January 2010
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77 Cents on the Dollar Is Not Enough →
Seems like we still can’t get the concept of equal work, equal pay down.
A year ago today, President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into law. While this was an important step for restoring women’s protections against pay discrimination, it’s not enough. We still need to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, which tripped through the House alongside the Fair Pay Act,...
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MANSPLAINING
sexismandthecity:
chanceler:
Mansplaining isn’t just the act of explaining while male, of course; many men manage to explain things every day without in the least insulting their listeners. Mansplaining is when a dude tells you, a woman, how to do something you already know how to do, or how you are wrong about something you are actually right about, or miscellaneous and inaccurate “facts”...
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Kathleen Hanna donates her papers and zines to... →
Lucky, lucky NYU. Why didn’t I apply there again?
Midnight Tokers
nobodylikesyou:
IT’S FOUR IN THE FUCKING MORNING AND YOU SET OFF THE MOTHERFUCKING SMOKE ALARM I SWEAR TO GOD IM GOING TO MAKE YOU INTO A BONG. Go away, nobody likes you.
(what do you want from me, marilyn monroe is a good looking lady. need to sex this tumblr up a bit and steal some of that boner party traffic.)
This definitely goes out to the kids in my hallway
Fuckin’ degenerates.
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Boys who see porn more likely to sexually harass... →
Gee, I always used to wonder why boys in 7th grade would ask to cum on my face in Geography class, or grab my ass in the lunch lines. And where the hell they even learned that from. And why the hell our abstinence-only education never even mentioned pornography, and how it seemed to be winning us over more than purity ever could. Still, the two choices offered to us seemed bleak: either way,...
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Depicting Choice: Pregnancy and Abortion in Film →
sexismandthecity:
Name a movie from the past ten years that tells a story about pregnancy.
There are probably quite a few films that spring to mind. Knocked Up, Juno, Waitress, Saved!— there is no shortage of movies depicting pregnancy. Some of these films are better than others — of those listed above, my favorite isWaitress, which, coincidentally, is the only one on the list that was...
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“This Versace man is a tough, anti-establishment male who inhabits a...”
– Actual quote from an actual press release we got describing the new Versace collection. (via putthison)
This is fucking ridiculous.
(via cameronr)
Excuse me while I piss myself laughing. This is hilarious/tragic.
Note the use of the term “anti-authoritarian millieu.” Has their marketing team...
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Sorry-Mom (I Bang the Worst Dudes) →
The best in trashy interwebz. As much as I want to look away, I can’t!
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“Individuals are more likely to feel a personal connection if they see themselves...”
– Anne Becker (2003) “What Makes an Activist?” Psychology Today (via beetx)
I’m not even ashamed to admit this.
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Nature is a language, can't you read?
Ask me ask me ask me!
http://suzyxisntreal.tumblr.com/ask
I’m having a dry spell when it comes to posting anything. Inspire me.
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Sisterhood is powerful.
Somewhere in Brooklyn is my fairy godmother. She rescued me last night at the communist party. I was passed out in the ladies room when she came to me with a cup of water, got my coat and helped me find a way home. Wherever you are, my hip fairy godmother, thanks for helping a girl out.
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Virgo Horoscope for week of January 14, 2010 by...
If you asked me to make you a mix tape that would be conducive for making love to, I wouldn’t be in the least surprised. These long January nights are ideal times for you Virgos to be unleashing your dormant passion and sharing volcanic pleasure and exploring the frontier where delight overlaps with wonder. In the compilation of tunes I’d create for you, I’d probably have stuff...
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Interesting things to have happened at NBC during...
spiegelman:
1) August 27, 1997: Brandon Tartikoff dies. Tenth day of a Mercury retrograde.
2) November 7, 2000: NBC is the first network to call Florida for Al Gore. Last day of a Mercury retrograde.
3) May 29, 2009: Jay Leno’s last day as host of the Tonight Show. Third day of a Mercury retrograde.
4) February 10, 2010: NBC announces plan to cancel The Jay Leno Show and push The Tonight...
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“That problem with design is that you need to design things that are “timeless,”...”
– My brother, an industrial designer, on people who have a boner for Bruce Mau. (via criticalculture)
My thoughts exactly, when I was going to Parsons School of Design. Here we were, sitting in auditoriums, falling asleep at sustainable design lectures… Unaware that this was exactly what would...
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Here's the game: Grab the book nearest you right...
Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology
“somehow these mountains are like/ an old woman with a bad memory and/ a shopping basket.”
(Charles Bukowski, “crucifix in a deathhand”)
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And before I give you the wrong impression,
There are things I will miss about this city, too. Like my family, my friends, and the St. John’s River on New Year’s.
Peace out, Actionville.
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Last night in Jacksonville.
I think I’m okay with that.
Every damn time I try to up the punxxxx and go to show in this town, there’s always a kooky ex-boyfriend to watch me. Smell ya later, douchebags!
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The "Back Me Up" Campaign Sheds Light On Rising... →
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The Princess and The Frog and The Critical Gaze
The Princess and The Frog and The Critical Gaze is a spectacular essay on the subject of race, class and religion in the film, and I highly recommend you read it— especially if you love it like I still, admittedly do.
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The Princess and The Frog: It's Complicated
Do I dare take on describing my conflicted feelings about this movie?
In all honesty, I really loved it. I thought it was the most adorable thing ever. Is it because I’ve internalized the princess myth far beyond repair? Perhaps so. Or because I have such a love for musically-inclined anthropomorphic critters? Oh, definitely. I not only bullied my guy friends into coming to see this with...
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If women are responsible for preventing rape…
sexismandthecity:
then why is the advice given to us always to lock ourselves in our homes after dark unless escorted or to let people we trust guard our drinks and monitor whether we are too intoxicated to protect ourselves?
Why are we not, rather, told to keep company with other women: to watch them, their drinks, their bodies? Why are we told to depend on others instead of to look out for...
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Hey, introverts
sexismandthecity:
Do you ever get the feeling that the version of you that exists in private, the version that’s only shared with a couple choice people or maybe only exists in your mind’s eye is the REAL you and the version of you that society forces you to shape yourself into so that you can go to school, hold a job and get along with your family/religion/government is just a routine? ...
“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding...”
– Ernest Gaines (via purplepandapants) (via sexismandthecity)
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The Criminalization of Protest →
On the Friday afternoon before the G-20 meeting kicked into high gear, a student at the University of Pittsburgh snapped a photo showing a University of Pittsburgh police officer directing traffic at a roadblock. What’s troubling is what he’s wearing: camouflage military fatigues. It’s difficult to discern a practical reason why a man working for an urban police department would need to wear...
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I Want a Twenty-Four-Hour Truce During Which... →
Andrea Dworkin, in 1983.
sexismandthecity:
fuckyeahfeminism:
katoleary:
This:
“What’s involved in doing something about all of this? The men’s movement seems to stay stuck on two points. The first is that men don’t really feel very good about themselves. How could you? The second is that men come to me or to other feminists and say: “What you’re saying about men isn’t true. It isn’t true...
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Penis Envy? I Don't Think So →
sexismandthecity:
Many Western cultures believe that genital mutilation has ceased to happen. Sadly, this is not true. Violence against women and children will be one of the most pressing issues of this century.