“When you dress to be looked at, you’ll attract guys that like to look. And when they get tired of looking at you, they start looking elsewhere. Guys that only show you attention because of what they can see won’t stay because their eyes wander to other things also getting their attention.”

Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men over the bodily integrity, autonomy, and dignity of girls and women. It is subtle, insidious, and never more dangerous than when women passionately deny that they themselves are engaging in it. This abnormal obsession with women’s faces and bodies has become so normal that we (I include myself at times—I absolutely fall for it still) have internalized patriarchy almost seamlessly. We are unable at times to identify ourselves as our own denigrating abusers, or as abusing other girls and women.

socialistguineapigs:

artesian-well:

socialistguineapigs:

dirtybrokebeautiful:

charlieparker-onheroin:

blowjobsforburritos:

Message to All Men.

My response to slut shaming.

HOLY SHIT, I LOVE YOU SO MUCH! Really, this is wonderful.

THIS IS AMAZING. Instant follow.

HAHAHAHA YES.

Humility is attractive

He’s being sarcastic. The point is that you shouldn’t be a judgmental asshole and tell other people how to dress and act. Confidence and individuality are also attractive.

Dude, nice.

kawaiilesbianfriend:

I see your self respect

and raise you a I don’t give a fuck

Top person: fuck you.

Bottom person: you’re my hero.

Sexuality and being comfortable with your body does not mean you do not have self-respect. End the slut-shaming.

(via strawberryfaerie)

[Abstinence-only sex ed curricula] rely on offensive, sexist stereotypes about men and women, boys and girls, as a foundational teaching tool and pass it off as “biology.” They portray “real” boys as unable to control themselves, unemotional (particularly about sex), not interested in female desire or sexual satisfaction, not ultimately responsible for their own sexual feelings (which are portrayed as dependent on how girls chose to tempt them) and definitely heterosexual. Girls, on the other hand, are shown as controlling monitors of aggressive male sexuality. In classic Madonna/whore manner, girls, despite being chaste objects of male desire and not “naturally” interested in having sex, are portrayed as temptresses that need to control what they wear and the messages they send. Also heterosexual, they are definitely not capable of managing their own reproductive lives.