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"Feminism is anti-sexism. A male who has divested of male privilege, who has embraced feminist..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:52:04 -0400

“Feminism is anti-sexism. A male who has divested of male privilege, who has embraced feminist politics, is a worthy comrade in struggle, in no way a threat to feminism, whereas a female who remains wedded to sexist thinking and behavior infiltrating feminist movement is a dangerous threat. Significantly, the most powerful intervention made by consciousness-raising groups was the demand that all females confront their internalized sexism, their allegiance to patriarchal thinking and action, and their commitment to feminist conversion. That intervention is still needed. It remains the necessary step for anyone choosing feminist politics. The enemy within must be transformed before we can confront the enemy outside. The threat, the enemy, is sexist thought and behavior. As long as females take up the banner of feminist politics without addressing and transforming their own sexism, ultimately the movement will be undermined.”

- -bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody

just going to emphasize that last sentence again: As long as females take up the banner of feminist politics without addressing and transforming their own sexism, ultimately the movement will be undermined.

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ratingbisexuals: #Bones acts as if everything in the galaxy is...

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:50:26 -0400

ratingbisexuals:

#Bones acts as if everything in the galaxy is Jim’s fault #the kid is seventeen Jim why the fuck is the kid 17 what did you do

"More girls have been killed in the last FIFTY years, precisely because they were girls, than men..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:55:32 -0400

“More girls have been killed in the last FIFTY years, precisely because they were girls, than men were killed in ALL the battles of the 20th century.

More girls are killed in this routine gendercide in any ONE decade, than people were slaughtered in ALL the genocides of the 20th century.”

- Nicholas Kristof, Half the Sky

Read that AGAIN.

(via kateoplis)

Read that and THEN see if you want to complain about misandry or call it “a real problem”

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girlsbydaylight: Sailor Goddesses of the Galaxy by =KessieLou

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:53:50 -0400

girlsbydaylight:

Sailor Goddesses of the Galaxy by =KessieLou

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hotweiners: methlabrador: i accidentally just wrote “the soviet onion” on my paper and now i can’t...

Fri, 17 May 2013 07:23:22 -0400

hotweiners:

methlabrador:

i accidentally just wrote “the soviet onion” on my paper and now i can’t stop laughing

Layers and layers of communist propaganda

chafing-nipples: dangermat: when bananas rot they secrete stuff that makes other fruit including...

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:43:52 -0400

chafing-nipples:

dangermat:

when bananas rot they secrete stuff that makes other fruit including bananas near them rot faster
that’s so fucked up that is murder suicide
bananas commit murder suicide

that’s pretty fucking metal

beautilation: “I’ll never forget the day Marilyn and I were...

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:40:36 -0400

beautilation:

“I’ll never forget the day Marilyn and I were walking around New York City, just having a stroll on a nice day. She loved New York because no one bothered her there like they did in Hollywood, she could put on her plain-jane clothes and no one would notice her. She loved that. So as we we’re walking down Broadway, she turns to me and says ‘Do you want to see me become her?’ I didn’t know what she meant but I just said ‘Yes’- and then I saw it. I don’t know how to explain what she did because it was so very subtle, but she turned something on within herself that was almost like magic. And suddenly cars were slowing and people were turning their heads and stopping to stare. They were recognizing that this was Marilyn Monroe as if she pulled off a mask or something, even though a second ago nobody noticed her. I had never seen anything like it before.” - Amy Greene, wife of Marilyn’s personal photographer Milton Greene

npr: Unlike many celebrity chefs, who treat cooking like some...

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:52:59 -0400

npr:

Unlike many celebrity chefs, who treat cooking like some mystical and convoluted ritual, Ina Garten (The Barefoot Countessa) approaches each dish with the nonchalance of someone who could be doing something else. That’s because she could be. Between 1974 and 1978, Garten worked in the Office of Management and Budget at the White House; starting in 1976, she was responsible for the budget of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and for part of the Department of Energy’s. How Garten went from analyzing nuclear policy to overseeing her own cooking empire is one of the unlikelier stories of American reinvention.

— How Ina Garten went from nuclear policy analyst to beloved chef. Mark Joseph Stern - Second Acts - Slate Hive

Photo: Therealbs2002/Wikipedia

p0ptard: yeeitsanna: i reblog this every single time This is...

Mon, 13 May 2013 16:17:12 -0400

p0ptard:

yeeitsanna:

i reblog this every single time

This is by far my favorite moment in project runway history.

singhallelujahh: ive reached that point in studying where im ready to cry in a corner and accept...

Mon, 13 May 2013 15:40:38 -0400

singhallelujahh:

ive reached that point in studying where im ready to cry in a corner and accept that im going to fail because I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT GOVERNMENT

truncatedlegs: the ap gov test is in less than 2 days

Mon, 13 May 2013 15:40:29 -0400

truncatedlegs:

the ap gov test is in less than 2 days

these-empty-fairytales: AP U.S Gov/Poli. test tomorrow. Yay.

Mon, 13 May 2013 15:21:23 -0400

these-empty-fairytales:

AP U.S Gov/Poli. test tomorrow.

~~Yay.~~

seblaine: what do people do if they’re not obsessed with anything

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:15:31 -0400

seblaine:

what do people do if they’re not obsessed with anything

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Mon, 13 May 2013 14:14:45 -0400

"A woman from the audience asks: ‘Why were there so few women among the Beat writers?’ and [Gregory]..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:07:15 -0400

“A woman from the audience asks: ‘Why were there so few women among the Beat writers?’ and [Gregory] Corso, suddenly utterly serious, leans forward and says: “There were women, they were there, I knew them, their families put them in institutions, they were given electric shock. In the ’50s if you were male you could be a rebel, but if you were female your families had you locked up.”

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Stephen Scobie, on the Naropa Institute’s 1994 tribute to Allen Ginsberg (via thisisendless)

FUCK

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I’m just frozen. Absences of women in history don’t “just happen,” they are made.

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Mon, 13 May 2013 14:06:55 -0400

“Black Cloud” an installation where thousands of paper moths...

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:06:51 -0400

“Black Cloud” an installation where thousands of paper moths fill a building by Carlos Amorales