It saddens me to see girls proudly declaring they’re not like other girls – especially when it’s 41,000 girls saying it in a chorus, never recognizing the contradiction. It’s taking a form of contempt for women – even a hatred for women – and internalizing it by saying, Yes, those girls are awful, but I’m special, I’m not like that, instead of stepping back and saying, This is a lie.
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The real meaning of “I’m not like the other girls” is, I think, “I’m not the media’s image of what girls should be.” Well, very, very few of us are. Pop culture wants to tell us that we’re all shallow, backstabbing, appearance-obsessed shopaholics without a thought in our heads beyond cute boys and cuter handbags. It’s a lie – a flat-out lie – and we need to recognize it and say so instead of accepting that judgment as true for other girls, but not for you.
(Source: birdwithapeopleface, via mumimafeminist)
DIRTY GRRRL GIVEAWAY!I had a few things lying around so I have decided to do a small giveaway that some of you may like. The giveaway includes:
1. Feminist Stickers - ‘Feminist’, ‘Slut’ and a uterus.
2. Girls Rule Bracelet
3. Hole Sticker
4. Feminism Patch
5. Uterus Patch
(I will probably throw in a zine or 2 also once I have printed some more)
- You can reblog or like this post as much as you want until the closing date which is Monday 4th Febuary at 11:30pm (GMT).
- You have to be following me
Keep your ask boxes must be open so I am able to contact you if you have won! I will pick the winner by using random.org.
Good Luck<3
(via mumimafeminist)
uch this. yesterday I watched the cops evict a growing tent city under the overpass by my house, it’s like “no you can’t live in this empty house because the bank owns it, and no you can’t live in a tent because it’s an eye-sore or blocking part of the sidewalk or something, and hey guess what, now it’s illegal to sit or lay down on the sidewalk at all, so if you have the audacity to need sleep we will beat you up and arrest you”
(Source: fuckyeahmarxismleninism, via ragemovement)
