I Define My Own Oppression
For the last couple weeks, I’ve been experiencing a lot of backlash in terms of my own definitions of oppression and privilege. I’m not here writing an
Gaslighting
Gaslighting is a form of mental abuse in which false information is presented with the intent of making a victim doubt his or her own memory,perception and sanity.[1] Instances may range simply from the denial by an abuser that previous abusive incidents ever occurred, up to the staging of bizarre events by the abuser with the intention of disorienting the victim.
(via thatfeministdyke)
can there be a tag for pictures of naked women whose faces you can see
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"Women have to work much harder to make it in this world. It really pisses me off that women don’t get the same opportunities as men do, or money for that matter. Because lets face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define our values and to define what’s sexy and what’s feminine and that’s bullshit. At the end of the day, it’s not about equal rights, it’s about how we think. We have to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves."
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Lemonade: unpopular opinion: harry potter is great and everything. but i wish...
unpopular opinion:
harry potter is great and everything. but i wish that it was a bit different, and if i had time to write fanfiction, i would write it this way. just take a minute to imagine how it would be. i think it would be great.
books 4-7 would never happen as we know them. instead, we…
Intersectionality describes the ways in which discourses of race, ethnicity, social class, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, ability, status, nationality, citizenship, religion and other markers of cultural differences intersect to shape individual realities and lived experiences (Mason, 2010). Attending to your positionality involves being accountable for the markers that unfairly afford you privileges at the expense of others, while interrogating the ways in which they interact with the markers that oppress you.
"If guys were as mad about rape as they are duck face we wouldn’t have a rape culture problem."
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Jamie Kilstein (via stuzie)
Other things most straight white guys get way more upset about than they do about rape:
- Taylor Swift
- the song “Call Me Maybe”
- girls who date “douchebags”
- basically any music that isn’t played by white dudes with guitars
- girls who are “shallow” or “fake”
- girls who wear too much make-up
- girls who don’t wear enough make-up
- fat girls
- when people badmouth dark and gritty superhero films
- sports
- sports
- sports
- guns
- fishing
- hunting
- vegetarianism
- Justin Bieber
- someone thinking that they’re gay
- musicals
(via blossom-bamford)
Let’s not forget FEMINISM.
If there was as much opposition to rape as there is to feminism, we wouldn’t have such a rape culture problem.
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