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I am a 21 year old lady living in New Orleans. I usually post things that have to do with feminism, space exploration, photography, Star Wars, Harry Potter, comic books, and anything else I find amusing and/or fucking awesome.
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YOU MIGHT BE A FEMINIST…

 

  • IF you believe in equal pay for equal work, you might be a feminist.
  • IF you believe in a woman’s right to autonomy over her body, you might be a feminist.
  • IF you believe that wearing short skirts is NOT an excuse for rape, you might be a feminist.
  • IF you believe that women should not be defined by their bodies, you might be a feminist.
  • IF you believe that asking a rape victim if she is a virgin at her rapist’s trial is unfair, you might be a feminist.
  • IF you believe that religion is not an excuse for sexism, you might be a feminist.
  • IF you are pro-contraception, you might be a feminist.
  • IF you believe a woman should have the right to decide who she does or does not have sex with, you might be a feminist.

“Feminist” can no longer be a dirty word.

I am so frustrated with the connotations that accompany feminism.  I am not a man-hater and I do not want “special rights”.  I want human rights, the same rights that men have had for centuries.

Now tell me you’re not a feminist.

steveisoncrack: ^ this.  Everything I believe in a cute little comic.

steveisoncrack:

^ this.

 Everything I believe in a cute little comic.

(Source: jildo)

SO TRUE.

SO TRUE.

Just so we’re clear:

I shave my pits and legs because I want to, not because society is forcing me to.

And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

I guess I’m just old fashioned. I’m so old fashioned I prefer pre-Christian matriarchies. How odd.

I guess I’m just old fashioned.

I’m so old fashioned I prefer pre-Christian matriarchies. How odd.

Female toplessness is legal in a lot of places in the US (although not where I live), and I’d be meeting the letter of the law with a couple of Band-aids. But I have a gut feeling that if I go anywhere that there are people—and particularly anywhere there are children—nobody’s going to be too happy about my Band-aids. The enforcement is social; women just don’t go around topless in the US.

It bothers me because it’s unequal, but it also bothers me in its implications: that my body is inherently sexual, and a man’s body isn’t. It feels like men are being viewed through the first-person lens of “it’s nice to feel the sun on my skin, and I don’t mean anything by it” and women are being viewed through the distinctly third-person lens of “it’s inappropriate for me, a heterosexual man, to see her sexy parts.” It ignores the experiences of people who are turned on by male chests and somehow manage to contain themselves when they see one.
The Pervocracy: My boobs want to be free. (via sexisnottheenemy)
When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. ‘My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.’ It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions?

Sandi Toksvig WILL ALWAYS AND FOREVER REBLOG THIS QUOTE

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I’m taking a class called The Archaeology of Sex and Gender (I’m an anthropology and art history major), and we were studying female figurines from the Neolithic era. Some girl in my class brought up the point that when male figurines with giant phalli were discovered, they were interpreted by academics as symbols of power. When female figures with giant vulvas were discovered, they were interpreted by academics as symbols of fertility. “Why can’t the giant vulva be a symbol of power too?” she asked.

It blew my mind and reaffirmed my decision to study anthropology and art history.

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Always seek knowledge

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grrrlvirus: So this has been circulating facebook and I think you’ll followers will dig it. I put it on my tumblr, but more people will see it on yours. :)  Ugh this is fantastic. I LOVE this.

grrrlvirus:

So this has been circulating facebook and I think you’ll followers will dig it. I put it on my tumblr, but more people will see it on yours. :) 

Ugh this is fantastic. I LOVE this.

“Eve was framed” Vintage photo of a rally for women’s rights

“Eve was framed”

Vintage photo of a rally for women’s rights

LOLITA IS NOT A POWERFUL WHORE VILLAIN

impoliteandevil:

I am so fucking sick and tired of every single person (including some bitch in my English class) saying how Lolita is the villain of the story because she somehow manipulates Humbert and Quilty and how she inflicts power over them. Thiscommon believe everyone shares is why victim blaming is so predominant in today’s culture. When the book came out in the fifties, sure. But it’s fucking 2011!!

Lolita initiates sex ONCE. And this was after Humbert tried to initiate sex with her BY DRUGGING HER. Any psychologist would tell you it’s a survival mechanism adopted by a newly-orphaned 12-year-old being solicited for sex. The rest of the time, Humbert is the initiator. Lolita consents only because she is being threatened or bribed. She has sex to stay out of reform school. She has sex to participate in the school play. She only gives sex for favours. Humbert is clearly controlling her, and she is obviously his victim. Yeah, it can be argued that Lolita manipulates Humbert using sex to get what she wants. But let’s not forget she’s been kidnapped by someone who killed her mother, and then constantly raped and isolated from the rest of the world by that same person. Anyone in that situation would give up their bodies for some form of comfort.

Not to mention it is NOT Dolores’ fault that men are attracted to her. First of all, she’s fucking twelve. A sexual mastermind 12-year-olds are not. Second of all, men have control of their emotions, hormones, and ability to rape. When they give into that urge, it’s on them and not on her. Humbert and as we discover in the end—Quilty are the villains in this story.

This is a really interesting analysis. Lolita is on the top of my reading list right now.

(Source: emilyclocke)