good golly

"Women are afraid of meeting a serial killer. Men are afraid of meeting someone fat."  -

When Strangers Click, a 2011 documentary about online dating.

It reminds me of that famous Margaret Atwood quote: “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” It also reminds me of something written by one of the mods of Sex Worker Problems: “Misandry irritates. Misogyny kills.” (via tealeafprincess)

graceebooks:

men at large feel like they are being robbed of something when an attractive woman with a 90% chance of developing breast cancer gets a double mastectomy

what better illustration of the male sense of sexual entitlement do you need

• Woman: I'm smart
• Patriarchy: Well you're probably ugly then
• Woman: I'm creative
• Patriarchy: You mean unattractive right?
• Woman: I have all these incredible accomplishments
• Patriarchy: Yeah but look how ugly you looked doing them
• Woman: I have value
• Patriarchy: Not if you're ugly lol
• Woman: I'm conventionally-attractive & posted selfies on my blog
• Patriarchy: I'm so sick of these empty-headed chicks only caring about their looks. Just because you are attractive and get attention from men doesn't mean you are special or deserve respect. Why don't you read a book or do something productive with your life you dumb slut

rosalarian:

Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy, in case you hadn’t heard. How dare she remove those ticking time bombs from her chest, amiright? Like, hasn’t she learned by now that her body is public domain and we all get to vote on what she does with it? Sheesh, how selfish can ya get.

"A ban on niqabs in France or mini-skirts in Uganda, or warped legislation on reproductive rights in the U.S. — all these efforts tell women that our bodies are not our own."  - Sara Yasin, Palestinian-American blogger, on the distracting clash that is the hijab debate in the NYTimes
(via alymeetsturkey)

When men talk of women and girls in terms of legal/not legal, what they’re really saying is “I already sexually objectify this child and would attempt to fuck her if there were no laws in the way.”

You can’t deny that is fucking scary.

"I’d like to raise both of my middle fingers to him and anyone who thinks profanity is somehow more harmful to our children than images of violence and misogyny."  - M.I.A. (via asgardian-feminist)

jessicavalenti:

THIS. 

via Sara Erdmann who was responding to my tweet about the horrific circumstances of 17 year old Rehtaeh Parsons’ suicide.