Disney, please tell me this is some kind of cruel sick joke.
(via xkcd: Sticks and Stones)
Alt text: Sticks and stones can break my bones but words can make me think I deserved it.
Which is why folks who go ‘it’s just a word, it has no meaning!’ can sit the hell down.
Let’s stop policing ourselves and each other. Gender is one game that you don’t have to play by anyone else’s rules. The real danger in this ‘gender is a social construct’, ‘abolish gender’ crap is that in gendertopic spaces, anyone who is not subversive enough, or is seen as ‘gender normative’ already fails. We (and I’m guilty of this too) assume that they are being ‘duped’ or buying into gender norms. What the fuck? Are we fighting for gender liberation so that we can tell people how to express themselves? You have no idea where someone else is coming from, or what gender journey has led them where they are today.
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Gender Fuck is My Boyfriend (Polyamory is My Girlfriend) Lovin’ this zine. (via genderqueer) YES THANK YOU YES (via lunardust) (Posted as a reminder to myself and others cause I’vee pulled this shit before myself and it’s not cute) ~empathy~ hello (via rebirthcycle) Basically why I don’t get behind most movements in which if you are not subversive enough for the group then you’re automatically cast as the enemy. (via thegoddamazon) |
MOTHERS DON’T CLEAN UP AFTER YOUR SONS AND TEACH YOUR DAUGHTERS TO CLEAN UP AFTER THEIR FATHERS AND BROTHERS. TEACH THEM TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR OWN MESSES. DON’T LET THEM GET ACCUSTOMED TO A WOMAN DOING EVERYTHING FOR THEM AND DON’T LET YOUR DAUGHTER GET ACCUSTOMED TO DOING EVERYTHING FOR MALES.
I don’t expect gay people to prove to me, a straight person, that there’s actually homophobia. I don’t expect poor people to prove to me, a Harvard grad, that hunger and poverty are widespread problems. And if someone asked me, as an Asian person, to “prove” to them that racism exists, I would laugh all the way back to Chinatown. Marginalized groups are not responsible for explaining their marginalization to you. If you are actually concerned, you would take the initiative to do some research yourself instead of showing up at some oppressed group’s door step demanding a list of citations for things (racism, sexism, etc.) that are proven time and time again in the real world.
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I’m not above answering questions, but I feel this way SPECIFICALLY about people who are asking questions with the core intent of disproving my experiences with bigotry. (via sonofbaldwin) |
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
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Dom Hélder Câmara, Archbishop of Olinda & Recife (Brazil), 1909-1999 “The Bishop of the Slums” (via pluralistfarmer) |
“if i’m a person of color, i’m allowed to hate white people!!!!’
“if i’m gay, i’m allowed to hate straight people!!!!”
“if i’m a woman, i’m allowed to hate men!!!”
“if i’m trans*, i’m allowed to hate cis people!!!”
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