The most violent death in the movie was the death of the Bechdel Test, which they dragged behind the car the entire time.
Jenna, on how MAD MAX: FURY ROAD had so many women that the Bechdel Test became irrelevant. (via mattymurdocktrash)
When I say “boys are dumb” what I really mean is “boys have been raised in a patriarchal society that forces them into masculinity that not only forces them to strip away valuable virtues from themselves, like patience and gentleness, but also forces them to view and treat women in unhealthy ways that devalues women as people and makes them into objects purely for a man’s benefit”
but it’s a lot faster to say “boys are dumb”
boys are pretty dumb.
buzz:
“She was all of 31 when the Apollo 11 lunar module landed on the moon, running her code.”
You built a website brogrammer? That’s cool…
“Love what girls in India are doing to molesters #RohtakBravehearts – The Next Revolution”
– India’s ‘Braveheart’ Sisters Fight Back Against Sexual Predators
These girls are way stronger than Braveheart was.
10 hours of walking in NYC as a woman, cut down to under 2 minutes. Ladies, I can’t imagine what it must be like to live this 24/7.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
These are forms of male aggression that only women see. But even when men are afforded a front seat to harassment, they don’t always have the correct vantage point for recognizing the subtlety of its operation. Four years before the murders, I was sitting in a bar in Washington, D.C. with a male friend. Another young woman was alone at the bar when an older man scooted next to her. He was aggressive, wasted, and sitting too close, but she smiled curtly at his ramblings and laughed softly at his jokes as she patiently downed her drink. ‘Why is she humoring him?’ my friend asked me. ‘You would never do that.’ I was too embarrassed to say: ‘Because he looks scary’ and ‘I do it all the time.’
Women who have experienced this can recognize that placating these men »
Men who want to be feminists do not need to be given a space in feminism. They need to take the space they have in society and make it feminist.
Kelley Temple, National Union of Students UK Women’s Officer
via feminist kitsch
(via ericmortensen)
Fellas, this is how you be a feminist.
What’s Wrong With *The Hunger Games* Is What No One Noticed
What’s Wrong With *The Hunger Games* Is What No One Noticed
The Hunger Games has this same feminist problem. Other than the initial volunteering to replace her younger sister, Katniss never makes any decisions of her own, never acts with consequence— but her life is constructed to appear that she makes important decisions. She has free will, of course, like any five year old with terrible parents, but at every turn is prevented from acting on the world. She is protected by men— enemies and allies alike; directed by others, blessed with lucky accidents and when things get impossible there are packages from the sky. In philosophical terms, she is continuously robbed of agency. She is deus ex machinaed all the way to the end.
That’s why The Hunger Games is such a diabolical head fake. Forget about it being »