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Another page from “The Riot’s Great Big Patriarchy-Smashing Activity Book!” NOW WITH MORE CORRECT SPELLING!
Free to take.
From an early age, boys are fitted with emotional straight-jackets tailored by a restricted code of behavior that falsely defines masculinity. In the context of “stop crying,” “stop those emotions,” and “don’t be a sissy,” we define what it means to “Be a Man!” Adherence to this “boy code” leaves many men dissociated from their feelings and incapable of accessing, naming, sharing, or accepting many of their emotions. When men don’t understand their own emotions it becomes impossible to understand the feelings of another. This creates an “empathy-deficit disorder” that is foundational to America’s epidemic of bullying, dating abuse and gender violence. Boys are taught to be tough, independent, distrusting of other males, and at all cost to avoid anything considered feminine for fear of being associated with women. This leads many men to renounce their common humanity with women so as to experience an emotional disconnect from them. Women often become objects, used to either validate masculine insecurity or satisfy physical needs. When the validation and satisfaction ends, or is infused with anger, control or alcohol, gender violence is often the result.
Joe Ehrmann, former NFL player, from “Men Can Stop Rape” (via bibliofeminista)
Not just America…the whole world in this case, just about.
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You don’t want to start setting up another rule book, like: “This is how you’re a feminist. And this is the way you dress. And this is the way you act. And this is the way you protest.” It’s like, some people protest carrying signs. Some people protest by making activist radical music. Sometimes people try to just make it through a day and not kill themselves, and that’s their activism for right then, because that’s all they have.
Kathleen Hanna (via riotisnotquiet)
Every comment on “I blame the Patriarchy” should say something to this effect.
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Eight percent of college men have either attempted or successfully raped. Thirty percent say they would rape if they could get away with it. When the wording was changed to “force a woman to have sex,” the number jumped to 58%. Worse still, 83.5% argue that “some women look like they are just asking to be raped.
Margo Maine, Ph.D. (Body Wars)
There was a time that, as a person of the male persuasion, seeing this quote made me really mad. It made me mad that women would assume that I was a rapist; it made me mad that rape was becoming ‘my problem’; it made me mad because, frankly, I didn’t think it was true. I think that this is a really common male attitude when confronted with rape statistics- or, at least, it has been in my purely anecdotal experience.
But now, I know there is no excuse for that. Men need to take responsibility and look at these numbers for what they really are, and what they really, truly represent. Men, don’t be mad at the woman who is justifiably wary that more than half of the men she knows could be her potential rapist. Don’t be mad at that there’s someone trying to rain on your fun, privileged parade where rape is something that only happens on Law & Order. Don’t be mad that you can’t accept that rape is way more common than you think. Most of all, don’t be mad at the woman who was raped and is seeking justice and help for her assault just because you thinks she looks like she was ‘asking for it.’
Be mad at the man who waits in the park to prey on the women who have a right to feel safe in their own communities. Be mad at the man who takes advantage of his drunk girlfriend. Be mad at the man who pushes the issue when his wife isn’t in the mood. Be mad at the man who catcalls, who makes unwelcome advances, who cops a feel.
Don’t be angry at the woman who doesn’t entirely trust you. Be angry at the men who have made her feel that way. Don’t be a part of a problem.
Be a part of the solution.
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This is the best commentary I’ve seen on this post. It’s been around since Sept 2010 and has about 5000 notes, and yet, this is the only commentary I’ve seen that entire time that is basically amazing.
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Yes. This commentary.
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^^^^^ commentary.
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Why are people so mean to feminists? Because so much of feminism is the fine art of calling bullshit, and calling bullshit makes people uncomfortable.
It’s a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments by Amanda Marcotte (via kellytheowl)
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Our findings demonstrate that sexist humor is not simply benign amusement. For men who have sexist attitudes it can create a perceived social norm of tolerance of discrimination against women, and as a result, increase personal tolerance of discrimination against women and even increase willingness to engage in sexist behavior without fears of disapproval.
Humor Research « Social Psychology Lab (via thirdw0rld)
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Oh, but wait, I thought only those brown people in “third-world” countries did that? Sexism and misogyny don’t exist in Western countries! I am so incredibly shocked at the news that boys are still preferred over girls in the US. It’s almost like white folks in these “first-world” countries have some issues of their own to deal with before riding in to be the liberation cavalry for women and girls in those “less developed” countries.
h/t angyfeminist
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This.
I’ve been really pissed off lately, but I suppose that’s irrelevant.
There are some sluts who live on my floor and I was telling my guy friends how I can’t stand them. One of the guys responded by saying, “Why? They’ve never done anything to you that merits you personally disliking them.”
WRONG.
That was when I suddenly realized why I am personally offended by sluts. Then I started thinking about demand and supply: people are willing to pay for what something is worth, until some idiot comes along who wants quick cash so he undersells his goods…then everybody starts wanting the goods for that cheap. Consequently, the price is lowered.
Well, if everyone was smart then everyone could make more money by selling what something is worth for the proper price. But there are some people who are so desperate to get it sold that they ruin it for everyone else.
It’s the same way with sluts. If every woman acted with respect and demanded that a guy treat her properly, then guys wouldn’t be able to walk around like assholes and treat women like objects. They do it because we LET them do it. They see some girls are sluts, so they think they don’t need to bother treating women with respect because they can still get what they want without all the bother of respecting a woman.
In other words, sluts RUIN IT FOR THE REST OF US.
There are those, like me, who REFUSE to undersell ourselves; we want to be treated properly. We want guys who will take us out, pay for dates, get to know us, and fall in love with us. But then a slut walks into the room, and all of the sudden I become invisible— she gets all the attention from all the guys every time.
I’m tired of it. Girls need to stop being slutty. I hate sluts.
Why I Am Personally Offended By Sluts
Why do we have here? A special snowflake who wants to blame other women for the problems in their love lives?
The most ridiculous part of your miserable attempt to apply what is obviously a poor understanding of basic economics to dating is that you seem to assume that all the “products” - i.e., women - are the same. You’re basically saying that all women are just a pair of breasts and a pussy for men to fuck. There’s no difference between you and the so-called sluts, since men can freely switch from you to them without any loss in quality, since you and the sluts all have the same physical equipment anyway.
So all you are really after is the same thing men are after - sex; it’s just that you want some nice dates and free dinners whereas apparently the sluts are offering it for free. And then, hilariously, you not only wonder why no one wants to be with you - you know, with your obviously winning personality - but, as others have pointed out, you wonder why men objectify women, when you yourself objectify not only yourself, but your entire gender and the entire system of dating, reducing it to a crude game of commodity-based economics! This entry of yours is so farcical I wonder if you just wrote it to test your readers’ basic logic skills.
kudos to you for going around degrading other people to feel better about yourself. How can you hate a slut when you don’t even know them personally? What you hate is the fact that you feel threatened by it.
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Suffragette surveillance photos from 1912.
Scotland Yard’s first surveillance camera, bought in 1912, was used to spy on “increasingly militant suffragettes” who demanded votes for women, regarded as terrorists in their day.
Let’s not forget this. Let’s not forget that the very idea that women are people, who should have the same rights as men and who can form their own ideas independent of men, was once considered radical and dangerous. And let’s consider how much has not changed, how much backsliding we’ve done, and how much more work there is to do.
