January 2011
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Rape Culture 101 →
What is Rape Culture?
Rape culture is pervasive insistence that false reports are common, although they are less common (1.6%) than false reports of auto theft (2.6%).
Rape culture is pervasive claims that women make rape accusations willy-nilly, when 61% of rapes remain unreported.
Rape culture is a ruling that says women cannot withdraw consent once sex commences.
Rape culture is boys under 10...
“You believe in equality? That women shouldn’t be beaten up or raped? That we...”
– -Jessica Valenti
One of the greatest quotes I came across during my Feminism Now class.
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Think women have achieved equality? Think again. →
We Can’t Be Equal While:
Gender Roles
Men are the default and women are the Other (and therefore lesser).
Being called “girly” or a “sissy” or “pussy” are some of the worst insults you can give a man.
When a woman shows confidence in herself, she is said to “have balls”, or conversely she is a “man-eater”, “ball-buster”, or a “bitch” because she was “too” assertive.
Men are beat up,...
Representations of Women in Kanye West's... →
janedoe225:
Bikini-clad, high-heeled, hung from the ceiling by their necks with chains
Disembodied hands, groping the male form through a gate
Two women dead in bed with one man, eyes glazed over/rolled back in their head as he positions their lifeless arms around each other
Bikini-clad, dragging a dead body across the floor before spiking his heart with her heel
Sitting close together on...
"Johnny Weir comes out: Flamboyant figure skater... →
Flamboyant? Was that fuckinging necessary to say? We don’t say “Manly basketball player…” or “Moderately feminine yet masculine president…” Perhaps people would jump all over a news story saying “very dark African-American…” Just say he’s gay, no need to be assholes or prejudice about it. Either way, this is not news worthy....
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A Year of Living Dangerously: Bisexual Visibility...
A Year of Living Dangerously: Bisexual Visibility in 2011
Bi Social Network
I am Visible Campaign
A Year of Living Dangerously: Bisexual Visibility in 2011
By Stephanie Smith-Browne | Contributing Writer – January 4, 2011Posted in: Biphobia | Bi-erasure News
Visibility and sexuality are a curious match. Think about it—for the most part, human beings in most societies around the world have...
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