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Hi I love women and hate your boyfriend

[black-to-the-bones-deactivated2]

The war on drugs is rooted in racist policies . The failure of the war and drugs is obvious. We need to find a better solution, because people of color should never be the victims of racist policies. White Americans are more likely than black Americans to have used most kinds of illegal drugs, including cocaine and LSD. Yet blacks are far more likely to go to prison for marijuana, which is not a hard drug. Moreover , even when white people get caught , they get less time in prison. 

[wahbegan]

And on a final note about 1984, remember when O’Brien’s talking about all the shit The Party’s gonna do to destroy human emotion and free will basically and he’s like “We will abolish the orgasm” because HAAAAAAAA HAHAHAHAHA HAHAHA that is the most Straight Man Anxiety™ i have ever heard in my life welcome to something the entire female sex has been dealing with for thousands of years now, George you idiot

[daeranilen]

"Should parents read their daughter's texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?"

Earlier today, I served as the “young woman’s voice” in a panel of local experts at a Girl Scouts speaking event. One question for the panel was something to the effect of, “Should parents read their daughter’s texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?”

I was surprised when the first panelist answered the question as if it were about cyberbullying. The adult audience nodded sagely as she spoke about the importance of protecting children online.

I reached for the microphone next. I said, “As far as reading your child’s texts or logging into their social media profiles, I would say 99.9% of the time, do not do that.”

Looks of total shock answered me. I actually saw heads jerk back in surprise. Even some of my fellow panelists blinked.

Everyone stared as I explained that going behind a child’s back in such a way severs the bond of trust with the parent. When I said, “This is the most effective way to ensure that your child never tells you anything,” it was like I’d delivered a revelation.

It’s easy to talk about the disconnect between the old and the young, but I don’t think I’d ever been so slapped in the face by the reality of it. It was clear that for most of the parents I spoke to, the idea of such actions as a violation had never occurred to them at all.

It alarms me how quickly adults forget that children are people.

[daeranilen]

Apparently people are rediscovering this post somehow and I think that’s pretty cool! Having experienced similar violations of trust in my youth, this is an important issue to me, so I want to add my personal story:

Around age 13, I tried to express to my mother that I thought I might have clinical depression, and she snapped at me “not to joke about things like that.” I stopped telling my mother when I felt depressed.

Around age 15, I caught my mother reading my diary. She confessed that any time she saw me write in my diary, she would sneak into my room and read it, because I only wrote when I was upset. I stopped keeping a diary.

Around age 18, I had an emotional breakdown while on vacation because I didn’t want to go to college. I ended up seeing a therapist for - surprise surprise - depression.

Around age 21, I spoke on this panel with my mother in the audience, and afterwards I mentioned the diary incident to her with respect to this particular Q&A. Her eyes welled up, and she said, “You know I read those because I was worried you were depressed and going to hurt yourself, right?”

TL;DR: When you invade your child’s privacy, you communicate three things:

You do not respect their rights as an individual.

You do not trust them to navigate problems or seek help on their own.

You probably haven’t been listening to them.

Information about almost every issue that you think you have to snoop for can probably be obtained by communicating with and listening to your child.

[daeranilen]

Part of me is really excited to see that the original post got 200 notes because holy crap 200 notes, and part of me is really saddened that something so negative has resonated with so many people.

[methyltheobromine-addict-deacti]

[magical-girl]

this is me

[deep-blue-supernova-blog]

anime can be saved now

[arielenhasarrived-deactivated20]

anime’s redemption story

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[littlestpersimmon]

when someone makes a positive post abt women and ur like “yeah!!” but then they start talking abt periods and shit…. and it becomes Just Another Post That Excludes Trans Individuals

[aristoclit]

Yeah how dare those dirty bitches talk about their periods amirite keep that shit a secret ssh secret bleeding

[chadradfem]

Let women talk about their bodies you misogynist fuck

[rad-bad-and-dangerous-to-know]

“Excludes Trans individuals” in case you hadn’t noticed there are a group of trans individuals who have periods they’re called trans men.  See the thing about natal women and trans men-we’re all female.  We’re not excluding you from being female you just aren’t.  See a decent shrink and stop shitting on us for our biological reality.  Whether you want to acknowledge it or not your period becomes involved in how you relate to the world and how it relates to you.

[iloveyoualeclightwood]

tbh disregarding the recent protests to destigmatize menstruation as “white feminism” doesn’t sit right with me when woc have always been involved and it has always been a global fight:

pakistani students sanitary towel protest

indian women launch happy to bleed campaign

kiran ghandi free bleeding during london marathon

chinese swimmer fu yuanhui breaking period taboo

delhi students hold rally to campaign against menstruation taboo

pads against sexism movement picks up in kolkatas jadavpur university

aditi gupta: menstrupedia

menstruation themed photo series censored by instagram

especially as things like this are happening:

nepal teen dies in menstruation hut

an act of solidarity and protest for an issue that effects millions of women worldwide should not be silenced

[the-timeless-children]

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (via the-lost-art-of-world-domination)

[animalplace]

Only Male US Weightlifter in Olympics is Vegan

Vegan athlete Kendrick Yahcob Farris will represent the United States at the Rio games.

The only male weightlifter at this year’s Olympic games, Kendrick Yahcob Farris, happens to be a record breaker. And vegan. 

[mikkyalie]

Stuff like this makes people find vegans annoying..why couldn’t you focus on the fact that he broke a record?

[acti-veg]

Every vegan I have ever met is told constantly that vegans don’t get enough protein and are weak, but when when we hold up examples of people who clearly demonstrate that isn’t the case, we’re the annoying ones. We are celebrating the fact that this man is someone we can relate to and has achieved something great. Literally just leave us alone?

[dodezielen]

Vegan mountainclimber dies: “Well this proves it, vegans are weak!” Vegan weightlifter breaks record: “His veganism is irrelevant! Why can’t you just focus on the record?”

[korrafitness]

Mom: Stop lifting weights!! Your so wide! You’re not gonna find a man with those muscles!! 👹

Me: 😛🌮💦 what

[laurierrose]

i just remembered a class i took on the history of women in iran and the professor, who was from iran, talked about how the female body is always politicized in ways that the male body isn’t. in iran it manifested in extreme restrictions on what women were legally allowed to do after the revolution (and much much more but i don’t remember it perfectly so i don’t want to mangle it), and in the u.s. you can see it in abortion being the most consistently divisive political issue for the past 45 years.

and that reminded me of what wangechi mutu said:

“Females carry the marks, language and nuances of their culture… Anything that is desired or despised is always placed on the female body.”

[marchagainstshakira-deactivated]

me, being kicked out of school for plagiarism: um you’re not entitled to my emotional labor? find the sources yourself

[afloweroutofstone]

A work cited page with one entry, which reads “it’s not my job to educate you”

[marchagainstshakira-deactivated]

me, being kicked out of school for plagiarism: um you’re not entitled to my emotional labor? find the sources yourself

[afloweroutofstone]

A work cited page with one entry, which reads “it’s not my job to educate you”

[wit-witch]

your personality doesn’t need a label

[wit-witch]

indoctrinating little girls in to the feminine gender role is child abuse

[miss-debunk-deactivated20171224]

Bad news everyone. If you are biologically female and have been raised as such, then you have suffered from child abuse, even though there is absolutely nothing wrong with raising your female child to be feminine.

[downwithtranspeople]

To be fair if you have a girl and enforce feminine gender roles when they don’t like them then you are a dick. But most women are feminine and fit the gender roles naturally, and I believe this is someone who doesn’t believe women biologically tend to be feminine.

[wit-witch]

Women don’t fit those roles naturally, we fit them because if we don’t then we are discriminated against. 

[downwithtranspeople]

Although that is the case for some women. Sex hormones are known to have effects on emotion. Trans people for example experience this first hand when they take hrt. But you can also look at other animals to see how gender roles are actually natural. Like a female penguins for example, the male stays with the egg while the female looks for food http://animals.mom.me/tell-girl-boy-emperor-penguin-apart-9620.html So even though there are exceptions to the rules and plenty GNC women and men. Women and men do tend to act different for biological reasons.

[wit-witch]

The structure of animal societies can change over time, too.

They have their own basic “culture” which they teach to each other.

And animal’s culture is not any more innate than our own, for example when all of the alpha males in this baboon troop died off, and then the culture of the troop became more egalitarian without the alpha males around.

Gender roles in animal societies are just as constructed as our own.

The hormonal differences in men’s and women’s brains are minute, they make about as much difference as the hormones that differentiate our livers.

Women are not compelled to wear makeup because of estrogen, but because of culture and how we as a higher civilized species choose to enforce this behavior on to women.

There are plenty of GNC people because people aren’t naturally programmed by cultural gender roles, so of course many humans will disobey them. But the system exists and rewards those who do participate.

Hence why wealthier and more powerful men are the ones who want women to perform the highest degree of femininity, as femininity is a culture of subordination. 

Here’s another interesting example of how behavior is learned, here’s a cat who grew up in a show-horse stable and now the cat imitates this extremely artificial walking style which was originally human-manufactured for horses!

So even something that you would think is innate like learning to walk is actually absorbed from our surroundings!

Hormones play a small part but you’re over exaggerating their importance.

Hormones might mean that because a man has more testosterone he might be more irrational when he’s angry than a woman. It won’t change his entire personality around, though.

[strkid]

Moreover, our hormones themselves are affected by environment.

This has been shown over and over again in several studies; one of the most compelling perhaps one that measured testosterone levels when exposed to weapons.

We already know that testosterone can cause aggression? But now we also know that aggression causes testosterone.

In other words, not only are gender roles fake, but they might actually be CAUSING biological differences.

Let me repeat: MALE AGGRESSION INCREASES TESTOSTERONE LEVELS WHICH IN TURN MAKES MEN MORE AGRESSIVE, CAUSING OTHER MEN TO INCREASE THEIR TESTOSTERONE AND THEIR AGGRESSION.

MALE VIOLENCE IS CREATED, not natural

[omnivore-odyssey]

Hey @aliceopal are there some good sources for this?? I’m very interested in how testosterone levels effect and interact with aggression in human males.

[kieraplease]

Happy Blackout day! Remember this movement isn’t meant to reject or exclude anyone, but rather a day to recognize and appreciate the beauty, talents, and minds of people of color. Stay hydrated <3 (ig: kieraplease)

[theradicalresistance]

The gender identity movement is narcissistic, immature and lacking in analysis. It puts personal identites over both material reality and true liberation. It has no understanding of how the patriarchy, the gender binary and the system of gender works, whatsoever. It’s a movement for people who are too lazy to think and fight.