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Sexism,Patriarchy,Racism and Colonialsm.Full Discourse
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why is it that when non-human characters are designated as ‘male’ they are mysterious and sexy or learn human ways very quickly / their curiosity is not mocked but when non-human characters are designated as ‘female’ they are always infantilized and child-like and often laughed at for their ignorance of human customs / et cetera
visovari
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Serendipity saying it how it is
(Dogma, 1999)
Always reblog Dogma.
Another movie everyone must watch.
princeburrito
This movie is so fucking underrated. Everyone needs to watch this movie at least once or twice in their life.
il-tenore-regina
Always time for Dogma!
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck as homicidal angels. Alan Rickman as a messenger angel, I think. I need to watch it again! The best Jay and Silent Bob.
Continually finding out that a lot of what my parents censored me from as a child was anything feminist, racially diverse/anti-racist, or inclusive of queer representation, and actually, y'know, GOOD... I'm going to have to watch this, now.
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Detroit, Michigan: Women and supporters march against “men’s rights” conference at the Doubletree Hotel, June 7, 2014.
"Hotel refused 3,000 petitions with our demand until after a long standoff, with protesters refusing cops’ orders to leave."
Photos and report by Kris Hamel
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allgirlstothefront-blog-deactiv
You say not all men are monsters?
Imagine a bowl of M&Ms. 10% of them are poisoned.
Go ahead. Eat a handful.
Not all M&Ms are poison.
- The Frogman nails it. (via wlcometothemyscira)
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dani-kelley
The tables have turned.
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imfatwhatofit
THANK YOU. More men, whether or not you find us attractive, need to treat us fat chicks with respect. Every time I go out with my friends and a guy approaches them, I get ignored or treated like I am the protective fire-breathing monster they need to get THROUGH to get to my hot friends.
Look, you don’t wanna sleep with me, that’s fine. Chances are I don’t wanna sleep with you because you’re a douche. But treating me like I’m some type of annoying growth you need to “get rid of” is fucked up. Be a respectful human being.
queennubian
It’s not an effin game
yoooitsreebaby
POW.
yepdeesaidit
(I love her hair in this gif)
THANK YOU!
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It felt like a televised hate crime
Laverne Cox on Janet Mock’s second appearance on Piers Morgan’s CNN show. (via racialicious)
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girlinfourcolors
10 trans actors who weren’t offered Jared Leto’s role in “Dallas Buyers Club.”
This is violence against our community.
It is social violence, for it reinforces, nay, makes explicit the idea that “trans women are men.” If it does NOT say this, then why are there not more cis women being played by cis men in cinema?
It is economic violence as well, for it takes jobs THAT ARE OURS and gives them instead to cis men.
These are just ten CELEBRATED women who could have played that role, who could have had a shot at OSCAR gold tonight. And he took that from them.
lolz, look what i found and made. its the oppressive trans*bro meme.
omg this is fun. moar……
also dudes: if this is not you, i don’t want to hear about it. i already know trans men i like. if this is not you, i invite you to laugh along with me at dudes being asshats.
The top one isn’t loading for me.
hexgoddess
Omg this is great
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dumpsterwars-deactivated2015032
i’m so tired of this “misogynist with a heart of gold” hollywood trope
i’m so tired of these leading men who treat women like shit until they meet the “right” kind of girl who is worthy of their respect
revealing that they were a good guy all along
i’m so tired of being told my humanity is negotiable
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nightinghale
“I remember when I played the character in Doubt. It was a character that not a lot of black people embraced. Because they didn’t like her. I think a lot of women face that, in general. A lot more than men. Black women really face it. We are always overly-sanctified in movies. Overly-nurturing, overly-sympathetic. And to find that place where you’re “messy” is very difficult. It’s even difficult to negotiate it with a director on set. When you’re coming from a place of being a trained actor and you understand human behavior, and you understand that it’s your job to create a human being, that when people sit in the audience they just need to connect the dots. They need to be able to say this is a person that’s driven by needs and this is what drives them. And it’s hard to create that human being because there’s so many facets of your personality they want to stifle because of this [gestures to the skin of her arm].”
— Viola Davis [watch]
Source: kerouacs
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There always seems to be an abundance of people in need of links as to why the asterisk after trans is transmisogynistic or just flat out unnecessary so I browsed Google for a while and found some good explanations about why we should stop using the asterisk.
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everythingendsnothing
I don’t have time to fall apart
super-eklectic1
i can’t afford to fall apart
queennubian
black woman’s burden
“I don’t have time to fall apart.”
This is the message that was pounded into my head by my Mother, a Black Woman just like me. This message has been the bane of my existence for 25 years. I am constantly having to assert my humanity, but my own Mama told me that the frailties of humanity don’t belong to me, a Black Girl. And I stepped out her door and found it to be true.
All the while, I can still hear the blood pulsing through my veins. I can still feel all my hurts.
But, I don’t have time to fall apart. Strong Black Woman.
the bolded is my life. “no one cares if you’re crying” is the message I was taught long ago.
highvoodoopussypope
oh look it’s a list of reasons why if you subscribe to the “only breaking down, collapsing to the floor, and crying in a corner means you’re triggered” line of thought, you are full of dog shit and a white supremacist
chakrabot
There is no one but me to pick me up. If someone wrongs me I probably won’t get justice. And I don’t have time to grieve because I’m busy working twice as hard to keep up. If I’m empathetic, I’m not being a ‘strong black woman’. If I’m sad, I’m not being her, either. And few people around me have been hurt enough to have the scar tissue that I have, so I’m the strongest, and I literally don’t have the liberty of being anything else.
radicalrascality
It sucks growing up seeing Black women force themselves to be strong when they feel weak and not understanding why it’s not okay to cry as a woman, especially growing up around White people where girls and women are expected to cry. And then you find out. And you find yourself getting down because you’re already down. And when you do cry, you cry because you’re crying. Because that’s not okay. It’s embarrassing. So many people have gone through more than you ever will, yet you’ve given up your role as a SBW to be weak, even if it’s only for a moment, you aren’t allowed it. And it hits you one day that not only do you look like your mother, her sisters, your grandmother, and her sisters. You realize that they felt the same humiliation and dog-tiredness you do from being something on the inside you weren’t allowed to show on the outside. I hate feeling like I’m meant to be strong, but I hate it worse for the women I saw suffer through it. And it makes me feel like I don’t have the right to give up on it, no matter how damaging it is to a person. They got through it, so should I.
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Charda Gregory abducted, humiliated, violated, restrained, scalped and tortured. If this were reversed, with black police officers who were sworn to uphold peace and justice but instead were documented victimizing a white woman (who was already a victim), this news would have trumped the Olympics! Truncated version: drugged at a party, abducted to a motel, wakes up during unwanted sexual violation in a motel room full of strangers, fights like hell to escape, motel employee calls the authorities, she gets arrested for destroying motel property and it just gets worst from there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBLolqUaNg Every officer who participated in it and even those who witnessed it and did nothing should be punished but instead they just fired the woman? No rape kit, no police report on the people inside the motel room, no investigation of her claims, no accountability for missing motel entry records, no video from the motel but she gets detained for fourteen days? (Btw, when did your tax dollars begin purchasing Abu Ghraib type water boarding chairs?)
bootsmgee
Un-fucking-acceptable.
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I figured enough people could probably use the info, might as well screenshot the question and answer publicly—
the short answer is yes, it is true.
the long answer is yes, but it’s complicated and happens differently in different places. here’s a short list of some of the problems:
- jurisdiction: even after VAWA 2013, all cases of rape, assault, or murder go to the FBI, unless it was intimate partner violence perpetrated on tribal land, by someone who lives or works on the reservation, against an enrolled tribal member whose tribal government has been approved by the US federal government to put the VAWA 2013 tribal jurisdiction stipulations into place. until 2015, that will be only 3 tribes. after 2015, it will apply to all federally-recognized tribes who have the means of updating their codes and enforcing the jurisdiction stipulation (no one is totally sure what that number is, but it’s probably very few, at least at first). obviously Native women on reservations have very little access to the FBI, so most of those cases don’t even get reported, much less prosecuted. non-Native men know this and take full advantage of it. I’ve heard white men bragging in public about how easy it is to rape an Indian girl—“the cops don’t give a fuck and their tribe can’t do shit, you see a pretty Indian girl you like, you grab her and do what you want, it’s no big deal. that’s the reason I fuckin love South Dakota.” this article gives a longer description of jurisdictional issues and some more anecdotal evidence—”It was as though, tribal officers said, their lack of jurisdiction had encouraged a culture of lawlessness. Every officer could recount being told by a non-Indian, “You can’t do anything to me.”…A few months earlier, a young tribal member had been at another bar in New Town when three oil workers offered her a ride home. They drove, instead, to the reservation’s desolate center, raped her, and left her on the road. They returned several times before morning, and each time, they raped her again. ”I don’t think these are isolated incidents,” Cummings told me by phone in October. Since the summer, she had seen several similar cases and had begun to suspect the rapists were repeat offenders.” This report on VAWA 2013, the Tribal Law & Order Act, & violence against Native women also explains some of these jurisdictional issues at greater length. also see: 1, 2, 3.
- colonial governments are complicit: this seems pretty self-explanatory, but some great examples of that are how VAWA 2013 didn’t pass for a long time because of those tribal jurisdiction stipulations, and how Canada still refuses to do a national inquiry on missing & murdered indigenous women (even though the UN told them to). see: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
- resources extraction: as the UN recently reported, increased resources extraction nearby or on indigenous territories generally produces large spikes in gender violence against indigenous women. in the US, the place where this is most common is North Dakota, home to the Bakken oil boom; one of the reasons why Natives are opposed to the Keystone XL pipeline is because it’s being slated to be built directly adjacent to several reservations, and the man camps have already been proven to bring sexual violence with them. the man camps are usually havens for substance abuse, rampant sex trafficking and sexual violence, and a general attitude of lawlessness. for more info on this subject: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
- geographic isolation & language barriers: on some rural reservations, access to law enforcement is pretty much non-existent. for example, in many Alaska Native villages (which, btw, don’t have the small added benefit of VAWA 2013 jurisdiction, bc they’re not legally considered “Indian Country”), women have to live in a small tight-knit community with their assailant(s) with no recourse, because there is no law enforcement. there is literally no one to do a rape kit, and no one to arrest the assailant. some villages only have seasonal access, and can take hours or days to get to. another problem in Alaska is that in some isolated communities, people speak English as a second or third language (if at all)—accessing law enforcement that speaks your Native language is pretty much impossible most of the time.
- trafficking: all the above also create an environment that places Native girls & women at high risk for sex trafficking. non-Native pimps are known to prey on young Native girls on reservations, because they know they often are looking to move to the city but don’t have the means, come from dysfunctional households, and are easy to get hooked on an abusive relationship or substance abuse. in the words of one pimp, “with those young girls, you can promise them heaven and they’ll follow you all the way to hell.” trafficking of Native women is very common interstates throughout the Pacific Northwest, Southwest, and Northern Plains in particular. a major part of the problem is law enforcement—tribal law enforcement face jurisdictional issues, and police have a terrible habit of arresting sex workers, but not pimps and johns, which does not solve the larger issue. moreover, most law enforcement are awful at being able to see the distinction between prostitution and sex trafficking—they’ll arrest a victim of sex trafficking for prostitution, even though they are not the criminal in that situation, and especially when the “prostitute” is Native (because they assume Native women are sex workers, rather than victims of a crime). for more info: 1, 2, 3, 4.
- colonial histories of violence & racialized misogyny: this is the one that people are most familiar with—this is where the dialogues on hipster headdresses, sexy Indian princesses, and colonial conquest narratives comes in. for example, the reason pimps prey on Native girls on reservations is not just because they’re easy to entice, but because they make good money off exoticized Pocahontases (literally, considering many of the girls selected are young teenagers). see: 1, 2, 3.
- intergenerational trauma, internalized colonialism, & poverty: this is what many chalk sexual & domestic violence coming from within our communities up to. this includes legacies of boarding school abuses, colonial rapes, loss of traditional values that teach against domestic & sexual violence, substance abuse, high unemployment & poverty (creates atmosphere of desperation/hopelessness/depression that can produce violence), etc.
this is, again, a SHORT list. please see the linked resources for more info; there are entire books, pamphlets, films, organizations, communities, and movements that deal with this—it’s hard to sum it up in a few words. these are what i see as the major contributing factors though, and remember, they always work in tandem with one another.