This was one of my all time favorite pictures I have taken in my few years of doing photography.
The point of this picture and the people with bags over their heads is to represent what society does to genders. First off, people assume gender by body type but in this picture you could have two transgendered people, one, both male, both female, or any other combination and we would still be the same… Human.
Now, women are victimized by wearing revealing clothing or not being afraid to show their bodies with pride as well as being comfortable with their sexuality, while a nearly nude male doing the exact same thing won’t be put down for showing off the body they have.
Regaurdless of what you take this message as, I just want everyone to realize that we are all the same kind and we are all unique. People have no right to judge another person by what they wear, or who they choose to be.
(For safety purposes on this picture I had taken a picture of this from my wall)
"You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked “female”."
I believe that there are a small group of women who hate men just for being men. I believe that the textbook definition of the word misandry fits that description. I believe there are bad things that happen to men. I believe those issues should be addressed. I do not believe that a fringe group of women who hate men can be blamed for those issues.
Misandry was a dead word until recently. A group of men who feared the progress of feminism revived the word and used it to undercut the movement. They like having the power being a man provides and they don’t want to lose that. So they created a movement, found a bunch of legitimate issues that affect men, and tried to blame women for those issues. They called this misandry. It’s like conservatives using buzzwords like “death panels” to make people fear health care. They let people assume it meant Obama wanted to kill your grandma. They let their cute little phrase infect the minds of good people and convince them of falsehoods.
People are telling me that men cannot report rape without getting laughed at. They say this is misandry. It is the fault of women who hate men. But that just doesn’t make any sense to me. When I seek a logical explanation, it seems more likely that this is because men are supposed to be strong and women are supposed to be weak. And rape has been viewed as something that happens mostly to women. So if it does happen to a man, they must be weak. How did this idea of men=strong and women=weak start? I’m pretty sure it wasn’t because of misandry. It is an ancient patriarchy collapsing in on itself.
Feminism is about fighting inequality. It’s about erasing the strong/weak perception ingrained into our society. Misandry, as the term is often used today, is about trying to blame women for anything bad that happens to men.
If you want to fight to fix issues that affect men, go for it. But I would really consider distancing yourself from this term. It is used to evangelize folks into a movement that is very problematic. A group that can’t handle scrutiny of their comic books and video games, so they send death and rape threats. A group that calls women sluts and think they ask for rape if they show too much cleavage. Those are the people who coined this term, and you should want nothing to do with them or their language.
i mean just so y’all know i don’t consider myself a stiles stan but i get a little exasperated by torching a sixteen/seventeen year old kid for having a crush. there are a lot of things that stiles does that are skeevy as fuck (see: being in lydia’s room with her, alone, while she was DRUGGED OUT OF HER FUCKIN MIND)
but in my experience stiles is a teenaged boy who, by all accounts, has accepted in season three that lydia is just his friend. if that’s the case, if he’s really moved on and let go, then that’s a good narrative? teen wolf saying “no, lydia is not simply some goal for this kid to strive for and eventually attain” is a subversion of a really harmful trope which tells me that stiles’s narrative is one of
doing gross stuff
then not doing the gross stuff anymore
which would imply, i guess, learning? which i think is… a really good narrative to HAVE and to SEE played out on TV?
so pulling shit from his narrative out of context and going “THIS IS WHY STILES IS NICE GUY THIS IS WHY HE’S GROSS THIS IS BLAH BLAH BLAH” kind of defeats the purpose of, you know, putting this kid out there who’s trying to feel his way through life’s lessons at the tender age of 16/17.
examine the narrative, recognize what’s problematic about it, and FRY THE FUCK out of people who are like “stiles DESERVES lydia” all you want but i’m just saying that i think stiles himself is realizing that that’s not the case and i think that’s pretty cool myself
"We are the generation of nostalgia. We grew up in the age of transition. From hand-written letters to electronic mails. From film to digital. We were fascinated by new things, neglecting the way we spend our afternoons. Cupcakes and tea. Play-Doh and Polly Pockets. Young and naive. Technology completely changed the way we waited and we grew up too fast. The simple things in life seems more meaningful now. We grew up in the age of transition and have become the generation of nostalgia."
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This is the best/truest thing I’ve read in so long (via thesleepingfawn)
