allerasphinx: > the majority of white women voted for trump because bigotry was more important to them
let that marinate and really sink in
this is what we mean when we say that your feminism must be intersectional
this is what we mean when we say that racism, transmisogyny, ableism, must be as important to the feminist movement as the wage gap
this is what we mean when we say that white exclusionary feminism is dangerous and destructive
every time i hear girls say they’re not feminists bc they haven’t personally experienced any situation that requires feminism i just think 
Another year, another batch of superhero films centered on white men. With the X-Men franchise pushing its female characters further and further into the background, Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow is the most prominent female lead in a major superhero franchise. And she’s never even fronted a film herself. Even as female protagonists make inroads into sci-fi and action films, they’ve remained largely shut out of the superhero movie craze launched by Bryan Singer’s X-Men, legitimized by Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, and revolutionized by the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That’ll all change in the next few years as various studios finally bow to pressure and start making female-driven superhero films.
I’m overjoyed that female-fronted superhero films will theoretically be here in two to three years. But that doesn’t mean we should stop demanding more from an industry that already has six films centered on a white guys named Chris and 11 on millionaire playboys. In addition to a Captain Marvel movie and a Black Panther movie, Marvel’s docket includes eight films centered on white men. D.C.’s Wonder Woman announcement also came alongside a slew of male-driven projects. Why are superhero studios so timid when it comes too diversifying their worlds? Female-led blockbusters like Hunger Games,Lucy, Maleficent, and Divergent are regularly dominating at the box office. And given that Marvel can turn a talking raccoon and an anthropomorphic tree into household names, we’re well past the point of worrying that audiences won’t show up for female-fronted superhero films.
Full story at avclub.com
why is no one talking about the #feministprincessbride hashtag
This makes me so happy
I was wondering how that tag originated! It’s delightful.
Anonymous asked:
shamelesslyunladylike answered:
Dude, MEN STARTED ALL THIS SHIT.
This is NOT an accident.
They don’t oppress us because they’re ignorant and don’t know better. They do it because they benefit from it. They feign ignorance and promise they’ll change to waste your time, and then they keep doing what they always do.
Never once in history an oppressed class achieved anything by being nice and understanding to their oppressor. And women in general lack class conscience. Men are NOT on your side. They mostly want you to stop talking about your experience because it makes them uncomfortable.
Stop being nice to people who don’t even see you as fully human. Stop being a doormat. Stop codding your oppressor.
If appealing to men’s sympathies were effective, most of our problems would have been solved a long time ago.
"Power is not a mistake in which the powerful can be educated, it’s not a misunderstanding, and it’s not a disagreement. Justice is not won by moral argument, or exertion, or individual transformation, and it’s not won by spiritual epiphany - It’s won by taking power away from the powerful and dismantling the institutions." - Lierre Keith
i want to know how the idea that people don’t learn from negativity became widely recognized. because lol i can recite criticism i got 20 years ago but don’t remember compliments i got yesterday.
Y E S
IT IS GETTING BETTER
When I first read about this woman’s plan I thought it was a strong idea but I was worried that it was a little bit much for one person, no matter how dedicated, to keep it up for too long, especially since she has, you know, college to commit to. I never thought about how, if other people helped her carry her burden, I never thought about how much it would look like pallbearers with a coffin. Which is simply one of the strongest visual symbols one can use to disturb people in the western world.
So now the perception is, yes, women are here to stay. And when I’m sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court]? And I say when there are nine, people are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.
By far the stupidest criticism of the new Thor is ‘no where in Norse mythology is Thor a woman, stop messing with mythology.’
Right, because Norse mythology is just fucking filled with stories about Thor hanging out with Iron Man and Captain America at the Avengers Tower.
This morning I purchased PlanB using the $10 off coupon which you can find here: http://planbonestep.com/coupon.aspx
It’s August 1, which means you can buy Plan B One-Step at drugstores without a prescription or an ID. Emergency contraception is more effective the sooner you take it, so we’re thrilled that it’s easier than ever to get your hands on it quickly. Check out this awesome Tumblr with user-submitted photos of buying Plan B. You can also learn more about Plan B here.
For the first time ever, this year’s Women Who Kick Ass panel at ComicCon was held in the convention’s largest venue, Hall H. Entertainment Weekly covers the panel here and it sounds incredible. A full transcript of the panel is here.
Unfortunately, the audience’s response to this panel was sexist and predictable.
A panel called “Women Who Kick Ass” follows Hunger Games. It’s in its fourth iteration, and the fact that it’s in Hall H on Saturday is a surprise. On the surface, it makes sense for this to follow Hunger Games, and it’s also likely the Con intended it to be something that would allow for the room to clear out a bit while shuffling in more people from the line that still snakes off across the street outside. But, all the same, there’s something gutsy about placing a frank discussion of Hollywood sexism, feminism, and the limited opportunities for women in the entertainment industry right before 20th Century Fox and Marvel come out to present superhero-heavy slates.
And “Women Who Kick Ass" is the most fascinating and enriching panel I attend at Comic-Con. In particular, its discussion of how sexism still rules far too often in Hollywood is terrific, with panelist Katee Sackhoff (of Battlestar Galactica fame) discussing a time an unnamed male actor pulled her arms out of their sockets while filming a fight sequence, in what she believes was recourse for her questioning him earlier in the shoot; and fellow panelist Tatiana Maslany of Orphan Black discussing how a male crew member inappropriately hit on her when she was just 18 and bound to a bed for a shot. The moderator is good, in that she knows to get out of the way when the women on the panel — particularly Michelle Rodriguez — cut loose, and the content is engaging throughout.
For the most part, the dudes I’m sitting near either pay respectful attention or check Twitter, though there are some jokes from an older guy in front of me about how stupid he finds all of this. Then Rodriguez uses the phrase “destructive male culture” — as part of a larger answer about how women need to take more agency in telling their own stories — and something in the crowd flips. A certain subset of the audience begins to get more and more vocal, and when the panel runs slightly over, as all panels have done during the day, the vocalizations begin to get easier to hear, even to someone sitting clear across a giant room in a place that tends to eat sound from specific individuals in the audience; one really has to make a ruckus to be heard.
The final question — from a young woman about what aspects the perfect kick-ass woman would have — turns into a digression about the many roles that women play in real life and the few that they are asked to play onscreen. It’s all fascinating stuff, with Sackhoff talking about wanting to see someone as kind and strong as her mother onscreen, and Walking Dead’s Danai Gurira talking about the effectiveness of female political protestors in her native Zimbabwe, the sort of story that would almost never appear in a Hollywood film — but the longer it goes on, the more restless the crowd gets. When Rodriguez grabs the microphone again to follow up on a point made by another panelist, for the first time, the audience ripples with something close to jeering anger. When the panel finally ends and the five women on it proceed off to the side for photographs, something done at the end of most Hall H panels, someone shouts something from the audience, to a mixture of supportive laughs and horrified gasps, and the women quickly leave the stage. (I was not sitting close enough to hear what was said, but I confirmed with several people sitting in the immediate vicinity that it was a young man shouting “Women who talk too much!” after the loudspeaker asked attendees to voice their appreciation for the participants in the “Women Who Kick Ass” panel.)
It’s an ugly moment, an unfortunate capper to a great session, to be followed by many of the guys sitting around me offering up tired lines like “I hope they feel empowered now!” and several recitations of the Twilight mantra about ruining the Con. To be sure, most people in the room were respectful. But at a certain point, there needs to be an accounting for the fact that there is an ugliness that burbles beneath the surface of too many Comic-Con events, sometimes intentional and sometimes unintentional. That’s not a task for the Con itself. It’s a task for nerd culture, and one that will require an earnest attempt to understand why this sort of ugliness rises up so often around women, lest all the nerd culture stereotypes prove unfortunately true.
Just going to leave this here for a while
Amy was livetweeting about this as it was happening and I can’t say I was even the teeniest bit surprised.
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Even Puddings can get brain freeze! 🥶
SHOCKING PROOF that ORANGE CATS have BRAINS!!!
Not enough brain to stop him repeatedly going back for more, lmao.
