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If we teach women that there are only certain ways they may acceptably behave, we should not be surprised when they behave in those ways.
And we should not be surprised when they behave these ways during attempted or completed rapes.
Women who are taught not to speak up too loudly or too forcefully or too adamantly or too demandingly are not going to shout “NO” at the top of their goddamn lungs just because some guy is getting uncomfortably close.
Women who are taught not to keep arguing are not going to keep saying “NO.”
Women who are taught that their needs and desires are not to be trusted, are fickle and wrong and are not to be interpreted by the woman herself, are not going to know how to argue with “but you liked kissing, I just thought…”
Women who are taught that physical confrontations make them look crazy will not start hitting, kicking, and screaming until it’s too late, if they do at all.
Women who are taught that a display of their emotional state will have them labeled hysterical and crazy (which is how their perception of events will be discounted) will not be willing to run from a room disheveled and screaming and crying.
Women who are taught that certain established boundaries are frowned upon as too rigid and unnecessary are going to find themselves in situations that move further faster before they realize that their first impression was right, and they are in a dangerous room with a dangerous person.
Women who are taught that refusing to flirt back results in an immediately hostile environment will continue to unwillingly and unhappily flirt with somebody who is invading their space and giving them creep alerts.
People wonder why women don’t “fight back,” but they don’t wonder about it when women back down in arguments, are interrupted, purposefully lower and modulate their voices to express less emotion, make obvious signals that they are uninterested in conversation or being in closer physical proximity and are ignored. They don’t wonder about all those daily social interactions in which women are quieter, ignored, or invisible, because those social interactions seem normal. They seem normal to women, and they seem normal to men, because we were all raised in the same cultural pond, drinking the same Kool-Aid.
And then, all of a sudden, when women are raped, all these natural and invisible social interactions become evidence that the woman wasn’t truly raped. Because she didn’t fight back, or yell loudly, or run, or kick, or punch. She let him into her room when it was obvious what he wanted. She flirted with him, she kissed him. She stopped saying no, after a while.
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Harriet J on Another post about rape
Shattering truth.
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this post is…giving me life.
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drowzysinceday:
yellow-dress:
drowzysinceday:
yellow-dress:
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drowzysinceday:
theedgeofnight:
dearjimmoriarty:
This is the shit that academicsilence is saying.
So I’m asking allies, cis people who have promised our DMAB sisters their support, STEP UP HERE.
She’s one of Cathy Brennan’s people, and she’s a professor.
Getting in on this now. Sorry. Signal boost to fellow cis allies? Let’s go collect our folks.
a transgender person is still they’re original gender. for example a trans”woman” is still a man, even after they’re surgery and the behavior they wish other people to use around them. a Y chromosome is a Y chromosome; neither science nor surgery will change that. they are there for, by definition, incapable of being lesbians.
@drowzysinceday… just stop.
shame i put gender in the first line instead of sex, it matters not though so come down off your high-horse; my point still stands. anyone born a man will never be able to be a lesbian. biology is biology. you can have you’re own opinions but you can’t have you’re own facts. end of
Just stop, okay? You are being cissexist, dehumanizing and rude. If you’re all about science, then why don’t you read this:
Biologists tell us that sex is a complicated matter, much more complex than what we may have been taught in school. A person has XX chromosomes is generally considered female, while a person with XY chromosomes is generally considered male. However, there are also people who have XXY, XYY, and other variations of chromosomes; these genetic differences may or may not be visibly apparent or known to the person.
Some people are born with XY chromosomes, but are unable to respond to testosterone and therefore develop bodies with a vagina and breasts, rather than a penis and testes. A variation in gender may just be part of the natural order and there are more varieties than we generally realize. People with biological differences in gender may be considered intersex; they may or may not identify as transgender.
There are medical theories about why people are transgender. Some speculate that fluctuations or imbalances in hormones or the use of certain medications during pregnancy may cause intersex or transgender conditions. Other research indicates that there are links between transgender identity and brain structure
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Even if you have an extra gene, if you have a y chromosome you are male. maybe a mutant male who can’t have kids, but male none the less. if a normal person wants to be like the other gender, fine whatever. but a snip and sew doesnt change someones sex, and so can’t make them straight/gay.
Now look, idgaf what you have to say, or what bullshit pseudoscience you can find to back your case, you’re wrong. i dont care what tranpeople do, neither do i care about what lesbians do. i am telling you the difference between them. get off my case, prick.
“tranpeople”?? “MUTANT MALE”??! And you call ME a prick?
You wanna know the reason why trans* suicide rates are so high? People like you.
@drowzysinceday
Why don’t you go fucking read what yellow-dress just fucking showed you? STOP MAKING GENDER CUT AND DRY. It goes far, far beyond that, and if you ignore the other contributing factors to gender identity, you are over-simplifying humanity. And don’t you fucking dare call trans* people mutants. What on earth are you thinking?!
People can’t be split into “XY = male” and “XX = female.” FUCKING DEAL WITH IT.
Trans* women = women.
Lesbians = women who are attracted to other women.
THEREFORE
Trans*women who are attracted to other women = lesbians (if they choose to call themselves that)
THIS. ISN’T. HARD.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4p71ilOGr1r1hpteo1_1280.png)
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This is the shit that academicsilence is saying.
So I’m asking allies, cis people who have promised our DMAB sisters their support, STEP UP HERE.
She’s one of Cathy Brennan’s people, and she’s a professor.
Getting in on this now. Sorry. Signal boost to fellow cis allies? Let’s go collect our folks.
a transgender person is still they’re original gender. for example a trans”woman” is still a man, even after they’re surgery and the behavior they wish other people to use around them. a Y chromosome is a Y chromosome; neither science nor surgery will change that. they are there for, by definition, incapable of being lesbians.
@drowzysinceday… just stop.
shame i put gender in the first line instead of sex, it matters not though so come down off your high-horse; my point still stands. anyone born a man will never be able to be a lesbian. biology is biology. you can have you’re own opinions but you can’t have you’re own facts. end of
Just stop, okay? You are being cissexist, dehumanizing and rude. If you’re all about science, then why don’t you read this:
Biologists tell us that sex is a complicated matter, much more complex than what we may have been taught in school. A person has XX chromosomes is generally considered female, while a person with XY chromosomes is generally considered male. However, there are also people who have XXY, XYY, and other variations of chromosomes; these genetic differences may or may not be visibly apparent or known to the person.
Some people are born with XY chromosomes, but are unable to respond to testosterone and therefore develop bodies with a vagina and breasts, rather than a penis and testes. A variation in gender may just be part of the natural order and there are more varieties than we generally realize. People with biological differences in gender may be considered intersex; they may or may not identify as transgender.
There are medical theories about why people are transgender. Some speculate that fluctuations or imbalances in hormones or the use of certain medications during pregnancy may cause intersex or transgender conditions. Other research indicates that there are links between transgender identity and brain structure
Even if you have an extra gene, if you have a y chromosome you are male. maybe a mutant male who can’t have kids, but male none the less. if a normal person wants to be like the other gender, fine whatever. but a snip and sew doesnt change someones sex, and so can’t make them straight/gay.
Now look, idgaf what you have to say, or what bullshit pseudoscience you can find to back your case, you’re wrong. i dont care what tranpeople do, neither do i care about what lesbians do. i am telling you the difference between them. get off my case, prick.
“tranpeople”?? “MUTANT MALE”??! And you call ME a prick?
You wanna know the reason why trans* suicide rates are so high? People like you.
Why don’t you go fucking read what yellow-dress just fucking showed you? STOP MAKING GENDER CUT AND DRY. It goes far, far beyond that, and if you ignore the other contributing factors to gender identity, you are over-simplifying humanity. And don’t you fucking dare call trans* people mutants. What on earth are you thinking?!
People can’t be split into “XY = male” and “XX = female.” FUCKING DEAL WITH IT.
Trans* women = women.
Lesbians = women who are attracted to other women.
THEREFORE
Trans*women who are attracted to other women = lesbians (if they choose to call themselves that)
THIS. ISN’T. HARD.
Oh, but this is not a matter of “glorifying” obesity. Glorifying obesity would take multiple TV shows depicting fat folks riding unicorns and devouring warm pies whilst counting the bags of money they’ve gained from being fat. Indeed, if simply putting fat people on television was enough to “glorify” obesity, then The Biggest Loser should have done the trick years ago. It hasn’t, because The Biggest Loser is a show built on the humiliation and punishment (self-inflicted or otherwise) of fat people. When we say that putting fat people on television will “glorify” their bodies, what we really mean is that we are uncomfortable giving fat people any attention that is not overtly negative. Because fat people need to be told: don’t be fat. Being fat means you are not entitled to a normal life. Being fat means you are not entitled to love. Being fat means you are not entitled to humanity, much less dignity.
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http://www.fatshionista.com/ (via feministpizza)
And if you are even a little bit “overweight” by anybody’s standards, you better at least be trying to lose weight. Otherwise, you are totally unacceptable.
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View Larger good work daily mail
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So from what I can tell, working at the Daily Fail is just an intellectual exercise in seeing how many different ways you can write “LADY LEFT HOUSE WITH BOOBS”.
You should have big boobs or you aren’t beautiful.
But not too big, or you’re fat. And unhealthy. And gross. Ew.
But you should show them off or you aren’t sexy.
And if you aren’t beautiful or sexy enough, you’re worthless.
But like, ew, put them away already.
You slut.
Go away, media.
You are a beautiful person so it should come as no surprise that I have a giant feminist crush on you. I wish you didn't live so far away from me so we could be buds. <3333from Anonymous
LET ME LOVE YOU
When you discuss the wage gap, here are a few things to keep in mind:
- Only white women make $0.77 to a man’s dollar.
- Black women make about $0.68 to a man’s dollar.
- Latina women make about $0.58 to a man’s dollar.
Intersectionality matters.
And men of color make less than white women.
