Because I need to explain why I need Feminism

My name is Meg, and I am a feminist. This blog will be a medium to discuss a variety of issues surrounding women’s health and general well-being in society and relationships. I will be sharing projects by Feminist artists/activists, quotes, facts and opinions.

[divasdishblog]

"People are perfectly happy to see women as sex objects, but the actual biologic of our bodies is apparently gross and unmentionable."

- Our Bodies, Ourselves.

[seebster]

When your rape is entertainment, your worthlessness is absolute. You have reached the nadir of social worthlessness. The civil impact of pornography on women is staggering. It keeps us socially silent, it keeps us socially compliant, it keeps us afraid in neighborhoods; and it creates a vast hopelessness for women, a vast despair. One lives inside a nightmare of sexual abuse that is both actual and potential, and you have the great joy of knowing that your nightmare is someone else’s freedom and someone else’s fun.

Andrea Dworkin, Pornography Is A Civil Rights Issue, transcript of her 1986 testimony before the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography, as printed in Letters From A War Zone (via youhauntyourbagofbones)

[flugellovemachine-blog]

[sexual-yoda]

clandide:

Why does no one ever talk about rape victims and PTSD? Up until this Abnormal Psychology class, I’ve always been told that Combat was the major contributor to PTSD but damn, it’s 20% less than Rape. So please don’t tell rape victims to “get over it” or “its already over, it can’t change” because over 60% of rape victims have had their brain chemistry changed; PTSD is a mental disorder whether it is because of combat or because of rape.

[writingaboutmyrapists]

How can rape by giving a drug or intoxicant to a person that renders them unable to give consent have a minimum sentence of 0-15 years but possession of drugs without being used for rape has a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years to life?

[womxxn-blog-deactivated20160930]

its almost like we have legalized the systematic oppression of women and people of color

[sexual-yoda]

[sexual-yoda]

[sexual-yoda]

[williamchapmanwritings]

"It doesn’t matter if it’s a relationship, a lifestyle, or a job. If it doesn’t make you happy let it go."

william chapman (via ruedamour)

[misandry-mermaid]

If it would destroy [a 12-year-old boy] to be called a girl, what are we then teaching him about girls?

Tony Porter (via feministfangirls)

[tuesdaytothursday]

Truth.

[jessicavalenti]

If you kill a person, you’re a murderer. If you steal, no one would hesitate to call you a thief. But in America, when you force yourself on someone sexually, some people will jump through flaming hoops not to call you a rapist.

From my latest at the Guardian, When you call a rape anything but rape, you are just making excuses for rapists (via rapeisrape)

[agentmaya-blog]

Women are described in animal terms as pets, cows, sows, foxes, chicks, serpents, bitches, beavers, old bats, old hens, mother hens, pussycats, cats, cheetahs, bird-brains, and hare-brains…‘Mother Nature’ is raped, mastered, conquered, mined; her secrets are ‘penetrated,’ her ‘womb’ is to be put into the service of the ‘man of science.’ Virgin timber is felled, cut down; fertile soil is tilled, and land that lies ‘fallow’ is ‘barren,’ useless. The exploitation of nature and animals is justified by feminizing them; the exploitation of women is justified by naturalizing them.

Karen J. Warren Ecological Feminism  (via youhauntyourbagofbones)

[live-to-the-point-of-tears]

I think we still live in a culture that assumes that men are single by choice and women are single because no one wants them.

Sara Eckel, This is Why You’re Still Single (It’s Not Why You Think)

[pro-choice-and-pro-voice-deacti]

If you’ve ever had an abortion, I want you to look at yourself in the mirror, and remind yourself that you are a good person. You are an amazing person.

You made the right decision for you.

It’s okay to feel happy. It’s okay to have no regrets.

It’s okay to be sad....

[sophiawallace]

Laws of #CLITERACY are appearing on walls from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Barcelona, Spain.

[teachersgazebo-deactivated20200]

I think the average guy thinks they’re pro-woman, just because they think they’re a nice guy and someone has told them that they’re awesome. But the truth is far from it. Unless you are actively, consciously working against the gravitational pull of the culture, you will predictably, thematically, create these sort of fucked-up representations.

Junot Diaz (via luciaferr)

[explore-blog]

You will never beat a troll. You will never change a troll’s mind. You may delude yourself into thinking that you proved them wrong, however, never in my years of dealing with trolls have I seen a troll lay down his or her arms and say, ‘You know what, you’re right. I was so wrong.’

Don’t Feed the Haters: The Confessions of a Former Troll – excellent perspective from Paul Jun.

Pair with a lesson in handling haters from Benjamin Franklin and Vi Hart on how to tame trolls.

(via explore-blog)