Feminist Bolin / Perfect Man Bolin [x]
I guess I am the best man.
haha yeah well you’re better then most men it seems.
((BOLIN FTW))
Bolin be my boifran.
ALL THE AWARDS TO BOLIN.
I would marry him.
feeling this meme
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Posts tagged "feminism"
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The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem.
bell hooks (via grrrlstudies)
^ this is why bros gotta read To the Lighthouse. Virginia Woolf NAILED THIS. Every guy I know is a Mr Ramsey, more so the straight guys, and they’re all so wrapped up in it they don’t even know. Woolf unwraps it. And she does so with a stinging accuracy.
(via ourben)men need feminism too
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MARGARET WENTE: The male gaze, and why I miss it
Fuck this woman and her opinions. I am so sorry that she has spent her life so steeped in rape culture that she can’t even imagine the concept of personal bodily autonomy as it pertains to sex and sexuality.
Oh, Margaret Wente is actually the worst (hey, @metamelf, is this who we were talking about the other day as the reason you don’t like the Globe?) and I don’t think this is the first time that she’s missed the point entirely on feminist issues.
There is a marked difference between wanting to feel “erotically attractive” to dudes (or whoever else) and having it forced on you, a fact that seems to escape her. Culture has nothing to do with it (and why do people always bring up France as an example?) My body is mine and I’d like/it’s my right to walk around all day without people eroticizing it, thanks. I don’t perform for the male gaze. Case closed.
oh look, rich old white woman fails to understand power dynamics
what a surprise
notes found in the girls bathroom on my campus
Big fan of Jackson.
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After you’ve completed all sorts of minor acts of heroism to get recruited into the Grey Wardens, Alistair points out that not many women have joined the order. It’s not an insult, but it does make you feel like the odd one out. In response, the player has the following dialogue options: - You want more women in the Wardens, do you? - Probably because we’re too smart for you. - I can handle myself better than most. - How about you stop thinking of me as a woman? In other words, you can: - Flirt. - Take the “boys have cooties” route. - Admit that your gender is a handicap, or that you are unusual. - Deny your femininity. Aside from the fact that those options all suck, they also lack one key response: Alistair, are you high? I’ve seen women fighters in every single environment in this game.
The Hey Sweetheart Scenario: Deconstructing How Role-Playing Games Talk to Women | The Mary Sue (via quarterclever)
attn: Samantha
the whole article is worth a read; I’ll be on the lookout for this trope in future
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Shit Canadians say to Aboriginal women
Trigger warning for hateful, racist, awful shit.
It goes from ‘noble savage’ stereotypes to just…as awful as the National Post comment section any time we’re mentioned.
The way this was done really makes it hard to watch. You see a woman facing the screen, having these things hurled at her, and…well see for yourself. Powerful.
UUUGGGhhhhhhh. Welcome to my life, folks. If you’ve ever thought or said any of these things it’s time to deal with your internalized racism, brah.
This was very well done! Thank you for showing and sharing.
Necessary video.
This is a powerful video. People need to watch it.
I’m going to reblog this again, because it needs more notes than it has. This isn’t a standard “Shit __________ say to _________,” this is direct, confrontational and it’s not comfortable to watch.
not comfortable to the point that I had to stop it part way through
have definitely heard many of these things coming from people I know, though
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Gamers get hella uncomfortable over male sexuality too. Can you imagine a “good male character who just happens to be wearing sexually exploitative outfits because he’s ok with his masculinity?” Constantly has the camera pan lovingly over his asscrack and firm glutes, and big ole dangly ballsack that is totes sweaty from all this MMA and soldiering. Time to hit the showers, and do you, personally, think it’s ok to have a long slow pan up the dude’s package (indiscreetly hidden in a jock of course), to his chiseled physique and erect nipples (pierced). He’s not even a Bond-esque confident man, he’s basically a weird Bowie caricature that’s constantly having near-dickslips in every single cinematic as the completely nonsexualized female characters do their business of being gruff and shooting dudes and advancing the plot. Finally, at the end he falls in love (out of nowhere) and/or is killed by the big baddie.
a forum post I read recently, trying to give a solid example of what ‘male objectification in gaming ’ would actually look like if it was anything equivalent to current female objectification in gaming. (via nothingbutsurrender)
is it bad that i want to play a game with this character
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Men weren’t really the enemy — they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
Betty Friedan (via persephonemag)
This is part of why feminism is important to everyone, not just ladies.
(via stfuconservatives)
I have been thinking recently about masculinity and the ways in which it is packaged and sold to men—as a white male aged 18-35, I am the target demographic most of the time. I don’t know if this is a recent trend, or if I’ve only recently noticed it because of its growing relevance to me, but it seems that men are increasingly sold the idea that they needn’t—and in fact, shouldn’t—grow up.
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Each time a girl opens a book and reads a womanless history, she learns she is worthless.Myra Pollack Sadker (via aninsufferableknowitall)
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so in love
john darnielle is perfect
Dude. ”HAM” ref AND railing against the gender binary? Be still my heart.
This the one of my favorite Twitter sequences ever.
I…this is one of my favourite people ever.
HAM <3
bear in mind that this is not the first time Lego has marketed into the traditional girl-toy milieu
for Christmas one year, years ago, my sister got a pastel-toned domesticalish fairy-castle thing with a very white, very traditional-nuclear family unit
we got spaceships
Harris O'Malley: Nerds and Male Privilege
“Men can expect that their presence at an event won’t automatically be assumed to be decorative or secondary to another man. Despite the growing presence of women in comics, as publishers, editors and creators as well as consumers, a preponderance of men will either treat women at conventions as inconveniences, booth bunnies or even potential dates. Many a female creator or publisher has had the experience of convention guests coming up and addressing all of their questions to the man at the table… despite being told many times that the man is often the assistant, not the talent, only there to provide logistical support and occasional heavy lifting.”
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