“Anybody who thinks it’s hypocritical for us to hate rape and like sex isn’t very good at thinking.”
~ Tracie Egan Morrissey. Jezebel.com writer.
This strikes me as odd…
To be honest, the entire idea of critiquing Disney prince’s penises and drawing them strikes me as odd.
But what really strikes me as odd is that when this:
http://jezebel.com/we-have-a-rape-gif-problem-and-gawker-media-wont-do-any-1619384265
“Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.”
This story is true. The reason for telling it is the same as the reason for telling any story. It deserves to be remembered. I’m tellilng what I remember of it, though when it was told to me it took an entire afternoon and a battered leather satchel of black and white photographs to back it up.
It’s a long story – so I’ll make it short, for the Internet generation. Though I hope you get the gist.
There’s a million reasons to love your significant other. Their physical abilities for opening jars and lifting heavy shit – is not why you love them.
If you’ve been on the internet at all in the past week, you’ve probably already seen the Women Against Feminism tumblr going around, or at the very least read about it.
I didn’t think too much of it when I saw it, for two reasons. For one, most of the women had a tenuous grasp (at best) on the definition of feminism, one that seemed like it was informed in its entirety by Rush Limbaugh and Jessi Spano, and also the belief that “misandry” jokes are actually serious.
The other reason was that most of the “women” actually looked like teenage girls. Considering that I was super into Ayn Rand when I was a teenage girl, I can’t get too far up on my high horse with regards to the contributors. Let’s just say that if Tumblr was around in the late 1990s, I’m sure there’d be a photo of…
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