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son--of--liberty

“You can be anti-slavery for yourself and be pro-slavery for others because it’s none of your business.”

kompanie-mutter-deactivated2021

if 👏 you 👏 don't 👏 like 👏 slavery 👏 don't 👏 buy 👏 a 👏 slave 👏

celestial-prism999-deactivated2

Okay, I know we're all dunking on Brooke here, but the sad thing is that this arguement probably was how slavery was defended back in the day. Reducing societal evils down to a "personal choice" is a sadsack excuse that has been used since injustice in human civilization has existed.

thesmallbutknowingclown-deactiv

^^

Or it could even be phrased like:

“You can support Jews for yourself and be pro-Nazi for others because it’s none of your business.”

Come on, that line of logic has as much strength as a twig.

When human beings are being killed, it’s everyone’s business.

swinging-from-my-cable

Hey folks, it’s not the lack of stay-at-home mothers (or fathers) that’s the problem, it’s that society places too little value on the family, heck a sense of community belonging, as the cornerstone of society and happiness. Men and women shouldn’t be so wrapped up in providing for their family that they aren’t there for their family. Parental leave should be standard for both mothers and fathers. A parent should be able to stand in the middle of a meeting and say “my kid’s school called, they’re sick/there’s a gas leak/there’s a water main break, I need to go pick them up right now” and no one should bat an eyelash and no one gets penalized.

Death in the family? The reaction from your workplace should be: take as much time off as you need (within reason). Don’t worry about work. Your family comes first.

Your sister just gave birth? The reaction should be: do you want to go visit her? When? Here. Have some time off,, check in at the weekly meeting.

Grandpa’s turning 90? The reaction should be: go, be with your family, even if all you can manage is a video call, we want you to be there.

You or your spouse just had a baby? The reaction should be: Do you want to arrange work from home and for how long? We want you to be there for your spouse and the baby during this crazy time. Do you need us to bring over food? (Similar applies if you have two kids down with a stomach flu.)

You pick up groceries for your elderly or immuno-compromised neighbor who can’t go our right now? Please leave 30 minutes early with our blessing so you don’t have to be there with everyone else who just got off work.

This should be standard. Being able to take time for your family should never be an issue. We could have almost every family be a two-income family and society would be leaps better, because everyone would be able to put family first.

schmergo

To all the parents out there who bundle their babies up in the winter time with those little hats with the little ears that make them look like little teddy bears: You are doing the lord’s work. Seeing tiny ewoks toddle across the grocery store parking lot is just what we all need sometimes. My joy is immeasurable and my day is restored.

theartofanimation

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apesoformythoughts

«A priest friend recently shared a story with me about a pastor he knew who served in a downtown area with a large population of gay people. There was a transgender person who would regularly visit his church and light candles at the various shrines. He would present himself with great drama, very theatrical, wearing over-the-top wigs and hats and dresses. He was never irreverent, but whenever he came in, he naturally captured everyone’s attention.

The priest would always greet this man with a smile and kind words. Once, he found the man weeping at the shrine of Our Lady. The priest asked what was the matter, and the man revealed that his mother had died and the family had requested that he not attend the funeral, as they thought his presence would confuse and scandalize members of the close-knit Baptist congregation. He reluctantly complied, missing his own mother’s funeral. While the funeral was taking place, he came to this Catholic church so that, gesturing to the statue of our Lady, he could be with his Mother. He then told the priest that all his life he had been the object of derision and mockery and he had known very little kindness. But over the years, he discovered that the one place he could go where he knew someone would be kind to him was the Catholic Church. And even if someone wasn’t kind to him there, he found that kindness in the faces of the plaster saints.

A few years passed, and the priest noticed that the man was not coming around as much, and when he did he looked like a shadow of his former self. The priest made inquiries and discovered the man was gravely ill. Before the man died, the priest visited him (in the man’s disheveled apartment) and the man was utterly despondent, sure that he would die alone and that no church would bury him. But through the priest’s intervention and by the grace of God, the man became open to being received in the Catholic Church. Shortly before he died, he became Catholic, and the priest offered him a funeral Mass. Few people were in attendance, but those who came remembered the man from his theatrical visits—the daily Mass-goers and the Rosary ladies. After the funeral, they all stayed behind to light candles and pray for the repose of his soul.

This is precisely what Pope Francis means in his yearning for a “Church of mercy.” No one had to do anything more to convince the man of his misery. What he needed was to be convinced that he mattered and that he could be loved. No moral teaching was compromised in letting the man know mercy. That’s what saved him.»

(via Brandon Vogt)

transgenderer

i feel like theres a take about how when female sluttery is considered bad its just like, a priori bad, but male sluttery is still often considered bad, but for being somehow disrespectful to women, like women are incapable of genuinely wanting to have casual sex and therefore if men are having casual sex they must be tricking women into it. anyway bizarrely the latter opinion is often framed as “feminist” despite being like…trivially regressive and shitty

jambeast

It is quite difficult to disentangle sex as “A fun thing that people can do.” from “A complex system of power relations that ultimately determines your worth as a person.”

Because people are *so fucking weird* about sex, and about how much sex you have, and about how significant it is that you have the right amount of sex in the right way, and that correctly playing out your role as a proper sex-haver is the most important thing about you.

herecomesthemorning

I also hate the double standard when it comes to who gets considered to be a slut, but not because sex is “something fun that people do.” If sex is merely a pleasurable recreational activity, then why is rape so bad? What follows from sex being a recreational activity, like skydiving or golf or tennis, is that rape would end up in the same category as cheating in golf or something (you “broke the rules” of this recreational activity such that you disrupted the pleasure of the other person). You can’t have it both ways: either sex is just a casual recreational activity, or rape is abjectly evil.

Maybe instead of taking men as the model and standard of sexual activity, and therefore setting casual hookups as the standard (which overwhelmingly favors men’s sexual preferences) we should center women’s experiences and sexual needs.

witchesversuspatriarchy

Suddenly feline familiars make perfect sense

pro-life-is-punk

FINANCIALS OF ABORTION

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Women are charged roughly $500 for a first trimester medical abortion with insurance. Uninsured women need to fork over over around $1000. Later term abortions cost more, up to $3000 in some places. (CareCompass.com)

“Almost $1.9 billion in net assets, up from $1.6 billion in 2017. $563.8 million in taxpayer funding, up from $543.7 billion in 2017.$1.67 billion in total revenue, up from $1.46 billion in 2017.Almost $245 million in excess of revenue over expenses, more than double the $98.5 million reported in 2017.$630.8 million in private contributions (including grants, individual contributors, bequests, and corporate contributors), up from $532.7 million in 2017.Planned Parenthood reported the same number of patients (2.4 million) and clinical visits (4 million) in both 2016 and 2017. It performed more than 117 abortions for every adoption referral in 2017-2018.“

“The report, which was released quietly this week, states that Planned Parenthood affiliates performed 345,672 abortions from Oct. 1, 2017, to Sept. 30, 2018—the highest number of abortions ever reported in a single year.”

“Planned Parenthood saw about 2.4 million patients during that time—about the same as last year but down from 3 million as recently as 10 years ago.”

“Meanwhile, the other services Planned Parenthood affiliates offer declined in use.During this time period, there were: 520,710 breast exams and pap tests, down from 570,444 in the previous year’s report.566,186 cancer screenings and prevention procedures, down from 614,361.213,042 well-woman exams, down from 216,722.2,556,413 provisions of birth control information and services, down from 2,620,867″

What I’m trying to get at is that:

- more abortions are being performed, and less of other services.

- They made almost 300 million in profit (despite being a Not-For-Profit organization)

- Get over 500 million in YOUR tax dollars.

- In 2015, Cecile Richards, made roughly half a million dollars as the president of Planned Parenthood. (a lot for a not-for profit organization)

- In 2020, they have given just over $400,000 to Democratic candidates

- They still have the AUDACITY to claim that pulling federal funding is gonna hurt women.

that-catholic-shinobi

@pro-birth-midwife Is this up your alley of interests?

sexworkinfo

hypnictwitch

Prevalent discourse would have you believe that sex workers are problems to deal with, or victims to ‘save’. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, when you ask sex workers about their job satisfaction and working conditions – as a study led by Leeds University just has – the majority of them are happy. When asked to describe their work, respondents typically selected positive or neutral words. 91 per cent of sex workers described their work as ‘flexible’, 66 per cent described it as ‘fun’ and over half find their job ‘rewarding’.

Gee, I wonder.

Whose arse did they pull these figures out of? Does that cost extra?

themutantgene

They surveyed 240 people…. highly educated and who had other jobs previously. 240 / 42,000,000 prostitutes worldwide (estimate). YOU CAN’T SAY MAJORITY WHEN YOU SURVEY 0.00057% OF PEOPLE IN A FIELD

coeur-de-porcelaine

Study of 100 prostituted women in Canada: 95% wish to quit prostitution, 52% are Aboriginal women, 86% are homeless, 72% have PTSD, 78% were raped and 92% were physically assaulted. Study of 854 people in 9 countries : 89% want to quit prostitution, 68% have PTSD, 75% were homeless, 63% were raped and 71% were assaulted. ‘’There is no evidence that the Nordic Model works!’’ You certainly won’t find it if your head is firmly implanted in the sex work lobby’s ass. Criminalizing the demand while decriminalizing the workers reduced trafficking, reduced nearly in half the amount of men who buy sex, Sweden’s prostituting population in only a tenth of Denmark’s despite having a bigger population, and seriously read this entire article because it debunks a lot of pro-sex industry myths. Norway adopted the Nordic Model as well , and Norway’s prostitution ban works. :A New Approach to Eradicating Sex Trafficking by Reducing Male Demand through Educational Programs and Abolitionist Legislation

The legalization of prostitution and its impact on trafficking in women and children Native Women’s Association of Canada abolitionist position on prostitution Native victims of trafficking in the Minneapolis sex trade SPACE: survivors of prostitution calling for the Nordic Model EVE: formerly exploited voices now educating : survivors of prostitution naming it as violence against women and fighting for abolition

womensliberationgang

In my country, Brazil:

– 90% of prostitutes want to have ‘another’ job

– there are 1.500.000 people in prostitution in Brazil and 78% are women.

– 15% of them are transexuals and only 7% are men

- 59% of them are the head of the family and need to support their children.

– 45,6% of them only got to middle school

– 24,3% didn’t finish high school

Se é uma escolha, por que a pobreza é um fator tão comum?

Prostituição infantil – conheça os aspectos facilitadores desta condição.

miss-elinor

Orgulho e Preconceito, de Jane Austen por Mónica Armiño

winchdeann

Last lines of every twenty one pilots album

theres-music-in-you

sparknotes is my new favorite twitter account

schrodingers-blursed-kitty

Nuclear hot take

A lot of radical traditionalist men have porn influenced views of women and gender roles and it shows

bransrath

Interesting. Like what views exactly?

schrodingers-blursed-kitty

They invent a fantasy version of a woman that they want to be with with is completely subservient. So like does all the cooking, cleaning, dresses the way the man wants, does all the childrearing, no help from him, gives him sex whenever he wants. She doesn't have any hopes or dreams of her own, or any personality. Basically the 1950s housewife fantasy. The way I've heard many describing coming home from a long day of work and what follows sounds like the beginning of a bad porno. This fantasy woman has no hopes, dreams, personality, or needs of her own. She never gets sick, which means she's always available for sex. Basically, a self focused dom-sub fantasy in which the entire focus is on him and his pleasure

But what's more heinous is the way they talk about women who don't fit the fantasy, aka the vast majority. I see this a lot in modesty conversation. While modesty is good, it's taken to an extreme and the justification is often described in an odd way. An example is the whole "women can't wear pants thing." The way they describe a woman wearing pants is quite sexual. Pants. She's covered, but they still undress her in their minds and almost seem to indulge in it sometimes. And of course, the blame is always on her.

I've also seen how the talk to and about women. If she wants to go to college or grad school or, God forbid, work, she's seen as unfeminine and selfish. Example: an irl friend of mine went on a date with a man who turned out to be rad trad. She told him that she wanted to go back to school to get a nursing phd. He tried to dissuade her.

Also, in the comments someone mentioned that they see working women as "fucking their way to the top." I can't tag in this reblog because mobile is weird and I can't go see the irl.

I've also noticed that a lot of the men who tend to do this are current or former porn addicts. While trying to get out of porn and getting out of watching porn is absolutely a good thing, more needs to be done. Porn has been proven to change brain chemistry and connections, and thought patterns and views on sex and women. This subset of men (rad trads) may have stopped watching or are making a genuine effort to stop, but they're not changing the porn mindset. They've only redirected it

So tldr: rad trad men have created a porn influenced fantasy woman that they uphold, and denigrate any other woman, yet still sexualize her at the same time

alwaysabeautifullife

I have so much to add but am unable to do I just wanna say

YUP

liberatingwomenisrad-deactivate

The beauty standards imposed on women are a prison and are creating a culture of insecurity.

Here is an anecdote of the time I went on holiday to somewhere really hot and sunny. I shaved my armpits, legs, and pubic hair every single day. It was time-consuming, inconvenient, and very itchy. And it physically hurt to get into the salty sea water every day when I had lots of little cuts on my legs and bikini line. But I’d rather be hairless than comfortable.

Every morning, I would spend at least half an hour applying makeup to hide my dark circles, blemishes, spots, uneven brows, the list goes on. Then I spent the whole time worrying that it was going to sweat off in the heat, or my mascara was going to run, or my sunglasses were smudging my foundation.

I agonised over how my hair looked at least 10 times a day because the humidity made it look so “frizzy”. I’d spend so much time straightening it, or braiding it, or spraying a hundred different products into it to make it more “tamable”. Time that could’ve been spent actually having fun.

Going for a swim in the sea was a task in itself. I couldn’t let my hair or face get wet because it would “ruin” all my hard work and if someone splashed me, I’d have to dodge all of the holiday photos until I’d “fixed” myself. So, I’d just watch everyone else enjoy themselves while I sat on a sun lounger, my new worry being whether everyone was looking at my stretch marks or cellulite, or if my bikini bottoms gave me a muffin top, or if people were judging my flat chest.

My swimsuit didn’t empower me, my concealer didn’t empower me, my de-frizzing hairpsray didn’t empower me, my itchy, hairless pubic area didn’t empower me. These “choices” bred insecurity. Think critically about the choices you are making - are they choices that are freely made? Or are you making them because they’re expected of you and you’re afraid of the consequences of not meeting that expectation? Are they even your choice at all?

womens-voices

"Pornography is prostitution through the lens of a camera, but more abusive," the open letter read.

Eighty male students at Notre Dame University wrote an open letter in the school newspaper asking for a porn filter on the school’s Wi-Fi.

“This filter would send the unequivocal message that pornography is an affront to human rights and catastrophic to individuals and relationships. We are calling for this action in order to stand up for the dignity of all people, especially women,” the letter read. “The overwhelming majority of contemporary pornography is literally filmed violence against women — violence somehow rendered invisible by the context.”

“Pornography is prostitution through the lens of a camera, but more abusive. It exploits the men and women involved, advances a twisted narrative about human sexuality and harms those who consume it.”

that-catholic-shinobi

ABSOLUTE KINGS!

If you support porn, prostitution or the exploration and violence towards women get out of there. These men have my upmost respect.

herecomesthemorning

They haven’t gotten the ban yet, ironically because the priest in charge of the university isn’t on their side. Notre dame technically already bans porn on its WiFi but just doesn’t enforce it. Long live patriarchy and subjugation of women...

womens-voices

"Pornography is prostitution through the lens of a camera, but more abusive," the open letter read.

Eighty male students at Notre Dame University wrote an open letter in the school newspaper asking for a porn filter on the school’s Wi-Fi.

“This filter would send the unequivocal message that pornography is an affront to human rights and catastrophic to individuals and relationships. We are calling for this action in order to stand up for the dignity of all people, especially women,” the letter read. “The overwhelming majority of contemporary pornography is literally filmed violence against women — violence somehow rendered invisible by the context.”

“Pornography is prostitution through the lens of a camera, but more abusive. It exploits the men and women involved, advances a twisted narrative about human sexuality and harms those who consume it.”

that-catholic-shinobi

ABSOLUTE KINGS!

If you support porn, prostitution or the exploration and violence towards women get out of there. These men have my upmost respect.

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