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Men who want to flirt with women have to realize: Women live in a state of continual vigilance about sexual safety. It’s like having a mild case of hay fever that never goes away. It’s not debilitating. You’re not weak. You’re not afraid. You just suck it up and get on with your life. It’s nothing that’s going to stop you from making discoveries, or climbing mountains, or falling in love. Sometimes you can almost forget about it. It doesn’t mean it’s not there, subtly sucking your energy. You learn to avoid situations that make it worse and seek out conditions that make it better.
If a female stranger is wary around you, it is not because she suspects you are a rapist, or that all men are rapists. It’s because a general level of circumspection is what vigilance requires. Don’t take it personally.
If this frustrates you, try to remember that women are blamed for lapsed vigilance. If a woman does get raped, everyone rushes to see where she let her guard down. Was she drinking? Was she alone? Was she wearing a short skirt? Did she go to a strange man’s room for coffee at 4am?
A woman must be seen to be vigilant as well as be vigilant. If she is deemed insufficiently vigilant, she will be at least partly blamed for any sexual violence that befalls her. If she’s regarded as downright reckless, that “evidence” can be used to completely exonerate her rapist. If it comes down to a he said/she said dispute over whether sex was consensual, as so many rape cases do, the dispute becomes a referendum on whether the woman seems like the sort of reckless person who would have sex with a stranger.
If a woman does go back to a strange man’s hotel room at 4am, even if she only wants a coffee and conversation, she’s more or less given him the power to rape her. No jury is going to believe she went up there for anything but sex. So, don’t be surprised if a stranger reacts badly to that suggestion.
"—Attention, Space Cadets: Do Not Proposition Women in the Elevator
I wish I didn’t need to reblog stuff like this. I wish people *got it*. But judging from the ridiculous response to these posts, stuff like this clearly still needs to be repeated.
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This actually made me cry. Ugh.
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Will always reblog
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I don’t want to think of how many times I reblogged this.
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Welcome to: If Male Superhero Costumes were Designed Like Female Superhero Costumes!
Aaaaa I dunno. I got tired of guys having no idea why girls find female superhero’s costumes kinda sexist, so I, um, made this?
My main goals were: 1) Make it so the first thing you think of when you look at them is sex, whether you want to or not. 2) make it so that any male human who looks at this feels really uncomfortable. 3) make it funny, because, well, it’s kinda hilarious really.
Not trying to start a war here, just wanted to poke a bit of fun.
So, here you go menfolk, welcome to being a girl who likes comics.
yes this is very good
:D
that batman costume, though…
Heh. I think it meets its goals pretty well. Most self respecting people wouldn’t go out in public in either of the exaggerated female or male uniforms.
I was really enjoying this until I read the slut shaming comment by some jackass named invisiblelad. Hey, you. Go fuck yourself.
HA!
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Gender policing of Black bodies. Perfect example of misogyny and hatred of anything that is connected to any spectrum of femininity/femmeness for Black people. “There is controversy in the halls of a local high school over how a teenaged boy was treated when he wore high heels to school.”
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Southern Siren - Maheshwari (from the hijra fantasy series) by Tejal Shah.
Description: Maheshwari is a hijra identified woman. I met her in Bombay during my research on hijra’s while working on the project, “What are You?” I was struck by her loud laughter, sense of fantasy and belief in magic. Her desire was to become a south Indian film star and see herself in a song and dance sequence, romancing the hero and to be romanced by him.
Watch a video below where Shah talks about the series:
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I love this picture; it’s so inspiring! (Warning, there are some nasty comments on the linked page :/)
Although I don’t know much about cosplaying, I do know that many, many people are afraid to cosplay characters that aren’t their race because they are either afraid of not being able to pull it off, and even more commonly, they are afraid of others judging them.
So when I see people of different races cosplaying characters, it makes me really happy. I’m even happier when they do an amazing job, like these girls did! I think it’s awful that so many people are afraid of the judgement they may receive if they cosplay a character who isn’t the same race as them. These girls did a fantastic job!
I didn’t know white people thought they were Japanese :P
LMAO, The comment above mine was perfect. But i really do appreciate this photo.
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Sociological images: GENDERING AND RACIALIZING OCCUPATIONS
Interesting break down on how this image is an example of how gendered and racialized the workforce is - and how that affects who has access to what professions.
The notice in Spanish isn’t a translation of the one about the hostess job; rather, it announces that two people are needed as dishwashers. It shows the way that particular positions within a workplace are often associated with certain groups, and how organizational policies may reinforce occupational segregation by sex or race/ethnicity. The role of greeting and seating customers is explicitly gendered as a hostess, while the language difference will channel applicants into different jobs. These types of practices are one part of the process that channels individuals into different positions in the workplace, both by restricting access to information about jobs and providing subtle messages to potential applicants about which positions are the best fit for them.
But wouldn’t a hostess need to know at least some English to be able to do her job? In most of the US, a monolingual Spanish-speaking person would not be a good hostess because they couldn’t communicate adequately with the customers.
I’m not disagreeing that jobs are often racialised but this is a poor example.
the issue w/the hostess sign isn’t described as being about the language, but about the fact that the job of a person who greets the customers is unnecessarily specifically gendered as feminine.
If there’s any language issue w/the “hiring a hostess” sign, I think it’s only when it’s juxtaposed w/the dishwasher sign that’s in Spanish. The fact that dishwasher sign is in Spanish indicates that they’re looking for a “certain type” of person, or have an idea of who might be interested in that job, and that person speaks Spanish, probably almost exclusively.
ima just side eye the fuck outta teramerapyar here. :| i see you. i aint forget aboutchu lol
word. heffa be trippin
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Erasure of Transgender Youth in the Sex Trade
Presentation by Emi Koyama on November 20, 2011.
Transcription of slides (Slides transcribed by Amber Yust on November 21, 2011.)
A really well developed presentation. Every person who considers themselves a trans* activist should make sure to read through this lecture.
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“TRANS” is a feature documentary now in post-production, scheduled for exclusive release in selected festivals and markets in early 2012. For more information, go to TransTheMovie.com. It offers a “up-close and very personal journey into the transgender world.” Watch the trailer.
Read more: http://www.andersoncooper.com/2011/11/15/trans-documentary/#ixzz1du3xjXvkTRANS (by SexSmartFilms)
Thank you for sharing this, I can’t wait to watch it in it’s entirety. But, where are the transfolks of color?
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For shame…
Can you read it? “White girls..hard habit to break”
Seriously. So this shirt, and countless other disgraceful bro-targeted screenprints are produced by a brand called ‘Tits.’ I love actual tits, so I’m extra upset that they turned such lovely anatomy it into a wack ‘streetwear’ label.
Let me get real here tho, why is this particularly trippin me up? well, cuz the dude is totally Asian, and may I use my mixed folks radar here too? Yup, they wanna use the Hapa good looks to sell white beauty.
The charge beneath this is deep chil’ren. If I saw some Hapa, Asian, POC whatever wearing this I’d be like….listen, you better love yourself. White-washed self hatred sure is a hard (habit?) pattern to break.
I mean really? Would the have used a WHITE male model to sell this? What are they selling? I would have liked to sit in on that board meeting.
That, and taking into account that for black MOC, they’re seen as predatory, impure, calculating, and wanting to corrupt the pure innocence of white women. So yeah, this isn’t cool at all.
[Image description: Two photos of an Asian male wearing the same shirt in different colors. On one the shirt is black and the large print righting is white. The print says “White Girl” with an image of a white woman in a bikini. At the bottom of the shirt is the line “Hard habit to break” in black font in a white box”. The other photo shows the same design but all the colors are inverted so the shirt is white, large font is black and the font in the box is white while the box is black. It has the same image of a white woman in a bikini.]
White girl is also code for cocaine. Which I am 99% sure is what this shirt is trying to reference. So there’s the implications that poc are doing hella cocaine. Then there’s the implications of comparing white women to drugs and using that as a value system for all women. White women are ~awesome cocaine~, and other women of color are what exactly?
This makes me hate white-ness more.
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Five genders
I thought this might be interesting to some of you. This is a group of people who believe that in order to live harmoniously with each other they must all openly accept all five genders. This culture is called Bugi.
In essense the five genders according to this culture are cismen (oroané), ciswomen (makkunrai), transmen (calalai), transwomen (calabai) and genderqueer (bissu).It is sad that westerners are still hung up on the rules of religion and what is considered taboo. On the plus side, it is wonderful to see other cultures moving forward in such a way.
(Beware of misgendering on behalf of the narrator)
Putting aside the anthropological scope that has always annoyed me, this is a pretty interesting video.
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A Tranny . . I Can’t Fucking Deal w| Life
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO .
she look cute though!
She look better than a lot of the girls I’ve ever seen
Eddie Murphy in drag with Chris Brown !
She really is cute. She favors Beyonce.
Deal with it.
Y’all a bunch of haters, LEAVE her fly self alone. Shiiit!
(Source: thehomieashlynn)
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‘We are Princesses in a land of Machos’
This set of photos (by Nicola Okin Frioli) are of muxe folks in Oaxaca, Mexico
I can’t seem to find much more information on this photo set ( though a cut-off blurb shows up when it’s shared on facebook) so please let me know if you can find any more!
This photo series is really dope.
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‘I Am Divine’ is a soon to be released documentary about the one and only Divine!
By the looks of this trailer, it looks like it’s gonna be fucking amazing. I fucking love Divine and am happy to see her treated with respect.
(Source: stalepopcornau.blogspot.com)
