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Tue, 29 May 2012 11:51:54 -0400

hautekills: Givenchy haute couture f/w 2010

Tue, 29 May 2012 11:34:01 -0400

hautekills:

Givenchy haute couture f/w 2010

attyca: Sebastian Michaelisby *Attyca

Tue, 29 May 2012 11:16:01 -0400

attyca:

Sebastian Michaelisby *Attyca

"If we teach women that there are only certain ways they may acceptably behave, we should not be..."

Tue, 29 May 2012 11:01:01 -0400

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If we teach women that there are only certain ways they may acceptably behave, we should not be surprised when they behave in those ways.

And we should not be surprised when they behave these ways during attempted or completed rapes.

Women who are taught not to speak up too loudly or too forcefully or too adamantly or too demandingly are not going to shout “NO” at the top of their goddamn lungs just because some guy is getting uncomfortably close.

Women who are taught not to keep arguing are not going to keep saying “NO.”

Women who are taught that their needs and desires are not to be trusted, are fickle and wrong and are not to be interpreted by the woman herself, are not going to know how to argue with “but you liked kissing, I just thought…”

Women who are taught that physical confrontations make them look crazy will not start hitting, kicking, and screaming until it’s too late, if they do at all.

Women who are taught that a display of their emotional state will have them labeled hysterical and crazy (which is how their perception of events will be discounted) will not be willing to run from a room disheveled and screaming and crying.

Women who are taught that certain established boundaries are frowned upon as too rigid and unnecessary are going to find themselves in situations that move further faster before they realize that their first impression was right, and they are in a dangerous room with a dangerous person.

Women who are taught that refusing to flirt back results in an immediately hostile environment will continue to unwillingly and unhappily flirt with somebody who is invading their space and giving them creep alerts.

People wonder why women don’t “fight back,” but they don’t wonder about it when women back down in arguments, are interrupted, purposefully lower and modulate their voices to express less emotion, make obvious signals that they are uninterested in conversation or being in closer physical proximity and are ignored. They don’t wonder about all those daily social interactions in which women are quieter, ignored, or invisible, because those social interactions seem normal. They seem normal to women, and they seem normal to men, because we were all raised in the same cultural pond, drinking the same Kool-Aid.

And then, all of a sudden, when women are raped, all these natural and invisible social interactions become evidence that the woman wasn’t truly raped. Because she didn’t fight back, or yell loudly, or run, or kick, or punch. She let him into her room when it was obvious what he wanted. She flirted with him, she kissed him. She stopped saying no, after a while.

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- Harriet J on Another post about rape

Shattering truth.

(via reconnect-restore-rewild)

this post is…giving me life.

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This post makes me want to cry. Preach.

I decided I didn’t like the last piccie I posted of my new...

Tue, 29 May 2012 10:45:52 -0400

I decided I didn’t like the last piccie I posted of my new red hair. I used to hate my smile, but now I actually prefer photos where I’m smiling. So, here’s a new one! :D

skeletalroses: Do you know how long I have wanted a mask like...

Tue, 29 May 2012 10:30:11 -0400

skeletalroses:

Do you know how long I have wanted a mask like that?

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Tue, 29 May 2012 10:16:48 -0400

Attention Men: Your level of respect for a woman should not be determined according to what articles of clothing she is not wearing.

Mon, 28 May 2012 20:16:31 -0400

_{*Not all men have penises; not all women have vaginas.}

The moment you start using gifs and memes as substitutes for actual thought out rebuttals, it's time to back the fuck off and take a row of seats.

Mon, 28 May 2012 19:42:43 -0400

Just sayin’…

s-hitsuji: Kuroshitsuji : Hallucination by ~aya-imai

Mon, 28 May 2012 16:41:02 -0400

s-hitsuji:

Kuroshitsuji : Hallucination by ~aya-imai

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Mon, 28 May 2012 16:21:30 -0400

pureblacklove: Red Calavera (2012) on Flickr.

Mon, 28 May 2012 16:07:28 -0400

pureblacklove:

Red Calavera (2012) on Flickr.

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Mon, 28 May 2012 15:50:27 -0400

The vampire squid, Vampyroteuthis infernalis also known as the...

Mon, 28 May 2012 15:37:35 -0400

The vampire squid, Vampyroteuthis infernalis also known as the vampire squid from hell, is a cephalopod that lives throughout the world’s temperate and tropical oceans. The vampire squid is named for its jet-black skin (although color varies from black to red to purple and seems to depend on the light conditions), the caped appearance of the webbing between the arms, and eyes that appear red under some light conditions (the eyes appear blue when viewed from a submersible).

Amazing.

eclecticschmectic: BEST Buddhist Joke! Oh. I love it. I LOVE...

Mon, 28 May 2012 15:18:18 -0400

eclecticschmectic:

BEST Buddhist Joke!

Oh. I love it. I LOVE it.

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Mon, 28 May 2012 15:02:18 -0400

darkkaart: 2010_322by ~Angel-Thanatos

Mon, 28 May 2012 14:42:46 -0400

darkkaart:

2010_322by ~Angel-Thanatos

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Mon, 28 May 2012 14:23:44 -0400

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Mon, 28 May 2012 14:18:03 -0400

And I'll be the first person to admit that I listen to problematic music that is laced with sexism and shit like that.

Mon, 28 May 2012 13:57:40 -0400

raging-liberal-hard-on:

But you know, I don’t go around saying how “perfect” and “flawless” my favorite artists are just because I like them. Especially the male artists. They say some fucked up shit sometimes. But I at least try to look at the music I listen to critically to decide if I wanna listen to it or not.

And as far as the female artists go, I don’t try to play them up as perfect either. THEY say shit that’s not cool either. But again, I’m not gonna go around panning them off as these perfect, flawless, no-problem people when they’re not. They are PEOPLE, and they are going to do and say things that are in line with how society thinks.

If you’re really too dense to see that then you probably just should stop listening to music in general.

THANK YOUUUUUUUU.

Old School Tendencies...

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hautekills: Givenchy haute couture f/w 2010

attyca: Sebastian Michaelisby *Attyca

Sebastian Michaelisby *Attyca

"If we teach women that there are only certain ways they may acceptably behave, we should not be..."

I decided I didn’t like the last piccie I posted of my new...

skeletalroses: Do you know how long I have wanted a mask like...

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Attention Men*: Your level of respect for a woman* should not be determined according to what articles of clothing she is not wearing.

The moment you start using gifs and memes as substitutes for actual thought out rebuttals, it's time to back the fuck off and take a row of seats.

s-hitsuji: Kuroshitsuji : Hallucination by ~aya-imai

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pureblacklove: Red Calavera (2012) on Flickr.

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The vampire squid, Vampyroteuthis infernalis also known as the...

eclecticschmectic: BEST Buddhist Joke! Oh. I love it. I LOVE...

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darkkaart: 2010_322by ~Angel-Thanatos

2010_322by ~Angel-Thanatos

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And I'll be the first person to admit that I listen to problematic music that is laced with sexism and shit like that.

Attention Men: Your level of respect for a woman should not be determined according to what articles of clothing she is not wearing.