“I actually prefer small breasts” only reinforces the grand tradition of women’s bodies as objects to be presented for judgment and rated on a scale from Hot to Fugly. It removes the breasts or ass or pubic hair from the context of the woman as a whole, as if our value can be appraised one piece at a time. And it ignores the reality that while it does matter to many of us, in the grand scheme, finding someone willing to screw us is the least of our problems.
And people laugh when I tell them women are still invisible in this world." —
Things I did not know, but should.
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They put up some awesome billboards in austin a few months ago showing the signs of a heart attack that women will feel. And I know they were effective because I was in the car when mando saw the billboard and said “Man I had no idea women had different symptoms for heart attacks!”
Way to go city of mine :)
Even better? A woman having all the “classic” (read: male) symptoms of heart attack is more than twice as likely to be sent home from the ER than to be checked out, EKGed, and examined.
Because we’re just hormone-addled hysterics. :-(
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i do not endorse feministing but factual quote.
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IMPORTANT!! IMPORTANT!!!
Did NOT know this.
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No day is as bright as that day once a month when I get my new copy of Esquire magazine. (My girlfriends and I even have a code name for it: “My Aunt Esky’s In Town” or sometimes, “I’m On The Rag, Specifically Esquire Magazine.”) I usually flip right past the 3-page feature about choosing the right $1000 croquet set for me and the 1500-word article about how black stockings are the sexiest thing that ever sexed, to get to my fave feature: 10 Things You Don’t Know About Women.
The Girls (my breasts, not my girlfriends—those are my “GFs,”) and I love 10 Things You Don’t About Women more than chocolate, shopping for Louboutins, that cutie from Chuck, and the hormonal rush that precedes ovulation because it’s soooo true-to-life. And you know how they say, “It’s funny cause it’s true”? Well, that’s sooo true, too! I mean, what’s funnier than a list about the very true-to-life differences between men and women (besides, of course, a list about how black people are always like, “Yo, yo, yo!” and white people are always like, “Good day, fellow!” But to my knowledge a list like that doesn’t exist in magazine-form anywhere.)
Sometimes we all need a little humor in our lives. Click through for the full article from The A.V. Club.h
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Margaret Hartmann, “Porn Star Publicly Breastfeeds Baby, Gets Accused of Promoting Pedophilia” at Jezebel. (via aaabbbbbbiiieee)
^THIS!!!
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“…Until recently, the availability of gender-specific health appointments for women has been limited, forcing some female veterans to drive hours to another facility or seek private doctors.”
Click through for full article.
Things I care about right now include:
1. The devastation in Japan
2. The fact that the ‘Fab 14’ in Wisconsin can’t vote even though they’ve returned to the state.
3. The millions of people who are currently starving, dehydrated, dying of AIDS.
Thing I care about never include:
1. That random internet guy who posted that one article about how he’s really sexist and women should go back to the kitchen and have babies and maybe even go back to the days when millions died of childbirth every year oh wait that’s right now and he probably doesn’t have a girlfriend anyway so why do I care about his invalid opinion?
I KNOW WORDS LONGER THAN YOUR DICK.
“I knew they were going to make it about Lara Logan’s looks”
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