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straight up, the rules of misogyny graphic changed my life. it's such a simple and practical tool for identifying patterns of patriarchy

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There's always an excuse when men hurt us.

When he's a boy and hurts a little girl, he simply doesn't know better, boys will be boys.

When he's a teen and harasses a classmate, he's going through hormonal changes and not fully in control of himself yet, we shouldn't ruin his promising future over it.

When he's a young man and becomes violent and radicalized, he's another victim of the so called male loneliness epidemic and we should make an effort to help him out lest he hurts himself and others.

When he's a senior citizen and assaults a nurse, he's too old and senile to answer for his actions.

They are allowed grace in ways women are not.

Young girls are supposed to be polite and graceful. Teen girls are supposed to know better. Young women who become radical feminists are bigots who deserve to get punched. Old women should fade into the background.

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“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco

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Queen of Cups and The Hermit reversed

They asked people to share stories of significant moments, so you snuck out and went back home.

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Cool Ways for Men To Be Gender-Nonconforming:

do the dishes

don’t interrupt her when she’s talking, let her finish her thought

offer genuine emotional support to your friends

do your own laundry

treat women like credible individuals who deserve good faith

don’t assume you’re inherently more logical than women

start acting like someone who values personal hygiene

learn to cook and offer to do so for your friends

have female role models

refuse to participate in bonding with other men over mistreating women

clean the bathroom

fetch things for yourself instead of always asking women

offer to help your sisters who are mothers with child care

be open to learning things from women

do nice things purely to put a smile on someone’s face

be generous and helpful

don’t be afraid to look weak or wrong and learn from a mistake

consume media written from a female perspective

clean the kitchen

apologize to women and change your behavior when confronted

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i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck

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instead of proclaiming that every girl in the world is sexy no matter what why don’t we start talking about how it doesn’t matter whether or not you’re sexy because sex appeal is irrelevant and is used as a tool for male dominance

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If you are afraid of the ascendancy of fascism in this country—and you would be very foolish not to be right now—then you had better understand that the root issue here has to do with male supremacy and the control of women; sexual access to women; women as reproductive slaves; private ownership of women. That is the program of the Right. That is the morality they talk about. That is what they mean. That is what they want. And the only opposition to them that matters is an opposition to men owning women.

Letters From a War Zone, Andrea Dworkin

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Over The Waves by Setsuko Matsushima

art quilt

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So I just read this article about how people end up fucking up whatever task they’re doing when they feel like they’re being watched.  Scientists have discovered that the sense of being observed actually SHUTS OFF a part of the brain, the inferior parietal cortex. 

Given the fact that women are constantly watched in our society, and we are constantly REMINDED that we are being watched by people making fun of fat, “ugly”, or gender-nonconforming women, it makes me wonder how many women have messed up important tasks or projects or just day-to-day activities because A PART OF OUR BRAIN is permanently being deactivated?

Like talk about a fucking handicap.

Women are constantly held under the microscope- whether we are attractive or unattractive, the gaze of patriarchy never ends.

Just last week I was walking my dog and bent over to literally pick up poop.  Suddenly I heard whistling and looked up cause I knew I was the only person around.  Sure enough, about 300 feet away, some construction worker was perched on top of a building, grinning at me and calling out stuff I luckily couldn’t hear because he was so goddamn far away.

I wonder what it does to women to have this constant source of stress hanging over us, each and every day, knowing we are being scrutinized and examined no matter what we’re doing.  I wonder how many more accomplishments, life-changing discoveries, inventions, etc would have been achieved by women if we didn’t have this constant brain-handicap imposed on us by men.

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Whenever I see someone refer to "Victorian era-" for places outside the UK I'm tempted to start saying shit like "Han Dynasty era Rome", "Soviet era Australia" etc

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ironically i think it's easier for women to treat men like clueless little children who don't know what they're doing than consider the alternative. because the alternative to thinking he doesn't know and just needs to be taught and guided to the correct path is that he DOES know. he knows exactly what he's doing and how he's treating you and he could choose to do better but he preferred not to because it benefited him and because he didn't care or value you enough to stop it and because he knows you won't leave. that actually requires you to do something about the relationship you might not like.

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A 14 year old girl flushing her miscarriage down the toilet can be charged with mutilating a corpse, but keeping a dead woman on life support for 120 days then cutting her open to extract a 2 pound fetus because her dead body was decaying too fast to sustain the pregnancy any longer is not only legal but compelled by law. America/the world/men hate women so much.

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"Girls' cultural work has long been assumed to be secondary, derivative, and belated - or else entirely nonexistent. This book demonstrates, instead, that girls are very often the first to do many things. For example, the tenth-century German abbess, Hrostswitha of Gandersheim, composed six Latin plays to be read and performed by the girls of her convent for the purposes of learning Latin and receiving religious instruction. These plays are the work of the first known female dramatist and are the first post-classical dramatic compositions produced in Europe. Moreover, this significant event in theatre history is motivated by girl-oriented subject matter: the lives of virgin martyrs and holy anchorites. The sixteenth-century publication of Hrotswitha's plays represents a further watershed moment in the history of the book and the theatre. Published in Nuremberg by the humanist scholar Conrad Celtes, and including woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer, the 1501 Opera Hrosvite contains the first printed works by a female playwright as well as the first printed volume of plays by a post-classical dramatist. Plays about girlhood, written for and performed by girls, thus constitute foundational works in literacy and theatre history, as well as in the history of the book."

–– Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Pedagogy, by Deanne Williams