Everything begins from believing

"We are saying to our girl children, empty yourself, lack substance, embody frailty, have no core or..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:52:51 -0400

“We are saying to our girl children, empty yourself, lack substance, embody frailty, have no core or centrality. Be as small as possible and we will love you more. To our boy children we say, take up more room, more than is good for you or that you need. Be as big as possible. Fill yourself. Dominate space disproportionately.”

- (via loveyourrebellion)

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:38:37 -0400

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:33:16 -0400

"Love is not a profession genteel or otherwise sex is not dentistry the slick filling of aches and..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:26:19 -0400

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Love is not a profession
genteel or otherwise

sex is not dentistry
the slick filling of aches and cavities

you are not my doctor
you are not my cure,

nobody has that
power, you are merely a fellow/traveler.

”

- Margaret Atwood, “Is/Not” (via larmoyante)

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:19:00 -0400

"Except you can’t show a topless woman on TV - and you can’t defibrillate a woman in a bra. So..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:56:13 -0400

“Except you can’t show a topless woman on TV - and you can’t defibrillate a woman in a bra. So victims of heart attacks on TV are *always* male. Did you know that a woman having a heart attack is more likely to have back or jaw pain than chest or left arm pain? I didn’t - because I’ve never seen a woman having a heart attack. I’ve been trained in CPR and Advanced First Aid by the Red Cross over 15 times in my life, the videos and booklets always have a guy and say the same thing about clutching his chest and/or bicep.”

- Society thinks our bodies are so scandalous that it’s better to put our lives at risk than to show us how to stay safe (via deanana)

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Sat, 15 Jun 2013 22:28:45 -0400

"Don’t get attached to moments. Good or bad, they all pass."

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:50:41 -0400

““Don’t get attached to moments. Good or bad, they all pass.””

- Yasmin Mogahed (via hatelyn)

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Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:50:22 -0400

"Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on yourself. Enjoy the ever..."

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 12:03:07 -0400

“Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on yourself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.”

- Hank Green (via rainydaysandblankets)

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Sat, 15 Jun 2013 11:59:07 -0400

vriskies: yellow-dress: Imagine the uproar if these kinds of...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 11:50:36 -0400

vriskies:

yellow-dress:

Imagine the uproar if these kinds of pictures were shown in magazines all the time. But nobody bats a fucking eyelid when we do it to women. Everyone (men (white men)) would be up in arms about ~misandry~ and hypersexualization, but do these dudebro MRAs care that women are subjected to this type of imagery /reversed/ in our own magazines on every second goddamn page? Didn’t think so.

THAT is why these images showing the reversal is important. Dudes will cry “you won’t get people to join your cause if you respond to degradation of your gender by degrading another gender” - no, fuck you. We are sick of the constant hypersexualization, and one photoset relieving us of our plight that makes you uncomfortable is NOTHING compared to what we deal with everyday.

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Sat, 15 Jun 2013 11:49:49 -0400

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Thu, 13 Jun 2013 23:09:40 -0400

"Women who are too sexual aren’t taken seriously, and women who aren’t sexual enough aren’t taken..."

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:31:40 -0400

“Women who are too sexual aren’t taken seriously, and women who aren’t sexual enough aren’t taken seriously. Women who are conventionally attractive get valued solely for their sexual appeal; women who aren’t conventionally attractive get dismissed for their lack of it. Women who are conventionally attractive are assumed to be dumb bimbos; women who aren’t conventionally attractive are assumed to be either bitter or desperate. Women who are conventionally attractive get trivialized; women who aren’t conventionally attractive get treated with pity and contempt. We can’t win.”

- (via dysenterygay)

"We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the..."

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:27:50 -0400

“We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.”

- Chris Hayes

(via stoweboyd)

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Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:17:05 -0400

"There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally."

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:31:51 -0400

“There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.”

- Don Miguel Ruiz (via thatkindofwoman)

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Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:29:38 -0400

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