Femonster

Two college feminists fighting patriarchy one blogpost at a time

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All of us who are white have been made to participate in and benefit from systemic racism whether we have chosen it or not, and in such as way that it is not possible to extricate ourselves and choose to no longer be a racist. If you are white, I am suggesting that you are racist because you are part of a racial group in which everyone participates and benefits from white power and privilege. Your imprisonment is that you have no power to stop being a beneficiary of racism. Your imprisonment is that you have no power not to be a racist.
Joseph R. Barndt, Understanding and Dismantling Racism (via darkjez)

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newwavefeminism:

Sh*t Everybody Says To Rape Victims [TW]

Was not expecting to see this, but I’m glad it exists. I really hope this meme sticks around for a while, so many perspectives are using it as a medium to explain their daily lived experiences.

Watch and discuss.

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When someone says something negative about my face or body I will always and forever just completely lose my shit, because I have so much hatred in me, a violence that lies just beneath the surface of my delightfully illustrated skin. Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness and my image of myself as stunningly gorgeous with a ruthlessness and a defensiveness that I fear for anyone who casually or jokingly questions it, as my anger and rage combined with my intense and fearsome command of words create insults meant to maim, kill and destroy.
Margaret Cho (via fuckyeahfeministartandliterature)

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maniahum: We are taught that it’s important to be respectful, yet the practice of questioning a couple’s decision to not have a family is still openly frowned upon. A woman who doesn’t want children is still considered abnormal, a childless man is thought to be selfish and immature. It is not the business of anyone but the couple (and potentially their doctors) whether they should decide to have children. That means it’s none of your business, so think before you utter any of these condescending phrases to a childless/childfree person. I fucking hate when people do this to me. Like no shut up. I know what I want with my body.

maniahum:

We are taught that it’s important to be respectful, yet the practice of questioning a couple’s decision to not have a family is still openly frowned upon. A woman who doesn’t want children is still considered abnormal, a childless man is thought to be selfish and immature.

It is not the business of anyone but the couple (and potentially their doctors) whether they should decide to have children. That means it’s none of your business, so think before you utter any of these condescending phrases to a childless/childfree person.

I fucking hate when people do this to me.

Like no shut up.

I know what I want with my body.

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[I]t is illegal for women to go topless in most cities, yet you can buy a magazine of a woman without her top on at any 7-11 store. So, you can sell breasts, but you cannot wear breasts, in America.

Violet Rose, in Three Steps to Better Sex (via muffdiver)

This reminds me of the post going around which contrasted the pathologizing of public breastfeeding with the gratuitous, objectifying images of women’s breasts that can be found in advertising.

The legal and social message is that our bodies are for purchase and exchange between men—and their liberty to buy us and sell us should never be infringed! NOT EVER! FIRST AMENDMENT! FIRST AMENDMENT!—not for us to do with as we please. Never that!

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What you said:
I'm Pro-choice, and I definitely think abortion is the right decision for some people, and some situations.
What they think you said:
I love killing people, I worship Satan, and absolutely love skinning puppies.