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SlutWalks v. Ho Strolls

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Today, we had initially planned to bring you a review of the new groundbreaking book Hey Shorty: A Guide to Combatting Sexual Harassment in Schools and on…

I think this is a really important discussion on women’s experiences and feminism and a clear example of the way that white women’s experiences are, too often, positioned as the default in all discussions, and why this doesn’t work.

I think most white women don’t understand and I also feel our lack of understanding is inherently offensive and (unconsciously or not) racist:

The very thing the majority of white women who participate this walk are passionately rejecting—being deemed worthy of not being raped, or immune to being raped, because of a level of purity they’ve obtained because they don’t dress/act/look like a slut*—has been determined by the racist structure to be unattainable in the first place by anyone who’s not white. And then there’s another level of racism/whitewashing being enacted by shouting down or rejecting the suggestion that the experience isn’t universal and accessible and inclusive.

And, no, I didn’t get enlightened on this on my own. I read the post and thought about it and my own experiences with the word “slut” and then I thought about it some more. Which is why I read CFC. It is relevant to my interest in sucking less as a feminist and a human and I would not get far alone if I did not have sources like this (and so, so many others out there on the web) to read.

*We already know this is a big lie anyway, but society still sells it.

A quote from Shirley Jackson, on the response to her 1948 short story The Lottery (via joshishollywood)

Curiously, there are three main themes which dominate the letters of that first summer — three themes which might be identified as bewilderment, speculation and plain old-fashioned abuse. In the years since then, during which the story has been anthologized, dramatized, televised, and even — in one completely mystifying transformation — made into a ballet, the tenor of letters I receive has changed. I am addressed more politely, as a rule, and the letters largely confine themselves to questions like what does this story mean? The general tone of the early letters, however, was a kind of wide-eyed, shocked innocence. People at first were not so much concerned with what the story meant; what they wanted to know was where these lotteries were held, and whether they could go there and watch.

meme-meme:

Choose your weapons gentleman.

I will never not love HHGTTG references.

(via mimisaurus)

this is a tribute to the people who are actually nice enough to move on if a person is not interested and not be passive-aggressively their friend for the rest of their life until you date them

whatsajuthika:

you are awesome

end of story

Seriously, this needs to be a card or something.

(Source: juthikaforpresident)

“Yes” doesn’t always mean “yes” when you haven’t created a situation in which your partner feels comfortable saying “no.”

creatrixtiara:

areyouseriouschagall:

scary-monster:

vikkiage:

I feel like this should be obvious. But every time I see someone say “yes means yes; no means no” I cringe a little. Consent isn’t always that simple.

It needs to be informed, aware, and freely-given consent.

THIS.

Always in need of reminding.

1,000x.

(Source: vikkiisagenderneutralname, via creatrixtiara)

whatsajuthika:

happyproletariat:

Hey, fellas. Try this new pick up line the next time you meet a nice girl:

“Did it hurt?”
“Did what hurt?”
“When you casted off the shackles of patriarchy, ushering in the 19th amendment so that you, an equal citizen of this republic, may choose your leaders… after you fell from heaven”

^This is amazing.

So much love. Bitches love rights.

(via juthikaforpresident)

macbean:

chronicillnesscat:

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat with blue eyes. Text reads: “Normal people whinge and complain because of homework. Get upset because you wish you could go to school and have homework.”]

Srsly. Sometimes I cry over this. I want to go back to school so much.

This. All the time. Every day.

novamatic:

I had to make this because I was planning to write an extended rant about the long-standing obsession with dehumanizing, de-feminizing, disrespecting, marginalizing and silencing Black women, but I honestly don’t know what I can add to the discussion at this point. Re-blog if you adore Black Women.

Boosting the signal with love. <3

It Gets Wetter: A Message to Women Who Frequently Have Horrible, Rushed Sex (NSFW)

I know there will usually be a moment when a male partner is ready for penetration and often, that is before I’m ready/ comfortable/ wet / aroused enough. If sex were not a personal expression of political power, these moments would be no more than awkward. It would be like leaning in for a hug first only to find that the other person was disinterested. The problem is that men in a patriarchy are socialized to “lean in” first– always. And those who are not conscious enough to interrogate this socialization begin to believe that leaning in is their right, their privilege. So awkward moments can become coercion, assault, or rape.

If I could *HEART* this 20x, I would.

(Source: crunkfeministcollective)

Esoterica: You Keep Saying Black Women Are Ugly Worthless Whores And We Refuse To Believe You

karnythia:

Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa posted a piece on the Psychology Today website (originally titled Black Women Are Ugly) that was retitled a few times before deletion. I didn’t manage to screen cap the original title, but I do have a cap of the article itself with one of the subsequent…

I just get angrier the more I see of this. I want to find out how to pursue some kind of professional sanction against this asshole for doing terrible, terrible work. It’s not just that the conclusions are horrible (though they are), it’s that the whole thing is so poorly done, so racist in intent and origin, and so completely NOT scientifically sound. And racist. Did I mention racist? And damaging. And wrong.

Note to the “researcher”: We already knew that internalized, institutionalized racism made people devalue women of colour. So, the study? Not really news. Just bad news.

kateordie:

A new comic on a subject near and dear to me this week! With tacos!

Reblog this little darling and let’s see if we can’t balance out some of that hate with a little hope?

Existence, with tacos.

This made me happy. I want to see this movie.

(Source: louisecriss)

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professionalwidow:

thepoliticalnotebook:

This is Samar Hassan, now 12 years old. She was the screaming 5-year old girl in the striking photo taken by the late Chris Hondros, a photo that has become emblematic of the Iraq war. She had never seen the famous photo of her, blood-spattered, the night her parents were killed by American soldiers in Tal Afar in 2005. She now lives in Mosul, with her older sister and her sister’s husband.

The photograph of Samar is frozen in history, but her life moved on, across a trajectory that is emblematic of what so many Iraqis have endured. In a country whose health care system has almost no ability to treat the psychological aspects of trauma, thousands of Iraqis are left alone with their torment.

Read more at the New York Times.

(Photo Credit: Ayman Oghanna for The New York Times)

Samar Hassan—another face of war grows up.

(via mimisaurus)

macbean:

itwouldbecute:

Just look at that smug smile. Sherlock doesn’t even need to turn around to know that John is back there lusting after him.

Even if you don’t ship it, this has to make you see why people do. XD

THE TONGUE.

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