L & V

If people are genuinely interested in honoring Indians, try getting your government to live up to the more than 400 treaties it signed with our nations. Try respecting our religious freedom which has been repeatedly denied in federal courts. Try stopping the ongoing theft of Indian water and other natural resources. Try reversing your colonial process that relegates us to the most impoverished, polluted, and desperate conditions in this country… Try understanding that the mascot issue is only the tip of a very huge problem of continuing racism against American Indians. Then maybe your [“honors”] will mean something. Until then, it’s just so much superficial, hypocritical puffery. People should remember that an honor isn’t born when it parts the honorer’s lips, it is born when it is accepted in the honoree’s ear.

—Glenn T. Morris, Colorado AIM, 1992 (via adailyriot)

(via thatprettyoddfeminist)

transawareness:

The above article is an update.  Her mother went to appeal to keep her out of the psychiatric ward and lost.  She will be institutionalized because of her expression of her gender.  She will be held until she conforms to male gender and then released to foster care, not her mother who was supporting her.

Please, if you haven’t signed the petition, sign it, reblog it, ask your friends to sign it. We’ve managed to get 40K signatures for a pageant model, we’ve only gotten 11K for a little girl about to have her life ruined.  Lets get on the ball and spread the word.

Sign It.

(via sebabug)

stfuconservatives:

becktasm:

alimarko:

wholewheatpeeta:

fuck the patriarchy

i get that this is a fluff site but it’s still sickening how prominent and accepted this is in our culture. this shit is the front news article of yahoo!, what is that supposed to communicate to women?!

That our bodies serve a specific purpose, and it is the viewing pleasure of men. Obviously, you should be picking your swimsuit based on the male gaze and not on, y’know, what makes you feel happy and good about yourself.

“A few even compared the concept as being synonymous to men wearing T-shirts in the pool.”

Get it? ‘Cuz men are ENTITLED to look at and judge our nearly naked bodies, so tankinis are CHEATING.

In related news, all the men who participated in this survey met afterwards to drink Jaeger bombs and high five each other while yelling “No fatties!”, where they were all murdered by an unknown 6’1” blonde assailant wearing a t-shirt saying “MISANDRY 4 LIFE”.

OH GOODIE, I don’t think women as a whole were concerned enough about what they looked like in a swimsuit. It’s been at least 30 seconds since I’ve seen an ad referencing the phrase “bikini body” so obviously the patriarchy needs to work harder.

Ugh fuck this

Here is the thing, okay? Coming into a feminist conversation with, “Have you considered that sometimes women acquire free drinks at bars?” is like walking into graduate school during Philosophy finals and saying, “Have you considered that the color blue that I see may not be the color blue that you see?”

Imagine you are the guy who just walked into that Philosophy class and laid that shit down. Imagine the class full of students who have worked very hard and committed themselves and sacrificed to be here, students who have spent several years of their lives learning about this subject. Imagine now their feelings when you go to the head of the classroom with a smirk on your face and demand the professor give you an A for effort. Imagine now that they think you are a douchebag asshole, because they do, and because you are. You are a douchebag asshole because you are obviously so self-centered, arrogant, and completely ignorant of the world around you, that you thought you could walk into a high-level course with no background and no work and say something profoundly simplistic and totally unrelated and also everybody should congratulate you for having done this thing, so brave, so provocative.
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You are not asking us a real question. You are simply illustrating, for all to see, your own ignorance. You are saying, “I have not considered the implications of the question I have just asked. I have not taken the time nor effort nor commitment to sit down and ask myself this question. Instead, I have come into your philosophy classroom/office/feminist blog and shat out my question with a smirk, because I believe that my two seconds of thought are worth more than your long-term analysis, because I believe I am worth more.”

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Fugivitus: A few things to consider when you find a feminist blog (via absolutely-spiffing)

In my experience, the men who are most likely to come into feminist groups to criticise them are self proclaimed ‘intellectuals’ who turn up to demonstrate to people just how oh-so-clever they are, to masturbate over their ‘logical’ arguments, to incite ‘new and stimulating’ debate about subjects that have been done to death, to willfully ignore how they are erasing experiences and silencing people, just so that they can have a few moments of ‘thrilling’ discussion in their otherwise dull, highly privileged lives. And when this brief adrenalin rush is over? They can go home, safe in the knowledge that they have shown all these silly hysterical women exactly what’s what, safe in their privilege which means that they do not have to give this encounter more than a passing thought. Believing that they have made a difference. And this makes me sick.

So, this is actually a pretty good example to use. Perhaps these men will read it and we can get it through their pseudo-intellectual heads that this is not ok. This is harmful behaviour and contributes absolutely nothing of worth to anything at all. Feminism has enough flaws as it is. Feminism is, by and large, racist, transphobic, ableist, homophobic, and classist. We do not have time to pander to these individuals too. If men really want to help? Commit to being a good ally and give us the opportunity to solve these problems without this almost constant hindrance.

Omg this is perfect.

(via angrybanette)

So much about this, so true.   People think they’re throwing you some curve ball when it’s really like they’re still in the early pre-cambrian bacterial stages of earth’s global evolution yet they’re convinced they’re multicellular organisms.   And you’re like “no dude, it’s really clear that you’re not.”

Anyhow, just to add my own to the first example, it’s so complicated indeed and it’s come up twice for me in the past week.   I went on a date last night and I was so, so relieved that they did not hassle me at all about buying my own drink.   It was in contrast to two nights before, when I was trying to pay for my drink and another guy at the table really wanted to pay for it to me.   So many things go through your head- my friends are always all like, “You might as well accept it if they’re offering,” and if I don’t accept the offer in most cases the guys are not like “cool, you must be upholding your internal, personal feminist values,” they’re often offended and feeling like I made a big deal out of nothing and feel it is a slight (and these guys aren’t assholes, to be clear, they’re just accustomed to what this action normally signals).   And I myself feel like I’m being unnecessarily argumentative over what is basically just a generous offer, yet I feel really conflicted about accepting a drink from someone if I’m not actually interested in them (but they are in me), and just about the whole… situation.   Anyhow.   Yeah, it’s complicated, and there is often no win/win solution.

(via feministdisney)

This is so perfect. Men who act this way basically assume that since they are men, their word automatically means more, and their worldview is automatically more valid than everyone else’s. They ARE usually men who think they are “intellectuals”, who try to find “logical fallacies” in your arguments (and for one of our friends, will cry “ad hominem!!” whenever he gets the chance), and think that their 101 smug statements are legitimate discourse. No, it’s 101, and it’s been done before, to death. You don’t sound smart and clever, you sound stupid and ignorant. As for the buying drinks thing, I refuse to accept, ever (unless it is a legitimate friend, and I know that I will get the next round, or I will buy them one next, etc). One, because I can buy my own so no thanks, and two, because I know these drinks have strings attached. If a man buys me a drink, it means that, no matter how ‘nice’ he actually is, or ‘just generous’ he is being, he has it in his head that I owe him something, that he has done something ‘nice’ for me. And I do not even want to start that ball rolling, I do not want to feel as if I have ‘led someone on’, or I owe them my time, or my phone number, or whatever else. Even if I wasn’t currently in a relationship, I wouldn’t want to feel like this. Also, if he is doing something for me because he finds me attractive, it means he wouldn’t do it for other people, and that means that he isn’t actually a nice person. Just like when men are ‘nice’ to me by holding open a door, but let it slam in other people’s faces. Trying to treat me like a queen because you think I’m attractive isn’t a nice thing to do, when you’re not trying to treating others just as nicely.

(via feministdisney)