Razing Complacency

Not being assaulted is not a privilege to be earned through the judicious application of personal safety strategies. A woman should be able to walk down the street at 4 in the morning in nothing but her socks, blind drunk, without being assaulted, and I, for one, am not going to do anything to imply that she is in any way responsible for her own assault if she fails to Adequately Protect Herself. Men aren’t helpless dick-driven maniacs who can’t help raping a vulnerable woman. It disrespects EVERYONE.

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Emily Nagoski. (via rapeisnotajoke)

#Oh my God #THIS #FUCKING THIS #I would like to print this out #and staple it to the forehead of every guy who’s tried to tell me that women ‘just need to be careful about where they go/how they dress/how they act/who they flirt with’ #because no #the only deciding factor on whether or not someone gets raped #is the presence of a rapist #and guess what #they are EVERYWHERE #including but not limited the local bar #your high school #your college dorm building #your workplace #your group of friend #your family #and if you’re telling me that laughing at a guy’s jokes is the equivalent of telling him I’ve given up my right to say no #then you are the problem #not me #YOU

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give me time. and a crayon.: rosepop5: ProLife forever: Using the argument that if abortion were to... »

onmostsurfaces:

rosepop5:

rosepop5:

ProLife forever: Using the argument that if abortion were to become illegal then the…

aimsme:

rosepop5:

aimsme:

rosepop5:

http://chastity.com/chastity-qa/birth-control/abortion/before-abortion-was-legal

If you google, you can find many many…

I’ve got a better idea. Open those sites, read the info, and link me to non-biased, non-pro-choice sites that prove them wrong? I’d love to be proven wrong.

Anti-choicers are proven wrong every day, and it doesn’t deter them, they just ignore the evidence.

American Cancer Society says there is no link between abortion and breast cancer? Anti-choicers ignore it. World Health Organization says 70-80 000 women die every year because of unsafe abortions? Anti-choicers ignore it (or say the women deserved it for seeking an abortion in the first place.) All evidence shows that childbirth is safer than legal abortion? *crickets*

You can complain that Guttmacher is biased because their research supports reproductive rights and it makes you butthurt, but they do research and bring facts. It’s just dishonest to pretend that Guttmacher and other health organizations are just as biased as jesusismysavior.com or abortionismurder.com. Their goal is truly to do what’s best for everyone’s health, and what’s best is legal and safe abortion, sex education and improving maternal health.

Excellent response. But yeah I do so hate the idea that pro-life/anti-choice sites are somehow /less/ biased in some way despite their use of lies, emotional manipulation, and just general ignorance of how pregnancy and abortions work in general.

Meet Bill: The 91-Year-Old Decorated WWII Veteran Targeted By Florida Governor Rick Scott’s Voter Purge

ladyatheist:

abaldwin360:

Bill Internicola is a 91-year-old, Brooklyn-born, World War II veteran. He fought in the Battle of the Buldge and recieved the Bronze Star for bravery. He’s voted in Florida for 14 years and never had a problem.

Three weeks ago, Bill received a letter from Broward County Florida stating “[Y]ou are not a U.S. Citizen” and therefore, ineligible to vote. He was given the option of requesting “a hearing with the Supervisor of Elections, for the purpose of providing proof that you are a United States citizens” or forfeit his right to vote.

This decorated World War II veteran is just one of hundreds of fully eligible U.S. citizens being targeted by Governor Scott’s massive voter purge just prior to this year’s election, according to data obtained from Florida election officials by ThinkProgress. The purge list, according to an analysis by the Miami Herald,targets mostly Democrats and Hispanics.

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Can someone explain to my why this is happening if voting doesn’t matter?

About 58 percent of those identified as potential noncitizens are Hispanics, Florida’s largest ethnic immigrant population. They make up just 13 percent of the overall 11.3 million active registered voters.

Are they really serious with this shit? At this point, I don’t even know why I’m surprised anymore.

Reverse Racism Isn’t Real, Folks.

pussy-envy:

Racism is a system of oppression and domination based on the color of ones skin.

Racism is deciding it is absolutely acceptable to enslave, exploit, dehumanize, fetishize, shame, and destroy the culture of another group based on their skin color, and then using power to do this.

Reverse Racism is not possible because whites are not oppressed due to their skin color. Some may claim that they lived in such and such place and were hated for being white, but they can pick up and move, or walk across town, or turn on the tv, or go online, and once again be drawn back into the cozy cocoon of whiteness.

Whiteness inundates the media, it consumes cultures, it dominates and abuses, and a white individual who feels any slight discomfort over their skin color can run away from it with ease.

PoC cannot. PoC daily face the social, cultural, and media-based suffocation of whiteness. PoC daily face hate crimes, hate speech, infringement of their rights, crass displays of PoC in the media, and this barely covers it.

White individuals on the other hand can at any time run back to hide in the arms of good old whiteness and once against feel wonderful and special again.

You can be rude/prejudiced against white individuals but this is not racism.

Racism is a structure of domination through politics, religions, society, media, and power, to name a few of its modes of expression.

I don’t think it’s terribly controversial to note that women, from a young age, are required to consider the reality of the opposite gender’s consciousness in a way that men aren’t. This isn’t to say that women don’t often misunderstand, mistreat, and stereotype men, both in literature and in life. But on a basic level, functioning in society requires that women register that men are fully conscious; it is not really possible for a woman to throw up her hands and write men off as eternally unknowable space aliens — and even if she says she has, she cannot really behave as though she has. Every element of her life — from reading books about boys and men to writing papers about the motivations of male characters to being attentive to her own safety to navigating most any institutional or professional or economic sphere — demands an ironclad familiarity with, and belief in, the idea that men really are fully human entities. And no matter how many men come to the same conclusions about women, the structure of society simply does not demand so strenuously that they do so. If you didn’t really deep down believe that women were, in general, exactly as conscious as you, you could probably still get by in life. You could probably still get a book deal. You could probably still get elected to office.

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—	Jennifer duBois, Writing Across Gender (via literarynerd)

hiemalis:

halfandahalf:

sometimes I wonder why pokemon bothers having caves

has anyone ever entered a cave in pokemon and thought ‘yes, this is the best part of the game. this is everything i have ever wanted’.

the answer is no.

no one has ever thought that.

why I always end up starting a pokemon game and not finishing it.

A random encounter every 3-5 steps. Who’s that pokemon?! IT’S ZUBAT! IT’S ALWAYS ZUBAT!

youngnostalgia:

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Alexandra David-Néel is maybe the coolest lady explorer ever. As well as exploring the East extensively at a time when ladies were not encouraged to travel on their own, she was a spiritualist, Buddhist and writer. Born in 1868 in Paris, by the time she was 18 she’d travelled extensively around Europe and was a member of the Theosophical Society. She wrote her first book when she was 30, and when she was in her forties she travelled to India to study Buddhism, met a prince, and possibly had an affair with him. During her extensive travels in Asia, she lived in a cave, adopted a monk (yes, adopted) and travelled to Tibet at a time when it was closed to foreigners. In Tibet she met and hung out with the 13th Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama, which no European lady had ever done before. She kept travelling with her adopted monk companion until she was 78. She kept writing about her travels and spirituality until she died AT THE AGE OF 101. Also, she opted for a double-barrelled surname when she married, instead of ditching her name in favour of her husband’s. An amazing woman.

This babe is a BAMF!

kateordie:

Twice in the last 24 hours I’ve been harassed on the street by men who felt that it was fine to catcall me, ask for my name, comment on my appearance and even try to grab at my tattoos without my permission. It makes my blood boil; I tell people about it and half the time I get told that I’m overreacting or being sensitive. I’ve had people tell me I’m cold, that claiming to be a feminist makes me unattractive (the logic behind that is dizzying at best), even that I’m a man-hater. Guys tell me to toughen up. Girls tell me to ignore it. Great.

Y’know, I’m all for equal rights. The next time a woman pulls up next to me in her car and asks me my name and where I’m going, then tells me to smile for her only to loudly call me a bitch and threaten me before driving away when I don’t, I’ll be happy to place the blame on her. The next time a middle-aged woman sits next to me on the bus and flashes her vagina at me because she gets off on making me uncomfortable, I’ll be sure to take notes.

Fair is fair.

Free speech as a legal concept only guarantees you the right to speak. It doesn’t guarantee you the right to be heard, it doesn’t guarantee you the right to be agreed with, it certainly doesn’t guarantee you the right for your speech to not be challenged by someone else’s speech, and most importantly of all, it doesn’t mean you can’t suffer consequences if and when your free speech is used to cause harm to someone. Which is exactly what sexual harassment, racial slurs, and verbal bigotry are. That’s not censorship. That’s fairness.

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—	“Not Okay”: MovieBob on Sexism and Harassment in Nerd Culture. (via jerrymuffinbutt) always relevant (via lettherebecramp)