writer's block

Jun 17

(Republican) Governor Rick Scott on whether paid sick leave is a good idea:

legally-bitchtastic:

think-progress:

Florida’s governor just signed a bill BANNING paid sick leave.

One of the companies pushing for this bill? Darden Restaurants. Because apparently it’s better to eat food prepared by an underpaid worker who can’t afford to take the day off even though she’s running an 100+ fever and keeps choking back vomit (a situation I’ve been in before, luckily not while in the restaurant industry) than it is to give her a sick day.

Oh, come on, don’t you know that flu-infested food = FREEDOM?

(via ereyes312)

badyafiction:

somethinghorrible:

why does nobody ever talk about the media’s fetishization of lesbianism like why do people only get mad when gay dudes get fetishized

#thank you #grown men have been fetishizing lesbians for decades but as soon as teenage girls start fetishizing gay dudes the world explodes

(via yogapig)

Daughters and moms now consider rape before applying to military

rhrealitycheck:

Trigger warning: rape

(CNN) — Shabren Kurtz-Russ wanted to join the military to start a family tradition. Her mother and father served in the Army. And now she sought to enlist in the Army National Guard.

She would follow classmates into the service. She considered active duty, too. The military offered an exciting future — plus college money.

She spoke to her mother, Sherry Kurtz, about the plan last year. That’s when a dark family secret, only hinted at earlier, was revealed: Her mother told her she was gang-raped in the Army in 1985.

Worse, the military stonewalled her mother’s effort to seek criminal charges, Kurtz alleges. Traumatized and betrayed, Kurtz had left the Army.

Her daughter was horrified.

“It was just like unbelievable, and I was disgusted,” Kurtz-Russ said. “I didn’t really know too much about what she went through. I understand why her and my dad said absolutely not (to her enlisting).”

Kurtz-Russ, now 20, won’t be joining the armed forces, she said. Ever.

Her mother, now 46 and living in Ohio, is relieved.

“There’s no way,” Kurtz said of her reaction to her daughter’s desire to enlist. She had just self-published a book about her experience. “I just told her that history has a way of repeating itself, and I wasn’t going to let history repeat itself on her.”

Their mother-daughter exchange is among the more extreme — but not necessarily uncommon — kind of conversation unfolding between parents and their children this high school graduation season.

(via rapeculturerealities)

androphilia:

Muslim Women Against FEMEN

(via itscaptainmorgan)

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yellow-dress:

workneverover:

ceasesilence:

green—street:

White men as props and accessories? I dig it!

Well, this is a lovely change!

*cough*

Well, at least I didn’t have to say it. No, wait:

“… to a black woman.”

*briskly dusts off hands*

There we go.

Imagine the uproar if these kinds of pictures were shown in magazines all the time. But nobody bats a fucking eyelid when we do it to women. Everyone (men (white men)) would be up in arms about ~misandry~ and hypersexualization, but do these dudebro MRAs care that women are subjected to this type of imagery /reversed/ in our own magazines on every second goddamn page? Didn’t think so.

THAT is why these images showing the reversal is important. Dudes will cry “you won’t get people to join your cause if you respond to degradation of your gender by degrading another gender” - no, fuck you. We are sick of the constant hypersexualization, and one photoset relieving us of our plight that makes you uncomfortable is NOTHING compared to what we deal with every day.

(via itscaptainmorgan)

buzzfeed:

*Boop*

fuckingrapeculture:

This just appeared on my facebook newsfeed.
I would like to point out that this guy is the kind of person who strikes up friendships with girls and then gets pissed off and blames all girls when they only see him as a friend and not a romantic interest.

I hate him so frigging much, he says stuff like this and then wonders why he doesn’t have a girlfriend.

I didn’t know my uterus was on the outside of my body.

(via facebooksexism)

Participation grades are, in effect, inherently sexist, as well as ableist.

sanityscraps:

Teachers, first off, favor boys speaking in the classroom, even ones who think they do a good job of classroom equality.

teachers are more likely to call on boys and then go on to reinforce, praise and encourage them. When a boy gives a wrong answer, a teacher will spend time to help him reason out the correct answer. However, when a girl answers, a teacher is likely to either respond with a bland “okay” to her right answer or simply to move on to another student if her answer is incorrect.

Boys are eight times more likely to call out in class without raising their hands and tend to dominate discussions. Boys are twice often used as role models in class and five times more apt to get a teacher’s attention when they raise their hands to recite. Boys often recite even if they have not done the day’s homework, whereas even well prepared girls hesitate to participate. The older girls get, the more they let boys take over the class.

Teachers learn boys’ names more quickly.

An underlying theme of coeducational schools is that if only boys would work harder and behave better, they’d get better grades. The underlying message for girls is “You are nice and well behaved, and you work hard, but you’re not very smart.”

This is not even considering students who suffer from social anxiety or autism, or who are maybe even just introverted. This is generally an ableist phenomenon. Besides, anxiety mostly affects—wait for it—women. Women are twice as likely to have anxiety than men are.

Classrooms need radical change. Learning gender roles begins during childhood, and what are we teaching children? That boys get to talk, and girls get to submit to them.

That’s fucked.

(via feministbecky)

therareandferociousswamprabbit:

blo0dstainedbikinis:

yellowbirdscorner:

marshmalloh:

trance-former:

submissivefeminist:

I love this commercial for really obvious reasons.

OMFG WHAT HAHAHAHAHA

This woman’s a genius!

Thats one way of doing it lol!

GENIUS

MISANDRY!

graphitetroll:

anedumacation:

Kanye West getting deep on twitter

Kanye West is the Kanye Best.

Kanye (◡‿◡✿)

(via societalclusterfuck)