just like everybody else. my pool of friends is getting increasingly small when i start weeding out the sexist, slut shaming, rape apologists.
More recently, ultra-Orthodox have taken to the streets to protest what they describe as persecution. They have received a lot of bad press as a result of attempts to enforce gender separation on public transportation and on city streets. As part of the protest, some dressed up as concentration camp prisoners.
It’s amazing how, in every instance, the fundamentalist portion of a Judaeo-Christian-Islamic religion feels they and their religious views are being ignored, or looked down upon or quashed, or that the rest of those in that particular milieu are not pious enough, and seeing that translate to a false sense of persecution when they go about doing anti-social and violent things.
Fundamentalism in religion is the root of the problem with religion. Religious faith is an individual choice, a personal journey, and even if you are part of a larger religious culture, you have no right to impose your viewpoint on others within that same culture. The Founding Fathers in America knew this, hence the First Amendment prohibition against government establishing or promoting a singular faith.
I can’t deny suffrage to women? Might as well be in a concentration camp, ugh!
reblogging for the commentary. couldn’t agree more
Some awesome men standing up for women and the unborn!
How exactly are men holding pro-life signs telling me what they want me to do with my own body standing up for me? What if I don’t want to have a baby? These br0z don’t care about pregnant people’s opinions unless they mirror theirs. Don’t tell me these dudes are standing up for me when they’re actively working to deny my right to choose. As my dad always says, I was born at night, but it wasn’t last night.
Keep these guys away from me.
i have a really visceral reaction to anti-choice dudes, like my stomach hurts and i make a face and turn red. i want to punch all of these guys in the throat. all. of. them.
Yeah sorry, men “standing up” to tell women what they can and can’t do with their bodies isn’t anything new - it’s been happening since the fucking dawn of time, and it’s called misogyny.
I wish I had the courage to take a stand on an issue that I know nothing about and doesn’t effect me personally. If only I were as brave as these young men, I too could advocate for letting women die instead of choosing to removing a clump of cells in their womb.
These men are saying they would rather their sisters or their girlfriends or their wives or mothers, die instead of having a safe, legal medical procedure. How noble.
Honestly find it annoying as hell when dicks pick on female drummers for their ‘drumming ability’. It’s probably the second most blatant display of sexism in music today right after the expectation that female indie musicians have to just sit there and be pretty and shit.
I mean, there are SO many drummers that are way more mediocre than meg white and they completely fly by the radar because they’re guys.
I’m glad to hear someone else bringing up how blatantly sexist this sort of commentary is… but you’re feeding into it as well. “way more mediocre” than Meg? Really? That really doesn’t sound like a compliment in my book. I don’t think Meg White is a mediocre drummer at all myself. It takes a lot of skill to do the simple things very well, there is less to hide behind if you fuck up.
I have seen The White Stripes live twice, and that woman is totally flawless. Jack is a force of nature unto himself, and Meg keeps up with him without missing a beat, literally. He’ll switch songs in the middle of another without any warning whatsoever and she just goes right along, cool as anything. Meg might not be the most highly skilled drummer, but what she does, she does fucking flawlessly and she deserves some fucking credit for that.
THIS LACK OF APPLAUSE DESERVES APPLAUSE
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excellent. respect to those who refused to clap or show any inkling of support for a man who hits women. are we really surprised at those who showed their support though? tried and true pricks.
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Amen. And that’s all I’ll be saying (reblogging) about it.
Y’all have just been dropping truth bombs like a bad habit today!
Look, I know some of these are cute and all. But really. If someone tells you to leave them alone, fucking leave them alone.
Why do people perpetuate the belief that if a woman tells you to leave you alone, she just really wants you to stay and bother her? No. If I tell you to leave me alone and you try to be close to me when I don’t want you there, I’m not going to react by saying “Oh, you’re right! That’s what I meant to say!!! Thank you for knowing what I want better than I did!”
(via lipstick-feminists)
[T]he thing that happened at The Underworld—ya know, I’m thinking in my head ‘Marc Arm (Mudhoney singer) stage dived last night. Hey I’m gonna stage-dive. FUN! PUNK!’ I wasn’t thinking about the whole sexuality issue. I wasn’t thinking ‘My tits are tight in this dress…’
What was really scary was that, although I did blame [the audience], I felt like I was asking for it or something. It was a really weird, mixed up feeling. I’d never had anything like that happen to me in my life which I’m really glad about because I don’t know how sassy I’d be if I had.
"— Courtney Love, on being sexually assaulted after she dove into the audience at The Underworld in London, 1993 (via loveyourrebellion)
oddly, the only time I’ve been sexually assaulted was at a Hole concert in 1999
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