“ Let’s just put it this way: if you think there’s a thing – anything – women didn’t do in the past, you’re wrong. ”
Kameron Hurley (via feministquotes)
Doctor Who Cares? - A spinoff in which all is right with the ladies’ storylines and they take custody of the TARDIS every weekend to explore the universe together, defeating misogyny and laughing along the way
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I have no more new John Green books to read and Waterstones is closed. My life has lost all meaning.
’ “Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. … You use the future to escape the present.” I guess that made sense. … But if I hadn’t imagined it, I would never have gotten to [it] at all. ’ - Alaska Young and Miles (Pudge) Haltner - Looking for Alaska, John Green.
drunk with power, steven moffat declares that the doctor’s name is “steven moffat”
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“ 3 percent of the decision-making in media comes from women. That means 97 percent of how women are portrayed is decided on by men. ”
Independent Lens, PBS
“Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines” (via ihopeyoucontinue4ever)
It also means that 97 percent of how men are portrayed in media are decided on by men. Something to remind MRAs and their ilk of when they complain about the stereotype of men as inept slobs, bad fathers, etc in media and advertising.
Men have the power. So when we men are shat on by the powers that be you don’t get to try and blame women for that.
(via karethdreams)
How much of that is white men tho?
(via howtobeterrell)
Also of that 3% it’s mostly white women
(via strugglingtobeheard)
“ I never longed for a man the way I longed for the horizon. If I had been born different, they would have called me a sailor, but I was a born a woman, so they called me a fool. My eyes lingered on the edge of the world as I watched the sun run away, quietly, but clearly, calling my name. ”
It took me only a day to finish ‘The Fault in Our Stars’, and when it was finished I just had this void inside me that had to be filled by more John Green books. So I went to buy ‘Paper Towns’ and picked up ‘Looking for Alaska’ as well, but even walking to the book shop I had to try really hard not to just cry right there in the street while thinking about TFIOS. Anyway, I’m starting ‘Paper Towns’ now and wondering what I have got myself into.
‘But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong when he had Cassius note, “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.” ’ - Peter Van Houten - The Fault in our Stars, John Green
BIkers Against Child Abuse Helps Make Abused Children Feel Safe Again
“A biker’s power and intimidating image can even the playing field for a little kid who has been hurt. If the man who hurt this little girl calls or drives by, or even if she is just scared, another nightmare, the bikers will ride over and stand guard all night.
If she is afraid to go to school, they will take her and watch until she’s safely inside.
And if she has to testify against her abuser in court, they will go, too, walking with her to the witness stand and taking over the first row of seats.”
During one such testimony, a little boy sat on the stand, testifying against his abusive father, who sat less than 10 feet away.
“Why didn’t you say anything before now?” Asked the prosecutor.
“I was scared.” The little boy replied, honestly.
“Why aren’t you scared now, what changed?” The prosecutor watched the little boy closely as he pointed to the front row of seats in the court room.
“Because my friends are scarier than he is.”
shit like this makes me have faith in humanity again.
“Whenever I hear someone talking about how it’s wrong to have sex and sexiness in YA novels, what I actually hear is this:
I’m terrified that the first fictional sex a teenage girl encounters might leave her feeling good about herself. I’m terrified that fictional sex might actually make teenage girls think sex can be fun and good, that reading about girls who say no and boys who listen when they say it might give them the confidence to say no, too – or worse still, to realise that boys who don’t listen to ‘no’ aren’t worth it. I’m terrified that YA novels might teach teenage girls the distinction between assault and consensual sex, and give them the courage to speak out about the former while actively seeking the latter. I’m terrified that teenage girls might think seriously about the circumstances under which they might say yes to sex; that they might think about contraception before they need it, and touch themselves in bed at night while fantasising about generous, interesting, beautiful lovers who treat them with consideration and respect. I’m terrified of a generation of teenage girls who aren’t shy or squeamish about asking for cunnilingus when they want it, or about loving more than one person at once, and who don’t feel shame about their arousal. I’m terrified that teenage girls might take control of their sexuality and, in so doing, take that control of them and their bodies away from me.
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“Why YA Sex Scenes Matter,” Foz Meadows (via aimmyarrowshigh)
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axe literally has a scent called africa they have decided as a company what an entire continent smells like and people do not question this
she saved two lives and all they care about is her nipple.
this is sexism, my friends.
No you shit it’s a gossip article that wants sales. That’s what it is you overanalyzing bastard
look at what you just wrote and think about it.
No, I’m sorry, this magazine would do the exact same thing if some guy’s dick was exposed in the same situation. This isn’t Time Magazine or Maclean’s, this is some celebrity gossip article. Gossipy celebrity articles do shit like this all the time. Pinning it down to sexism is a stretch.
If [MALE CELEB] dove naked into the water to rescue two people he would be a hero and praised for doing everything he could even though he was at risk of exposing himself to the paparazzi.
Because it was a woman, they run this headline and say that she ‘suffered’ an ‘unfortunate’ nip slip, as if her nipple falling out is somehow worse than the near drowning of her son and nanny.
The only thing Heidi Klum ‘suffered’ was objectification by the media.
This is sexism.
Bolding mine, this part is very important (so is the rest, but that especially).
