19 10 / 2012
29 6 / 2012
Our favorite Internet creations from yesterday’s crazy Supreme Court day!
Affordable healthcare for those with lady parts? Victory for all!!!
03 6 / 2012
dear internet, let me tell you some things about my public-school-in-georgia sex education.
pictured above is my abstinence til marriage card, given to me in my eighth grade health class. as you can see, i did not sign it, so it is non-binding. they were “optional” but the teacher placed the basket at the front of the class and stared us down. my 13-year-old self had a very brief dilemma between 1. making a stand and not getting one or 2. getting one because it’s fucking hilarious. i am very glad i chose the latter, because as i predicted, this is now something hilarious to show everyone.
that year in health we also learned “how to spot the identifying features of a crack baby” which is literally nothing but lies. we had a system of anonymous questions, and once someone asked “how do i know if i’m a lesbian?” our teacher looked disgusted and she replied “how would i know? i’m not a lesbian!”
EDIT i forgot to mention when she gave these to us she suggested we “cut up our cards together with our husbands on our wedding day” and i remember thinking, fuck if i marry someone from my middle school
the next time i had sex ed in high school it was taught by a dude gym coach who spent the whole time talking about his daughters. the book we were learning from listed “low self-esteem” “stunted social growth” and “depression,” among others, as consequences of premarital sex. at one point, it asked us to fill in the disadvantages of having an abortion. our teacher went, “well, i’m personally against abortion, so we’re just going to skip this section,” which confused me, because it was explicitly asking for an argument against abortion.
the last time i had sex ed it was pretty good and there were free condoms and we got little bottles of lube every time we answered questions, but i don’t think that counts cause it was in an intro to women’s studies class.
dead
somebody asked how you had gay sex in our abstinence class I thought the lady was gonna have a heart attack
we had things like this but i lost my card lmfao
i just wanted the card because it had a bunch of generic mixed race teens jumping in the air happily on the front AND I’M PRETTY SURE IT WAS LITERALLY CALLED A “V-CARD”
You know, if I had one of those classes, like that, I’d hope that I’d have the courage to ask how one goes about sex and relationship issues within a polyamorous relationship. And then go into details of which specific things I was ‘curious’ about.
01 6 / 2012
Feminist Frequency - Tropes vs. Women: #1 The Manic Pixie Dream Girl
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28 5 / 2012
"Not being assaulted is not a privilege to be earned through the judicious application of personal safety strategies. A woman should be able to walk down the street at 4 in the morning in nothing but her socks, blind drunk, without being assaulted, and I, for one, am not going to do anything to imply that she is in any way responsible for her own assault if she fails to Adequately Protect Herself. Men aren’t helpless dick-driven maniacs who can’t help raping a vulnerable woman. It disrespects EVERYONE."
Emily Nagoski. (via rapeisnotajoke)
This quote is awesome.
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17 5 / 2012
Reporter: I have a question to Robert and to Scarlett. Firstly to Robert, throughout Iron Man 1 and 2, Tony Stark started off as a very egotistical character but learns how to fight as a team. And so how did you approach this role, bearing in mind that kind of maturity as a human being when it comes to the Tony Stark character, and did you learn anything throughout the three movies that you made?
And to Scarlett, to get into shape for Black Widow did you have anything special to do in terms of the diet, like did you have to eat any specific food, or that sort of thing?
Scarlett: How come you get the really interesting existential question, and I get the like, “rabbit food” question?
The respect given to you if you’re a man in the entertainment business, and the respect given to you if you’re a woman in the entertainment business: all perfectly summed up in one idiotically thought out line of questioning.
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17 5 / 2012
"No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your ‘religious freedom.’ If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs."
President Barack Obama
Freedom of Religion = Freedom from Religion. No debate necessary.
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13 5 / 2012
An Ace of Fandom: "Pro-Choice"
Gimme a break,
If you think you’re oh so righteous, use the actual term.
It’s called abortion.
It makes you “Pro-Abortion”.
I hate euphemisms for a reason.
I’m pro-abortion.
You get an abortion.
You…
