It's More Than You Think
"A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.” ― Gloria Steinem
“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.” ― Brigham Young
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In the 101 top-grossing family films…from 1990 to 2004, of the over 4,000 characters in these films, 75% overall were male, 83% of characters in crowds were male, 83% of narrators were male, and 72% of speaking were male. When the American Psychological Association commented on this research, they said, ‘This gross under-representation of women or girls in films with family-friendly content reflects a missed opportunity to present a broad spectrum of girls and women in roles that are non-sexualised.’Natasha Walter, Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism, pages 69-70, 2010. (via bitemebeautiful)
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I know your heart was in the right place but as a person with severe social anxiety disorder (and as someone who has known many people with moderate to severe cases of social anxiety disorder) the governmentsgetgirlfriends guy is not displaying classic symptoms, and if you do believe that he has social anxiety disorder calling him crazy would be ableist (though I know you didn't intend it to be.) This disorder doesn't make people behave like he does, nor does it make people incel.
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Lucy Liu talks battling Asian stereotypes in Hollywood.
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“This is what a feminist looks like,” the t-shirt proudly proclaims. But what about men? What does it mean to be a man and a feminist? What role do or should men play in the feminist movement? Acording to a 2009 CBS News poll, only 14% of men consider themselves feminists. Why so few male feminists? And how do we increase the number of male feminist allies?
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Photo reblogged from Mark my words, I might be something someday.
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Our new study finds a record number of new moms have been to college. [Graphic: Deseret News]
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“Abercrombie & Fitch, the controversial US clothing retailer, has been accused of deliberately excluding plus-size women from wearing its clothes, by failing to make or sell womenswear in any size above Large. The latest claims of body elitism come from Robin Lewis, a retail industry analyst and co-author of The New Rules of Retail, who says Abercrombie CEO Mike Jeffries doesn’t want larger people shopping in his store, he wants thin and beautiful people.”
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Interesting perspective I never thought about.
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Smart said she “felt so dirty and so filthy” after she was raped by her captor, and she understands why someone wouldn’t run “because of that alone.”
Smart spoke at a Johns Hopkins human trafficking forum, saying she was raised in a religious household and recalled a school teacher who spoke once about abstinence and compared sex to chewing gum.
“I thought, ‘Oh, my gosh, I’m that chewed up piece of gum, nobody re-chews a piece of gum, you throw it away.’ And that’s how easy it is to feel like you no longer have worth, you no longer have value,” Smart said. “Why would it even be worth screaming out? Why would it even make a difference if you are rescued? Your life still has no value.”
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““Why do you think women who get raped, so many don’t report it? They don’t want to get raped again by the system. They don’t want to be put through what they had to be put through,” Biden said on Wednesday.”
“Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network (RAINN), an anti-sexual violence organization, reports that an estimated 54 percent of rapes go unreported every year. This, as Biden said, is largely because legal help can be costly in both time and money, as well as humiliating for the victim who has to relive her experience while litigation drags on for months or years at a time.”
