UOW Feminist Society

[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 ethiopienne)

[fucknomontreal]

Montreal hit by four homicides in 24 hours

At least two of these homicides appear to be men killing their female partners. if they were mob hits we would be talking about the city’s gang problem. How many more women would have to be killed by their current or ex partners before we’re allowed to talk about a domestic violence problem?

[amaralesbian]

support butch lesbians

support flamboyant gay men

support polyamorous bisexuals and pansexuals

support sex-repulsed asexuals

don’t throw people under the bus because they “fit a stereotype” you deem negative that you try to distance yourself from

[mebesidemyself]

i just want to appreciate the fact that mrs s was introduced as a sort of overbearing mother-figure, then developed into a fiercely loyal mother-figure, then developed into a character with a questionable back-story, then developed into a fierce badass, and then developed into a very/healthily...

[presenteyesonyou]

[macklemorrigan]

do not flirt with women when they are at work

do not take advantage of women who are in situations where they cannot say no or be blunt

[bi0nicy0uth-deactivated20160203]

[barredandbolted-deactivated2017]

PREACH

[oldfilmsflicker]

The Accused, 1988 (dir. Jonathan Kaplan)

[homosexual-ing]

Painful proof that we have progressed so little in 25 years.

[nabokovsshadows-deactivated2018]

Everyone should see this film.

[alicetookadrink-blog]

Not to mention the quote “what would it matter anyway? They tore it off.”

[whenwomenrefuse]

The five women rejected their advances, said they were lesbians and continued walking toward the Metro station.

The men followed them and yelled homophobic slurs, according to Morse.

…

The man swung at her several times, hit her left eye and knocked her to the ground, Morse said. Her head hit the pavement, and she saw another one of the men punching her friends in the face one after another, she said. Morse tried to defend her friends until officers arrived and broke up the fight, she said. The women suffered bruises, facial scratches, cuts and other injuries, according to charging documents. Police are still investigating the case.

None of the seven officers at the scene agreed to take a report, according to several of the women who were interviewed this week. The attackers continued to taunt them even after the officers arrived, the women said, but the police did not intervene.

[adriofthedead]

first a girl gets stabbed and killed by a dude at school because she refused to go to prom with him

now seven women are dead and more are injured because some idiot tool felt like sex or even attention from women was something that was somehow “owed” to him

how many more times does this have to happen before we start getting it through our heads that male entitlement fucking kills people

[yayfeminism]

We don’t know if Elliot Rodger was mentally ill. We don’t know if he was a “madman.” We do know that he was desperately lonely and unhappy, and that the Men’s Rights Movement convinced him that his loneliness and unhappiness was intentionally caused by women. Because this is what the Men’s Rights Movement does: it spreads misogyny, it spreads violence, and most of all it spreads a sense of entitlement towards women’s bodies. Pretending that this is the a rare act perpetrated by a “crazy” person is disingenuous and also does nothing to address the threat of violence that women face every day. We can’t just write this one off – we need to talk about all of the fucked up parts of our culture, especially the movements that teach men that they have the right to dominate and intimidate and violate women, that lead to this, and we need to change things. Because if we don’t, I guarantee that this will happen again. And again. And again.

Elliot Rodger And Men Who Hate Women (via feminizt)

[seafucker]

"what are the chances of EVERYONE in a group of friends being queer" you do realize that we all tend to flock together like penguins huddling for warmth in a cold, heteronormative world, right

[jmeekzzz-deactivated20160307]

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

-Audre Lorde 

We talked about this Audre Lorde quote at our FreeSchool last week on Activism and Academia, presented by Sarah Ferber. 

[nolookfirmino-deactivated201904]

do men have resting bitch faces as well or do they not have negative characteristics ascribed to them for putting on a neutral rather than a deliriously happy facial expression

[birtsplace]

The smartest CPL in the universe.

[scowlofminerva-blog]

Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.

Judith Butler, 'Imitation & Gender Insubordination'