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feministdisney:

sanityscraps:

thegoddamazon:

maymay:

“Repeat Rape: How do they get away with it?”, Part 1 of 2. (link to Part 2)

Sources:

College Men: Repeat Rape and Multiple Offending Among Undetected Rapists,Lisak and Miller, 2002 [PDF, 12 pages]

Navy Men: Lisak and Miller’s results were essentially duplicated in an even larger study (2,925 men): Reports of Rape Reperpetration by Newly Enlisted Male Navy Personnel, McWhorter, 2009 [PDF, 16 pages]

By dark-side-of-the-room, who writes:

These infogifs are provided RIGHTS-FREE for noncommercial purposes. Repost them anywhere. In fact, repost them EVERYWHERE. No need to credit. Link to the L&M study if possible.

Knowledge is a seed; sow it.

Pretty much.

And that’s not all. 43% of college men will admit to using “coercive behavior” to have sex with a woman… which of course is also rape.

Rape culture trains sociopaths.

this is good to have. I always want these studies and I always have trouble finding them via google.

(via lizziegoneastray)

deadpon-and-weible:

impsexual:

Because telling fat people that they are in fact humans that deserve dignity and respect automatically means you’re ~*GLORIFYING OBESITY*~

By the way, don’t dribble on to me saying you worry about a fat person’s ‘health’. That’s just a bullshit excuse to voice your unwanted opinion on a fat person’s body considering you wouldn’t give a single flying fuckadoodle about someone’s health if they were skinny. Besides another person’s health is none of your damned business anyway. Run along now and preach to a choir that actually cares.

I’m going to be honest, so long as you’re not hurting anyone, you can eat soy sauce and milk duds all day long for all I care.

thank you so much for this comic imp.

(via southpawscopic)

queerability:

Gender

Be a trans* ally & help fight transphobia & cissexism

1. Use the term ‘cisgender’ when referring to non-trans* individuals, rather than transphobic words like “normal,” which imply that trans* individuals are abnormal, weird, ill, or broken.

2. Do not use transphobic slurs, such as “tra-ny” or “shemale.” These words are intended to insult and harm trans* individuals.

3. Always use the name any individual gives you. Do not ask someone what their “real” name is. (Their desired name is their real name.)

4. Always use the desired pronouns of an individual. If you are unsure which pronoun to use, politely and privately ask the individual what their preferred pronouns are.

5. Do not claim someone’s gender identity as false, nonexistent, immoral, or a result of an illness or trauma.

6. Do not ask questions regarding someone’s anatomy, or question if they have transitioned or will be transitioning in the future.

7. Do not ask to see the photographs of a person before they transitioned. Likewise, do not ask invasive, personal questions of a person regarding their life before they transitioned.

8. Never out a trans* individual to others. Likewise, do not ask others if “so-and-so is transgender.”

9. Do not assume an individual’s sexual orientation due to their trans* identity.

From asexual-not-a-sexual.tumblr.com

(via femme-detectives)

cupcakearrow:

metapianycist:

I think that the responsible thing to do when a person who is questioning their sexuality comes to an asexual-spectrum resource blog is to give them asexual-spectrum resources, because if they are asexual-spectrum they may find them helpful, and if they are not asexual-spectrum, it will help them gain more certainty about their what sexuality isn’t.

Giving people information about asexuality, gray asexuality and demisexuality does not harm anyone.

And if the person is young, it doesn’t hurt anyone to tell them “You are never, ever required to have sex, and you are a complete person without that.” When I first encountered the asexual community as a teen, I found it immensely and overwhelmingly powerful to learn that I could be a complete person without ever having sex.

If a young person turns out to be mistaken and isn’t actually asexual-spectrum, encountering the community will not have harmed them because the community encourages critical self-examination. No one who has figured out they are not actually asexual-spectrum has ever been ostracized from finding community with asexual-spectrum people.

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“As long as women’s natural body hair is called disgusting and inappropriate while men’s isn’t, I am a feminist.
As long as I can’t watch an episode of a popular sitcom without having to sit through multiple sexist comments or “jokes”, I am a feminist.
As long as women have to face the rational fear of being sexually assaulted every time they walk home past dark while men don’t, I am a feminist.
As long as misogyny exists in any country in this world, I am a feminist.
As long as women are being raped, then stoned to death or forced to marry their rapist, I am a feminist.
As long as companies promote men to manager when there are women who are equally as or better qualified, because they find that men look more authoritative, I am a feminist.
As long as women (her choice of clothes, her friendly nature, her weakness, her choice to drink alcohol) get blamed when men rape them, I am a feminist.
As long women’s opinions on online social networks are dismissed with phrases like “tits or gtfo”, “get back to the kitchen”, “are you pms’ing?”, I am a feminist.
As long as dressing like a women is degrading for men and as long as men are insulted with phrases like “you throw like a woman”, clearly implying that being like a woman is shameful, I am a feminist.
As long as both men are women are expected to work, but taking care of children and the household are still largely considered a woman’s job, I am a feminist.
As long as boys and girls are treated differently, expected to act differently, and surrounded by different toys and colours from the day they are born, I am a feminist.
As long as topless women aren’t allowed in public unless they’re on the cover of a men’s magazine, I am a feminist.
As long as women who have sex frequently are generally told they are “sluts”, “lacking self-respect” and “lacking morals” by both men and women, while men who frequently have sex are “just being men” and it’s “natural for them”, I am a feminist.
As long as there are places where women have to pay more for health insurance than men, I am a feminist.
As long as men experience situations with equal gender representation as female-dominated, and don’t consider a group discussion equal unless there are significantly more men then women participants (as has been proven), I am a feminist.
As long as there are men who think it’s their wife or girlfriend’s duty to have sex with him whenever he wants, I am a feminist.
As long as the word feminism (“the movement aimed at equal rights for women”) has a negative connotation, I am a feminist.
As long as misogynist people exist, I am a feminist.”

LE CHRYSANTHÉME: I am a feminist. (via psychedelicpaisleyprincess)
(Source: livefromplanetearth, via femme-detectives)

“Rape jokes are not jokes. Woman-hating jokes are not jokes. These guys are telling you what they think. When you laugh along to get their approval, you give them yours. You tell them that the social license to operate is in force; that you’ll go along with the pact to turn your eyes away from the evidence; to make excuses for them; to assume it’s a mistake, of the first time, or a confusing situation. You’re telling them that they’re at low risk.”

Thomas Macaulay Millar, Meet The Predators (via autopsyblue)
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The atheist’s dilemma

whycatholicism:

I don’t know when I first became a skeptic. It must have been around age 4, when my mother found me arguing with another child at a birthday party: “But how do you know what the Bible says is true?” By age 11, my atheism was so widely known in my middle school that a Christian boy threatened to come to my house and “shoot all the atheists.” My Christian friends in high school avoided talking to me about religion because they anticipated that I would tear down their poorly constructed arguments. And I did.

As I set off in 2008 to begin my freshman year studying government at Harvard (whose motto isVeritas, “Truth”), I could never have expected the change that awaited me.

It was a brisk November when I met John Joseph Porter. Our conversations initially revolved around conservative politics, but soon gravitated toward religion. He wrote an essay for the Ichthus, Harvard’s Christian journal, defending God’s existence. I critiqued it. On campus, we’d argue into the wee hours; when apart, we’d take our arguments to e-mail. Never before had I met a Christian who could respond to my most basic philosophical questions: How does one understand the Bible’s contradictions? Could an omnipotent God make a stone he could not lift? What about the Euthyphro dilemma: Is something good because God declared it so, or does God merely identify the good? To someone like me, with no Christian background, resorting to an answer like “It takes faith” could only be intellectual cowardice. Joseph didn’t do that.

Continue reading.

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Anonymous Asked:
you are literally a fucking idiot people do not fit into petri dishes an embryo is basically a collection of cells and the whole POINT of that pro choice post was to show that there is AN OBVIOUS AND BLATANT difference between a baby and a zygote you prototypical teen blogger, arrogant, and vacuous fool.

My answer:

I’m sorry, though my stance on the issue is clear, I do try and make a point to refute the logical fallacies rather than the issue at hand, or the character of the person making the argument- the same, I’m afraid, cannot be said for you.

As for these accusations against my character:

I have no mental illness or learning disability, making your words both incorrect AND ableist- nice.
I’m fairly certain I am not the first blogger on this site, nor the first teen.
I’m 23- wrong again
Yeah, I’ll give you this one. It comes with the voice part. ;)
Awesome, the ability to think makes me vacant and empty-headed, sure, that makes sense.

In short:

lol

kristenmastora7:

gallium-knight:

Here’s a test:

I’m holding a baby in one hand and a petri dish holding a fetus in the other.

I’m going to drop one. You chose which.

If you really truly believe a fetus is the same thing as a baby, it should be impossible for you to decide. You should have to flip a coin, that’s how impossible the decision should be.

Shot in the dark, you saved the baby.

Because you’re aware there’s a difference.

Now admit it

woah.

hahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahano

because you are killing a human being either way

that’s like asking a parent to choose between saving their med student child or their drug problem child - they may pick the one more ‘developed’ or ‘likely to survive’- but it would still be fucking difficult if not impossible

or it’s like in the Dark Knight where the Joker instructs a boatful of escapees and a boatful of inmates to kill or be killed

they’re still all people

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deadladyofclowntown:

amaresempra:

Everyone please repeat after me:
You can be genderfluid and not appear androgynous

You do not have to wear your gender/genderfluidity/agender in a socially acceptable manner only.

You do not have to meet other peoples standard of what your gender looks/acts/sounds like.

THIS.

(via femme-detectives)