December 2010
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Smash the White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy:... →
diyorgasms:
trastorn:
I understand the need to avoid language that is harmful in various ways, whether it be racist, sexist, ableist and so on. Like everyone, I have my issues with problematic language and I am working on that. But where is the line? Where does calling others out cross from seeking to…
Freedom of speech does mean ‘being able to say whatever you like’. However, there is no...
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“The problem with sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, classist, ableist,...”
– I Don’t Care If You’re Offended by Scott Madin (via inherhipstheresrevolutions)
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"Let’s remember that the TSA has been incompetent... →
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It’s not my fucking job not to be raped →
Men rape women because they feel entitled to our bodies. Not because of what we wear, or how much we drink, or whether or not we’ve “led them on.” Men all across America see scantily clad women everyday and don’t rape them. Men go on dates and pay for dinners and make out with ladies and don’t rape them when they decline sex. Men even have sex, naked sex, with full-on naked women and then...
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“A person of good intelligence and of sensitivity cannot exist in this society...”
– George Carlin (via growingupindie)
RIP George. I love you, man.
(via lesbianoutlaw)
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the temerity: thinking beyond the revolution →
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inautumn-inkashmir:
as a (i like to think) fairly radical human being with a set of fairly revolutionary politics and with the occasional gift for words and writing (i like to think i do, at least), i have been thinking a lot about the leftist tendency to speak of a…
After the French Revolution, France continued to starve in part...
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trastorn:
“It’s important to note that no country in the European Union uses food stamps in order to humiliate its disadvantaged citizens in the grocery checkout line. Even worse is the fact that even the humbling food stamp allotment may not provide enough food for America’s jobless families. So it is on a reoccurring basis that some of these families report eating out of garbage cans to the...
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“There’s a common misunderstanding among all the human beings who have ever been...”
– Pema Chodron (via psychotherapy)
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madamethursday:
theoceanandthesky:
icedteaandlemoncake:
theoceanandthesky:
from-space-with-love:
Okay, i am all for good grammar. But i fucking hate shit like this. So much.
Because for one, just because you can’t use a contraction properly doesn’t mean you are illiterate. I’ve been getting those two forms confused for years, i’m not illiterate, i’m dyslexic. And i hate when i’m trying...
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“Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of...”
– Paulo Freire (via bradicalmang, revolutionnow, fuckyeahradicalquotes) (via earlyfrost) (via the-madame-hatter)
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Discriminatory language:
pianycist:
fuckyeahgenderstudies:
It’s not about offence; it’s not about context; it’s not about intent. It’s about perpetuating harmful stereotypes and reinforcing systemic oppression.
Goodnight.
PREACH
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Gap, Wrangler, Abercrombie, etc: Compensate... →
They work in almost slave-like conditions making luxury clothes for Americans. They are generally young, poor and female. Last week, more than two dozen of them were burned alive when an easily preventable fire broke out in the unsafe, multi-story sweatshop they were working in. Who did these Bangladeshi workers die for? Surely a shady company making clothes for the Bangladeshi poor? Nope. ...
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“The state is the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies, too; and this lie...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (via fuckyeahanarchism)
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“And people are also very reluctant to identify rapes committed by people known...”
– THIS AIN’T LIVIN’: When Rape, Evidently, Isn’t Rape (via splatterdick)
THIS.
(via queerdiddlebot)
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“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and...”
– -James Baldwin (via thegang)
I have a lot of Tea Party/Sarah Palin related sentiments to this.
(via giftedboi)
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The best response to "But it's just a movie. Why... →
squintyoureyes:
Of all the varieties of irritating comment out there, the absolute most annoying has to be “Why can’t you just watch the movie for what it is??? Why can’t you just enjoy it? Why do you have to analyze it???”
First of all, when we analyze art, when we look for deeper meaning in it, we are enjoying it for what it is. Because that is one of the things about art, be it highbrow,...
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“During these past weeks, rather than a nerd takeover, I saw the crumbling of the...”
– Zeynep Tufekci (via azspot)
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Smash the White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy:... →
lieuien:
TEN THINGS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT RACE
adailyriot:
Our eyes tell us that people look different. No one has trouble distinguishing a Czech from a Chinese. But what do those differences mean? Are they biological? Has race always been with us? How does race affect people…
“Nobody told me I had a clitoris. Nobody told me I was capable of having orgasms....”
– Sex Education, or, What Boys Will Want From You (via azelie, sexisnottheenemy)
i feel bad for medusa
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janedoe225:
she gets raped and instead of the gods punishing her attacker they turn her into a fucking monster cause she isn’t pure anymore.
i don’t really like greek mythology.
Greek mythology has…issues.
^Exactly. Slut-shaming even happens in mythology.
rape culture circa forever
Fwiw, Re: idea that misogyny is so pervasive that...
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“No means no” gave a voice to the abused, the raped, the victimized. It created a...”
– Dear Second and Third Wave Feminists With Publicly Recognizable Names | Fugitivus (via janedoe225)
No means no, but only if you keep saying it, for a lifetime, hoping it will work before the situation escalates. No means no, but only if you never give up saying it because you are tired, you are...
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“.And, yanno? Allow me to quote one of the many many many many protesters: “If...”
– Sady Doyle: Of Course
(via robot-heart-politics)
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I would like to talk with ya'll about trigger...
pigisapig:
First off, what is a trigger warning, anyway?
A trigger warning usually consists of bold, capitalized, or linked text describing in a broad way what text follows it. It can be in the form of a cut, or simply the title of the text in question, warning readers what kind of triggers can be found there.
What are triggers, though?
Triggers are things that cause a strong, heavy...
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theslowcollapseofsociety:
“The short definition of anarchy is democracy without the government. Most people love democracy already, and don’t like the government. Anarchism is a commitment to the idea that it would be possible to have a society based on principles of self-organization, voluntary association and mutual aid. It’s not the belief that we WILL have it, or that it’s certain, you can’t...
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Miranda Fricker on Epistemic Injustice →
thefeministhub:
“In this interview Miranda Fricker, author of a new book on the topic, Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing, explains the notion of testimonial injustice. This is a special kind of injustice that arises when someone wrongly treats someone else as a poor source of information, usually because of prejudice towards a particular group.” -philosophy bites
Fricker...
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“Confronting racism is white folks’ responsibility because even though we, in the...”
– Tim Wise, Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama (via tsugaheterophylla)
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“Because although you may hear white people claim that people of color make...”
– Resist Racism: Because (via jhameia)
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“If a nation expects to be both ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it...”
– Thomas Jefferson (via dream-hope-act)
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ASKING FOR IT The Ethics & Erotics of Sexual... →
janedoe225:
So, suppose there’s an accusation of sexual assault or rape and we’re now interrogating the young man. We ask him, “Tell us what happened?” And he starts to talk about, “she didn’t resist, she didn’t object, she didn’t, she didn’t, she didn’t”, or however the genders are… We’re going to stop you. You’re not answering the question. We’re not talking about what she did or didn’t do....
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“You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to...”
– Erin; A Dress A Day (via dearly)