May 2012
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Anonymous asked: Hey, so in your about section you mention "the detrimental messages thrown at us by the media." While I TOTALLY agree with the substance of the statement, I'd like to respectfully question its wording: I feel like maybe you're shifting blame onto "the media" without realizing that "media" encompasses just about any form of expression, and blaming such a...
April 2012
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“A student blows up at a teacher, drops the F-bomb. The usual approach at Lincoln...”
– Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, tries new approach to school discipline — suspensions drop 85% (via mchotdog)
what a radical idea yo
(via matthewdgold)
Bam. Kids “misbehave” for actual, real, valid reasons. And have feelings.
(via amydentata)
I, for one, am astonished at the idea that...
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Anonymous asked: I'm working on a project representing feminists and I want to stress its inherent inclusive nature. By saying the feminism includes support of people of color, the LGBTQ communication, and the transgender community, am I being as inclusive as possible? Not forgetting anyone/making any faux pas?
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Sent via fan mail:
Agh agh agh that anon with the “studies.” Okay, bro, here’s how it goes down: you know those bell curves that “show” gender differences between men and women? Aside from most of these studies being incredibly cis-centric, the overlap BETWEEN those bell curves (e.g. the similarities between most men and most women) FAR outweigh any proposed differences. Added to that is the fact that the majority...
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mazzlestar asked: Might I suggest that the previous anon read "Delusions of Gender"? Any "scientific" studies that "prove" such things are inherently ciscentric and problematic in so many ways that I struggle to even understand how they were published.
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Anonymous asked: had a female teacher for my first calc class. everyone would be done with the examples while she was still doing the first step. we had to correct her literally every time she attempted math>she would make roughly 5 mistakes per problem, we counted. didn't understand concepts and counted on her fingers frequently. she took at least a month to grade tests and quizzes. women cannot into...
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Anonymous asked: How is that when science shows that women are more empathetic than men, and have greater communication skills, feminists are keen to use that science to point out that women are better? But when such studies also point out that men have greater abstract reasoning or spatial awareness, they claim it's bogus science, or patriarchal propaganda?
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danyphantomzone:
big fat feminist: Basically:
hotelsongs:
If a novel is divided between Good Women and Bad Women, it is not a feminist novel.
I don’t care whether the Good Woman is a virtuous tower maiden and the Bad Woman has vagina dentata and knows how to use them or if the Good Woman is a sexy Wiccan part-time knight and the Bad…
So… a woman cannot be evil/a villain in a...
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“No one should be punished for living in a body that fails to meet certain...”
– - The Sum of Our Parts: Jen Davis’ lap band and my selfish entitled disappointment, by Lesley at xojane (via redefiningbodyimage)
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Planned Parenthood is on Tumblr!
plannedparenthood:
Planned Parenthood is excited to be launching our new Tumblr that’s all about sexual and reproductive health – bodies, birth control, relationship issues, “is it normal for this to do this?” type things. In the coming weeks and months we’ll be sharing what we know, answering questions, and just… tumblring.
We hope you like it! And we hope it helps.
Just so everyone who...
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Anonymous asked: What are your thoughts on My Little Pony Friendship is Magic?
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Anonymous asked: Like the way Disney pits the beautiful good character against the ugly bad character?
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Anonymous asked: So a feminist novel should show only good womyn and never bad womyn?
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Basically:
hotelsongs:
If a novel is divided between Good Women and Bad Women, it is not a feminist novel.
I don’t care whether the Good Woman is a virtuous tower maiden and the Bad Woman has vagina dentata and knows how to use them or if the Good Woman is a sexy Wiccan part-time knight and the Bad Woman a moralizing icicle in skirts. If the women earn their morality by Doing Womanhood Right and Doing...
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“I think there is a huge, huge emphasis on looks today that is just completely...”
– Libba Bray, when asked how she would advise girls today on accepting or rejecting social standards. Excerpt from “A Conversation With Libba Bray” in the back of my copy of her book, Rebel Angels. (via fannybrawne)
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Anonymous asked: post a pic?
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People you will meet in discussions about sexism...
Mr “Welcome to the real world”. Sexism happens. Always has, always will. Might as well suck it up and deal with it. Try to change society? What are you, mad? I don’t like it either, sunshine, but just be good and don’t make a fuss.
Mr “Oh my god calm down it was a joke”. Everyone knows if you tack “lol” onto the end of a sentence, no one can get mad at you because you were being hilarious, and...
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“The mainstream media is ripe with oversexualized images of women of color, and...”
– Samhita Mukhopadhyay’s Outdated: Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life (via grrrlstudies)
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“Racism is a system. Racism is a way of thinking. Racism is subconscious. Racism...”
– I don’t think this could be said any better.
Read the entire article here.
(via froggyfibers)
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If Your Life Makes You Fat, Then Maybe You Should...
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isistiberiuscat:
another day, another stupid article about how something that happens to most people in everyday life is ZOMG MAKING YOU TEH FATZ. today, it was an article on one of the blogs i read (i forget which one) about how having a screwed-up sleep schedule can mess up your metabolism. ok. i think most people know that it’s not super healthy not to have a regular...
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“What men mean when they talk about their “crazy” ex-girlfriend is often that she...”
– Lady, You Really Aren’t “Crazy” (via sparkamovement)
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Anonymous asked: why are you such a big fat ugly cunt? get a life feminist slut!
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“Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely...”
– Margaret Cho, http://jezebel.com/5875219/cho-mad-twitter?tag=weighty-issues (via viviandemilo)
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Warning: Please Do not go to MorningAfterPill.Org
sexreeducated:
If you are looking through google for information on the wonderful invention known as Plan B, Emergency contraception or the Morning After Pill- avoid Morningafterpill.org, which comes up on page 1 of ‘morning after pill’ searches
It is a actually a Anti-Abortion, Anti-Contraception site meant to shame women into thinking they are ending human life by using any method of...
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“Check your damn privilege as a female who will never experience the friend zone.”
– DSFLKJSDHL????????????????????? DFKJSGYHASJYQKUWEDTGASCHJB (via moominboy)
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“At school, they told us that if we ever see drugs, call 911 because people who...”
– Nine year-old Darrin Davis, quoted in Lost Rights, by James Bovard, p. 208. (via letterstomycountry)
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Anonymous asked: Here's what bugs me: people who are supposedly so concerned about people with weight issues being unhealthy that they call them out on it, but never call out someone else like, say, a smoker, on their choices. What makes a fat kid so different to you? Are they just easy targets with no self-esteem? Why aren't you questioning every person with self-destructive habits about their choices?...
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“I’m not like other guys. I’m attracted to weird girls.”
– a guy who primarily fetishizes thin white cis women with dyed hair and facial piercings
which is not to say these women aren’t beautiful, because they are, but come on dude nothing about your tastes is out-of-the-ordinary
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stfuconfederates:
jerrymuffinbutt:
“All women are beautiful!” says the comment on a photo of four slightly different thin white ciswomen.
I have this thought so often.
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Elizabeth Banks: I Thank Birth Control Pills for My Son
Just over a year ago, my son Felix was born via gestational surrogacy. He came out of me nine months early and because of my broken belly, his babycake was baked in a wonderful angel’s oven and now — I can’t believe it — he’s a year old and walking. He has expanded my capacity for joy a thousand-fold.
His life would have been much harder...
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randomlancila:
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acciofangirl:
I just saw some photos of a 300-pound girl posing in her underwear. I’m sure she did it with the good intention of teaching girls to love their body no matter what shape or size or color but I hope we also remember that while it’s important to be comfortable in your own skin, it’s also important to be healthy. The only way to truly love your...
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bronzedragon asked: Regarding the STEM experience, what in particular do you need/want to know? I have a BS in molecular biology and a doctorate in pharmacy.
Are you a woman in the STEM fields? →
I’d love to know about your experiences for a blog post on STEM support I’m writing for SPARK. No guarantee that I’ll quote you but if you’d like to share your experiences, whether in high school or college, leave a note in my ask and let me know how you’d like to be credited!
