my grandmother had the best comment about One Million Moms and the wives of law makers working so hard to take away birth control and women’s rights. When I brought it up in conversation, she set aside the sweater she was knitting for my baby nephew, sighed, and said:
”I’m willing to bet none of those women have ever had an orgasm.”
your grandma is perfect
- Realise all aesthetic choices are subjective.
- Realise that they might think they look sexy as fuck.
- Remove yourself from the vicinity until you’ve learned to get over your fatphobia/transphobia/misogyny/racism or combination of those.
4. Look back at them with refreshed eyes and realize how sexy they look.
(via fuckyeahsexeducation)
i want to laugh whenever i see people complain about not being eligible for scholarships because they’re not a minority
even if you’re a minority applying for a race-exclusive scholarship, you still usually need a pretty good gpa, and a lot of them require you to be a the first generation of your family going to college, which is the what disqualified me from a lot of the things i found
but beyond that like
do those people not look very hard?? do you know how many scholarships are out there that are solely for math and science majors? that require ridiculous amounts of community service and extracurricular activities that underprivileged kids usually can’t do because they have to work or take care of family or whatever? from what i remember, it was usually a combination of those two.
so can we whine about smart people and people who are super active in high school instead or something? because they’re the real assholes taking up all the free money. :(
Celebrity chef Mario Batali • Discussing the diet he’s currently on — he’s eating like he’s on food stamps (an average of $1.48 per meal, or $31 per week) in protest of potential cuts to the federal food stamps program. His family was nice enough to join him in what he calls a conversation starter about being hungry in the U.S. Unlike most people on food stamps, he knows ways to make the best of a bad situation, smartly sticking to foods like lentils, apples, rice, beans, peanut butter and jelly. But the problem is, eating good on a diet like this is tough, so many do not. Think his family’s experiment will be effective? (via shortformblog)
I think this is the key argument for those who think that poor people could eat better if they just tried harder. This guy prepares food for a living and he still cannot manage to do this without feeling like he’s going hungry. This is a problem.
(via killsmedead)
(via fuckyeahsexeducation)
The US must stop sexual violence against immigrant farmworkers.
Hundreds of thousands of immigrant farmworker women and girls in the United States face a high risk of sexual violence and sexual harassment in their workplaces because US authorities and employers fail to protect them adequately.
In a new 95-page report, Human Rights Watch documents rape, stalking, unwanted touching, exhibitionism, or vulgar and obscene language by supervisors, employers, and others in positions of power. Most farmworkers interviewed said they had experienced such treatment or knew others who had. And most said they had not reported these or other workplace abuses, fearing reprisals. Those who had filed sexual harassment claims or reported sexual assault to the police had done so with the encouragement and assistance of survivor advocates or attorneys in the face of difficult challenges.
Farmworkers described experiences such as the following:
- A woman in California reported that a supervisor at a lettuce company raped her and later told her that she “should remember it’s because of him that [she has] this job.”
- A woman in New York said that a supervisor, when she picked potatoes and onions, would touch women’s breasts and buttocks. If they tried to resist, he would threaten to call immigration or fire them.
- Four women who had worked together packing cauliflower in California said a supervisor would regularly expose himself and make comments like, “[That woman] needs to be fucked!” When they tried to defend one young woman whom he singled out for particular abuse, he fired all of them.
© 2011 AP Photo
This is important.
(via frankcoffee)
Here’s a friendly reminder:
-You cannot be sexist toward men. Sexism is based on a system of oppression. You CAN be discriminatory, rude, inconsiderate, and/or prejudiced against men but you CANNOT be sexist toward them.
-You cannot be racist towards white people. Racism is based on a system of oppression. You CAN be discriminatory, rude, inconsiderate, and/or prejudiced against white people but you CANNOT be racist toward them.
This is not difficult.
(via misssynph)
just some of my thoughts on allies in movements… primarily white allies, I’d love to hear fedback, I think I’m just trying to talk my way through some of the stuff that’s ben bothering me on tumblr about activism and/or allies voices.
“Allies have good intentions but are completely missing the point. We are teaching our youth and white youth in particular that everybody is equal, however the system we base it all on doesn’t do those things. So we have white people saying ‘equality for all, equality for all’ that includes them as well.
Because white people being told they can’t be a part of something isin’t a thing white people have experienced as a concept.
When they are told “you’re stamping out my voice / this isn’t your movement” they’re not necessarily understanding that’s what they do because they have not been taught exclusion, what they have been taught is equality and activism and movements includes them because all the faces that represent these events look like them.
When white people do stand up in POC movements, they speak from privilege without meaning to and they stamp out the voices they are trying to uplift and uphold. even if what they’re saying is the exact same thing as what the POC said, their voice is the one that will be heard which turns the movement into a white movement, which in our soceity, just looks like a movement.
Imagine if you look at activism as a single file of line and you have POC or women or whatever minority is waiting on line, someone from the majority group comes along & wants to be heard, what they don’t realise is they have a fast-track pass because they are from the majority so they go to the front of the line and when a whole bunch of people from the majority joins the line, suddenly the whole line is 50-FT deep of just the majority
Minority gorups dont want someone to speak for them or evn on behalf of them. Allies’ role is to be a back seat not a spokesperson.
So instead of reblogging a POC post and putting in your own 2cents or paraphrasing something a POC said, just reblog it, dont add to it, let it be their voice. Let it move through you instead of come from you because as soon as you put any words to it, it becomes your work, your voice. People no longer see it as something that POC said but now as something you hold the opinion of.
POC voices dont feel are heard because white people will say the same thing but they are completely taking over the whole movement.
Thoughts? I would like to heard from you
You have articulated in 5mins everything that goes through my mind in a non-screaming fit way. I love you, you are perfect. Reblog for ever.
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Earlier in this pregnancy, I filled out my “Initial Health History” form for prenatal and birth care. You know: check the box if you’ve experienced severe headaches, diabetes, all sorts of things. After the usual “Emotional abuse,” “Physical abuse,” “Sexual abuse,” I got to this very interesting item: ”ANY unwanted/undesired physical or sexual contact.”
read the link. so spot on.
[trigger warning LIKE WHOA at the link for rape culture, coercion, molestation, and general unwanted attention]
Because I can hardly stand the thought of these constant erosions of personhood seeming normal to our daughters and sons.
READ THIS
Everyone needs to read this.
I know that the concept of “rape culture” can be really hard to understand if you’re new to it or just not quite sure what it entails. It took me a painfully long time to recognize that a lot of my behaviors — jokes, apologia, defending perpetrators, victim-blaming, &c — were contributing in ways I didn’t have the ability to recognize but did have the ability to change. It’s a constant struggle, too, tbh, because the learned habits of a lifetime are still reinforced by society even as I try to unlearn them.
If you’ve ever rolled your eyes at someone being ~hysterical~ or ~humorless~ or ~uptight~ about feminism or rape culture or victim blaming or misogyny or safe spaces or bodily autonomy, or if you’re looking for a way to explain those things to someone else, this essay might help.
(via amberspirit)
“it’s the internet” is an acceptable excuse for some of the ugliest, most dehumanizing, and backwards bullshit ever published.
This is supposed to be the medium of the future, and it’s done more to advance racism, sexism, and homophobia more than any other means of communication in history.
Is it fair to judge public figures based on stuff from their high school years? Or to bring their family (if said family isn’t a vocal part of their campaign or politics) into discussion when attacking their politics?
If you don’t mind me asking before I attempt a response, is this related to the Mitt Romney bullying thing?
I’m going to assume it is and just say that I can forgive stupid shit someone did as a teenager if they own up to it later and say, “I was being a cruel shit and I was wrong and I am sorry.”
But Romney apparently finds the whole incident so insignificant that he doesn’t even recall it happening. He instead says it was a “prank that went too far.”
Seeing someone with a hairstyle that offends you and choosing to hold them down and cut their hair is not a prank. That’s bullying. And it’s really upsetting to me that Romney doesn’t consider that a significant experience worth remembering when his schoolmates all reported that it’s disturbed them in their later years. I think that says a lot more about him than the actual incident does.
It’s not so much judging him for the doing it as it is judging him for his reaction to it being brought up.
let me just bold the parts I particularly agree with 100% because you say it better than I have
#it’s not who he was then #it’s who he was now #because who he is now #is kind of a shitbag #in general
I see it more like: He was a shitbag before, but he’s even more of a shitbag now for apparently thinking that his behavior was just “harmless fun” and not “traumatizing” or “bullying.”
![mohandasgandhi:
humanrightswatch:
The US must stop sexual violence against immigrant farmworkers.
Hundreds of thousands of immigrant farmworker women and girls in the United States face a high risk of sexual violence and sexual harassment in their workplaces because US authorities and employers fail to protect them adequately.
In a new 95-page report, Human Rights Watch documents rape, stalking, unwanted touching, exhibitionism, or vulgar and obscene language by supervisors, employers, and others in positions of power. Most farmworkers interviewed said they had experienced such treatment or knew others who had. And most said they had not reported these or other workplace abuses, fearing reprisals. Those who had filed sexual harassment claims or reported sexual assault to the police had done so with the encouragement and assistance of survivor advocates or attorneys in the face of difficult challenges.
Farmworkers described experiences such as the following:
A woman in California reported that a supervisor at a lettuce company raped her and later told her that she “should remember it’s because of him that [she has] this job.”
A woman in New York said that a supervisor, when she picked potatoes and onions, would touch women’s breasts and buttocks. If they tried to resist, he would threaten to call immigration or fire them.
Four women who had worked together packing cauliflower in California said a supervisor would regularly expose himself and make comments like, “[That woman] needs to be fucked!” When they tried to defend one young woman whom he singled out for particular abuse, he fired all of them.
© 2011 AP Photo
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