ghaweyriao:

whoneedsfeminism:

I need feminism because when I say that girls should be able to join boy scouts and boys should be able to join girl scouts, it shouldn’t be met with eye rolls. 

Uhhh … feminism does not necessitate breaking down all gender-segregated spaces. I myself was only a temporary and reluctant participant in Girl Scouts but I know it was an extremely valuable experience for a lot of girls/women in large part BECAUSE it was only girls, and has a lot more progressive practices than the Boy Scouts (for instance, the story about right-wingers freaking out about a Girl Scout troop accepting a trans girl.)

abrokenfishbowl:

tiro-finale:

coldbitterness:

boston:

JOANNA WEISS

Still waiting for a heroine of confidence

- Katniss Everdeen, the heroine of “The Hunger Games,” is yet another young woman who shoulders burdens and fulfills other people’s desires, instead of bending the world to her will.

I don’t know that many dirt-poor 16-year-olds in dystopian postapocalyptic settings are really in a position to “bend the world to their will”

Wow, there’s so much wrong in that article. I’m not even a big Katniss fan and that pissed me off.

Fucking really, lumping her in the same category as Bella and Ana, the protagonist from Twilight fanfiction? JFC…

ok

YOU HAVE UNLEASHED THE KRAKEN AT THIS POINT

I hate, hate, HATE, this new trend of declaring every female character with even a shred of submissiveness as a “mary sue” or a “Bella.”

I’m sorry? I wasn’t aware that a teenager living in the poorest part of the world is supposed to have the gumption to change her world right off the bat. Remember that time that you were dirt poor and had to put yourself in a life or death battle to save your family? Remember that time you almost starved to death because your mother was catatonic with grief?

Ok, I get it. Female created media aimed at Females sometimes has problematic elements. Twilight sends a dangerous message. Katniss isn’t perfect, but that is what we NEED in characters.

But what I want/need to see is the same vitriol and criticism aimed at male created media aimed at males.

Because I bet you anything, Johanna Weiss/John Green/every body else DOESN’T SPEND HALF AS MUCH TIME DOING THAT.

"And do not think you shouldn’t be standing on that chair, shouting ‘I AM A FEMINIST’ if you are a boy. A male feminist is one of the most glorious end-products of evolution. A male feminist should ABSOLUTELY be on the chair - so we ladies may all toast you, in champagne, before coveting your body wildly." —

Caitlin Moran (via alysinw0nderland)

no, what will happen is I will kick him in the bits because I’ve yet to meet one ‘male feminist’ who wasn’t a manipulative misogynist wanker. this quote rly upsets me, because it’s bullshit; leaving aside whether men can call themselves feminists (they could if they weren’t almost all so mansplainy about it), I’m not licking someone’s arse just because they say I’m a human being. That is a very, very basic right.

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is this quote a joke omfg i can’t

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wow @ that entire quote

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galesofnovember:

I think this post about the variety of sex workers in ancient rome is the silliest thing ever posted on feministe

or at least the gooberiest example of how pathetic feministe’s version of feminist cultural critique is to appear in recent months. 

If nothing else,  someone presents us with a context-less list of words and tells us the moral of this story is how fun and sex positive ancient Rome.

I mean, I think the easiest, jumps-right-out-at-you thing to take away from that list is that there really wasn’t a single profession available to women where you weren’t also expected to sell sexual favors.   But I guess that’s not titillating to think about. 

it is 2012, and sexuality is still fluid 

ivyblossom:

itsinthetrees:

we should not still be having these ‘lesbian finds the RIGHT man’ stories in our fiction

we just should not

Your sexual identity is not a set of steel doors.

I don’t think this is a “find the right man” story at all.

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You are giving Moffat waaaaay too much credit.

Also it’s really not a coincidence that sexual fluidity is almost always portrayed as “lesbian goes for a dude.”

Just, seriously, are we still having this conversation: 

ayries:

Shit that is not sexist re: Irene’s portrayal in Sherlock:

• She is a sexual person
• She is a sex worker
• She is gay/a lesbian
• She is not 100% perfect 100% of the time
• She does not do literally every single thing on her own

Shit that is just generally not automatically sexist:

• A woman losing
• A woman needing to be helped/saved
• A woman being emotional, vulnerable, etc.

Shit that is problematic, if not downright sexist, re: Irene’s portrayal in Sherlock:

• The fact that she is sexualised in a way that specifically appeals to straight male fantasies when lesbians have a long history of being exploited thus in the media
• The fact that this is used to reinforce the harmful stereotype that lesbians ‘just need the right man’
• The fact that the way she was shown as being flawed was specifically set up to make her lose to a man in a way that reflects common stereotypes about women, i.e. they are more emotionally vulnerable than men, basically reinforcing the idea that traditional femininity = weak
• The fact that Moffat and co. went out of their way to add Irene being saved into a narrative where, originally, she needed no help, in a media which tends to need women to be saved disproportionately to men
• The fact that, again, they went out of their way to change it from a woman winning to a woman losing in a society where dudes typically end up the best off at the end of stories

Context, people. It’s all about context. If SCAN were a different story, then perhaps it wouldn’t have been the problem it is. But SCAN is a story about one thing, and ASiB a story about another, and the discrepancy between what Moffat read and what he wrote is the real issue tbqh.

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saltmarshhag:

joetomcollins:

occupythedisco:

I think the reason I find geek culture so obnoxious at times to engage in is because the people are for the most part the same privileged dips that inhabit mainstream culture, but with the added detriment of a victim complex. They’re still largely white and center their race, they’re still largely straight and center their sexuality, they’re still largely cis men who center their gender. They challenge nothing about the status quo and what bodies get to be placed at the center of it, they offer nothing radically different to the typical narratives about which groups of people are and are not important and they can be just as hostile to groups who try to find a place in their space as the mainstream is, in some cases even worse. But for some reason they think the fact that they like Battlestar Galactica instead of Monday night football makes them radical alterna-gods who are too good for this sinful Earth.

Blah Blah Blah… Racism… Blah Blah Blah … gender bullshit.

Geek Culture is “obnoxious” to you because thinking is “work” to you, and FUN for us.

The fact is geeks don’t give a fuck about culture at all. For the most part we were excluded from it by everyone, as your anti-geek bias just goes to show. We’re not even welcome in your little section of hell.

How the fuck can a member of any victimized group dare claim that another group has a “victim complex”? How can you try and throw that proverbial stone and not expect to have your own sins written in the proverbial sands.

The fact is, that Geeks have no race, gender, gender preference, or other social entanglements, and as a result… WE DON’T HESITATE TO CALL YOU ON YOUR BULLSHIT. What’s worse, is that we do it with empirical and undeniable FACTS backed up by logical and reasonable science. That true or false bottom line that doesn’t give a fuck what you “feel” because at the end of the day, our way is the only one that works.

THAT is what has you butt hurt about geek culture. That and the fact that we can do more with our smartphones while we are drunk, than all of you can do together with room full of supercomputers.

You want to be accepted by geek culture? Put in the effort to learn about how things work, or listen to those who do.

As a geek, there is NOTHING cooler than some one who can teach me something I didn’t know, and nothing more obnoxious than some one who criticizes that instinct with absolutely nothing to offer of their own.

The rest of your biases are just that… YOUR BIASES.

Go read a book, bitch.

Oh.

Congrats to the angry geek who just proved OP’s point.

closetospring:

laceandcombatboots:

sanityscraps:

sword-meets-rose:

amagnoliaheart:

This is a good start BUT

-blue = male and pink = female are not helpful.

-men and girls? Why must women continue to be infantalized?

-can’t it be real “people” don’t buy “people”?

A good start, but let’s not use this to erase sex workers who are in the industry consensually and like what they do. There’s nothing inherently wrong with buying or selling sex if all parties are consenting.

Also, “real” men? I like the sentiment, but there’s no such thing as an “unreal” person. “Real” men have navels. A “good” person doesn’t buy sex from someone who doesn’t want to be in the industry. There’s no one behavior code for a “real”, existent person.

If anyone isn’t consenting, that’s another monster that does need to be tackled. Awareness is always good. Trafficking does need to end. But to simplify this issue to “don’t buy girls” implies that all sex work is evil and that all sex workers are slaves to the industry, which is simply not the case.

I interpreted it that the GIRLS was very intentional. As in, buying children who couldn’t possibly consent to sex. In which case fuck yes I support this message.

yeah this is part of a campaign against CHILD sex trafficking. and there are totally many legit criticisms of that campaign, but

i will never not rage at how “~sex positive~” people on the internet will respond to a statement against CHILD sex trafficking (read: SLAVERY) with “BUT WHAT ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO CHOOSE IT HUH???”

glad we’ve got our priorities straight

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