If you are responding to this post with some variation of “why don’t we just stop using the word ‘hate’” you are operating from a place of privilege as well as from a fundamental lack of understanding about how privilege works. You’re not making any particularly new, interesting, or even relevant points. You are simply wrong, and what’s worse is that by being wrong about this particular issue, you’re contributing to the standing culture of a privileged party dictating what an oppressed party is and is not allowed to do or say. In other words, you are essentially supporting oppression.
Cut that shit out.
“In the instances when POC say shit like ‘Oh I can’t stand white folk’ or ‘Damn white people’, they aren’t saying ‘Oh I think they are inferior, I want to humiliate them, abuse them, enslave them and wipe out their people!’, they’re saying ‘Damn, after a couple hundred years of white people thinking I’m inferior, humiliating me, abusing me, enslaving me, and trying to wipe out my people, I don’t wanna deal with them.’ The context is completely different.”
“Though no one would ever think of using the term honor violence (we reserve that descriptor for brown people who live somewhere else, motivated by religious something-or-other or tribal something-or-other), one-third of women murdered every year in the United States are killed by their intimate partners. In 2005 that amounted to 1,181 women, or three women every day. To put that in perspective, the UN estimates there are 5,000 honor killings every year in the entire world. 5,000 in a world of 6 billion versus nearly 1,200 in a single country of 300 million. In other words, a woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.”
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Feminists. (via popmuslim)
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
(via silverqueen)
Let me reiterate that for you all …
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
(via dank-potion)
I think you’ve missed a crutial point though, let me point it out:
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
(via themindislimitless)
I think that being repeated so many times is fantastic for Western fauxminists and “egalitarians” that think all issues here are “fixed” (or “reversed” so that men are oppressed) so now we just need to go save the brown women in other countries.
(via stfufauxminists)
(via shorm)
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My friend Marissa, talking at the beach yesterday (paraphrased). (via bigfatfeminist)
Yeah it’s fine to hate rapists and people who sexually assault but it is never okay to just hate all men.
It’s never okay to hate a group of people based on their sex, race, sexuality, etc.
Saying “they” and “them” generalizes all men and that is not okay.
(via definitelyevil)
Mmm. Except it’s not the same thing at all.
(via definitelyevil)
what is your opinion of the isthisfeminist tumblr? other than underplaying the importance of viewing things through a feminist lens, i feel like it's the same joke over and over. also it's written by a dude, which makes me wonder about the author's intentions
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It’s not nearly as witty as it thinks it is, and it’s not all that funny, either. Though there’s something to be said for the fact that ANY cultural criticism can sometimes fall into tired patterns, making that joke once is pretty much enough.
I’m automatically skeptical of any man who takes it upon himself to critique what women describe as feminism, as a general rule.
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There is no such thing as an objectively hot person. It’s not like everyone agrees that Brad Pitt is the be-all and end-all, or that no one on Earth is more stunning than Scarlett Johanssen.
Really, though? These people are missing out on one fuck of a lot of beauty in the world, which is their problem entirely. Too bad for them.
“Oh, but this is not a matter of “glorifying” obesity. Glorifying obesity would take multiple TV shows depicting fat folks riding unicorns and devouring warm pies whilst counting the bags of money they’ve gained from being fat. Indeed, if simply putting fat people on television was enough to “glorify” obesity, then The Biggest Loser should have done the trick years ago. It hasn’t, because The Biggest Loser is a show built on the humiliation and punishment (self-inflicted or otherwise) of fat people. When we say that putting fat people on television will “glorify” their bodies, what we really mean is that we are uncomfortable giving fat people any attention that is not overtly negative. Because fat people need to be told: don’t be fat. Being fat means you are not entitled to a normal life. Being fat means you are not entitled to love. Being fat means you are not entitled to humanity, much less dignity.”
