FCKH8 needs to stop

you’re way off point, teaching young boys about boundaries, consent and imbuing them with an innate respect for women as people and not prizes and objects they are entitled to DOES help stop them becoming rapists.

most people DO NOT commit murder, so that’s a bad comparison. don’t EVER compare rape to theft. it is really offensive to compare victims of sexual violence to property!

just because FCKH8 is flawed doesn’t mean the messages, slogans they use are completely wrong. don’t undermine the important impact of educating youth (especially boys) on “how not to rape” just because FCKH8 uses the phrase in an badly thought out and problematic video.

it is contributing to victim blaming and the lack of action to tackle the root issues even if you don’t mean to when you dismiss important strategies, just because an organization you don’t like associated with it.

we'll try using a 'biphobia' tag. someone(s) will go though old post seeing what's relevent to tag soon

please take a glance at the blog before assuming we're actually FCKH8 or pro-FCKH8! we have been getting a lot of these this week!!

tw: transmisogyny, transphobia

((multiple people contributed to this post))

these are only basic points:

it is not the penis that grants you power it is being a man

some trans men have access to this power (male privilege), despite not having a "penis" of the type that is described in this context

((that's not to imply that trans men do not face specific discrimination and difficulty in employment for being trans or things like race, class, disability))

trans women, who may have a "penis" in this rhetoric, face widespread and significant discrimination and barriers to employment. their penis, if they have one, grants them no special power to get paid more. the opposite is true: the specter of scary "women with penises" is at the center of transmisogyny!

reducing the issue to catchy memes about genitals is cissexist and transphobic, period

claiming women get paid less than men while ignoring the factor that race plays into this is bad social activism

white women come in over men of color on this scale. example:

a white man makes $1.24 for every $1 a white woman makes

a white man makes $1.52 for every $1 a latino man makes

This information was in response to a direct inquiry about where their clothes are made:

((We know it is impossible to only buy/consume products that don't contribute to exploitative labor and poor working conditions ("ethical consumer") etc somewhere along the line. This information is shared because it has been requested by followers and is not readily available elsewhere.))

American Apparel:

AA have marketed themselves as a "sweatshop free" brand, but they have been shown to employ a large amount of undocumented workers, and undocumented workers are often exploited by employers and paid poorly because they have no recourse for complaining without risking upheaval, harassment, arrest and/or deportation.

They also have shady hiring practices

The CEO is accused of multiple cases of sexual harassment

Lots of racism: worker harassment, racist advertising, racist products

A4:

There are lots of 'A4' companies that deal in apparel, we're not sure which one is associated with FCKH8.

Bella + Canvas:

Bella prides themselves on eco-friendly manufacturing, but we cringed to find their social responsibility page doesn't state them as having any interest in making sure the people who makes their clothes are paid or treated fairly:

TRANSPARENCY - Truthful and clear information on profits, donations and costs.

ORIGINALITY - No theft of art and intellectual property, as merch or marketing memes.

EDUCATION - A level of awareness of LGBT issues that is fitting for a company directly targeting that community as consumers - FCKH8 reps being ignorant and sometimes even bigoted and discriminatory is not acceptable.

FAIRNESS - Better custom service, including communication and how problems with orders are handled/resolved, and how FCKH8 deals with other companies and their employees.

sending US messages is literally helping nobody but making you feel like you’ve “done your part” when you’ve really done nothing of value

I’ve seen literally all the comics they post before, they’re all stolen from various sources. This is gonna be long because there’s a lot. 

http://www.beutifulmagazine.com/ is the earliest source I can find for this and their site comes up multiple times when you reverse image search it:

This post is stolen from Tumblr user @gonnalivethedream. The images all have her watermark in the corner and is another unsourced, image set.

The “Raised Manholes” post, as well as being gross is a direct lift from Reddit, but I can’t find the Original poster’s username at this time. 

There’s a few really gross posts that are lifted from /r/creepypms, including a screenshots of  conversations where bisexual women are being harrassed.

An artist called Saint Hoax has had multiple images of  theirs taken and left uncredited. The campaign was targetting domestic abuse and was called Happily Never After, but their site is currently down for maintenance. (sainthoax.com)

Sledge Response to Dear White People PSA