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“Probably no man has ever troubled to imagine how strange his life would appear to himself if it were unrelentingly assessed in terms of his maleness … If he gave an interview to a reporter, or performed any unusual exploit, he would find it recorded in such terms as these: “Professor Bract, although a distinguished botanist, is not in any way an unmanly man. He has, in fact, a wife and seven children. Tall and burly, the hands with which he handles his delicate specimens are as gnarled and powerful as those of a Canadian lumberjack, and when I swilled beer with him in his laboratory, he bawled his conclusions at me in a strong, gruff voice that implemented the promise of his swaggering moustache.” […]” —From seanan_mcguire’s posting on Sexism, the current SFWA kerfuffle, and “lady authors:” in the comments, via jenk, a long lovely passage from Dorothy L. Sayers’ 1947 essay, “The Human-Not-Quite-Human”. Read the whole thing. The perception of this problem is nothing new… (via dduane)
I love me some Dorothy L. Sayers.
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“Some people complain that those who work for social change are being ‘divisive’ when they draw attention to oppressive systems organized around one form of privilege or another. But when members of dominant groups mark differences by excluding or discriminating against subordinate groups and treating them as ‘other’, they aren’t accused of being divisive. Usually it’s only when someone calls attention to how differences are used as a basis of privilege that the claim of divisiveness comes up.” — Allan G. Johnson (via wretchedoftheearth)(via commiekinkshamer)
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“Dog’s Life” | Zaxparalax
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why the fuck does vagina=weak and dick=strong
have u ever kicked someone in the dick? they fall to the floor and cry
kick someone in the vagina and i can guarantee u they’ll just punch u in the face
vagina not weak
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“We should all be feminists” TedxTalk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
This talk is honestly just incredible. As a Nigerian and a fellow Igbo as well, it is beyond moving to see someone like Adichie so eloquently articulate and expound on sexism and the virulent power of patriarchy in the world at large and specifically in the context of her life as an Igbo woman growing up in Nigeria as well. She points out the problems we have in Nigerian and Igbo culture today without pulling punches, and links it into these larger systems of oppression that affect woman globally. Oppression being cast as ”tradition” and a “part of our culture” is not excusable and is just wrong, and as she puts it so well:
“So what is the point of culture… culture is really about preservation and continuity of people… culture does not make people; people make culture. So if it is in fact true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we must make it our culture”
She also calls out the fuckery of MOC who blatantly ignore the intersectional experiences of WOC!
This is amazing, and Adichie takes you on a journey with her before hitting homerun after homerun in the second half of the talk.The only bone I have to pick is with her saying that men “should be feminists as well.” I feel like it’s very inappropriate for us as men to colonize female spaces, and a “male feminist” is a useless term for someone who should just say that he is a “man actually trying to be a decent human being” instead.
Besides that, though, and ending by talking about a “masculine male feminist” (cringe) which are points she touches on just right at the end, I absolutely love this and encourage everyone to grab some popcorn and watch it! She calls it like it is, and I’m so proud as an Igbo person as well. Adichie is just so incredible, smart, funny, witty and on point, and I’m going to have to look for some of her books to read now too!
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wow um dream home yes.
I love the idea of living in a space that doesn’t conform to all the conventions of “house.” Like, I don’t want a dining room and a foyer and a den. I want a doing-things-space.
Also, that big ceiling beam just screams “hard point.”
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“ God we fuck up teenagers’ heads. We tell them that biological conditions are moral punishments and then we get all shocked when they don’t practice rational risk management of biological conditions. We teach them “sex is super desirable and all the cool kids do it, and it’s hideously shameful and will destroy your life” and we wonder why they act an eensy bit neurotic about it. If you tried to design a system for making sexually active kids confused and unsafe, you couldn’t do much better than the American media and school system.
And for once, the answer is relatively simple. Just talk about sex like it’s a part of life. Some people have sex and some people don’t, because people are different. STIs aren’t bad because they’re Dirty Crotch Rot; they’re bad because they’re contagious illnesses like strep throat or whooping cough, and you can ask a doctor to check for and treat them just like you would with strep throat. Unwanted pregnancy isn’t a scarlet A; it’s a mostly-preventable accident that sometimes occurs when people are going about their normal business of having sex. You can ask the school counselor about a variety of topics, including career planning, problems at home, questions about sex, or conflicts with teachers.
If we could just get the goddamn stick out of our collective ass and accept that sex is a human activity and teenagers are humans, maybe there wouldn’t be quite so many plaintive “I don’t understand my body and I’m confused and scared and I don’t know anyone I can ask in person” messages flying out into the world.
”—The Pervocracy - “Teenage Panic.” (via klonazepam)
reblogging myself because WIL WHEATON
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Took 5 tabs of acid (first time doing it ever) and my friend gave me a bunch of acrylic paint. Painted it with my fingers tripping out of my mind. Also I’m colorblind, and don’t work with abstract work at all (I only have ever done drawing). Thought this was pretty wacky.
holy shit
Maybe this is what I should do for HSC Visual Art…
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“Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.” — Carl Jung (via brettlange)(via lalonde-ish)
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#RefuseToBeAshamedOfLove
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“De más está decir que pienso que cada mujer debe elegir cómo se proyecta y que tiene derecho a hacerlo como le de la gana. De más está decir que toda mujer tiene derecho a escoger cómo vive su deseo cómo habita su cuerpo. Pero pienso que esta decisión no es ni “individual” ni “privada”, que está medida por miles de transformaciones del paradigma de la femineidad. Que, como hace años denunció Nemir Matos en su poemario ‘Las mujeres no hablan así’, nos siguen intentando robar el cuerpo. El cuerpo no es para la familia, ni para la Ilglesia, ni para la Budweiser, ni para atrapar un buen marido o escalar las esferas laborales. El cuerpo tampoco es para cumplir con ninguna ideología- ni siquiera con la de la liberación sexual. El cuerpo es la casa propia, la manera más íntegra e íntima que tenemos para relacionarnos con los demás. Es la puerta hacia la vida y las relaciones más fundamentales con los seres humanos. Creo que para acabar de crecer como mujeres tenemos que revisar las maneras en que habitamos nuestros cuerpos. No verlos como objetos de intercambio, o como encarnación de utopías, sino encontrar una manera de aprender a conocerlos, prelinguísticamente, acaso más allá del discurso. Una vez logremos esa integración real, entonces, su disfrute será profundo, íntegro, liberador. Al fin podremos todas salir de nuestras cárceles de carne.” -
“People of color know how to default to white. We know how to fade to white in our minds. We can, and do place ourselves in white people’s shoes. Effortlessly. Too bad our shoes don’t fit anyone else but us.” — fatwasandfanboys (via)(via bananasandpeace)
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‘hi i haven’t talked to you in five weeks but we’re still best friends’: a story about me and human interaction.
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