1 week ago

lacigreen:

please, tell me more about how you think my body should look.

1 week ago Hannah: I want cab money.
Adam: How much?
Hannah: 20...30, because I also want pizza. and gum.

2 weeks ago White person: I'm not racist b--
PoC: Awesome, conversation over
White person: But I wanted to say that
PoC: Nah it's cool
White person: No really I need to explain this, I'm not racist--
PoC: k good we're done then
White person:
PoC:
White person:
PoC:
White person: I just--
PoC: nope

2 months ago"I don’t care how much sex anyone has, how often they do it, or who they do it with. I’m much more interested in the consent, pleasure, and well-being of the participants and the people affected by it. I respect women who are asexual, celibate, monogamous, multi-partnered, or have had more partners than they can recall. I respect women who only have sex after a commitment to monogamy and those who have sex with someone within minutes of meeting them. I respect women who have transactional sex, women who have sex for love, or for any other reason. I know that all of these categories are permeable and that many women move from one to another. And I know that any of these decisions can be made from a place of personal power, choice, and authenticity, as well as from a place of coercion, shame, and disempowerment." — Charlie Glickman (If You Don’t Respect Sluts, You Don’t Respect Women)

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4 months ago

6 months ago

6 months ago"If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted it to improving the lives of children who have been born into lives of poverty, violence, and neglect, they could make a world shine." — Michael Jay Tucker (via fox-power)

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6 months ago"From an early age, boys are fitted with emotional straight-jackets tailored by a restricted code of behavior that falsely defines masculinity. In the context of “stop crying,” “stop those emotions,” and “don’t be a sissy,” we define what it means to “Be a Man!” Adherence to this “boy code” leaves many men dissociated from their feelings and incapable of accessing, naming, sharing, or accepting many of their emotions. When men don’t understand their own emotions it becomes impossible to understand the feelings of another. This creates an “empathy-deficit disorder” that is foundational to America’s epidemic of bullying, dating abuse and gender violence. Boys are taught to be tough, independent, distrusting of other males, and at all cost to avoid anything considered feminine for fear of being associated with women. This leads many men to renounce their common humanity with women so as to experience an emotional disconnect from them. Women often become objects, used to either validate masculine insecurity or satisfy physical needs. When the validation and satisfaction ends, or is infused with anger, control or alcohol, gender violence is often the result." —

Joe Ehrmann, former NFL player, from “Men Can Stop Rape”

Also known as the The Man Box.

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6 months ago