We live in a world where white people believe they are the victims of reverse racism and men are at the mercy of misandrists. Let’s ignores all the facts on facts on facts that proves otherwise. Next thing you know Christians will cry religious persecu- nevermind.
OP, you do know he shot a woman, right?
Kelly Preston, actually. But America thinks he’s still hilarious and amazing despite his long record of abuse, exploitation of women and philandering.
oh alright
“Our house was small, and when you grow up with domestic violence in a confined space you learn to gauge, very precisely, the temperature of situations. I knew exactly when the shouting was done and a hand was about to be raised – I also knew exactly when to insert a small body between the fist and her face, a skill no child should ever have to learn. Curiously, I never felt fear for myself and he never struck me, an odd moral imposition that would not allow him to strike a child. The situation was barely tolerable: I witnessed terrible things, which I knew were wrong, but there was nowhere to go for help. Worse, there were those who condoned the abuse. I heard police or ambulancemen, standing in our house, say, “She must have provoked him,” or, “Mrs Stewart, it takes two to make a fight.” They had no idea. The truth is my mother did nothing to deserve the violence she endured. She did not provoke my father, and even if she had, violence is an unacceptable way of dealing with conflict. Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.”
Fuck what everyone is saying, this is ACCURATE.
Everest bitches are scary,
and they are usually lower class people.
There are class systems in America.
Face it, Everest students are at the bottom.
The girls there are scary.
Because a woman breastfeeding an infant is absolutely terrifying. Right.
R-H-P is doing a good job of covering this right now, but yeah, people are flipping their classist racist shit at this image of a young mother daring to breastfeed her child in a college classroom. NO, she should not go to the bathroom to feed her child — is that where you eat your lunch? NO, she should not pick a “better time and place” for this. The right time and place is when and where your baby is hungry. Breastfeeding is a completely natural part of life, not something disgusting or icky that we should have to hide. A baby’s need for nutrition trumps your hang-ups about seeing a partially exposed boob.
-Jess
My only dislike of this is that they do make covers you can wear if you need to breast feed in public, but I know they’re a pretty much a luxury if you are short on cash.
Do you eat with a blanket over your head? No. Guess what? Neither should babies.
You know what’s awesome, growing up in a community where everything you and your neighbors, classmates, and peers do is mocked and described as “lower class.” It does wonders for your sense of self worth growing up.
We keep talking about the war on the middle class, and that’s all fine but when are we going to address how vile and hateful we are to the “lower class.”
this in combination with that “If I was a black kid” (even though i’m actually a privileged white guy) with his “why don’t black kids do better” article - i am done with the internet today
“This is going to take some getting used to.”
“Give me a break; this is hard for me.”
“I’m really trying; it’s not easy.”
Yes, I’m sure it’s really fucking difficult for you to get used to calling me by a different name, using different pronouns than before, the fact that I’m growing tits etc.
How hard it must be to know someone who is transgendered. You poor thing; it must be so fucking hard for you to respect my identity and have someone in your life who doesn’t fit into your bullshit preconceptions about gender.
Do you want me to hold your hand? Well, I’m a little busy… you see, while you’ve been dealing with the strenuous task of interacting with a trans person (and, believe me, I get it; you constantly tell me how “difficult,” it is) I’ve been busy dealing with the idea that I am one of the most hated people on the planet by virtue of the fact that I refuse to submit to oppressive schemas of gender. I’ve been busy thinking about all those people I cut out of my life because they couldn’t stop being oppressive assholes. I’ve been busy watching my back because I am one of the biggest targets for unprovoked violence in the world (violence constantly perpetrated, or at the very least encouraged/protected, by the state). I’ve been busy coming to terms with the idea that even the queer community is transmisogynistic. I’ve been busy deciding which fucking bathroom to use to lower my chances of being raped, brutalized, or murdered every time I have to piss.
So, I can’t hold your hand, because both of mine are constantly busy defending myself from this disgusting hell of a world.
I constantly feel like this ^
How about such golden lines as: “Don’t expect (insert relative’s name here) to get your pronouns and name correct”
or, “you better not make a scene about your identity if someone calls you by your birth name or refers to you with male pronouns”
or, “I’m trying really hard, but you have to understand how hard it is to see you as a woman when you don’t even look like one”
or, “oh God, there you go correcting everyone again. You’re going to spend half of your life correcting people from here on out because of your choices”
or, “you’re so difficult, how do ever expect anyone to see you as a woman with that low voice of yours and your bushy eyebrows? Even your walk is all wrong, who are you trying to fool?”
All that and more, paired with the constant fear of violence in public and overhearing people talking about me; “ohmygod, did you see that? I think that was a man!” or sometimes it’s even as blunt as “whoaaaaahhhhhh”.
Pardon me, world, for being who I am and being happy. For once.
Reblogged for great additions.
Reblogging because damn it, folks need to RESPECT when people tell you what they preferred to be regarded by. Filing under “How NOT to be a complete asshat when speaking about gender identity and presentation.”
This is some bullsh*t
ICTC. That’s the organization I’m getting my doula training through.
Interesting factoid…
I absolutely detest guys that act like sex is OWED to them for stupid shit.
I definitely knew this guy who legit stated he deserved sex from this girl cause they had been close friends for a few weeks/months. umm.. if she doesn’t wanna have sex with you then just accept it and move on.
Sorry that you can’t have EVERYTHING you want - silly sex objects actually exercising autonomy and all
Let me go ahead and file this under “Ways not to criticize/make fun of Sarah Palin”.
I see a lot of folks reblogging the stuff I post saying stuff like this or talking about how they’d like to punch Palin, etc. etc. ad nauseum.
Here’s the thing: This is using sexism to degrade Palin. It condones violence against women when people respond to her saying they’d like to punch her.
Do I like Palin? No. Am I happy that she’s co-opting feminist language in order to further her own political career while simultaneously shitting all over other women? No. Do I want to see her made into a victim of sexism and misogyny in politics? NO.
This may seem like it should go without saying, but the surest way to get rid of Palin’s political capital is to criticize her baseless assumptions, blatant hypocrisy, and outrageous inability to lead. You know, sorta like you would any male politician.
I just wanted to address this because I’ve seen some not so cool things being said in response to my postings, and I’d like to make it clear that I don’t support, condone, or encourage any of that. I take great effort to think through the feminism of the things I post, so if you like this blog and you like the meme and you hate Palin, please just don’t criticize her like this. It wasn’t funny when people did it to Hillary Clinton (and it’s not funny when they still do it), and it’s not funny when people do it to Palin.
Condaleeza Rice came to my school in November to speak. Obviously, the liberal students at my school weren’t too thrilled, some planned protesting, wearing the hood prisoners in the detainment camps were forced to wear, some wanted to ask her some really hard hitting questions etc…
I totally understand that. What i didnt understand was hearing a bunch of guys saying the following (trigger warning)
Condaleeza Rice is a bitch
She’s a cunt
I hope she gets raped
and so on and so forth.
WTF? Why… why…. why would you put me in that position? On one hand i totally understand the negative sentiment for the bush administration. But as a woman of color who’s interested in politics, i sure did hate how this one politician who probably had to go through hell & high water to get to where she is now to get so easily cut down and disregarded by a bunch of privileged, disingenuously liberal assholes because she’s a woman, who also happens to be black. Half of them didn’t even understand politics enough to critique the situation, yet they felt it was perfectly fine to constantly, repeatedly and violently wish rape on a women who was, at one point, a part of a team of leadership for this entire nation. I couldn’t help but notice that if it was a male conservative speaker coming that they didn’t agree with, the campus would have found much more intellectual and creative ways to talk shit. But when it’s a women, let’s just default to calling her a cunt and rape jokes.
The original post reminded me of this.
Liberals, get your fucking shit together.
Right & Wrong reasons to hate Edward Cullen. She said Twilight but she just focused on Edward.
We had to read twilight in a Women Studies class. It was the first and only time i read a Twilight book. It makes me really angry. I can go into a whole analysis about twilight if you wish… (as if it hasn’t been done to death) I’ll put that on my “posts to make after class” sticky note.
- Stop using the word “slut” to insult girls. There is absolutely nothing wrong with having sex with whoever you want, whenever you want, as long as you want it. Don’t be afraid of your sexuality.
- Stop teaching girls “how to not get raped” and instead teach boys how to not be rapists.
- Stop buying into bullshit like Twilight, which teaches us as females not to be strong women, but that we are only good if we have a boyfriend.
- Stop reading magazines like cosmo, which advises you on how to “please your man” but not how to please yourself.
- Stop degrading yourself by telling thinking that you have to look like a supermodel or a moviestar, or any other person for that matter.
- Stop telling people that you, “hate how catty girls are,” and how you, “would rather hang out with the boys.” Stop agreeing that the “get back in the kitchen jokes” are funny. This doesn’t make you cool; it makes you a misogynist.
- Start having confidence and respect for yourself and other women in your life. Don’t be afraid to report abuse, don’t be afraid to stand up and fight, and don’t let anyone else’s judgement get you down. Take a look at yourself and realize how beautiful you are, not because you’re a woman, but because you’re a human being.
I love seeing well thought out posts on tumblr. We need to spread positive thinking as far as possible.
things like this give me hope for our future
#blamepalin is currently a trending topic on Twitter. Like most political TT’s, it’s a mix of people using it seriously (“I #blamepalin for encouraging violence”) and sarcastically (“Lock your keys in your car? #BlamePalin!”).
And then there’s this guy, blaming Palin for being the reason “why the woman race looks dumb.”
Woman… race?
Of course, whenever a woman in spotlight does something wrong its only because she’s a woman. She can’t just be wrong for the sake of being wrong. This reminds me of this post i saw on tumblr a while back. It’s possible to criticize Palin without stooping to misogyny & sexism guys, it just requires a little bit of critical thinking. USE IT.
This video was almost too much for me, so if you’re not down with images of dead women hanging/nechrophelia-esq images, just don’t watch.
*This video is very disturbing*
Can we just talk about how a video chock full of images of dead women is seen as art? But if this was a video with 3 women, i man surrounded by a bunch of dead men bodies it’d be described as “batshit, crazy, feminist man-hating, harmful, angry, and stupid.”
Seriously. I see a lot of flack on feminists for being “man hating” because someone drudged up some uber radical article from back when it was legal to beat your wife, and say “feminism is ugly and advocates hating men!” How they’re wrong is another story - but whereas women who have a legitimate bone to pick get extremely villified for allegedly spreading “anti-men” messages KANYE WEST CAN SHOOT AND RELEASE A VIDEO WHERE THERE ARE COUNTLESS NAMELESS DEAD WOMEN WHO ARE SOLEY SEXUAL OBJECTS AND TROHPIES AND THAT’S PERFECTLY FINE. IN FACT IT’S “ART” but feminist art, are with a message about centuries of oppression is pegged as annoying and radical.
recap: women who hate the patriarchy = angry bitches; men who make videos with so many images of objectified dead women = the greatest fucking artists who ever lived.
WHATTHEFUCKINGFUCK.
ASDKLS;AFJDLKAF;SLDK;A
thoughts?
Jezebel:
From [cnn’s] article: “From Tiger Woods — whose scandal actually broke in 2009, but mushroomed in 2010 — to Jesse James, reports of celebrity straying were everywhere from celebrity magazine covers to internet gossip sites.”
I mean, by that standard, every year is the year of the mistress, no? And when half of said mistresses are Tiger Woods’, does this even constitute a trend? In any case, isn’t this as much about “cheating men who seemed happily married” as about “the mistress?”
