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Link reblogged from Darling, I want your scrotum
The author of this is very impassioned, but she does have some very valid points.
Look at yourselves and how you’re acting right now. A WoC dares to point out that Rush Limbaugh has been saying racist and sexist shit to WoC for years and y’all lose your shit! You pull out every trick in the book in an attempt to derail the conversation….
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You’re given the option to be a female, but as the game has progressed to its third installment this option is no longer just an afterthought. This is very gradually becoming the case for a few games. As a woman who has a penchant for gaming, this trailer makes me quite tingly.
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Quote reblogged from Fuck yeah, feminists!Rape culture is a culture in which people who have survived a violent crime are asked to laugh about it because other people think it’s funny.(i wish i could put this on a business card and hand it out to people who make rape jokes. the flip side would say FUCK YOU)
(Source: goforthandagitate)
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Now if rights are founded in the nature of our moral being, then the mere circumstance of sex does not give to man higher rights and responsibilities, than to woman. To suppose that it does, would be to deny the self-evident truth, that the ‘physical constitution is the mere instrument of the moral nature.’ To suppose that it does, would be to break up utterly the relations, of the two natures, and to reverse their functions, exalting the animal nature into a monarch, and humbling the moral into a slave; making the former a proprietor, and the latter its property. When human beings are regarded as moral beings, sex, instead of being enthroned upon the summit, administering upon rights and responsibilities, sinks into insignificance and nothingness. My doctrine then is, that whatever it is morally right for man to do, it is morally right for woman to do. Our duties originate, not from difference of sex, but from the diversity of our relations in life, the various gifts and talents committed to our care, and the different eras in which we live.
Grimke’s appeal from http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/abesaegb5t.html.
Read it for a Gender in the Law class. It’s worth taking just for the in-class debates.
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Quote reblogged from The Gay OneMost conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate.Margaret Cho, I have chosen to stay and fight (via derschwuleskylar)
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Photoset reblogged from GynocraticGrrl
So, I personally can’t wait for this to start because it’s about time we get a few television programs aimed at children (but unabashedly enjoyed by older audiences) where there’s a female protagonist who isn’t a princess. I honestly think that the ideals of feminism can emerge in individuals from an early age, and television typically plays a significant role in this. Kids spend a lot of time watching TV, even back in my day *waves cane*. My childhood heroes were Sailor Moon, Catwoman, Mulan and Pocahontas because they were all independent and kicked so much butt. Nowadays, there’s a depressing lack of such heroines, so it’s nice to see a very gradual return to storylines centered on strong female characters.
The Last Airbender: Legend of Korra trailer x
(Source: izzyspellman)
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Link reblogged from Hell Yeah Feminism
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 1/3 are victims of rape, sexual assault, family or intimate partner violence.
There are four women of color. Two of these women (the only adult women of color and the only black characters) are portrayed by the same actor, Pam Grier.
There are three characters identifiable as bisexual and one character identifiable as a lesbian.
More than half the characters are approximately 20–35 years of age.
22 appear in films at least co-written by women. Only 5 appear in films directed by women.
(Source: feministfilm)
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“I don’t know why we care what you have to say. We don’t have the luxury to starve for fashion. We have to work for a living. We have double shifts. We carry groceries we can barely buy with our meager salaries up many flights of stairs and feed our children and deal with our children being molested and woefully sometimes bury our children and find a way to live through this, being merely children ourselves. We worry through vocal surgery and survive the silence and still go to gigs and keep from getting hit and if we do, successfully cover the bruises with concealer so we can go to school and to the DMV and SXSW and keep our heads up high while being unloved or loved by the wrong ones and hang in the friend zone as we hang our laundry out to dry and run for the bus and fight for the right to marriage while finalizing painful divorces and try amidst all this to keep going and get by.
When you say we are fat, you murder our grace, and we’ve already lost so much to begin with. We’ve already lost everything, except weight. That we gain steadily, along with self hatred, and all you are doing is adding to our burden, pressing down on the scale with the long toe of your fine, elegantly tassled loafer.
We don’t have millions of dollars to perforate our fat with expensive, experimental injections. We don’t have time to be lightheaded and sick with hunger. We can’t afford fasting clinics in the Swiss Alps or a messianic nutritionist or portion controlled meals wrapped up in white linen and enshrouded in Chanel camellias. We have to pay the rent and pay for gas and if eating is some comfort to us in our difficult lives, let it be so. Just let us be.”
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Chat reblogged from GynocraticGrrl
- Woman: Can I have birth control?
- Government: No.
- Woman: I got pregnant because I didn't have birth control and I don't want the fetus. Can I have an abortion?
- Government: No.
- Woman: I gave birth to my child but since I wasn't expecting it, I can't afford daycare. Can I have help paying for it?
- Government: No.
- Woman: Well, why can't I have birth control?
- Government: Because. Sex isn't for recreation.
- Woman: It can help regulate my period and benefit me in other ways.
- Government: Too bad.
- Man: For no reason other than for recreational sex, may I have birth control?
- Government: Do you have a penis?
- Man: YES, YES I DO!!
- Government: WELL HOWDY, VALID CITIZEN. You can buy condoms by the dozens. Here, here's a pack of special condom for "His Pleasure." Oooh, these come in different colours and flavours. Here, try these. They have ribs on them. And this one glows in the dark!! LOL OMG DICK LIGHTSABER!!
- Government: But seriously, you're a man. You can do what ever you want.
- Woman: But-
- Government: Shut up, you sinning, freeloading hussy.
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Photoset reblogged from girlVIRUS/grrrlVIRUS/theVIRUS
A four part series (for now) called Reclamation.
I did submit these for critique and my teacher liked them, as well as my classmates. Although one rude woman kept saying I need to get a bigger bra, but another nicer woman defended me and we all agreed it was irrelevant to the art.
These are all things people have called me/said to me.
