the fine arts.

Slut-bashing is a cheap and easy way to feel powerful. If you feel insecure or ashamed about your own sexual desires, all you have to do is call a girl a “slut” and suddenly you’re the one who is “good” and on top of the social pecking order.

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[Leora Tanenbaum (Harper Paperbacks, 2000.): Slut! Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation, p. 238.] (via church-mouth

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thesavagesalad:

kinkyturtle:

savannahstreethassle:

lizdexia:

Nice Guyism and Special Snowflake Girlism are one and the same, right?

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Seriously, if all the Special Snowflakes and Nice Guys could just…run off and be passive aggressive and whiny together, life would be so much better for everyone. Because legit though, all the people who truly think “I’m a nice, decent person which makes me SPECIAL and SO MUCH BETTER than all those sluts/douchebags and they suck and wahhh, wahhh, wahhh, why doesn’t anyone pay attention to me!?”—ya’ll fucking deserve each other.

how the fuck does shit like this get over a 100,000 notes. For fuck’s sake people, snowflakes and Nice Guys need their own special island or some shit.

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When you peel back the layers of the anti-choice motivation, it always comes back to two things: What is the nature and purpose of human sexuality? And second, what is the role of women in the world? Sex and the role of women are inextricably linked, because if you can separate sex from procreation, you have given women the ability to participate in society on an equal basis with men.

— GLORIA FELDT, attributed, Huffington Post (via klondikebar123)

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i think i miss myself the most.

Society has a problem with female nudity when it is not … ”—Badu pauses to get her words together; she wants this point to be very clear—“… when it is not packaged for the consumption of male entertainment. Then it becomes confusing.

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Erykah Badu: June/July Cover Story [Pg 1] | VIBE (via sexisbeautiful)

Yes, perfect.

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BADU!

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Cops Bust Homeless Woman for Sending Child to School ←

lostgrrrls:

A homeless woman from Bridgeport has been arrested for enrolling her 6-year-old son at a Norwalk elementary school.

Tonya McDowell, 33, is accused of stealing $15,000 — the cost of her son’s public education — from the Norwalk School District, according to the Stamford Advocate. She was arrested Thursday.

McDowell, whose last known address was Priscilla Street in Bridgeport, is facing first-degree larceny and conspiracy to commit larceny charges, the paper reported.

Police began an investigation in January, after the Norwalk Housing Authority filed a complaint that McDowell had registered her son at Brookside Elementary School in Norwalk, even though she had been living in an apartment in Bridgeport.

McDowell allegedly admitted to police she was allowed to sleep in the apartment on Priscilla Street in Bridgeport by the tenant, but had to leave during the day, according to the Advocate. She also told police she sometimes stayed at an emergency shelter in Norwalk.

Police say McDowell used the Norwalk address of the boy’s babysitter to register him at the school.

“Usually when they find a kid out of district, they send him back. I have never heard of people being arrested for it,” Norwalk Board of Education Chairman Jack Chiaramonte told the Advocate.

The apparent crackdown may have something to do with the city’s tightening budget.

“This now sends a message to other parents that may have been living in other towns and registering their kids with phony addresses,” Norwalk Mayor Richard Moccia said.

This makes me sick… And yet another article that SHOULD have, instead, been in The Onion.

Isn’t it also illegal to not send your child to school?

(Source: caraobrien, via lostgrrrls)

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