March 2012
116 posts
Theon Greyjoy is my book crush: Fangirls &... →
aleciamariana:
Now that the Sandor Clegane threads at Westeros.org have been closed, I have a few brief words to say on the subject.
I have been a poster at Westeros.org for several years now. The surge of female posters at the forum has been an unexpected pleasure of late. Part of how…
February 2012
76 posts
“The following day, I attended a workshop about preventing gender violence,...”
– Why I Am A Male Feminist (via meggannn)
Parisian Skies: Guide to rape apologists →
notanotherlesbianblog:
**Trigger Warning** Rape apologists, rape naysayers, rape deniers
Mr. What About The Men “The real problem here is all these false rape accusations that are destroying our society! 90 million men are falsely accused of rape every second! A woman just has to sort of…
fuck genderswapping, i hereby demand all cast and...
imberantiel:
pilgrimkitty:
fwips:
John Watkittens
Sherlockitty Holmes
Meowcroft Holmes
James Pawiarty
I approve.
DEAD
“Rape culture is a culture in which people who have survived a violent crime are...”
– (i wish i could put this on a business card and hand it out to people who make rape jokes. the flip side would say FUCK YOU)
So succinct and accurate.
(via smexybexy)
“No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your...”
– President Barack Obama
(via heytinafey)
When did he say this?
(via newwavefeminism)
He didn’t, from what I can find it’s a comment from here.
(via iamthecrime)
On the rich getting less rich: "People who don’t... →
inothernews:
I don’t know whether to cry or pull my hair out or both.
waitingforteaagain:
Words to keep inside your pocket:
Quiescent - a quiet, soft-spoken soul.
Chimerical - merely imaginary; fanciful.
Susurrus - a whispering or rustling sound.
Raconteur - one who excels in story-telling.
Clinquant - glittering; tinsel-like.
Aubade - a song greeting the dawn.
Ephemeral - lasting a very short time.
Sempiternal - everlasting; eternal.
Euphonious -...
“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are...”
– Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 (via ifeelhappiestwhenimasleep)
you know who would have made a great American...
crystalzelda:
alaskan-bullw0rm:
iheartrogues:
fwips:
Hey Sherlock, get over here, man.
I found some
Fresh Prints.
Now this is a story all about how
My life got flipped, turned upside down
And I’d like to take a minute, just hold my Glock
I’ll tell you how I became the friend of a man named Sherlock
I would have accepted this casting, yes.
ladyofriverrun:
If I have to read one more chapter where Tyrion bitches about the fact that his 14 year-old wife who was forced to marry him, despite the fact that his family is responsible for the deaths of the entirety of hers, doesn’t want to sleep with him, I’m going to scream.
NEW STUDY: "Birth and abortion rates among U.S....
solitaryforager:
The teen abortion rate in 2008 dropped to the lowest rate seen since 1972 at 17.8 per 1,000 teen girls and women, the analysis found, and was down 59 percent from 1988 when the abortion rate peaked at 43.5 per 1,000 teen women.
Catholic Church: your argument is invalid.
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (via quote-book)
My favourite book
Venus as a Boy: White people on racism →
angryfuckingliberal:
People of color are incarcerated at a higher rate with greater sentences for the same charges faced by white people. “…”
Unemployment is higher for POC than it is for white people. “Well, they should find jobs, then.”
A disproportionate amount of people of color are…
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“There is a dangerous myth going around this country that sexism doesn’t exist...”
– Margaret Cho (via morewaterdeeperbreaths)
“Sex-negative messages don’t keep people from having sex. They keep people from...”
– Sex-Negative Education and the Spectre of Rape « Sex Positive Activism (via anorable)
a dream of passion: on asoiaf, -isms, and the... →
villainesses:
As you may have noticed, there’s been a post going around the ASoIaF/GoT fandom asserting that those fans who have taken it upon themselves to call out problematic statements they see in the tags are running a dictatorship of sorts, in which there are definitive rules about which characters…
“I don’t want to be a feminist anymore. Like a five-year-old, I want to close my...”
– I don’t want to be a feminist anymore. (via erythronium)
“Stop degrading the act of sex by calling it ‘opening your legs.’
I’m so sick...”
– flowersarebetterthanbullets on This Post (I made this a quote, because the original picture with text was visually offensive. These pro-life people need to take a graphic design class.)
“He [Rick Santorum] is a staunch opponent of abortion, even in the case of rape....”
– John Oliver (via 24ribs)
Santorum: Being Female is a Mental Disorder →
goddessofcheese:
sleazeandhustle:
mrsjojharrison:
It has been my experience that when dealing with females, you need to treat them as though they have a mental disorder… especially those that are constantly seeking equality in the workplace, the military, and in the home. Women need to know their place and need to know when it is okay for them to speak. They were put on this earth for two...
“On a somewhat serious note today because of a conversation the other day:
I...”
– You Didn’t Thank Me For Punching You in the Face « Views from the Couch (via how-to-kiss-distinctly-american)
