February 2012
195 posts
[TRIGGER WARNING: rape & enforced ultrasounds]... →
jessicavalenti:
Also, WTF with the headline? “Crying rape”? For real?
THIS.
Just so we're all clear
joyeux-noelle:
Yes, in the current paradigm, both male and female superheroes are fantasies.
Female superheroes are male sex fantasies.
Male superheroes are male power fantasies.
Not sure how it’s hard to see the problem here.
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BORED of seeing messages from cismen on labia/breast-centered body-positivity blogs, all saying some version of “this guy thinks you’re all hot no matter what, you shouldn’t let the guys who say bad things get you down because they’re just assholes!” etc.
Your message is probably meant in a good way. Probably. Unless you expect payment for being nice. But even so,...
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I am sad and I just want to have sex.
note-a-bear:
baddominicana:
thatmuchlove:
13 Year Old Jada Williams Persecuted by the Rochester City School District Over her essay on Frederick Douglass.
ai-yo:
jumpstart-therevolution:
theafrosistuh:
beautifulbrwn:
“On Saturday, February 18, 2012, the Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York presented the first Spirit of Freedom award to Jada Williams, a 13-year old city of...
immediate remedies for exceptional irritability?
because I’m worried I’m going to end up breaking my fist on the wall.
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Vladimir: Say you are, even if it’s not true.
Estragon: What am I to say?
Vladimir: Say, I am happy.
Estragon: I am happy.
Vladimir: So am I.
Estragon: So am I.
Vladimir: We are happy.
Estragon: We are happy. (Silence.) What do we do now, now that we are happy?
—Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
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White Asparagus
Who speaks of the strong currents streaming through the legs, the breasts of a pregnant woman in her fourth month?
She’s young, this is her first time, she’s slim and the nausea has gone.Q Her belly’s just starting to get rounder her breasts itch all day,
and she’s surprised that what she wants is him inside her again. Oh come like a horse, she wants to say, move like...
wow, editing is embarrassing. I knew there was a reason I don’t do this much.
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“True gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A group that is made...”
– - Lucy, When Worlds Collide: Fandom and Male Privilege. (via seaofbadstories)
I might have reblogged this already but it’s so good I don’t care.
(via stfufauxminists)
Kyriarchy in action.
(via transstingray)
Also the study where they had women and men talking in a discussion and when women...
“The report of my death was an exaggeration.”
– Sylvia Plath (via incorrectsylviaplathquotes)
who wants to talk to me tonight? →
I’m really friendly honest.
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frankieteardrop asked: oh god those sex ed stories... went to an all girls catholic state school, never got sex ed apart from an abstinence talk when we were 17. one exercise was throwing a dice 6 times, and every time you rolled a 6 you were pregnant, because apparently 1 in every 6 times you have sex it ends in fertilisation. also did the sticky/not-sticky tape thing.
Sex, Uneducated
kateordie:
This morning, I put out a call for Sex Ed horror stories from former and current teens, after reading about Utah’s decision to adopt an abstinence-only policy when it comes to teaching about sexual health. Of course, that’s ridiculous - but not as crazy as some of these testimonials. Read on, it’s fascinating.
On Periods & Other Ovarian Mysteries
“Our sex ed in biology class was...
Actually, no. Trying to make a point about how I’m wrong about me & my dad sharing a sense of humour by offending me right to my face then laughing when I’m upset doesn’t actually prove anything other than you’re a bunch of bastards.
Fuck off.
“Every time I read an article about conservatives being “pro- life” I am reminded...”
– The ‘Safe, Legal, Rare’ Illusion - NYTimes.com
YES.
(via golden-notebook)
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CALL FOR ZINE SUBMISSIONS!
rosietheriotgrrrl:
I’m looking to put together a zine about self-love and body positivity. I’m looking for submissions of any kind: personal stories, poetry, fiction writing, art, photography, anything!
If you’re interested in submitting or would like more information, drop a line in my ask or reply to this post! I’m super excited to get started working on this! Let’s make a beautiful,...
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“shame is not a catalyst for change; it is a paralytic. Anyone who has ever...”
– http://www.xojane.com/issues/whats-wrong-fat-shaming (via thechocolatebrigade)
For women, heart attacks look different.
portlypenguin:
For women, heart attacks look different.
nefariousnewt:
distractedbyshinyobjects:
Follow me down the rabbit hole for a second:
I’ve long wondered if this - that women don’t recognize the symptoms of a heart attack in themselves, and consequently don’t get the fast care that is vital for heart attack survival - is the reason heart disease is the #1 killer in women. Women...
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“I seek pleasure. I seek the nerves under your skin.”
– Patti Smith (via slurring-rhythms)
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“Sometimes, loving your body is not an option. Sometimes, the best we can do is...”
– Lesley Kinzel (via lavender-labia)
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What Lot's Wife Would Have Said (If She Wasn't A...
eating-poetry:
Do you remember when we met in Gomorrah? When you were still beardless, and I would oil my hair in the lamp light before seeing you, when we were young, and blushed with youth like bruised fruit. Did we care then what our neighbors did in the dark?
When our first daughter was born on the River Jordan, when our second cracked her pink head from my body like a promise, did...
So many things on my new PC I don’t know how to fix; I’m considering removing all that stuff about how computer literate I am from my CV.
(But gawd did I miss missing e in the interim. It’s even got better since I could last use it.)
Anonymous asked: tell us something about yourself
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trntbl.me: selfsamewoman →
“If you want me I’ll be in the bar.”
Everything is sexism and everything hurts.
“If you used your head, if you became aware of how love was culturally...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, ‘The Marriage Plot’.
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“89% of Cosmo readers think [Durex] lubes make sex more pleasurable.”
– Things I literally cannot take seriously. Lube is good and all, but addition of “Cosmo” undermines any point you were trying to make.
“And do not think you shouldn’t be standing on that chair, shouting ‘I AM A...”
– Caitlin Moran (via alysinw0nderland)
no, what will happen is I will kick him in the bits because I’ve yet to meet one ‘male feminist’ who wasn’t a manipulative misogynist wanker. this quote rly upsets me, because it’s bullshit; leaving aside whether men can call themselves feminists (they could if...
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“It happens. Will it go on?
My mind a rock,
No fingers to grip, no tongue,
My...”
– ‘Paralytic’, Sylvia Plath.
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It’s like this: “we need to talk” isn’t enough because talk is all we do. I’ve got to turn it inwards, admit that “this day is wrong”, that “I haven’t slept in weeks”, that “I wish I was still a poet” and that’s enough to whet your appetite because you’re good at suspicion and sympathy.
Suspicion, because who has...
I dreamt that I was doing something with my life. I was stressed and there were bad men waiting in a car outside and birds loose in the house and my essay on gender was late, but it was preferable.
I have gone wrong.
yaosnonexistantmanhood:
selfsamewoman:
I inhabit a culture where the word CUNT is the most offensive and most shocking word anyone can ever think of.
And the men are screaming that they suffer from sexism, too.
All I can think is symptom, never cure. Symptom, never cure.
….Since when is cunt the most offensive/shocking? There’s plenty more.
See: Faggot
See: Nigger
See: Shit-eater
And...
a life of fragments: (TW: RAPE, VICTIM BLAMING)... →
letstalkaboutrape:
(TW: Rape, victim blaming)
I am in the early stages of thinking through a project that I’m interested in pursuing and I need your help to execute it. I want to create a fashion show called ”What were you wearing?” in which the models wear actual clothing that people were…
I HATE THIS WITH THE BURNING FIRE OF A MILLION SUNS
[Trigger Warning: Abuse] A cautionary tale for... →
drdonnaatx:
When I was 19, I married my high school sweetheart. He had never hit me in anyway. Never had yelled at me. He was in the Navy and we moved nearly 1000 miles away from home. We had been married one week when he first slapped me. I forgave him. We had been married about a year when he first punched me in the stomach. I forgave him. After about a year and a half it became common for...
Want tacos al pastor. I’ve only got maybe half the ingredients.
Fuck it, I’m making them anyway.
megaparsecs:
selfsamewoman reblogged your post: Hi Sylvia Plath tag! Just another post to ask -…
BECAUSE “SUNG ME MOONSTRUCK”. Besides, roots
I would counter your “sung me moonstruck” with
“Now there are these veils, shimmering like curtains,//The diaphanous satins of a January window/White as babies’ bedding and glittering with dead breath. O ivory!”
Besides, rhyming again with name.
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