Thursday, June 6, 2013

"that's different!"

"But today, telling women that sexism doesn't exist anymore is a really hard sell. Thanks to the..."

"But today, telling women that sexism doesn't exist anymore is a really hard sell. Thanks to the Internet and the speed at which stories move—not to mention the vile sexism in most online spaces—any American woman who spends more than five minutes onlines hears about or experiences misogyny every day. And the absolute deluge of sexism—from "legitimate rape" and birth control controversies to rape jokes and high-profile domestic violence murders—makes it impossible for anti-feminists to call these stories anomalies in an otherwise equal society. What they really are is proof of systemic political inequity and cultural disdain for women."

- Could the Facebook Win Be Feminism's Tipping Point? | The Nation (via brute-reason)

O'Malley: 'Trickle-Down Economics' Has Failed America

O'Malley: 'Trickle-Down Economics' Has Failed America:
In a speech Thursday at the Center for American Progress, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) took aim at "trickle-down economics" — the conservative theory that fiscal policies benefiting upper earners will improve the whole economy and therefore also benefit the middle and lower classes. "Trickle-down economics has been an abject failure for 99% of Americans," O'Malley said, according to prepared…

Fuck yes.

As someone who is moving to a state where many people own t-shirts that say "NOT MY GOVERNOR" with a picture of the state shaped like the solidarity fist on them (and I will probably be one of them, honestly, because Walker sucks), I often forget how much of a badass governor Martin O'Malley is. I don't like how fast he started "covertly" campaigning for the 2016 presidential election, and he hasn't cracked down on Pepco hard enough, but he does have the cajones to say things like this, which is cool.

adidasbolshevik: i just got out my ouija board and made contact with Reagan he said H E L L  I S  R...

adidasbolshevik:

i just got out my ouija board and made contact with Reagan he said

H E L L  I S  R E A L  A N D  I  A M  H E R E

L A I S S E Z  F A I R E  E C O N O M I C S  W A S  A  G R A V E  M I S T A K E

T E L L  R U S S I A  T H A T  I  A M  S O R R Y

"I like you; your eyes are full of language."

"I like you; your eyes are full of language."

- Anne Sexton (via erraticintrovert)

taf-art: Two tiles (c. 1550). Turkey.



taf-art:

Two tiles (c. 1550). Turkey.

"*on anon* as a person of color i-"

"*on anon* as a person of color i-"

- white proverb  (via roseofjericho)

wow fuck you man i guess whenever i say “i don’t want to talk about this right...

wow fuck you man
i guess whenever i say “i don’t want to talk about this right now” you can ignore me and just keep talking about different scenarios that are similar to the one that you are perpetuating that is tearing my life apart and subjecting me to anxiety attacks
but if i ask you a simple question about this one trivial thing, you turn on the hockey game and pretend i don’t exist
see how much i stay here then
and don’t act surprised when you find out that i can’t stand living here even though these are my only roots because you know you’re responsible

Hammock, public radio, cat, what more do you need anyways?



Hammock, public radio, cat, what more do you need anyways?

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Adrian Belew Announces FLUX: Music That Is Never The Same Twice

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Read the full announcement here

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chlzz:

vaporheart:

theniggaskaramazov:

White Student Union (Vice Documentary)

OOP

If you haven't seen this yet and enjoy feeling stomach-wrenchingly nauseous for twenty-one minutes straight I highly suggest you check it out.

I cannot believe I watched this entire thing.

Watch it all. A sickening reminder that things aren't as forward as they seem in my home state, oft-nicknamed the People's Republic of Maryland

"Flapper " The notorious character type who bobbed her hair,...



"Flapper "

The notorious character type who bobbed her hair, smoke cigarettes, drank gin, sported short skirts, and passed her evenings in steamy jazz clubs, where she danced in a shockingly immodest fashion with a revolving cast of male suitors."

"The New Woman of the 1920s boldly asserted her right to dance, drink, smoke, and date— to work her own property, to live free of the strictures that governed her mother's generation. (…) She flouted Victorian-era conventions and scandalized her parents. In many ways, she controlled her own destiny"

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Carved Tibetan skull









Carved Tibetan skull

fuckit let’s do birkenstocks

fuckit let’s do birkenstocks

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xanthocholy:

feminspire:

alyssakorea:

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.

This is awesome!

I think you're being heteronormative in assuming the scantily clad female character is eye candy only for men (yes this is a joke don't take it so hard)

WOOOOOOHOOOO professional photographers (© Felipe DLH)



WOOOOOOHOOOO professional photographers

(© Felipe DLH)

stfusexists: stfufauxminists: blherrou: princess-marutchi: yo...



stfusexists:

stfufauxminists:

blherrou:

princess-marutchi:

youarenotyou:

thisgingerisback:

One of two fake abortion clinics on the same street as the REAL center, the EMW's Women Center here in downtown Louisville. This one is right next door to the actual clinic and this place is seriously a nightmarish hell-hole for any unsuspecting women tricked by the anti's. They assure you this this the abortion clinic, they get you inside, and then offer you food and drink—which of course, means that once you realize your mistake, you can't run next door and catch your actual appointment, since you need to fast.

Women have come out of this building crying, and on a few rare occasions, without their pants. They take you to a back room for an ultrasound, have you remove your pants, and then begin lecturing you on the sins of aborting. They do not give you back your pants until you have listened, and a few women tricked this far refused to listen and stormed out furious, ashamed, and in their underwear.

This is the anti-choice agenda—lying, tricking, shaming, and embarrassing women to the brink of hysterics in hopes that she carry the pregnancy to term. Forcing her, through lies and manipulation, to do with her body what THEY want, not what is best for her.

There is no "choice" at the Louisville "Women's Choice" clinics. Just abuse, shame, and bigots who would rather undress a woman to make her feel vulnerable and then explain how awful of a person she is than let her make HER. CHOICE.

this is fucking disgusting

i hope everyone responsible for this dies a horrible death

I checked it out, and this is a real (and super skeezy) place.

Website: http://www.awomanschoice.org/

Street address: 140 W Market St, Louisville, KY 40202

Page where you can leave a review: https://plus.google.com/105990983273629869613/about

Ohhhh shit good idea. All for leaving reviews, go get on that! I know I'm writin' one up now!

Seething with rage right now.

When I interned for NARAL Pro-Choice Maryland we hosted documentary screenings about this sort of operation. They're known as CPCs, or "Crisis Pregnancy Centers," and often you see ads for them at bus stops or churches that say "Pregnant? Need Help?" or something like that.

The documentary is called 12th and Delaware. It explores a very similar operation in Florida. You can watch it here [x], and I suggest that everyone does.

For general information on Crisis Pregnancy Centers, you can go to NARAL's portal on them [x].

Finally, for information about CPCs in your state specifically, your state NARAL affiliate has information available:

If NARAL doesn't have info for your state, there might be other groups that do - and if not, why not start one? This is information that women everywhere need to know. You can be a driving force in ending CPC deception in your state just by giving access to the right information.

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THIS. The best-crystallized explanation of this that I can offer...

















THIS.

The best-crystallized explanation of this that I can offer is that "women aren't vending machines that spit out romantic and/or sexual favors when you put in enough kindness coins."

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