The status quo is not neutral.

“Power is not a mistake in which the powerful can be educated, it’s not a misunderstanding, and it’s not a disagreement. Justice is not won by moral argument, or exertion, or individual transformation, and it’s not won by spiritual epiphany - It’s won by taking power away from the powerful and dismantling the institutions." — Lierre Keith

[slipping-into-madness]

[luckydalmatian101]

Does anyone else think that this lady looks like an older Mary Winchester

[heyimboredtalktome]

Was????

[absolutebatmanny]

a NSFW blog but instead of porn it’s just pictures of unsafe work practices 

[fxckbro]

[paxamericana]

[comrad3olive]

Quick reminder that Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post

[feministism]

[gisewaaa]

The universe is indifferent. We ought not to be.

[la-paritalienne]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[shezze-blog1]

I’m upset because I want to change the world but the world is too big and people are too mean

[wufflesvetinari]

“Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.” - Rabbi Tarfon

[mangozetango]

I needed to hear this

[antique-scarecrow]

not obligated to complete the work, not free to abandon it.

[rainbowgazes-archive]

i love how every democrat except for like 2 is like “we should have a public option for healthcare AND a private option, so that private insurance companies can lobby super hard to make sure the public option doesn’t cover anything and then we can say universal healthcare doesn’t work” 

[xoxoxogossipgirlll]

Can a man be a feminist? Or just a feminist ally?

Men should try just not being awful first before they move on to the big stuff like feminism imo

[hafael-archive]

[unicornempire]

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMHm!

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[reeddacted]

don’t flirt with me!! ………. i’m delicate and foolish

[obovoid]

i don’t want to achieve equality by sinking to men’s level, i want them to get on ours! why should i have to unlearn the conversational art of waiting my turn, unlearn sexual self-restraint, unlearn trust in others’ good intentions, unlearn the impulse to cater to others’ needs, just to have a chance at success among savages? why can’t the men learn some fucking manners so we can all conduct our affairs in a civilized manner? i shouldn’t have to stop saying sorry, you say sorry!

[marthawells-deactivated20181223]

In the 80s when I was in my freshman year in college, they still had entirely separate mens and women’s dorms. I was in class waiting for a final to start and one of the guys was telling someone about how he had had to go into a women’s dorm to drop something off, and he was startled to see posters on the walls, flowers, curtains, etc. He said his men’s dorm had holes in the walls, things on fire, fights, guys walking around with open wounds and he just didn’t understand why they had to live like this. He said, “I want to live with the women, in civilization.”

[alpacamyhedgehog]

Am reading Sisterhood of Spies, about women working for the OSS during WWII. One of the stories mentions that the women in London had a male visitor who would eat in their mess hall once a month. He was married and wasn’t interested in hitting on any of the women; he just wanted to eat in an atmosphere where people said “Please pass the butter,” instead of “PASS THE GODDAMNED GREASE”

[lasrina]

I dated a guy who brought me along on group activities (movies, video game night, etc.) with four or five other male friends. Once I mentioned to one of the other guys that I hoped I wasn’t intruding on their “guy time” or some such. He got this sort of rueful look and said, “The truth is, I really like it when you’re here because it gives us a reason to act better. When it’s just guys, we all have to try to outdo each other with how vile we are.”

[prokopetz]

People are out there calling themselves “apolitical” as though full-throated advocacy in favour of preserving the status quo isn’t a political stance.