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The unwarranted attack by Richard Dawkins on Ahmed Mohamed was both intolerant and dogmatic.

Author Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

#FUCK YES #Al Jazeera nails it once again #fuck Richard Dawkins

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We live in a really weird era of feminism in which we’re not allowed to criticise any oppressive constructs/industries (marriage, beauty/make up, porn, etc) just because some women enjoy them.

I’m really sick of of opinions and discussions being shut down with “it’s not oppressive if we like it! don’t you know that some women choose to do these things?”

well, heck. don’t you know that men/the patriarchy have a lot to gain in keeping us content and complicit in our own oppression?

sisterresister

I think our generation of feminists have lost the idea of there being an oppressive structure (patriarchy) which moulds and controls the actions of individual women. So when we say “High heels are oppressive, they are a way of controlling women’s bodies, preventing us from being able to run and deforming our feet” a lot of women hear this as “Women who wear high heels are all stupid and not proper feminists. They are gullible stooges of patriarchy!” This is because Western women have been brought up in a culture that emphasizes individualism and personal choices and ignores the coercive social and cultural structures and hierarchies within which those choices are made.

The criticism is not of individual women and the question is not whether individual women do or don’t choose to wear high heels. The criticism is of the patriarchal system that coerces women into wearing high heels and that denies women a genuinely free choice as to whether or not to wear high heels.

solitics

Hey maybe some of you will take what I say seriously after hearing some other people saying it! To be honest most people dont even wait around to hear that you’re criticising institutions before they start talking about themselves and how it’s empowering

lesbian-lily

And the insistence that somehow individual women are immune to the socialisation and coercion from patriarchal systems drives me insane. There are some women who do recognise these systems exist but as if they are somehow excused that their’s really is 100% a free choice not dictated by gender and patriarchal norms and control.

The lack of critical thinking and the sheer level of cognitive dissonance with all of this terrifies me.

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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit.

Audre Lorde (via cmondaddy)

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Like, maybe the reason that so many tomboys “grow out of it” is because of the concentrated efforts of those around them, parents and peers and teachers and bosses, to “correct” their behavior and align the belief that being a mature adult woman means conforming to femininity. It’s kind of a self fulfilling prophecy. Being a gender nonconforming woman is stunted and immature… don’t you know you’re supposed to grow out of it? Everyone grows out of it!

truecrimerip

At Least 70 Dead Refugees Found in Truck on Austria Highway

The Number Of Dead Refugees Found Suffocated In An Abandoned Truck Was Officially Corrected To 70. The bodies were discovered on Thursday piled on top of each other in a cargo container in a vehicle parked off the highway in Burgenland state, already partly decomposed. It was not immediately clear how long the truck had been in the area, where temperatures in recent days had been as high as 90 degrees. Forensic teams were dealing with the discovery, with police initially only being able to say the vehicle was “full of bodies.“

whitegirlsfuckdogs

Can we please give this attention? Please?? I see people on tumblr scream about donald trump and “deez nuts” who are literal jokes while this is happening! This isn’t just one thing! thousands of refugees are trying to escape the war in Syria, women are trying to escape the rape and abuse of IS and men are running away out of fear of IS. Please give this attention! 4 children died in there too. some EU countries are thinking of building walls around their country so the refugees can’t get in. This is a real thing going on. Refugees escape Syria only to float around on a small ass rubber boat with 100 other refugees IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DARK OCEAN. Most of the time they drown. And if they don’t drown, they TRY to find shelter in another country. Imagine you on a rubber small boat, with 100 other people in the middle of the dark ocean. You have no fucking idea if you’re going to survive but everything is better than staying in Syria.

I just want people on this website to realize what the fuck is happening in europe and the middle east at the moment. I just want things not to be centered around america and dumb ass political jokes. People are getting murdered, raped, assaulted and abducted & even when they try to escape, their chance on a good life is small.

Please reblog this people need to give this more attention on this website!!! My people are dying out and being oppressed, including children and old people but nobody on this website seems to give a shit about that!

#rape tw #death tw

mountainchickens-blog

contrary to what this website love to scream at gnc teenage girls, hating “girly” things like dresses and makeup is not internalized misogyny and it doesnt make you any less of a girl, it’s a normal reacting to growing up as female in a world that inundates you with messages telling you that you’re worthless if you don’t perform femininity

sazquatch-blog

I am honestly so supportive of young women and girls who don’t want to present themselves as sexual, whether they’re asexual, sex-repulsed, politically celibate, women who don’t want to feel or be sexy, or women who just don’t want to discuss it. I’m supportive whether this is something temporary or permanent, whatever the reason for it. If sex isn’t liberating for you, that’s great. There’s nothing wrong with that and I’m sorry you’re being sold the lie that you’re repressed and/or unfeminist.

iwriteaboutfeminism

Police in Ferguson arrest a 12-year-old girl.

Monday, august 10, 2015

#jesus fucking christ #horrific

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Why is the “historical realism” thing always rape?

A couple weeks ago The Mary Sue announced they weren’t going to cover “Game of Thrones” any more after yet another female character being brutally raped. The thread is still being invaded by trolls periodically, and there are more than 12,000 comments on the article, which is a site record and probably an internet record. (12K comments because a single website said “We’re not going to recap or promote this show any more.” Baffling.)

Tons of trolls have thrown out the “but THINGS WERE JUST LIKE THAT BACK THEN!” argument ad nauseum. Which is total bullshit, of course. Now with the season finale of “Outlander” (which, spoiler, also included rape) the trolls are coming back.

I just want to ask, why is it whenever producers/directors/writers want to demonstrate “gritty historic realism” it’s ALWAYS RAPE? It’s always sexual violence toward women/girls.

You know what would be gritty historic realism? Dysentery. GoT has battles and armies marching all over the place. You want to show “what things were like back then”? Why aren’t we seeing 500 guys by the side of a road puking and shitting their guts out from drinking contaminated water while the rest of the army straggles along trying to keep going? Or a village getting wiped out by cholera? Or typhus, polio or plague epidemics?

You want to show what it was like back then for women? Show a woman dying of sepsis from an infection she caught while giving birth. Show a woman coping with ruptured ovarian cysts with nobody know what it is. Breast cancer that the audience will recognize immediately but the characters think is some mark of the devil or some shit.

But no, it’s always rape. And we all know why that is. Because these douchecanoes that do this, though they’ll deny it, think rape is sexy. Because they can’t make a modern set story where women get raped in every god damned episode without being called monsters. So they use “but but historical realism!” to cover their sexism (see “Mad Men”) and misogyny. Then they tell us “That’s just how it was back then!” with the clear implication “Shut the fuck up bitch, because that could be you and you should be thanking me that it’s not.”

darthmelyanna

Can we propose a rule for “realistic” historical fiction/fantasy? Twelve graphic cases of dysentery for every one graphic rape?

drst

^^ I like this idea.

celebrity-pharmacist

And the worst part about it is that, by their own logic, their argument isn’t even a valid one. They’re saying that rape is “historically accurate” in Game of Thrones, a show which

Is not a historical drama

Is not set on our Earth

Is fantasy

So no, there was no “back then” because we can’t go “back” to a “then” that never existed. And as far as I can find, Westeros is ~12,000 years old. You wanna make a historically accurate drama set on earth in 10,000 BC, be my guest, but it ain’t gonna look like Game of Thrones.

So when all of the writers for the TV show keep putting rape scenes in the script, they aren’t thinking “yeah, this would’ve been realistic,” they’re thinking “haha let’s see how much I can torture women on this show.” If the logic you’re using doesn’t even hold up to the thing you’re discussing, you’ve really gotta examine why you’re so enthusiastic about defending rape as a plot device.

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Maybe if high fantasy writers and creators weren’t all fucking hacks who’ve been riding JRRT’s dick for the last fifty years and insist on making every single god damn fantasy world they create a boring retread of Middle Earth based on the same three hundred year span of time in four countries of Western Europe they wouldn’t all have to rely on the same garbage logic to justify their garbage misogyny.

animatedamerican

You know, they could deny that they find rape sexy, and they might even believe their own denials. But the point is that they clearly don’t think of rape as something distasteful enough and disgusting enough to omit.

And you know what, I’m not even gonna insist on the dysentery. Just this: if you’re going to include rape on the basis of historical accuracy, none of your female characters are allowed to have shaved legs or armpits. And all of your characters have to have terrible teeth – yellowed and worn and crooked, because nobody’s getting braces or regular visits to the dentist – with at least a few teeth blackened or missing for every character over the age of thirty.

Of course, if your reaction to blackened teeth and hairy armpits is “ugh, no, sure it might be historically accurate but it’s gross, nobody’s going to want to watch that" and you don’t have the exact same reaction to rape, you might want to think about why that is.

purplebuddhaproject

As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.

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steviemcfly

Another thing that irks me about this “minimum wage is just a start” bullshit is that it has no practical meaning. Landlords don’t give you starter’s rent. Grocery stores don’t give you a just-starting-out discount. There are no training wheel prices, so who the fuck would a training wheel job be for? Keeping in mind, of course, that the idea of most minimum wage workers being high school kids living with their parents is a myth.

leightum

DAMN.

#YEUP

goodbyesocialconstructs

So this term “swerf” seems to be a method of shaming women (and pretty much only women) against the sex industry.

Strange that I can be against sweat shops, and not called “sweat shop worker exclusionary”.

Strange that people can be for the abolishment of capitalism, and no one will assume that they are against all of the people existing in a capitalistic system.

I wonder what liberal feminists call the sex workers and ex sex workers against the sex industry? Are they swerfs too?

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This map shows every state where women are more likely to live in poverty than men

Wait… hold up. Every state is colored in. That can’t be right… right?

Unfortunately, the map is accurate. And it’s especially problematic for millennial women, who are much more likely to have a bachelor’s degree or higher than millennial men, but who are consistently earning less living and living in poverty more.

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SLAMS THE REBLOG BUTTON

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“But women earn more degrees” and still get paid less, so eat my whole ass

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