Don’t underestimate me. Don’t take me for granted. Don’t take advantage of my kindness. Be good.
Reblogged from Ursa Major ♀
Cueca sola
This is a tumblelog, kinda like a blog but with short-form, mixed-media posts with stuff I like. Scroll down a bit to start reading, or a bit more to read more about me.
“
How hard is it to be a female human being in the media? Anne Hathaway is a pretty good measure. She learned everything she could about sex trafficking and prostitution to play Fantine, and knew only too well that modern-day Fantines were probably living within blocks of the Academy Awards. As she said in her acceptance speech, ‘Here’s hoping that someday in the not too distant future the misfortunes of Fantine will only be found in stories and never in real life.’
Did that get coverage? No. Instead, the huge and expensive media beast speculated on her nipples. In a way, that makes Anne’s point. No wonder there are still Fantines, so many in the media think like pimps, traffickers and johns.
—
Gloria Steinem (via alittlecoconuttart)
Reblogged from The New Women's Movement
Actually, as one who was taught the Triangle Trade, it’s more of a description of the overall slave/rum/molasses trade between America, Europe, and Africa than a replacement for the term slavery. But the rest are pretty spot on.
After two years of heated political debate, the Texas State Board of Education spent the past week incorporating their own conservative values into final guidelines for history and social studies classes taught in the state’s public schools for the next 10 years.
Among the proposed changes were plans to “teach” children to challenge the “solvency” of “long-term entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare” and other euphemistic views of history that, for example, would remove the phrase ‘slave trade’ and refer to it simply as the ‘Atlantic triangular trade’.
I know what the term ‘triangle trade’ means and was also taught all that stuff about molasses, rum &-HUMAN BEINGS TREATED LIKE LIVESTOCK industry.
What the line in the image is referencing is the above story in which the phrase ‘triangle trade’ was additionally being proposed as a term to sanitize and replace frank descriptions of slavery in U.S. education policy.
Damn, maybe I should’ve googled it…
That’s okay, it gave me the opportunity to clarify, so, thank you! :)
Reblogged from The People's Record
I become obsessed with recording everything men don't want me to. Their motivation to quiet me seems to parallel, if not exceed, their motivation to be with, in, or around me
Our complicit silence is necessary for the continuation of the patriarchy, but see how angry the commenters are for listing all the examples of bad behavior? She’s ugly, she lacks talent, she’s just showing off because all women actually appreciate the attention of men, irrespective of how disrespectful that attention actually is. That anger is meant to ensure our continued complicit silence…
“
You think relationships are difficult? Try friendships. Try courting someone in order to convince them to join you in some nameless, shapeless Platonic complication — forever. Convince an adult stranger that you are worth a healthy slice of their limited time and energy without the prize of sex or romance.
—
Laura Jayne Martin (via sweetleviathan)
I love this. Most people I know really only care about the romantic relationship they are in. I’ve pretty much decided that if you don’t consider my friendship to be an important part of your life worthy of time and consideration you can fuck right off.
(via fuckyeahwomenprotesting2)
You know who I mean!!
Reblogged from Ursa Major ♀
“
why do you live in your body like you will be given another? as if it were temporary. you starve it, you let anyone touch it, you berate it. tell it that should be completely different. you tug at your soft flesh, wish it thinner, wish it gone. you fall in love with those who praise the way it sighs under their hands, but who praises the way it holds up your weight, even when you are falling apart?
— warsan shire (via warsanshire)
Reblogged from eyelid cinema
so to translate this:
the entire relationship needs to be on his terms, don’t ever question him or your relationship, do everything to please him
got it!
and i should be an “independent” woman but i can’t be independent to the point where i decide how i want to dress or how i want to speak or how much i want to drink. “independent” really means don’t call him on saturday night when he’s out with another girl! because that’s clingy!
got it!
This piece is such a lesson in contradictions and the expectations we place on women in society. Don’t dress like a slut, but dress sexy and always say Yes to him (rape culture). Be an independent woman, but don’t drink too much or swear. Don’t be clingy and ask where the relationship is going, but continue to do the sort of cutesy things you did at the beginning of the relationship.
Fun fact for the men out there: if this is what you want out of a woman, women probably don’t want to date you.
This.
Reblogged from STFU, Conservatives
“
As younger Americans individually eschew families of their own, they are contributing to the ever-growing imbalance between older retirees—basically their parents—and working-age Americans, potentially propelling both into a spiral of soaring entitlement costs and diminished economic vigor and creating a culture marked by hyperindividualism and dependence on the state as the family unit erodes.
—
“Where Have All the Babies Gone”, by Joel Kotkin and Harry Siegel in The Daily Beast
This hints, but only barely, at the mostly invisible work contributed by women to maintain the family unit. That work, both the emotion and physical work, is seen as dependence by the State because it inhibits women’s ability to perform paid work in a market economy. There is value in what women, as mothers, contribute to the culture and to the economy, but it is so starkly devalued - why would anyone with a choice become a mother?
Shhhh…no one tell Fox News that the “wedding kiss” picture they’re using to accompany a piece about traditional gender roles is actually of a same sex couple. (MADE MY DAY)
Congratulations! This is beautiful and I hope they have a wonderful life together
Reblogged from jessica valenti
“
Everything we feared about communism - that we would lose our houses and savings and be forced to labor eternally for meager wages with no voice in the system - has come true under capitalism.
— Jeff Sparrow (via lavenderlabia)
Reblogged from The People's Record
