"I asked all of the gay male students in the room to raise their hand if in the past week they touched a woman’s body without her consent. After a moment of hesitation, all of the hands of the gay men in the room went up. I then asked the same gay men to raise their hand if in the past week they offered a woman unsolicited advice about how to “improve” her body or her fashion. Once again, after a moment of hesitation, all of the hands in the room went up.
These questions came after a brief exploration of gay men’s relationship to American fashion and women’s bodies. That dialogue included recognizing that gay men in the United States are often hailed as the experts of women’s fashion and by proxy women’s bodies. In addition to this there is a dominant logic that suggests that because gay men have no conscious desire to be sexually intimate with women, our uninvited touching and groping (physical assault) is benign."
These questions came after a brief exploration of gay men’s relationship to American fashion and women’s bodies. That dialogue included recognizing that gay men in the United States are often hailed as the experts of women’s fashion and by proxy women’s bodies. In addition to this there is a dominant logic that suggests that because gay men have no conscious desire to be sexually intimate with women, our uninvited touching and groping (physical assault) is benign."
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Gay Men’s Sexism and Women’s Bodies by Yolo Akili (via plightofthepretty)
faaaaaascinating.
(via thenewwomensmovement)
http://chimes.biola.edu/story/2013/may/16/underground-biola-queer/
I have never been so proud to call two people friends. I don’t know what I would have done without these two over the last few years (and more).
(via asongwithnoend)
“So my amazing daughter, Emma, turned 5 last month, and I had been searching everywhere for new-creative inspiration for her 5yr pictures. I noticed quite a pattern of so many young girls dressing up as beautiful Disney Princesses, no matter where I looked 95% of the “ideas” were the “How to’s” of how to dress your little girl like a Disney Princess…We chose 5 women (five amazing and strong women), as it was her 5th birthday but there are thousands of unbelievable women (and girls) who have beat the odds and fought (and still fight) for their equal rights all over the world”
- Jaime Moore, Not Just a Girl
(via jenjennjennifer)
"How could your mother do a man’s work?” Lee smiled. “My father said she was a strong woman, and I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is almost indestructible."
— East of Eden John Steinbeck
"I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult."
— E. B. White (via wendesgray)
(Source: thewinterwind, via hallelu)
The Dalai Lama and Mr. Rogers
(Source: awesomepeoplehangingouttogether, via hallelu)
(via asongwithnoend)
