May 2012
April 2012
“In a nation with the racial history of the United States I am baffled by the idea that non-racism would be the presumption and that it is racial bias which must be proved beyond reasonable doubt.”
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Melissa Harris-Perry, The Epistemology of Race Talk (via mswyrr)
0h shit i just got truth all down my shirt
(via muckrakingiswomenswork)
My ultimate goal is to just be in the same room with this woman. She doesn’t even have to speak to me, I just want to be in her presence.
(via newwavefeminism)
“As a society, we encourage girls and women to be emotionally accessible, and in touch with their feelings; we say that it’s an innately feminine trait. We say it, that is, until they have feelings that make us uncomfortable, at which point we recast them as melodramatic harpies, shrieking banshees, and basket cases.”
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Tori Amos (via dr-clear-heels)
So accurate.
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forever reblog
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“I think part of the reason we have trouble drawing the line “it’s not okay to force someone into sexual activity” is that in many ways, forcing people to do things is part of our culture in general. Cut that shit out of your life. If someone doesn’t want to go to a party, try a new food, get up and dance, make small talk at the lunchtable—that’s their right. Stop the “aww c’mon” and “just this once” and the games where you playfully force someone to play along. Accept that no means no—all the time.”
—The Pervocracy: Consent culture. (via lookoutsideyourself)
“The tabloids complain about [Madonna] looking old, and people laugh at her for that. Then Madonna goes and fixes her face, and they laugh at her for that. Even though they begrudgingly say she looks amazing, they’ll still laugh at her for trying to look young. Then she steps out, looking amazing, and the tabloids go and blow up a picture of her aging hand. Nobody’s doing that to George Clooney, blowing up pictures of his hands! I look at these magazines, and I want to say to them, What’s your point? That she’s aged? Does that surprise you? Or is your ‘point’ an attempt to undercut what she’s achieved? I think it is, even if it’s on a subconscious level. And you probably wouldn’t turn down those hands if they were grabbing you under the table, you fucking idiots.”
—Shirley Manson, Bullett Media Interview (via rrrambleon)
“People say there are not enough qualified women, that’s one of the biggest bullshit things I’ve ever heard.”
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Madeleine Albright
Women in the World Summit: Most Memorable Quotes - The Daily Beast
(via apsies)
“Why extremists always focus on women remains a mystery to me … They want to control women. They want to control how we dress, they want to control how we act, they even want to control the decisions we make about our own health and bodies. Yes, it is hard to believe that even here at home, we have to stand up for women’s rights and reject efforts to marginalize any one of us…”
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Hillary Clinton, at Women in the World summit (via think-progress)
I believe the way women’s bodies have played a significant part in the Republican primary debates is a symptom of the confusion about America’s position in the 21st Century. A national mythology that constantly enforces the idea of being “the greatest” can only be confusing to people when other societies begin to catch up.
When power is confused or threatened it always retreats to its most basic impulse, and that is control. And while women have made, and continue to make, great inroads into rectifying the gender power imbalance in the West, the fact that the rights of a woman over her own body are being debated by four rich men in the attempt to be the leader of the West’s most prominent society shows there is a long way to go.
There is a direct correlation between the economic success of a society and the way it treats its women. Attacking women may bring some sort of short-term mental comfort to the powerful, but it will only fuel a society’s decline.
(via ninefruits)
Grant Wyeth hey.
(via monsterpussy)
“I just wanna thank the members of Congress who took a break from their exhausting schedule of not passing any laws to be here tonight”
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(via elesheva)
“A human being is a part of a whole, called by us ‘universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
—Albert Einstein (via physicsandchemistryrevision)
“But most of all, stop thinking that what people so loathingly refer to as the “friendzone” is some sort of purgatory women put “nice guys” into. My friendship is not a crappy consolation prize that you’re left with if I deny you a sexual relationship– and my body is not your reward for good behavior.”
—Taylor Callobre, The “Good Guy” Myth (via albinwonderland)
