If you are part of a privileged group and have to constantly demand that somebody in an oppressed group say “not all (insert privileged group here) are like that”
what you are really demanding is that they reassure you that you’re not like that and you’re not being held accountable
which is a cowardly thing to do and also shows the great lengths you will go to in order to avoid examining your role in a toxic system
-Gloria Steinem
"So if you – the oppressed – hurt someone’s feelings, you’re just like the oppressor, right? Wrong. Oppression is not about hurt feelings. It is about the rights and opportunities that are not afforded to you because you belong to a certain group of people. When you use a racist slur you imply that non-whiteness is a bad thing, and thus publicly reinforce a system that denies POC the rights and opportunities of white people. Calling a white person a racist fuckhead doesn’t do any of that. Yes, it’s not very nice. And how effective it is as a tactic is definitely up for debate (that’s a whole other blog post). But it’s not oppression."
It’s a difficult line to define, and no, not all shippers participate in queer fetishization, but some key aspects of queer fetishization include:
- straight or straight-passing privilege
- shipping exclusively white cis men
- usually misogyny (writing out women, killing off women, bashing women for “getting in the way of” a slash ship, etc.), racism (ignoring people of color), and transphobia (ignoring trans*folk)
- consistently ignoring canonically queer characters in favor of slashing canonically straight characters
- comments indicating slashing all men you meet, to the point of disregarding individuals’ sexual identities
- treating shipping as activism
- ignoring, talking down, or harassing queer people for voicing their discomfort with fetishistic behavior
A Muslim cleric has condemned to death Amina Tyler, a young 19 year old Tunisian who published a picture of herself topless, Amina posted on her Facebook account a picture with the phrase: “My body belongs to me, and is not the source of anyone’s honor.” She is a member of the group Femen, a feminist movement emerged in Ukraine in 2008 performing their topless protests to draw attention. The unusual protest sparked rejected her own family, which is considered a “insulting the modesty of a woman” and Islam.
“This young woman according to Islamic law deserves to between 80 and 100 lashes, but she did much more than that so she deserves to be stoned to death,” the religious Tunisian daily said “Assabah News” .Amina represents us.
We the undersigned unequivocally defend Amina, and demand that her life and liberty are protected and that those who have threatened her will be immediately prosecuted.
Sign the petition herePlease sign and signal boost! This is a fucking life at stake.
men’s rights key issues
- why cant i hit women
- why cant i grope women
- why cant i kiss women suddenly
No. It’s more like
- why can’t men have the same custody rights as women
- why male domestic violence is not acknowledged in society
- why men are automatically drafted into the Army
nah it’s more like
- patriarchy causes those problems
- read a book
the draft hasn’t been in place for years you fucking moron. seconding zach.
- men do have the same custody rights as women
- they rarely want custody of their children, but when they do, they often receive custody (somewhere from 60 - 70% of the time
- even if they’re abusive
- men also - thanks to the income and wealth gap between men and women - tend to be able to afford better lawyers
- and unfair and stricter standards are applied to women
- even if that were the case, it would be because women are viewed as “natural” caregivers
Women have also usually gotten custody because women have usually been the primary caregivers. Because patriarchy.
The bottom line is that you simply CANNOT argue that men are oppressed or have no or even little rights when men dominate EVERY SOCIAL, ARTISTIC, RELIGIOUS, COMMERCIAL, LEGAL, AND GOVERNMENTAL INSTITUTION. FFS. Guys fucking run EVERYTHING.
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For readers interested in learning more about how not to be labeled as registered sex offenders, a good first step is not to rape unconscious women, no matter how good your grades are. Regardless of the strength of your GPA (weighted or unweighted), if you commit rape, there is a possibility you may someday be convicted of a sex crime. This is because of your decision to commit a sex crime instead of going for a walk, or reading a book by Cormac McCarthy. Your ability to perform calculus or play football is generally not taken into consideration in a court of law. Should you prefer to be known as ‘Good student and excellent football player Trent Mays’ rather than ‘Convicted sex offender Trent Mays,’ try stressing the studying and tackling and giving the sex crimes a miss altogether…
Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richardson are not the “stars” of the Steubenville rape trial. They aren’t the only characters in a drama playing out in eastern Ohio. And yet a CNN viewer learning about the Steubenville rape verdict is presented with dynamic, sympathetic, complicated male figures, and a nonentity of an anonymous victim, the ‘lasting effects’ of whose graphic, public sexual assault are ignored. Small wonder, then, that anyone would find themselves on the side of these men—these poor young men, who were very good at taking tests and playing sports when they were not raping their classmates.
"Mallory Ortberg of Gawker, critiquing CNN’s disgusting response to the Stuebenville rape trial verdicts.
Her commentary is spot on.
(via cognitivedissonance)
Oh look it's funny stuff: "We're not all like that!!"
I am so sick of that response.
Why is it when the bullshit that people who are like you is called out, your first reaction is to holler about “we’re not all like that”??
This tells me a couple things:
- You acknowledge that these bullshit behavior/systems exists
- You acknowledge that people who are like you engage in the bullshit behaviors/systems
- You are MORE concerned about not being seen as one of the perpetrators than you are with the pain, oppression, injustices and hurts suffered by the victims/survivors of the bullshit behaviors/systems.
So, all of this leads me to believe that you aren’t that concerned about righting wrongs. Because you could at least speak up and speak out about it if you did. Using the same breath you used to deny any culpability.
If you’re not “like that” but do nothing about it, you are EXACTLY like that.
This house is directly across from Westboro Baptist Church, the notorious hate group. You know the one, with all the ”GOD HATES FAGS!” protest signs. The guys that protest the funerals of children, soldiers and celebrities. Yeah, those guys.
This house was bought a few months ago and turned into a LGBT rights group’s HQ. WBC had no idea… until today… when the group “came out” and painted the outside of the home with gay pride flag colors. Right. Across. The. Street.
Now, WBC has to look at that house. Every day. Every. Day. Rock on!
Troll level: ActivistYou can read the full story here.
#living so awesomely that the westboro baptist ‘church’ pickets your funeral
fuck yeah
“In year 7 you were already uncomfortable around me, so I manipulated our teacher into putting us together for a project and when you didn’t want to come to my house, instead of meeting in a neutral place like a library, I did the entire project so that you’d owe me. In year 8 I gave you a bunch of gifts, a really inappropriate quantity, and continued to do so even after you made it abundantly clear that you didn’t want them. By the time the school disco rolled around in year 9, you knew me well enough to know that I wouldn’t take no for an answer, so you made up an excuse and left the whole dance to escape from me, and somehow it’s me and not you who got the worst end of that stick. In year 10, I bought you another grossly inappropriate gift that required you to spend time with me in order to use it, and when you misunderstood how I wanted you to use it I didn’t say anything but just stewed on that information. And now, in year 11, I’m going to publish my victim complex and the entire history of how I’ve stalked you over the past five years, comfortable in the knowledge that because I’m a man, I will be taken seriously and you’ll be vilified.”
She has every right to think boys are dicks. Here’s example number one. This post is really really gross. He shouldn’t get a certificate; he needs to get a restraining order.
commentary.
Wow, Toby Walters needs to get his shit together. Poor Zoey. Hope she defriended his ass. Clearly won’t be enough of a hint, but at least it’ll free her from having his douchery on her personal online space.
P.S. I bet you $100 he’s a Nice Guy (tm)
"Just because you have privilege does not automatically make you a bad person, but denying it and actively harming others through your words and actions might. Being an intersectional feminist can be really easy once you consider that we are not all simply just social activists. We all come from different backgrounds. We come from all around the world, have had different experiences, and have different identities. Not everybody is concerned about contraceptives; some social activists are worried about that their sexual orientation or gender will become illegal and ultimately fatal; others that their race and ethnicity will automatically set them back in life statistically."
Race is a feminist issue; Shavon L. McKinstry
Shavon did such an amazing job on this
(via crystalsavestheday)
Can we talk about how Trevor Project gave her an award because she had two gay dudes kissing in a music video once?
Like if there was ever any doubt that the modern LGBT* movement is about gay men and gay men only, there is your hard evidence.
Leaving queer women behind, smh.
Mosque arsonist tells court: ‘I only know what I hear on Fox News’
(TW for Islamophobia)
An Indiana man convicted of setting fire to a mosque in Ohio told a judge on Wednesday that he committed the crimes because Fox News and conservative talk radio had convinced him that “most Muslims are terrorists.”
Randolph Linn, 52, accepted a plea deal in which he pled guilty to all charges in connection to setting a fire in the prayer room at the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo on Sept. 30. Under the deal, Linn is expected to serve 20 years in prison instead of 40.
Linn explained to the court that he had gotten “riled up” after watching Fox News.
“And I was more sad when Judge [Jack] Zouhary asked him that, ‘Do you know any Muslims or do you know what Islam is?’” one mosque member who attended the hearing recalled to WNWO. “And he said, ‘No, I only know what I hear on Fox News and what I hear on radio.’”
“Muslims are killing Americans and trying to blow stuff up,” Linn also reportedly told the judge. “Most Muslims are terrorists and don’t believe in Jesus Christ.”
Linn claimed that he had consumed 45 beers in the 6 hours before leaving his Indiana home to set fire to the mosque, which he had discovered while working as a truck driver.
After his arrest on Oct. 2, Assistant U.S. Attorney Ava Dusten said that Linn had told officers, “Fuck those Muslims… They would kill us if they got the chance.”
Linn is due back in court on April 16, 2013 for a formal sentencing.
A survey released by Fairleigh Dickinson University earlier this year determined that Fox News viewers were actually less informed that Americans who watched no news at all. In fact, at least seven studies in recent years have confirmed that Fox News viewers are more likely to be misinformed than other Americans.
what….
Seems legit.
Yikes
