[oodlenoodleroodle]

I’m getting fed up with this whole “feminism as an identity” thing. Time for “feminism as an action.”

So instead of asking “can a feminist do x?” ask “is doing x a feminist action!”

Can a feminist take her husband’s last name? Mu. Null. Question un-valid, please un-ask question.

Is taking your husband’s last name a feminist action? No it isn’t. It doesn’t challenge the patriarchy in anyway, it is the status quo thing to do, it is what is expected of women, and it carries a lot of historical baggage about ownership and shit like that.

But that’s okay, your life choices don’t have to be 100% dictated by your politics unless you want them to. And it’s okay to really want to take his name while recognizing that you also want to do the feminist thing and keep your own, and it’s okay to feel conflicted and have a hard time making the choice. But no more of this enabling “as long as I made the choice myself it is a feminist choice” -bullshit. Own your choices, even the ones that aren’t informed by your feminist politics. You are still a human being and people do shit that contradicts their politics and even interests all the time. Just stop pretending that everything you do is feminist because you are a feminist, that’s not how it works.

[hauntedpamplemousse]

^^this is why bell hooks challenges us to say “i support feminist movement” or “i support feminist action” rather than “i am a feminist.” she says that once we say “i am a feminist” and make “feminist” an identity rather than a political movement or a set of beliefs and the actions resulting from those beliefs, we can become complacent and think the battle is over. 

[oncelerfucker69-deactivated2019]

[barbarianarchy-deactivated20200]

[centuriespast]

Mildred Anne Butler, Shades of Evening, 1904

[thefugitivesaint]

Nino Carbe  (1909-1993), ‘Little Mermaid’, “Heavy Metal”, Vol. 4, #1, April 1980 Source

[bideogaymes]

imagine still having to worry about performing femininity while drone striking a country. the dystopia is now lol.

[altonin-deactivated20180325]

who knew jackie chan was a unionist

[enoughtohold]

ask yourself why, for women, not shaving is always considered a political statement (usually a negative one directed at other women) while shaving is just neutral and expected, and stop projecting your baggage onto my body.

[pacificrim-archive]

i have no fucking clue what to even say about this like this is just absolutely stupefying

[groupthinker]

this is why i will always make fun of vegans

[camp-northernlight-deactivated2]

Chelsea Manning. Committed. Treason. She put American lives at risk. This is a fucking joke.

[socialistexan]

She exposed war crimes you fuck, including video of the US military killing journalists (some of whom were Americans to follow your point) and civilians including children, showed the awful conditions and tortue of the prisoners in Guantanamo (again including children as young as 13 and journalists), and revealed the civilian deathtoll from Iraq and Afghanistan to be in the 100,000’s

American lives are not inherently more valuable than any other. It is not treason to expose the crimes of your government; blind, obediant patriotism is much more harmful as it allowed the US to put even more of its citizens into a war zone to die.

Even then, none of what she leaked endangered a single troop on the ground as none of the files had anything to do with current military operations.

[c-bassmeow]

As Chris Hedges eloquently writes in his book Wages of Rebellion:  

“Manning, if we had a functioning judiciary, would have been a witness for the prosecution against the war criminals she helped expose. She would not have been headed, bound and shackled, to the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.  

But the government effectively shut down Manning’s defense team. The Army private was not permitted to argue that she had a moral and legal obligation under international law to defy military orders and to make public the war crimes she had uncovered. Because the documents that detailed the crimes, torture, and killing that Manning revealed were classified, they were barred from discussion in court, and so the fundamental issue of war crimes was effectively removed from the trial. Manning was forbidden to challenge the government’s unverified assertion that she had harmed national security.”

Some other things to consider:  

*Manning was prevented from presenting her motives to the court- that could only be raised at the time of sentencing but we all know that’s too late 

*The restrictions placed on her and her defense team prevented Manning from using the Nuremberg Principles in her favor - principles created post world war II by the United Nations to determine what constitutes war crimes 

* Had she been able to appeal to the Nuremberg Principles she would have  been set free since under them military orders do not exonerate you from committing war crimes 

*Empirical evidence now shows that Manning’s actions did not harm the U.S.’s empire building, war-loving ways 

So besides being innocent she was fucking shafted by this twisted, servile to the military industrial complex judiciary system we have that so many of us are proud of. This country is pathetic. 

[ithelpstodream]

[ghostofmaudgonne]

male-feminist: you won't have sex with me? i can't believe it, after all the feminism I did for you,

[determinate-negation]

[artfortheages]

[tamburina-deactivated20220820]

Andrew Wyeth, Laundry Day

[kalipygos]

never talk to me about your boy problems because my solution will always be to gone girl his ass. your man textin other bitches? Frame him for your murder

[ayeforscotland]

Sweet dreams folks.

[pog-mo-bhlog]

Unionists headed for worst 12th of July ever, everyone else having the best one. 

[bloodlinemagick]

i was enjoying the new jay-z album for like 2 whole tracks until he went antisemitic but honestly i don’t know why i expect better of literally anyone anymore & i’m not going to watch as only black jews or just jews in general bring it up & it’s not talked about by anyone else at all

[bloodlinemagick]

im reminded of the time that kanye was like ‘yeah jews own the entire media industry and they’re holding me back’ & when the interviewer was like ‘UH…’ he said ‘i don’t know why people saying you have a lot of money is a bad thing’

or when MIA was, in the middle of her rant about how black people didn’t ‘own rap’ [lmfao what] that it was ‘the jews who own the entire thing [media]’ who were keeping her out of performing somewhere and not, say, the fact that she was being racist

or B.O.B. amid his flat-earthery, talking about how it’s all ‘the jews’ who are ‘keeping the truth’ from everyone by virtue of ‘owning everything’

it’s that fundamental…disconnect and misunderstanding of the way antisemitism presents itself mainly [the J00Z have all the POWER and they’re USING IT TO KEEP EVERYONE ELSE DOWN] when [a] we’re just like everyone else, scattered across all classes & [b] there are always way more christians in any space or profession than jewish people but we’re focussed on bc of conspiracies that usually lead to our harrassment and/or murder

there’s no such thing as positive discrimination

also hey, the reason there are jews in moneied professions is bc you lot forced us to handle ur money bc u considered money a sinful thing but you still needed it and we were going to ‘hell’ anyway so it was the only job we could get. now everyone wants money and suddenly we’re the devil keeping you away from it

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

“You wanna know what’s more important than throwin’ away money at a strip club? Credit You ever wonder why Jewish people own all the property in America? This how they did it“

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

[bloodlinemagick]

i think what pisses me off the most is Jay-Z is arguably one of the most popular artists on the planet

how many people are going to hear that line and internalise it and take it as truth and use it as a weapon in the future, or let it colour their perception of all jewish people they meet??

millions. literal millions.

thanks, jay.

[artist-caillebotte]

Laundry Drying, Petit Gennevilliers via Gustave Caillebotte

Medium: oil on canvas