April 2012
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“Parents are the adults that offer the largest impact on children, but sometimes...”
– Peter M. DeWitt (via hellyeahscarleteen)
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“I know older men in comedy who can barely feed and clean themselves, and they...”
– Tina Fey
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WatchMary Roach: 10 things you didn’t know about orgasm
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“It’s 1978, five years after Roe v. Wade. I’m 38, I have four sons — the oldest...”
– Susan Heath: No One Called Me A Slut
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Look, Kitten, I Am Too A Feminist! Fauxminism and... →
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“Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men...”
– Ashley Judd
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The Myth of Being a Slut →
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“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone...”
– Oscar Wilde (via follin)
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“It’s bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They’re...”
– Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List, Rachel Cohn and David Levithan (via asexyquotes)
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“Actually, [polyamory] really does the opposite of make me insecure. It’s an ego...”
– polycule
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“Religious freedom means I get to chose whether or not to be religious and if so,...”
– Soraya Chemaly
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The Cisgender/Cissexual Privilege Checklist
Kudos to Peggy McIntosh for her White Privilege Checklist, inspirer of this list and all-around rad resource worth reading more than once. An older version of the cis privilege checklist is available at T-Vox.
Very frequently people like to direct other people to privilege checklists in order to “prove” to them the reality of that privilege. If that’s why someone sent you here, you have my...
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The Cisgender Privilege Checklist
1. It is unlikely that I will be ostracized by my family and friends, fired from my job, evicted from my home, given substandard medical care, suffer violent or sexual abuse, ridiculed by the media, or preached against by religious organizations simply because of my professed identity or perceived incongruent gendered behaviors or characteristics. 2. I can be confident that people will not call...
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The White Privilege Checklist
This is an excerpt from ‘White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack’ by Peggy McIntosh
1. I can if I wish arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time.
2. I can avoid spending time with people whom I was trained to mistrust and who have learned to mistrust my kind or me.
3. If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing...
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The Male Privilege Checklist
View the full explanation here.
1. My odds of being hired for a job, when competing against female applicants, are probably skewed in my favor. The more prestigious the job, the larger the odds are skewed.
2. I can be confident that my co-workers won’t think I got my job because of my sex – even though that might be true. (More).
3. If I am never promoted, it’s not because of my sex.
4. If I...
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Words, binary and biphobia, or: why “bi” is binary... →
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☠☤☯☤☠: Ignorant Things Well-Meaning People Say to... →
cloudofgorgeousness:
AKA, Things not to say to bisexuals Level 2.
Sometimes one of the hardest things to deal with can be sweet people who are, completely unintentionally, really insulting. With outright queerphobia it’s easy to point out. With things like this, not so much. But let me make one thing clear: people don’t deserve to be put on a pedestal because they are an LGBTQ...
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Hilarious "Nice Guy" →
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The Bisexual Index: bisexual isn’t about there... →
Some people get hung up on the ‘bi’ and protest that gender isn’t binary. In traditional dictionaries:
Homosexual is defined as “attracted to the same sex”
Heterosexual is defined as “attracted to the opposite sex”
So why then dismiss bisexuality as being about “men and women” when the definitions of hetero- and homo- don’t mention those? In this modern age with a wider understanding of gender...
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“So I guess this is a call to action: The LG and T community need to make more of...”
– Biphobia: The Gay Side (via elpuckerone)
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An interesting piece on the bi vs. pan issue →
grimgrinninggirl:
The monologues were beautifully read, there was healthy discussion about all sorts of things from coming out to pronoun use, and now I have a lovely new manual of resources to peruse. :)
The only hitch was when a person from outside campus was brought into the group - something I totally don’t…
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Bialogue: Bi/Pan+Queer Politics:... →
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fuckyeahsexeducation:
I really need to update my dictionary. I’m going to add every variation of cis since I get asked about that often. Does anyone have any suggestion on words I use a lot or concepts we talk about that some people might not understand or know about?
Bisexual! here is how historically the bisexual community actually defines itself … a “cute”twitter-ish...
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Bisexual, Pansexual & Queer Community: Advice... →
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DEAR LADY A: The people I know who claim they’re bi are attention-seeking and creepy. I honestly think, of the “bisexuals” I know, the guys are just gays who can’t emotionally handle being gay, and the women are trying to keep potential boyfriends interested with the promise of threesomes….
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Bisexuality and Dating →
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cloudofgorgeousness:
Something that occurred to me recently: I am never in a straight relationship, and I am never in a gay relationship, although my partners may be. I am always in a bisexual relationship, regardless of the gender of the person I’m dating.
Yes! Yes! Yes! One of the many reasons that the accusations sometimes leveled at bisexual people in different gender...
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That awkward moment when you feel more comfortable...
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neurofancier:
>Find funny lgtb-related channel in youtube
> Host of the channel makes two biphobic jokes in four minutes
That awkward moment when you feel more comfortable around homophobes that in the LGTB community.
*head desk*
