Let me tell you something about today. Today was the hottest day of the year in New Jersey, I woke up sweating despite air conditioning because it was 95 degrees. Now, i did what any logical person would do and I put on my favorite pair of shorts so i wouldn’t be sweating throughout the day.
Even in my shorts i was sweating my balls off but I went through half of my day as normal, no boys stared at my ass or tried to grope me in public yet when i went to the the cafeteria a teacher told me to go to the office because he finds my shorts inappropriate. I head down to the office to find a group of girls wearing shorts and skirts sitting in a small room in the office, we where all ordered to call our parents or to change into the clothes they had offered us from the school store. These items of clothing included sweatpants and a large heavy sweatshirt. I obviously refused to where those because it was 95 degrees and when you are sweating the key to cool down is NOT to put on more clothes. They told me I would have to stay in that room the whole day if it came down to it.
I was able to leave the office when my friend gave me a pair of yoga pants. The man who made me go down to the office brought down several other girls as I was leaving, at this point they didn’t care how long the shorts where they just sent everyone who was wearing a pair down. They warned me that if I put my shorts back on they would right me up.
I put them back on anyway because just walking down the hallway in those yoga pants made me faint, dizzy,and extremely hot. Thats the main issue, it is hot enough for people to pass out in school but to the school system they would rather a girl suffer from a heat stroke then to have a boy become turned on. My shorts don’t say “COme fuck me in the middle of class” they say,”Its warm out”
The sexualizing of innocent students is not okay
Risking students health is not okay
and tHE LACK OF FEMINISM IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM WILL NEVER BE OKAY
Today was literally horrible
I hate our school so much
That male teacher is a predator. Ogling young girls and sexualizing them? Keeping them in small closed quarters in a group subject to his authority. Mmmhhmmm. Disgusting
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One of the most ridiculous concepts that society promotes is that we should always consider “the other side”, that we should always compromise, that the truth is always “in the middle. The problem with this is that it ignores how many stances and opinions are completely not compatible with each other.
Feminism, anti-racism, and other similar issues are not a friendly debate. They are a struggle that’s life and death for millions (or, realistically, billions) of people. They are struggles whose only eventual outcome is the eradication of what they fight against (patriarchy, white supremacy, etc). There is no compromise, there is no “truth in the middle”, and there’s certainly no “agree to disagree” about it. Either patriarchy is abolished completely or it isn’t at all; either white supremacy becomes a ridiculous relic of the past as it should be or people of color continue to suffer or be murdered in its name.
These movements can’t “consider the other side” because the other side is actively trying to eradicate them and dehumanize their participants. To agree to be dehumanized under new conditions is not acceptable.MRAs and “equalists” often wonder why feminists won’t debate them, but it’s because they don’t understand that they’re the enemy, not a like-minded person with a different approach.
My humanity is not up for debate.
this, so much.
I have taken a fondness for Desmond Tutu’s quote, “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
I am usually criticized for citing it as cultivating an “us versus them” mentality, which I guess is supposed to be bad? When arguing with someone that is for taking steps to correct racism and sexism, etc, but disagree on approaches, perhaps that is the case. But people who think that everything is just fine the way things sit are simply wrong.
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Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy, in case you hadn’t heard. How dare she remove those ticking time bombs from her chest, amiright? Like, hasn’t she learned by now that her body is public domain and we all get to vote on what she does with it? Sheesh, how selfish can ya get.
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- drake hit on nicki minaj and claimed he fell in love with her when they first met and invited her to get food with him and later on in the day he showed up at her door with food she took it and slammed the door in his face
- nicki minaj called out steven tyler for making a racist comment and wouldn’t let it go until he publicly apologized to her
- nicki minaj makes sure that when her younger relatives listen to her music that they listen to the clean version
- when eminem used a homophobic slur in her song she was incredibly uncomfortable about it and spoke to several people in her music team about what she should do about it
- she literally tried to give her fans instructions on how to make brownies on twitter
- I REALLY LOVE NICKI MINAJ
can i also just
- she called out perez hilton, who put on his blog “that she told rihanna to sit her ass down” and she responded with “I AM SICK OF THE SHIT YOU PUT UP! DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE THE SHIT YOU POST?”
- when nicki minaj performed her first show the stage wasn’t lightning properly and after the show she yelled at her team and the first thing that came out was “MY FANS STAYED OUT FROM 7 PM TO 1 AM TO SEE ME, THEY DON’T DESERVE THIS”
- one time after a show the crowd was so loud after a performance she went back out and performed in her robe
- she put bacon in the microwave
- even though lil wayne told her not to she bought him a brand new motorcycle with his name engraved on it
- after the American idol q&a she stayed afterwards to talk to her fans and even pushed her security guard out of the way so she can get closer
- when asked if she could donate to a can food drive she said no she couldn’t because she didn’t have any cans, but she felt so bad she donated $15,000
- this face:
- She called out sexism in the music industry while putting on her eyeliner perfectly.
- Her song “I’m the best”
- She speaks her mind and doesn’t back down.
- She is adamant about the fact that femininity doesn’t have only one definition and that femininity is powerful.
You can like or dislike her music as you see fit, but she’s an awesome person who owns her self image, and that is cool as hell.
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What happens if you flip gendered book covers?
You are informed about a book’s perceived quality through a number of ways. Probably the biggest is the cover.
And the simple fact of the matter is, if you are a female author, you are much more likely to get the package that suggests the book is of a lower perceived quality. Because it’s “girly,” which is somehow inherently different and easier on the palate. A man and a woman can write books about the same subject matter, at the same level of quality, and that woman is simple more likely to get the soft-sell cover with the warm glow and the feeling of smooth jazz blowing off of it.
This idea that there are “girl books” and “boy books” and “chick lit” and “whatever is the guy equivalent of chick lit”* gives credit to absolutely no one, especially not the boys who will happily read stories by women, about women. As a lover of books and someone who supports readers and writers of both sexes, I would love a world in which books are freed from some of these constraints. Click here to read more about the perceived differences between ‘girl’ and ‘boy’ books.
This is a pretty interesting experiment from author Maureen Johnson.
I read this earlier today. Really, really worth looking at and thinking about. There’s a whole gallery of them.
Wow that first linked article is really heartbreaking.
If you think that the nice guy ranting only happens on the internet, you’ve never had to deal with your thoroughly drunken friend shouting about how no girls would go out with a nice guy like him, even though he’s surrounded by single women he ignores because they aren’t attractive enough for him.
If you think guys getting pissy and escalating matters because you told people to stop making sex jokes is a feature of the internet, well, you’ve never asked anyone to stop making jokes that make you uncomfortable.
If you think that inappropriate comments and requests for sex are an internet thing, you’ve never tried to stop a coworker or boss from hitting on you repeatedly, or a head of security, or the guy at the convenience store across the street.
If you think that being shouted at and asked to show people your tits just because you present as a woman only happens in chat rooms and online games, you’ve never walked past a frat house, or, unfortunately, through the main thoroughfares of either university I’ve attended.
If you think unasked for commentary on a woman’s looks only happens because girls post pictures on internet forums (which probably means they’re asking for it), you’ve never been at a bus stop, or the city square, or a mall, or… well, anywhere, really.
If you think insecure men trying to drive women out of activism only happens in online male-dominated communities, you’ve never paid attention politics. Or Fox. Or CNN, sadly.
If you think the reaction to rape victims is bad on twitter, try sharing that experience in person. Or try even standing up for a rape victim. Count how many minutes until someone points out “but men can be falsely accused! The woman just changed her mind! You just can’t believe those drunk *insert varying level of insulting reference to gender*!”
It’s Not Just the Internet. It Never Has Been.
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imagine the transformative potential of responding to sexual assault differently.
I am working for the day where this is how the media handles sexual assault reports.
A Profile of Americans’ Media Use and Political Socialization Effects: television and the Internet’s relationship to social connectedness in the USA ― Daniel German & Caitlin Lally
There are more “non-humans” on TV than women. Talk about unequal gender representation in the media.
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Wait wtf
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and please tell me what percentage of those women are women of color
we’ll wait
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reblogging again for important commentary
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Society and the Creation of Misogyny and Misandry
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Society:
Were you wearing revealing clothing when you were raped?
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In other words:
Men, it is ok to rape a woman if she is wearing revealing clothing.
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In other words:
It is ok to ridicule a woman for wearing revealing clothing.
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In other words:
The bodies of women are innately sexual and need to be covered up.
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In other words:
Women wearing revealing clothing could not possibly be dressing for the weather, they are merely asking for sex.
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In other words:
Women, you are not allowed to wear whatever you want.
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Society:
Were you alone when you were raped?
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In other words:
Men, it is ok to rape a woman if she is alone.
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In other words:
Women, you are only safe from men if you are in a group.
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Society:
Were you drunk when you were raped?
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In other words:
Men, it is ok to rape a woman if she is drunk.
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In other words:
Women, it is unsafe to be drunk. Ever.
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Society:
Did you fight back when you were raped?
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In other words:
Men, if a woman is too scared to fight back, it is ok to rape her.
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In other words:
Women, fear is not an excuse for not fighting back.
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In other words:
Women, only violence will show a man that you truly mean "no I do not want to have sex".
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Society:
Bitch, Cunt, pussy, whore, and slut are all socially acceptable insults.
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In other words:
It is an insult to be feminine, and/or have feminine genitalia.
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In other words:
It is not ok for women to be promiscuous.
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Society:
When a girl gets raped and there is a picture taken, it is perfectly natural to call her a slut.
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In other words:
It is a girl's fault if she gets raped.
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In other words:
Boys, you will gain notoriety if you rape a girl.
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In other words:
Ridiculing a victim of sexual assault is a societal norm and you are stupid if you do not join in.
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Society:
If a girl is raped, she must have provoked it somehow.
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In other words:
Men cannot be held accountable for their own actions.
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In other words:
Men are like wild animals that cannot stop themselves.
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Society:
Nice ass, you look sexy, etc. are all acceptable compliments to a woman.
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In other words:
There is no such thing as sexual harrassment.
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In other words:
Women should be gratified that men want to have sex with them.
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In other words:
A man being interested in a woman automatically means she is obliged to be interested back.
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Society:
Beautiful, pretty, sexy, fuckable etc. are the best compliments a woman can get.
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In other words:
Women have no value except in their physical appearance.
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In other words:
Women should not be measured by their intelligence or actual skills.
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In other words:
Women exist to be physically desirable to men.
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Society:
It is natural for men to wolf-whistle and call "compliments" after a woman, slap her ass, etc.
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In other words:
Women, all men are pigs and there is nothing you can do about it.
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In other words:
Women, you must grin and bear sexual harrassment.
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In other words:
Men, to be a true man you must sexually harrass women.
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Society:
There is nothing wrong with the wage gap.
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In other words:
Women are inherently worth less than men.
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In other words:
It is wrong for a woman to want equal pay.
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In other words:
Women are not as suitable for work as men are.
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In other words:
Men, women are worth less than you and it is ok to ridicule them because they do not matter.
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Society:
It is not ok to protest sexism.
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In other words:
Sexism does not exist.
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In other words:
Equality does not apply to women.
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In other words:
Feminists must be kept in line by a backlash of hate.
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In other words:
Feminists are automatically man-haters
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In other words:
Feminists are threatening to men.
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In other words:
Men, it is not ok to support equal rights for women.
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Feminism:
This is not an ok society to live in.
