January 2012
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"You can't be what you can't see"
Watched Miss Representation a few nights ago. LOVED it. I wish this had of been available for me to use for my research study, “The utilization of feminist concepts in discussion of sexuality in the media”. It was more of an awareness raising film than anything. One of those films meant to get your blood boiling and motivated to evoke change. It’s not full of anything that...
December 2011
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Kenyan tradition of rape →
I have no words for this.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/05/11/kenya.children.beading/index.html?hpt=C1
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"Baby Lips": Maybelline →
This makes me wanna go “RRRRRRRWWWWAAAAAARRRRRRUUUUGGGGGGGHBLLLAAAAAH”!!!!
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Getting back in the game
Ahhh the holidays were nice. Now to let my brain and liver recuperate from all the booze and sugary goodness and start blogging again. I got “Yes means yes: Visions of female sexual power and a world without rape” by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti for Christmas so I will most definitely be doing a book review of that when I am finished! I have some other things in mind to write...
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whothefuckisthisbitch asked: I keep seeing your posts pop up on facebook. just spent a good amount of time reading through some posts... still reading actually. :)
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The perfect VULVA: Labiaplasty
This painting is L’Orgine du Monde by Gustave Courbet (1866). Pretty magnificent right? The female vulva—a thing of unadulterated beauty—or not??? Apparently these days, NO part of the female body is immune to scrutinous beauty ideals. Apparently a vulva au natural—thick bush and petal-like lips—is NOT the current staple of attractiveness. A smooth, hairless,...
Girl-on-Girl Victim-Blaming Action →
eddieatthegov:
Rape apologetics “hiding” as an “edgy” humour piece… YOU FUCKING FAIL.
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"He didn't mean it"--Misunderstood
So a lot of people have read and reblogged my post, “He didn’t mean it”. I’m glad my voice is being heard out there in Cyberland! Someone, however, spoiled my good mood about this fact by reblogging my post with a very anti-feminist comment about women in abusive relationships attached to it. Here’s what they said:
Stop wasting time in a shitty relationship and...
“You have to question a cinematic culture which preaches artistic expression, and...”
– —Ryan Gosling, in a letter protesting the NC-17 rating of ‘Blue Balentine’. The rating was based on one consensual sex scene, in which he goes down on Michelle Williams. (via feminishblog)
Ryan Gosling totally just got hotter.
Who do you want to rape? →
“A University of Vermont fraternity has been suspended while school officials, national organization leaders and police investigate allegations that a survey was circulated among members asking them who they would like to rape.”
-Lisa Rathke, boston.com
And people deny we live in a rape culture. I hope they shut it down.
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Respect a transgendered person →
Good ‘lil article on WikiHow
http://www.wikihow.com/Respect-a-Transgender-Person
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Season's Gree--MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Ahhh December. Time for Christmas! Time for Chanuk—CHRISTMAS! Time for the winter sols—CHRISTMAS! and Yul—CHRISTMAS! and Kwaan—CHRISTMAS!
…December—time to selfishly ignore diversity and scorn every other holy day except, you guessed it, CHRISTMAS. The only time of year where you get crucified for being politically correct. No, not politically...
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"He didn't mean it"
4 words I’m so tired of hearing. 4 words that are the shittiest argument against bad male behaviour EVER. We infantilize boys and men and treat them like hormone crazed beasts incapable of any type of responsible behaviour. When are we going to start treating them like human beings with moral compasses that are more than capable of respect and taking responsibility for their actions?
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The Patriarchy Phrasebook →
feminishblog:
By: The New Women’s Movement Patriarchy: ‘He loved women’ Translation: ‘He fucked a lot of women’ Patriarchy: ‘You’re a feminazi/ bitch/ dyke/ delusional woman/ whore/ desperate for a fuck’ Translation: ‘I am threatened by your argument and am scared of you and it’ Patriarchy: ‘Smile,…
“homophobia: the fear that gay men will treat you the way you treat women.”
– Unknown (via feminishblog)
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Documentary alert: Scarlet Road →
Link to watch Scarlet Road by Catherine Scott and Pat Fiske. Filmed over a three-year period, Scarlet Road follows Australian sex worker Rachel Wotton and her relationships with clients with disabilities.
http://eztvstream.com/documentaries/scarlet-road-a-sex-worker%E2%80%99s-journey-2011
Google: Most LGBT friendly employer →
I wanna work for Google!
http://www.samesame.com.au/news/international/7675/How-Google-helps-its-trans-staff.htm
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Men's mag or convicted rapist? →
“According to a new study, people can’t tell the difference between quotes from British “lad mags” and interviews with convicted rapists. And given the choice, men are actually more likely to agree with the rapists”.
http://jezebel.com/5866602/can-you-tell-the-difference-between-a-mens-magazine-and-a-rapist
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Scary sex toy Friday! →
This blog leaves me in stitches, amazes me, horrifies me, disgusts me and peaks my curiosity. YOU HAVE TO CHECK IT OUT.
http://www.scarysextoyfriday.com/
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PC Gov: Montreal Massacre amnesia
Yesterday was National Day of Remembrance and Action of Violence Against Women in Canada and marked the 22nd anniversary of the Montreal Massacre—the worst single-day shooting spree in Canada’s history. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this tragic piece of Canada’s past, on December 6th 1989, 14 female engineering students were brutally gunned down at Montreal’s École...
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Bake it like Grandma
So these are the newest ads from Crosby’s—A molasses company based in New Brunswick, Canada. Hoping to attract a younger clientele, the new molasses ads are “steeped in sexual innuendoes that have an older woman, who could be anyone’s grandmother, winking and suggestively explaining her recipes”—CBCnews.com
In addition to the ads, there are two videos...
Hollywood's laziest concept →
Discussion of the inaccurate and demeaning stereotype that men are incapable of caring for a child.
http://www.nerve.com/movies/why-does-hollywood-think-men-caring-for-children-is-hilarious
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Transphobia: Uh, not cool here!
Definitions you should know before reading this post (I’m too lazy tonight to grab a textbook so I grabbed wikipedia):
Transphobia-negative attitudes and feelings towards transsexualism and transsexual or transgendered people, based on the expression of their internal gender identity.
Gender-range of characteristics used to distinguish between men and women and the masculine and...
“It can’t be any more obvious that we live in a patriarchal society if ‘feminist’...”
– Ellen Page (via feminishblog)
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Weight Wars
I’ve had weight on the brain for the past few days. As I’ve mentioned before, I work in women’s retail and am confronted with the effects of the North American beauty myth everyday. Today was no exception. The mall I work in had their “Big Red Bow Event”—every store in the mall was giving 15-20% off their merchandise. Naturally, our store’s volume...
Feminish: A Declaration →
feminishblog:
I am a feminist and I: 🔳give the occasional blow job. 🔳love to buy lingerie: stockings, garters, the works… 🔳like to dress up when I go out. 🔳enjoy pleasing the man I am with. 🔳wear make-up when I feel like it. 🔳own a bra that claims to give a little “extra lift”.
Why? Because I am also a…
Don't think rape jokes are a problem? →
oforganon:
(via) This post in particular is addressed to men, not because women don’t rape and women don’t make/laugh at rape jokes and not because men can’t be raped, but because, by nature of the existing gender disparity, men are in a unique position to be taken seriously when they raise objections to…
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