THE NEW AND THE USUAL

sendificator:

BUT LIKE REMEMBER WHEN M.I.A. FLIPPED THE BIRD AT THE SUPER BOWL AND PEOPLE CALLED HER DIRTY AND TRASHY AND NOW JENN LAWRENCE FLIPS THE BIRD AT THE OSCARS AND SUDDENLY ITS A QUIRKY CUTE AWKWARD THING TO DO WOW #WHITEHISTORYCLASSES

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persepine:

rubyetc:

some thoughts for hot weather

My general approach

This right here.

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fuckyeahfeminists:

dansolomon:

stupidoldishlikelettersandsodas:

MY NIECE JAEDYN AMARI EMERSON OF BRANDEIS HIGH SCHOOL IN SAN ANTONIO HAS BEEN MISSING SINCE LAST NIGHT. SHE IS 15 AND WAS LAST SEEN WEARING SHORTS AND A TUBE TOP. HER AUNT TALKED TO HER AT 5 30 THIS MORNING. PLEASE CALL MY MOTHER, HER GRANDMOTHER, CHERYL EMERSON AT 210 445-6120 IF YOU SEE OR SPEAK TO HER.

Oh, jesus. Please keep your eyes peeled, South and Central Texas.

Signal boost.

Not many people from high school follow me, but for those that do.

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so much history in two lines. my best friend, y’all.

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As long as women’s natural body hair is called disgusting and inappropriate while men’s isn’t, I am a feminist.
As long as I can’t watch an episode of a popular sitcom without having to sit through multiple sexist comments or “jokes”, I am a feminist.
As long as women have to face the rational fear of being sexually assaulted every time they walk home past dark while men don’t, I am a feminist.
As long as misogyny exists in any country in this world, I am a feminist.
As long as women are being raped, then stoned to death or forced to marry their rapist, I am a feminist.
As long as companies promote men to manager when there are women who are equally as or better qualified, because they find that men look more authoritative, I am a feminist.
As long as women (her choice of clothes, her friendly nature, her weakness, her choice to drink alcohol) get blamed when men rape them, I am a feminist.
As long women’s opinions on online social networks are dismissed with phrases like “tits or gtfo”, “get back to the kitchen”, “are you pms’ing?”, I am a feminist.
As long as dressing like a women is degrading for men and as long as men are insulted with phrases like “you throw like a woman”, clearly implying that being like a woman is shameful, I am a feminist.
As long as both men are women are expected to work, but taking care of children and the household are still largely considered a woman’s job, I am a feminist.
As long as boys and girls are treated differently, expected to act differently, and surrounded by different toys and colours from the day they are born, I am a feminist.
As long as topless women aren’t allowed in public unless they’re on the cover of a men’s magazine, I am a feminist.
As long as women who have sex frequently are generally told they are “sluts”, “lacking self-respect” and “lacking morals” by both men and women, while men who frequently have sex are “just being men” and it’s “natural for them”, I am a feminist.
As long as there are places where women have to pay more for health insurance than men, I am a feminist.
As long as men experience situations with equal gender representation as female-dominated, and don’t consider a group discussion equal unless there are significantly more men then women participants (as has been proven), I am a feminist.
As long as there are men who think it’s their wife or girlfriend’s duty to have sex with him whenever he wants, I am a feminist.
As long as the word feminism (“the movement aimed at equal rights for women”) has a negative connotation, I am a feminist.
As long as misogynist people exist, I am a feminist.

LE CHRYSANTHÉME: I am a feminist (via joshrock)

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In 2009, two doctors, Sharon Hayes and Stacey Tantleff-Dunn, did a study on animated characters and young girls’ self-image. After watching clips of cartoon characters who were princesses, the participants were asked what made a “real princess.” The results might be different from what you would expect: these girls, around the ages of six and seven, generally did not report having a desire to be thinner after studying and watching the narrow-waisted princesses. Instead, when asked how they could become a princess, many of the girls reported that they would need to change their skin color. They responded with things like “I’d paint myself white” and “I would change from brown skin to white skin.

Shavon L. McKinstry, Bright Like a Diamond, White Like a Princess (via sparkamovement)

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Why Dove’s “Real Beauty Sketches” Video Makes Me Uncomfortable… and Kind of Makes Me Angry

jazzylittledrops:

So this video started going around my facebook today, with about a dozen of my female friends sharing the link with comments like, and “Everyone needs to see this”, and “All girls should watch this,” and “This made me cry.” And I’m not trying to shame those girls! I definitely understand why they would do so. And I don’t want to be a killjoy. But as I clicked link and started watching the video, I started to feel a slight sense of discomfort. I couldn’t put my finger on why that was, exactly, but it continued throughout the whole thing. After watching the video several more times, I have some thoughts…

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Every woman needs to read this.

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sigur-roskolnikov:

justcallmehayley reblogged your post: Sometimes I forget how fucking stellar Vanessa…

Heroes and Thieves was excellent as well. (Closeted Vanessa fangirl in high school.)

wait wait wait

Has she had an album since that one????

Yeah! It’s called “Rabits on the Run”
It’s ok. Heroes and Thieves is her best, I think. Although, Harmonium is pretty great.

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sigur-roskolnikov:

Sometimes I forget how fucking stellar Vanessa Carlton’s last album was.

Heroes and Thieves was excellent as well. (Closeted Vanessa fangirl in high school.)

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