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Teaching Boys Feminism →

In the past three years, I have taught a high school course on feminism titled Fierce and Fabulous: Feminist Writers, Artists, and Activists. Each year, girls and boys sign up for the class and each year, these young men are awakened not only to injustices regarding race, class, and gender in national and global contexts but also to injustices regarding how they have been socialized as...

Mar 29th

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DEAR USPS POSTMAN, I know you’re a lying little fucker. I was home and you did not come to my door. Instead, you opted to leave that infuriating “Sorry We Missed You” slip. It should say “I don’t want to travel up to your floor even though there is a working elevator in the building. Deal with it.” Now I have to make the same trek I did this morning again...

Mar 28th

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Mar 28th

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“There is only one thing you can do that will undoubtedly change someone’s life....”

– Roma (via shitmyphotoprofsays)

Mar 28th

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Mar 28th

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squishie: rainymorningnaps: I finally finished Jane Austen’s Persuasion. Getting through that book was like pulling teeth. Perhaps I just need someone to point out all the good analytical things that I haven’t notice that makes this book so good. As my second Austen read, I found Anne to be a flat character. More often than not, there was too much “telling” rather than “showing”. Nothing about...

Mar 27th

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Dilbert's Scott Adams Demands More Rights For... →

Now I would like to speak directly to my male readers who feel unjustly treated by the widespread suppression of men’s rights: Get over it, you bunch of pussies. The reality is that women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently. It’s just easier this way for everyone. You don’t argue with a four-year...

Mar 25th

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Mar 25th

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BBC News Article on Street Harassment →

When a man shouts “hi gorgeous” or “come over here love”, the recipient of the comments might be annoyed, but the remarks are often disregarded by bystanders, so the problem goes largely unaddressed. “Women are advised to ignore it, and we don’t speak up about it. Therefore, these men keep on doing it and push boundaries further and further,” says Simister. And it’s dangerous because it’s...

Mar 25th

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Mar 25th

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“I had a very tame and mild love scene with Jon Hamm. It was like heavy breathing...”

– Emily Browning, on Sucker Punch censoring (via mutations) seriously, this is the world. women enjoying their sexuality is not okay, women being forced into it is what gets you a lower acceptable rating. see also: blue valentine. (via closetospring) this is ex-fucking-actly what i mean about rape...

Mar 25th

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“Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine...”

– —George Carlin (via celticthistle) I’m sure I reblogged this many times but this is my favorite thing he has done, minus his stint on “fussy eaters.” I was/still am a “fussy eater.” (via feministslut)

Mar 23rd

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I finally finished Jane Austen’s Persuasion. Getting through that book was like pulling teeth. Perhaps I just need someone to point out all the good analytical things that I haven’t notice that makes this book so good. As my second Austen read, I found Anne to be a flat character. More often than not, there was too much “telling” rather than “showing”. Nothing...

Mar 23rd

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Mar 22nd

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Mar 22nd

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starsburn: “There’s something wrong with storytelling when you can’t tell a story without your main character falling in love. Movies are hands down the worst genre about this, but it’s pervasive in all media: it seems like a story isn’t deemed complete if there’s no Designated Love Interest for the main character. Especially if you’re not male. Women are often tokenized and thrown into these...

Mar 22nd

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Things I Love in Fiction: - Stunning phrases - Morally-gray characters (also sometimes known as antihero[in]es) - Character development - Villains with charisma and sound logic to their madness - Wit I appreciate any book recommendations with any of these elements.

Mar 20th

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arewhitepeopleraciallyoppressed.com →

Mar 19th

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newsflick: Breaking: U.N. Security Council approves Libya no-fly zone resolution, 10-0 with 5 absentions LIBYAAAAAAA. CAN EVERYONE NOT FORGET ABOUT LIBYA IN THE FACE OF JAPAN’S TRAGIC CIRCUMSTANCES? BOTH DESERVE EQUAL ATTENTION. THIS IS FUCKING IMPORTANT.

Mar 18th

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thoughts on a. wallace & asian am response

miswritten: callin you out on your bullshit. [*i use the term ‘asian american’ here for convenience, not because i don’t have issues with how the term itself is constructed (exclusions of southeast asians, south asians, erasures of the differences and different positions of “asian” groups)]. i have not seen a single youtube response to alexandra wallace’s racist bs that wasn’t somehow sexist...

Mar 17th

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