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4thamendmentwear. 4th Amendment Wear 4TH AMENDMENT UNDERCLOTHES Now there's a way to protest those intrusive TSA X-ray scanners without saying a word. 4th Amendment Metallic ink-printed undershirts and underwear.

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Assert your rights without saying a word. Filling a Much-Needed Void : real women. Excuse me while I throw this down, I’m old and cranky and tired of hearing the idiocy repeated by people who ought to know better.

Filling a Much-Needed Void : real women

Real women do not have curves. Real women do not look like just one thing. Real women have curves, and not. They are tall, and not. They are brown-skinned, and olive-skinned, and not. Real women start their lives as baby girls. Real women have big hands and small hands and long elegant fingers and short stubby fingers and manicures and broken nails with dirt under them. Real women have armpit hair and leg hair and pubic hair and facial hair and chest hair and sexy moustaches and full, luxuriant beards. Real women wear high heels and skirts. Real women are feminine and smell good and they are masculine and smell good and they are androgynous and smell good, except when they don’t smell so good, but that can be changed if desired because real women change stuff when they want to.

Real women have ovaries. Real women are fat. There is no wrong way to have a body. Top 50 Dumbest Conservative Quotes. Beauty in life. The Mary Sue - A Guide To Girl Geek Culture. 8 Real Women Who Deserve Their Own Movies. Hollywood, we have to talk.

8 Real Women Who Deserve Their Own Movies

I’ve spoken to every ticket-buyer in America and we’ve all decided that you need to make more movies about badass women. Like, starting yesterday. Oh sure, every now and then you will throw us a Salt or maybe even a Salt II, but face it, Hollywood, many of your attempts at a woman-driven action movies have been half-assed at best and soul-crushingly awful at worst (see Electra, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, or, dear God, Sucker Punch). It should not be that hard, Hollywood. All we, the ticket-buying public of America want is a good story about a woman or a bunch of women who fight and shoot and do other badass things badassedly. Don’t know where to start, Hollywood? 8. Lozen was the sister of an Apache chief. 7. A wise man once said “ending a movie summary with the phrase ‘and then he stomps the living hell out of a bunch of Nazis’ automatically makes everything about your movie better.” Seriously, I don’t know, I actually never saw Top Gun. 6.

Asking For It? As If! Not Ever, a project of Rape Crisis Scotland, has launched an amazing new ad campaign . A man in a bar glances over at a pretty girl and a short skirt and leers "She's asking for it. " Cut to the woman shopping for skirts at a clothing store. Unable to decide between two skirts, she explains to the clerk "I'm going out tonight, and I want to get raped. I need a skirt that will encourage a guy to have sex with me against my will. " "Definitely the blue," the sales clerk responds. We recently had a flurry of comments by an anti-feminist troll a few weeks ago. Burglary is a property crime. And yet for some reason when it comes to rape, many people feel that the victim shoulders some of the blame. I always have to wonder what these people think about other forms of sexual assault.

What about men who get raped? But what about men who are prisoners who are victims of rape? Men ARE the victims of violent sexual assault outside prison. If a man passes out at a party and gets raped, who's to blame? Digital Resistance to Political and Cultural Manipulation and Indoctrination. Young Feminists Blogging, Organizing, Kicking Ass.