Male Privilege Checklist

I first read this when I took a Sex & Gender course in college and I find it incredibly relevant (albeit not representative of the trans community).

Just gonna leave this here for your reading pleasure.

mohandasgandhi: dank-potion: 23andchildfree: Happy women’s day, yo What’s misandry, again? Women perform 66% of the world’s work, but receive only 11% of the world’s income, and own only 1% of the world’s land. Women make up 66% of the world’s illiterate adults. Women head 83% of single-parent families. The number of families nurtured by women alone doubled from 1970 to 1995 (from 5.6 million to 12.2 million). Women account for 55% of all college students, but even when women have equal years of education it does not translate into economic opportunities or political power. There are six million more women than men in the world. Two-thirds of the world’s children who receive less than four years of education are girls. Girls represent nearly 60% of the children not in school. Parents in countries such as China and India sometimes use sex determination tests to find out if their fetus is a girl. Of 8,000 fetuses aborted at a Bombay clinic, 7,999 were female. Wars today affect civilians most, since they are civil wars, guerrilla actions and ethnic disputes over territory or government. 3 out of 4 fatalities of war are women and children. Rape is consciously used as a tool of genocide and weapon of war. Tens of thousands of women and girls have been subjected to rape and other sexual violence since the crisis erupted in Darfur in 2003. There is no evidence of anyone being convicted in Darfur for these atrocities. About 75% of the refugees and internally displaced in the world are women who have lost their families and their homes. Gender-based violence kills one in three women across the world and is the biggest cause of injury and death to women worldwide, causing more deaths and disability among women aged 15 to 44 than cancer, malaria, traffic accident, and war. [source]

mohandasgandhi:

dank-potion:

23andchildfree:

Happy women’s day, yo

What’s misandry, again?

  • Women perform 66% of the world’s work, but receive only 11% of the world’s income, and own only 1% of the world’s land.
  • Women make up 66% of the world’s illiterate adults.
  • Women head 83% of single-parent families. The number of families nurtured by women alone doubled from 1970 to 1995 (from 5.6 million to 12.2 million).
  • Women account for 55% of all college students, but even when women have equal years of education it does not translate into economic opportunities or political power.
  • There are six million more women than men in the world.
  • Two-thirds of the world’s children who receive less than four years of education are girls. Girls represent nearly 60% of the children not in school.
  • Parents in countries such as China and India sometimes use sex determination tests to find out if their fetus is a girl. Of 8,000 fetuses aborted at a Bombay clinic, 7,999 were female.
  • Wars today affect civilians most, since they are civil wars, guerrilla actions and ethnic disputes over territory or government. 3 out of 4 fatalities of war are women and children.
  • Rape is consciously used as a tool of genocide and weapon of war. Tens of thousands of women and girls have been subjected to rape and other sexual violence since the crisis erupted in Darfur in 2003. There is no evidence of anyone being convicted in Darfur for these atrocities.
  • About 75% of the refugees and internally displaced in the world are women who have lost their families and their homes.
  • Gender-based violence kills one in three women across the world and is the biggest cause of injury and death to women worldwide, causing more deaths and disability among women aged 15 to 44 than cancer, malaria, traffic accident, and war.

[source]

that whole #LiberalTipsToAvoidRape twitter hashtag is so disturbing and horrific on so many levels

I can’t believe people actually think this way and/or see sexual assault as an appropriate platform for jokes and political bulllshitting

I don’t want to live on this planet anymore

On that note, I’m going to go play Assassin’s Creed now.

❝

Feminists have always been accused of hating men because it is a very effective way of silencing a very threatening movement. In a society where women’s value is based on our ability to please men, and where men hold almost all the cards, the worst possible thing we can do is hate them. So when feminists point out and object to the oppression, abuse and discrimination perpetuated by men against women, this is framed as man hating in an attempt to silence us, in an attempt to ensure that we are vilified and ignored by the rest of society, so that male oppression of women and male privilege can continue unchecked.

No matter how we frame our arguments and no matter what kind of image we seek to project, as long as we highlight, object to and fight misogyny, feminists are going to be called man haters.

So I’m not going to waste my time trying to prove that I’m not.

❞
– “Man haters?” by Laura on The F Word blog (via fuckyeahfeminists)

yanettcanhazsoul:

Chescaleigh on Slut Shaming becoming Victim Blaming. Props for her sharing her experience.


barackobama:

“Pretty straightforward. Any confusion there?”

My mother was a feminist. She taught me to see
that the road to ruin is paved with patriarchy.
So, let the way of the women guide democracy.
From plunder and pollution, let mother earth be free.

Feminism ain’t about women. No, that’s not who it is for
It’s about a shifting consciousness that’ll bring an end to war

So listen up you fathers
Listen up you sons
Which side are you on now?
Which side are you on?

❝Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions.. for safety on the streets… for child care, for social welfare… for rape crisis centers, women’s refuges, reforms in the law. If someone says ‘Oh, I’m not a feminist,’ I ask ‘Why? What’s your problem?❞
–

Dale Splendor (via teaandbbc)

When someone calls me a “feminazi” I respond with, “Wow, I must have forgotten about the time where I took part in exterminating an entire race of people, participated in one of the biggest violations of human rights known to modern history, and wore my bigotry on my sleeve like a fucking badge of anti-semitic honor. Thanks for reminding me and equating my stance on equality to that charming part of world history!”

So last night, after coaching, my friend and I went out for dinner, drinks and comedy night at a local bar.

I’ve had the whole night and this morning to think about this, and now I think I’m ready to make a post about it.

The first comedian made rape jokes. My jaw dropped. I don’t understand how anyone could possibly think that joking about rape is remotely funny or worthy of putting in their amateur stand-up comedy routine. I thought to myself, as he was joking about how “she didn’t say no,” this is rape culture. Rape culture is turning the dehumanization and sexual commodification of women into jokes. Rape culture is trying to make the fact that raping a woman while she is unconscious and therefore, unable to physically tell the perpetrator to stop, is funny. Rape culture is joking about joking about rape. Yes, this comedian even pulled the “I know, I know, *girl voice* rape jokes…” line. Rape culture is knowing that joking about rape is wrong, but, for the sake of comedy, doing it anyway.

I was so horrified and disgusted.

In my opinion, if you have to use rape as material for your stand-up comedy, you’re not very funny and you’re an awful comedian and you should probably quit while you’re behind.

❝

I am a woman, equipped with hormones, monthly menstrual cycles and all the pain and hassle that comes with them. I am a woman, and like other human beings, I sometimes become angry. I sometimes become frustrated, and I sometimes become annoyed. And yes, I sometimes make no bones about displaying those emotions to those close to me and to the world. Like all human beings, my emotions sway, and sometimes I behave in a way that is less than what society expects of me.

Yet, as a woman, I have been plagued by an assumption about my emotions that has followed me since blossoming into womanhood: the idea that when I succumb to displays of irritation or anger, I must be PMSing.

❞
–

Rhiannon Payne, “I’m Not PMSing, I’m Just Angry,” Feminspire.com (via feminspire)

I never PMS because I almost never get my period. I’m just a hothead, deal with it.

Mitt doesn’t care about women in poverty.

If he did, he wouldn’t want to defund Planned Parenthood, an organization that provides life-saving medical care to low-income women and families.

If he did, he would support more access to affordable birth control, to prevent women from having children they cannot financially support.

Don’t pull the “women” card, Mitt because you and I both know it’s a bunch of bullshit.


feminist-space:

“Rape culture is seeing this shit and asking about the sample size.”


Ladies and Gentlemen, the Prime Minister of Australia kicking ass and taking names (mostly Tony Abbott’s). [x]

Mitt: “I NEED REGULATION”

what, you mean like regulating my vagina?

I need regulation too, and my birth control pills regulate my menstrual cycle, thank you VERY much. They also prevent me from getting pregnant, being the sleazy harlot that I am, you know.