... it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. - Emma Goldman
A reminder that women in Iran need liberation and feminism even more than women in the West, and that we shouldn’t ignore or forgive their oppressors simply because their skin is brown. This woman is a hell of a lot braver than me, simply because this can literally get her killed. (slightly NSFW)
http://anonymousatheist420.tumblr.com/post/53028913242/via-google-images
3 people stealing the same bike [video]
smh…
entirely fed up with this world
Damn….
Racism right here.
White people steal, and it’s BRUSHED OFF AND OTHER PEOPLE HELP
Black person? MOB of people come to attack him.
*lies down*
If you a white boy no worries. A white girl hey you look good I’ll help. White bitch went paparazzi on the black dude all up in his face and they all playing hero and suddenly caring. I fucking hate you white demons, for real
bolded for real
I do not have the patience right now to look up the comments on the version of this i’ve seen before (it only had the two boys, not the girl), but some white apologist tried to get all ‘no wait now the black kid is wearing RED and the white kid is wearing BLUE and psychologically red is an aggressive colour and blue is a calming colour so we have no way of knowing this is race-based and not shirt-based, it could just be a subconscious reaction based on the shirt colours.’
To which someone else responded with ‘there is no way in hell people are having a stronger ‘subconscious reaction’ to shirt colour than skin colour’.
(oh ffs i just looked at the comments on this video and there are indeed people saying shit along the lines of ‘well, the black kid is wearing baggier jeans! He’s not just BLACK, he’s STEREOTYPICALLY BLACK, so of course people are going to make stereotypical assumptions!’)
This is amazing. And so not surprising.
(Source: radiofortheblind)
A key that opens many locks is a master key. A lock opened by many keys is a poor lock.
An analogue in popular culture presupposing the vagina as a ‘hole’ or subterranean space separate, in the patriarchal imagination, from the thinking/feeling/knowing body [it] is attached to; and if it is to be deemed desirable, it should remain in a perpetual state of ‘lockedness’, closed off, secret, an underworld, a cave… where the Strong Male Hero enters to free it of the hysteria ruling it, to decapitate its serpentine ruler (i.e. Medusa) before conquering it and exiting the cave-space reborn, as conqueror
masculinist fantasies are weirdly psychopathological; i.e. men are infantile creatures with an unconscious desire to return to their mother’s womb
(via thestolencaryatid)
Here’s an opposing analogy I’ve heard: a pencil sharpener that sharpens many pencils is a great pencil sharpener. But a pencil that gets sharpened too many times becomes short and useless.
Try throwing that in the face of the next sexist who smugly relates the lock-key analogy to you.
So as expected, all the usual conservative baddies are saying they are just fine with the NSA domestic spying in principle… they just don’t trust it under Obama.
Meanwhile, too many liberal talking heads are saying the domestic spying is ok because we can trust Obama… but, of course, it was bad under Bush.
People, listen. We are going to have lots of presidents from either party in our lifetime. Therefore: If a government power strikes you as a bad thing, but only if a president from the other party wields it… then it is a bad thing. Period.
Official Playstation Used Game Instructional Video (x)
Oh snap. If this is true, I will never ever buy an Xbox (versus PS4) for our eventual next console. Arrogance towards your user base, such as Microsuck’s punitive anti-sharing and always-on rules that benefit themselves and EA at the expense of the user, only makes sense if you don’t have a competitor ready to steal said user from you.
(Source: snitskys)
It’s not about sex - they have porn, they have as much fucking porn as they could possibly ask for
they have billboards and ads and primetime tv shows and hollywood movies and websites free videos magazines they have porn channels porn movies with sexy images of women
they have girls on websites who are paid to webcam with them
I don’t get the urge to be a porno addict, and I definitely don’t get the urge to “creepshot,” or “upskirt.” This is a much bigger problem in a city dependent on pedestrian and subway traffic… Why is this done, when as the OP points out, an infinite amount of porn is at their command already? Why is the violation inherent in such an act such a turn-on for some guys, a violation they don’t get from regular porn? And as an aside, why don’t we ever see women doing this to men? I’m sure that last one is a question our fedora-wearing MRAs would never address…
By reading the horrified reviews of the episode from last week, I’m glad I was able to skip that episode and spare myself the agony that the show’s creators had wished to visit upon me.
I know some other stuff happened last week - Dany took that slave city with little bloodshed; Jon and Ygritte finally had their long-in-coming split - but I’m guessing that stuff was not remembered the next day by anyone.
Well, yeah… I have no problem insulting MRAs in their own language, so that their little minds understand… how is this an issue?
No, I don’t believe anyone’s value as a person is actually tied to their ability to bed someone of their desired gender. But, the entire worldview of the MRA and the PUA hinges on that belief, so yeah, I’ll tweak them for it if it triggers a few more male tears.
Did you not read a single thing that I said? I explained, clearly, that the MRM does not value how many people a person sleeps with and wants to end that particular norm. For the love of god, before you say something at the very least read up so you don’t make a fool of yourself.
I’m confused. You are the same person as “SYABM”? Did you reblog onto the wrong tumblr?
In any event, since you expressly count yourself as a member of the movement whose leading blogs include A Voice For Men, Spearhead and MGTOW, I’ll consider your remarks to be equivalent to “No, I’m not a racist… I’m just for white rights.” Please deposit your male tears into the fedora on the counter as you exit, kthx
Well, yeah… I have no problem insulting MRAs in their own language, so that their little minds understand… how is this an issue?
No, I don’t believe anyone’s value as a person is actually tied to their ability to bed someone of their desired gender. But, the entire worldview of the MRA and the PUA hinges on that belief, so yeah, I’ll tweak them for it if it triggers a few more male tears.
How could so many men be oblivious to such a basic aspect of life for the women and girls around them? One of the most plausible explanations is that violence against women has historically been seen as a “women’s issue.” We focus on the against women part of the phrase and not on the fact that men are the ones doing it. But the long-running American tragedy of men’s violence against women is really more about men and our problems than it is about women. We’re the ones committing the vast majority of the violence! We’re the ones whom women have been conditioned to fear. In the twenty-first century, it is long past time that more men—of all races, religions, ethnicities, and nationalities—faced up to this sad situation, educated ourselves and others about the hows and whys, and then went out and did something about it.
Jackson Katz (via wretchedoftheearth)
Would that more people think of it this way. If a man is hitting a woman, the problem lies with the man and not the woman. Abuse is not something that just “happens” to a woman like cancer.
