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9:19 pm  •  14 January 2012  •  859 notes

9:30 pm  •  13 January 2012  •  9,086 notes

“Fashion is one of the very few forms of expression in which women have more freedom than men. And I don’t think it’s an accident that it’s typically seen as shallow, trivial, and vain. It is the height of irony that women are valued for our looks, encouraged to make ourselves beautiful and ornamental… and are then derided as shallow and vain for doing so. And it’s a subtle but definite form of sexism to take one of the few forms of expression where women have more freedom, and treat it as a form of expression that’s inherently superficial and trivial. Like it or not, fashion and style are primarily a women’s art form. And I think it gets treated as trivial because women get treated as trivial.”

— Fashion is a Feminist Issue: Greta Christina 

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9:32 pm  •  12 January 2012  •  9,688 notes

dcwomenkickingass:

I hate the way Finch drew and posed Wonder Woman on the cover of Justice League. But here’s an excellent visual example of why. The rest of Justice League in the same pose (and similar costume).

It’s not the pants.

9:15 pm  •  11 January 2012  •  3,358 notes

“Boys are told from a young age that whatever they do will be excused under the “boys will be boys” mantra, and that “boys will be boys” mentality leads to what I call the “boiling frog” problem of women’s sexual boundaries. I call it that because if you put a frog into a pot of boiling water, it will jump right out, but if you put a frog into a pot of room-temperature water and slowly heat it to a boil, the frog will acclimate as it heats and never jump out, eventually boiling to death. Similarly, when we learn as young girls to tolerate “low-level” boundary violations like the ones we often are forced to suffer in silence at school, at home and on the street – bra-snapping, boob-grabbing, ass pinching, catcalling, dick flashing “all in good fun” relentless violations that adults and authorities routinely ignore – it makes it harder for us to notice when even greater boundaries are being violated, eventually leading to the reality that many women who are raped just freeze and fall silent, because that’s what they’ve been taught to do over and over since day one. You tell me what’s more infantilizing: repeatedly letting boys (and grown men) off the hook for their behavior because “boys will be boys” and we can’t ever expect any differently, or creating a consent standard in which all partners take active responsibility for their partner’s safety, and which acknowledges the truly diseased sexual culture we’re soaking in every day.”

— Source (via femmeglitterati)

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9:19 pm  •  10 January 2012  •  12,883 notes

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10:23 pm  •  2 January 2012  •  32 notes

8:11 pm  •  1 January 2012  •  69 notes

“A great deal of the reason why anti-abortion sentiment is allowed to hold ground is that the debate is just that - an ideological, religious or socio-political debate on abortion. It is rarely discussed in terms of personal experience, despite record numbers of women - 189,100 in the UK in 2009 - having them.
Every year, an estimated 42 million abortions occur worldwide - 20 million occurring safely, with proper medical supervision, and 22 million occurring unsafely. Across the world, women are doing what they have always done, throughout history: dealing with a potentially life-altering or life-threatening crisis, and then not talking about it afterwards. In case anyone near to them - those people who are not bleeding, and who have not just had an abortion - get upset.”

— Caitlin Moran - How To Be a Woman.

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10:00 pm  •  31 December 2011  •  26 notes

“When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today’”

— Caitlin Moran

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3:19 am  •  29 December 2011  •  279 notes