(via etoilesperdues)
Twenty-something year old lady with too few nutrients, boiling feminist blood, and too much hair. Professional coffee slinger and drinker. Graduate of UVa. Eternal student of history, Russian literature and language, and Eastern Europe.
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"Under the current ‘tyranny of slenderness’ women are forbidden to become large or massive; they must take up as little space as possible. The very contours of a woman’s body takes on as she matures - the fuller breasts and rounded hips - have become distateful. The body by which a woman feels herself judged and which by rigorous discipline she must try to assume is the body of early adolescence, slight and unformed, a body lacking flesh or substance, a body in whose very contours the image of immaturity has been inscribed. The requirement that a woman maintain a smooth and hairless skin carries further the theme of inexperience, for an infantilized face must accompany her infantilized body, a face that never ages or furrows its brow in thought. The face of the ideally feminine woman must never display the marks of character, wisdom, and experience that we so admire in men."
Sandra Lee Bartky, Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power (via sociophilia)
(via stfuconservatives)
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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.
"“Female ‘Purity’ is Bullshit”, by Lindy West (at jezebel.com)
(Source: fictional-clue, via womenaresociety)
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let us teach them that all who draw breath are of equal worth, and that those who seek to place heel upon the throat of liberty will fall with a cry of freedom!
(Source: brigantes, via earthsmightiestassbutts)
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