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I can remember speaking to a 12-year-old boy, a football player, and I asked him, I said, “How would you feel if, in front of all the players, your coach told you, you were playing like a girl?” Now, I expected him to say something like, “I’d be sad; I’d be mad; I’d be angry,” something like that. No, the boy said to me, the boy said to me, “It would destroy me.”
And I said to myself, “God, if it would destroy him to be called a girl, what are we then teaching him about girls?”
” — Shakesville: “My liberation as a man is tied to your liberation as a woman.” (via sarahgraham7)(via xuananigans)
I love how whenever I google a problem (problems that arise between people), I get sexist stereotypical bullshit that DOESN’T represent me and so so many women and men that I cannot even read on to try to find the useful parts. I am a biological and socialized female and these idiotic claims on how women are, ESPECIALLY sexually are so insulting and false. There is plenty of absurd garbage people say on the internet, but this is different and of concern because it’s mainstream knowledge, its gender specific stereotypes that everyone learns. FUCK.
(via genderconfusion)
“The problem with sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, classist, ableist, etc., remarks and “jokes” is not that they’re offensive, but that by relying for their meaning on harmful cultural narratives about privileged and marginalized groups they reinforce those narratives, and the stronger those narratives are, the stronger the implicit biases with which people are indoctrinated are. That’s real harm, not just “offense.” — I Don’t Care If You’re Offended by Scott Madin (via inherhipstheresrevolutions)
The atheist community is large and it is growing, but sadly many atheists feel it is hard to come out and accept their belief, many for the reason that they don’t know that there are other people out there dealing with the same issues they are. Come out and stand for your beliefs. Show the world that there are more of us than there are of them, and most importantly show other atheists that there is no reason to fear coming out. We should be proud of where we stand. Come out, reach out, speak out, keep out, stand out, and reblog to show your support!
“I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking. The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there’s little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.” — Carl Sagan, who passed away on this day in 1996. (via bowsandbrogues)
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Those shoes couldn’t have been comfortable, anyway.
(via missgingerlee)
Hillary Clinton: Empowering Young Girls
“Quite honestly, my objection to rape jokes is not even because I particularly find the jokes personally triggering anymore; I generally just find them pathetic and inexplicable. And while I’m bothered by the fact that the jokes normalize and effectively minimize the severity of rape and thus perpetuate the rape culture, I’m more bothered by the thought of a woman who’s recently been raped, who’s just experienced what may be the worst thing that will ever happen to her, and goes to the site of her favorite webcomic, or turns on the telly, or goes to the cinema, or a comedy club, to have a much-needed laugh—only to see that horrible, life-changing thing used as the butt of a joke. I don’t understand—and I don’t believe I ever will—why anyone wants to be the person who sends that shiver down her spine, who makes her eyes burn hot with tears at an unwanted memory while everyone else laughs and laughs.” —
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2010/08/survivors-are-so-sensitive.html (via kittyradio)
This is the way I express my sympathy..I think of this kind of situation..when someone is confronted.
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“A three-day-old human embryo is a collection of 150 cells called a blastocyst. There are, for the sake of comparison, more than 100,000 cells in the brain of a fly. If our concern is about suffering in this universe, it is rather obvious that we should be more concerned about killing flies than about killing three-day-old human embryos… Many people will argue that the difference between a fly and a three-day-old human embryo is that a three-day-old human embryo is a potential human being. Every cell in your body, given the right manipulations, every cell with a nucleus is now a potential human being. Every time you scratch your nose, you’ve committed a holocaust of potential human beings… Let’s say we grant it that every three-day-old human embryo has a soul worthy of our moral concern. First of all, embryos at this stage can split into identical twins. Is this a case of one soul splitting into two souls? Embryos at this stage can fuse into a chimera. What has happened to the extra human soul in such a case? This is intellectually indefensible, but it’s morally indefensible given that these notions really are prolonging scarcely endurable misery of tens of millions of human beings, and because of the respect we accord religious faith, we can’t have this dialogue in the way that we should. I submit to you that if you think the interests of a three-day-old blastocyst trump the interests of a little girl with spinal cord injuries or a person with full-body burns, your moral intuitions have been obscured by religious metaphysics.” — Sam Harris, on stem cell research. (via cocknbull)
The company Polarn O. Pyret says: “Our unisex collection (UNI) consists of clothing that is based on situation and function rather than on gender. As a clothing manufacturer, we want to make it our responsibility to offer an alternative to clothing that is based on gender. There is really no reason to design different models and fits for small boys and girls since there is no great difference in the way their bodies are shaped. We have taken an overall approach to unisex clothing, and consider not only color but also pattern and fit.”
This is truly despicable. It’s horrific that we as girls and women are still taught this crap. What adds to its repulsiveness is the use of religion that it portrays. Religion has been used as an excuse to murder, rape, treat as property, and degrade us for centuries.
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violence against women vs. pleasure for women, which do we see more of?
(Source: sexisnottheenemy, via lostgrrrls)