Barbara Gordon Will Call You Out On Your Sexist Crap
In today’s Young Justice Batgirl has some thoughts about Nightwing having to explain why all female team is being deployed.
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A mouse diced with death when it stole some food from under the nose of a leopard at the Santago Rare Leopard Project in Hertfordshire.
Instead of pouncing on the mouse, the 12-year-old African leopard, called Sheena, simply watched as it fed on scraps of meat thrown into its enclosure.
At one stage she tried to nudge the mouse away with her nose, but the mouse carried on eating regardless.
Cheetah mother Sita shakes off rain as she sits with her cubs. Wildlife photographer and Exodus tour guide Paul Goldstein worked alongside the team filming Disney’s African Cats in Kenya, often pinpointing the position of the animals on the Masai Mara.Picture: Paul Goldstein/Exodus / Rex Features
Freshly shaved alpacas are seen at Alpaca-Land farm, in Goeming in the Austrian province of Salzburg. Picture: Kerstin Joensson/AP
Freshly shaved alpacas. Freshly. Shaved. Alpacas.
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I would be that dog owner.
Since I’m going to be home all summer, I think I should be as productive as possible.
I am currently considering doing the following:
I think this could be a very productive summer.
Men who want to flirt with women have to realize: Women live in a state of continual vigilance about sexual safety. It’s like having a mild case of hay fever that never goes away. It’s not debilitating. You’re not weak. You’re not afraid. You just suck it up and get on with your life. It’s nothing that’s going to stop you from making discoveries, or climbing mountains, or falling in love. Sometimes you can almost forget about it. It doesn’t mean it’s not there, subtly sucking your energy. You learn to avoid situations that make it worse and seek out conditions that make it better.
If a female stranger is wary around you, it is not because she suspects you are a rapist, or that all men are rapists. It’s because a general level of circumspection is what vigilance requires. Don’t take it personally.
If this frustrates you, try to remember that women are blamed for lapsed vigilance. If a woman does get raped, everyone rushes to see where she let her guard down. Was she drinking? Was she alone? Was she wearing a short skirt? Did she go to a strange man’s room for coffee at 4am?
A woman must be seen to be vigilant as well as be vigilant. If she is deemed insufficiently vigilant, she will be at least partly blamed for any sexual violence that befalls her. If she’s regarded as downright reckless, that “evidence” can be used to completely exonerate her rapist. If it comes down to a he said/she said dispute over whether sex was consensual, as so many rape cases do, the dispute becomes a referendum on whether the woman seems like the sort of reckless person who would have sex with a stranger.
If a woman does go back to a strange man’s hotel room at 4am, even if she only wants a coffee and conversation, she’s more or less given him the power to rape her. No jury is going to believe she went up there for anything but sex. So, don’t be surprised if a stranger reacts badly to that suggestion.
Attention, Space Cadets: Do Not Proposition Women in the Elevator (via petitefeministe)
I’ll never forgive the people who trolled me on my local craigslist for suggesting that following girls in your car while they are trying to walk home makes them feel threatened and like they are going to be raped and murdered, and MAYBE leaving girls alone in public spaces other than like, bars, parties, and other clearly flirtation-friendly venues would be an awesome thing.
I was called a frigid lesbian and clearly I was teaching all the women in our frigid town my evil, man-hating, sex-negative ways.
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Sadly so very true.
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