"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known."
Female toplessness is legal in a lot of places in the US (although not where I live), and I’d be meeting the letter of the law with a couple of Band-aids. But I have a gut feeling that if I go anywhere that there are people—and particularly anywhere there are children—nobody’s going to be too happy about my Band-aids. The enforcement is social; women just don’t go around topless in the US.
It bothers me because it’s unequal, but it also bothers me in its implications: that my body is inherently sexual, and a man’s body isn’t. It feels like men are being viewed through the first-person lens of “it’s nice to feel the sun on my skin, and I don’t mean anything by it” and women are being viewed through the distinctly third-person lens of “it’s inappropriate for me, a heterosexual man, to see her sexy parts.” It ignores the experiences of people who are turned on by male chests and somehow manage to contain themselves when they see one.
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The Pervocracy: My boobs want to be free. (via sexisnottheenemy)
I have no desire to go topless anywhere, but I thought this made good points about perspective, and about how female [identified?] bodies are considered inherently sexual even when nothing sexual is going on or implied.
(via feministdisney)
(via feministdisney)
http://noire3000studios.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/naked-black-justice/
– “Hate is like you drinking poison and expecting me to die.”
– “Yes, I know who my father is.”
– “I am not a thug.”
– “Prejudice is injustice.”
– “I am a college grad.”
– “Black love does exist.”
– “I am not a nigger.”
– “I will not let hate get me on my bad side.”
– “I am not suspicious.”
– “Racism is mental illness.”
– “Let your haters be your motivators.”
– “I am not a drop-out.”
– “Disrespected but never destroyed.”
– “My child is not a target.”
– “I am not a lazy person.”
– “<3 is stronger.”
– “I say it loud: I am black and proud.”
– “I am beautiful.” “I am an American too.”
– “America was built on our backs.”
– “I am the future.”
(via chubby-bunnies)
The “inherent” non attraction to PoC is always, always, always a product of embedded racism. I’ve seen people who say, “I’m just not attracted to ___” and then when they start opening their eyes and realizing, “Holy shit, we do live in a white supremacist world that has completely corrupted by views of darker skinned human beings.” They start to see that they actually are attracted to PoC. You can hold onto being the one exception, but you’d be wrong. Educate yourself and open your fucking mind.
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bam.
(via mcgoats)
hahah YES.
(via uptheslutz)
Another side to the false consciousness debate - a situation where people are 100% in the wrong
(via tipsforradicals)
One of the main things I tell people when they say “I’m not attracted to…” this specific type of person or “I’m only attracted to…” this specific type of person is to examine WHY. Sometimes, especially when it comes to something like race, there is a reason why and it’s not always a nice one.
(via fuckyeahsexeducation)
(via fuckyeahsexeducation)
NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY
