Aversive Racism and Police Violence. A cartoon by the sometimes controversial Kirk Anderson highlights the circular thinking that can lie behind race-based prejudice and violence. KIRK ANDERSON.
This keeps happening over, and over, and over.
reblog because Yes
Men who want to flirt with women have to realize: Women live in a state of continual vigilance about sexual safety. It’s like having a mild case of hay fever that never goes away. It’s not debilitating. You’re not weak. You’re not afraid. You just suck it up and get on with your life. It’s nothing that’s going to stop you from making discoveries, or climbing mountains, or falling in love. Sometimes you can almost forget about it. It doesn’t mean it’s not there, subtly sucking your energy. You learn to avoid situations that make it worse and seek out conditions that make it better.
If a female stranger is wary around you, it is not because she suspects you are a rapist, or that all men are rapists. It’s because a general level of circumspection is what vigilance requires. Don’t take it personally.
If this frustrates you, try to remember that women are blamed for lapsed vigilance. If a woman does get raped, everyone rushes to see where she let her guard down. Was she drinking? Was she alone? Was she wearing a short skirt? Did she go to a strange man’s room for coffee at 4am?
A woman must be seen to be vigilant as well as be vigilant. If she is deemed insufficiently vigilant, she will be at least partly blamed for any sexual violence that befalls her. If she’s regarded as downright reckless, that “evidence” can be used to completely exonerate her rapist. If it comes down to a he said/she said dispute over whether sex was consensual, as so many rape cases do, the dispute becomes a referendum on whether the woman seems like the sort of reckless person who would have sex with a stranger.
If a woman does go back to a strange man’s hotel room at 4am, even if she only wants a coffee and conversation, she’s more or less given him the power to rape her. No jury is going to believe she went up there for anything but sex. So, don’t be surprised if a stranger reacts badly to that suggestion.
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Attention, Space Cadets: Do Not Proposition Women in the Elevator I wish I didn’t need to reblog stuff like this. I wish people *got it*. But judging from the ridiculous response to these posts, stuff like this clearly still needs to be repeated. (via lavender-labia) This actually made me cry. Ugh. (via m0nikered) Will always reblog (via thelittlekneesofbees) |
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This is *not* Spider-Man.
Looks like Spider-Man to me.
^^
Yup that’s Spider-Man.
Lessee … teenager with spidery abilities swinging over the streets of New York in a universe created by Marvel Comics? Yep, that’s definitely Spider-Man.
Oh, definitely Spider-Man. Yep.
This is Spider-Man, no question. Oh yeah.
oh hey cool look it’s Spider-Man
I’m diggin’ the revamped outfit, Spider-Man!
#what’s his alter ego’s name? #anybody know?
That is Miles Morales, the star of Marvel’s Ultimate Comics Spider-Man volume 2.
Spidey outfit, Spidey sense, yup looks like spiderman to me.
other photos from the museum party where Swedes carved up a Sarah Baartman (The Hottentot Venus) cake.
….i’m sick to my stomach.
i should upload that bell hooks article about eating the Other…………
^please
and now with video….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rCK6zvWEN_Q#!
plus video of the artist himself explaining his piece. http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/sweden-firestorm-over-cake-art-installation-0022178
The Res Documentary Trailer (by theoneRES)
everything
She’s been on my playlist for YEARS. get on it!
In the beginning, I was on board. Things happened, things I am not going to get into in this particular post, that made me want to post less and keep a certain amount of distance.
Still, I wanted to believe in the overall cause.
I can no longer make excuses. I can no longer pretend that they…
There was tons of dialogue happening during the beginnings of OWS about the failure of incorporating POC. In my opinion that should have been CENTRAL to the OWS movement. Because it wasn’t, I never involved myself.
I was planning on going to Union Square yesterday with my two boys. Then that morning I saw that OWS tried camping out in Union Square eventually getting kicked out etc.. I felt anger. Knowing that the million hoodies march was going to happen that afternoon, WHY THE FUCK MAKE IT ABOUT YOU?!
Its a shame that a movement that had the potential for becoming something grand managed to shoot itself in the foot in the eyes of POC.
I needed this on my dash again.
I don’t care if it’s Fox News, this is win.
A+
seems super relevant right now.
If more company leaders followed this example of selflessness instead of being so fucking greedy the economy wouldn’t be so shitty. I mean really, just how much money do you really need to have.
This dude is fucking awesome. \m/
is there an article on this or something?
It’s true. He actually cut his pay down to $90,000 not $100,000.
