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…telling women to cover it up is just as surely a form of sexual objectification as telling women to take it off. Either way, you’re reducing a woman to her sexuality instead of considering her as a whole person.
Amanda Marcotte 
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My class today

  • Me: So when you see the 4 year old boy pull the little girl's hair...
  • Students: He likes her!
  • Me: Now they are around 11 or 12 and he grabs her arm and wrestles her to the ground even though she calls him a jerk and yells at him to leave her alone.
  • Students: That is just how boys are.
  • Me: Now they are 18 and he grabs her arm and--
  • Students: Oh, that's not okay.
  • Me: Really? How would he know? How would she know? How would you know? You just told me that for the first 17 years of these children's lives that you thought it was cute, sweet, and natural for a boy to grab a girl and be rough with her.
  • Students: Oh.
  • Me: Oh, is right.
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(Reblogged from lazy-native)

sad-teeth:

So today Angelina Jolie had double mastectomy, which is the removal of one’s breasts, to prevent Breast cancer. So instead of praising Angelina on her bravery, men on Twitter decided to ridicule her, even calling her stupid for removing her breasts. For those of you on Tumblr that are attacking Feminists about being delusional about sexism against women and misogyny here’s your fucking proof that sexism and misogyny exists. 

(Reblogged from my-sin-my-s0ul)

Not even kidding a little bit. In many ways Ariel Castro represents the ideal Republican. Think I’m exaggerating? Forget for a moment about the misogynistic Republican fixation on redefining rape as “legitimate rape” or “honest rape” or “forcible rape” and ignore for a second about how Republicans repeatedly voted against the Violence Against Women Act…  just read ➤this

I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms. Something is wrong here! Dead give away … dead give away … dead give away! Either she homeless, or she got problems; that’s the only reason she run to a black man.

Charles Ramsey, keepin’ it real in Cleveland

In honor of Mr. Ramsey’s frankness, let’s address some related, underlying issues Ramsey’s statement seems to hint at:

  • Cleveland, Ohio ranks 14th as one of the most segregated cities in America
  • Less than 24 hours after recovering the abducted women, Detective Jennifer Ciaccia was swift to say the police do not believe that a 4th missing teenaged girl, Ashley Summers, abducted around the same time as then 16-year-old Amanda Berry, is connected to the Castro brothers. I’m no detective, but it seems rather soon to draw such tidy conclusions
  • There are some accounts of shoddy police investigations into several alarming neighborhood reports. Incidents like residents seeing a naked woman crawling in the kidnapper’s yard or even a naked woman in the kidnapper’s home holding a child and banging on a window in a distressed manner. After no one answered the door for the responding police officers, they checked the side windows and simply left. Israel Lugo said he called the police at least 3 times from 2010 - 2011. Police records reportedly show only 2 visits by the police. One can only wonder would the investigation have been so brief in a whiter, wealthier neighborhood
  • Other neighbors have reported they called the police and either got no response or halfhearted responses like the one above
  • Several neighborhood residents have stated they called the police to report strange activities at 2207 Seymour, yet police records reportedly indicate they only responded between 1 - 3 times
  • Other botched cases?: 11 missing women were found murdered in Cleveland in 2009. Residents would later say that they (and presumably the investigating police) believed the terrible stench of the dead women’s bodies emanated from a nearby sausage factory and not the murderer’s home. Would this seemingly obvious clue have been overlooked if the missing women and neighborhoods weren’t predominately black?
  • Now, on this last point I have already admitted I could be mistaken, but I do not think so: the 911 operator responded to Ms. Berry’s call for help with far less than alacrity even after being told he was speaking with a 10-year missing kidnap victim. If you listen to the complete 911 call (or read the transcript) I think you can clearly hear the dismissive tone in the dispatcher’s voice as he tries to rush Ms. Berry off the phone. I thought that perhaps the dispatcher may have thought he was being punk’d, but I have a feeling that we may learn that not taking certain resident’s calls for help seriously may be a recurring theme with the Cleveland police  

The story is still fluid and new details are certain to emerge, but it doesn’t appear to be quite too early to think that the Cleveland PD may be guilty of marginalizing the very citizens they’re sworn to serve and protect. Particularly if those citizens happen to be female or poor or not white

(Reblogged from callingoutbigotry)
For the last three decades many Americans have puzzled over a system that gives an R to a movie in which a women is carved up by a chainsaw and an NC-17 to one that shows a woman sexually pleasured. From such ratings one might conclude that sexual violence against women is OK for American teenagers to see, but that they must be 18 to see consensual sex. What message does this send to the kids the MPAA presumably means to protect?

Carrie Rickey

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(Reblogged from missgingerlee)
stfuhatemongers:

serafinacastaway:

deliciouskaek:

so-treu:

notesonascandal:

deliciouskaek:

so-treu:

nethilia:

trcunning:

Little girl said to have inappropriate clothing

A Henry County woman is furious after being called out for sending her six-year-old kindergartener to school in what officials say was inappropriate. 
Audrey Hightower tells Channel 2 Action News an assistant principal from Tussahaw Elementary called her on Tuesday complaining of her daughter’s Little Kitty dress saying it was too short or may be showing too much skin.

I don’t see anything inappropriate. It’s just ridiculous.

white people have a sickness

…………

i can’t…

And they wonder why we don’t like them. 
Also, this baby looks fine. Completely appropriate for a child her age. She has on tights, for Christ’s sake. The skin they apparently see too much of is her hands and her face. Jesus. 

from the article:
“A statement from the school said the clothing was deemed inappropriate based on the way it was being worn and it was becoming a distraction.”
this is why fuck your slutwalk. b/c some of us are seen as sluts no matter HOW we’re dressed or HOW young we are.

and that doesn’t even make sense unless she’s walking around with the dress over her head all damn day
ridiculous

Are you fucking kidding me, America? SHE’S FUCKING SIX.
There is nothing about this dress that is distracting. 
What kills me is that if her mother is anything like mine, she probably got her dressed and said, “Here, baby, put on these tights so we can make sure you’re all covered up. Now make sure you’re being careful when you play, I don’t wanna get no call from the school telling me some little boy done seen your panties.”
And I bet you a dollar this little girl has shorts on under the skirt and over the tights, too.

The two women in the background are showing more skin than this baby is. Isn’t that ridiculous?

Anything, no matter how outrageous, to further criminalize black children and sexualize little black girls
Tussahaw Elementary: (770) 957-0164
Fax: (770) 957-0546
web page: http://schoolwires.henry.k12.ga.us/te

stfuhatemongers:

serafinacastaway:

deliciouskaek:

so-treu:

notesonascandal:

deliciouskaek:

so-treu:

nethilia:

trcunning:

Little girl said to have inappropriate clothing

A Henry County woman is furious after being called out for sending her six-year-old kindergartener to school in what officials say was inappropriate. 

Audrey Hightower tells Channel 2 Action News an assistant principal from Tussahaw Elementary called her on Tuesday complaining of her daughter’s Little Kitty dress saying it was too short or may be showing too much skin.

I don’t see anything inappropriate. It’s just ridiculous.

white people have a sickness

…………

i can’t…

And they wonder why we don’t like them. 

Also, this baby looks fine. Completely appropriate for a child her age. She has on tights, for Christ’s sake. The skin they apparently see too much of is her hands and her face. Jesus. 

from the article:

A statement from the school said the clothing was deemed inappropriate based on the way it was being worn and it was becoming a distraction.”

this is why fuck your slutwalk. b/c some of us are seen as sluts no matter HOW we’re dressed or HOW young we are.

and that doesn’t even make sense unless she’s walking around with the dress over her head all damn day

ridiculous

Are you fucking kidding me, America? SHE’S FUCKING SIX.

There is nothing about this dress that is distracting. 

What kills me is that if her mother is anything like mine, she probably got her dressed and said, “Here, baby, put on these tights so we can make sure you’re all covered up. Now make sure you’re being careful when you play, I don’t wanna get no call from the school telling me some little boy done seen your panties.”

And I bet you a dollar this little girl has shorts on under the skirt and over the tights, too.

The two women in the background are showing more skin than this baby is.
Isn’t that ridiculous?

Anything, no matter how outrageous, to further criminalize black children and sexualize little black girls

(Reblogged from callingoutbigotry)
Men and women are misogynistic for different reasons: men to marginalize women, and women to ingratiate themselves with the men trying to marginalize them. Neither one is justifiable, but one is oppressive and the other is a (bad) strategy to deal with that oppression. One thus sees that if the men who are misogynists weren’t, the women who are misogynists wouldn’t have any reason to be. Ergo, exhorting women to stop being misogynists so that men will stop gets it precisely backwards.
(Reblogged from catronicon)

legion-of-leijon:

Being a good person and being a “nice guy”: Know the difference.

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(Reblogged from cognitivedissonance)

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(Reblogged from truth-has-a-liberal-bias)

there are plenty of guys out there who are socially awkward and may inadvertently trigger a woman’s spider-sense without intending to cause offense. The problem is that when it’s pointed out to them that the way that they’re behaving is creeping people out, a lot of guys will automatically default to “well, it’s not fair, I shouldn’t have to change who I am/my behavior.” They don’t want to take the time to learn how to read social cues or moderate the way they act. Why? Because, once again, they feel that they’re entitled to what they want and it’s the woman’s fault for keeping them from what they want. Why take responsibility for your actions when you can put the onus on women by shouting “Creep shaming!” as a way to shut her up?

The truly insidious thing about creep shaming and how it relates to misplaced senses of entitlement is the fact that creep shaming goes beyond a man’s right of access to any woman he desires; it also means that he is entitled to his comfort above hers. Creep shaming is all about telling a woman that not only does she not have a right to decide who she talks to, but she doesn’t have a right to how she feels. This isn’t about discriminating against those who need to work on their social calibration, this is about telling women that their desire to be safe is less important than a man’s right to hit on her.

(Reblogged from fuckititsfriday)

Sometimes the internet gets it really right —especially 4. 5. and 6. (Humanists/Egalitarians should read 6. closely - re: “whining”)

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wut? MRA trolls got nothing better to do than get all butthurt over my old posts & my even older posts? GOOD!