The Mo in the Mask

ninja-suffragette:

deathlyillandalwaysbusy:

ninja-suffragette:

feminspire:

Remind me again why we need feminism? Oh, yeah.

So I decided to test this out on google.co.uk, and but this stopped me in my tracks before I could finish typing ‘shouldn’t’.

I also decided to try it with men. Unsurprisingly the results boiled down to ‘men shouldn’t do things associated with women’…or drink soy milk apparently.

Soy milk is actually associated with women too! Soy beans increase estrogen levels.
Here’s an incredibly cissexist (not to mention regular sexist) article that sensationally explains how soy products will give (one) man female health related problems. I’d like to know how soy ACTUALLY effects men’s health, but perhaps from a more profession/less biased source.
The fear tactics are astounding!

Oh, wow. I just thought this male fear of soy milk was random. There you go guys. These results are universally horrible. 

longdeadstar:

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin.

“Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.”

~ Jeremy Knowles

Generally speaking, if a woman does something in history, we basically just go “DUH!” and then ignore them until they die and then take their contributions and treat them as givens for the rest of time.

I get that the intentions of this are good, but please stop misquoting the Dove study… That is a) not the correct number, and b) not the phrasing used by in the study. It is absolutely true that women mostly compare themselves as less physically attractive and that that is terrible, but we’re not helping anything by misquoting and exaggerating the statistics.

You can read it here. It’s upsetting that so many women think badly of themselves. Let’s use real statistics and help all of them feel better about themselves.

safercampus:

The Violence Against Women Act #VAWA was reauthorized in the Senate by a 78-22 vote on Tuesday. 

If your Senator is on here, it’s time to make a change.