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[katyanoctis]

I gotta say a thing about this because it makes me so fucking angry that this sack of shit is allowed in the White House. (Infowars, not senator Murphy. He’s my senator and he’s doing awesome)

I worked with a woman whose child was in that first grade classroom that got massacred in the Sandy Hook shooting. We were all glued to the news all day and were hardly working because we all knew her kid was there and half the reports coming out of the whole thing were contradictory. She dropped everything and left to get to the school to pick him up when she heard.

She waited there most of the day. We waited in the office. One of the other ladies had her cell number and they were texting back and forth; everyone came to her to check in periodically to see what was happening. All she knew was that kids were slowly filtering back to their parents.

But she kept waiting. More children were reunited with parents. We finally heard that there was one classroom in particular that had been massacred. We also heard that some children made it to someone’s house nearby (which did happen). As the hours ticked by, the options dwindled and we realized that he was probably in that classroom and was gone, but held out a little hope that he’d made it to that house.

It wasn’t until after 5 pm, when I was on my way to run tech for a dance recital’s dress rehearsal, that we got confirmation that her son was killed. I sat in the back of the theater, watching other little kids his age practice their dancing, and cried.

They kept his funeral for family only but most of the office turned out for his wake. Surprisingly, it was open casket. He hadn’t been shot in the face or head. Have you ever seen a casket for a child? It’s fucking tiny. And they’d lined it with his favorite toys. Every single person in the room was either in shock and showing it or outright crying.

The woman never came back to work. She threw herself into advocacy work instead.

And these fucking people, infowars, have posted shit accusing the whole thing of being a hoax or set up or what the fuck ever. And people BELIEVE THAT SHIT. AND NOW THEY’RE GIVEN LEGITIMACY BY BEING ALLOWED IN THE WHITE HOUSE AS IF THEY WRITE ANYTHING REMOTELY JOURNALISTIC.

I’m infuriated. So fucking infuriated.

Anyone who believes that the terror and grief and horror of that day was fake needs to go die in a ditch. Those children died, killed in cold blood. My coworker’s child was killed in cold blood. I went to the wake of a 6-year-old boy; one of 20 others all taking place at once. Those families deserve better than this set of fucking nutjobs sending them death threats and trying to delegitimize their grief.

And now they get a louder voice.

Fuck them, and fuck anyone who believes their bullshit. And fuck trump for giving them attention.

[lagonegirl]

terrorist attack in portland…white man murdered (slit throats) two ppl trying to defend Muslim women.. where is his mug shot?

[quinology]

Just so everyone knows, this isn’t making local headlines. This is not being acknowledged enough! I saw two vague reports about it, but nothing else. This is a huge headline and none of the main news channels are covering it!!

[palestinianliberator]

His name was Jeremy Christian, and he’s a known White Supremacist

Where are the white people marching to condemn this? How is it that this known white supremacist wasn’t closely monitored and this wasn’t stopped considering his radical views were already well known?

WHERE was he radicalized and how can we stop the countless others being radicalized just like him?

I’ll eagerly await the articles detailing his close links and allies and hope they’re taken into custody and investigated as well~

[comrade-jiang]

he was a member of the “proud boys” neo nazi organisation as well. he was well known and the authority did nothing about him.

[gehayi]

Here’s his mug shot:

From the New York Daily News: Jeremy Christian, 35, was booked into a Multnomah County jail in suspected connection to a stabbing on Friday that left two dead and one injured. (PORTLAND POLICE) He’s slated to be arraigned in court on Monday, May 29, 2017.

The Daily News also identified the American heroes who protected a pair of Muslim passengers: retired Sgt. Ricky Best, 53, and Reed College graduate  Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche, 21, both of whom died, and a third man, Micah David-Cole Fletcher, 21, who was wounded.

[spiritscraft-deactivated2025031]

Taliesin was a member of our community, please keep him in your thoughts. The local temple at Sacred Well is honoring him right now. And remember too the others who were threatened and killed.

[spiritscraft-deactivated2025031]

And for those asking the counter protests to the white supremacists were huge and effectively disruptive.

[time-reclaimer-deactivated20210]

I’m not surprised he isn’t serving proper jail time, especially knowing portland police’s history and also the situation at the bureau.

[lagonegirl]

[lion-of-exarchia-deactivated201]

Indonesian court sentences two gay men to public caning

Country’s moderate image undermined as human rights groups criticise treatment of men as abusive and humiliating

A sharia court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province has sentenced two gay men to public caning, further undermining the country’s moderate image after a Christian politician was imprisoned for blasphemy.

The court said the men, aged 20 and 23, would each be subjected to 85 lashes for having sexual relations.

One of the men cried as his sentence was read out and pleaded for leniency. The chief prosecutor, Gulmaini, who goes by one name, said they would be caned next week, before Ramadan starts on about 25 May.

The sentencing on Wednesday coincided with the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia.

The men were arrested in late March after neighbourhood vigilantes in the provincial capital, Banda Aceh, broke into their rented room to catch them having sex.

Mobile phone footage that circulated online and formed part of the evidence shows one of the men naked and visibly distressed as he apparently calls for help on his phone. The second man is repeatedly pushed by another man who is preventing the couple from leaving the room.

The lead judge, Khairil Jamal, said the men were “legally and convincingly proven to have committed gay sex”.

Article continues.

[hmsindecision]

Ah totally me just complaining and being upset… but I hate that I am overweight. I feel like every day I find another thing to nitpick and feel like I am even more garbage. I was never overweight until I was raped, and since then it’s just been… I don’t know. I don’t know how to phrase it. It feels like a visual representation of me being by myself because of myself? Eh I don’t know.

[dysapphoric]

I hope this is okay to reblog, but I realized quite starkly that I relate??? I never thought about it, but yeah, I didn't gain huge amounts of weight (100 lbs to 160 lbs in less than a year) until after my encounter with my rapist. I hated being skinny at the time; I wonder if I gained that weight to be unappealing?? Tho I was pretty ugly already....

I understand that feeling of internalized self loathing that comes from it though, ugh. I want to see myself as beautiful, but obv we're socialized to see ourselves as undesirable cause of this weight.

I hope you can learn to love your body someday 💕 it's such a long hard path for all women.

[lgbt-history-archive]

“I’m leaping with joy like a bird.” – Chi Chia-wei responds to Taiwan’s top court striking as unconstitutional the country’s ban on same-sex marriage . Picture: Chi Chia-Wei leads a rally for same-sex marriage, Taipei, Taiwan, November 2003. Photo by Sam Yeh, c/o @gettyimages. . Earlier today, Taiwan’s constitutional court ruled the country’s Civil Code, which provides that an agreement to marry can only be made between a man and a woman, violates the constitutional guarantees of freedom of marriage and people’s equality. The decision by the country’s top court gives Taiwan’s parliament two years to change the code and implement the ruling; if lawmakers fail to do so, same-sex marriage automatically will become available. . The decision puts Taiwan on track to become the first country in Asia to recognize marriage equality. . Chi Chia-wei, who has for decades been one of Taiwan’s most visible queer activists, brought the marriage case two years ago. “It’s been a long fight,” he said, “and I’m in need of a good sleep.” #lgbthistory #HavePrideInHistory #ChiChiaWei #Resist (at Taipei, Taiwan)

[antilla-dean]

Remember when I said the next thing rises? That from the death of the crone comes the maiden? She is nearly here. Support her so we can get back home and so there is space and place for women and girls. Forever.

[ssweetener]

UPDATE: Ariana has reached out to all families that have lost someone in Manchester and has offered to pay funeral expenses.

[klubbhead]

It’s true

[the-real-stevie-nicks]

That’s so nice and noble. I wonder if she’s badly shaken up after that?

[kittyinhighheels]

Apparently she was in a hospital because she was hysterical and had a breakdown. There are pictures of her exiting her plane and she looks really bad. Her mother and her both wore black as a sign of grief

[silent-calling]

I’m not a fan of hers, but I have absolute respect for this, and I hope she, and all the survivors, find solace and recover quickly.

[faardyn00-deactivated20180523]

Why do people keep starting their posts with ‘I’m not a fan of hers, but-’. Who cares if you’re a fan of Ariana Grande or not, is your imaginary reputation so fragile that you have to make a point of not regularly listening to her music before you can say what you wanted to say.

She is a 23 year old girl who is blaming herself for the deaths and injuries of dozens right now. The bomb was detonated at a key time when there would be as many victims as possible. It was packed with nails so that the maximum amount of damage could be achieved. Among the victims were young girls, children, an off-duty police officer and parents who were waiting to pick their children up. A man who ran to the scene to help reported helping to pull nails out of a child’s face. There are people still missing, still in critical condition, still being treated for injuries.

Nobody cares if you like Ariana Grande or her music. What has happened is horrifying and upsetting, and you should be able to pay your respects and good wishes to Ariana and all of the people involved without feeling the need to start your post with ‘I’m not a fan of hers, but-’.

[micdotcom]

High school reportedly considering expulsion after student wears off-the-shoulder top

Hickory Ridge High School honor roll student Summer was weeks away from graduating when she did the unthinkable: She wore an off-the-shoulder top. 

Now, she says she’s been slapped with a 10-day suspension, banned from walking in her commencement ceremony, possibly facing expulsion and is worried about losing her college scholarships.

According to NBC Charlotte, Summer was wearing the top on Wednesday when, she said, the principal approached her in the cafeteria to ask if she had a jacket to cover up. Read more (5/23/17)

[ophelias-revenge]

This shit is waaay more common that people want to admit. Nothing she is wearing is inappropriate.

[sangredesirena78463748-deactiva]

but yeah the dress code is a petty feminist issue it’s not like this girl’s future is at stake because of what she wore, pfffft silly western feminists

[laurierrose]

“Summer told the outlet that the principal then arrived with an armed security guard, asking that all students leave the room except for her. Summer said the principal then gave her an ultimatum: Change your top or face arrest.”

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

[bespangeled]

In the 1960′s Legally a woman couldn’t

Open a bank account or get a credit card without signed permission from her father or hr husband.

Serve on a jury - because it might inconvenience the family not to have the woman at home being her husband’s helpmate.

Obtain any form of birth control without her husband’s permission. You had to be married, and your hub and had to agree to postpone having children.

Get an Ivy League education. Ivy League schools were men’s colleges ntil the 70′s and 80′s. When they opened their doors to women it was agree that women went there for their MRS. Degee.

Experience equality in the workplace: Kennedy’s Commission on the Status of Women produced a report in 1963 that revealed, among other things, that women earned 59 cents for every dollar that men earned and were kept out of the more lucrative professional positions.

Keep her job if she was pregnant.Until the Pregnancy Discrimination Act in 1978, women were regularly fired from their workplace for being pregnant.

Refuse to have sex with her husband.The mid 70s saw most states recognize marital rape and in 1993 it became criminalized in all 50 states. Nevertheless, marital rape is still often treated differently to other forms of rape in some states even today.

Get a divorce with some degree of ease.Before the No Fault Divorce law in 1969, spouses had to show the faults of the other party, such as adultery, and could easily be overturned by recrimination.

Have a legal abortion in most states.The Roe v. Wade case in 1973 protected a woman’s right to abortion until viability.

Take legal action against workplace sexual harassment. According to The Week, the first time a court recognized office sexual harassment as grounds for legal action was in 1977.

Play college sports Title IX of the  Education Amendments of protects people from discrimination  based on sex in education programs or activities that receive Federal financial  assistance It was nt until this statute that colleges had teams for women’s sports

Apply for men’s Jobs   The EEOC rules that sex-segregated help wanted ads in newspapers are illegal.  This ruling is upheld in 1973 by the Supreme Court, opening the way for women to apply for higher-paying jobs hitherto open only to men.

This is why we needed feminism - this is why we know that feminism works

[galacticdrift]

I just want to reiterate this stuff, because I legit get the feeling there are a lot of younger women for whom it hasn’t really sunk in what it is today’s GOP is actively trying to return to.

Did you go to a good college? Shame on you, you took a college placement that could have gone to a man who deserves and needs it to support or prepare for his wife & children. But if you really must attend college, well, some men like that, you can still get married if you focus on finding the right man.

Got a job? Why? A man could be doing that job. You should be at home caring for a family. You shouldn’t be taking that job away from a man who needs it (see college, above). You definitely don’t have a career – you’ll be pregnant and raising children soon, so no need to worry about promoting you.

This shit was within living memory.  I’M A MILLENIAL and my mother was in the second class that allowed women at an Ivy League school. Men who are alive today either personally remember shit like this or have parents/family who have raised them into thinking this was the way America functioned back in the blissful Good Old Days. There are literally dudes in the GOP old enough to remember when it was like this and yearn for those days to return.

When people talk about resisting conservativism and the GOP, we’re not just talking about whether the wage gap is a myth or not. We’re talking about whether women even have the fundamental right to exist as individuals, to run their own households and compete for jobs and be considered on an equal footing with men in any arena at all in the first place.

[gehayi]

I was a child in the 1960s, a teenager in the 1970s, a young adult in the 1980s. This is what it was like: When I was growing up, it was considered unfortunate if a girl was good at sports. Girls were not allowed in Little League. Girls’ teams didn’t exist in high school, except at all-girls’ high schools. Boys played sports, and girls were the cheerleaders. People used to ask me as a child what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said I wanted to be a brain surgeon or the first woman justice on the Supreme Court. Everyone told me it was impossible–those just weren’t realistic goals for a girl–the latter, especially, because you couldn’t trust women to judge fairly and rationally, after all. In the 1960s and 1970s, all women were identified by their marital status, even in arrest reports and obituaries. In elementary school, my science teacher referred to Pierre Curie as DOCTOR Curie and Marie Curie as MRS. Curie…because, as he put it, “she was just his wife.” (Both had doctorates and both were Nobel prize winners, so you would think that both would be accorded respect.) Companies could and did require women to wear dresses and skirts. Failure to do could and did get women fired. And it was legal. It was also legal to fire women for getting married or getting pregnant. The rationale was that a woman who was married or who had a child had no business working; that was what her husband was for. Aetna Insurance, the biggest insurance company in America, fired women for all of the above. A man could rape his wife. Legally. I can remember being twelve years old and reading about legal experts actually debating whether or not a man could actually be said to coerce his wife into having sex. This was a serious debate in 1974. The debate about marital rape came up in my law school, too, in 1984. Could a woman be raped by her husband? The guys all said no–a woman got married, so she was consenting to sex at all times. So I turned it around. I asked them if, since a man had gotten married, that meant that his wife could shove a dildo or a stick or something up his ass any time she wanted to for HER sexual pleasure. (Hey, I thought it was reasonable. If one gender was legally entitled to force sex on the other, then obviously the reverse should also be true.) The male law students didn’t like the idea. Interestingly, they commented that being treated like that would make them feel like a woman. My reaction was, “Thank you for proving my point…” The concept of date rape, when first proposed, was considered laughable. If a woman went out on a date, the argument of legal experts ran, sexual consent was implied. Even more sickening was the fact that in some states–even in the early 1980s–a man could rape his daughter…and it was no worse than a misdemeanor. Women taking self-defense classes in the 1970s and 1980s were frequently described in books and on TV as “cute.” The implication was that it was absurd for a woman to attempt to defend herself, but wasn’t it just adorable for her to try? I was expressly forbidden to take computer classes in junior and senior years of high school–1978-79 and 1979-80–because, as the principal told me, “Only boys have to know that kind of thing. You girls are going to get married, and you won’t use it.” When I was in college–from 1980 to 1984–there were no womens’ studies. The idea hadn’t occurred in many places because the presumption was that there was nothing TO study. My history professor–a man who had a doctorate in history–informed me quite seriously that women had never produced a noted painter, sculptor, composer, architect or scientist because…wait for it…womens’ brains were too small. (He was very surprised when I came up with a list of fifty women gifted in the arts and science, most of whom he had never heard of before.) When Walter Mondale picked Geraldine Ferraro as a running mate in 1984, the press hailed it as a disaster. What would happen, they asked fearfully, if Mondale died and Ferraro became president? What if an international crisis arose and she was menstruating? She could push the nuclear button in a fit of PMS! It would be the end of the WORLD!! …No, they WEREN’T kidding. On the surface, things are very different now than they were when I was a child, a teen and a young adult. But I’m afraid that people now do not realize what it was like then. I’ve read a lot of posts from young women who say that they are not feminists. If the only exposure to feminism they have is the work of extremists, I cannot blame them overmuch. I wish that I could tell them what feminism was like when it was new–when the dream of legal equality was just a dream, and hadn’t even begun to come true. When “woman’s work” was a sneer–and an overt putdown. When people tut-tutted over bright and athletic girls with the words, “Really, it’s a shame she’s not a boy.” That lack of feminism wasn’t all men opening doors and picking up checks. A lot of it was an attitude of patronizing contempt that hasn’t entirely died out, but which has become less publicly acceptable. I wish I could make them feel what it was like…when grown men were called “men” and grown women were “girls.”

[tcmhollannd]

Guys, I’m not going to ask for your prayers - I myself am not religious, but I am going to ask you to signal boost this. Marawi City in the Philippines has been invaded by ISIS, they are bombing the city and a school zone, and setting detainees free from prisons. 

They say that this is a jihad, but anyone who even has a small understanding of Islam knows that Islam is not violent. 

This is terrorism.

The world needs to know. 

[tcmhollannd]

Update 1: They’re exchanging fire from both sides. Electricity is down. Friends are reporting that ISIS members are spotted in the schools and are giving them a few minutes to evacuate before they take over. Filipino media is silent. 

[tcmhollannd]

Update 2: Christian teachers are being held hostage. 

[tcmhollannd]

Update 3: Hospital staff being detained, ISIS flag has been raised in the city hospital. The fighting occurred not in the outskirts of Marawi, but on its streets, around the city hall and public market.

I’m sorry, I’m stringing together what information my friends are still giving me. I don’t know how long they can keep this up - a lot of them are saying that their phones are dying. 

[tcmhollannd]

Update 4: Armed Forces of the Philippines telling people to go underground, airstrikes coming. Mortars are being prepared too.

[tcmhollannd]

UPDATE 5: The Philippine President and his family are in Russia. The Palace remains silent. The military is trying to invalidate ground reports to cover up their fuckups. 

[tcmhollannd]

UPDATE 6: Philippine National Police and Armed Forces of the Philippines are not responding or have deployed extremely delayed support, according to the Marawi City Mayor in a phone interview. 

[tcmhollannd]

UPDATE 7: CNN Philippines has a livestream covering the entire thing, eyewitness reports are in, Military is still saying “we’re in full control” when that’s obviously not the case. 

https://web.facebook.com/CNNPhilippines/videos/1933243386915551/

[tcmhollannd]

UPDATE 8: reports in that terrorists are targeting cell towers now. 

[tcmhollannd]

UPDATE 9: GENERALS POINTING FINGERS AT EACH OTHER INSTEAD OF ACTUALLY TRYING TO HELP PEOPLE.

[tcmhollannd]

UPDATE 10: ARMED FORCES STILL LYING ABOUT THE SCALE OF THIS ATTACK. THEY SAY 15 MEN, WHEN ALL CORRESPONDENTS ARE SAYING THERE ARE AT LEAST 200.

[tcmhollannd]

UPDATE 11: generals trivializing the situation, saying “they don’t feel like it’ll last the night,” when people are literally saying that the fighting still continues. CNN just cut their livestream, will be back in 30 minutes, most are being left in the dark about what’s going on. 

at this point, i’m at a loss for words. most friends have stopped updating 30 minutes ago. sporadic updates remain. 

[tcmhollannd]

Update 12: NEW CNN LIVESTREAM LINK

https://www.facebook.com/1515763818663512/videos/1933414370231786

[tcmhollannd]

UPDATE 13.

[tcmhollannd]

REPORTS FROM LOCALS:

“They’re beheading the teachers from Dansalan College and displaying their heads in the highway.”

Numerous other tweets suggest the same thing. 

[tcmhollannd]

UPDATE 14: 

DECLARATION OF MARTIAL LAW FOR THE ISLAND OF MINDANAO CONFIRMED.

source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/898913/duterte-declares-martial-law-in-mindanao

i am terrified. our country’s history with martial law is dark, and i never thought i’d live to see this day. 

[tcmhollannd]

MARAWI CITY IS A MUSLIM DOMINANT CITY. THESE TERRORISTS PEOPLE ARE ATTACKING MUSLIMS RIGHT BEFORE RAMADAN. SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS IS NOT ABOUT ISLAM BEING EVIL. ISLAM IS NOT EVIL. PEOPLE ARE EVIL. 

IDEOLOGIES, GOOD OR BAD, ARE ONLY IDEOLOGIES UNTIL SOMEONE DECIDES TO ACT ON THEM. YOUR ISLAMOPHOBIA IS DISGUSTING. 

[xylesbian]

you don't support trans lesbians. do you even support lesbians of colour?

lesbians of color are entirely different from men who wanna pretend they’re lesbians you racist freak

[dysapphoric]

As a lesbian of color, this ask feels offensive??

[bear-butch-deactivated20210710]

the anon or my response to it?

[dysapphoric]

The ask/the anon.

[neurosciencestuff]

(Image caption: MRI Coronal View of the Amygdala. Credit: Amber Rieder, Jenna Traynor, Geoffrey B. Hall)

Mounting Challenge to Brain Sex Differences

How different are men and women’s brains?

The latest evidence to address this controversy comes from a meta-analysis of human amygdala volumes conducted by two Rosalind Franklin University students, Dhruv Marwha, CMS ‘18 and Meha Halari, CMS ‘18, working with Lise Eliot, PhD, CMS associate professor of neuroscience.

In their study, Dhruv and Meha systematically identified all MRI studies comparing amygdala volume in men and women over the past 30 years. Using meta-analysis, a statistical approach for combining the results of multiple studies, the team found no significant difference between the sexes.

“Despite the common impression that men and women are profoundly different, large analyses of brain measures are finding far more similarity than difference,“ Dr. Eliot said. “There is no categorically ‘male brain’ or ‘female brain,’ and much more overlap than difference between genders for nearly all brain measures.”

It took six months to examine thousands of papers and extract data for the study, according to Dhruv, a self-described “math and computer geek” who ran the statistical meta-analysis.

“Going through the papers was grueling work,” he said. “The meta-analysis was the fun part; finding trends, comparing amygdala volume to see if it changed by subgroups within the data.”

The olive-sized amygdala is a key brain structure involved in all types of emotion and in social behaviors such as aggression and sexual arousal. Animal studies and early MRI reports indicated that the amygdala is disproportionately larger in males’ brains. Such a size difference has been suggested to contribute to sex differences in emotionality and in the prevalence of disorders such as anxiety and depression.

Biologists use the term “sexually dimorphic” (literally, “two different forms”) to describe male-female differences. This new study shows that the term does not apply to human amygdala volume. It joins other recent research that challenges the concept of binary “male” and “female” human brains, and may have relevance to understanding disorders including depression, substance abuse, and gender dysphoria.

The CMS study identified 58 published comparisons of amygdala volume in matched groups of healthy men and women (or boys and girls) that included 6,726 total participants. Studies reporting raw amygdala volume show that the structure is indeed about 10 percent larger in male brains. However, this difference is comparable to males’ larger body size, including the 11-12 percent larger volume of males’ brains overall. Among studies that reported amygdala volumes corrected for overall brain size, the volume difference was negligible (<0.1 percent in the right amygdala, 2.5 percent in the left amygdala) and not statistically significant.

The study appeared in the December volume of the journal NeuroImage.

“I’m really excited and impressed by the resources made available by RFU for this study and Dr. Eliot’s willingness to help,” said Dhruv, first author on the paper.

“There’s a long-held idea that males and females are really different and there must be a [neurological] reason for it,” he said. “We’re working to decipher if that’s truly the case.”

In another 2015 meta-analysis, Dhruv also worked with Dr. Eliot and first author Anh Tan, MD ’16, to debunk the widely-held belief that the brain’s hippocampus, which consolidates new memories, is larger in women than men.

“There are behavioral reasons to suspect a sex difference in the amygdala,” Dr. Eliot said. “Emotion, empathy, aggression, and sexual arousal all depend on it. Also, the evidence from animal studies suggesting a sex difference in amygdala volume is stronger than it is for the hippocampus. So this finding is more surprising than our hippocampal result and suggests that human brains are not as sexually dimorphic as rats.”

This study strengthens the case for gender similarity in the human brain and psychological abilities and has implications for efforts to understand the transgender brain.

[flabbergabst]

A terrorist group (alleged ISIS militants) took over a city in one province in my country. They’re burning schools and universities and it was reported (no confirmation yet) that they’ve beheaded the chief of police. They took over a hospital and are blocking the entry and exit points of the city. They freed detained inmates. Buildings are on fire. Electricity was cut. Hospital employees were taken as hostages. Govt officials (who are far from the city, btw) are calling it ‘propaganda’. THEY’RE DOWNPLAYING THIS. People are terrified and the only way the news could reach us is through social media.

My love and prayers go to Manchester but please, if you could spare a second, give Marawi City the same love.

[wit-witch]

Eliminating Gender Norms from Clothing Styles Is Actually Transphobic

Jaden Smith wearing women's clothing apparently is insulting to transpeople ...

Trans activism reinforces gender roles.

Imagine a society where there were no gender roles, and men were free to wear dresses and makeup and women were free to look like lumberjacks if we wanted and nobody associated any type of behaviors or aesthetics or jobs or hobbies or any single fucking thing with being a man or being a woman.

Imagine a society where womanhood was only about the experiences related to the female body and had nothing to do with your personality, because all women have different personalities even if we have similar bodies and can relate to the experiences our bodies give us.

You could not be trans in such a society, because if there is no social construct of gender roles to mark and separate men and women, then you have no social construct to show others, “see, I am a woman because I am conforming to femininity!”

There is nothing wrong with being a man in a dress.

The whole point of feminism is to abolish the gender stereotypes, not to reinforce them. But trans activism is inherently and fundamentally anti-feminist, because trans activism relies on gender roles. You can’t be trans without the oppressive system of gender still being in place, if feminism was successful and everyone could be free, there would be no way for men to call themselves women because womanhood would strictly be about physiology.

[weareallstilllearningright]

Just found the original article and it’s beyond ridiculous;

Headline:“Jaden Smith as a new face of women’s wear might seem progressive - but he’s on transgender territory”

Subheading: “People like Jaden are starting to wear the trans uniform without actually stating that they are transgender, and they’re claiming it for themselves under the guise of gender-neutral fashion”

[wit-witch]

Can you link me to the original?

[weareallstilllearningright]

Sure: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/will-smiths-son-as-the-new-face-of-louis-vuitton-womenswear-might-seem-progressive-but-its-a6797461.html Enjoy gems like “Deep down your real job is to reproduce, and showing other humans your gender is the first step on that path.”

[tehbewilderness]

I did not know there was a uniform.

[cecaeliawitch]

Regressive, restrictive, misogynistic

[auntiewanda]

Transgender is an inherently conservative concept. 

[radfemcommune-blog]

“When you get out of bed in the morning the most important thing you have to do all day is tell the world what your gender is”

[jinsoulsolo-deactivated20170714]

signal boost for anyone who knows someone who went to the concert in manchester arena. be careful everyone!

[lgbt-history-archive]

“The U.S. has the resources…to develop treatments which can make AIDS a chronic manageable disease. What’s lacking is the will. President Bush planted a tree for Ryan White. We want leadership and money to fight this war—not symbolism.” – ACT UP ad announcing the Storm the NIH action, Washington Post, May 8, 1990. . Picture: “WE’RE FIRED UP,” ACT UP members during the Storm the NIH action, Bethesda, Maryland, May 21, 1990. Photo by Bob Daugherty. . On May 21, 1990, twenty-seven years ago today, over a thousand members of AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP), representing chapters from across the country, staged a massive protest at the Bethesda campus of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Citing budget cuts and bureaucratic inefficiencies that clearly could be linked to the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans (notably, even today, the NIH describes ACT UP as having been “protesting the ALLEGED slow pace of federal research”), ACT UP members occupied the NIH campus, staged a “die-in,” and plastered buildings with signs and banners. . Organizers provided participants with a list of the group’s fourteen specific demands from the federal government: increased funding in AIDS research; the development of new AIDS treatments; test treatments for all opportunistic infections and cancers; diversify research priorities; begin combination trials; end medical apartheid: open trials to all people infected with HIV; streamline access to pediatric treatments; provide quality clinical care in all studies; conduct research where the need is greatest; announce results as soon as possible; stop secret meetings; restructure task force decision-making; end conflicts of interest; and link funding to performance. . About a hundred demonstrators were arrested, including twenty-one who broke into the offices of Dr. Daniel Hoth, then-director of NIAID’s Division of AIDS, and a frequent target of ACT UP’s attention. . Despite limited media coverage at the time, many consider the action to be among ACT UP’s most successful. #lgbthistory #HavePrideInHistory #ACTUP #FightBack #Resist (at Bethesda, Maryland)

[misanthropicmephistopheles]

Beware of “Feminism Lite”

Writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls out Feminism Lite — “a hollow, appeasing and bankrupt idea.”

“But here is the sad truth: Our world is full of men and women who do not like powerful women. We have been so conditioned to think of power as male that a powerful women is an aberration. And so she is policed. We ask of powerful women: Is she humble? Does she smile? Is she grateful enough? Does she have a domestic side? Questions we do not ask of powerful men, which shows that our discomfort is not with power itself, but with women. We judge powerful women more harshly than we judge powerful men. And Feminism Lite enables this.”

[auntiewanda]

Boy did libfems step in it pissing off someone so smart who can command language to her will. 

[cecaeliawitch]

I’m so glad she didn’t crumble and give in