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vitaemachina: liberalsarecool: The GOP hates students, loves...

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:34:53 -0400

liberalsarecool:

The GOP hates students, loves their debt payments.

Of course this happens. How can subsequent generations be good little debtslaves otherwise?

pleasestopbeingsad: Street harassment is not a compliment.

Thu, 23 May 2013 03:26:01 -0400

pleasestopbeingsad:

Street harassment is not a compliment.

"There are only two types of men who are upset that they need permission before they can have sex:..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:17:28 -0400

“There are only two types of men who are upset that they need permission before they can have sex: rapists and potential rapists.”

- name-em-shame-em (via thisgingersnapsback)

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Thu, 23 May 2013 01:08:56 -0400

absentlyabbie: kidnotoriouswashere: arkhane: Lady Captain...

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:51:57 -0400

absentlyabbie:

kidnotoriouswashere:

arkhane:

Lady Captain America and Lady Thor

Art by Yasmine Putri

One of the few female versions I’ve seen that portray the strength of the characters instead of being a vehicle to show Cap with a midriff or Thor with tremendous cleavage.

Hell yes.

"A student blows up at a teacher, drops the F-bomb. The usual approach at Lincoln – and, safe to say,..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:43:28 -0400

“

A student blows up at a teacher, drops the F-bomb. The usual approach at Lincoln – and, safe to say, at most high schools in this country – is automatic suspension. Instead, Sporleder sits the kid down and says quietly: “Wow. Are you OK? This doesn’t sound like you. What’s going on?”

He gets even more specific: “You really looked stressed. On a scale of 1-10, where are you with your anger?” The kid was ready. Ready, man! For an anger blast to his face….”How could you do that?” “What’s wrong with you?”…and for the big boot out of school. But he was NOT ready for kindness.

The armor-plated defenses melt like ice under a blowtorch and the words pour out: “My dad’s an alcoholic. He’s promised me things my whole life and never keeps those promises.” The waterfall of words that go deep into his home life, which is no piece of breeze, end with this sentence: “I shouldn’t have blown up at the teacher.” Whoa.

”

- Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, tries new approach to school discipline — suspensions drop 85% (via mchotdog)

what a radical idea yo

(via matthewdgold)

Bam. Kids “misbehave” for actual, real, valid reasons. And have feelings.

(via amydentata)

For fuck’s sake, it takes the people in charge so long to figure shit like this out! Good for Lincoln High!

(via psychetimelapse)

This needs to be the policy EVERYWHERE…

(via 3dela)

Spread this likw wildfire til every school has and actively employes this policy.

(via stringsdafistmcgee)

Maybe the open palm approach will have more luck than the spate of elementary school arrests that seem to be the norm now. Fingers crossed.
(via invisiblelad)

chekhov: In health class we were given sheets of paper and told to write a message we would want...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:35:02 -0400

chekhov:

In health class we were given sheets of paper and told to write a message we would want someone of the opposite sex to know

She read some examples

The girls were like: “Hey can you please not treat me like shit”

The boys were like: “Spray tans look ugly I hate when girls wear too much makeup and don’t lead me on.”

lishra: women live in a world in which we share tips on how to determine whether we’re being spied...

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:25:55 -0400

lishra:

women live in a world in which we share tips on how to determine whether we’re being spied on with a two-way mirror because men love to violate boundaries

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Wed, 22 May 2013 17:09:08 -0400

"The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:01:53 -0400

“The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others.”

- bell hooks, all about love: new visions (via ellesugars)

"To be considered feminine, a woman has to pry a man from his friends and cleave him to her; sex is..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:51:48 -0400

“To be considered feminine, a woman has to pry a man from his friends and cleave him to her; sex is her lure. To prove he is masculine, a man has to show his friends he is a sexual conqueror; an emotional attachment to one woman can feel like a trap. In their peer groups, the closeness of men’s bonding is masked by sex talk, especially boasting of sexual conquests: ‘Men need to shoot the breeze, talk shit, chase women and run the jungle together’ (Simmons 1992, 401).

The heterosexual boy’s goal is conquest: ‘To the young man, the woman becomes, in the most profound sense, a sexual object. Her body and mind are the object of sexual games, to be won for his personal aggrandizement. Status goes to the winner, and sex is prized not as a testament of love but as testimony to control of another human being” (Anderson 1990, 114).”

-
Judith Lorber, Paradoxes of Gender

(via lesilencieux)

"Objectification is focusing on a person’s usefulness to you with total disregard for their desires. ..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:43:25 -0400

“

Objectification is focusing on a person’s usefulness to you with total disregard for their desires. In the context of compliments, it’s not saying “You turn me on.” It’s saying “You turn me on, and whether you want to turn me on is utterly irrelevant.”

Saying “nice ass” to a person who’s deliberately wiggling their ass at you is a compliment; saying “nice ass” to a person who’s just walking by is objectification. “I want to sleep with her” is expressing desire; “I’d hit it” is objectification. “You’re sexy” is nice to say on a date because it’s a compliment; “you’re sexy” is hideously undermining to say at a business meeting because it’s objectification.

”

- Pervocracy (via polyverse)

"The moment when a feeling enters the body is political."

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:34:49 -0400

“The moment when a feeling enters the body is political.”

- Adrienne Rich as recorded by a young Alison Bechdel and quoted in Bechdel’s Are You My Mother? (2012)

onemuppetslife: T_T The feeeeeels!!! ;A;

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:26:16 -0400

onemuppetslife:

T_T

The feeeeeels!!! ;A;

jimikong: that-gay-bunny: acciogaysharks: fag-ology: beinggay...

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:17:41 -0400

jimikong:

that-gay-bunny:

acciogaysharks:

fag-ology:

beinggayisokay:

I wish this was an exaggeration, I really do.

But its not

Dear lord, this is one of the most accurate posts on this site.

You forgot the ruffles.

this is me shopping

GPOY

facebooksexism: Friendly reminder that if your definition of humor includes jokes that hurt and/or...

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:09:05 -0400

facebooksexism:

Friendly reminder that if your definition of humor includes jokes that hurt and/or oppress other people, you’re probably not funny, actually.

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Wed, 22 May 2013 08:01:40 -0400

A re-evaluation of “choice” and being empowered through choice is significant because of how it can...

Wed, 22 May 2013 06:52:08 -0400

A re-evaluation of “choice” and being empowered through choice is significant because of how it can be used to excuse abusive behavior.

An abuser can psychologically abuse/train and groom targets into believing that they are “choosing” to be in a commitment where they are treated disrespectfully.

Abusers can and often do groom their victims, not just to be compliant and submissive, but also psychologically gear the abused to think of themselves as consenting to the entire thing.

In this case, a person can be in an abusive relationship, argue that it’s a “consensual choice” while it’s actually the result of psychological abuse, trauma-bonding and stockholm syndrome.

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Wed, 22 May 2013 05:43:09 -0400

coalitiongirl: here’s to the ladies who get pushed aside, who aren’t wielding swords and words and...

Wed, 22 May 2013 04:34:37 -0400

coalitiongirl:

here’s to the ladies who get pushed aside, who aren’t wielding swords and words and even femininity like weapons of war, who are rarely the protagonists and even more rarely the antagonists and even more rarely noticed at all. here’s to the girls that fandom prefers to ignore, who aren’t celebrated like their equally excellent peers but sit on the sidelines, who can also be selfish or petty or mean but also kind and quiet and understanding. here’s to the girls who believe in fairy tales and freedom and watching from the sidelines, who endure abuse and worse as patriarchal narratives see them as plot instead of characters, foils instead of people. here’s to the ladies who are called “whiny” and “passive” and “boring” for watching the story play out and getting swept up in it because they don’t have the ability or even the drive to be the ones calling the shots. here’s to the rival love interests, to the observant children, to the women killed off before they have a chance to shine. here’s to the ones reviled for loving someone they shouldn’t or sacrificing more than they should. here’s to the ladies out there who are never called special or stanned or remembered by more than a few.

here’s to the ladies who are rarely your favorites but who have stories- all rich, most untold- all the same.