I just backed the fabulous Anita Sarkeesian’s Tropes Vs. Women in Video Games video project on Kickstarter, and you should, too! She does amazing feminist critique of pop culture, and videos is expensive. :) She’s already made her goal for the first couple of videos, but she’s now looking to fund the whole series. Let’s help her out!!
My period will now be called shark week.
This is the most awesome thing I have ever seen.
(Source: marylenagbang, via slashteddy)
Normally, I wouldn’t reblog grimmconfessions stuff on this Tumblr, but I had to reblog this one, because I’ve totally thought it. Also, I love the fact that this person gives Juliette the same amount of credit I do. :)
Watch Grimm.
Carry on. :)
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Oppressed Iraqi girl.
REBLOG WITH YOUR NATIVE HOMELANDS, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. Y’ALL MUSLIM PEOPLE OPPRESSED. USE THIS EVIL CHARACTER GENERATOR. AND HAVE OPPRESSED FUN.
Oppressed Girls™
I. LOVE. THIS.
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So, the VAWA is up for reauthorization, and there’s a vocal minority in the Senate trying to fight it. Huh? Now, while it is a minority - in this bat-shit crazy time we’re living in where anything that would be helpful to women suddenly has this weird backlash, we can’t be too careful. So, click the link and show your support for the VAWA.
Here’s more info that I received in the form of a letter from Senator Patrick Leahy’s (D-VA) mailing list:
This week, I’ll be on the Senate floor leading the charge to pass the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), critical legislation that has reduced domestic violence by more than half since becoming law in 1994.
Unfortunately, right now, a vocal minority is trying to derail passage in the Senate while poisoning the well in House — even threatening a filibuster — all to block renewal of a cost-effective bill with strong bipartisan support that protects women.
To get this bill through the Senate, defeat the filibuster threat, and give it momentum to overcome extreme right-wing opposition in the House, we need to demonstrate overwhelming support.
I’m doing everything I can on the Senate floor — but I need your help to build strong grassroots support behind this bill too.
Join me today. Add your name as a citizen cosponsor of Violence Against Women Act, and show Congress that Americans overwhelmingly support this common-sense legislation!
In America, any victim of abuse should be able to count on our legal system to protect them. That was the idea behind VAWA in 1994, and it’s the idea behind VAWA today: Don’t just change how we prosecute domestic violence, prevent it from happening in the first place.
The bill I have crafted with my Republican colleague, Mike Crapo, brings us closer to that ideal. It updates the bill to address unmet needs identified by those in the field, and streamlines programs to deliver essential services at a lower cost.
By making sure this bill passes the Senate with a wide margin, we can show our opponents in the House — some of whom have claimed VAWA shows “hostility” toward men and interferes “in the relationship of marriage” — that Americans won’t tolerate anything but speedy passage of this common-sense, bipartisan bill.
And I need your help to do that.
Stand with me today. Add your name as a citizen cosponsor of the Violence Against Women Act, and show Congress that Americans overwhelmingly support VAWA!
Thank you for your help.
Sincerely,
Patrick Leahy U.S. Senator
P.S. After you’ve signed on as a citizen cosponsor of VAWA, I hope you’ll forward this email to your friends and family and invite them to join us too. It’s crucial to show the overwhelming grassroots support behind this critical bill.
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Virtually everything we have heard in the week since the War on the War on Women was waged has been another mindnumbing meditation on “women” and “choice.” Whether it’s Ann Romney’s “choice” to stay home and care for her five sons, or working women and their “choice” to be in the workplace, or the “choice” to marry a rich guy, or the choice not to marry at all. Why is it that women are the sum of their “choices” and men get to just live their lives?
A few precatory observations on this language of choice: For one thing, it has become so bound up with the fight over reproductive rights in this country that it never really means just “choice” anymore. You can almost hear the silent “unfortunate” that precedes it every time it’s mentioned in political discourse. For another, not all women have all the choices they are alleged to be pondering. Most of us simply don’t have the luxury of a “choice” to stay home, or a choice to work part-time. Most women, like most men, do what they have to do. “Choice” is usually a misnomer, especially during a recession, for women as much as it is for men.
But talking about women in the language of choice is also a political trap. Because it suggests that while men are free to optimize their lifestyle decisions, women are always forced to “choose.” Men may design their lives. Women’s lives are a sequence of impossible trade-offs, made even more complex when they must mesh with the custom designs of the men with whom they marry and co-parent.
Dahlia Lithwick & Jan Rodak, “The Faux Mommy Wars” [Slate]
Really interesting. Hadn’t thought about it this way before.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2y09eunHa1qzsnxyo1_500.jpg)
Virtually everything we have heard in the week since the War on the War on Women was waged has been another mindnumbing meditation on “women” and “choice.” Whether it’s Ann Romney’s “choice” to stay home and care for her five sons, or working women and their “choice” to be in the workplace, or the “choice” to marry a rich guy, or the choice not to marry at all. Why is it that women are the sum of their “choices” and men get to just live their lives?
A few precatory observations on this language of choice: For one thing, it has become so bound up with the fight over reproductive rights in this country that it never really means just “choice” anymore. You can almost hear the silent “unfortunate” that precedes it every time it’s mentioned in political discourse. For another, not all women have all the choices they are alleged to be pondering. Most of us simply don’t have the luxury of a “choice” to stay home, or a choice to work part-time. Most women, like most men, do what they have to do. “Choice” is usually a misnomer, especially during a recession, for women as much as it is for men.
But talking about women in the language of choice is also a political trap. Because it suggests that while men are free to optimize their lifestyle decisions, women are always forced to “choose.” Men may design their lives. Women’s lives are a sequence of impossible trade-offs, made even more complex when they must mesh with the custom designs of the men with whom they marry and co-parent.
Dahlia Lithwick & Jan Rodak, “The Faux Mommy Wars” [Slate]
Really interesting. Hadn’t thought about it this way before.
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First we stop pretending. Call out the hate for what it is. Resist cultural relativism and know that even in countries undergoing revolutions and uprisings, women will remain the cheapest bargaining chips. You — the outside world — will be told that it’s our “culture” and “religion” to do X, Y, or Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman. The Arab uprisings may have been sparked by an Arab man — Mohamed Bouazizi, the Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire in desperation — but they will be finished by Arab women.
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We are more than our headscarves and our hymens. Listen to those of us fighting. Amplify the voices of the region and poke the hatred in its eye. There was a time when being an Islamist was the most vulnerable political position in Egypt and Tunisia. Understand that now it very well might be Woman. As it always has been.
” Why Do They Hate Us?. By Mona Eltahawy (via mollycrabapple)Look out, boss lady coming through.
I love Kara Thrace. Always did, always will.
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New Post at THE TERESA JUSINO EXPERIENCE! On HBO’s Girls and the generational divide.
YOUR IGNORANCE IS MORE SCANDALOUS/ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
The horrible thing is, I just long for a day when having to fight is unnecessary. How many decades, how many centuries, how many millenniums are we going to have to fight, just to have the rights to our SELVES?
