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White feminists:
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split-the-coast:
When you discuss the wage gap, here are a few things to keep in mind:
Only white women make $0.77 to a man’s* dollar.
Black women make about $0.68 to a man’s* dollar.
Latina women make about $0.58 to a man’s* dollar.
Intersectionality matters.
And men of color make less than white women.
white man’s dollar*
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The Revolution Will Not Be Polite
So if you – the oppressed – hurt someone’s feelings, you’re just like the oppressor, right? Wrong. Oppression is not about hurt feelings. It is about the rights and opportunities that are not afforded to you because you belong to a certain group of people. When you use a racist slur you imply that non-whiteness is a bad thing, and thus publicly reinforce a system that denies POC the rights and...
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People don’t take care of things they hate and...
“When you encourage people to be ashamed of their bodies, you decrease the chances that they will believe that they are worthy of care.
Shaming may actually create the problems that it’s purported to solve: Peter Muennig from Columbia found that the stress of stigma and shame were correlated with the same diseases with which obesity is correlated. So every time you make someone feel bad about...
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“I don’t want to be rude. I just wish you would cease discussing your...”
– Christina Kelly
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“But most of all, stop thinking that what people so loathingly refer to as the...”
– Taylor Callobre, The “Good Guy” Myth
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“I find it truly offensive.”
– John Waters on iceberg lettuce
I find iceberg to be the most useless vegetable. It doesn’t even deserve to be CALLED a vegetable. It’s a waste of chewing.
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backhanded compliments were never my thing
ceramickitten:
there is this way texan women raise each other up
rule number one do not break if you decide you must break do it in the shower when no one is home let the stinging steaming circle your heart while you let the tears mingle down the drain where they belong
rule number two always be perfect never burn your food never look poor hemlines must always be straight make up must be on...
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ismashpatriarchyonthefirstdate:
when people say “some people dont deserve food stamps” what they mean is “you’re not good enough to even have basic necessities such as food and water and deserve to die.”
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I always hold my breath when Buttercup falls into the sand pit. Thing I Realize Every Time: I would have died.
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