May 2013
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incoherentmouth:
sublime-sweatpants:
Why doesn’t anyone discuss how society’s perceived ownership of the female body extends into parents who dictate everything their daughters do?
Not letting your daughters express themselves in how they dress, talk, wear their hair, or whether or not they wear makeup just gives them the idea, from an extremely young age, that their body is not their own and...
craplos:
ladies. be careful when u wear spaghetti straps. it might distract the boys. they’ll start thinking of spaghetti. they will get hungry. they will stop at nothing to get their spaghetti.
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“A woman’s worst nightmare? That’s pretty easy. Novelist Margaret Atwood writes...”
– http://www.pbs.org/kued/nosafeplace/articles/nightmare.html (via alullaby)
That sums it up
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(via erikawithac)
This reminds me of a discussion we had in school, and one girl was talking about living in fear of her safety because she is a girl, and this...
“Women are afraid of meeting a serial killer. Men are afraid of meeting someone...”
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When Strangers Click, a 2011 documentary about online dating.
It reminds me of that famous Margaret Atwood quote: “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” It also reminds me of something written by one of the mods of Sex Worker Problems: “Misandry...
