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"Ask your female friends, if you have any, if they’ve ever walked home late at night with a key pushed through their knuckles, just in case, if they’ve ever crossed the street to avoid a stranger, just in case, if they’ve ever taken the long way home because of the weird guy on the corner, just in case. Ask them if they’ve ever made up a boyfriend to get a guy to leave them alone, if they’ve ever gotten off a train car and moved to the next because you just never know, if they’ve ever shelled out for a cab because men like you were at the bus stop. Do you really want to be that guy?"
- Emily Heist Moss, “A Letter to the Guy Who Harassed Me Outside the Bar” (h/t cheddarlywry)(via mllehazelwood)
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"You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don’t make as much money as men do. I don’t understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat? I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let’s face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what’s sexy. And men define what’s feminine. It’s ridiculous."
-Beyonce Knowles dropping truth bombs in GQ Magazine | February 2013 (via ceedling)
Related but unrelated: Ian and I have an almost daily discussion in which I express my distress and horror that he thinks Countdown is just an “alright” song because that song is like, an expression in Beyoncéspeak for all of my deep love feelings for him, my white Jay-Z, and he is just shitting all over it, like directly into my heart, by not seeing the wonder and genius of that song. That is all.
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High ResolutionThe word “feminism,” Moran said, has for some reason gone off the rails to connote, incorrectly, preachy humorlessness and grim separatism. “When I talk to girls, they go, ‘I’m not a feminist,’ ” she said. “And I say: ‘What? You don’t want to vote? Do you want to be owned by your husband? Do you want your money from your job to go into his bank account? If you were raped, do you still want that to be a crime? Congratulations: you are a feminist.’ ”
She makes no apologies.
“Everyone was like, ‘You’ve written a very brave book,’ ” Moran said. “But I’ve not done anything bad in that book. Every woman bleeds, every woman masturbates — I hope. One in three women will have an abortion; everyone’s had a bad boyfriend; everyone’s had some kind of fantasy relationship in their head. But if we keep these things secret and don’t talk about them publicly — then that to me looks like the behavior of oppressed people.”
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It is the root of the whole idea that we are ranked instead of linked.
Sometimes people say to me, at my age, ‘well aren’t you interested in something other than women’s issues?’ And I say ‘show me one.’ Show me one that isn’t transformed by including both halves of the population.
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"In response to a string of at least 10 unsolved sexual assaults in Brooklyn, New York police are reportedly stopping women on the street who are wearing clothing they say is revealing and advising them to cover up if they don’t want to be raped."
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I get where the officers are coming from, but damn they’re stupid for putting it like that.
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What the actual fuck
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I’m sorry. You “get where the officers are coming from”? No. Unless you meant to say that you get that they are coming from a place of extreme male privilege that refuses to acknowledge that RAPE IS NEVER THE FAULT OF ANYONE OTHER THAN THE RAPIST, then just…no.
And unfortunately for all of us, I don’t think you meant to say that, because there’s no way in hell that the original quote could be read as such, so kindly GTFO.
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That’s a really good idea; I think it will solve the problem. HA! No! Did they learn that nifty trick in police school, I wonder?
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"But it’s important to remember that though they are in the news, they are not in the majority,” Steinem continued. “And though they get elected, there’s a huge race and gender differential on who votes for them. And if you were to add the governor of Texas, Rick Perry, they are the people our founders came to this country to escape,” she told the lunch crowd. “They’re the same people, right? They’re trying to say God looks like me and not like you, and to use that politically to make a religious base. And so it is really a kind of rerun."
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Last, but not least, I see power to invest the money needed for all of that. In our past-slash-ongoing financial crisis context, this is a big challenge. But, as you gather with your fellow policymakers back home to set funding priorities and allocate budgets, remember that the tragedy of young women dying in pregnancy and childbirth could have the face of your mother, of your wife, of your daughter, of your sister, of your granddaughter, if you have any, and ask yourself what wouldn’t you do for them. Consider that all girls are your daughters, that all women are your mothers, all women are your sisters, all women are your wives – but this is just a metaphor for the last one. Give, give, unwanted pregnancy, give hemorrhage, give postpartum sepsis your close one’s face. Try to feel how denied access to contraception or to safe abortion, how missing [inaudible] or absence of an ambulance is experienced by millions of women and men worldwide.
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High Resolution“Women supporting women inevitably leads to women supporting revolution. In Tunisia and Tahrir Square, women were at the front and centre of organising and leading protests, demanding social change.”
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"The point of government isn’t to make life so hard for over half of our citizens that the only force there to help them is God."
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"We observe that when a daughter was born to a male CEO, wages paid to the CEO’s female employees rose relative to the wages paid to male employees. The effect was stronger for the first daughter, and stronger still if the first daughter was also the first child."
- Eric Barker’s excerpt of Like Daughter, Like Father: How Women’s Wages Change When CEOs Have Daughters” from Michael S. Dahl, Cristian Dezso, David Ross, Working paper, 2011(Source: The Atlantic)
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"As feminists have forever said, sexual violence is a crime of power, committed to control and intimidate women. When people react to sexual assault and rape by suggesting women brought it on themselves, they finish the job the attacker started. It’s sad to say that the assault on Lara Logan didn’t end when she was rescued in Egypt, and to note that it’s now being expanded as an assault on all women who have ambitions, or who are willing to be out in public while looking attractive. This response to Logan’s attack should make it clear that the US and Egypt differ on the issue of sexual violence perhaps only in degree but not in kind."
- Amanda Marcotte, on Lara Logan and our penchant for blaming the victim(Source: Guardian)
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I lost a baby. But for you to stand on this floor and suggest as you have that somehow this is a procedure that is either welcomed or done cavalierly or done without any thought is preposterous. To think that we are here tonight debating this issue, while the American people, if they are listening, are scratching their heads and wondering “what does this have to do with me getting a job? What does this have to do with reducing the deficit?” The answer is nothing at all. (via ThinkProgress » Revealing Her Own Abortion, Rep. Speier Criticizes Conservatives For Failing To Empathize With Women)
It’s about damn time. Don’t talk about shit you don’t know about, Rep. Christopher Smith. “Frankly that would be irresponsible.”
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