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Stoya™: The Choice Of Motherhood and Insidious Drug Store Signage

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:45:04 -0600

Stoya™: The Choice Of Motherhood and Insidious Drug Store Signage:

I had the privilege of growing up with a second wave feminist/reformed hippy mother. Before I sprouted my first pubic hair she handed me a mirror and a flashlight and told me to get to know my vagina. I was raised to believe that my body was mine to share with whoever I chose, whether that was…

viα hmsvictory: Gallowhill House, 1890

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:41:22 -0600

viα hmsvictory: Gallowhill House, 1890

cougarmeat: Anyone who doesn’t love ratties needs to reassess...

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:40:52 -0600

cougarmeat:

Anyone who doesn’t love ratties needs to reassess their life choices!

thefrogman: Fashion is really going down the toilet.

Sat, 11 May 2013 12:16:24 -0600

thefrogman:

Fashion is really going down the toilet.

albertine-s: Don’t talk. I’ll take care of you.

Fri, 10 May 2013 22:43:09 -0600

albertine-s:

Don’t talk. I’ll take care of you.

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Wed, 08 May 2013 18:00:35 -0600

thefrogman: I’m sure that will wash off eventually. [original...

Tue, 07 May 2013 01:42:03 -0600

thefrogman:

I’m sure that will wash off eventually.

[original image via okc goldmine]

"If owning a gun and knowing how to use it worked, the military would be the safest place for a..."

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:30:17 -0600

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If owning a gun and knowing how to use it worked, the military would be the safest place for a woman. It’s not.

If women covering up their bodies worked, Afghanistan would have a lower rate of sexual assault than Polynesia. It doesn’t.

If not drinking alcohol worked, children would not be raped. They are.

If your advice to a woman to avoid rape is to be the most modestly dressed, soberest and first to go home, you may as well add “so the rapist will choose someone else”.

If your response to hearing a woman has been raped is “she didn’t have to go to that bar/nightclub/party” you are saying that you want bars, nightclubs and parties to have no women in them. Unless you want the women to show up, but wear kaftans and drink orange juice. Good luck selling either of those options to your friends.

Or you could just be honest and say that you don’t want less rape, you want (even) less prosecution of rapists.

When people scoff at the message that we need to teach people not to rape they make the assumption that the lesson goes: “Rape is bad. Don’t do it.” That is not what the lesson looks like. The lesson, once it is adopted, will be that every single person out there, regardless of any defining personal characteristics, is a human being of value, and with a right to make their own decisions about what bodily contact to have with others. There is nothing a person can do that makes them less deserving of that right. Violating any person’s right to control the when, what and who with of their sexual interactions is wrong. Do it and you will be punished, and you will deserve it.

N.B. While not all those who are raped are women, and not all rapists are men, much less rape apologists; rape prevention myths are always targeted at women, and this post reflects this. My language in the final paragraph is very consciously gender-neutral.

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- A Short Post on Rape Prevention (via stfuconservatives)

crowcrow: Debenhams shows diversity in fashion… By Kay,...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:09:15 -0600

crowcrow:

Debenhams shows diversity in fashion…

By Kay, Editorial Assistant , The Debenhams Blog

“Here at Debenhams we believe that anyone can look fabulous in our range- which is why we’ve decided to break with Convention…

“Our Customers are not the same shape or size so our latest look book celebrates this diversity. We would be delighted if others followed our lead. Hopefully these shots will be a step, albeit a small one, towards more people feeing more comfortable about their boidies,’” said Ed Watson, Director of PR, Debenhams”

Read more (and see the rest of the photos)

this is so wonderful.

videohall: Husky throws a temper tantrum for watching TV on the...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:29:36 -0600

videohall:

Husky throws a temper tantrum for watching TV on the couch. Cutest tantrum I’ve ever seen

> Luka: Why? I know it’s just for some bs.

> YOU DON’T HAVE ENOUGH BADGES TO CONTROL ME!

> “I’m coming” -Dog (at the end)

> “Mooooooom, let me finish my shoooooow.”

I love huskies! They’re like gigantic cats. Most dogs are like “Yeah okay” but huskies? “YOU CAN’T MAKE ME. FUCK YOU.”

sheisahopelessromantic: marrymyface: bisexual guys are assumed to be secretly gay bisexual girls...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:31:06 -0600

sheisahopelessromantic:

marrymyface:

bisexual guys are assumed to be secretly gay

bisexual girls are assumed to be secretly straight

both are assumed to secretly like men

see what i’m getting at?

#men in society: forever believing that the world revolves around their dicks #talk about egocentricism

“The world is full of fucking ‘why’ man. You tell people...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:24:49 -0600

“The world is full of fucking ‘why’ man. You tell people something, they’ll tell you ‘why’. Throw a rock, and you’ll hit somebody with ‘why’. Like, ‘hey, man, I want to make a movie.’ ‘Why?’ ‘Why do you think you can do that?’ ‘Why?’ ‘Why?’ ‘Nobody else is doing it. Why are you doing it?’

You go out and find ‘Why not?’ You surround yourself with ‘Why not?’ People who are just like, ‘Why not?’ Where you’re like, ‘Hey, man, I’m gonna try something!’ and they’re like, ‘All right, why not? Let’s give it a shot.’ People who will try to help you try to help you do your dream, make your dreams come true and shit, and you’d do the same for fucking them. We’re all in this together, and it costs nothing to encourage a fucking artist.

Just like Wayne Gretzky said, like, ‘you miss 100% of the shots you never take’. It’s always worth the fucking shot — I’m talking about artsy shit, you know: writing a blog, fucking making some music, making a movie, making a fucking cupcake store or a fucking knitting store or fucking putting together a YouTube clip, just anything that’s just not fucking ‘oh, we must do this because it’s part of my job’ or ‘this will get me money’. Some shit you just do to see if it can be done.” ― Kevin Smith

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Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:31:01 -0600

my-stereo-heart-beats-for-you: THIS IS THE BEST RESPONSE TO ONE...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:45:42 -0600

my-stereo-heart-beats-for-you:

THIS IS THE BEST RESPONSE TO ONE OF THESE ICEBERG THINGIES

ze-tarts: Done doing these so here they all are in one place!...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:34:09 -0600

ze-tarts:

Done doing these so here they all are in one place! Fully Dressed Redesigns of Superheroines.

Point of this: An exercise in character design, attempting to clothe the heroines nearly all the way and not making them painted-on, while still keeping the look of their original costumes in some way. Hopefully keeping them looking as iconic as the originally were. Just showing what can be done with a costume breaking outside the barrier of the norm.

NOT the point of this: some moral code I’m trying to push on you

Sorry if there was a character you wanted me to do that I didn’t get to!

YunaFire: I'm trying to think of a thing

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 03:49:11 -0600

YunaFire: I'm trying to think of a thing:

yunafire:

it was a book series I read several years back early teens. it wasn’t in the YA section that I can remember (and lol I wasn’t even a YA) but the librarians still let me check it out no problem cuz wtf do they care.

ANYWAY. I think it was a trilogy. It had werewolves. They sometimes kept humans as…

Help us find this series!

You’re Probably Not Really a Nice Guy (x)

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:43:29 -0600

You’re Probably Not Really a Nice Guy (x)

thefrogman: Amazing Volcanic Photography of Martin Rietze...

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 12:47:42 -0700

thefrogman:

Amazing Volcanic Photography of Martin Rietze [website]

[h/t: scinerds]

kebechet: androphilia: Life With The Hijab By Sadaf Syed ①...

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 12:41:09 -0700

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kebechet:

androphilia:

Life With The Hijab By Sadaf Syed

① University of Michigan’s DJ Hadeel Al-Hadidi created and broadcasts her own hour-long radio program.
② Scholars teach that Islam encourages sports and physical activity for all, wrote Sayed. The prophet Muhammad is said to have invited his wife Aisha to a foot race.
③ Nadia Afghani, left, and Nadia Chohan make up Hijabi Deafness, a Muslim punk rock/hip-hop band.
④ Michelle Yim, a network engineer, skis, swims, body surfs, rides motorcycles – all while wearing the hijab.
⑤ Atlanta-based Mariem “Punchenella” Brakache (5-5, 1KO) is a former IBA Junior Middleweight Champion, boxing coach and renowned trainer.
⑥ A ballerina and tap dancer from Texas, Hiba Awad is anxious to prove “how versatile and unique a Muslim woman can be.”
⑦ Nousheen Yousuf said the practice of tae kwon do “taught me to treat daily prayers as a real meditation, where the focus is on my relationship with God.”
⑧ Nosheen Cassim, a part-time makeup artist and full-time mother of two, was born and raised in Illinois, but has been threatened by strangers who told her to “go back to where she came from.”
⑨ No matter how different they may look from other beachgoers, Sama Wareh, left, and Aurelia Khatib believe in doing what they love, including surfing.
⑩ Asma Azim, a step-grandmother from Pakistan, has been a manager of mechanics and a truck driver for more than a dozen years. She said her male contemporaries treat her with respect – especially when they discover she can repair her own engine.

Absolutely lovely.

Prosecutors in the UK asked for a witness report from the...

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 14:44:48 -0700

Prosecutors in the UK asked for a witness report from the officer PC Peach, not knowing that Peach is the name of a police dog from a West Midlands station. Officers jokingly filled in the form above but are now being disciplined for their actions.

(via tinysunkern)