The Sexual Objectification Checklist →
1. Does the image show only part(s) of a sexualized person’s body?
BMW2. Does the image present a sexualized person as a stand-in for an object?
Four Loko3. Does the image show sexualized persons as interchangeable?
Mercedes Benz
4. Does the image affirm the idea of violating the bodily integrity of a sexualized person who can’t consent?
Duncan Quinn
5. Does the image suggest that sexual availability is the defining characteristic of the person?
American Apparel
6. Does the image show a sexualized person as a commodity that can be bought and sold?
Red Tape Shoes
Angelina Jolie Undergoes Mastectomy To Avoid Breast Cancer; Losers Mourn Her Boobs, Send Brad Pitt Condolences
In a piece for the New York Times, Angelina Jolie revealed she underwent a preventative double mastectomy. I’m not going to summarize it here because you should hear it coming from her. If you haven’t yet read it, you really should read it right now here.
Angelina Jolie shared a personal story in hopes of raising awareness on a number of issues, from the surgery itself to the affordability of the gene test…
…wait. what’s that coming just over those hills? Why, it’s the sexists and misogynists! Because you see WOMEN’S HEALTH is not about the WOMAN, people! It’s about the poor menz who are now ‘stuck’ with their (as in ownership of, don’t your forget it!) woman!
(Throw in a dash of racism with your misogyny? Hell, why not!)
Everyone couldn’t be the first to think of “poor Brad Pitt” like Josh above, but man did the tweets thinking of “poor Brad Pitt” keep coming…
…and coming…
…and coming.
“He lost *his* ‘tittays’.” Poor Brad Pitt lost something he apparently owned, Angelina Jolie’s breasts themselves! And, yes, people (i.e. virgins) mourned her boobs themselves as if Angelina Jolie was some sort of villain who had some diabolical reason behind doing this.
“I bet he wished he stayed with Jen now.” Oh, boy. You mean to tell me some losers used lower her risk for breast cancer as a way to attack Angelina Jolie over Jennifer Aniston?, you ask. No, I mean to tell you that MANY losers used lowering her risk for breast cancer as a way to attack Angelina Jolie over Jennifer Aniston. (And if you assumed there would be “karma” tweets, you assumed correctly!)
Here’s a slew of folks who think Angelina Jolie removed her breasts because she’s an “attention whore”! Because nothing says good publicity in Hollywood like already being a sex icon and then going ahead and having your breasts removed…
If none of the winners above quite did it for you, here’s a mish-mash of really smart people. Just replace “smart” with “dumb, thank you…
Yeah, Angelina. I can’t believe you didn’t even TAKE THE RISK OF CANCER just so Brad Pitt can enjoy your (which he owns, don’t forget) boobs while having sex. Because, don’t forget girls, you’re just sexual play toys for men and nothing more!
Too bad you got the story completely wrong. I call you a douchebag.
Yes, because without breasts, there are absolutely no good reasons whatsoever for a guy to stay with their significant other…
Yup. You hear that, ladies? Without your boobs / bewbz / tits / tittys / rack / fun bags / whatever other dumb terms these fine people use for a woman’s breasts…you are apparently pointless.
Except, you’re not. Screw these haters who’ve probably never seen a bare breast in their life. And good for you, Angelina. It’s your life and your body, no one else’s.
Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy, in case you hadn’t heard. How dare she remove those ticking time bombs from her chest, amiright? Like, hasn’t she learned by now that her body is public domain and we all get to vote on what she does with it? Sheesh, how selfish can ya get.
In response to the news that Angelina Jolie opted to undergo a double mastectomy as a preventative measure so that she wouldn’t face an 87% chance of developing breast cancer and potentially dying, I cannot help but notice a disgusting trend in some of the comments from men. The sentiment behind these statements is nothing short of revolting. A woman is not her breasts.
comments like those make me wanna shoot myself and pronto
Wow. People are dicks.
Did we miss the part about the reconstructive part of the surgery? coz the way I read her piece, she has tits, just not the ones she had before.
Is it just me or are all of those comments by men? Because of course, let’s completely miss the point, where she’s getting preventative surgery for CANCER, and instead focus on the important part - no longer will men be able to see her naked breasts in movies.
Because that’s really what we should be focusing on.
Reminds me of this post
WOW. This is the douchiest thing ever. This is part of why I hate that “Save the Tatas” and “Save Second Base” thing. Obviously two bags of fat are more important than the lives of women.
Jackholes.
As I Lay Dying Singer Attempts to Murder His Wife, Metalheads: “She Probably Deserved It!”
Tim Lambesis of Christian metal band As I Lay Dying was arrested Tuesday night in a murder-for-hire plot. Apparently, he did the nice Christian thing and tried to hire a hitman to MURDER his wife, who was filing for divorce. More like As I Lazily Lay on the Couch While Someone Else Does My Dirty Work, I guess?
Anyway, what do you do when you hear about the lead singer of this band you like attempted to KILL his ex? Well, YOU BLAME HER BECAUSE SHE’S MOST LIKELY A BITCH WHO PROBABLY DESERVED TO DIE, OF COURSE!
Lots of very opinionated people out there saying “WAIT ‘TIL WE HEAR MORE BEFORE WE BLAME POOR TIM” and then proceeding to jump straight to the conclusion that his wife was somehow a terrible person deserving of death!
“Props dude for having the balls to hire someone else to kill your wife!”
And as usual, when it comes to ANYTHING being discussed on the internet involving a woman…
BLAME THE FEMINISTS.
NRA Vendor Sells An Ex-Girlfriend Target That Bleeds When You Shoot It →
Does the NRA want to make sure you can practice before you shoot your ex-girlfriend? Really?are
you
fucking
kidding
me
fuck
I was reading an “obscure pregnancy tips” article when I came across a paragraph describing the “little known fact” that at a certain point, you won’t really be able to see your ladybits in order to safely do any hardcore maintenance. I’m like
Whatevs, no big deal.
The article then went on to say that you should find a good waxer in that case, so you don’t upset any unsuspecting wayfarers, you know, like partners and doctors and such.
Let me think for a sec how I feel about being told to let someone wax my puanani so that I don’t upset the delicate sensibilities of any doctors.
So yeah, that’s not going to happen, but thanks for letting me know how horrifying women are and how we should really control all that nonsense down there so we don’t upset people!
They’re just going to have to deal with it! IDGAF if they have to send in a search party once he comes out.
- Woman: I'm smart
- Patriarchy: Well you're probably ugly then
- Woman: I'm creative
- Patriarchy: You mean unattractive right?
- Woman: I have all these incredible accomplishments
- Patriarchy: Yeah but look how ugly you looked doing them
- Woman: I have value
- Patriarchy: Not if you're ugly lol
- Woman: I'm conventionally-attractive & posted selfies on my blog
- Patriarchy: I'm so sick of these empty-headed chicks only caring about their looks. Just because you are attractive and get attention from men doesn't mean you are special or deserve respect. Why don't you read a book or do something productive with your life you dumb slut
I just noticed something strange on Wikipedia. It appears that gradually, over time, editors have begun the process of moving women, one by one, alphabetically, from the “American Novelists” category to the “American Women Novelists” subcategory. So far, female authors whose last names begin with A or B have been most affected, although many others have, too.
The intention appears to be to create a list of “American Novelists” on Wikipedia that is made up almost entirely of men. The category lists 3,837 authors, and the first few hundred of them are mainly men. The explanation at the top of the page is that the list of “American Novelists” is too long, and therefore the novelists have to be put in subcategories whenever possible.
Too bad there isn’t a subcategory for “American Men Novelists.”
Wikipedia’s sexism toward female novelists (via explore-blog)
IMPORTANT UPDATE the author, Amanda Filipacchi, from Sunday:
“In an Op-Ed article I wrote, published on The New York Times’s Web site on Wednesday, I suggested it was too bad that there wasn’t a subcategory for “American Men Novelists.” And what do you know; shortly after, a new subcategory called exactly that appeared.
But there was more. Much more. As soon as the Op-Ed article appeared, unhappy Wikipedia editors pounced on my Wikipedia page and started making alterations to it, erasing as much as they possibly could without (I assume) technically breaking the rules. They removed the links to outside sources, like interviews of me and reviews of my novels. Not surprisingly, they also removed the link to the Op-Ed article. At the same time, they put up a banner at the top of my page saying the page needed “additional citations for verifications.” Too bad they’d just taken out the useful sources.
In 24 hours, there were 22 changes to my page. Before that, there had been 22 changes in four years. Thursday night, a kind soul went in there and put back the deleted sources. The Wiki editors instantly took them out again.”
(via glintglimmergleam)
Wikipedia is a great resource and actually a really terrible place full of awful people
(via ravenqueered)
Dicks Ain’t Shit: tealeafprincess: My mom and I had a brief discussion about misandry…
My mom and I had a brief discussion about misandry last night. She asked me, “Why do you hate men?”
And I was like, “Well, it’s a joke.” A tongue-in-cheek thing that feminists like to do on the internet.
And she said, “No it’s not—you mean it.”
Which is true. I do mean it. So I elaborated: Most men are misogynists; even if you can’t tell right away, just give them a little time, and it’ll come out. I hate that it’s so scary to be a woman. I hate rape culture. I hate the wage gap. I hate slut-shaming. So it’s like, I hate men as an institution; I hate the patriarchy.
But that hatred does extend to quite a few individual men. I hate some of the dudes in my film class. In fact, I hate a lot of the guys I’ve gone to school with over the years. I hate some of my exes. Of course, there are men who I don’t hate—I love my dad heaps. He’s great. At least one of my male cousins is a really cool guy. My most recent ex… well, that’s complicated.
Anyway, I observed to my mother that the big difference between misogyny and misandry is that misogynists don’t see women as human, whereas misandrists just see men as bad humans.
Edit: To be perfectly clear, when I say “men”, I am solely referring to people who self-identify as male. Trans* people who were assigned male at birth do not count, whether they are women or nonbinary, and neither do trans*masculine people who don’t identify as men.
Bolded for perfectness.
Heck yes to that bolded part, damn.
Y’ALL!!!!
My heart weeps for this poor soul.
I wonder why no one wants to have sex with him.
Steven Moffat
With content provided by suivre-le-vent and
- Stereotypes women using sweeping generalizations such as “Women are needy” and believes that “There’s a huge, unfortunate, lack of respect for anything male”
- Thinks asexuality is boring and the Irene Adler in the original story was un-feminist
- “You have to hand it to the Doctor for dumping a slightly needy girlfriend by palming her off on a copy of himself. He tried leaving her in a parallel universe, and that didn’t work.”
- “And I thought, ‘well she’s really good. It’s just a shame she’s so wee and dumpy…When she was about to come through to the auditions I nipped out for a minute and I saw Karen walking on the corridor towards me and I realized she was 5’11, slim and gorgeous and I thought ‘Oh, oh that’ll probably work’.” - Doctor Who Confidential, All About the Girl
- “And there’s a moment with two Amy Ponds in it. If you’re a red-blooded male surely that’s enough! You’ve got Amy Pond flirting with herself.”
- Regarding bisexual representation “We don’t acknowledge you on television cos you’re having FAR TOO MUCH FUN. You probably don’t even watch cos you’re so BUSY!!”
- Told a dyslexic follower to run their tweets through spell checker, never apologized
- feministwhoniverse
- stfu-moffat
Criminalizing “revenge porn” →
Imagine a woman does a Google search on her own name and up comes a page featuring a naked photo that she sent to an ex-boyfriend. There are links to her Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn account. In the comment thread, anonymous trolls critique every inch of her body. Perhaps her home phone number and address are also included. Say she contacts the local police in tears, only to be told that the post is perfectly legal — or worse, that “boys will be boys.”
This is becoming an increasingly common scenario, activists say, given the proliferation of “revenge porn” and the legal system’s failure to catch up with it.
A new bill in Florida is aiming to remedy that: It would make it a felony to publish online nude photos or videos of a person without their permission and along with identifying information. At the same time, activists around the country are petitioning for both state and federal laws to criminalize what they call “non-consensual porn.” A recent class action lawsuit filed by more than 20 women in Texas against revenge porn site Texxxan.com along with its host GoDaddy has only turned the heat up on the issue.
now this is something that can be legally fought against.
Finally!
Whenever a comedian or performer says they aren’t going to say bitch or make jokes about rape after having their first daughter, I always imagine them running around shouting at people in the hospital “Dude I just figured out WOMEN ARE PEOPLE”
it’s better when you realize that their first daughter had to have a mom somewhere
and it just didn’t occur to the comedian or performer that the woman he was having a child with was also a person
"Men's Rights" "activist" prank calls a domestic violence hotline →
Williams, pretending to be “Reno,” called a Domestic Violence counseling line, not a battered women’s shelter. He told the counselor he’d been attacked by his wife and that he needed a place to go. The counselor explained to him that he’d called a counseling line and that she personally couldn’t arrange for shelter, but that if he called the men’s help line, they could arrange for him and his 6-year-old son to get free hotel accommodations at a location unknown to his wife. The counselor offered several times to connect him directly to the men’s help line.
Williams also told the counselor that he was thinking of calling the police. She told him she could connect him directly to the police, and would be happy to explain his situation to them and to make sure he reached an officer who specializes in domestic violence.
Ignoring all her offers to assist him in getting shelter and further help, Williams insisted that he wanted to be housed in a battered woman’s shelter instead. The counselor, naturally, was puzzled by this strange insistence on his part, and explained to him again that he could get free shelter at a local hotel for as long as he needed.Like all “men’s rights” “activists” this guy is a complete asshole.
I feel like this perfectly sums up why MRAs are not (and should not be) taken seriously. They’re not interested in helping men. They’re not interested in improving resources or disseminating knowledge about resources that already exist and could help men. All they want is to prove that anything geared towards helping women is some discriminatory sham.
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