A map of countries that recognise Palestine compared to a map of countries that wish to boycott Iran exposes an extremely suspicious pattern
One of the truest comics ever.from Leftycartoons
When white people try to justify racism….
reblogging because relevant to 30 minutes ago.
Always reblog.
Most Americans are so brainwashed by the time they complete twelve years of government education that they cannot even recognize mass murder by the U.S. government as a crime.
Jeff Knaebel (via notsufferingfrominsanity)
(Source: thinksquad)
Women who are fat are said to have ‘let themselves go.’ The very phrase connotes a loosening of restraints. Women in our society are bound. In generations past, the constriction was accomplished by corsets and girdles…. Women today are bound by fears, by oppression, and by stereotypes that depict large women as ungainly, unfeminine, and unworthy of appreciation…. Above all, women must control themselves, must be careful, for to relax might lead to the worst possible consequence: being fat.
“Letting Ourselves Go: Making Room for the Fat Body in Feminist Scholarship,” by Cecilia Hartley (via clairvoyants)
(Source: rufflebutts)
Undercaffeinated, constantly.: your bingo cards for the evening. please feel free to print out and play along!
Derailment Bingo
There’s No Racism in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Bingo…
“Educated” Not-Racist Bingo (aka “I’m an [insert minority group] major!”)
But I’m not sexist Bingo…
But I’m not racist Bingo…
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(Source: cgdageek)
If my blog or URL hurts you, you should really be happy. OH REALLY NOW?I hear ya!! Uhmmm, so what’s your solution for my FETISHIZATION blog? Would you like me to take it down? Oh, and what of the opinions of other Afro-women who appreciate the blog? Should their voice be silenced in favor of yours, oh omniscient one?Let’s dissect this shall we.
You don’t get to decide what is and is not fetishization. In the same way that a white person cannot tell me that my experiences with racism are invalid, you cannot tell another person what to feel and how to respond to your behavior.
I don’t care about this so called “root”. That was not my concern. I spoke of fetishization. I made no mention of citing sources. Take that up with the people who care.
It’s your blog. You are certainly free to do what you please. But recognize that you are a hypocrite. You say that you love black women and that you wish to show how beautiful they are. That’s wonderful. But you fail to see that your kind of love may be wrong. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Whatever your good intentions are, they are problematic.
If you cannot listen, and recognize constructive criticism, you aren’t loving anyone. You have a “thing” for black women. And you want to do it no matter how people feel about it. That’s the so-called love you want to express. That is beyond abhorrent.
Sure there is a need to see black women as beautiful. But I am not so desperate to be seen as pretty that I will jump for joy when someone claims to love black women and what we look like.
I am not your “sista” do not patronize me and insult my intelligence. I am nothing of yours. Don’t think that because we might potentially share a similar phenotype all of a sudden I am your sista. That problematic 60s rhetoric does not work on me.
You don’t get a pass because you are black and male. You are not immune from being capable of fetishization. If you can’t understand that, if you can’t get that you could potentially be feeding into the issue then your ego desperately needs to be perforated.
Your tone seems very pointed right now.
my sista? this nigga aint our brother. he said we SHOULD BE HAPPY TO BE HURT BY HIM. IF THAT’S NOT SOME RAPIST SHIT, TELL ME WHAT IS?
Honestly, if you don’t like what they’re posting, don’t follow. If you’re going to let a BLOG ruin your day or your mood, you need to re-evaluate what makes you happy… It’s his(or her) blog, let em do what he wants with it.
k bye
Ummm. First of all, I don’t follow him. I’m signal boosting, for those of my followers who do follow him, and because this is important to me. But more importantly, do you not realize that this man is making a fetish out of Black women? This goes waaay beyond my likes and dislikes. This is a man who is fetishizing and sexualizing Black women—and under age Black girls—in the public sphere—something that is already done to a damaging degree. This is a man claiming to have nothing but love and respect for us, but then BLATANTLY disregarding the many women (and men) who have called him out on his problematic behavior. This is about him telling us, “Yeah, I’m hurting you. Why aren’t you taking it?” He ACTUALLY SAID that we should be happy that he hurts us. US. The women he claims to love so much. The women he fetishizes. This is an issue of misogyny, of sexualization, and of being a complete and total fucking god damn creep.
And your response is, “Don’t like, don’t follow”? :| Because that’s not dismissive of the larger scale issues at hand at all. “If you’re going to let a BLOG ruin your day”… because there isn’t an actual man behind that blog, an actual man who has actual real life interactions with women—and probably Black women—on a day to day basis, who carries this shit over onto them. Nope.
You must be a new follower if you honestly don’t think your response to a Black woman’s outrage over a man fetishizing Black women, is problematic. :| Why you even following me, then? All I do is call out white people on their bullshit, and you could say the same thing about that too. :|
If feminism is a movement to end sexist oppression, and depriving females of reproductive rights is a form of sexist oppression, then one cannot be anti-choice and be feminist. A woman can insist she would never choose to have an abortion while affirming her support of the right of women to choose and still be an advocate of feminist politics. She cannot be anti-abortion and an advocate of feminism.
bell hooks (via socialuprooting)
(Source: asopo)
Female pilot boots passenger for sexist comments
SAO PAULO — A Brazilian airline says one of its female pilots tossed a passenger off a flight because he was making sexist comments about women flying planes.
Trip Airlines says in a Tuesday statement the pilot ejected the man before takeoff as he made loud, sexist comments upon learning the pilot was a woman. The jet continued on to the state of Goias after a one-hour delay.
The passenger involved in Friday’s incident has not been identified. He was met by police at the plane and escorted out of the Belo Horizonte airport. Police at the airport have not responded to calls and it isn’t known if the man has been charged with anything.
Trip says it won’t tolerate disparaging remarks made about any of the 1,400 women working for the airline.
“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. ” Frida Kahlo
i hope john terry forgets to buy a lottery ticket the week his numbers come up
Men expect to...
Men expect to have our opinion valued. That’s why when one of us gets upset about feminism, you shouldn’t waste your time taking them seriously. Laugh at them. Point your fingers. ROFLCOPTER. All that. Feminism shouldn’t have to fellate the patriarchy.
Joseph Medicine Crow, Last Living War Chief, Honored by Obama
The last living Plains Indian war chief and author of seminal works in Native American history is also the last person alive to have received direct oral testimony from a participant in the Battle of the Little Bighorn: his grandfather, a scout for Gen. George Custer.
Suspicious Fire Breaks Out At Second Reproductive Clinic In Georgia
Investigators are still trying to determine what caused a fire at an obstetrics and gynecology clinic — the second suspicious fire at a Georgia reproductive clinic this week. No one was injured in the Wednesday morning fire that started on the third floor of the Cobb County clinic, which anti-abortion advocates regularly protest, according to local news reports. Employees told a local TV station they saw “suspicious activity” before the fire:
Clinic workers believe the fire started on the third floor. They said two unknown men went upstairs and left shortly afterward, minutes before the fire was discovered.
“We have patients here. They’re under anesthesia. This could have been life-threatening,” employee Angela Buckner told Channel 2’s Ross Cavitt.
On Sunday, a fire was reported at another clinic in Gwinnett County. In addition to the recent fires, women’s health clinics reported break-ins and stolen computer equipment in March after the Georgia legislature approved a restrictive bill preventing abortions after 20 weeks. Clinic workers said the thefts were attempts to intimidate doctors who perform abortions and fought against the bill. “They’re treating us like terrorists,” Richard Zane, whose Atlanta Women’s Health Center was burglarized, told a local Patch site.
Gov. Nathan Deal signed the 20-week ban, which has no exemption for cases of rape or incest, into law earlier this month.
