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Greetings! This tumblr is an amalgamation of three of my favorite things: fandom, feminism, and friends. I like lots of geeky things, and social justice, and adorable animals. Happy browsing! Love, Honeybee
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May 20, 2013
May 20, 2013
Hope Corgi is my favorite comic book character.
My new favorite dc character
Desperately needed in the New 52.
SPREADING HOPE AND PUPPY-TASTIC CUTENESS :D
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May 20, 2013
mermaids don’t have thigh gaps but they can still lure men to their deaths
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May 20, 2013
"I’m going to tell you what a demon once told me: It is okay to want your own happiness. It’s okay to care about yourself the most. It’s okay to do what’s healthy for YOU. When someone hits you, it’s okay to hit back and then ask them what the hell they expected. It’s okay. You are not obligated to sit there and smile and swallow every bit of shit everyone heaps on you. You are more than furniture, you’re more than window dressing, you’re not their shiny toy. You’re human, and you have the right to say “That was shitty of you”. You have a right to say “Let me feed that back to you; tell me, how does it taste?” You have a right to protest your own mistreatment and set boundaries for respectful interactions. The rest of the world doesn’t realize you have this right, and they will act offended and appalled when you exercise it, but it is yours."
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May 19, 2013
I don’t have to give my time to someone who makes me feel powerless, no matter how much I love them.
May 19, 2013
PLEASE REBLOG IF YOU’RE AN AVENGERS/S.H.I.E.L.D. FAN
I WOULD LIKE TO GET ACQUAINTED WITH THE FANDOM QUICKLY
May 19, 2013
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When I was a kid, I used to go over to friend’s houses and notice that their parents never seemed to bully them or hit them. I assumed this was just because they had a friend over, and that their parents terrorized them all the time when I wasn’t around. I didn’t identify my situation as abuse or reach out to a teacher or counselor because I thought everyone had to live through this. I was probably twenty by the time I realized that some families really don’t humiliate and belittle their kids, ever.
I wish someone had gotten that through to me. I wish instead of saying vaguely and uncomfortably “you can talk to the counselor if you have problems at home,” my teachers had said flat-out “it is not normal to be afraid of your parents, and not normal to be unhappy whenever you’re at home, and you can ask us if you’re not sure if something’s okay or not.” I wish someone could have taught me that wanting to be safe was human instead of selfish.
And I’m probably going to make a whole post about this so I won’t belabor the point right now, but this is why feminists care about media and memes that normalize rape. (Or that stigmatize the words “rape” and “rapist,” but enthusiastically normalize the act of forcing sex on people, as long as you don’t call it that.) Because it tells people that rape is normal, that it’s a popular and accepted way to express romance and/or dominance, and we can’t assume that everyone absorbing this culture knows “of course that’s not how it really works.”
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The Pervocracy, Everyone else is doing it… right? (via slutwalksignideas)
!!! I wish someone could have taught me that wanting to be safe was human instead of selfish.
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May 19, 2013
"There is no African, myself included, who does not appreciate the help of the wider world, but we do question whether aid is genuine or given in the spirit of affirming one’s cultural superiority. My mood is dampened every time I attend a benefit whose host runs through a litany of African disasters before presenting a (usually) wealthy, white person, who often proceeds to list the things he or she has done for the poor, starving Africans. Every time a well-meaning college student speaks of villagers dancing because they were so grateful for her help, I cringe. Every time a Hollywood director shoots a film about Africa that features a Western protagonist, I shake my head — because Africans, real people though we may be, are used as props in the West’s fantasy of itself. And not only do such depictions tend to ignore the West’s prominent role in creating many of the unfortunate situations on the continent, they also ignore the incredible work Africans have done and continue to do to fix those problems."
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Uzodinma Iweala, “Stop Trying to ‘Save’ Africa”
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May 19, 2013
High schooler arrested, expelled for same-sex relationship
A teenager in Florida has been expelled from school and charged with two felonies simply because her girlfriend’s parents disapprove of their relationship. She now faces two years of house arrest and a year of probation.
Kaitlyn Hunt was a popular student at Sebastian River High School, participating in everything from cheerleading to basketball. Hunt began dating another female student and the latter girl’s parents became enraged, according to Hunt’s parents. Kaitlyn was 17 at the time the relationship began, while her girlfriend was 15. Upon Kaitlyn’s 18th birthday, her girlfriend’s parents sent the police to the Hunt home and the teenager was arrested.
Hunt was charged with two felony counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a child. Then, weeks before her graduation, Hunt was expelled from school.
“[The girlfriend’s parents] are out to destroy my daughter,” Hunt’s mother told the Examiner, “because they feel like she ‘made’ their daughter gay. They see being gay as wrong and they blame my daughter. Of course, I see it 100% differently. I don’t see or label these girls as gay. They are teenagers in high school experimenting with their sexuality — with mutual consent. And even if their daughter is gay, who cares? She is still their daughter.”
Infuriating. So many things wrong with this.
First, this is a case of homophobic parents blackmailing a girl they don’t like in a slimy, roundabout way that serves to mask their bigotry. I can’t believe what a cheap shot they took. Absolutely disgusting.
Second, “I don’t see these girls as gay”? Cool, thanks, Mom. Thank goodness she’s not disowning her daughter, but I don’t totally see this as being supportive either.
Third, there’s a petition circulating to drop or lessen the charges against Kaitlyn. Go sign it. And try not to lose faith in humanity, even though people like this exist.
Completely agreed that this is awful, and my heart goes out to both of these young women. However, can we not villianize a supportive mother for not forcing a label onto her daughter? Yes, if the daughter identifies a gay or bisexual or anything else, her mother should absolutely support that. But the mother makes it clear that it’s consent that matters above gender or identity label, and that’s a message I am 100% on board with. At least in my experience, if a relationship is to be viewed as “valid” and worthy of support by the public, the people involved must be labeled as gay/lesbian. It makes me feel hopeful that at least some people in this situation value people’s consenting decisions, regardless of identity labels.
May 19, 2013
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God bless Adventure Time
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Why did the libertarian fail algebra?
He refused to solve inequalities.
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Why aren't more people freaking out about the new Venezuelan labor law?
You know,...
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Whenever anyone argues against marriage equality because of their religious views as a Christian I...
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This is realllllllllly weird lmao
This is really NORMAL.
Except we never see it-so it is terrifying...
