December 2011
3 tags
RE: Pandagate
khaleesi:
loveintheshadowsistheonlykind:
Type of complaint:
BBC News (TV Radio Online)
What is your complaint about:
BBC News Online
URL:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16200429
Complaint category:
Offence
Complaint title:
Sexist reporting of women’s achievements in 2011.
Complaint description:
I was shocked to read that the BBC, which I normally have a huge amount...
“Society’s wariness toward sex is highlighted by contrasting it with the greater...”
– Nadine Strossen (from ‘Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex and the Fight for Women’s Rights’)
“It was a widely misinterpreted movie, I think…. People tend to say, “Why didn’t...”
– Joseph Gordon-Levitt on (500) Days of Summer (via theshadowofyoursong)
awesome. i didn’t see the movie, but apparently everyone just thinks it’s a goofy, quirky rom-com and they’ll end up together because he is such a nice guy and simply wants her bad enough.
(via eryntherat)
I watched the first...
“The following day, I attended a workshop about preventing gender violence,...”
– Why I Am A Male Feminist (via newwavefeminism)
So over it →
jaded16india:
The following post is by Numa and I as a response to Eve Ensler’s post Over It. There are some things you don’t get to be over, Eve Ensler. But if we’re going to play this game, here are some of ours.
—-
We are over cis white feminists claiming to speak for the rest of us and then…
About "productivity".
pompadoursandpincurls:
dandytrans:
mcgoats:
youarenotyou:
What does it mean to be “productive”?
As someone who has struggled with life-long depression, and other problems that cause a depletion of spoons, one of the ways that I’ve shamed myself most is with this idea of productivity: feeling low when I believe I haven’t been productive enough. And I hear this a lot from other people too,...
“I like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them. I myself am...”
– Augusten Burroughs (via light-essence)
Re: Pictures of preteens with their mid-driffs...
face-down-asgard-up:
..and then saying they are “doing childhood wrong” or that they “look like future whores”.
Fuck you.
You know, as if it’s not hard to go through puberty. Your body and mind are rapidly changing, you’re feeling sexual urges, curious about other people’s bodies as well as your own, etc. So when you start exploring your body, your sexuality and you start exploring the...
“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be...”
– bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Absafuckinglutely. This is also stated by Henri Nouwen in his book Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life.
(via peoplespolitik)
When we say "rape jokes" are bad or saying the...
freetohide:
face-down-asgard-up:
greaterthanlapsed:
This is not a call for institutionalized censorship, you ignorant jack-asses. It’s a call for self-awareness, empathy, kindness, and possible even **gasp** self-censorship.
You have the right to say whatever you want. However, I have the right to think you are an asshole.
For fuck’s sake. Why is this all so hard?
I swear, people will...
“I think it’s odd that you can’t joke about rape, when people joke about murder...”
– Donald Glover (via witch-or-not)
All right, I’m returning to this (with statistics!) because I’m so fucking pissed.
Donald Glover,
One in six American women will experience attempted rape or rape in their lifetime. One in thirty-three American men will. Recently, you did a sold-out show on my...
“Sex-negative messages don’t keep people from having sex. They keep people from...”
– Sex-Negative Education and the Spectre of Rape « Sex Positive Activism (via cultureofresistance)
SEX NEGATIVE MESSAGES DON’T KEEP PEOPLE FROM HAVING SEX. THEY KEEP PEOPLE FROM HAVING GOOD SEX.
(via dailymurf)
I Just Want to Go on a Walk →
jwisser:
The link above is to an incredible post about how it feels as a woman to be approached by an unknown man. Every man should read it.
As a man, the closest comparison I can summon up for the feeling of anxiety AV Flox conveys is the memory of the few times when I’ve been startled by (presumably drunk) teenagers yelling at me from the windows of a passing car. It’s a thing that has...
“Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural...”
– bell hooks, “Killing Rage” (via funkyfest)(via callmebrandy)