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Tbh after Sandyhook, that was when I knew the conversation surrounding guns in America was dead. If nothing was done when these babies were murdered, nothing will ever be done
America didn’t. care. when 1st grade Children were massacred. There is nothing in the world that is going to stop guns in the USA. Not a damn thing.
We all know this. And it’s nauseating.
April 30, 2015
Atlanta Police shot and killed 25 year old Alexia Christian.
Alexia Christian was arrested after police found her in a vehicle that was reported stolen. Officers claim they found drugs and discovered she had a warrant when they detained her. However, they didn’t discover a gun while taking her into custody.
Alexia was handcuffed behind her back and placed in the backseat of the patrol car. Police then claim that she escaped her handcuffs and somehow managed to fire 2-3 shots at Officers Omar Thyme and Jeffery Cook while they were sitting in the front seats. The officers jumped out of the patrol car and fired 10 rounds at Alexia.
Neither officer was hit/injured. Alexia Christian was critically injured and later died at the hospital.
Both officers are currently on administrative leave.
Hey, I am a high school student being forced to write a essay about someone we consider a "true australian". Naturally the first thing I did was look up female Australian icons, which is how I ended up basically stalking your social medias, if I could ask you some questions that would be awesome, if not then i'll just go back to quietly reading (while shouting my approval on your rants of course) Many Thanks,
I’m sorry! I only just saw this message. If it’s still relevant, you can email me on [email protected]
May every dude on the planet have this Chris Traeger moment. And we’ll go from there.
Can we just take a moment as well to appreciate that Parks and Rec might be one of the ONLY episodic comedy series to ever incorporate ongoing jokes about the need for gender equality? In really blatant language? Like, so that there's never any question that this is the only way forward and that anyone who thinks otherwise is a retrosexist sear of toilet scum that needs to be flushed back to 1950?
Jason Rothenberg: What's that noise
Me: The sound of millions of lesbians discovering The 100
How many times can I watch the Clexa kiss?
YES CLEXA FOREVER.
Don't confused 'oppression' with 'first world problems', it's a rookie error among feminists.
Wow, okay buddy, you’re BEGGING for a takedown here.
First world problems? Not a thing. People who say shit like “first world problems” are massive racist, imperialist, dismissive assholes.
If you’re ever tempted to say “first world problems,” do me a favor, and pull down a map. Tell me EXACTLY where the “third world” is. Make sure you correctly identify Switzerland as part of the third world, and Turkey as part of the First World. Don’t forget that Djibouti is a part of the first world.
Literally sit down and learn what “third world” means and why people from nonwestern nations think it’s a total bullshit term.
Second: you think people in the so-called third world don’t care about shit like makeup, and love, and technology? You think they don’t care about internet harassment? You think women over there don’t care about street harassment? You think they don’t care about fashion and clothes? You think they don’t care about music and video games?
Because THEY DO.
Right now, there is a woman in burundi teaching herself how to do a cut-crease eyeshadow look. Guaranteed.
"Third world" nations have fashion shows and fashion magazines. They care about street harassment. They care about the internet. They play video games. They know more about anime than your sorry ass every will. And the idea of "first world problems," which makes it sound like all women in "third world" nations are dealing with starvation, rape, war, acid attacks etc. Is bullshit.
Rank.
Bullshit.
Women in Iran spend shitloads of money on makeup. Women in the DRC don’t just care about rape. Rape - the ONE THING westerners can be expected to know about women in Congo-Kinshasa - ranks NUMBER FOUR on the list of issues women in Congo want addressed. Political participation is number 1. Economic empowerment is number 2. Women in India are passionate about information technology, and you know what they hate? Coming to the United States, where Indian women in STEM are suddenly considered LESS GOOD than their male colleagues. My friends in Senegal taught ME how to download movies off the internet. Zimbabwe has a fashion week.
As Teju Coal points out: "I don’t like this expression "First World problems." It is false and it is condescending. Yes, Nigerians struggle with floods or infant mortality. But these same Nigerians also deal with mundane and seemingly luxurious hassles. Connectivity issues on your BlackBerry, cost of car repair, how to sync your iPad, what brand of noodles to buy: Third World problems. All the silly stuff of life doesn’t disappear just because you’re black and live in a poorer country. People in the richer nations need a more robust sense of the lives being lived in the darker nations. Here’s a First World problem: the inability to see that others are as fully complex and as keen on technology and pleasure as you are.
One event that illustrated the gap between the Africa of conjecture and the real Africa was the BlackBerry outage of a few weeks ago. Who would have thought Research In Motion’s technical issues would cause so much annoyance and inconvenience in a place like Lagos? But of course it did, because people don’t wake up with “poor African” pasted on their foreheads. They live as citizens of the modern world. None of this is to deny the existence of social stratification and elite structures here. There are lifestyles of the rich and famous, sure. But the interesting thing about modern technology is how socially mobile it is—quite literally. Everyone in Lagos has a phone.”
95% of the people who use bullshit expressions like “First world problems” have NO IDEA what life is like for people in the so-called third world. You just like sitting there derailing.
And for the record? As a white, western feminist, DAMN RIGHT I concentrate on issues in the United States. Because when white western feminists try to “save” women outside the west? We do a SHIT job of it. We’re the ones who bowl over actual congolese women, and what THEY want, and say that the #1 issue affecting them is rape. We become arms of the imperialist patriarchal complex.
Classic example: the guy who was ruling Egypt for the British got british feminists to help him in his anti-headscarf campaign in Egypt. Why did he hate headscarves? Because he wanted to *break the spirit* of Egyptians. Not because he gave a shit about women’s rights. How do I know that? Because he was the head of the anti-women’s-suffrage group in England.
When women who live outside the west do awesome things, I will signal-boost them, and I will do whatever they think I can do to help. But I follow their lead. Because these are THEIR issues, and THEY know what matters to them. Not me.
FINALLY: My problems are not trivial. My problems are not bullshit. My problems are not to be dismissed with your racist, imperialist logic. Dress codes and makeup and music and books and video games MATTER. They matter to me. They matter to my life.
So fuck you.
And fuck your assumptions.
And maybe consider that YOUR first world problem? Is that you can’t “see that others are as fully complex and as keen on technology and pleasure as you are.”
::stands up and applauds this response::
Have I blogged this before? Still bears repeating.
+ issues like #rape, #domestic violence, drought, etc, are serious problems in the “First world” as well. Poverty is a problem in the U.S. There are children starving and being shot by the police without justice in the U.S. Like…„
cypheroftyr just reblogged my post, and suddenly, all the terrible anons are worth it.
His Mother Must Be Proud.
Some of you may have come across the name Julien Blanc in the past few days. For those who haven’t, Julien Blanc (also goes by the name RSD Julien) is a pick up artist who works for the company Real Social Dynamics.
I first encountered Julien over the summer when we matched on Tinder.
(Credit: tinder)
This was a part of our conversation:
(link to the full convo bellow)
You can see our entire interaction here: http://tindersfinestbachelors.tumblr.com/post/94731409650/just-discovered-that-julien-is-julien-blanc
By the end of the conversation I came to two conclusions: 1. Julien is a psychopath 2. Julien is a man (I use the term ‘man’ lightly) who REALLY hates women.
A few weeks go by and my roommate receives the same opening message on OkCupid! Several weeks after that, a friend of mine comes across a screen grab of the exact same message posted on Facebook, but in Hebrew!
It was pretty clear that there was a site where “men” were getting these pick-up lines, so I decided, as any human with internet access would, to google Julien’s ridiculous message. Let’s just say I was not prepared for what I found.
That’s when I discovered his full name, Julien Blanc, and the RSD community.
The more time I spent researching Julien, the more angry and upset I became. Here’s a quick look at the conversations Julien has with girls on Tinder. Taken directly from his Facebook page where he flaunts his ability to pick up women:
Here he is lying about the death of his Father:
(Credit: RSD Julien’s FB Page)
Exactly. Why would someone lie about that!?
Here you can see how he uses a fake rape story to gain women’s sympathy:
(Credit: RSD Julien’s FB Page)
*PUKE*
This is clearly all one big joke to Julien. He can behave this way because he simply doesn’t see women as human beings.
Some of you must have come across the Buzzfeed article published about Julien this week (Written by Mark Di Stefano). if you haven’t - it’s a must read.
Aside from harassing and violating women, we learn that Blanc is also a racist:
(Credit: Buzzfeed)
I can go on for days and days about how horrible Julien’s behaviour is, but instead, I thought I’d let his work speak for itself. Here are some tweets that I gathered from Julien’s tweeter feed: (@RSDJulien)
Still reading?
#NotFunny #RapeCulture
#ThatsWhatRapistsSay
What about now? Still reading? Upset? Furious? Unfortunately, there’s more.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTFFFFFF
CANT. EVEN.
EVERY.SINGLE.FUCKING.TIME.
I think It’d be easier to castrate you.
… and that’s Julien Blanc for you.
Julien’s minions will claim that he’s OBVIOUSLY kidding! OBVIOUSLY!
I think any sane person will think otherwise.
After reading Julien’s tweets, you’ve obviously asking yourself, “what can I do to shut this fucker down?”
Well, you can join the #takedownjulienblanc movement, started by Jennifer Li (@JennLi123) and help keep Julien out of your hometown.
So far, Julien and his RSD minions have been banned from 5 different hotels, all thanks to the uproar caused by the hashtag. The website Event Brite has also cut its ties to Julien Blanc and Real Social Dynamics.
I have one last thing to say to Julien. From me, and from women everywhere.
*Note: if you re-blog this, make sure to reblog as text (option on the top right of the window) or else the tweets won’t show up.
#50 Scald Eagle faces off against #1701 Shaolin Spocker at Rose City Rollers Championships June 2014
I love the excellent sportswomanship here!
I have been asked about my thoughts on Lena Dunham, so here they are. I am rambling and disjointed here because I am still thinking through all this. I am only speaking for myself and many people are going to disagree with my point of view and that’s okay. We’re not always going to agree but I do...
Please click through and read this in its entirety. Roxane Gay is a fantastic writer and thinker, and she has articulated this perfectly. I particularly agree with this part where she talks about the complexities of sibling relationships, and how we cannot possibly know how they are negotiated or felt.
Why we need to get over worrying about 'man-hating' and leave the naysayers to stew in their own stupidity
My friend Cecilia Winterfox wrote this as a comment response to an article I wrote about Emma Watson and #HeForShe and I thought it was so right-on that I wanted to give it a post all of its own.
She articulates so much of my irritation with this fixation on contradicting man-hating stereotypes (which have existed since the very first woman decided to demand more from the society which relied on her oppression). It is distracting and circular - we are kept defending ourselves against the label, no matter how many times we prove it's not true, and we will keep being forced to defend ourselves because it's a convenient way to keep women afraid and to stop them from actually organising and getting shit done.
I know when I stopped worrying about being thought of as a 'man-hater' (read: ugly, unfuckable, angry, hostile, confronting), it felt incredibly liberating and stopped me being so afraid to speak openly and honestly about the oppression that women face. And actually, there are shitloads of men who understand that it's not synonymous with that, and whose presence in feminists' lives proves it to be untrue. Many of the people who positively interact with my feminist writing are men. So let's just all stop bloody worrying about it and treating it like this big thing that needs to be dealt with.
Anyway, here is Cecilia's amazing take:
"To those expressing concern that feminism is synonymous with "man hating" and that we should for some reason be directing resources to debunking this "myth", I put this question: what is man hating? What does "man hating" actually mean, and what does it do that hurts men in any way? The only answers I can come up with are: an individual "man-hater" doesn't sleep with men. She might shake her fist angrily and say such things as "all men are jerks!" because, like most of us, she's probably experienced violence or discrimination at the hands of men. She may not conform to patriarchal beauty standards - heaven forfend! The individual "man hater" - if she indeed exists, probably goes quietly about her life avoiding men, maybe not shaving her legs, maybe feeling angry, maybe wishing the world were different, fairer - all of which she is entirely entitled to do. But she wields no power, and her worst crime is what - not having sex with men? What does an individual woman-hater do? We can all recall countless examples of how misogyny is acted out on women's bodies and dignity each and every day. Collectively "man-hating" could be defined as... what? Women objecting to their oppression, perhaps? Collective consciousness and righteous anger? Women have every right to be angry, but this so called "hatred" - what does it do? How has it translated into any actual or proposed harm to men as a class, or even as individuals? A man commented on Mamamia the other day saying he couldn't get on board with feminism if it meant that women would be superior and men would be kept in stud pens. Fuck. Off. What a luxury to express theoretical fear at this imagined dystopian future which no feminist has suggested ever when the reality is that women ARE actually kept in rape-camps, and forced childbirth is used as a tool of ethnic cleansing. Every day women are raped, murdered and discarded like garbage. Women have been oppressed socially, politically, economically and physically for time immemorial the world over. Feminism is the political fight to liberate women from this oppression. It cannot be rationally construed as "hatred" of men in any defensible way, so I propose that exactly zero resources are devoted to exploring this myth any further."
Hear bloody hear. Zero more resources. Think of me as a man-hater if you want. I'll be busy over here trying to make the world a better and safer place for women to be free in.
In response to anyone who thinks they have an fierce inner black woman in them and is not in fact, a black woman See the thing about that fire and that “fierceness” is that it’s born out of our oppression, out of always being told that we are ugly, that our bodies are too fat or too muscular, that we don’t have the right kind of hair — and having to deconstruct all those things and tell ourselves that we are beautiful even though society is telling us that we are not. That strength is born out of always having to defend ourselves against white supremacy and anti-black-woman-patriachy. From years of not seeing ourselves represented in anything aligned with beauty, of buying products that are made to make us look like not ourselves. So there is no way you could have an inner black woman in you. You have not experienced our struggle, you don’t know it, you haven’t lived it, and you can’t imagine it. See, you can’t sit with us, because we haven’t been able to sit at your table since our existence in this country. And while we were being excluded from your table we made our own, and it is fabulous and fly. And of course you now want to try and have a seat at our table, take our table, use it and ignore all the labor that went into creating THAT table. But nah, sorry boo boo. You ain’t never going to be us, you can try to wear your hair like us, you can try to dance like us, talk like us, wish you were us, but know this — YOU-WILL-NEVER-BE-US
I swear to god if I ever see a person wearing that fucking shirt, I’m going to jail for murder.
IT'S A GAME CHANGER, FOLKS!
Lots of shares on Emma Watson's UN speech. I just wanted to share a different perspective from my friend Melanie, an incredible woman who's on scholarship in New York right now and whose work history includes working for NGOs in Canberra and campaigning for LGBTQI rights with All Out. "Ew. First of all, this speech is thoroughly mediocre. Secondly, this 'engaging men' stuff drives me nuts! And goes against all actual evidence. Did black people proudly launch a 'white4black' movement in order to crush Apartheid/slavery? No. Did feminists of the 70s spend all their time f*cking around trying to include men? NO. Allies will join when your movement gets power. Til then, better off focusing on yourselves. Because humans never voluntarily give up power. Power must be demanded. So can we stop pretending that Emma Watson has said anything remotely original or that men are the key to women's empowerment?! Thank you." So then, these are my thoughts: I'm glad that someone in her mainstream position holds these views and isn't afraid to share them (and shown how accessible they are to others who may think they don't need them).
However, I find it immensely patronising to keep hearing how 'game-changing' and 'inspiring' it is. Women are doing this work day in and day out, most of them to little fanfare (I'm thinking of the women who work in, for example, shelters, rape crisis centres and in lobbying groups, and also the countless women working to liberate themselves and their fellow countrywomen while being erased by an external western culture that expects or even sends in white people to try and lead it for them). It strikes me as incredibly dismissive of all that difficult, soul-exhausting work to pretend that all we need to 'change the game' is to have a celebrity come along and talk about how gender equality needs more men on board. (Note: I don't blame Emma Watson for being manipulated by a broad media which has been too heavily influenced by Upworthy style journalism. I want to be really clear that I don't think she should be accused of stupidity or simplicity, or be the target of derision. The problem isn't with EW, it's that the broad mainstream conversation around this stuff is comfortable with only ever going skin deep. It's not her fault that feminists and women are infantilised to the point where those sentiments can be marketed as incredible new thinking.) I also share Mel's frustration and disgust with this 'engaging men' business. It's disruptive and distracting, and it positions women's equality and liberation as something that men need to be coaxed into. Real allies are on board because they have done the learning themselves and they recognise that if they don't challenge the structures of power and privilege to which they are beneficiaries, then they are complicit in oppressing those who are not. But if you don't treat men like children who need to be encouraged and given rewards, you're told by so many people that you're actively turning men away from the movement and you're the reason feminists are considered hostile. It's patronising, infantilising bullshit.
Real change and liberation for women WILL NOT HAPPEN if we continue to believe that we need to make way for men to lead the charge just because we're worried that excluding them will make them feel bad. It's a total contradiction and we need to stop feeding it and fawning and swooning every time a MAN says something that differentiates women from doormats.
As Rita O'Grady says in 'Made In Dagenham' (after her husband demands that she give up the protest for equal pay and feel grateful that he doesn't drink, beat her or screw around), "That is as it should be. Jesus, Eddie! What do you think this strike's all been about, eh? Oh yeah. Actually you're right. You don't go on the drink, do ya? You don't gamble, you join in with the kids, you don't knock us about. Oh, lucky me. For Christ's sake, Eddie, that's as it should be! You try and understand that. Rights, not privileges. It's that easy. It really bloody is." That's as it should be. Rights, not privileges. It's that easy. It really bloody is.
EDIT: I feel like maybe it's worth linking to the HeforShe website that this speech is about. Unless people can see something different to me, this seems like a totally symbolic gesture that actually means nothing. So men click 'I agree' on a pledge and that's supposed to be taking action?
http://www.heforshe.org/#take-action
It's true. It's true.
I'm really curious as to why you'd include "right wing" or evangelical" along with "slut shaming" or "racist" as if they go hand in hand. I'm a pretty liberal, vegan atheist, by the way. It just seems very exclusionary and misinformed and plain wrong to include those groups together, not to mention it seems to be asking for a certain bent from your readers. Do you want the truth and real plights or a conservative bad, liberals good take on teen issues. Something to question yourself about.
Conservatism is an ideology built around the preservation of “traditional” values and social structures. But those “good old days,” for marginalized groups like women and people of color, were largely a time of oppression. Why would we want to preserve them?
Conservative politicians and thinkers—who have seen great success aligning themselves with racist, xenophobic, and evangelical voting blocs—actively work to strip women of their voices and exclude us from seats of power, proudly champion policy that keeps women out of the workforce and chained to the “traditional” family structure, promote abstinence-only education, shame and blame the victims of sexual assault, and give no credence to the possibility that women are best placed to make decisions about our own bodies.
Broadly speaking, conservatism is bad for women. So, yes, we want a “conservative bad, liberals good take on teen issues.” That is the explicit purpose of the site.
If kids want a “traditional,” victim-blaming, slut-shaming, conservative perspective, many of them can already get that at home or at school. This site aims to provide a counterpoint to that oppressive narrative, for the kids who have none and are struggling because of it.
YES YES YES. I love that IBYINYF didn't acquiesce to this dumbshit argument. Conservatism IS bad for the victims of oppression and discrimination.
Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan on the sex scene [in Kill Your Darlings] that made headlines +
GOD DANIEL RADCLIFFE IS JUST THE BEST AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN.
