Posted May 20, 2012 at 12:56pm in Sexism Misogyny Feminism Equality Economics Poverty America
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Shout out to anyone who lives in SoCal! If you live in the SGV, and surrounding areas, we will be showing this documentary called Miss Representation about gender representation in the media at Citrus College in Glendora, CA. (Citrus GSA and FemSex have partnered with Planned Parenthood Pasadena & San Gabriel Valley)
It’s Thursday, May 10, 2012, totally free! And there will be a panel after the film. Here’s a Fb invite for more info. (My Citrus people, come and join the discussion!)
For those of you that are interested in the film, here is the link to the film’s website.
Posted May 9, 2012 at 9:50pm in Personal Miss Representation Film Women's Rights Feminism Gender Equality Gender Roles Media America Women Citrus College
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A message to
Planned Parenthoodwomen’s rights supporters from President Obama.Well, he’s got my vote.
(Source: daxterdd, via rainbowresistance)
Posted April 3, 2012 at 4:20pm in Barack Obama Planned Parenthood Women's Rights Feminism
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Dear Men’s Health,
You cannot use one of the few women that works for you to write an article dripping in sex to sell men on how to enjoy women being in a powerful position. It defeats the purpose.
Women are in power positions because they worked hard and they enjoy being there. Getting men to respect that by saying anything but “respect them for their hard work and dedication,” is wrong. You cannot say, “Well, that frees them up for awesome aggressive sex with you,” or, “Don’t you just love a woman on top?” (Not even if you’ve had a woman write the article.) Using sex to sell the idea of women being treated as equals to you in daily life, insinuates that women are sexual in everything they do. They work sexy, they are good for sex, if they are happy they will give you sex, their lives are based around sex with you. Their lives are not.
They are not sexual objects. They are not sexual objects with jobs, work ethic, or ambition. They are PEOPLE with jobs, work ethic, and ambition. Stop using sex to sell something to men.
Stop making it ok to view women in those terms, and stop making it ok for men to view themselves in those terms. Men think about sex all the time, and for you to say, “Well, you think it, so you might as well say it or live it,” is ridiculous. You’re creating generation after generation of perverted misogynists.
It is NOT ok to base everything you think and do off of sex. Stop doing it.
Posted February 21, 2012 at 2:30am in Feminism Equality Women Men Men's Health Power Gender Roles Sex
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If You're Not Upset, You're not Paying Attention
Today in Washington DC the GOP held a Congressional oversight hearing about the new birth control mandate.
Not one woman was on the panel for the hearing.
Let me repeat.
In a hearing about birth control, an issue that affects largely women, not one woman was on the panel.
Not only were there no women on the Congressional panel, but not one woman testified at the hearing.
Let me remind you, the year is 2012. 99% of American women have used birth control sometime in their life.
And the GOP thinks it’s appropriate to hold a hearing about birth control with zero women involved.
This makes me sick.
Also there were priests involved.
Have a photo:
And a source:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/birth-control-witness-panel-photo-made-completely-men-viral-article-1.1023938?localLinksEnabled=false
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Posted February 16, 2012 at 6:00pm in Women Birth Control America Washington Obama Politics Health Care Feminism
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Thanks Pat Robertson! I knew I was forgetting to do something!
^LHADKJFHSKHGLA. xD
Wow, Pat Robertson. Really? Yup. You went there.
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Posted November 22, 2011 at 2:56am in Pat Robertson Feminism Lesbian Politics Conservative Republican
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Phew! Good thing women aren’t the victims of thousands of years of oppression and disenfranchisement or anything.
These figures come from here.
Oh I’m so glad we aren’t oppressed! Wait…
guess we can stop fighting for equality now.
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STFU Fauxminists!: **Possible trigger for mention of rape/rape culture** The people you meet when you write about rape
**Trigger Warning** Rape apologists, rape naysayers, rape deniers
Mr. What About The Men
“The real problem here is all these false rape accusations that are destroying our society! 90 million men are falsely accused of rape every second! A woman just has to sort of mumble a word starting with ‘r’ and a man instantly gets a life sentence! There are no instances on record of a woman actually being raped!”
Ms. Tough Girl
“If women would learn martial arts—70-year-olds and women with disabilities can do this if they put their minds to it, darnit—and carry weapons everywhere, no one would ever get raped! All you have to do is be ready to threaten your own friends and lovers with lethal force at any moment, any anyone who can’t do that must be weak or something.”
Mr. Model Victims Only Please
“The victim was no angel herself. If you look at her record, she’s been arrested several times, she’s a single mother, and she’s living on welfare. So it’s not like she was some innocent little virgin beforehand. None of this makes it right, but I’m just saying, let’s not overreact like a good woman got ruined.”
Ms. Fashion Police
“Did you hear what she was wearing? I’m sorry but that’s just not common sense. If you go out looking like a piece of meat, you have to expect you’ll get treated like a piece of meat.”
Mr. I’m Not Blaming Her But It’s Her Fault
“Rape is never the victim’s fault, of course. But I just want people to admit that she has some responsibility. That she maybe played a part in it. That in an alternate universe where she’d done things differently and she lived in a steel Battlemech wearing a chastity belt, she wouldn’t have gotten raped, and she did make the choice to not use a Battlemech. I just need people to acknowledge that.”
Ms. Couples Therapy
“I dunno, seems to me like they both made mistakes. Maybe he just wasn’t reading her signals, or maybe she wasn’t communicating clearly to him. A lot can get caught up in an emotional moment like that and I bet they both feel really bad right now.”
Mr. Offensive And/Or Baffling Metaphor
“Look, if you walk down a dark alley with a wallet stuffed full of money, sure it’s still a crime when you get mugged, but what if the mugger is just trying to feed his family because he was laid off by an evil solicitor and the ghost showed him a lone crutch leaning in the corner?”
Ms. CSI
“If you put the pieces together, her story just doesn’t wash. She claims that he ripped her pants off, but her pants have a button fly. Ha! And she waited a whole forty minutes after the supposed rape to call the police—who would do that?”
Mr. Troll
“lol bitch deserved it loooollll”
Ms. You Don’t Just Get To Decide Whether You Consent
“She was seen earlier in the night drinking with this guy, talking to him, and even making out with him! And then she went up to his apartment! What did she think would happen? No one ever goes to a guy’s apartment unless they’re consenting to every sex act he could possibly want.”
Mr. How Do I Not Rape Someone It Is So Difficult
“I just don’t understand how to tell if someone is ‘consenting’ or not. What if she secretly decides she doesn’t like it—am I a rapist then? What if she changes her mind midway through? Or afterwards? It’s impossible to know what women want, so how am I supposed to know if they want to have sex with me or not?”
Ms. Traditional Values
“You know, back when women dressed modestly and simply didn’t go out drinking with strangers or going home with people they’d just met, this sort of thing didn’t happen.”
Mr. This Wouldn’t Happen If Women Would Just Fuck Me Already
“This sort of thing is inevitable when women constantly act as gatekeepers and doom beta males to a life of frustration and loneliness. Of course rape is horrible, but the pent-up rage felt by men cast aside just because they weren’t billionaire underwear models has to express itself somehow.”
Ms. Avoid The R-Word
“Wow, that is just not cool. Having sex under those circumstances—I mean, treating a girl like that—you know, being inappropriate with her—is a totally insensitive and downright mean thing to do.”(Source: the Pervocracy)
Aw man, this is a seriously comprehensive list of apologist rhetoric!
Not the first time we’ve posted it but yeah that’s basically every one of em.
(via stfuconservatives)
I can think of a couple more to add
“Being falsely accused of rape is just as traumatic as being raped”
“Women make false rape allegations all the time”
“Men and women aren’t meant to be equal, science proves it”
“You’re not a women unless you have a vagina!”Wait, ok, this is good, but who’s Rebecca and what is “Team Elevator Guy”? Is this in response to a particular incident or…?
i’m pretty sure the rebecca/team elevator guy thing is reference to a woman who was giving a speech at a hotel and was asked to come up to some guys room for coffee in an elevator. she said she felt uncomfortable and turned him down.
quite frankly, ppl will ask you out. just because they have creepy eyes or invite you to have sex instead of just coffee doesn’t mean they are rapists or molesters or peeping toms or anything. some dudes are awkward, so are some women. if a woman asked her up for coffee in the same manner, she woulda said, no thanks, i’m not a lesbian, and got over it. i AM a feminist in many, many ways. but i can’t agree with pulling out the feminist card whenever you feel awkward. that was a human situation, not a sexist, or rapist one. if you would like to be treated fairly, do NOT say that anything that makes you feel uncomfortable that comes from a man is harassment. it’s not. i’ve met some really great men in my life. who are nothing but good to women and totally respect them. they might ask a girl out in the most awkward way possible, but they don’t have ill intentions.
that being said, this photo is mostly accurate. and i made bingo already just by selecting the ones i’ve heard said to me or someone in my personal life.
(Source: coldbitterness, via stfuconservatives)