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feministdisney:

candyandcusswords:

feministdisney:

digivolvin:

marlinpieisgod:

digivolvin:

the hardest part about being a feminist is knowing that one day soon i will grow 15 feet and my arms will shrink and i will become a t-rex with an insatiable appetite for man blood

and there’s nothing i can do to stop it

the transformation has already begun i can feel it in my bones

the hardest part about being a feminist is when you hit a dude adn he hits you back just as hard.

there’s equality for ya. now go make a sammich.

a woman making a joke on the internet about feminism— about turning into a dinosaur and eating innocent men, no less. this sounds serious. you didn’t want to have to resort to this but… desperate times call for desperate measures.

you’re going to have to do it.

you’re going to have to make a sandwich joke

this is a tradition passed down from the ancient men’s rights scriptures of 4chan, dating back to the early 2000s AD

you inhale deeply

it’s not an easy task, but this feminist is out of control. if you don’t do it now who knows what dark horrors she’ll unleash upon mankind

someone just got owned

The worst part is, now this kid just has tons of anons pouring into his inbox with insults.

Obviously, he should be called out on his shit, and have a serious sit-down explaining what’s up. 

But getting sworn at and called stupid or a sexist douche or an ignorant misogynist is NOT going to change his perceptions of feminism one bit. 

Here is an opportunity for education, and feminists fucked it up.

Now he’s a woman-hater for life.

Good job. 

(OP and their response was brilliant, though. No question.) 

I honestly don’t know what you think is the problem here- where did anyone swear, or call someone stupid, or anything?  None of that was in the above response- I didn’t even see things like that in 99% of the reblogs I ended up reading. Chances are, many of the reblogs DID have “education” in them.   And I’m certainly not taking my time to message him about it.

I do not have to respond to people with education every single time.   When people read a feminist’s joke and decide to reply with “har har kitchen/sandwich/women,” they are nooot simply unaware of the problems with saying that.   They are intentionally baiting feminists to give long winded explanations or to respond with righteous anger, because most people (not all, but most) do not actually think women only belong in the kitchen.   Responding to it with anything other than, “That joke is super old,” only reinforces the idea for them that feminists (and women in general) will complain about oppressions that “don’t even exist” and “don’t know how to take a joke.” I seriously doubt many young pseudo-liberals on the internet actually need to be sat down and patiently educated that, “No, actually, women shouldn’t be shamed if they don’t want to cook.” That is part of why they like the joke: they like to think that all feminists talk about is how to convince people we shouldn’t be making sandwiches for them.   That there are no bigger issues facing any of the groups feminism tries to stand up for.

At the end of the day, my feminism is not just about education redistribution, although that is a big part of it.   My feminism is also about creating safe spaces for people.   I am not particularly bothered by sandwich jokes, but some women, especially young girls in my experience who are less confident engaging in discussions, are bothered by such jokes and I think it is refreshing when people respond in the way the OP did.   Sometimes you don’t have to be a teacher- you can be a feminist tyrannosaurus and that is rad enough.   Humor is a weapon.  If the person who made the bad joke will be a “woman-hater for life,” that is not my responsibility or fault just because I responded with a picture of a dinosaur. I should not have to beg for someone’s basic respect; if I have to do that, their respect is not something I want to begin with…

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Aw, that’s cute. Anon hate mail - even single-word hate mail - cracks me up. You don’t have the spine to stand by your conviction that I’m racist (presumably against white people, because of the hipster video and the post immediately preceding this), so you use the anonymous feature that I’ve enabled so people can come to me with tough questions or for help to attack me. And, of course, this attack has no foundation.

People like you are nothing but bullies, and bullies are always cowards.

“It’s now very common to hear people say ‘I’m rather offended by that’, as if that gives them certain rights; it’s actually nothing more…it’s simply a whine. It’s no more than a whine. ‘I find that offensive’, it has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. ‘I am offended by that’, well so fucking what?”

Stephen Fry (via fuckyeahsexyatheists)

Ah, yes. Says the man who never actually apologized for egregious misogyny. I’m certainly going to take his feelings about what’s offensive seriously!

Also: people at the apex of privilege don’t get to decide what’s offensive and what’s not. And there is something very, very different between “being offended” and “having one’s pain taken advantage of.” Juuuust saying.

(via excellentwretch)

marvelade: “It’s so bizarre to me because, I work with a lot of men and then I do these press tours with them and nobody ever looks at Chris Hemsworth and goes, ‘Wow, you play such a strong guy in Thor!’ Nobody does that, you know what I mean? But when we are conflicted and we play characters that find themselves in circumstances where we have to to find our strength or just something in order to survive, like all of a sudden we are such strong women.” — Charlize Theron on playing strong women charlize needs to stop she is just exploding all over my heart and it just came out of nowhere.

marvelade:

“It’s so bizarre to me because, I work with a lot of men and then I do these press tours with them and nobody ever looks at Chris Hemsworth and goes, ‘Wow, you play such a strong guy in Thor!’ Nobody does that, you know what I mean? But when we are conflicted and we play characters that find themselves in circumstances where we have to to find our strength or just something in order to survive, like all of a sudden we are such strong women.” — Charlize Theron on playing strong women

charlize needs to stop she is just exploding all over my heart and it just came out of nowhere.

(via thewanderingknight)

“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.”

Briana (via absinthedisco)

Reblogging every time I see it.

(via dr—grumbles)

Thank you.

(via mehreenkasana)

THIS CONCEPT IS NOT THAT FUCKING HARD.

(via misandrwitch)