41,884 notes       April 29, 2012 @ 12:03       Via(Source)

"When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. ‘My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.’ It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions?" - Sandi Toksvig (via queerbabs, learninglog) (via protector-ofthe-small)

#Sandi Toksvig #quote #sexism #history #feminism #anthropology
355 notes       March 19, 2012 @ 12:05       Via(Source)

"Republicans date women, they marry women, they have children with women. They take women to dinner. They buy women diamonds and open car doors for women. Yet there’s this Republican war on women, and the Republicans want to actually somehow reach into their purses and grab their birth control pills and take ‘em away from ‘em. The Democrats actually think that they’re going to win with this!" -

Rush Limbaugh, explaining last Thursday why there’s no Republican war on women.

Shorter Limbaugh: “We buy you sluts diamonds and dinner! What more do you ungrateful feminazis want?!”

Ah, I see. So bullheaded restrictions on reproductive rights, opposing the Violence Against Women Act, not supporting the Lilly Ledbetter Act, etc… All that is perfectly fine because Republicans buy diamonds for women they’re dating, AMIRITE?!

And yes, Rush. The more you keep running your mouth like this, the more you help Democrats. Democrats would love to focus on the economy, but when the Blunt Amendment is offered before a jobs bill, it’s a little hard.

Rush, you’ve been paid to say terrible shit about ethnic and racial minorities, women, the GLBTQ community, and liberals in general for nearly 30 years. 

We’re paying attention now. 

Oh, and P.S.: Not all Republicans marry women. Please see Log Cabin Republicans.

(via cognitivedissonance)

#Rush Limbaugh #politics #gender #women #war on women #misogyny #misogynist #sexist #sexism #radio #media
1,656 notes       March 07, 2012 @ 12:19       Via

Without contraception, the average woman would become pregnant roughly 12 to 15 times in her life. 

feministhistorian:

unknowablewoman:

For the dudebros who don’t concern themselves with access to birth control, abortion, daycare, etc.—I would love to see how you would manage a life or a career if your plans were constantly being interrupted by pregnancy. I really would. 

And before you interject with any “just close your legs! if you don’t want to get pregnant, don’t have sex!” business, please remember one thing: someone out there is getting women pregnant, and it isn’t the Holy Spirit. 

emphasis mine

#birth control #abortion #reproductive rights #contraception #feminism #sexism #misogyny #women's health #women's rights #politics #economics #sexuality #abortion rights #abortion access
1 note       January 30, 2012 @ 06:14      

So I’m on Facebook because I hate myself. 

An absolutely hilaaaarious picture was shared by someone I know. It was two images side-by-side: a picture of Al Capone and a picture of a white guy dressed in baggy clothes, a rather nice baseball cap, and trying to look tough. Honestly, he just makes me think of “Hang Tough” by New Kids on the Block, which makes it adorable. Above the picture of Mr. Capone is the word “gangster.” Yep. No disagreement there. Above the picture of Mr. Tough? “Faggot.” Below the pictures was: “This is the difference.”

Ah.

Well.

Hm.

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#tl;dr #homophobia #people make me sad #sexism #offensive slurs
5,160 notes       December 30, 2011 @ 21:17       Via(Source)
thepinesaredancing:

I am (cautiously) reblogging this because it’s awesome as fuck. 

This book is actually on my Amazon wishlist. I encounter this all the time. Women I grew up with post status updates on Facebook that are like this. I know a fair amount of men who think that all women just hate each other and that it’s normal. I hear women at my college say: “I have more guy friends because girls are bitches.” And all of it makes me want to cry. Mostly because I was like that when I was a teenager because I thought that being a feminist meant being a man-hater. Now I know better.

thepinesaredancing:

I am (cautiously) reblogging this because it’s awesome as fuck. 

This book is actually on my Amazon wishlist. I encounter this all the time. Women I grew up with post status updates on Facebook that are like this. I know a fair amount of men who think that all women just hate each other and that it’s normal. I hear women at my college say: “I have more guy friends because girls are bitches.” And all of it makes me want to cry. Mostly because I was like that when I was a teenager because I thought that being a feminist meant being a man-hater. Now I know better.

#Feminism #Sexism #Gender #Sex
80 notes       August 15, 2011 @ 18:51       Via(Source)
lillyannaelizabeth:

I think this speaks for itself.

lillyannaelizabeth:

I think this speaks for itself.

#Feminist #sexism #slutwalk