vixyish:

gracediamondsfear:

assbutt-in-the-garrison:

alicetookadrink:

Hey so to protect one of my friends I’ve decided to help her out by posting this on my blog instead. Please share this!

“This is Ian Foote. My husband and I met this man at one of my shows at the Rickshaw Theatre in East Vancouver last week and I added him on Facebook that same night because he and his girlfriend seemed nice enough.

WARNING TO WOMEN IN EAST VAN.

This man is a potential rapist who openly admits to having to forcibly stop himself from raping on the daily. Please spread this around, I want everyone in Vancouver to know to stay far away from this man.”

(Vancouver BC)

Please please please signal boost the fuck out of this you never know where your followers are. Thank you ♥

What fucking piece of shit.

This is a nightmare.  He thinks he’s being clever and cute about his disgusting tendencies.  And I’m sure once all of this gets out and the world understands what a monster he is he’ll claim it was all one big joke or social experiment or some shit.  Or that he was being sarcastic to prove a point. 

Okay so the really stupid — no wait, let me start again. One of the MANY stupid things about this kind of argument: the line that borders how much is showing “too much”, the outfit that supposedly “forces men to think about fucking them”— is completely and utterly arbitrary.

There was a time when women showing their ANKLES was utterly scandalous in most of the western world, and would have caused men like this to say “well she was asking for it, look how she was dressed.”

And what about cultural variance? During a slightly later time when women in the west could “safely” expose their ankles (but not their knees!), there were countries in the “British Empire” (colonialism being a whole other post) whose cultures forbade their arms to be exposed.

And so on. 

Would looking at my ankles make your “inner caveman” think about fucking me?  How about looking at my elbows? No? Then how did your “inner caveman” get slightly more “civilized” than the inner cavemen of the 1910s, and how did their inner cavemen get more civilized than the Victorian ones?  

The bullshit “oh but it’s just evolution/biology!” argument doesn’t hold up to even the tiniest examination. “Modesty” rules have never been about anything but controlling women, and “evolution” arguments about behavior have never been about anything but blaming women for whatever happens to them when they step out of male control.

airyairyquitecontrary:

thenotsosilentmonk:

deducecanoe:

reservoircat:

Mutant 101 – Professor Xavier Should Put In A Call To Her Parents – 5 Year Old Mia Stares Down marvelentertainment‘s Cast Of Guardians Of The Galaxy As She Crushes Them In A Game Of GotG Trivia On jimmykimmellive [X] 

Vin Diesel in the background looking at her like “SHE’S PERFECT.  WANT ONE.”

I thought girls didn’t like Super Heroes.

You thought what? 

Also, bless five-year-old girls who can confidently pronounce the words ‘cybernetic enhancements’ because they’re so interested in superhero adventures that they saw no obstacle to learning anything at all to understand them better.

And can do it wearing a pink flower headband, if they feel like it.

GIRLS LIKE SUPERHEROES. GIRLS LIKE COMICS. GIRLS HAVE LIKED THESE THINGS FOR AS LONG AS THEY HAVE BEEN AVAILABLE TO LIKE. 

(behold, three girls and one boy avidly reading new comic books in New York City, 1947, photographed by Ruth Orkin)

What girls don’t like is when they’re patronised, and herded towards titles designed according to what grown men think girls are supposed to like, and ignored with regard to titles that those men assume are just for boys and men. What girls don’t like is not being allowed to choose for themselves what they like. 

This is not a new concept. This is noted in Chaucer. What every woman most desires is to choose her own way.

suricattus:

roserosetyler:

vixyish:

the-uncensored-she:

Tell me again why a women’s liberation movement is no longer needed.

Dear “I don’t need feminism” crowd…

“The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday stood by its ruling that a dentist acted legally when he fired an assistant because he found her too attractive and worried he would try to start an affair. Coming to the same conclusion as it did in December, the all-male court found that bosses can fire employees they see as threats to their marriages, even if the subordinates have not engaged in flirtatious or other inappropriate behavior. The court said such firings do not count as illegal sex discrimination because they are motivated by feelings, not gender.” [x]

Further proof, were it needed, that men are the weaker gender and need to be secluded in purdah so they aren’t driven into evil by their inability to control themselves or their impulses.

It’s for their own good, really.  We’ll make sure they have wide-screen televisions and hot baths, and they can play fantasy football and work out in the gym to while away the hours until they’re called for.  It’s what their nature wants, after all.  They’re clearly not suited to be out in the world, making difficult decisions that might distract them from their sole purpose of contributing seed…

ohscience:

thescienceofreality:

#YesAllWomen tweets reveal persistent sexism in science By Fiona MacDonald via ScienceAlert. | Image Credit: First three images via ScienceAlert via Twitter, fourth image via Twitter.

Reading through the tweets on the #yesallwomen hashtag is heartbreaking, illuminating and frustrating all at the same time. 

And if you’re a woman, you’ll be nodding along to nine out of 10 of them.

The hashtag started after it was revealed that 22-year-old Elliot Rodger, lead suspect in the Isla Vista shooting, had shared extremely disturbing and misogynistic views in a video posted shortly before the attack.

Instead of flooding the internet with Rodger-specific fury, Twitter took the discussion to the next level and remind the world that sexism is still very much present across society, and #YesAllWomen experience it.

Among those tweets were many honest and confronting admissions of sexism from female scientists, students and communicators.

This isn’t the first time the issue of misogyny in science has been brought up, but it’s always sad and shocking to see certain opinions persist when females have come such a long way in the field.

As ScienceAlert is staffed almost entirely by women, we though we’d add a few of our own:

Because only 44 out of 835 Nobel Prize laureates are women.

Because senior scientists would still rather hire males, and pay them more.

Because people are still shocked when we tell them ScienceAlert is run by women.

Because that last tweet I screenshotted, via Hannah Hart, really hits home for myself and so many women I’ve talked to over the last few days [much less ever] when it comes to pointing out sexism in general, especially within the STEM world. 

a break from our regular programming for some real important stuff

Because over five years on, most of the men still don’t think it was a big deal for them to run off the woman they elected president of the local 2600 using sexual slander #yesallwomen