[snoopysfriendwoodstock]

let’s say that being hot as a form of empowerment for all women could even be a thing. let’s say it’s possible to look hot for yourself and not for men. where did your idea of hotness come from? why is it important to you to look hot? who decides what’s hot? why must you change something about yourself or cover something about yourself to get hot? what makes you not hot at your most unmanicured state? why? how did you know what to do to get hot? do the people around you view hotness in the same way?

[snoopysfriendwoodstock]

ALSO people can accept theoretically that beauty standards are inherently racist and anti-semitic yet cannot then apply that to the idea that placing value in your looks is not going to be empowering for all women? you got a nose job “for you.” okay. so why? what about YOUR nose needed to be fixed? and where did that idea come from?

[hawaiiansdonotblog]

[dreamergirly]

I weep bcause I think I hardly ever read anything funnier

[kyotemeru-arts]

The never ending Chepi posting uwu

[noorshirazie]

“Men judge us by our broad hips and forget their birthplace.”

— Noor Shirazie

[thickemadame]

Say that shit

[papasmoke]

My favorite pastime is going into the replies of Bernie Sanders tweets and finding the most batshit insane opinions a human could possibly have

[blueribboninmyhair]

alanis morissette (1995) björk (1994) hope sandoval (1993) fiona apple (1997)

[asoftwrongness]

bad advice barbie

[mamma-wolf]

“My eldest daughter, Suldana, is in love with another woman. She is eighteen and she spends her days working at our kiosk selling milk and eggs, and at night she sneaks out and goes down to the beach to see her lover. She crawls back into bed at dawn, smelling of sea and salt and perfume. Suldana is beautiful and she wraps this beauty around herself like a shawl of stars. When she smiles her dimples deepen and you can’t help but be charmed. When she walks down the street men stare and whistle and ache. But they cannot have her. Every day marriage proposals arrive with offers of high dowries but I wave them away. We never talk about these things like mothers and daughters should; but I respect her privacy and I allow her to live.”

— - Diriye Osman, “Fairytales For Lost Children.”

[mossghoul]

If you stop wearing makeup, stop getting manicures, stop plucking your eyebrows and dyeing and heat treating your hair and fastidiously putting on night repair serums and pinching your feet into pointy heels and sucking yourself in with spanx and wearing impractical lingerie and bleaching the tiny hairs above your lip, the world won’t stop.  You’ll be the same strong, compelling, lovely woman you always have been. Just as radiant, just as worthy of love and desire and respect. Other people may treat you differently, but that doesn’t alter your value as a woman. Your value transcends your conformity to femininity.

[lavenderpanda-deactivated202604]

why is femininity here being equated with artificiality?

[mossghoul]

Because baby girls aren’t born wanting to wing their eyeliner and restrict calories and defer to men. Femininity consists of a set of behaviours that is socially-imposed upon women to demarcate women’s social class. That’s why so many aspects of femininity are actively harmful and restrictive. Femininity isn’t simply about expression, it is an all-encompassing role imposed on a class of people. The failure of female people to conform to this role leads to violence and discrimination.

This post isn’t calling women fake, it’s drawing attention to the fact that femininity isn’t inherent to women, and isn’t a natural state of being. Femininity as we know it is enforced by men, assisted by female self-policing. If patriarchy did not exist, and little girls weren’t socialised into femininity from birth, then femininity as we know it would not exist.

[catchymemes]

[4838385854948383885848383-deact]

“you can’t criticize hijab if you’re not muslim” lol no sorry I don’t play identity politics like that. until women are not longer harassed, imprisoned, or killed for not wearing hijab in many countries I won’t stop criticizing it and I will never stop criticizing the misogynistic pedophiliac implications of putting GIRL CHILDREN in modesty headscarves. hijab is a tool of patriarchal oppression, objectively

[pansoph]

for chinese new year they get all these famous actors and comedians together and they do a lil show and one of the comedians was like “i was in a hotel in america once and there was a mouse in my room so i called reception except i forgot the english word for mouse so instead i said ‘you know tom and jerry? jerry is here’

[beefmilkthings]

jerry is here

[whitepeopletwitter]

[islamisantiwoman-deactivated201]

Sexism in Islam

A woman’s testimony is half that of a man, because of her deficiency in intellect. source

A woman isn’t allowed to pray or fast while on her period, therefore she is religiously deficient. source

Women make up a majority in hell, and a minority in heaven (because they are disobedient to their husbands). source source source

Female genital mutilation is either mandated or encouraged. source source source source source

A man has to wait until his wife is “pure or pregnant” before divorcing her, and not on her period. source

Muhammad orders a man to divorce his wife though he loves her, because the man’s father disapproves. source

Muhammad cursed “mannish” women (e.g. those that wear sandals). source

Muhammad said that women are the most severe trial for men. source

Women have done the most harm to men. source

There are many men that have attained “perfection” but only three women have. source

Muhammad married a 6 year old and consummated that marriage when she was 9, and he was 54. source source source source source source source source

Dress code for women is more strict that the dress code for men. source

Husbands are allowed to strike their wives for disobedience. source

Men will be married to “houris” in heaven. source source source

When a woman annoys her husband, these houris curse her and tell her that she’s just temporary and soon he’ll leave her to be with them. source source

A man will be given 72 virgins in heaven. source source

(This post will be updated continuously so always check the source to make sure you’re reblogging the most up to date!)

[todaysbird]

DIRECT ACTION

[deactivated-355224788-deactivat]

Vandalism doesnt change the system, it just slows it down and costs money. And no costing money won’t change things either. It just goes on the national debt.

[todaysbird]

are you…talking to the cockatoo

[thestanconfessions]

[thestateonmtv]

the nature of thestanconfessions ensures that geniuses like this go uncredited and that’s one of history’s greatest tragedies

[theproblematicblogger]