May 2013
61 posts
manjolras:
we’d probably already have hoverboards if we didn’t spend so much time arguing over whether women are people and if they should be allowed to do science
thalamtnafsee:
purplepill:
Last night I shared a cab with a young man who told me that if he sold me, he’d “reckon he’d rake in a good £500 to £600” then laughed as if he told the funniest joke and then expected me to be flattered.
And then when I told him I’d reckon if I castrated him it’d be hard to compensate me monetarily because no amount of money would be enough for the service I’ve...
“Under the current ‘tyranny of slenderness’ women are forbidden to become large...”
– Sandra Lee Bartky, Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power (via sociophilia)
“The love expressed between women is particular and powerful, because we have had...”
– Audre Lorde (via reclaimingthelesbiantag)
“I loved you head over handles
like my first bicycle accident—
before the...”
– Sierra DeMulder (via petrichour)
“If giving bad intelligence about a terrorist attack for a few days is a scandal....”
– LOLGOP (via samuraifuckingfrog)
“What kind of world do we live in when young men are so proud of violating...”
– “In Rape Tragedies, the Shame Is Ours,” my latest at The Nation (via jessicavalenti)
“Why is what is easy so difficult?”
– Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 15 August 19231 (via violentwavesofemotion)
“When we speak
we are afraid our words will not be heard
or welcomed.
But when...”
– Audre Lorde (via pathsunfamiliar)
graceebooks:
men at large think they are being robbed of something when an attractive woman with a 90% chance of developing breast cancer gets a double mastectomy
what better illustration of the male sense of sexual entitlement do you need
“What job can I get that helps me dismantle capitalism but also pays me.”
– (via shitwmstmajorssay)
“My fat body is not a representation of my failures, sins, or mistakes. My fat...”
– read more: danceswithfat.wordpress.com (via fat-grrrl-activism)
Exercise doesn't help depression, study concludes →
tooyoungforthelivingdead:
A study into whether physical activity alleviates the symptoms of depression has found there is no benefit. Research published in the British Medical Journal suggests that adding a physical activity intervention to usual care did not reduce symptoms of depression more than usual care alone. This contrasts with current clinical guidance which recommends exercise to help...
sapphicdalliances:
it’s okay straight people, you make me uncomfortable too
“My fatness doesn’t exist in a vacuum. People care about my fat body because we...”
– My response when Virgie Tovar asked me my big secret to my relationship with my body in an article for Everyday Feminism. (via fatsmartandpretty)
abortionista:
if u think my constant vocal feminism is annoying imagine how annoying the patriarchy is to me
“It’s a monumental overask to expect women to be gentle with the egos of men who...”
– No One is Entitled to Sex: Why We Should Mock the Nice Guys of OkCupid (via peachersen)
“Saying that we can’t have feminism because we should only focus on general human...”
– Why Not Say Everyday Humanism Instead of Everyday Feminism? — Everyday Feminism (via brute-reason)
thalamtnafsee:
merry-i-am:
salma:
why can’t hurricane names be culturally diverse
hurricane muhammad
hurricane shaniqua
hurricane nguyen
because white people destroy everything.
lmaoooooo
“The first immigrants to Europe arrived thousands of years ago from central Asia....”
– Indigenous History: “What if people told European history like they told Native American history?” (via stfuconservatives)
“In the 101 top-grossing family films…from 1990 to 2004, of the over 4,000...”
– Natasha Walter, Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism, pages 69-70, 2010. (via bitemebeautiful)
Bringing this back as people have started reblogging this again and EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW THIS.
(via bitemebeautiful)
