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Welcome to: If Male Superhero Costumes were Designed Like Female Superhero Costumes!
Aaaaa I dunno. I got tired of guys having no idea why girls find female superhero’s costumes kinda sexist, so I, um, made this?
My main goals were: 1) Make it so the first thing you think of when you look at them is sex, whether you want to or not. 2) make it so that any male human who looks at this feels really uncomfortable. 3) make it funny, because, well, it’s kinda hilarious really.
Not trying to start a war here, just wanted to poke a bit of fun.
So, here you go menfolk, welcome to being a girl who likes comics.
Love it!
Melissa McEwan, of course, on the terrible bargain. My life as a woman, as a queer person, as a fat person, is not your thought experiment. (via sanitywatchers)
This really struck a chord. Even my boyfriend, feminist that he is, can have this reaction when I’m in tears after an NPR story. This is my fucking life. Excuse me if I can’t remove the personal.
(via curiousgeorgiana)
I reblogged this before, but I like it a lot so I’m reblogging it again.
This whole thing is the reason why confrontations with people that I consider friends always leaves me crying. Like, I get so angry and so flustered because it’s not just some stupid game to me, like it is to them. It’s something that’s real and personal.
(via liquidiousfleshbag)
This Is Insightful, You Should Watch It of the Day: The Bechdel Test is a straightforward evaluation of the gender bias present in a given movie.
To pass, a film must meet three requirements: 1) Have at least two female characters 2) who talk to each other 3) about something other than a man. (A variant of the rule called the “Mo Movie Measure” adds the requirement that the female characters must have names.)
Feminist Frequency’s Anita Sarkeesian applies the test to the 2012 Best Picture nominees to see if the pass.
Spoiler Alert: Most don’t.
[ontd.]
REPORT: By a nearly 2 to 1 margin, cable networks call on men over women to comment on birth control
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I photographed this man yesterday. He was the first male I’ve ever gotten to photograph for this project; all the other men have been submissions. Men are slowly stepping forward for this. People are getting braver - showing their faces more, sharing more, and simply even participating. I received piles of emails a day. It’s been incredible to watch this project grow in the media, but that’s nothing in comparison to watching people grow from this project.
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I love you so much. <3 This is amazing and you are amazing and I am amazed.
So why is one considered ‘inappropriate’ and the other accepted? Stop sexualising my body.
Consent is sexy. Sex without consent isn’t sex at all; it’s violence or robbery.
Stereotype-Challenging Study of the Day: A British study billed as “the most comprehensive ever conducted on gender driving differences” has concluded that women are better at parking cars than men.
The study, which relied on surveillence camera footage of over 2,500 drivers across 700 parking garages, was devised by professional driving instructor Neil Beeson, and produced by car park firm NCP.
Among its findings: Women are better than men at tracking down spaces, lining up with the parking space, and reversing into spots “by the book.” Meanwhile, men are better at entering spaces while driving forward, and exhibit more confidence than their female counterparts, leading to quicker parking decisions.
“The results also appear to dispel the myth that men have better spatial awareness than women,” said Beeson. “It shows that us men need to give our partners more respect when it comes to parking. The facts don’t lie.”
Sh*t Everybody Says To Rape Victims [TW]
Was not expecting to see this, but I’m glad it exists. I really hope this meme sticks around for a while, so many perspectives are using it as a medium to explain their daily lived experiences.
Watch and discuss
No, I’m not gay. No, I’m not straight, and I’m sure as hell not bisexual, damn it! I am whatever I am when I am it, loving whoever you are when the stars shine and whoever you’ll be when the sun rises. Yes, I like girls. Yes, I like boys.
Yes, I like boys who like boys; I like girls who wear toys and girls who don’t; girls who don’t call themselves girls; crew cuts or curls and that really bad hair phase in between. I like steam rising from the body of a one-night stand; I like holding hands for three months before kissing; I like wishing your body was Saturn, my body a thousand rings wrapped around you.
”Hollywood's Gay Sex Hate: Why Movies Avoid Same Sex Love Scenes
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Excerpt:
Studio executives aren’t necessarily homophobic, but the film business is in a financial slump and averse to risks even in the best times. Though gay marriage is now more accepted across the United States, the industry is driven by tickets sold to straight men. That’s why lesbian sex gets a pass: when Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis spend a steamy night together in Black Swan, it helps sell tickets. There’s no similar financial bump attached to gay male intercourse.
what’s so astounding about it to me is that there are barely any women in films these days. most movies are about two very attractive, charismatic men having adventures together. if movies are made to please men, then apparently what pleases men are other men, not women. in fact, almost all popular media is about men, and if it’s all for men, then men must be utterly obsessed with men.
i think that’s why it’s so hard to show anything fully, explicitly gay. because it’s too honest about men loving men. in a normal movie of men with men for men, you can flash five seconds of olivia wilde in skimpy clothes as a security blanket, like, “don’t worry boys, you’re still totally het!” then go back to it being men men men. that’s usually the only role women get in films, the little pointless romantic (sexual) subplot that is shoehorned into the main story, which is usually a sex-free romance between two men (now called a “bromance”.) the only thing separating straight men from the reality of how homoromantic their interests have become, the only thing separating it from being fully homosexual, is the lack of gay sex and the inclusion of heterosexual sex (or the promise of or allusion to it.)
gay sex is the last barrier, the last defense, the final frontier. once it stops being taboo, once it becomes a normal thing for a film to have, just another option of an ending, then all of these films become what they are. if gay sex were as normal as straight sex, there would never be a need to cram in a heterosexual romantic subplot because a gay romantic plot between leads would make more sense and be equally acceptable to audiences. and then almost every film would be about gay men (mind you, they already are, they’re just pretending they aren’t by omitting the sex.)
and then writers would perhaps have to learn how to write female characters as human beings rather than love interests/sexual objects for the leading men. and they would have to write all relationships, male or female, in ways that make sense and flesh characters out as people, rather than just shoving an attractive male and an attractive female at each other and pretending that it’s inevitable that they have sex, when those characters always have stronger feelings for other characters than each other.
^ Truth
