December 2009
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Homosociality - Hugo Schwyzer
swinginglifeaway:
I’ve been thinking about homosociality a bit these past few days. Homosociality (as explained so well in Michael Kimmel’s Manhood in America) is the principle that all men, including heterosexual ones, are raised in our culture to be more eager to please other men than women. It doesn’t take much in my classes to get heads nodding as the subject comes up! To use one cheap and...
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Brilliant Article On Girls Hating Girls Over Guys....
ladiesgottasers:
I’m posting this because I am 100% in agreement with these chics. Ladies, we’re better than this. Now let’s prove it by eliminating this kind of behavior. You can check the article out here.
A sample of them fine words:
(In reference to Taylor Swift’s song ‘You Belong To Me’)
“It put my hair thoroughly on end, with Taylor pleading over and over again for a boy to just go...
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Talk to most men about male entitlement and... →
ihatethismess:
I thought of a female friend of mine who once complained that sharing a room with a man took effort. “It’s as though,” she said, “his being there, his existence, demanded some of my attention.” Talk to most men about male entitlement and they’ll look at you like you’re crazy. But it’s real and it’s more than just being able to walk around the city after dark without the fear of...
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“A mother who radiates self acceptance and self love actually vaccinates her...”
– Naomi Wolf (via poisonoushoneysuckles)
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“Even though Bella is ostensibly a hero, in truth she is merely an object in the...”
– Twihard With A Vengeance: Why Twilight Is A Boon For Young Women
(via psychexperimentinglove)
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"Feminism is all about crazy bitches who hate...
cocknbull:
…and other lies told to children.
To quote Jessica Valenti:
“Do you think it’s fair that a guy will make more money doing the same job as you? Does it piss you off and scare you when you find out about your friends getting raped? Do you ever feel like shit about your body? Do you ever feel like something is wrong with you because you don’t fit into this bizarre ideal of what girls...
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Debunking The "What If You Were Aborted" Myth
ladiesgottasers:
Kathleen Reeves turned her eyes to the way the recent and immediately notorious anti-choice episode of “Law and Order” employed the “born alive” myth that’s so near and dear the anti-choice heart. I would like to tackle another hoary myth of the anti-choice pantheon that made it onto the show, the “How would you like to be aborted?” ruse. On “Law and Order”, it shows up in the...
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Rape Culture 101 →
(via mamomo)
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“Certainly, such people have no constitutional right to have the state adopt...”
– Geoffrey R. Stone, “Same-Sex Marriage and the Meaning of Words” (via honeyhands) (via longlivethequeen)
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“I don’t think we get it. The bloodiest war in this country’s history was fought...”
– The Magical Negro Extended (via bonesarecoralmade) (via clingtomymouth) (via bowfolk)
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Does Death Exist? New Theory Says 'No'
extraterrestrial:
Many of us fear death. We believe in death because we have been told we will die. We associate ourselves with the body, and we know that bodies die. But a new scientific theory suggests that death is not the terminal event we think.
One well-known aspect of quantum physics is that certain observations cannot be predicted absolutely. Instead, there is a range of possible...
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“Yesterday, our president mused about the inevitability of war, war’s...”
– Congressman Kucinich’s Response to President Obama’s “Just War” Doctrine (via @SteveHynd)(via unburyingthelead)(via danielholter) (via robot-heart-politics)
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“Another woman echoes this sentiment. “The Arabs have their own villages. That’s...”
– Hebrew, Arabic mix upsets neighbors - Haaretz - Israel News (via clingtomymouth) (via bowfolk)
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Settlers allegedly vandalize and set fire to West... →
bowfolk:
clingtomymouth:
Earlier on Friday, Palestinian officials claimed that radical settlers vandalized and set fire to a mosque in a Palestinian village in the West Bank. Defense officials confirmed that assailants had vandalized the mosque, and the Civil Administration has launched an investigation.
The attack took place in the village of Yasuf, south of Nablus. The assailants entered...
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justbesplendid:
“The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth - the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core under extreme temperatures and pressures. These stars- the high mass ones among them- went unstable in their later years- they collapsed and then exploded- scattering their enriched guts...
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Why We Lost Healthcare →
robot-heart-politics:
azspot:
From the very outset of the healthcare debate, the administration told progressives to forget about expanding Medicare to cover all Americans: that was not going to happen, the administration said, and what’s more, the administration did not want them making a fuss about it. Instead, the President pledged that he would only sign a bill that included the option to...
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What Is In The Senate Health Care Bill?
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soupsoup:
Here are a list of the major points, via MSNBC TV
Expands coverage to roughly 94% of Americans over 65.
Limits insurance company profits and overhead.
Insurance through public exchanges for an estimated 30 million Americans.
Insurance companies immediately barred from denying coverage to children due to pre-existing conditions.
Insurance companies barred from...
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyI... →
inothernews:
katoleary:
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savingpaper:
A district court in Oklahoma on Friday blocked a new abortion law that would require women to provide detailed information about why they want the procedure. That information, names omitted, would then be posted on a state Web site.
Judge Daniel Owens extended the temporary restraining order already in place, which means the law...
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“The political crisis in Pakistan has deepened after the Government’s...”
– Pakistan in crisis as ‘creeping coup’ unfolds (via ryking) (via recro) (via robot-heart-politics)
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“Well, the whole point of the public option originally was that if you’re going...”
– Glenn Greenwald (via azspot)
Ding ding ding! We have a winner.
(via robot-heart-politics)
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endofmarch:
if you had to relive your life in a different time period (in any country) which one do you think you would choose?
Oh, this will sound boring, but I don’t think I would not want to relive my life in any other period or country. I mean, I can go to school, I can vote, I can choose who to marry, I can choose not to marry, I can do the profession that I want, I can wear what I want… ...
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Strange sex laws:
bowfolk:
macaroononastick:
1. In Lebanon, men are legally allowed to have sex with animals, but the animals must be female. Having sexual relations with a male animal is punishable by death. (Like THAT makes sense.) 2. In Bahrain, a male doctor may legally examine a woman’s genitals, but is prohibited from looking directly at them during the examination. He may only see their reflection in a...