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“I did whatever I do whenever anyone mentions a Celebrity Vagina Sighting. I looked it up on the internet. Because I know that rumours of the Celebrity Vagina Sighting are greatly exaggerated.

Despite all the glimpses of famous nether regions we’ve all been treated to in the last 10 years or so, I can’t think of a single time we’ve seen a vagina.

We have certainly seen pubic hair. And Labia Majora. Labia, which is Latin for ‘lips’ is also the name given to the two sets of folds concealing the actual VAGINA from the harsh outside world. Frankly, in order to see an actual vagina you need a) a woman’s permission and b) a very direct pose.
You will no more see a candid shot of a vagina than you will a candid shot of a lung or a sinus or a medulla oblongata.”

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This Drives Me Absolutely Penis « Just Another Pretty Farce Katherine Coble informs anyone who doesn’t know yet where their Vulva and Vagina are. (via materialworld)

And thus we see my problem with The Vagina Monologues. Especially the one where the speaker says, “My husband liked me to SHAVE my vagina.” Um, that’s impossible.

“ There is a dark, insidious quality to the ideology promoted by the positive psychologists. They condemn all social critics and iconoclasts, the dissidents and individualists, for failing to surrender and seek fulfillment in the collective lowing of the corporate herd. They strangle creativity and moral autonomy. They seek to mold and shape individual human beings into a compliant collective. The primary teaching of this movement, which reflects the ideology of the corporate state, is that fulfillment is to be found in complete and total social conformity, a conformity that all totalitarian and authoritarian structures seek to impose on those they dominate.

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Chris Hedges - Empire of Illusion, Ch 4: The Illusion of Happiness (via tiredofbeingignored)

Okay, this sounds like it was created by the Academic Sentence Generator. The “collective lowing of the corporate herd?” O, emo college boys! Give me a break.

i think in sex ed for boys they should have them spend ten minutes meditating on the fact that GIRLS POOP and then getting over it

isabelthespy:

txtsfrmlstnght:

(480): Our hot neighbor just came over and asked for a toilet plunger…not so hot anymore

Think only 'their' teens get pregnant?

jbrotherlove:

According to research conducted for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, only 28 percent of those who report having given birth or fathered a child as a teen lived in families with incomes below the federal poverty line.
And just 30 percent of those who report having given birth to or fathered a child as a teen say they were living with a single parent. We are not only wrong - and probably bigoted - about whose teens get pregnant. Those of us in middle-class, intact families have our heads seriously in the sand if we think it can’t happen to us.

via The Baltimore Sun

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“ Empirical work indicating that providing schooling for women and girls will address these problems includes study after study showing that educated women have fewer children, are wealthier and are less likely to accept fundamentalist extremism. If we want a safer world, we should consider the utility of spending dollars on educating young people as an alternative to troops and weapons.

— How Women Can Save the Planet: Scientific American (via bmckinney)

“ If you ask girls and women how they would feel about encountering a group of guys while they’re alone in a deserted area, I bet the fear of gang rape and assault would be quite tangible, even if the men did not harass them. Why? Because even if we don’t know terms like “homosociality” or “hegemonic masculinity” and haven’t read the theories behind such terms, we know that most men are less like to stop or to listen to women when they are in groups. We know they want to impress their friends and many of them will do that at all costs. We know it’s best to book it out of there as fast as we can before they decide to do anything. And guess what, even if this isn’t true of all men, we don’t know which ones it will be true for. Our safety is not worth the risk of trusting a group of male strangers. (and if you say that’s unfair to boys and men who don’t hurt women, I agree, let’s do something about it!)

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The cost of living in a patriarchal society « Stop Street Harassment! (via clingtomymouth)

Yes. For more on this (especially for the dudes out there in the audience), please oh please read the Shapely Prose article on Schrödinger’s Rapist.

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bmckinney:

theduty:

never forget.

fuckyeahbabies:

ginoid:

o.o

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notemily:

A minimum wage worker would have to work for 2,256 years to make what what the CEO of Hewlett-Packard makes in a year.

The average worker would have to work 836 years to match his yearly salary.

And Barack Obama would have to President for 85 years before he made what the CEO of Hewlett-Packard makes in one year.

Comprehending Income Inequality » Sociological Images

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“ Is this the best we can do? Forcing people to buy private health insurance, guaranteeing at least $50 billion in new business for the insurance companies? Is this the best we can do? Government negotiates rates which will drive up insurance costs, but the government won’t negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies which will drive up pharmaceutical costs. Is this the best we can do? Only 3% of Americans will go to a new public plan, while currently 33% of Americans are either uninsured or underinsured? Is this the best we can do? Eliminating the state single payer option, while forcing most people to buy private insurance. If this is the best we can do, then our best isn’t good enough and we have to ask some hard questions about our political system: such as Health Care or Insurance Care? Government of the people or a government of the corporations.

— Dennis Kucinich (via azspot) (via bmckinney)