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by King of Blood

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The soccer gender pay gap is ridiculous

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Deer are just suicidal dicks.

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Guys who complain about the friendzone often don’t care about their female friends’ personal boundaries, forcing their female friends build more walls up. A good cartoon.

- submitted by Gene

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Great point http://ift.tt/2dPOZyf

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this is so positive

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Help raise each other up, not tear each other down.

The Rules Of Feminism

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Feminists have worked for decades to properly identify and name trauma. We call those who have been raped or abused “survivors.” We say that a person is in “recovery” for an eating disorder. Though they are imperfect, we have resources for victims should they choose to prosecute a perpetrator, go to a shelter or report harassment.

But there is still the unexamined cumulative impact of living with sexism. Walking on the street, tweeting, working — just living — while female shapes who we are and who we think we can be.

When a high school teacher asked me on a date just a few days after I graduated, I wasn’t traumatized. The day that an ex-boyfriend taped a used condom to my dorm-room door, scrawling “whore” across the dry-erase board, didn’t forever damage me. When I receive a rape threat via email, my life’s trajectory does not shift. But it would be silly to believe that who I am today isn’t in part created by the distinct combination of those moments.

I grew up in Queens, taking the subway to junior high and high school. My commute became a time when it wasn’t unusual for a man to grope or flash me. It happened on at least a dozen occasions. I still find myself anxious on the subway. This is not an unreasonable response.

Researchers interested in objectification theory — the idea that the way women are looked at and dehumanized affects their mental health and their sense of self — have found that women often change and constrain their behavior because of past experiences with sexism. A study published in 2015 found a link between the misogyny women face and psychological distress.

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What the fuck they’re two years old

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Damn.

Watch: Samantha Bee takes on untested rape kits and the cops and politicians who want to destroy them.