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[pr1nceshawn]

The Best ATM Withdrawal Defense

[alexanders-archives]

I’m here for women with powerful dogs!

[urocyonfox-deactivated20210104]

My land lady is a 90lb 88 year old woman with 5 full grown Rottweiler boys. They sit around her when she gardens and watch her like the secret service. If you show up to pay rent they all stand up and stand between you and her.

It’s intimidating to have 5 pony size boys all staring at you until she stands up realizes it’a you and walks to you.

My favorite part is she wades through them like swamp water saying in her cute old voice ‘move’ ‘move please’ and each one she nudges to move wags his whole body at her touch and stumbles out of the way like he’s been knocked over by a truck. It gives me life paying my rent.

[thoughtfulfilm]

Why Do We Let “Genius” Directors Get Away With Abusive Behavior?

For decades, the celebrated male film directors who “provoke” and abuse actors, supposedly in service of their art, have been given the benefit of the doubt over the women who suffer on their film set

The myth of the “master”/”genius” is a cover for all manner of sins

[liesofthepatriarchy]

We don't let genius directors get away with anything. Scraggly homeboy with no teeth been raping for years. Men let men rape.

[mooseblogtimes]

Mother of Navy Vet Shot at 30 Times by Police Begs For Justice

This video was posted by the mother of India Kager, who was shot 30 times by the police. One more unheard story of a black woman executed by the police for nothing. Moreover, for a really long time Mass Media didn’t have any information about this case. 

In September  India Kager, a 27-year-old Navy veteran from College Park, Maryland, was sitting with her boyfriend and 4-month-old son, Roman.

Perry was a “person of interest” in a  homicide, according to the police. They additionally claim that they had “confidential information” that he “was going to” commit a “violent crime.” But that’s about all they’re willing to say at this time to justify the incident.

Kager had nothing to do with her boyfriends crimes – past or future.

However,  officers began firing rounds that killed both Perry and Kager, indiscriminately. The baby, however, managed to survive – no thanks to the police who sprayed bullets wildly a the car.

Police didn’t explain anything and no justice for her daughter happened, so she is begging for it.

God Help you.

[thisiseverydayracism]

[physicalfeministresources]

In ‘Why Do We Need All This?’ Maria Mies, a German sociologist, proffers the explanation that genetic engineering and new reproductive technologies are essential to the ongoing growth of capitalism. The technologies are the new industry 'chosen’ to replace the old worn out industrial technology. Hence the link of scientists with big business which will eventually lead to mass distribution of the products by multinationals with the aid of government. […] For Mies, the stage has already been set with the selling and promotion to the more affluent the notion of the 'right’ to have a child of 'one’s own’.

Marion Brown, Kay Fielden & Jocelynne A. Scutt, “New frontiers or Old Recycled? New Reproductive Technologies as Primary Industry” in The Baby Machine: Commercialisation of Motherhood, ed. Jocelynne A. Scutt (1988), p.98. (via physicalfeministresources)

[wuh2k]

How to be a nice guy, not a "nice guy"

Growing up shy with only brothers, I was never confident approaching women I was interested in, and I think I was in my mid-twenties before I was finally the one to make the first move. The upshot of this is it gave me the chance to form some fantastic friendships with women in school, and college.

I saw first hand the kinds of horrible attitudes men held towards my friends, and since becoming addicted to the many many online dating blogs on Tumblr I’ve seen this to the Nth degree. As someone who found it hard simply saying ‘hi’ to a woman I liked, this behaviour baffled me. If someone else had that confidence to walk up to (or now message) a woman, and start a conversation with her, why would he go out of his way to fuck it up?

1) Fedoras/Trillbys: First of all Trillbys ARE NOT fedoras. Second, this is what PUAs call “peacocking”, making yourself flashy somehow to stand out from the crowd. A- This doesn’t work if you’re all fucking doing it, at least try and be original. B- If your personality doesn’t stand out, then go work on that instead.

2) Negging: Another PUA tactic, though I suspect it’s as old as dating itself. This involves giving backhanded compliments, or small insults followed by compliments. The aim is supposedly to make the woman either extra grateful for the compliment after the insult, or desperate to prove you wrong. A- What the actual living fuck? On a basic level it’s nonsensical. “There’s a woman I like…I know! I’ll insult her.” If that seems like a good thought process to you, then you’re a fucking idiot. B- Tricking someone into talking to you/being interested in you is pathetic because again you’re just proving that you have a shitty personality that can’t stand it’s ground. C- This kind of behaviour is a trait of psychologically and abusive relationships. To the defence “I’m a nice guy, I just wanted her to talk to me.”, women talk to people every single fucking day without the need for them to insult them first.

3) Rejection: Here’s a scenario. Bro 1 - “Hey dude, you wanna go to the game today?” Bro 2 - “Thanks for asking, but sorry dude, not interested in Basketball. Bro 1 - "You fucking piece of shit! How dare you reject me?! I hope you get raped! I never even wanted to go to the game with you anyway! You’re fat lol.” Manbabies can try and mansplain this away all they want, and they do; “If you’d just given me a chance I wouldn’t have acted that way, I’m actually a really nice guy.” “Sorry, I was drunk when I sent that.” “Sorry, my friend got my phone, lol.” However, if you’ve never or would never react this way to a man rejecting your request for something, drunk or not, then you are behaving this way simply because a WOMAN did it. Right there is your problem. Bro - “Hey, do you wanna get dinner or drinks sometime?” Mysterious Alien Creature (aka; woman) - “Hey thanks, but I’m not really interested.” Bro - “Np, have a good one.” A - You haven’t burned any bridges. Is she just out of a relationship? Is she dealing with stuff in her personal life? If that’s the case, when she’s not, you’re still a contender, instead of a piece of garbage. B - You treated someone like a human fucking being.

4) The FRIENDZONE: All in Caps because that’s how some guys seem to view it. I guarantee you this phrase was coined by a guy who is the most horrible piece of shit on the planet. As I mentioned earlier, I had a much easier time making woman friends than meeting girlfriends. There was one who I had a huge crush on and nothing ever happened, and I know for a fact there was one who liked me and nothing ever happened. And guess what? We stayed friends. A - If you enter a friendship with the sole aim on getting something out of it for you, then you’re a terrible friend. B - If a male friend chose to go to a basketball game with someone who likes basketball instead of you, would you complain about the friendzone? C - If a woman was your friend for years, and then you found out it was only because she wanted your kidney, how’d you feel? Betrayed, hurt, knowing that person never liked you as a friend? Let’s rename the friendzone the neverwasafriendtobeginwithzone.

5) Girls only date Assholes: What? What?! What the fuckitty fuck fuck? I’ve dated horrible people, my friends have all dated horrible people. Women do not have a monopoly on bad choices. A - EVERYBODY dates assholes at some point. If a friend is, try to help them see that instead of assuming they like it. B - As a general rule, assholes date assholes. If you’re not an asshole, if you’re a self-proclaimed nice guy, then why would you wanna be with a woman who’s an asshole? Oh right, because you only care about her body. C - I have friends whose boyfriends/husbands are nicer than I am and it pisses me off.

6) “Compliments”: I hope you noticed the inverted commas there. From catcalling, to pet names, to street & online harassment, again this is something that I can’t wrap my head around. You see a woman you like, you have two options. i - Find a reason to initiate contact. Online, look in the profile for common interests. IRL, whatever she’s doing at that moment. ii - Shout a generic compliment a 5year old could come up with. Which one seems more likely to you? I once started a two-year relationship initially based on a mutual love of nothing more than a brand of chips. A - Unsolicited compliments are…wait for it…UNSOLICITED. If no one asked you for it, don’t give it. B - “Learn to take a compliment.” Next guy I hear say this in a bar I’m gonna send every male friend over one after the other to 'compliment’ him. C - If you catcall, I’m gonna get six huge construction workers to come to your neighbourhood and shout 'compliments’ at you every time you walk down the street and see how you like it.

In conclusion…because this has gone on Waaaaay longer than I’d originally intended, let me leave you with a couple of rules of thumb.

1 - As difficult as it may be for some men to realise, women are not a part of some alien species. You don’t need to trick them, you don’t need to manipulate them. Respect breeds respect, talk to women as human fucking beings. 2 - There are over 6billion people on the planet. Attraction is a complicated phenomenon that the physical and social sciences are NOWHERE near explaining. Not every one of the 3 ½ or so billion women on the planet are going to be attracted to you. Accept it and move on. 3 - Nice guys don’t finish last, only “Nice guys” do.

This has been a public service announcement. Out.

[aunt-mimi]

Men who write stories depicting the torture, abuse, and rape of women are called historically accurate.

Women depicting men torturing, abusing, raping women are called man-haters.

Why?

[celtyradfem]

You know why

[soft-petrichor-deactivated20210]

Magdalen Berns + being fed up with Riley J Dennis

tag yourself i’m middle middle

[gnc-centric]

I’m the top right “Boring, they’re boring…” 

[liesofthepatriarchy]

[liesofthepatriarchy]

...patriarchy is a militant ideology. To revere power above everything else is to be willing to sacrifice everything else to power. Many cultures accepted such a morality only with reluctance, but power worship is contagious. If a worshipper of power decides to extend his power over your society, your choices are between surrendering and mounting an equal and opposite power. In either case, the power worshipper wins--he has converted your society into a people who understand that power is the highest good.

Marilyn French, Beyond Power: On Women, Men and Morals, 198

[queerlyexhausted]

Something horrible is happening on youtube

I’m going to preface this post with a content warning. This post is about child abuse. The video I’m going to link includes actually video footage of child abuse. It is one of the most upsetting videos I have ever watched. My post includes in depth descriptions of child abuse. 

This morning I watched a Youtube video discussing and highlighting what is happening on another Youtube channel. If you have the stomach for it, I’d suggest watching the video because Phillip DeFranco does a much better job of summarizing the situation than I can. 

For those of you who can’t watch, I’ll give you a very brief rundown. 

The Youtube channel DaddyOfFive is a combination family vlog and prank channel. In a recent video, the parents pull a prank where they pour invisible ink on one of the kid’s floors and then make him think that they believe he poured ink all over the floor. They scream and swear at this little boy, shouting things like “What the fuck did you do?” while the boy cries and cowers, looking genuinely terrified. Even the best child actors could not pull off looking as genuinely devastated as this child does. 

As DeFranco highlights in his video, although all the children are pranked, it seems that this one child (Cody) takes the brunt of the cruelty. In many videos he is seen being hit, kicked, pushed, and pinned down by his older siblings. In one video his father pushes him face first into a book case. In one video Cody begs his family to stop, saying that he’s tired of this. In another video his parents scream at him and tell him he’s the only one in the family who can’t “take a joke”. 

In response to some of the flak they have been getting, the parents uploaded a video about “Blocking All The Haters”. They goad the children into saying on camera that they aren’t being abused. Now keep in mind, the kids have been told that all the “Cool stuff” they have been getting is because of the Youtube channel. They know that if the pranks stop, the cool stuff goes away. Most of the children chime in that they are not being abused. Cody hardly says anything. The oldest boy says, “At least you aren’t beating us”. 

What is happening to Cody is child abuse. It is emotional, psychological and physical abuse. It is torture. And the worst part of it all is that it is monetized. The parents are being paid by advertisers to abuse this child under the guise of “It’s just a prank, bro”. 

So what can we do?

First of all, we can report the videos on DaddyOfFive’s channel for containing depictions of child abuse. If you decide to help by doing this, please be sure to flag the specific instances of abuse such as Cody being pushed or the parents screaming vulgarities at the children. 

Second of all, we can let the companies advertising on this channel know that we won’t be buying anything from a company that sponsors videos of child abuse. 

Finally, if anyone knows this family in person, they can make a report to CPS. Now the family is claiming that they’ve already been investigated and “cleared” by CPS, but that’s not how this works. Repeated reports mean repeated investigations. You do not give up and look the other way when a child is being abused just because CPS failed to act the first time. When my neighbors were abusing their children, I had to call CPS every week for over a month before something was done. Don’t give up.

[paranoialoser]

The biological mother, Rose, of Cody and Emma is trying to gain custody of her children. Here is a link to a gofundme to help in that cause (it also includes an interview with the biological mother) and a link to a petition as well.

[date-a-jew-suggestions]

Boosting here because this is terrible

[old-lynnafred]

Reblogging again for the added information about Rose and her gofundme.

[sinbadism]

Basically their father kidnapped them and somehow got custody of them by doing so.

[rageclit-deactivated20181208]

i reckon the kids now would stop being so obsessed w identity politics if we just brought back emo. kids want something to use as scaffolding for their identity during puberty, and we had bands like my chem who made these fantasy scenarios for their albums that you could base your identity and appearance off for a while and just argue over whether three cheers or tbp was better, but they don’t have that. what i’m saying is we need to get my chemical romance back together

[radroachmeat2-deactivated202012]

Pop punk is dead and we’re suffering for it

[bloodyfeminist]

I think just the death of the prominent teen subculture generally has led to the rise of this. Gender politics is basically a reaction to there being no outlet for teenagers to mess around with gender roles anymore. Emo, punk, goth, scene, New Romantics- basically any ‘alternative subculture’ that’s ever existed- have allowed teenagers to do this freely in the past if they felt the need to do so. Subcultures were a massive part of growing up and being a teenager and they’ve basically just disappeared.

The last real prominent subculture was emo which died in around 2010. Because of this, kids are trying instead to completely rewrite gender and are getting super aggressive and weird and possessive/defensive about it because they never got the chance we did to just play about. There’s nothing to say ‘hey you can wear nail varnish and still be a dude’. Now if a dude wants to wear nail varnish they must be a girl.

I know this is written badly but it’s just kind of my spontaneous word vomit reaction to OP’s post.

[littlemissmyrabradford]

Actually, I can’t help but wonder if the extreme rise of gender politics and the driving need to add gender labels to the list instead of broadening the definitions for old ones is due BECAUSE of the lack of an androgynous culture / “phase” or if the goth culture died off when the gender politics started. Goth allowed everyone in it to basically look the same, and when people saw you in it, they gave you the label of “goth”, but it was something you personally chose, and heck, Goth would be part of your personality.

Maybe that’s why there’s a lot of gender = personality running around.

Basically what I’m saying is that can we bring back the tomboy without turning her trans male?

[rootfauna-deactivated20180326]

Additionally, these subcultures could be capitalized. Trip pants were status symbols, you couldn’t WAIT to show off your new hot topic merch, you envied people who could afford to be head to toe Ultra Goth™. The same can/will happen with the gender movement. The rich kids will get the privilege of looking like the very imagine if the ultimate non-binary gender roll smashing pioneer of the btbqaaidp+=¥ community, while the rest will strive to emulate them.

[liesofthepatriarchy]

It’s the acceptable way to be a victim while hating women. Being the underdog, except you’re the overlord oppressing women and children.

[liesofthepatriarchy]

NAMALT

Men are judged by the minority of behavior--not by what they do most of the time but rather by the few things they do right. Women are judged by the few wrong things we do instead of the majority of what we do right. Did you notice 90% of volunteers and donors are women? And that men own and run organizations to make animal rape and child ‘sex’ legal?

This patriarchal phenomenon exemplified by “not all men are like that” and “women do it too”. 

[liesofthepatriarchy]

Rapists

Have you noticed that men are never rapists? Nothing they ever do is seen as rape. They break women's bones, shove their heads into toilets while filming and then silence these women with payment but it’s not rape. 

Men coerce women into poverty and then offer a job sucking dick so they don’t starve and it’s still not rape.

Men rape their girlfriends while they’re sleeping but its not rape because it wasn’t violent.

Men fuck women after the condom breaks but nope, not rape.

We go so far out of our way to make sure men are never seen as rapey. 

[yayfeminism]

Think Child Marriage Can't Happen Near You? Think Again

And it's probably legal.

“248,000 children younger than 18 got married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2010. Some were as young as 14. Most were young girls marrying adult men.

Last week New Jersey passed a law banning marriage for children under 18, with no exceptions. Remarkably, it’s the first state in the country to do so.”

[liesofthepatriarchy]

Marriage has always been and will be the cloak of impunity by which men escape accountability for their violence against women.

[liesofthepatriarchy]

Until we treat rapists as ordinary criminals we won’t stop them – Sandra Newman | Aeon Essays

It’s not a profound mystery, or explained by deep psychosocial complexity. For rapists, rape is easy. And that must stop

For a man to commit sexual assault, he must be a relatively, but not strikingly, antisocial person – enough that he isn’t too constrained by empathy for his victims. These seem like preconditions for any crime that has a victim; and indeed, the measured character traits of convicted rapists are identical to those of muggers and burglars. But a man who is capable of rape generally commits the crime only if he believes it will be excused by his peers, and that punishment can be evaded. There seem to be a remarkable number of men who meet these criteria; most of the college-age rapists studied were not only unafraid of punishment, but blissfully unaware that what they did was criminal. Looking at this general picture, Scully concluded that most rapes are the result of a ‘rape culture’ that tells men that, in many situations, raping women is not only normal behaviour, but completely safe.

[thetrippytrip]

Pulled out the receipts for them

[liesofthepatriarchy]

Errr white men are dangerous