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When I brush my daughter’s hair and elaborately braid it round the side of her scalp, I am doing the thing that is expected of me. When my husband brushes out tangles before bedtime, he needs his efforts noticed and congratulated—saying aloud in front of both me and her that it took him a whole 15 minutes. There are many small examples of where the work I normally do must be lauded when transferred to my husband. It seems like a small annoyance, but its significance looms larger. My son will boast of his clean room and any other jobs he has done; my daughter will quietly put her clothes in the hamper and get dressed each day without being asked. They are six and four respectively. Unless I engage in this conversation on emotional labor and actively change the roles we inhabit, our children will do the same. They are already following in our footsteps; we are leading them toward the same imbalance.

Stop Calling Women Nags — How Emotional Labor is Dragging Down Gender Equality (via killgender)

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I replayed this scene like a million times

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I used to think men’s fashion was boring, ugly, and bland, but then I saw women wearing men’s fashion and swooned. So I realized I just found men to be boring, ugly, and bland.

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A new report from Save the Children revealed that nearly 30,000 teenage girls die every year due to complications from pregnancy or childbirth.

“It’s unacceptable that so many young girls are dying simply because they don’t have access to contraceptives like condoms or the pill, or because of myths and cultural barriers. Girls need to be given greater access to contraceptives, and contraceptives should be made free. We also need to ensure that myths about family planning are dispelled so that every girl feels empowered to decide what happens to her own body.”

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wlwellbutrin

how about for 2018 we stop being afraid of pussy hair

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Yo yoooo

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I certainly don’t consider Butch women to be masculine or manly in any way. Butch women are women and my sisters. They are not ‘like men.’ The reason Butches are seen as ‘masculine,’ is because our society leaves no room for the non-performance of femininity in women. When women refuse to perform femininity, they are labelled masculine because we don’t have a word for non-performance. There is the word ‘androgynous’ but I don’t think it’s applicable in the case of Butch women, or indeed any woman, because androgynous means, ‘having the characteristics or nature of both male and female.’ Butches only have the characteristics and nature of females. Because they are female.

Ann Tagonist (via adayinthelesbianlife)