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misandry-mermaid:

oliveseraphim:

atimbalance:

maybeitspms:

feistyfeminist:

Friend zoning should be punishable by law.

I have a lot of guy friends I don’t date so I’m a big criminal.

this is glorious 

I have a 3rd degree felony in ‘Not Fucking Misogynist Dudebros’.  My community service involved fedora repair and neckbeard trimming.

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So let’s just say I was horrified when I saw on my Facebook newsfeed a female friend of mine (who identifies as bisexual) ‘liked’ this photo on someone else’s page. And this is supposed to be funny? I am absolutely disgusted, repulsed and very offended by this. What kind of message is this sending out to people?

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• what you said was: "i don't respect women who don't respect themselves"
• what you meant was: "i and society as a whole hold women up to ridiculous respectability standards directly relating to the "purity" of said women while hypersexualizing them at the same time and if you are a woman and don't fit my awkward monolith of criteria then i refuse to acknowledge your humanity"
• what i heard was: "hi i'm a misogynist piece of shit, please punch me in my face"

facebooksexism:

denimdonna:

facebooksexism:

stopwhitewashing:

cynique:

popculturebrain:

Leading Men Age, Leading Women Don’t | Vulture

There are more charts if you click through.

I’m so glad this info graphic is going around, because so many people don’t realize how ageism and misogyny play hand in hand and how the sexualization of young girls play into this.

Santoine: This is an important graph I felt you all should see and understand

I was *just* thinking about this.

Great example of how you can manipulate graphs to make things look a certain way. And since when was Johnny Depps character and Keira Knightlys character in Pirates of the Caribbean romantically involved? They shared one awkward kiss but there was clearly another romance going on, between her and Orlando Blooms character.

I would also like to point out that a lot of these male actors have aged very well, they can still pass younger, while it’s harder for a woman to pass as younger than she is. Brad Pitt is two years younger than George Clooney, but he looks a lot younger. Johnny Depp is also 49.

Obviously youthfulness is something that is more valued in feminine people and masculinity does not always “suffer” from aging, which is how the mainstream views the world.

I feel bad for all the young male actors that get roles taken by older men, they are the ones that are “mistreated” in this situation.

Edit: …and by that I mean that the sexualization 25 somethings is normal because that is when humans are at their “peak”, don’t call a woman that’s past puberty a “young girl”. That’s just fucking insulting. Doesn’t the sexualization of older men “play into this”? I guess not because women are always the fucking victims right? It’s not like this patriarchal society affects all genders or anything.

Do you have some sort of evidence to back up the claim that these graphs are manipulated to show something? Genuinely curious—I’d like to write a much longer blog post on this and I want it to be accurate.

But furthermore—did you ever for a moment consider that maybe the reason that men can “pass” as younger than they are is because we have been socialized to see male aging as more attractive than female? 

Furthermore, there is nothing to feel bad about men for of ANY age when it comes to representation in the media. While these older men are getting roles, younger guys are acting too. It’s just that when those younger guys age, they can still get work, unlike their female counterparts. 

Seriously…I want you to name 4 women over 40 who are still actively working in Hollywood who you could make similar graphs about where 80% of the time they are older than their male romantic interest. 

Listen: I totally agree that the patriarchy hurts us all, but this simply isn’t an example of this. This IS the nexus of ageism and sexism. If you add in race, the representation of women plummets even more.

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perennialbitchface:

khaleesi:

jewbilant:

you see this?

it’s called a razor

if you’re a girl, USE IT

your hairy legs and armpits aren’t cute okay

you’re not helping out for woman’s rights or anything

YOU’RE JUST MAKING YOURSELF LOOK NASTY

Or!

Women have been socialized to believe that they must remove hair for a number of reasons, primarily the following:

1. hair is historically and Biblically associated with power; we as a patriarchal culture are obsessed with keeping hair on men (facial hair, Hair Club for Men, hair plugs, whatever) and keeping it off women. You say hair on women is nasty; why is it only hair on women? Women and men have the same pubic hair. We all grow it out of our follicles for the same reason. Why is it only gross on women?
2. women’s bodies have been considered the property of men since the dawn of time, and therefore we have been held to a standard of beauty and attractiveness that is not determined by us but is instead determined by something called the male gaze, which is erases all sexualities and genders other than cisgender heterosexual men and assumes that women are performing for it.
3. childlike women are considered less “threatening” and more “feminine” because they are naive, quiet, and rely on ~*adult men*~ to take care of them.

AND ALSO:

1. there is a fallacy about pubic hair that it is dirty. It is not dirty. In fact, it’s there to keep your genitals cleaner. Pubic hair and armpit hair are also there to spread your pheromones around and make it easier for you to attract a mate. 
2. all mammals have hair. We’re mammals.

AND FINALLY:

1. No one else’s body is your business. Ever. You want to shave? Go ahead! That’s totally your prerogative and if you’re more comfortable shaving, feel free. But given that pubic hair isn’t innately dirty, there’s no reason for anyone to remove it if they don’t want to.

You’re not sending out some edgy, hardcore message here. You’re just reinforcing what our culture wants you to reinforce. Before you pick up that razor again, think about why you want to shave. Is it just because our culture told you to? Why’d they tell you to? What’s the point?

Do what makes you comfortable and what makes you happy, and let others do the same.

fucking yes^^^

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mattrenez:

igotaloveshekeepsmewaiting:

melodiesintheair:

jarpadd:

I suggest all females watch this. 

*i suggest all humans watch this.

THIS SHOULD BE REQUIRED WATCHING FOR ALL HUMANS

I’m a 17 year old white guy living in middle class America. I’ve never exactly been a supporter of feminism because that kind of thing has never really affected me personally. I don’t notice it and I don’t care about it. But in nine minutes this video has made what is truly a serious problem extremely apparent. Those “why I need feminism” posts or those slut-shaming or rape culture campaigns never convince me of anything. But this video actually did I think.

tl;dr This video kicks ass, just watch it.

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lonerist:

poison-i-v-y:

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

Women around the world respond to FEMEN’s ‘International Topless Jihad Day.’

#MuslimahPride

Via Muslim Women Against FEMEN: “This group is primarily for Muslim women who want to expose FEMEN for the Islamophobes/Imperialists that they are. We have had enough of western feminists imposing their values on us. We are taking a stand to make our voices heard and reclaim our agency. Muslim women have had enough of this paternalistic and parasitic relationship with SOME western feminists. The group is open to all, Muslim and non-Muslim, men and women.”

GOOD TO KNOW THIS HELPS ME LEARN 

This is really informative I suggest u all check it out

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Good for you. Want a cookie

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