December 2011
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Anti-femme culture (and feminists aren’t immune to this) thinks the effort put...
– The Rotund by Marianne Kirby (via ellielamothe
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Dress suitably in short skirts & strong boots, leave your jewels in the...
– Countess Markievcizv, 19th century Irish revolutionary, dispensing eternally relevant fashion advice. (via corpsicles)
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Society’s wariness toward sex is highlighted by contrasting it with the greater...
– Nadine Strossen (from ‘Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex and the Fight for Women’s Rights’)
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Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should...
– Andrea Dworkin (via verycunninglinguist)
And did it occur to you for one minute, Ms Dworkin, that if men were encouraged and accepted in expressing their emotions other than through aggression, there might be a whole lot less violence around?
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Try standing at a party of queer friends and charting all the histories, sexual...
– Michael Warner (1999) The Trouble with Normal (via jadedfucker)
og my fucking gosh i have never read something that made so much sense about relationships. brb need to read this book.
(via sexxxisbeautiful)
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Abuse
The single thing that most startled me about this report is that men and...
– Ozzy on CDC’s National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (US).
(Note - Inept is not entirely in accordance w/ Ozzy on the last para. but agrees the discourse in this area needs to be more complex than it often is.)
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Interviewer: Tell us about your relationship with Robert Downey Jr.
Jude Law: Oh, I love him.
Interviewer: You have a bit of a bromance going on there.
Jude Law: What is this new term everybody's using? That's a horrible term. What about just a 'romance'?
Interviewer: No, that's not the same, 'cos then you'd have to star in a romantic comedy together or something.
Jude Law: We just have! Have you not seen it?
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[TW: Rape, rape culture] “No man is in any real physical danger on the internet—...
– Hugo Schwyzer, on the use of the term “male bashing” (via strawberreli)
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bobbeyahkne:
one upon a time there was a princess in a tower and a prince came to rescue her
“fuck off” she said “the tower has wifi, does your horse have wifi? i didnt think so.”
“what” he said because this was not how fairytales usually went
so she pushed him out the tower window and then went and posted about it on tumblr
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And then Jack chopped down what was the world’s last beanstalk, adding murder...
– Susan Sto-Helit (portrayed by Michelle Dockery) Hogfather (via downtonandher)
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I knew it was my husband's fault...
shitmystudentswrite:
A major contribution to the end of a marriage is the man’s prolonged existence.
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The takeaway here is that being a Nice Guy ™ is not a guy thing—it’s a people...
– Ozzy at No Seriously What About the Menz: Nice Guys Part 1: I Was a Nice Girl
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