“You went through a phase where every film you were in you were taking your clothes off.”

(via panemandcircenses)

some pretty cool feminists →Mindy Kaling {x}

I mean, imagine opening The Sun every day and finding page three adorned with a photo of a pouting specimen of masculinity clad only in his Y-fronts. Imagine naked men sprawling sensuously on the bonnets of new model cars at the motor show. Imagine having to listen to some sweaty and repugnant female version of Bernard Manning telling an endless string of Father-in-Law jokes. Sure, it’s funny once. Maybe it would be funny twice. But three times? Four times? Five thousand times? Can you imagine having to live with something as insulting as that every day of your life? No wonder so many feminists are cranky.

And comics are, in their way, every bit as guilty as other media in presenting a distorted vision of women to their readers. Maybe more guilty in some respects. After all, comics tend to be aimed predominantly at a young audience, an audience that may very well be going through an impressionable stage of their lives and desperately trying to make sense of the world in which they find themselves.

roranicusbamficus:

a-rose-in-the-tardis:

tinydragongina:

nessaelanesse:

pyra-the-pyro:

lovethroughtheairwaves:

pink-mama:

littleselfia:

miss-doctorwhom:

lacigreen:

did you know you can’t “POP your cherry”?  In this video i talk about:

what the hymen really is
how this myth is some sexist bullshit
and how to deal with your hymen the 1st time you have sex.

<3

She is amazing.

I’m exceptionally pissed off that this is news to me.

I’m really fucking pissed off that I did not know this and it’s my own goddamned body.

I had a freaking kid and didn’t know this.

The only reason I knew this is because of the sex talk with my Mom I had about six months ago. It’s awful how many women don’t know this about their own bodies.

They need to teach this shit in sex ed. 

I wish more people new this!

I love this woman.

Fascinating. That girl is AWESOME

What he hell? I thought everybody knew this! How would it be possible to menstruate if the hymen didn’t have a hole in it? It’s logical.

This is great. 

(via bound4hell)

Gloria Steinem Supports President Obama

This isn’t about being able to see the world through the eyes of the oppressed; rather, it’s about paying attention when the oppressed tell their own stories and believing them. But privilege means never having to consider that anyone experiences the world differently from you.

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khealywu:

joestanton:

newsweek:

Ashley Judd, writing on the site, fights back at those in the media who speculated on her “puffy” appearance, calling the frenzy a misogynistic assault on all women.Why even stoop to their level?

Ashley:

I choose to address it because the conversation was pointedly nasty, gendered, and misogynistic and embodies what all girls and women in our culture, to a greater or lesser degree, endure every day, in ways both outrageous and subtle. The assault on our body image, the hypersexualization of girls and women and subsequent degradation of our sexuality as we walk through the decades, and the general incessant objectification is what this conversation allegedly about my face is really about.

And she’s only getting started! Yea girl. Read Ashley Judd Slaps Media on The Daily Beast.

DANG ASHLEY JUDD KILL IT

This is fucking amazing. I love you (even more) Ashley Judd.

YA BURNT, MEDIA. 

Has the Sexual Revolution Been Good for Women? Mary Eberstadt: No - WSJ.com ›

Has the Sexual Revolution Been Good for Women? Mary Eberstadt: No - WSJ.com ›

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the-womanifesto:

BEING A WOMAN IS NOT A PRE-EXISTING CONDITION!

(via wilwheaton)

weaziller:

huffpostcomedy:

comedynerdsunited:

devanclara:

Amy Poehler posters at the Georgia Capitol rally for women!

Besting thing EVER! 

This is important. 

This is so cool.

I’m a little choked up.

This is powerful.

(via weaziller-melisasaraceni)

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“The attempt by Republican men to wrestle American women back into chastity belts has not only breathed life into President Obama, it has roused and riled Hillary. And that could turn out to be the most dangerous thing the wildly self-destructive G.O.P. leaders have done.”  ( x )

Telling boys and men that they shouldn’t drink regular diet drinks because they’re effeminate, but should instead drink “manly” things like Dr. Pepper Ten and Coke Zero and Pepsi Max, is telling them that there’s a right way to be male and it doesn’t involve anything feminine. That, in turn, tells them that female is less, female is bad, and female is worthy of ridicule. If men and boys are surrounded by ad campaigns that reinforce these ideas, don’t you think they’ll probably think women are less, and bad, and worthy of ridicule?

‎While both men and women are called idiots and puppets and frauds, only women are attacked in terms of suspected (or flat-out hallucinated) licentiousness. And only for women is there such a brimming, insidious thesaurus of accordant pejoratives.

Decades after the dawn of feminism, despite the best efforts of everyone from Erica Jong to Kim Cattrall, women are still seen through an erotically censorious prism, and promiscuity is still the ultimate putdown.

It’s antediluvian, and it’s astonishing. You’d think our imaginations would have evolved, even if our humanity hasn’t.