May 2013
12 posts
thepoopqueen:
until native americans roll up into europe and start taking things at their leisure, you can’t tell me it goes both ways. until puerto rican doctors start sterilizing white women, you can’t tell me it goes both ways. until a white “swagged out” justin bieber lookin ass kid in a hoodie gets shot down for dressing like a thug, YOU CAN’T TELL ME IT GOES BOTH WAYS.
Wow.
April 2013
61 posts
wretchedoftheearth:
I don’t respect opinions if they’re stupid, oppressive, or contradict reality, sorry
Mommy and daddy told you you’re special and that everything you do is important but they lied
“1.
I say, ‘I am fat.’
He says ‘No, you are beautiful.’
I wonder why I cannot...”
– Rachel Wiley (via heyfatchick)
For my sister, who will never see this… because she doesn’t have a tumblr, and who blocks her physical form from her everyday mentality just to survive our disgusting, fat-shaming, thin-worshipping culture.
Safety Tips for Men →
Men, are you worried for your own safety because misandry?
You need to accept that misandry happens in the real world and take some precautions.
Take a self defense class, they’re only a couple hundred dollars a month.
Don’t go out after dark unless you have a woman to chaperone you.Misandrists are less likely to attack if they see you are with another woman.
Don’t wear anything too...
A Senate in the Gun Lobby’s Grip →
wilwheaton:
I watch TV and read the papers like everyone else. We know what we’re going to hear: vague platitudes like “tough vote” and “complicated issue.” I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress. I know what a complicated issue is; I know what it feels like to take a tough vote. This was neither. These senators made their decision...
“What kind of world do we live in when young men are so proud of violating...”
– “In Rape Tragedies, the Shame Is Ours,” my latest at The Nation (via jessicavalenti)
“For me, queer means radiant darkness, radical love, and a million and one ways...”
– Edward Ndopu (via riseabovethemadness)
wana write this on my wall
(via glam-pire)
“It is no accident that white masculinity is constructed the way it is in the...”
– Qwo-Li Driskill (via queersissyfag)
“White privilege is knowing that even if the Boston Marathon bomber turns out to...”
– Tim Wise (via callingoutbigotry)
And for us, White privilege is even if the bomber is White, Black and Brown folk still gotta watch our damn backs.
(via witchsistah)
“And so we come to the Boston false-flag theorizing, which is even stupider...”
– Mightygodking dot com » Post Topic » #firstworldimaginedproblems (via wilwheaton)
This is true.
“The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours,...”
– Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye (via fightingz)
Story of my life!
yourbones:
somegirlnamedkaitlyn:
My dog understands the word “No,” so how are you going to tell me teenage boys don’t know the difference between rape and consent?
Nailed it.
Animals understand “no.” My fucking kitten understands. So, males (or anyone with rape on their mind) can’t use that bullshit excuse any-fucking-more.
Dogged pursuit of austerity benefits…guess who? →
wilwheaton:
As Radhika Balakrishnan, executive director for Rutgers’ Center for Women’s Global Leadership, pointed out on Thursday’s All In, the financial sector is doing better than ever under austerity.
“What we’re seeing is the financialization of the economy,” she said. “The economy is run by finance capital. It is not manufacturing, not working class unionized jobs that actually give...
“It’s not my job to make you a better man and I don’t give a shit if I’ve made...”
– Jenny Schecter (via slutevah)
“FEMEN needs to recognize that Muslim women do in fact have agency, and the idea...”
– Muslim women shockingly not grateful for topless European women trying to “save” them (via insaniyat)
Perf.
1 tag
“I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t...”
– Henry Rollins (via skeletales)
Yet another reason I adore Henry Rollins.
““I love identifying the divine source as the “Universe” because it implicates...”
– From “Why I Love The Universe More Than I Love God.”
(via dearuniversethebook)
I love every word of this.
“I will gaze at the moon and cleanse my heart.”
– Zeami (via invisiblestories) 