juin 2013
22 billets
“When we were little, Jaime and I were so much alike that even our lord father could not tell us apart. Sometimes as a lark we would dress in each other’s clothes and spend a whole day as the other. Yet even so, when Jaime was given his first sword, there was none for me. ‘What do I get?’ I remember asking. We were so much alike, I could never understand why they treated us so differently. Jaime learned to fight with sword and lance and mace, while I was taught to smile and sing and please. He was heir to Casterly Rock, while I was to be sold to some stranger like a horse, to be ridden whenever my new owner liked, beaten whenever he liked, and cast aside in time for a younger filly. Jaime’s lot was to be glory and power, while mine was birth and moonblood.”
—Cersei Lannister : George R.R. Martin - A Clash of Kings (via jakeyboytellem)
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.”
—xkcd: Sticks and Stones (via brute-reason)
- What you said: Yeah, I'm not like most girls. Most of my friends are boys and I'm not friends with girls at all!
- What I heard: Yeah, society has convinced me that to be a girl is to be a lesser, undesirable thing, so I'm doing my best to disguise myself as a hybrid creature that won't have any of the negative feminine qualities, but that boys will still desire. I hope this works because I hate women and I hate myself, but I'm probably just going to end up hurt like everyone else who puts their self-worth in the hands of teenage boys.
“People aren’t either wicked or noble. They’re like chef’s salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
—Lemony Snicket (via likeafieldmouse)
mai 2013
42 billets
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A catcall is entirely about reminding you that you are not yours. The purity myth is entirely about reminding you that you are not yours. The fetishization of female purity in a world where catcalls are an acceptable form of communication telegraphs one thing very clearly:
“Women, stop sexualizing yourselves—that’s our job, and you’re taking all the fun out of it.”
The sexualization of women is only appealing if it’s nonconsensual. Otherwise it’s “sluttiness,” and sluttiness is agency and agency is threatening.
” —Lindy West, “Female ‘Purity’ is Bullshit” (via albinwonderland)“Mais le racisme ne blesse pas tout le monde de manière égale. Le racisme envers les personnes de couleur est systémique – cela veut dire que contrairement à l’espèce d’interaction rare avec des individus racisés qui sont effectivement racistes envers les blancs, dont toi et moi pouvons s’éloigner, le racisme systémique (ie racisme institutionnel) envers les personnes de couleur impacte leur vie directement qu’importe la direction vers laquelle elles se tournent. C’est extrêmement problématique pour une personne blanche de chouiner à propos des personnes de couleur racistes, quand elle observe que l’attention attribuée au racisme envers elle, n’est pas égale à celle attribuée au racisme envers les personnes de couleur. Et bien que ce soit aussi problématique, bien que d’un impact moindre, quand des personnes blanches prétendent que le racisme n’affecte pas que les personnes de couleur, ce n’est vraiment pas le sujet qui nous préoccupe ici. Ceci est une tentative d’accorder une attention égale à des disparités grossièrement non-équivalentes, et ceci fait de toi un mauvais allié.”
“Pour les blancs qui s’opposent au racisme : comment arrêter d’être un mauvais allié”
