February 2012
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“But then, the truth was never really the point. Thin women don’t tell their fat...”
– Kate Harding (via rhiannon-random)
another example of thin privilege, your body type doesn’t carry these negative synonyms
(via fatcatsandcurls)
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Just a little personal experience.
yukaristea:
I have never fucking had a Black POC talk to me that way like the girl in that video portrayed it to be.
I have never been told to turn my ‘Chinese’ music down and blah blah blah. I’ve never been told i’m weird for eating anything that isn’t common here. Which the only thing I can think of is Seaweed.
Why the fuck did that girl feel the need to dress that way, act that way, make...
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Um...
liquornspice:
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liquornspice:
I don’t think I wanna know the revelations white people have from reading my blog. I just…it’s way too chilling. The specific, targeted lack of empathy white people have for us is really really horrific.
“So the n*ggers…are people?! Chad! Becky! You gotta hear this!”
I can’t…
Someone said that...
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"Oh, you've redecorated!"
doctorwhoproblems:
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alysael replied to your photo: 1. Something I Really Regret Not choosing any…
I’m with you bro ;u; I wish I did one art subject - textiles or photography or something instead a bunch of social sciences OTL At least I didn’t do any Sciences; everyone told me it was bad to not take Sciences but I’m glad I didn’t listen to them;;
Yeahh sigh people. :( you can do it, Aly! If I can survive, you...
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humvee asked: five, thirteen, twenty four! * v *
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This always makes me crazy:
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amandalynnh:
At some weddings when the couple is pronounced not husband and wife, but man and wife. Because he is still a man, but she is now a wife, not a woman?
I don’t understand this.
^ She makes a good point.
ARGH yes this annoys me too. Imagine if we said woman and husband, shit would get real.
This gets even worse when you take the...
“If we want to reduce poverty, we have to stop doing the things that make people...”
– Barbara Ehrenreich (via azspot)
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Sometimes, reading fandom tags is the worst
albertinho:
The amount of racism and sexism towards the casting of Lucy Liu in the US Sherlock remake is actually disgusting.
Also notable: how the fandom completely forgets that Sherlock Holmes has been appropriated and retold a billion and one times by everyone ever, including that one time they made him Robert Downey Jr, and that other time they made him an American doctor and called him...
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“We pretend that “almost everyone has food and can scrape by, and anyone who...”
– Shakesville: On the UK Riots, Part Two (via robot-heart-politics)
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and sometimes I cry over people I admire whom are long dead.
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Guide to rape apologists
notanotherlesbianblog:
**Trigger Warning** Rape apologists, rape naysayers, rape deniers
Mr. What About The Men “The real problem here is all these false rape accusations that are destroying our society! 90 million men are falsely accused of rape every second! A woman just has to sort of mumble a word starting with ‘r’ and a man instantly gets a life sentence! There are no instances on...
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xerawyn:
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mindoveranti-matter:
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Lemme say this again for those who didn't catch it...
ethiopienne:
SURVIVORS. DO. NOT. NEED. YOUR. INPUT. [TW: sexual assault, domestic violence] I cannot tell you how many times I’ve found the courage to speak about what happened to me when I was younger only to hear “…you know you should’ve reported that, right?” or “so you didn’t say anything? what’s wrong with you?” or “well maybe if you had done X or Y or Z he’d be in jail right now and you...
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High school friend set his skype username to “Pedophile”
and I was scared for a moment
but oh my god
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Regarding the difference between prejudice and...
Prejudice: [PoC calls white person a cracker].
Racism: Two centuries of PoC being stolen from their homelands, driven out of their native lands, tricked, raped, infected with disease, and otherwise downtrodden so as to remove them from any chance of being the dominant race.
Prejudice: [PoC gives a white person a nickname playing on the fact that they're white].
Racism: PoC must, from the moment they realize a baby is on the way, worry about whether giving a child a name reflecting their heritage will affect their chances at a good life in the future. Hint: it will.
Not racism: Calling out that slavery lasted for two centuries, and civil rights did not happen for PoC until the 20th Century (you know, the century which only ended TWELVE YEARS AGO).
Racism: We should not talk about it, because it makes [non-PoC] feel bad.
Not racism: A non-PoC actor can get pretty much any role s/he wnats.
Racism: ... including roles that were originally written as PoC. PoC actors must settle for roles making them servants, sassy women, jive turkey men, criminals, drug addicts, or abused downtrodden prostitutes, the better to reinforce the negative mental image of PoC in the minds of the zeitgeist, and hold up the excuse that "they bring it on themselves".
Not Racism: Flattering pictures of people used to represent them on the web.
Racism: Flattering pictures of Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Bachman. But the most unflattering pic available of Michelle Obama is used for the same article.
Not Racism: Articles about women's features.
Racism: Article purporting to have scientific "proof" that Black women are uglier than women of any other race.
Not Racism: America is where everyone is supposed to have equal chance.
Racism: Equal chance? Freed slaves were lucky if they got 40 Acres and a Mule, after working for free for generations for people who are now wealthy and offered no other reparations.
Not Racism: Irish History Month, Italian History Month, French History Month, German History Month, etc. All of which would, technically, qualify, btw, as White History Months.
Racism: It's not Cameroon History Month, Nigerian History Month, Egyptian History Month, Zimbabwean History Month, Zaire History Month, Somalian History Month, etc. It's BLACK History Month. Doesn't matter what country in Africa you come from. If you're Black you just all get lumped in together.
Not Racism: PoC describe their experiences.
Racism: Non-PoC interrupt, derail, silence, mock, deride, or cite "oversensitivity" because it makes them feel uncomfortable to know that PoC have endured this, and to have to acknowledge their privilege -- and their responsibility to do something about it if they really are as anti-racist as they profess.
...add your own examples.
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A List of Things That Could Go Horribly Wrong with...
weirdsociology:
Look what you’ve done, internet. Look what you’ve done. Now I can’t stop thinking about Lucy Liu as Watson.
Things That the Writers Could Do Horribly Wrong with an Female Asian-American Watson
Make her not a veteran (because girls aren’t in the military and if they are they don’t get shot at, right?)
Use the Watson gender-swap to trot out the same tired heteronormative...
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This eyeliner though
THIS EYELINER
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