Men, are you worried for your own safety because misandry?
You need to accept that misandry happens in the real world and take some precautions.
Take a self defense class, they’re only a couple hundred dollars a month.
Don’t go out after dark unless you have a…
(via supermandy)
Tumbling over the past year and a half has made me see the problems of gender roles that exist in media, but sometimes it gets to the point where I over analyze every single piece of television or film that I come across. (However this in no way means that I think feminist media criticism is wrong, or should be avoided!) Mostly I just over think everything.
I’ve thought about this a lot and I think the answer is MORE, and MORE DIVERSE female characters.
We’re used to having one or two female characters in a cast of mostly men, and hold them to a higher standard because of that. So all of feminism is resting on the shoulders of one female character - and that DOESN’T WORK. Because there isn’t one right way to be a woman.
If casts had more diversity of gender, we could have warrior women and non-warrior women, sexual women and non-sexual women, feminine and non-feminine, and mixtures of all of the above…all are completely legitimate ways to be a woman.
We’re used to seeing a lot of hypersexualized, scantily clad, one-dimensional stereotypes of women without stories or motives of their own. We respond by asking for characters that AREN’T THAT, but we may end up pushing too far in the opposite direction, and demonize traits like sexuality, conventional attractiveness, and traditional femininity as “sexist.” That’s why the most popular female characters are the ones that are most similar to male heroes - the Arya Starks - emotionally distant, unattached, solve their problems with violence, not remotely sexual. That’s fine too of course. I love Arya. It’s just not…the only way to be.
I’m feeling the same way lately. And Gingerhaze couldn’t have explained it any better.
I feel like we need to have more serious chats as to what being a woman means. I feel like gender roles have become a common topic so the wonderful world of gender role confusion has presented itself to us and now we’re not exactly sure what to do with it.
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Lucy, When Worlds Collide: Fandom and Male Privilege. (via seaofbadstories)
Also the study where they had women and men talking in a discussion and when women spoke around 30% of the time, men perceived them as dominating the discussion. They didn’t consider it “equal” until something like 5-10% of women talking. (via dumbthingswhitepplsay)
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“What Old People Think About Gay Sex”“How do you identify?”
“Old”
I’ve never hit reblog so fast in my life.
“There’s nothing wrong with being a slut”
I think I need these people to adopt me as their granddaughter okay
I love old people. They say the most naughty and raunchy things and it’s hilarious.
“Ill be sexual until the day I die”
SO RELEVANT TO SATURDAY NIGHT
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People being angry about ~dem gays~ on Target’s Facebook.
I just want to give my two cents on this and tell you a story.
A couple weeks ago, I was hired at Target. I have a job at Target. Not a big deal right?
It is a big deal because i’m a transman.
It doesn’t take a genius to conclude that it’s hard for me, my brothers, and sisters to get a job. There are legal restraints regarding the job and if you don’t pass, it’s hard to be taken seriously at a job interview.
Right on the application, it asks what your preferred name is. It also asks if there is anything that target should know. I put the fact that I am a transman, expecting not to get a call because usually when you put that down, people will throw out the application. I got TWO interviews.
At the interview, they asked me about it. I told them I am on hormones and they told me that they didn’t care. Not in the sense that they don’t emotionally care, but that it didn’t matter. I was male and that’s all that mattered. They also told me that they give sex same couples benefits in states that do not recognize them as a married couple.
At my job orientation, I was not misgendered once. Even my supervisors who weren’t sure of my gender avoided pronoun use, which I found only happens when you’ve had pronoun training. They gave me a name tag with my preferred name and didn’t ask questions. I felt safe and respected, which is huge for a trans* person.
TLDR: Target is amazing not just for the LGB, but also the T. Shop there for the rest of your life.
(via justawordshaker)
I’ve created these flyers for a school activist project where I bring more attention to the women in history that have been forgotten or ignored. This blog will be an extension of those flyers where I post longer biographies of these women and other bad-ass women like them. Too often women’s achievements have been pushed aside, either by others in their lives, or else by the historians who choose to ignore them. This tumblr is dedicated to celebrating them and bringing their achievements to light!
(via supermandy)
hi guys! this is a comic i made for a final in my comics in literature class. we had to do a research paper on a topic we’d discussed in class and then accompany it with a comic with a relevant subject. my paper was about hyper-sexualization of women in comic books, but i decided to broaden it out here as well as personalize it and make myself the subject and discuss something i’ve been subjected to in the convention circuit and on the internet as well as thousands of other women, as well as give a cue to thought about how the comic book industry as well as the video game industry and even just media in general (all of which are male dominated) push such ridiculous pressures onto girls and women.
also, it feels kind of silly to have to add this since i hope it’s obvious, but i am very aware that there are men that don’t subscribe to this attitude, and am incredibly grateful that these issues are brought to light to people other than the ones that are subjected to it.
anyway haha i have literally been staring at this for 9 hours i don’t even know which direction is up anymore. thanks for reading!!!
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— Hillary Clinton (via ellesugars)
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— “Kindergartners Shouldn’t Be Taught Sex Ed” — And Other Myths Endangering America’s Youth (via think-progress)
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— I really, really loved this (via drinkyourjuice)
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CNN grieves that guilty verdict ruined ‘promising’ lives of Steubenville rapists
This is just irresponsible journalism. The correspondents don’t even comment on how much of a lasting effect this will have on the victim. Side-eyeing the fuck out of you right now, CNN.They raped a girl. They did horrific things to an innocent person and were found guilty of doing those things.
The court did not ruin their lives. The court did not rob them of something. These are consequences. These are consequences for actions that harm others. Whether they are young or promising is completely beyond the point—they made a choice and that choice had consequences. You know what’s sad? That a young girl was harmed and that two young men did not make the choice to not rape a young woman and that they and their friends felt so young and promising that they thought they could get away with it.
I’m sorry, Poppy Harlow, that you find the fact that these two boys received punishment for forcing themselves upon a young woman who could not resist and could not say no a tragedy. I find it a tragedy that you do not see what they robbed from somebody else.
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Smells like 2005.
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Lunatic; from Old French lunatique, from late Latin lunaticus, from Latin luna ‘moon’ (from the belief that changes of the moon caused...
the most graceful of birds.
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Did you know each other before the movie?
