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why is it

"no boy will want you if you keep on with that feminist rubbish"

and not

"no girl will want you if you keep on being a misogynistic piece of shit"

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For those of you who think that radical feminists exaggerate or cherry-pick the worst of the porn industry, I have an experiment for you. Type ‘porn’ into Google and click around the most well-travelled websites that appear. With mind-numbing repetition you will see gagging, slapping, verbal abuse, hair-pulling, pounding anal sex, women smeared in semen, sore anuses and vaginas, distended mouths, and more exhausted, depleted and shell-shocked women than you can count. You will not see two people having sex; you will see images depicting a level of physical cruelty that would not be out of place in an Amnesty International campaign. One of the only studies of contemporary pornographic content found that the majority of scenes from fifty of the top-rented porn movies contained both physical and verbal abuse targeted against the female performers. Physical aggression – including spanking, open-hand slapping and gagging – occurred in over 88% of scenes, while expressions of verbal aggression – calling the woman names such as ‘bitch’ or ‘slut’ – were found in 48%. The researchers concluded that ‘if we combine both physical and verbal aggression, our findings indicate that nearly 90 per cent of scenes contained at least one aggressive act, with an average of nearly twelve acts of aggression per scene’. [x] That this is the major form of sex education for men should be taken very seriously by the women’s movement. The same men who get off from women being brutalised and called cunts, sluts, and cum-dumpsters are the ones who go on to become politicians, corporate executives, judges, media professionals, policy makers and bankers. In other words, they become the economic and cultural elite that shape the material and ideological world that determines how women – and their children – will live. Most of them will become partners and fathers. To assume that porn is mere fantasy and does not impact on the way men think and feel is to ignore decades of research on how images frame our social construction of reality.

"Porn and the Misogyny Emergency" — Gail Dines (via bemyonlyflame)

YES YES

(via nympherret)

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* in response to “how come i never see posts concerning men’s expectations? because despite the feminist’s attempts to conceal them, they do in fact exist.”

Actually, dear friend, many feminists- including myself attempt to address the expectations our society sets for men- because…

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Reasons this is totally messed up:

Rape threats are not okay. Ever. Not when a girl makes them, not when a guy makes them. Not when they are jokes. Never. 

There is never a wrong reason to say no to sex, for anyone. No one should be mocked for saying no to sex. That also fuels rape culture.

But lets not forget to examine the way that they discuss this guy's lack of sex drive. "He seems like a typical girl about it" (and then proceed to mock the way a 'typical girl' acts about sex). Assigning sexual habits to men or women is a) binary as hell and b) super toxic. Presuming that all men must have these rampant sex drives fuels rape culture (giving us the myth that men can't control their sexual urges), alienates men who have low sex drives and gives women unrealistic expectations of men. Presuming that all women have low sex drives fuels the idea that women who have a lot of sex are less valuable than women who don't (virgin/whore dichotomy), alienates women who have high sex drives, and gives men unrealistic expectations of women. 

I went to high school with both pink and blue. I thought they were both fantastic people, considering that they were highly intelligent and exceptionally attractive. Then I get on facebook. Blue is complaining about her SO’s lack of a sex drive lately. Pink was giving rational solutions, and then this happened.

I don’t give a flying fuck if it was a joke or not because either way no one was laughing. It’s not fucking funny and don’t you DARE tell me that there are not female predators out there.

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Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, a truly extraordinary woman.

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"Wow, Halloween City, did you run out of racist costume ideas this year or what? The costume called "Anna Rexia" was brought to my attention and I think it is rather despicable of you to carry it in your stores. Anorexia is a horrible disorder that kills people, and you had this costume in your TEEN section! This is sick. You need to remove it immediately from all stores." 

I’m scared to even imagine what other kind of costumes Halloween City has in their store.

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It's that time of year again.

Shark

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This

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This is one of my favorite pieces.

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This campaign is great. Stop the Pity, Unlock the Potential. 

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remember how when beyonce performed at the superbowl in a leotard there were fifty million thinkpieces about how beyonce is bad for feminism and needs to put clothes on but when miley cyrus performed at the VMA’s in a bikini there were fifty million thinkpieces about how she is just doing what makes her comfortable and exercising her agency and nobody is allowed to question the feminist value of her heavily sexualized new public image

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Definitely worth a read!!

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#i want to thank not only god but jesus for this female character

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Apparently the only difference between feminists and racists is that feminists should be ashamed while racists should be given a platform

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The women of ‘Game of Thrones’ aren’t competing models, just different ways of fighting sexism.

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I saw this article on my dash, so I decided to do a little experimenting myself…the results were interesting.