Pointy Teeth| Tigers Sniffing Catnip(x)
Context: This guy created a website to post personal information of women that men believe are making false rape accusations (including the route they take to work). A woman got upset, and this is his response. Because apparently false rape accusations are a significantly bigger problem than actual rape, to the point that it is okay to threaten someone’s personal safety when you don’t believe her story.
And apparently it’s possible to tell people that rape culture doesn’t exist while also telling feminists you get turned on by the idea of hurting them.
(via shitmrassay)
And yet when a feminist dares to get upset at an MRA, or, heaven forbid, make a castration joke, suddenly they’re horribly violent people who are picking on the poor, poor MRAs who would never do a thing to hurt anyone except in self-defense.
(via bemusedlybespectacled)
(via bemusedlybespectacled)
when they told me
to not
make homes out of peoplei laughed
because who would be foolish enough
to plant the seeds of themselves
in a skin that wasn’t theirs, or in a smile
they didn’t ownbut when i turned to show you
there was only quietempty space
and my roots
from around your ribcage
(via lovemeunlovely)
the world is heavy
but your bones
(just a cubic inch)
can hold 19,000 lbsounce for ounce
they are stronger than steelatom for atom
you are more precious than diamondand stars have died
so that you may liveyou need to remember these things
when you say that you are weak
and worthless
(via lovemeunlovely)
Imagine that you are at a job interview. There is only one other candidate for the job, a man. You have equal qualifications and equal education; on paper, you are identical, except for gender and name.
In person, however, the differences become more obvious. You arrive on time for your interview; you are well-dressed and you answer questions clearly and clearly know what you are talking about. You are very professional and make an overall good impression. The other candidate, however, is extremely unprofessional: he shows up fifteen minutes late and, while he is not slovenly, he certainly isn’t dressed properly for an interview of this kind. He stumbles over some of his answers and, while he makes some effort, he clearly doesn’t know as much about the company’s workings as you do. The impression he makes is mediocre at best.
Shortly after his interview is over, you are informed that you have not gotten the job.
Later, you are at a restaurant with a group of female friends. You are discussing, over lunch, the unfairness and apparent sexism of what has happened to you, and some of your friends mention similar incidents. You’ve been talking in this vein for several minutes when a guy who is not sitting anywhere near you passes your table on his way back from the bathroom, and overhears part of your conversation. He then sits down at your table and starts explaining to you that what happened to you was not sexism, and gives you a patronizing list of reasons why.
Presumably, this makes you pretty angry.
When you tell PoC that they are overreacting to racism, you are being that guy. This is not your conversation to contribute to, you probably don’t have the entirety of the context, and you have no firsthand experience of the situation being described. You are walking into a discussion that is not about you and telling everyone involved that they are wrong, even though you have no way of knowing this is the case.
Respect PoC’s opinions. Don’t be that guy.
Kerry Washington being amazing as always.
Understand colorblinders out there. Please get it.
(via misandry-mermaid)
Grand Rapids, MI, with the lights on, as-seen from 300 miles up.
(via kaydenrobinson)
(via rabbleprochoice)
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan on being detained at the U.S. Airport—twice. (Once, he was detained while promoting a film called “My Name is Khan” which was ironically about a person with the last name Khan suffering from repeated racial profiling.)
Multiple actors and other prominent individuals in the film industry with the last name “Khan” have been detained when entering the country. Irrfan Khan (The Life of Pi, Slumdog Millionaire, Spider-man) described the three times he was stopped—while on the way to receive honors for his roles in films such as The Namesake—as “humiliating.” Actor Aamir Khan was stopped and stripped searched in 2002. Director Kabir Khan, was reportedly detained at least three times in 2008 while filming in the United States. The New York Times ended up remarking on The Dangers of Fying While Khan
This much is clear:
If you’re an award winning actor named Khan, you will still get stopped and humiliated at the airport. When that rare character in American media finally shows up sharing your name, he will be played by a white British man. That actor will wear your name for one movie and sneer and strut to great critical acclaim. You will wear your racialized name, your skin color, and hope you don’t get detained another time.
(via racebending)
