June 2012
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“The power dynamic was already set in place before the match even started, and it...”
– Patricia Hernandez, “Three Words I Said to the Man I Defeated in Gears of War That I’ll Never Say Again”
May 2012
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My mother is super supportive of my dreams
Me: mom why can't i marry a handsome british actor?
Mom: a bit of a non sequitur here, wouldn't you say? But Brits are pasty and have bad teeth anyway.
Me: i'm pasty and have bad teeth
Mom: LMAO
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“You know what? It’s true, actually. Most women aren’t funny. But...”
– Lindy West, “Hey, Men, I’m Funnier Than You”
I fucking adore everything about this and join her in condemning Lindy in calling out all the god damn idiocy surrounding the “women are naturally unfunny” bullshit.
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“True gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A group that is made...”
– Lucy, When Worlds Collide: Fandom and Male Privilege.
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“I don’t think it’s terribly controversial to note that women, from a young age,...”
– Writing Across Gender by Jennifer duBois
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Blargh, twitter
So a couple hours ago my angry feminist twitter account was suspended.
I have no idea why, but I’ve reviewed twitter’s rules and regulations and can come up with absolutely nothing. I’ve not used a bot to follow anyone, I’ve not posted pornography, or threatened anyone, or anything else.
All I did was engage in the feminist discourse happening on twitter and my account...
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“No one seriously believes Fink’s 6-year-old son was expressing a genuinely...”
– Hugo Schwyzer for Jezebel reminds us that attraction, like everything else, is at least in part social conditioning.
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April 2012
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“Not being racist is not some default starting position. You don’t simply get to...”
– beautiful and true.
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Dear daughter… →
No, we wouldn’t want to take utter delight in beauty and love. We wouldn’t want to carefully watch and study something to learn. We wouldn’t want to look at the world and for just one second think that we have as many opportunities as boys. That we can play sports. Play the drums or saxophone. Play video games. Excel at science/math. * And for that second, before something or someone starts...
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“WASHINGTON—After decades spent battling gender discrimination and inequality in...”
– The Onion, right on point as usual
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"Hen": Sweden’s new gender neutral pronoun causes... →
Before you say anything, no, this isn’t too radical. This level of effort for systematic neutralization of gender probably has a better shot than anything else. Anyone up for moving to Sweden?
… for many Swedes, gender equality is not enough. Many are pushing for the Nordic nation to be not simply gender-equal but gender-neutral. The idea is that the government and society should tolerate...
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“What changed is that I said something that you didn’t like. I told you, in...”
– Jessica Wakeman, “An Open Letter To The Guy Who Called Me ‘Crazy’”
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“If this conversation about me is going to be had, I will do my part to insist...”
– Ashley Judd (yes, that one) kicking ass and taking names in an amazing feminist essay to the media about patriarchy, beauty, and criticism.
The beauty of this is Ashley took the media being a giant collective asshat to her and used it not only to defend herself, her health, and her (gorgeous)...
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Circle of 6 →
This is an amazing way to help keep yourself and your friends safe. It’s aimed mostly at college students, but there’s no reason anyone couldn’t benefit from its services.
The gallery of images is a storyboard of how the app works. Each user downloads the app and adds 5 contacts from their address book, creating a Circle of 6 supporters. There are 3 situations where SMS...
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How Long Can Ryan Gosling Keep Being Ryan Gosling? →
I also can’t imagine how the fuck he’s going to top him self at this point. Retroactively rewrite seasons 3-6 of Lost? Go back in time to when he was a baby and have himself fight baby-Hitler to the death? (It’s not baby-murder if a baby did it.) Invent a Ryan Gosling cloning machine???
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Misogyny isn’t caused by male horniness →
I have a counter-theory. I don’t believe that men build civilization to impress lazy women who keep saying no to sex, because we don’t understand what it’s really like to want it. I believe men built most things because women were shut out of political power, job opportunities, and education for most of history, and instead forced into servitude towards men in the home. I...
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“Enough ladies. I get it. You have periods.”
– Two and a Half Men co-creator Lee Aronsohn’s tells THR he doesn’t much care for lady-centric sitcoms. (via newsweek)
March 2012
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George R.R. Martin on writing women
George Stroumboulopoulos: There's one thing that's interesting about your books. I noticed that you write women really well and really different. Where does that come from?
George R.R. Martin: You know, I've always considered women to be people.
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“And for that matter, young people, can we all start standing up to our...”
– Lindy West in “Everyone! Stop Giving Old People a Pass Just for Being Old!”
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The Pervocracy: Consent Culture →
A consent culture is one in which the prevailing narrative of sex—in fact, of human interaction—is centered around mutual consent. It is a culture with an abhorrence of forcing anyone into anything, a respect for the absolute necessity of bodily autonomy, a culture that believes that a person is always the best judge of their own wants and needs.
I don’t want to limit it to...