February 2012
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“Being a victim of rape says nothing about you and everything about your...”
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Lisa Jervis - An Old Enemy in a New Outfit: How Date Rape Became Grey Rape and Why it Matters in Yes Means Yes.
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“…consenting to some sexual activity with a person, or having consented to...”
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Lisa Jervis - An Old Enemy in a New Outfit: How Date Rape Became Grey Rape and Why it Matters in Yes Means Yes.
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Too thin for a Feminist?
I LOVE Germaine Greer, but she has been known to say that there is such thing as being “too thin to be a feminist icon”. Personally, I disagree and would label that as body-shaming. What are your thoughts tumblr, do you think a woman can be too thin to be a feminist role model?
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Feminist heroines/heroes?
I’ve been receiving some great feedback from the question I posted earlier today: Who are your feminist heroes? (I just realized maybe I should have written heroines/heroes). I just wanna say thank you and keep the feedback coming! I’m going to give you until the end of the week, then I’m going to do a post with your answers! Yay!
Off the top of my head, my biggest feminist...
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Who are your feminist heroes?
Question time! I would love to hear who your biggest feminist heroes are…maybe I’ll compile a list and write a little bit about how awesome each one is! Sound good?
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Because society demands it so…Bullet...
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“I was in clinic when I heard the overhead STAT page to the emergency room.
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– Anatomy of an unsafe abortion « Dr. Jen Gunter
And Anti-choicers consider themselves Pro-life??? MURDERERS. This is how they kill.
(via eddieatthegov)
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WatchCommentator Liz Trotta: Women in the Military Should “Expect” to Get Raped (Video)
So let me get this straight:
Men and women in the military are expendable and don’t deserve any protection or fair treatment of their own??? That it’s perfectly acceptable that they are getting raped and maimed and murdered just so long as they are doing their duty???
Providing rape...
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It's my damn Ferrari
I’m sure many of you have come across the anti-tattoo rant, Why Put a Bumper Sticker on a Ferrari? by Lisa Khoury that has gone viral since it’s publication. And it’s gone viral rightfully so—it’s full-on sexist, classist, misogynist and ripe with body-shaming tactics—so it doesn’t come as a surprise that it has spread like wildfire through online feminist...
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Dreaming of Africa
So Tumblr, after some digging, I’ve found a reputable volunteer organization (IVHQ) that offers a program in which I could go to Kenya, Africa to teach women sex education and human rights. I’ve never volunteered overseas before and it’s something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time. The first thing I need to do is check with my doctor to see if it would be...
“I swear to god I will lose my mind if I hear the “sex sells” fallacy one more...”
– Unknown (via feminishblog)
“The house does not rest on the ground, but upon a woman.”
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Mexican proverb
“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms...”
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Herman Melville
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination...”
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Albert Einstein
Taylor Swift: Ultimate Slut-Shamer →
It’s funny that this came up in my feed today—yesterday a coworker of mine and I were bitching about Taylor Swift’s ‘You Belong With Me’ when it came up on our store’s playlist. We were basically making the same argument Salsalsally makes below. However she didn’t mention that Swift also makes the conjecture that girls ‘like that’ or girls in...
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Twitter talks back →
Twitter Talks Back to Sexist Super Bowl Ads
Good article. Thanks to Men Can Stop Rape for posting this on their Facebook!
http://www.facebook.com/mcsrape
http://www.mencanstoprape.org/
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“What makes consent sexy isn’t simply that the person wants to be doing it...”
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Rachel Kramer Bussel, Beyond yes or no: Consent as a sexual process in Yes Means Yes.
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Bodies as sources of knowledge
Anyone a fan of feminist philosophy? Here, geek out with me!
A general agreement is apparent across disciplines including feminism, that rationalist values are currently in a state of crisis (Lloyd, 1996). As rationality or reason has been long associated with masculinity and male power, it has been used to maintain an oppressive status quo and is therefore a central focus of interest in...
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“Let’s look a little closely at the correlation between rape and alcohol,...”
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Jaclyn Friedman, Defense of going wild or: How I stopped worrying and learned to love pleasure (and how you can too) in Yes Means Yes.
January 2012
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White Christians can't be terrorists! →
Quite simply, a failure to label domestic terrorism as such when it involves white, middle class Christians is a reflection of racism and the other -isms that dominate social attitudes in the US, because you can damn well bet that if the people involved were nonwhite or people of colour, low-income, and/or non-Christian, they would be treated as the enemy, and the government as well as the media...
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Anonymous asked: "What does feminism mean to you?" It used to mean equality, but now it means women's advocacy. It advocates for women only, even where there is a clear bias against men. I'm still for equality but I will never call myself a feminist ever again.
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simple-things-shine asked: I LOVE your blog.
“Slut” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “yes”....”
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Anonymous asked: what's your sexual orientation?
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