Mansplanations are not merely a waste of women’s time or inane — but essentially harmless — babbling by oafish men; in actuality, mansplanations are an exercise in forced-perspective, where men force women to view the world the proper way, which under patriarchy means through men’s eyes. Mansplanations are thought-terminating — they are intended to and do actually stop women’s thought processes and women’s discussions in their tracks, where those processes and discussions are coming dangerously close to representing a female-centric reality, or where men’s interests are not being properly represented and catered to. The intent of mansplaining is to get women “back on track” to furthering the patriarchal agenda, and to undermine the true revolutionary potential of majority-female or female-only spaces where women are free to go to the ends of our thoughts, based on our shared reality and experiences and our hope for a better future, and our shared, sincere desire for the end of patriarchy and undermining of male power. Because of male entitlement, men are simply used to unearned deference on every issue (especially from women) and having sexual and other access to women and women’s spaces, including inside our discussions and in our heads.
The Gears: Mansplaining/Women’s perspective is wrong (via medusasseveredhead)
One of the reasons why I don’t think men should be in the feminist movement
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including in our heads
in our heads
our heads
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Four photos of || Eddie Redmayne ♡
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I did it
drawing 13 dwarves from memory is not easy
Christmas Card Curiosties
From Christmas Curiosties: Odd, Dark and Forgotten Christmas by John Grossman.
Advent Calendar of Oddments 2012: December 11th
Or so you think.
Those of us accorded with able-bodied privilege must do the work of analyzing our privileges and ensuring that we do the work of undoing ableism. While we might all be queer—resisting heteronormativity and bodying forth new ways of being in the world—we must attend to the ways that our resistance and new ways of being might easily render invisible those queers who are differently-abled. Ensuring that we respond to the diverse needs of queers during Pride, at events, at clubs, and other social spaces is a start, but the more difficult work is naming and mitigating ableist thought. In order to do that work, we have to be willing to listen, if we can, and vision, if we are able, a future that decenters our conceptions of the “normal” and truly celebrates the queer.
On Ableism within Queer Spaces, or, Queering the “Normal”
i love this post so much i want to sleep with it under my pillow
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Judith Bernstein | Fun-Gun | 1967 | Bullets and acrylic on distressed canvas | 57 x 60 inches
“Is this Judith Bernstein’s moment? With her work now on display in two New York museums, the art world is finally catching up with this uncompromising artist… Using acrylic on bare canvas, Bernstein faithfully reproduces an anatomical drawing of the male pelvic region, but outfits the penis (erect, of course) with a hammer and trigger and a load of real ammo spiraling upward from the scrotum… If you’re looking for the last word on male aggression, I think you’ve found it.” — Thomas Micchelli
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