February 2012
51 posts
Woman: Can I have birth control?
Government: No.
Woman: I got pregnant because I didn't have birth control and I don't want the fetus. Can I have an abortion?
Government: No.
Woman: I gave birth to my child but since I wasn't expecting it, I can't afford daycare. Can I have help paying for it?
Government: No.
Woman: My boyfriend isn't excited about sex anymore, because I lost my figure due to pregnancy. Will you pay for his erectile dysfunction pills?
Government: Yes.
The Bechdel Test and Race in Popular Fiction
cheveuxroux:
crystalsavestheday:
1. It has to have two POC in it.
2. Who talk to each other.
3. About something other than a white person.
No Joss Whedon show passes, neither does Supernatural, or Being Human.
Veronica Mars passes, but doesn’t pass the original Bechdel Test.
Check out a few more here.
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double :(
queerhairyvag:
vigorofthepeople:
yogachocolatelove:
Jennifer López photoshop free showing what a real body without retouches looks like, stretch marks, rolls when she twist her waist and some cellulite (I can barely see it but they say it’s there). Finally they starting to show real skin not plastic like! I love her body, just the way it is.
And she’s still gorgeous.
natural
“The widespread classification of disability as a “personal problem” obscures the...”
– Julia Watts Belser, Returning to Flesh: A Jewish Reflection on Feminist Disability Theology (via innerfatgirl)
“All the paganism, Tantra, meditation, sacred sex, and BDSM sex magic(k) books...”
– Chris Hall (Why Sex Is Not Spiritual - The Exhibitionist)
Buffy sex scenes are better than porn
“What if life is just a series of ridiculous attempts at being alive?”
– Jeff Winger on Community (1x7)
From One Survivor to Another: Why I Wont Do the... →
fourmarys:
I am the President of my university’s Feminist Student Alliance. Though ‘tis the season, we aren’t resuming the tradition of performing Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues.
Among the issues surrounding Vagina Monologues, I agree that it remains a hegemonic narrative of the…
Agreed. I was part of the Vagina Monologues for the first time this year. There are many things wrong...
I just made an info page (about myself...
“The phrase “politically correct” can be used in two distinct ways: either with...”
– Zuky: The Greatest Cliché: The Unexamined Propaganda of “Political Correctness”
Of course not everyone that identifies as Black also identifies as African-American, etc, but I do not think that is what Zuky is implying.
(via racismfreeontario)
“We must challenge all those who insist that women who act or dress in a feminine...”
– Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A transsexual woman on sexism and the scapegoating of femininity (via girl-farts)