and that that robbery has real and violent effects on laborers and their loved ones.

iwriteaboutfeminism:

What most people think causes homelessness:

• Poor money management

What actually causes homelessness:

• transphobia
• a racist criminal justice system
• the ‘war on drugs’
• health care and insurance costs
• the current federal minimum wage
• bankers being dicks
• no federal law protecting paid parental leave
• etc…

marfmellow:

If you look at the world and say “Yes, there are enough homes for people, yes, there is enough food for people, but if we give it away for free they won’t have earned it and the economy will collapse.” Then you have chosen money (a constructed medium of exchange) over living beings who only want to continue living in peace and safety.

And I have no qualms telling you, that is the wrong choice, and you have been brainwashed by this destructive, exploitative system.

“For straight men, even a woman’s brief helpfulness or act of friendship can be taken as a sign of attraction. When this misperception is spurned, they can become hostile. The so-called ‘friend zone’ doesn’t exist. It’s merely a reaction to failed reciprocity and a way to protect the ego.”

- My (male) social psychology professor in lecture today. (via pointlesslythrough)

why do white people always try to make this non-point false equivalence when they know these are two completely different realities that don’t compare on any plane whatsoever

white people not only make black people hate their hair at an individual emotional level but literally at a systemic level in which black people are and have been for the last century unable to get jobs, attend colleges, enlist in the armed forces, etc. because of the treatment of their natural hair. there literally is nothing white people have to compare…

white people are not getting box braids because they feel pressured to, or out of fear that they won’t have access to a job or anything, but instead because they know it’s an “edgy black people thing” that they’re doing to be counter culture and subversive. there is literally no pressure on earth for anyone INCLUDING BLACK PEOPLE to worship or utilize Black hairstyles or Black hair in its natural state and you fucking know it. It’s literally the complete opposite for white hair. grow up

white people are not gelling down baby hairs for social mobility or financial security or comfort or assimilation.

• why do black women feel the need to wear weave?

• History Lesson: History Lesson : Why Women Of Color In The 1800s Were Banned From Wearing Their Hair Out In Public
  

  BGLH writes:

  “Did you know that in late 18th century Louisiana, black and multiracial women were ordered to cover their hair in public?”

• Ciara’s “Inelegant” New Hairstyle And The Politics Of Black Hair

• Man Sues Railroad After Co-Worker Cuts His Dreadlocks 

• Faith Christian Academy: Confront guilty students for bullying; not fault victims for wearing their hair in its natural state

• A 7-year-old Tulsa girl was sent home form her elementary school because her dreadlocks were too much of a distraction, Fox 23 News Tulsa reports.

• Ohio School Apologizes; Lifts Ban on Afro Puffs and Braids

• visual-volume forced to cut locs

• Milwaukee teacher cuts off little girl’s natural hair as punishment, throws it away in front of her

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  gradientlair:

  12 year old Vanessa VanDyke is being threatened with expulsion from Faith Christian Academy in Orlando unless she cuts her natural hair.

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Read the ads

"MEN WHO GO PLACES" "WAS IT HER RESUME OR HER RELAXER?" white people don’t have ads telling them "you will not be successful in life unless you have cornrows and box braids with gelled down baby hairs" because that isn’t the case. address this in the context of reality, maybe???

theadventuresofmichaelpawlak:

If you just had a clear box, you’d know that Schrodinger’s cat is alive and very confused.

itsmerandi:

And this is how it should be.

dduane:

blithelyblonde:

Always reblog.

Yep.

jessicascapshaw:

I’m just a girl who wants to be loved. But I was told, on more than one occasion, by a man who told me that he loved me, that he could not be seen in public with me. Could not introduce me to friends and family because I am trans. And not only because I am trans but because people can tell that I am trans, I am not ‘passable’ enough by certain standards. Some days, I wake up and I don’t feel good enough, because I’ve heard that over and over again. - Laverne Cox [x]

micdotcom:

Women’s products cost more than men’s — and the French have had enough

It costs more to be a woman than a man.

It’s an infuriating and relatively unnoticed fact: Not only do women earn less than men, all around the world, they are essentially being “taxed” for their purchases. 

Sometimes called the “invisible,” “pink” or “woman” tax, this capitalism-induced phenomenon reflects the price difference between otherwise functionally identical products marketed to women as opposed to men.

Unlike in the United States, however, France has decided to do something about it. | Follow micdotcom

babycakesbriauna:

Because God forbid a young, black male in America actually wants an education.

brightswitch:

It is always relevant to point out the ways that white people frame cat calling as a thing that Men of Color do because it contributes to the ideas that MOC especially Black Men are primitive beasts who deserve to be murdered in order to protect white womens honor.

Catcalling is a problem with men across races and white women editing white men out of these things or using AAVE to imitate cat callers and sexism is an act of racial violence

I’m glad we had this talk everybody.

Flashback Friday.

You have likely seen the image above.  The photograph of a 20-week old fetus was taken by Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson.  Another of his photographs graced the cover of Life magazine in April of 1965:

Nilsson’s images forever changed the way that people think about pregnancy, mothers, and fetuses.  Before Nilsson, the visual of a fetus independent from a mother was not widespread. His pictures made it possible for people to visualize the contents of a woman’s womb independently of her body.  Suddenly, the fetus came to life.  It was no longer just something inside of a woman, no longer even in relationship to a woman; it was an individual with a face, a sex, a desire to suck its thumb.

Once the fetus could be individualized, the idea that a woman and her fetus could have contrasting interests was easier to imagine. In many countries even today, the idea that helping pregnant women is helping fetuses and helping fetuses means helping pregnant women is still the dominant way of thinking about pregnancy. Pro-choice and other fetus-defenders, such as those who want it to be illegal to smoke during pregnancy, used these images to disentangle the interests of the woman and the fetus. The vulnerability of Nilsson’s subjects, free-floating in space, made it easier to portray fetuses as in danger.

There is power in visualization and its technological advance and these images were a boon to the pro-life cause. Ironically, it was abortion that made these images possible. Nilsson posed the fetuses to look alive, and gives no indication otherwise, but they are actually photographs of aborted fetuses.

Although claiming to show the living fetus, Nilsson actually photographed abortus material obtained from women who terminated their pregnancies under the liberal Swedish law. Working with dead embryos allowed Nilsson to experiment with lighting, background and positions, such as placing the thumb into the fetus’ mouth.

– Quote from the University of Cambridge’s history of the science of fetal development

Liberal abortion rights laws resulted in a product that was used to mobilize anti-abortion sentiment.  Today it is par for the course to have been exposed to images like this. And the rest is history. Originally posted in 2009.

Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College and the co-author of Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook.

(View original at http://thesocietypages.org/socimages)

“One of the risks of being quiet is that the other people can fill your silence with their own interpretation: You’re bored. You’re depressed. You’re shy. You’re stuck up. You’re judgmental. When others can’t read us, they write their own story—not always one we choose or that’s true to who we are.”

- Sophia Dembling’s The Introvert’s Way (via amapofourfailures)

booooost:

motherfuckingsassmaster:

things that people shit all over

• ballet
• cheerleading
• color guard

things that are really fucking difficult

• ballet
• cheerleading
• color guard

things that are predominantly female

• ballet
• cheerleading
• color guard

Things that have 40% more paralyzing and lethal injuries than college football:
- cheerleading

darning-socks:

((The ability to appreciate and evaluate human aesthetic is not determined by your sexuality))

People can be beautiful without being sexually arousing! Just like sunsets!

gynocraticgrrl:

"I think what we need is a colorblind society." Now folks, when you hear somebody say that you know you’re listening to a racist…

- Jane Elliot and Oprah Winfrey discussing racism in 1992 on the Oprah Winfrey Show.

beautyqweenintears:

polynotes:

Coming Out - Full Set - FOLLOW for more!

Really really like this. Wish I would’ve seen it years ago.

“People say to me a lot, in defense of sexist ads, that “sex sells.”

It’s actually been proven again and again that sex and sexism doesn’t sell products (especially cheap ones to women). Sex gets people’s attention, yes – but unlike ads which play on deeper emotion, people don’t actually connect that desire with the product.

What does that mean? It means that all of these ads – these sexist stereotypes, the race to the bottom, are not actually done to sell products, in the longrun, but to perpetuate a certain point of view. These ads exist to tell women their place in the world, in the home, in relation to men.”

- You Don’t Have to Be Evil to Sell Things: A Primer on Ad Writing & Sexism | Kameron Hurley (via brutereason)

Woman: This is a problem for women.
Man: No it isn't.
Woman: ...Well, it isn't for most men, but many women face this issue.
Man: No they don't. If it were a real problem you'd tell someone about it.
Woman: We're literally telling you right now.
Man: But this isn't even an issue. I've never experienced this problem in my entire life.
Woman: That's because you are a man, and this is an issue that primarily affects women.
Man: That's sexist.

lilfagbitch:

land-of-propaganda:

#Ferguson #MikeBrown

Mike Brown’s Mom Is Taking Her Son’s Case to the UN in Geneva

Lesley McSpadden, the mother of the 18-year-old boy whose death at the hands of a Ferguson police officer in August sparked weeks of protests, is going to Geneva, Switzerland next month to speak about her son and other victims of police brutality in front of the United Nations.

The trip — which was recently made public by organizers and promoted under the tagline “Ferguson to Geneva” — is meant to make a case, to as wide an audience as possible, that both Brown’s killing and the militarized police response to protesters demanding justice for him, are a matter of human rights.

(Read more here)

(11/01)

Like I’m crying tears of joy rn