(Source: grrrlpower)
“All my Marxist feminist dialectic brings the boys to the yard”
Taken 5-24, by 5-25 the wall was blank… Octago Lane, Glasgow.
(Shown in the ‘before’ frame: the standard ‘graffiti ads’ around Glasgow. The far more interesting modification only lasted a few days, whereas the trashy ad lasted more than a month.)
Rapists are apparently like potholes: You can see ‘em comin’!
From Feministing, Kansas State Rep Compares Getting Pregnant From Rape to Getting a Flat Tire
And Rep. Barbara Bollier, a Mission Hills Republican who supports abortion rights, questioned whether women would buy abortion-only policies long before they have crisis or unwanted pregnancies or are rape victims.
During the House’s debate, Rep. Pete DeGraaf, a Mulvane Republican who supports the bill, told her: “We do need to plan ahead, don’t we, in life?”
Bollier asked him, “And so women need to plan ahead for issues that they have no control over with a pregnancy?”
DeGraaf drew groans of protest from some House members when he responded, “I have spare tire on my car.”
“I also have life insurance,” he added. “I have a lot of things that I plan ahead for.”
Sweet merciful crap. I forgot to get the rape rider added to my health insurance, good thing it’s open season on my policy this month. I also forgot to add the carjacker clause to my car insurance, act of God insurance details to my homeowners insurance, and so on and so forth.
An Unspeakable Word Is the Word That Has to Be Spoken →
An unspeakable word is the word that has to be spoken if language is to be honored. It is a word that belongs colloquially to my anatomy if I choose it, but that has been so appropriated by misogyny and prudery that I am supposed to be horrified and distressed when it is used, as misogyny and prudery would require me to be.
Biggest lie feminists tell me:
Feminism is about equality.
No, feminism = hate anything that has a penis…unless they’re gay.
Yes. That’s our motive here. We’re out to get those nasty penis-wielding men, except for the gay ones! Because gay men aren’t men, obviously. DUH. THEY’RE LIKE, THE BEST SHOPPING PARTNERS ANYONE COULD ASK FOR. IT’S LIKE HANGING OUT WITH A GIRL WHO CAN PEE STANDING UP.
Feminism is actually about securing a world where women are allowed to have autonomy, choice, and access. Feminism is about making sure the government doesn’t regulate your body, your quality of life or your income based on your gender expression or sex organs. Feminism is about wanting to be treated like a human being. Feminism is about securing rights for all humans to live in a world where we are treated like we matter. Feminism is not about and has never been about degrading, hating, or putting down men. Yet another product feeding into the mass media’s poorly-created image of the man-hating dyke lesbian feminist.
I’m cleaning out my bookshelf right now and I have so many feminist-lit books I’d be happy to send your way. OR. YOU COULD GO TO THE LIBRARY AND LEARN ABOUT WHAT FEMINISM IS! Isn’t that awesome?
This is a picture of the “Email Michelle” page, as it currently stands, on Michelle Bachmann’s congressional website. She’s stopped taking questions from anybody outside her district after refusing to respond to the debate challenge of 16-year-old Ann Meyers. Additionally, Rep. Bachmann’s office has yet to condemn the various groups calling her a whore, threatening her with violence, and threatening to reveal Ann’s personal information online.
Please join me in contacting the office of Rep. Bachmann to demand a response to this issue. Whether or not Mrs. Bachmann agrees to a debate is her choice; however, I think we can all agree that, at the very least, she should be calling for civility and an end to the threats against a sixteen year old high school student.
You can submit an email using the zip code + 4 digit extension for Bachmann’s Woodbury, MN office:
55125-1004
Or contact her office via phone/fax:
Woodbury, MN
Phone: 651-731-5400
Fax: 651-731-6650Washington D.C.
Phone: 202-225-2331
Fax: 202-225-6475Waite Park, MN
Phone: 320-253-5931
Fax: 320-240-6905
Just so you know, they’re threatening this girl with rape, too. So I suggest everyone on tumblr reblog this information and get buckwild with outrage.
(Source: manicchill)
Beyond Manning Up: An NYC Paramedic Speaks Out About Men's Violence Against Women →
“This is what I believe: in our heart of hearts, men are not the monsters we’ve allowed media to make us. We are infinitely wiser, more compassionate and more complex than that. Fighting against gender violence really means ending patriarchy, which for men means finding that place beyond what we’re told we’re supposed to be, beyond “manning up,” and becoming what we really are.”
This quote says so succinctly what I’ve been telling people and writing in gender-related papers for ages. That chalking patriarchy and violence against women up to men’s idiocy, biology, sexuality, etc, is the cheap and easy way out. Men are a much more complex, emotional and capable gender than the media allows them to be. EVERYTHING is a construct. Our ability to determine appropriate emotive and physical responses to our world and experiences should be determined by us as individuals rather than what mass media portrays us as in a simple and ineffective binary of man, woman, good, bad, smart, dumb, et cetera. We are too smart and developed as a species to be relegated to the tenuous demands of our biology. We are bigger than our bodies, and bigger than how mass media says we should relate to those bodies we inhabit. Men and women included.
"But if you ask me what offices they may fill, I reply - any. I do not care what case you put; let them be sea-captains, if you will… In families that I know, some little girls like to saw wood, others to use carpenters’ tools. Where these tastes are indulged, cheerfulness and good-humor are promoted. Where they are forbidden, because ‘such things are not proper for girls,’ they grow sullen and mischievous."
Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century
- appeared 166 years ago. Still not quite there yet, sadly.
(via forumgamer)
Kicking Ass in History: Empress Theodora of Byzantium
- Born in 500 AD in Cyprus. Or Syria. Or Paphlagonia, no one really has a clue.
- Her father trained bears for the Hippodrome.
- Her mother was a dancer and an actress.
- Worked in a brothel serving the low-status customers.
- Gained notoriety by reenacting Leda and the Swan, “where she stripped off her clothes as far as the law allowed, lying on her back while some attendants scattered barley on her groin and then some geese picked up the barley with their bills.” You know. No big deal.
- Early proprietor of abortion rights.
- Married emperor Justinian and became the Byzantine empress in 527.
- Passed laws in Constantinople furthering the rights of women, including ending forced prostitution and closing brothels, instituting the death penalty for rape, and expanded the rights of women in property ownership and divorce.
This lady was not joking around. You can read more about how Theodora kicked ass and took names in ancient history on her wikipedia page.
Roseanne Barr on the Lack of Change in the TV Industry →
It didn’t take long for me to get a taste of the staggering sexism and class bigotry that would make the first season of Roseanne god-awful. It was at the premiere party when I learned that my stories and ideas—and the ideas of my sister and my first husband, Bill—had been stolen. The pilot was screened, and I saw the opening credits for the first time, which included this: CREATED BY MATT WILLIAMS. I was devastated and felt so betrayed that I stood up and left the party. Not one person noticed.
I confronted Marcy under the bleachers on the sound stage when we were shooting the next episode. I asked her how I could continue working for a woman who had let a man take credit for my work—who wouldn’t even share credit with me—after talking to me about sisterhood and all that bullshit. She started crying and said, “I guess I’m going to have to tell Brandon [Stoddard, then president of ABC Entertainment] that I can’t deliver this show.” I said, “Cry all you want to, but you figure out a way to put my name on the show I created, or kiss my ass good-bye.
The Invisible Woman: When We Offend by Existing →
“This story, however, is not about modesty. Clinton was edited out of the picture not because her clothing didn’t meet someone’s approval, but because her very existence, as a woman, offended someone. Her body was not blurred or obscured by a black bar, which would have been more understandable to me (though still strange). Even her face, totally detached from her body, was too much femininity for the editors.”
Cure That Feminist! Because Feminism Is a Disease.
OH MY GOD, INTERNET. WHERE DO I START WITH THIS.
First of all, this is apparently old meme — November 2003 from Maxim magazine. The only time I ever saw a man reading a Maxim magazine was when my friend’s car broke down on the highway in the middle of January and a Rhode Island state trooper let us stay in his car because it was fucking freezing outside. He had a can of Skoal chewing tobacco and a Maxim magazine in the front seat and proceeded to tell us “you girls aren’t quite dressed for this weather huh?” even though, you know, we were wearing DOWN JACKETS.
But anyway, on to picking this thing apart like a chicken wing. FEMINISTS AREN’T WOMEN, GUYS. NEITHER ARE VEGANS. Vegans should be outraged by this. So should women who don’t shave their underarms for a plethora and spectrum of reasons. Chicks in tank tops who smoke aren’t chicks at all, and the way to get them into bed is by lying to them and pretending to think like a progressive human being. This shit is crazy!
Also, feminists are bred by absentee fathers! Good to KNOW, I’m just gonna mark that down on my checklist before we move on.
Also this “lipstick feminist” bullshit irritates me just as much as being called a “lipstick lesbian” does when I show up somewhere wearing a coat of Very Cherry and a pair of nude heels. It makes me want to devolve other sexualities into various categories. “Oh, I see you’re a man wearing flannel. Would you consider yourself a lumberjack heterosexual then?”
And hey, once a relationship is established, aka, once your feminist femmebot has been reduced to a shell of her former enlightened self and agreed to become your Stepford wife in a tennis whites outfit straight of out Clueless, JUST TREAT HER LIKE YOU WOULD TREAT ANY OTHER WOMAN. Which is apparently like shit!
This thing is loaded with funnies, but all in all it’s a great example of why the fuck we have such a jacked up view of feminism. Media outlets from top to bottom want us to believe that feminists hate men and want to castrate all dick-bearing members of society, that feminists are pushy and “unfeminine” and so on and so forth. And that the only way to rid society of these butchy blights is to lie to them, manipulate them, and sexually conquer them. Sounds like rape culture in the works to me.
Maxim magazine, read by RI state troopers everywhere. And everyone knows a Rhode Island state trooper ain’t nothin’ to fuck with.
