important. watch how you talk about the violence in chicago; understand where it really stems from. if you are blaming communities, get the fuck outta here.
I’ll tell you the most believable thing about [Orange Is The New Black] is the idea that Piper only got 15 months for running dope money…I’m a white blonde girl who went out and willfully fucked up and committed armed robbery, and I got five years. There were tons of black girls in my prison who were holding onto a bag of dope for a couple of days, and they always seemed to get, like, 10 years. If you ever find yourself in prison and wonder why there’s tension between white and black, shit like that is probably one of the reasons.
Diane Sawyer: So, have you thought, how many women is enough? How many women [on the Supreme Court] would be enough?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Nine, nine. [Applause.]
Sawyer: Oh! Oh. [Laughs.]
Ginsburg: Well, there’ve been nine men there for a long long time, right? So why not nine women?
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I fight Rape Culture because
When I told my ex boyfriend about my rape
He ‘forgave’ me.
I fight Rape Culture because
I saw my baby sister age overnight
As she told me about her best friend getting molested.
I fight Rape Culture because
My closest friend was abused as a child
And he told nobody but me.
It took him 13 years to open up.
I fight Rape Culture because
My friends admit to letting their partners fuck them when they don’t want it
Then laugh it off as typical male behaviour.
I fight Rape Culture because
Saying that you’re raping someone is perfectly acceptable
If you’re playing a video game.
I fight Rape Culture because
Men tell me they are insulted when women walking in front of them start to walk faster.
As if their ego is more important than our safety.
I fight Rape Culture because
If I tell somebody their rape joke isn’t funny
I am told that I’m uptight.
I fight Rape Culture because
It won’t die out
Unless we kill it ourselves.
I Fight Rape Culture
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Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.
Lois Wyse, author and advertising executive (via thatkindofwoman)
When I say “boys are dumb” what I really mean is “boys have been raised in a patriarchal society that forces them into an incorrect and problematic view of masculinity that not only forces them to strip away valuable virtues from themselves, like patience and gentleness, but also forces them them to view and treat women in unhealthy ways that devalues women as people and makes them into objects purely for a man’s benefit”
but it’s a lot faster to say “boys are dumb”
Reading about abusive men and the way they think. Very unsettling and an incredible book so far. Here are my very professional notes.
