Images from the #50DollarsNot50Shades campaign on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/50-Dollars-not-50-Shades/713262428793958
Hollywood doesn’t need your money; abused women do.
Sponsors of this campaign include:
Stop Porn Culture stoppornculture/London Abused Women’s Centre/National Center on Sexual Exploitation/PATHS of Saskatchewan/Antipornography.org/ oneangrygirl.net
DO NOT EVEN GO TO SEE THIS MOVIE AS A JOKE.
DO NOT GIVE THIS MOVIE ANY OF YOUR MONEY.
IMPORTANT.
““White feminism” does not mean every white woman, everywhere, who happens to identify as feminist. It also doesn’t mean that every “white feminist” identifies as white. I see “white feminism” as a specific set of single-issue, non-intersectional, superficial feminist practices. It is the feminism we understand as mainstream; the feminism obsessed with body hair, and high heels and makeup, and changing your married name. It is the feminism you probably first learned. “White feminism” is the feminism that doesn’t understand western privilege, or cultural context. It is the feminism that doesn’t consider race as a factor in the struggle for equality.
White feminism is a set of beliefs that allows for the exclusion of issues that specifically affect women of colour. It is “one size-fits all” feminism, where middle class white women are the mould that others must fit. It is a method of practicing feminism, not an indictment of every individual white feminist, everywhere, always.”
This Is What I Mean When I Say “White Feminism” (via becauseiamawoman)
end the movie poster pose enabling the audience a view of both the female characters chest and derriere while any male characters get to face the camera and be all action-y.
Just as a footnote: a person in a picture with their back facing the viewer also reduces stage presence/importance. It was a big hubub in 19th century art to feature frontally nude women not only facing the viewer, but making eye contact as well. It was a very (at the time) powerful message that denoted equality with the viewer. So having their back (and asses) facing the viewer basically has at least a two-fold dynamic at play: sexualizing them, and reducing their importance.
Also as a footnote, in art school (animation specifically) my teachers strongly endorsed showing characters from the front unless it served a particular purpose. So while this is explain-awayable (“it’s just cool”, “we’re just showing off their bodies”, etc.) it also has a lot of artistic interpretation to rend this offensive—especially in comparison to the male costars of some posters.
“Not all men!”
Yes but enough men that every girl is terrified of smiling to that guy on the bus or talking with the boy in the coffee shop. Every girl has been walking late at night at one point and been afraid of who might be following her. Every girl has referred to someone as a “creep” and every girl has refused a drink from someone she doesn’t know.
Not all men.
But enough men that all women are now afraid of most men.
It’s gotten so bad that we have to be afraid of even telling you we are afraid. We can’t ask that you please stop talking to us. Because if we do we run the risk of being labeled a “stuck up bitch” and blamed for murders and rapes in which we are the victims.
So we speak to you with body language that we hope you’ll understand. We cross our legs and look out the window and wear giant headphones that are giant signs that subtly read “DON’T TALK TO ME!” But you insist on ignoring those signs because you have it in your head that our body language doesn’t mean anything. That our bodies aren’t our bodies.
Not all men.
You can start fucking saying that when all women can stop being afraid. But that’s not gonna happen if every man a women opens up to about this issue dismisses her by saying “Not all men.”
an unofficial letter to the skeezball at work all men.
(via thehansoloist)
exgynocraticgrrl-archive-deacti:
This. This. This.
I loathe the stereotype that being feminist means you hate men, because most feminists don’t, they hate the patriarchy and the two are not the same thing. It’s entirely possible to hate and want to change the system without hating the people who benefit most from it.
I’m sorry, I know this is a fandom blog, but this is too important to me not to reblog everywhere.
Emma Sulkowicz will be at the State of the Union
An invitation to attend the State of the Union is a great honor. The presence of guests can also, however, be a political strategy employed by politicians to humanize the issues for which they fight and to demand public attention.
This year, it appears that one famous Columbia University senior, Emma Sulkowicz, will attend the State of the Union for just this purpose: to demand attention be paid to the pressing issues of campus sexual assault.
THIS.
I have never thought about it in this context
that’s actually really, really creepy.
I… fuck.
Yeah, basically.
I once pointed this out to my mother and she just stared at me, in stunned silence for ages.
There will always be a girl who is less sober, less secure, with less friends walking in a darker part of town. I want her safe just as much as I want me safe.
lukemagnus-deactivated20180125:
“The nomination alone was a win for me because it allowed our culture, it allowed Latinos to see themselves in a beautiful light. It allowed them to see themselves where we all desire to be invited to the same party.” (x)
The person behind Emma Watson’s feminism campaign is a black woman. Her name is Elizabeth Nyamayaro.