inwardly urgent: a political tumblr
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“You see, “Black/Brown/other ethnic women wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see Black,/Brown/ethnic women.White women wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see women. White men wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see human beings“. This is how privilege works.” —Taken from this article
http://riseresistandrevolt.wordpress.com/2013/05/25/understanding-white-privilege-and-our-mental-colonisation-british-fascism-revived-in-woolwich/ (via gtsmltb)Yup.
(via glossylalia)
(via lipstick-feminists)
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It's Time Corporations Flew Old Glory Instead of the Jolly Roger The money lost when corporations avoid their taxes by burying their booty offshore hurts the country they all say they love. But it’s also bad for business. Technology leaders Google and Microsoft both claim they have to look abroad for workers with the skills they need. Perhaps if Google and Microsoft invested in America by paying their taxes, rather than by shifting vast amounts of U.S. profits offshore, our schools would have the money they need to develop the strong math and science programs necessary to compete in a 21st century world.
“We’re an American company, and we’re proud to be an American company,” Apple CEO Tim Cook recently told the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. “We’re there because we love it there. It’s who we are as people.”
U.S. business leaders need to back up Cook’s message by replacing the Jolly Roger flying from their corporate flagpole and running up Old Glory instead.
Instead of gaming the tax system to boost corporate profits, American business leaders need to start investing more in this nation, which has done so much to make their companies great.
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Things I look forward to…
- A day when men don’t see women trying to better their lives as a threat
- A day when a woman calling out sexism and misogyny doesn’t make her “entitled” or a “victim”
- Breakfast
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“there’s nothing wrong with the video game community”
My fave is the “free market” one. A Libertarian making a misogynistic comment? Everybody do a shot!!!
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“Suppose a man makes unwanted social advances to a woman in, let’s say, a restaurant or theatre, and she eventually has to tell him loudly or angrily to get lost. She is the one who will be perceived as rude, hostile, aggressive, and obnoxious. His verbal aggression and invasiveness are accepted and expected; her rudeness (or mere curtness) in getting rid of him is noticed and condemned. One of our great myths is that a “real lady” can and should handle any difficulty, defuse any assault, without ever raising her voice or losing her manners. Female rudeness or violence in resistance to male aggression has often been taken to prove that the woman was not a lady in the first place, and therefore deserved no respect from the aggressor or sympathy from others.” — D.A. Clarke, “A Woman With a Sword” (via ellielamothe)(via stfuconservatives)
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“ Let me be clear: I don’t believe that previously non-raping audience members are going to take to the streets in a rape mob after hearing one rape joke. That’s an absurd and insulting mischaracterization. But I do believe that comedy’s current permissiveness around cavalier, cruel, victim-targeting rape jokes contributes to (that’s contributes—not causes) a culture of young men who don’t understand what it means to take this stuff seriously.
And how did they try and prove me wrong? How did they try to demonstrate that comedy, in general, doesn’t have issues with women? By threatening to rape and kill me, telling me I’m just bitter because I’m too fat to get raped, and suggesting that the debate would have been better if it had just been Jim raping me.
This isn’t just coming from anonymous trolls. Local comics — whom I know and work with — have told me to shut the fuck up. One hopes I’ll fall down a flight of stairs. (He later apologized—to my boyfriend, not me.)
”— LINDY WEST, writing on Jezebel, “If Comedy Has No Lady Problem, Then Why Am I Getting So Many Rape Threats?” (via inothernews) -
STFU, Conservatives: Creepshots is back. And they have migrated to Tumblr. This needs to fucking stop. This is an absolute invasion of women, this is disgusting, and this Tumblr needs to go away.
