#misoygny

[the-middle-eastern-feminist]

Important reminder that there is nothing feminist about war.

[elexuscal]

Kind of...super uncomfortable...about all the cissexism in this episode of Rick and Morty. I don’t know, it’s just really sticking to some uncreative gender stereotypes, and I’m pretty tired of ‘alien race perfectly recreates our gender binary’ trope.

[darthwicket]

Ok so I don't normally post write about my opinions on feminism and racism for a lot of reasons. Mostly because I came to tumblr to look for crochet inspiration, swoon over Captain America gifs and geek out over Star Wars.

But some anti-sjw mouthbreather is attacking one of my mutuals. I was going to tag her but I won't in case I kick the hive and I didn't want to put it on her post because a)she doesn't need me to defend she's doing fine herself.  b) it's a long post I didn't want to make it longer. c) she's being a lot nicer than I'm about to be.

It's not just about her, but it's the perfect example. These fucking trolls, just I don't know, spend their time cruising tags just waiting for a woman on the internet to have an opinion. God forbid a black woman on the internet have an opinion they've got to shut that shit down real fast. It's almost like there's power in ideas and when they're shared could inspire other people to think about their life and experience and what they could do to help people maybe even change corrupt systems. These people can't have that.

They benefit too much from the system. They don't bother trying to understand history because they don't care. Either they get some kind of high putting other people down or they’re  afraid the system might change. I don't know. You'll never get an honest answer probably just some bullshit statistic taken out of context that's purpose is derail the argument.

Like how twisted do you have to be, how fragile your own ego to read a personal account of a young woman who has legitimate concerns, legitimate fear and instead of offering encouragement you make it about you and pile more fear mongering on top of it. I know what they really hope is that they will silence the woman who dared share and those who read her story and it resonated with. Those women or other marginalized folks wanted to share but now are too scared because they don't want to deal with bigot brigade. Fuck them. Fuck their irrelevant statistics. They can also shut the fuck up with their tone policing garbage. Shut the fuck up with alllivesmatter, because if they fucking did matter to you then you would support blacklivesmatter and stop hijacking it.

I didn't feel I needed to explain this because so many others have much more eloquently, but a black person saying she is afraid of white people or even hates white people is not an attack on a white person. It is an expression of the frustration that they are feeling having to live under this unfair system. That's the simple version probably too simple, but I know these racists don't like to read so you have keep it simple for them.

I bet that asshole thought he was real clever using Will Smith, Oprah and Dave Chapelle gifs to explain to a black woman why her experience is invalid. God save us from smug white men, please. They are not funny and definitely not as educated as they claim to be. They’ll use whatever they can whether it’s statistics, The Bible to try to keep women and POC down. Not even Oprah is safe from being their shield bearer.

[annwhatever]

Why I believe the mistreatment of women is the number one human rights abuse

With his signature resolve, former US President Jimmy Carter dives into three unexpected reasons why the mistreatment of women and girls continues in so many manifestations in so many parts of the world, both developed and developing. The final reason he gives? “In general, men don’t give a damn.”

With his signature resolve, former US President Jimmy Carter dives into three unexpected reasons why the mistreatment of women and girls continues in so many manifestations in so many parts of the world, both developed and developing. The final reason he gives? “In general, men don’t give a damn.”

Men...

[little-fighter]

This has been a rant that has been formulating in my head for a couple of months (since I was introduced to the hashtag world of Instagram), so I figured #reclaimthebindi week was an appropriate time to post this.

“They rip off our culture, then ignore our struggle”-Huey Freeman of The Boondocks

1)      As a child, I grew up in a predominantly white upper middle class community and mostly everyone was Christian. When a lot of people asked about my religion, they always had a slightly condescending and judgmental tone to go along with it. “Oh, I hear your Hindu, don’t you have multiple monkey and elephant gods….like a Pagan”. I would always lie about celebrating Christmas and Easter, you know because I didn’t want anyone to think I was the devil or something.  Nowadays though, I feel that many Christians have picked and chosen the parts of the religion I grew up worshipping for the sake of being  #spiritual #trendy #pinealgland #gypsy #yogini #ChakrasAligned. I see screen printed t-shirts with those Hindu gods on it and Hindu god tattoos worn by people who don’t even know or understand Hindu culture. When girls in their tight ass lululemon pants post videos on Instagram doing surya namaskara without knowing or caring about the meaning of the mantra or the religion that goes along with it. It’s not that Yoga is necessarily a problematic thing (not from a cultural appropriation standpoint anyways…biomechanically and posturally EHHHH), it is that yoga has become so associated with white people, that the “Hinduness” of it has purposely been taken out, to make it more digestible for the common masses. And it’s ironic when many of those who are judgmental of Hinduism as a religion, rip it off and make it a #YogaLifestyle (PS: I am totally Atheist/Agnostic by the way. However being raised in a Hindu household, this really bothers me).

2)      I remember when someone who I looked up to as a kid said, “Oh Indian people eat with their hands because they are savages, uncivilized and never learned how to use utensils properly”. I internalized this as well, and never ate with my hands again…..despite the fact that my parents always did it. Try eating naan with a knife and fork, shit ain’t easy.

3)      When in elementary school I wore henna to school and girls made fun of me like “oooooooh is that shit on your hands or what?”. I understand little kids are shits, and it’s natural, but what bothers me is when I look on Instagram and many people who are not south asian/arab wearing Henna  (for the sake of #henna, not for a specific cultural function).

4)      Other various racist comments I have heard that haven’t sat well with me are:

 I don’t want my personal trainer to be Indian

 I hate Indian people…..OH WAIT YOU’RE INDIAN?....JK didn’t mean that

 You’re really attractive….for an Indian girl

Guy at the gym: “Oh you’re Indian? Can we kama sutra?” **winky face*

 I like that you look exotic but are white washed, it’s sexy as fuck.

 You’re Indian? Are you a terrorist? You can terrorize me any day *winky face*

 I’d like to eat you out, because you probably taste like curry.

(notice how a lot of these are gross pick up lines from randos ugh I can write a whole other rant on that )

5)      And now for THE BINDI:

Out of all the Indian traditions that I abandoned because I got harassed/made fun of, the bindi or “pottu” takes the cake. The worst time was when I was walking with my grandparents at some Chuck E’ Cheese type place and have some older kid say “Oh yeah it’s good they look like they got shot in the head they deserve that”. My grandparents didn’t hear it, but I did. That made me really uncomfortable….to the point where I didn’t even want to be seen near my parents/grandparents when they were dressed up in Indian clothes. But more importantly, I felt like less of a person because of the fact that I am Indian, and I figured the bindi was the tell tale sign that I was an Indian. So I decided to abdandon it, as an 8 year old. Every time I DID wear on Indian clothes for a function , I was always fighting putting on a bindi. I always took it off and threw it away when my parents weren’t looking.  I guess now I should be happy that the western culture has finally accepted my cultures bindi as #spiritual, and I can finally embrace it and be a #bindibabe.

Indie/hipster people get all pissy when a band gets super popular, and claim that “they didn’t appreciate this band when they were underground, they don’t deserve to listen to this band”……well my dear friends, “You didn’t appreciate and support the bindi when people of color were being harassed for wearing one, you don’t deserve to  wear one now.”

[velvetiia]

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James Christianson 

facebook.com/prosedad 

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jamieross/an-anti-feminist-party-is-standing-in-the-general-election?fb_comment_id=fbc_588778224556678_588831044551396_588831044551396#f2efc6d8c

this is where his comments are. at the bottom. 

this guy is a total fucking asshole and is saying that not only are women not oppressed but apparently they just started claiming that to undermine the civil rights movement. 

[its-not-the-time-that-matte-blog]

Matt Forney

So yeah, basically just wanted to inform everyone about who Matt Forney is, and why we need to stop him. Basically, he'a a massive misogynistic dick, who likes bragging about his dick. He wrote the article "Five Reasons Why Girls With Tattoos and Piercings Are Broken" (link: http://www.returnofkings.com/45334/5-reasons-why-girls-with-tattoos-andor-piercings-are-broken). Now, lemme just sum up a few of the particularly horrible views he shares in this article: 1) he states that girls with piercings and tattoos are sluts. Boys are okay to get tattoos, but girls are sluts for having them. 2) he says that girls who get tattoos because they feel like it, and they want to get a tattoo, are selfish and narcisistic. He says that girls who alter their bodies with tattoos and piercings and girls who cut their hair short only care for themselves, and do not want to please their man. He (and I quote) calls them "moody, unlikeable cunts". How sophisticated, Mr. Forney. 3) he claims that girls with tattoos and piercings are boring, and says that when he was dating his ex-girlfriend (who was a piercing addict) that he "derived incredible pleasure from shoving my cock in her mouth to shut her up". 4) he admits to having physically abused his ex-girlfriend, claiming that she was 'mentally ill' and would "start fights for no reason to try provoke me into hitting and slapping her". Sounds like a swell guy, amirite? So, here we have a guy who slut-shames, believes women should do things to please men rather than do what they like with their own bodies, uses women for sex, silences women and discourages them from talking, and physically abuses his girlfriends. And why does he have such strong negative views on women? Well, if youd read the article, he states that his ex-girlfriend (who had many piercings) cheated on him. Thats right, he is the guy who goes batshit crazy and spouts off misogynistic bullshit, trying to oppress the female gender, because he feels insecure that he was rejected by a girl. You can click this link and scroll down in order to email him! http://mattforney.com/about/ Guys, this dude is a published author, youtuber, and journalist. Do we really want HIM contributing ideas to our media? Do we want his ideas to become more evident in our society than they already are? Help out and send him some mail. Shoot a tweet his way, too. Comment on his articles. Lets let him know that this shit isn't okay, and us women have a voice that we are not afraid to have heard!

[ohsoprofound]

The misogyny some gay men come out with is just awful.

And they're always the first to yell discrimination at the slightest thing, and you think but wait, so when you refer to women in that way, it's fine though?

And don't even get me started on the "ew! a vagina" mindset You came out of one, for god's sake.