February 2012
4 posts
Ways Gender-Privileged Men Can Challenge Sexism →
meeca:
(This list will be forever in-progress. Please add on as you see fit).
Challenge sexist jokes, such as dumb blonde jokes or jokes about rape.
Avoid using words such as “bitch”, “ho”, “slut.”
Recognize when you “zone out” when women are speaking, when you value a man’s opinion more than a woman’s, or when you ask a man for information or advice rather than a woman.
Recognize times when...
January 2012
12 posts
Why Should Men Care? An Interview With Matt Damon
fuckyeahfeminists:
At Bitch Flicks, they’re featuring reviews of the five-part PBS documentary Women, War & Peace. Matt Damon narrates the documentary series, and he was interviewed about his participation. During the interview, he explains why he wanted to be a part of the event and why men should care about how war impacts women, especially when rape is used as a weapon of war.
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“Perhaps we don’t like what we see: our hips, our loss of hair, our shoe size,...”
– Sufjan Stevens (via fifthrouge)
December 2011
6 posts
NEW BOOTS
One teachers approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said:...
It's My Birthday TODAY!
I’m 22.
November 2011
20 posts
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FUCK.
So earlier I answered an ask about Florence and the Machine being bourgeois, but how I didn’t care because I liked dancing around my room to her.
However: I take it all back in light of the racism in her latest video No Light No Light. I’m disgusted and I cannot believe that a woman I thought was cool has turned out to be a massive nob.
What even is this shit?
Anonymous asked: "Florence and the Machine feed a bourgeois fantasy of 'folksiness' - FATM's popularity reveals how the liberal middle classes have abandoned true counterculture for escapist vintage chic"
Anonymous asked: Hello, there should be a way to contact your radio show after it has finished. An email, anything. Chloe Green on the cuts being 'necessary' filled me with rage. Quoting a recent post on the susu website: "It is a lie that we need to reduce spending in order to save. The deficit is the difference between what we spend and what we tax. The alternative people are pushing is that we...
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more,...”
– Nicholas Sparks (via iwanttocatchastar)
Trying to convert someone to your fandom:
flyandflyagain:
Okay So
I’m having a massive aasfghjklklasdf because I’ve got to come up with a dissertation proposal. I hate everything.
I’m looking at writing something about Douglas Coupland novels and consumer culture. Any suggestions around this theme are welcome.
“I am over the passivity of good men. Where the hell are you?
You live with...”
– Eve Ensler, “Over It” (via pluralisms)
They are over in the corner, whining about how we only date assholes.
(via squeetothegee)
This quote is everything I needed today
(via erikawithac)
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Musings With A Touch of Aspie: [TW: abelism,... →
[TW: abelism, mental illness shaming, eating disorders ] I’m vegan and I won’t shut up
iamwhoiamandidontgiveadamn:
lavender-labia:
The earlier and subsequent parts of this thread can be read here.
quoilecanard:
veganfemme:
fracturedrefuge:
Hahaha…WON’T SOME ONE THINK OF THE POOR OPPRESSED VEGANS?!?!?!111!!1
Way to not actually address any of my points.
Also, you know, I...
Anonymous asked: Oh, for some reason tumblr logged me out, but this is dailymurf, and yes please do come over and say hello!
October 2011
24 posts
Why it isn't racist to say that only people who...
People of colour, including but not limited to black people, have been oppressed throughout history in the western world by white people.
Oppressed peoples are the experts of their own oppression, their history, and how they want to celebrate that history and fight that oppression. When talking about oppression, the most valid viewpoint is that of the oppressed. A white person is not oppressed,...
Anonymous asked: Your show is great. Thumbs up. Don't take any criticisms to heart. - Gemma
I feel like shit
so i’m going to watch gilmore girls all day.
Dear Creeper Anon
Okay so I just got 4 anonymous messages that appeared very aggressive, attacking me for what was said on my radio show (thanks for listening, anon! it’s weird that you found me on here, but okay! p.s. if you know me, stop being an arsehole and come off anon, or at least sign your name yeah?).
Interestingly, all the things you seemed to be trying to ‘teach me’ (about 4 by 4s,...
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