December 2011
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“When your only female character exists to be battered and abused, that is lazy...”
– Monica Byrne.
Zing.
(via mehreenkasana)
“I hate how the phrase ‘have some self respect’ is used to shame women who are...”
– Unknown (via grrrlstudies)
FACT: Pansexuals always know when a person nearby...
“A new study from The Girl Scout Research Institute found that female Reality TV...”
– Autostraddle — What Reality TV Does To Girls (via sociolab)
Ladies & Gentlemen, I give you, the 2012...
Michelle Bachmann: "Don’t misunderstand. I am not here bashing people who are homosexuals, who are lesbians, who are bisexual, who are transgender. We need to have profound compassion for people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life and sexual identity disorders.” (2004)
Ron Paul: "The rate of AIDS infection is on the increase again. From the gay point of view, the reasons seem quite sensible. First, these men don't really see a reason to live past their fifties. They are not married, they have no children, and their lives are centered on new sexual partners... because sex is the center of their lives, they want it to be as pleasurable as possible, which means unprotected sex. Third, they enjoy the attention & pity that comes with being sick." (1995 in a newsletter)
Rick Perry: "I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a Christian, but you don't need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there's something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school. " (2011 in a campaign ad)
Mitt Romney: "I should tell my story. I'm also unemployed." (2011 while speaking to unemployed people in Florida. Romney's net worth is over $200 million.)
Newt Gingrich: "She's not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of the President. And besides, she has cancer." (1994, about his first wife)
Rick Santorum: "Is anyone saying same-sex couples can’t love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too?" (2008)
Michelle Bachmann: "Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas." (2009 during a debate)
Mitt Romney: "PETA is not happy that my dog likes fresh air." (2006, when questioned about driving 12 hours with his dog in a cage strapped to the top of his car)
feministpizza:
I was taking a standardized test in elementary school. We had to fill out a lot of information about ourselves at the beginning. There were two separate places where you checked off your sex and your gender. I was between 6 and 8 years old, and I didn’t know the difference. I raised my hand and asked my teacher. Without explanation, she said, “Just mark them both the same.”
Argentina adopts historic gender identity bill →
gendermagick:
Yesterday on 30 Nov 2011, by 167 votes against 17 and 7 abstentions, the Argentinian Lower House passed a gender identity bill. Under this law, trans people will be able not only to have access to gender recognition by a simple administrative procedure, without any kind of requirement, but also to hormonal and surgical treatments within the public health system with the only...
Gay Introductions →
comingoutjournal:
By Domenick Scudera Professor of Theater and Chair of the Theater and Dance department, Ursinus College
‘Tis the season of holiday celebrations, office parties and family gatherings. For gay people like me, these social events lead to a unique problem. When I introduce the man I love to other people at a party, I cannot use the convenient title “husband” to explain who he is...
“It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It’s like...”
– Francis Maude (via comingoutjournal)
Today I learned that in Finland, →
feistyfeminist:
sageoflogic:
jensenjaundice:
getyourpokeon:
inothernews:
“It’s more difficult getting into teacher education than law or medicine”;
speeding tickets are calculated according to income;
the average resident checks out 17 books a year from the library;
subtitles are required on foreign TV programs;
there’s a saying: “Only dead fish follow the stream.”
Finland, fuck...
