Anyone can tell you there’s no more road to ride
We hold a strong belief that actions stem from ideology and philosophy. We need new philosophies and new ideologies. Actions and inactions around us in society currently demonstrate an old ideology/philosophy that still excludes people. We want and need to transform that.
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Oh. My. God. Be mine.
I am a Dog! I support Same Sex Marriage. It would effect me just as much as it would effect you!
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I’m uncomfortable with the fact that I’m the only girl in my work place.
I’m uncomfortable with the fact that one of my boss looks down on me for being younger than he is and a girl. I am referred to as the “little girl”.
I’m 19, I am going into my third year of University. I don’t think I’m comfortable with the term ‘little girl’. It’s insulting and it’s infantilizing.
I’m sick of trying to point out the sexism in each degrading comment directed to another female in the workplace.
I’m just tired of giving a fuck. I wish I was a submissive as men would want me to be. Because apparently when girls are loud, assertive and have a loud voice - they are masculine. When the fuck did men own assertiveness? When did men own superiority? When did men own power?
Oh yeah, wait a minute, they even own history.
(trigger warning: rape, rape jokes) Here is why I refuse to take rape jokes sitting down…
Because 6% of college-aged men, slightly over 1 in 20, will admit to raping someone in anonymous surveys, as long as the word “rape” isn’t used in the description of the act—and that’s the conservative estimate. Other sources double that number (pdf).
A lot of people accuse feminists of thinking that all men are rapists. That’s not true. But do you know who think all men are rapists?
Rapists do.
They really do. In psychological study, the profiling, the studies, it comes out again and again.
Virtually all rapists genuinely believe that all men rape, and other men just keep it hushed up better. And more, these people who really are rapists are constantly reaffirmed in their belief about the rest of mankind being rapists like them by things like rape jokes, that dismiss and normalize the idea of rape.
If one in twenty guys (or more) is a real and true rapist, and you have any amount of social activity with other guys like yourself, then it is almost a statistical certainty that one time hanging out with friends and their friends, playing Halo with a bunch of guys online, in a WoW guild, in a pick-up game of basketball, at a bar, or elsewhere, you were talking to a rapist. Not your fault. You can’t tell a rapist apart any better than anyone else can. It’s not like they announce themselves.
But, here’s the thing. It’s very likely that in some of these interactions with these guys, at some point or another, someone told a rape joke. You, decent guy that you are, understood that they didn’t mean it, and it was just a joke. And so you laughed.
Or maybe you didn’t laugh. Maybe it just wasn’t a very funny joke. So maybe you just didn’t say anything at all.
And, decent guy who would never condone rape, who would step in and stop rape if he saw it, who understands that rape is awful and wrong and bad, when you laughed? When you were silent?
That rapist who was in the group with you, that rapist thought that you were on his side. That rapist knew that you were a rapist like him. And he felt validated, and he felt he was among his comrades.
You. The rapist’s comrade.
And if that doesn’t make you feel sick to your stomach, if that doesn’t make you want to throw up, if that doesn’t disturb you or bother you or make you feel like maybe you should at least consider not participating in that kind of humor anymore, not abiding it in your presence, not greeting it with silence…
Well, maybe you aren’t as opposed to rapists as you claim.
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~ Barber B. Conable Jr., President of the World Bank, to the 1986
Annual Meei ng of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund
It’s a mind boggle
Through my Western feminist eyes, when I see things written in Chinese gossip mags in Hong Kong that state that (translated from Cantonese):
- One girl was in her computer science class that couldn’t keep up with her fellow male students because they were so much smarter than her. Justifying this was the reason why she started her own flower box making product on Facebook.
- This latest BMW mobile car model was so easy to carry - that even a woman can do it. Further reiterating that women were weak and this was ordinary.
- For a woman to date a younger man that is 14 years younger than her it is amusing as her insecurities about the age difference shows in her hair style.
- A rapper admitted (to a great deal of shock), that he wouldn’t mind dating girls who were considered overweight or fat. And even admits to have had relationships with Black girls (this was written in English and then sidenoted to be Cantonese).
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I showed this to a friend, who completely underplayed this and stated that it was not of importance.
I wondered at that moment.
Was I too sensitive?
Is this matter cultural? And if it is, does it make it right?
Do women in Hong Kong or minority groups in Hong Kong feel the same way that I do? As I feel disgusted by what was written, yet in another level was amazing by the blunt blatant ways it was clearly stating these things.
Am I being ridiculous for judging magazines that were considered trashy anyways? Does that make it any righter?
drvy:
“Me love you long time” came into prominence with Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket,” (from 1987) as a Vietnamese prostitute tries to pick up Matthew Modine’s character with broken English. The phrase was then popularly picked up by 2 Live Crew in the song “Me So Horny.”
“It’s so many different kinds of slurs in one,” comedian Margaret Cho said. “It’s instantly putting you in the position of being a foreigner, an outsider and a sexual stereotype. It’s an all-in-one combo.”~naturallaw for yahoo questions
The popularization by Mariah Carey’s ‘Love You Long Time,’ Fergie’s ‘London Bridge,’ and Nicki Minaj’s ““Muahhhh me love you long time like I’m asian” demonstrates how this exotification of Asian/A.American women is constantly recycled in the media, perpetuated by celebrities to obtain the hyper-sexualized image needed to make it big, especially if you ain’t got the talent.
I would get started on Nicki’s whole hyper-sexualized, Japanese dolled up shit, but racialious says it best. Well researched: here http://www.racialicious.com/2010/11/01/the-orientalism-of-nicki-minaj/
You can degrade yourself, but no, my sisters and I will NOT love you long time.
I’m sure we’ve posted about this before, but it always bears repeating.
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Planned Parenthood is on Tumblr!
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.
Guys! Look who’s here to join the party!
SO EXCITED
You know what they say. If your age is on the clock, you’re too young for cock.
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Five Myths About Crime in Black America—and the Statistical Truths
In the wake of Trayvon Martin’s death, we’ve seen a lot of discussion of the larger societal issues that play into how and when people are perceived as criminals. There were hoodies, there were marches, and there were frank talks from parent to child about how to minimize the danger of being a young person of color. On the other side, there were justifications of George Zimmerman’s actions: a smear campaign against Martin’s character, and plenty of writers explaining that statistically, blacks are simply more dangerous to be around.
That framing ignores the realities behind the numbers. Here are five myths about crime and people of color.
CC: Click on the photo of the third myth in order to see the fourth one (perhaps this is just my pc, but it isn’t showing).
