February 2012
58 posts
“Veganism isn’t for everyone. It is only for people with enough personal...”
– Matt Rice
“Rape culture is a culture in which people who have survived a violent crime are...”
“And yet a woman’s weight is seen by American culture as an outward manifestation...”
– Everybody, Every Body: the Media’s Erasure of Fat Girls
“When will Lin be known not as a “very good Asian basketball player” but simply a...”
– The Sporting Scene: ESPN’s Lin Problem : The New Yorker
“Am I arguing that girls and women shouldn’t be held responsible for their...”
– Emily Maguire, Princesses & Pornstars: Sex, Power, Identity.
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“When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or...”
– J. Krishnamurti
Anonymous asked: In grade nine (Ontario) my school's health class was going though this sheet checking off true or false. One of the statements was "I women(or girl I don't remember) wearing a short skirt and low cut top is asking to be raped." I imediatley thought false, no one asks to be raped. But in our APPROVED CURRICULUM the correct answer was true, I questioned this and my male teacher...
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“The outrage is tiresome and deeply hypocritical, in all the tiresome ways you’ve...”
– Sasha Frere-Jones on MIA’s middle finger and everyone else’s panties being in a bunch over it.
So good.
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