February 2012
33 posts
Anonymous asked: I'm the anon who asked about demographics & a new privileged class, thanks for answering. Some of your other anons are weirdos! I realized when I saw your response that I wasn't clear, obviously white people no longer existing would only affect white privilege, not male privilege (to pick one example). The systems do exist elsewhere now, you're right, with examples like tension...
Anonymous asked: Do you plan on having children? Why/Why not?
I don’t know where I’ve run off to, but I’ve been replaced with this meek, scared woman who refuses to stare anything in the eye. When I was younger, I was bold and brash and confronted problems in my life directly. Passionately. Decisively. I tackled things before they spun out of hand, before they could begin to take root and germinate.
Now, I gloss everything over with...
Anonymous asked: Demographically speaking, white people won't exist in a few generations. Do you think another group will become the new privileged group & assume the mantle, or do you think without whites we, as a society, will outgrow it?
Anonymous asked: Who do you hate besides men & white people? Do you think if you eliminated those 2 groups the world would be a better place?
Anonymous asked: Which do you think is worse, white privilege or male privilege?
“No woman’s health should depend on who she is or where she works or how much...”
– President Obama’s full remarks on preventive care (via kileyrae)
i can get behind this statement.
(via sammystokes)
It’s a terrible feeling to realize that those you love are fragile, are mortal, are human. To try to imagine your life without someone you’ve loved so much.
I don’t know the last time I felt so heartbroken or so defeated. What do you do when someone you love so dearly, someone who loves you so absolutely and so completely, is hurting so badly?
My dad’s love for his children is the very definition of unconditional love. There’s never been a time where I aspired to something and my dad didn’t tell me to go for it. Whenever...
White people: I wear Native American war bonnets and face paint because I have a deep appreciation of Native American culture.
Native Americans: Hey, could you stop doing that? It's harmful to us.
White people: Nah, I respect your culture too much to listen to what you have to say about it.
You are NOT bisexual or gay if you are only...
24hoursremain:
bi-in-alberta:
By that logic, all virgins are asexual. Fuck off, OP.
I thought we were all past that whole “orientation = actions” bullshit
So by that logic, straight people do not know they are straight until they are intimate with someone of the opposite sex. But way to target those of us who aren’t heterosexual.
I agree. Fuck off.
Anonymous asked: that list you made, yes the one that went into detail about what "gender privileged men" should do, just told an entire gender what they had to do to be accepted in society. any red flags? if you want to fight sexism, just as much as me, i ask you not to fight it with more sexism. i "asked" you. i didn't say you "should" because you're a person, and you have...
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Ways Gender-Privileged Men Can Challenge Sexism
(This list will be forever in-progress. Please add on as you see fit).
Challenge sexist jokes, such as dumb blonde jokes or jokes about rape.
Avoid using words such as “bitch”, “hoe”, “slut.”
Recognize when you “zone out” when women are speaking, when you value a man’s opinion more than a woman’s, or when you ask a man for information or advice rather than a woman.
Recognize times when you...
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I’m in tutorial right now and a male student just said (regarding the ratio of men to women in media boardrooms): “Women are too emotional and get too personal. Like with the women’s rights movement in the U.S., women just got way too personal about that.”
I’m so sorry that women get so uptight and bitchy about being treated like human beings. I’m sorry if that...
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sacrifice(s)
i guess there comes that midnight hour where it seems so easy, so delicious to succumb. but then come the blistering lights and the whitewashed walls that remind me who i do this for.
i know where i’d be if it weren’t for him— miles away, centuries away, in either my own world or another one entirely. but i stay for as long as he needs me, and i keep this locked in my chest like...
“You shall love your crooked neighbour
With your crooked heart.”
– W.H. Auden As I Walked Out One Evening (via doorofthebirds)
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premonitions
just as you came almost to a halt that day, i too neared the edge with you. i felt in those sweaty, disturbed mornings the remnants of a dream i still can’t release. i felt in those moments when i thought you had slipped away my own heart preparing for its slumber. i feared most of all that my dreams might haunt me during the day.
“My point is that feminists are not biological determinists. Feminists are the...”
– ‘Feminists are Sexist’ - Features - The F-Word (via solitaryforager)
All the awards
(via honeyneethetomboyfemme)
Why is this hard?
(via stfuhypocrisy)
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dialogue
there’s a painting on my wall of that glimpse into the past I can replay so well: your fingers, shrewd, trembling, tracing their steps across my windowsill. the wind blows the curtain open and we see a pair of dustbins below. illuminated, magnified, they throw shadows onto the brick wall behind them. you ask me who lives in that stern brick house, and i give you their names. your fingers...
January 2012
75 posts
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mourning
i’m sorry it’s been so long since i cried for you. in all honestly, a person can wring their heart only so many times. there’s a kind of grief that smothers the soul so completely that not even a single tear can leak out.
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I love you so much, But do me a favor, baby,...
About that Time
By mid-afternoon It’s snowing too hard out To breathe, To look up through the branches And twist my neck at you. It’s about that time of year, I know, When each scribble morphs itself Into your face—chewed, Dejected, degenerate. The not-so-empty mornings When your finger presses Into my spine Like an ice-sharp dagger, Twisting coils of guilt Like a rope wrapped around...
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fussyfangs:
Transgender People are Completely Banned From Boarding Airplanes in Canada
stfuhypocrisy:
The shit hit the fan in the trans blogosphere last night, when it came to light that there is a disturbing new section in the Identity Screening Regulations used in airports…
This makes me sick.
“There is no crisis of rampant unemployment caused by people who have come to...”
– Rocky Anderson, Immigration Rally and March (via rockyanderson2012)
Hidden in the Open: A Photographic Essay of Afro...
thegang:
This is so important. Trent Kelley has compiled over 100 images revealing a long legacy of Black male couples. Check out his flickr page for more amazing images.
(via colorlines)
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Musings on intimacy
Heterosexual sex tends to be penis-centric—perhaps even penis-obsessed. The moment a woman tells her friends she’s been intimate with a man, the first question asked is almost guaranteed to be: “Did you go all the way?” “All the way”, of course, does not mean whether or not they engaged in oral sex (especially on the woman). “All the way” is not...
100,000,000+ Workers in India to go on strike Feb.... →
I am not going to shut up about this. If we don't... →
my "friend": Homosexual people are disgusting. They should understand that love can exist only between a man and a woman.
me: Do you love your boyfriend?
my "friend": Of course! I love him so much. You can't even imagine. I've never been so in love in my life. I want to marry him.
me: So please imagine now that your boyfriend's penis disappears and suddenly he has a vagina. Nothing else changes in him, he's still the same person you know. What is your reaction?
my "friend": That would be horrible. I don't want to even think about it. I couldn't imagine being with him.
me: That means you don't love him. You love only his dick. That's sad.