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Thor to Loki: "Are you a boy or a girl?"

Loki: "I'm a God"

Thor: "I mean, what's your gender?"

Loki: CHAOS

Thor: "Ok but what's in your pants?"

Loki: MISCHIEF!

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William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Letoile Lost (1884)

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The most dangerous man a woman will encounter is the one sitting at her own dinner table, yet media continue to focus on horrific crimes perpetrated by strangers and acquaintances. This violence should be treated seriously in and of itself, but it is also meaningful to understanding public violence. The single most accurate predictor of violent crime is a man’s felony domestic violence conviction. For instance, 58 percent of mass shooters have histories of domestic violence. Nine of the ten most lethal mass killings in the United States involved men with histories of domestic abuse. Three of the deadlier mass shootings of 2017—one in Plano, Texas, in which seven were killed, another in which eight people died in rural Mississippi, and a third in which twenty-seven were killed in Sutherland Springs, Texas—were committed by estranged husbands enraged that their wives had chosen to end their marriages. Killings like these are not considered political or terroristic, even though in effect they are both. 

— Soraya Chemaly, Chapter 6: Smile, Baby, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger

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The most dangerous man a woman will encounter is the one sitting at her own dinner table, yet media continue to focus on horrific crimes perpetrated by strangers and acquaintances. This violence should be treated seriously in and of itself, but it is also meaningful to understanding public violence. The single most accurate predictor of violent crime is a man’s felony domestic violence conviction. For instance, 58 percent of mass shooters have histories of domestic violence. Nine of the ten most lethal mass killings in the United States involved men with histories of domestic abuse. Three of the deadlier mass shootings of 2017—one in Plano, Texas, in which seven were killed, another in which eight people died in rural Mississippi, and a third in which twenty-seven were killed in Sutherland Springs, Texas—were committed by estranged husbands enraged that their wives had chosen to end their marriages. Killings like these are not considered political or terroristic, even though in effect they are both. 

— Soraya Chemaly, Chapter 6: Smile, Baby, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger

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“In many environments, all you have to do to be castigated as an angry woman is to say something out loud, so you might as well say exactly what’s bothering you and get on with it. This means that, usually, you have to come to terms with not always being liked. Your anger and assertiveness will make some people unhappy, uncomfortable, sensitive, cautious. They will resent you, your thoughts, your words. They will hate your willingness to risk social connections and challenge social conventions. Be prepared to be labelled as humourless, difficult, a spoilsport, and a ruiner of parties, meetings, dinners, and picnics. There is discomfort in understanding. There will always be people who are deeply uncomfortable with your anger. They will attempt to diminish what you say by disparaging your choice of expression. This is a kind of laziness and a sure symptom of dismissal and, sometimes, abuse. If someone does not care to consider why you are angry, or why anger is your approach to a specific event or problem, then that person is almost certainly part of the problem. Among women, this dismissal often comes from the desire not to identify with “victimhood,” and your anger, as a marker of social difference and disadvantage, is a challenge to that concept. Demanding fairness and describing a problem doesn’t make you a “victim.” Silencing, denial, mockery, intimidation, and callousness might, though.”

— Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her

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people have no idea what its like to be 14 and have everyone telling you that you’re faking and pretending to be ill for attention or to skip art class and the doctor’s telling you you’re ‘just being a teenager’ when you actually had a serious kidney disease

if someone hadn’t eventually listened to me i would have died

Please, please support self-diagnosed teenagers, don’t pretend they’re not really disabled, don’t belittle or mock them, don’t exclude them from disabled spaces and for the love of god don’t pretend you know more about them than they do

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Fellow men, especially of the cis variety: If you haven’t experienced a woman’s anger, you haven’t demonstrated that you can be trusted with it.

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GUYS IM GONNA CRY!!!!!! YES!

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Watch: How toxic masculinity follows men from birth to death.

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hannah gadsby, nanette (2018)

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Viva La Résistance

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Our pride is #unbreakable. Happy Pride Month!

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Earlier this year, NPR reported that people with intellectual disabilities are victims of some of the highest rates of sexual assault. 

NPR found previously undisclosed government numbers showing that they’re assaulted at seven times the rate of people without disabilities. 

Now states, communities and advocates, citing NPR’s reporting, are making reforms aimed at improving those statistics.

States Aim To Halt Sexual Abuse Of People With Intellectual Disabilities

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This isn’t what I usually write about, but I think it’s important.

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"This book will make you mad...but in the best possible way." - LIz Plank No taking it back now, lol. Presale available in the U.K. http://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Rage-Becomes-Her/Soraya-Chemaly/9781471172113 and in the US http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Rage-Becomes-Her/Soraya-Chemaly/9781501189555

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The Savita Halapannavar Mural 26/05/18, Portobello, Dublin. The day justice was served for all who have suffered at the hands of the 8th amendment.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam. Go raibh mile maith agat, Savita.