"What's the world if you can't make it the way you want it?" - Toni Morrison
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Businesses are making so much money off of breast cancer exploitation, and where is that tiny bit that they donate really going?
Check out Pink Ribbons Inc. (Trailer) (Full Movie)
I’ve never, ever bought anything “pink for breast cancer!” because it’s so transparent how they’ve used this as a marketing ploy. It’s just sick. I’ve given money to local charities for people with cancer but fuck these corporations.
Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Elie Wiesel (via sonofbaldwin)
“Don’t you know that slavery was outlawed?”
“No,” the guard said, “you’re wrong. Slavery was outlawed with the exception of prisons. Slavery is legal in prisons.”
I looked it up and sure enough, she was right. The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution says:
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
Well, that explained a lot of things. That explained why jails and prisons all over the country are filled to the brim with Black and Third World people, why so many Black people can’t find a job on the streets and are forced to survive the best way they know how. Once you’re in prison, there are plenty of jobs, and, if you don’t want to work, they beat you up and throw you in a hole. If every state had to pay workers to do the jobs prisoners are forced to do, the salaries would amount to billions… Prisons are a profitable business. They are a way of legally perpetuating slavery. In every state more and more prisons are being built and even more are on the drawing board. Who are they for? They certainly aren’t planning to put white people in them. Prisons are part of this government’s genocidal war against Black and Third World people.
Assata (via michellehuxtable)
MISSY <3
(Source: tsunderebabe)
MRA wears fedora inside and ruins Star Trek movie for everyone
How do you know he was an MRA? Why is this in the feminism tag? What does this have to do with anything about feminism?
….its a joke
get it? cuz MRAs are inconsiderate assholes who wear fedoras?lololololol
U SEW FUNNEH
I get it. You’re perpetuating stereotypes about a group of people who don’t actually wear fedoras that much and are not all inconsiderate assholes.
I’ll admit your joke was mildly humorous if you admit you’re an asshole as well.
omg ya i forgot about all the Nice Guys!
Every sentence you say is a negative feminist stereotype. I’m glad people who think like you are a minority. We’re trying to change people’s perceptions of feminism to accept all people but a person like you isn’t worth it. Good day.
feminism means not having to stand up for “Nice Guys”
feminism means not having to coddle your oppressor
feminism means not being forced to always take mens egos into account
feminism means giving women a safe space to express their opinions about how the patriarchy/dudes/MRAs/society has oppressed them
MRA wears fedora inside and ruins Star Trek movie for everyone
How do you know he was an MRA? Why is this in the feminism tag? What does this have to do with anything about feminism?
….its a joke
get it? cuz MRAs are inconsiderate assholes who wear fedoras?lololololol
U SEW FUNNEH
I get it. You’re perpetuating stereotypes about a group of people who don’t actually wear fedoras that much and are not all inconsiderate assholes.
I’ll admit your joke was mildly humorous if you admit you’re an asshole as well.
omg ya i forgot about all the Nice Guys!
White men fuck over the entire world and then get offended when you remind them.
i have no problem with pointing out that anyone of any gender can be an abuser, rapist, pedophile etc because that’s absolutely true.
but the problem with always emphasizing “yes but it happens to everyone, not just women (or people of colour, or trans* people, etc)!” is that it depoliticizes the issue.
violence is not an accident, it is reflective of social power relations that permeate society at every level
(Source: showslow)
Romance is the opiate of oppressed women.
Laura McKinley, from Letters to Ms., November 1974 issue (via iammmeoww)
