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littleladyblue: THIS!!!!

littleladyblue:

THIS!!!!

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lacigreen: hellyeahsafesex: STD stats hey bible belt, looks like that abstinence only education is workin out real well for you down there.

lacigreen:

hellyeahsafesex:

STD stats

hey bible belt, looks like that abstinence only education is workin out real well for you down there.

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REMINDER: Take a survey from New Yorkers for Safe Transit on Sexual Harassment in NYC Public Transport ⇢

As we posted last month, please take a survey from New Yorkers for Safe Transit on Sexual Harassment in NYC Public Transport. 

The New Yorkers for Safe Transit (NYFST), a coalition of orgs/advocates to eliminate harassment/assaults on NYC public transport, has just launched a large-scale survey, online and in-person, on the types of violence and harassment that are really taking place in our communities. NYFST will summarize the findings to share with the public.

Please take a minute to take the quick survey about harassment and assault on the NYC public transportation system and share wide and far! Click here: www.nyfst.org/survey

Below is an overview of the survey: 

This survey asks questions about harassment and violence.  If any of the questions in the survey make you uncomfortable, or you don’t know the answer, you can choose not to respond or choose to stop the survey at any time.

Your information will be used to make a broad analysis about harassment and violence in the public transportation system. We will summarize the responses and may choose to present a summary of our findings publicly.  

We would love to stay in touch to tell you about the results of the survey! So please give us your information on the final page if you choose to. Your contact information will be separated from your survey responses. However, we think it’s important for people to tell their stories publicly in order to raise awareness about this issue.  If you are interested in sharing your story email us at info@nyfst.org.

PLEASE ONLY COMPLETE THE SURVEY ONCE! 

The data will not be taken seriously if we have duplicate responses!

For more information about this survey, and how the information collected will be used, please contact us at info@nyfst.org.

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It took me a long time to realize that my partners were having sex with me in part because of the way my body looks, not in spite of the way my body looks. It sounds simple, I know, but when you spend your whole life being told that fat bodies are not sexy, it takes some time to realize that sexiness isn’t that simple. This understanding is not something that happens overnight for most of us. Hell, it can take years. But, the sooner you learn (yes, learn) to feel sexy just the way you are, the sooner you’ll be able to enjoy your sexuality more fully.

Really, this goes for men and women of all sizes, not just fat women. You owe it to yourself and your partner to trust that he or she really desires you and to do the best you can to keep that in mind when you find you have a hard time letting go and really being seen during sex.

- Fat Sex: What Everyone Wants to Know but is Afraid to Ask (via snoterella)

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Whenever people of color bring up the issue of racism in their lives we seem to want to say, “Oh, you’re hypersensitive, you’re seeing things, you have a chip on your shoulder,” and I really think, and I hope that we can see this kind of dismissiveness for the racism that it is because what that amounts to is saying, “You black people are so irrational, so illogical, so unintelligent that you can’t even be trusted to interpret your own lives so let me, in my whiteness, interpret it for you.

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Tim Wise (via letthetruthlaugh) (via brazenbitch)

that is exactly it. 

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Draw the Line ⇢

Check out this great anti-sexual violence campaign based out of Ontario, Canada. It’s chock full of great infographics and scenarios. 

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maeby-tonight: teachjoanne: thescarletwoman: manymoodsofmichael: These “Dudetips” have been posted around the UCLA campus for the past few weeks.  If you can, please tear them down. I can’t believe this is found acceptable here on my own campus. This is sexist.  Just because I’m a dude, doesn’t mean I’m gonna go out raping everything in sight.  This is pretty much equivalent to saying “Muslim Tip #3:  If you’re going to take a plane to New York, remember not to crash it into some skyscrapers”  And if you think I’m just getting worked up over a single poster, check the click-through link to their facebook page.  There’s a lot more “dudetips” and they’re all along the lines of “remember not to break into a girl’s house and rape her”  A whole album full, online and around campus.  It’s part of their “anti-rape” campaign.  Because I’m sure these posters are super good at stopping rape. It assumes that just because I’m part of a group that I am a guilty party.  Just like how Feminists try to change society’s tendency to prejudice women, I would like to point out that this is prejudice against men.  ”Girltip #3:  If you have a nice car, or a nice job, or a nice home, don’t forget to thank the man that gave it to you”  See?  Signs like this are simply prejudiced and go against everything Feminism should stand for.  This group is full of bullshit. I’m not sure this is a valid argument against this poster. Your example of a poster for muslims telling them not to commit terrorist attacks against the US doesn’t make sense, because while only  a handful of Islamist radicals have committed that crime, 1 in 4 women in the US will be sexually assaulted in her lifetime, and guess who is overwhelmingly doing the raping and assaulting: yeah, that’s right. It’s dudes. I get that it’s hard to read that poster, but here’s another guess what - you need to suck it up. Because telling men to stop raping, and educating men about consent and sexual assault, and letting them know concretely with no wiggle room that, for example, offering a girl a ride expecting sex and then raping her is NOT okay, is the only way we’re going to stop rape from being as much of a societal reality as it is today. This poster doesn’t assume that all men are rapists. That’s your own privilege speaking. Your experience is not the experience of every other man. You may not have ever raped someone, but do you know 5 other guys? Statistically, one of them has raped or assaulted a woman. Women are tired of being told to stop getting raped. I support posters like these because men need to know that it is NOT okay to assault or rape women. Considering the statistics, not enough men know this - not NEARLY enough. So the minimal offense that this causes you is not enough of a deal to make me stop supporting this.  Reblogging for reply.  thescarletwoman wins! If OP is really that butt-hurt over the fact that men rape women - a lot - maybe he can do something about it.

maeby-tonight:

teachjoanne:

thescarletwoman:

manymoodsofmichael:

These “Dudetips” have been posted around the UCLA campus for the past few weeks.  If you can, please tear them down. I can’t believe this is found acceptable here on my own campus.

This is sexist.  Just because I’m a dude, doesn’t mean I’m gonna go out raping everything in sight.  This is pretty much equivalent to saying “Muslim Tip #3:  If you’re going to take a plane to New York, remember not to crash it into some skyscrapers”  And if you think I’m just getting worked up over a single poster, check the click-through link to their facebook page.  There’s a lot more “dudetips” and they’re all along the lines of “remember not to break into a girl’s house and rape her”  A whole album full, online and around campus.  It’s part of their “anti-rape” campaign.  Because I’m sure these posters are super good at stopping rape.

It assumes that just because I’m part of a group that I am a guilty party.  Just like how Feminists try to change society’s tendency to prejudice women, I would like to point out that this is prejudice against men.  ”Girltip #3:  If you have a nice car, or a nice job, or a nice home, don’t forget to thank the man that gave it to you”  See?  Signs like this are simply prejudiced and go against everything Feminism should stand for.  This group is full of bullshit.

I’m not sure this is a valid argument against this poster. Your example of a poster for muslims telling them not to commit terrorist attacks against the US doesn’t make sense, because while only  a handful of Islamist radicals have committed that crime, 1 in 4 women in the US will be sexually assaulted in her lifetime, and guess who is overwhelmingly doing the raping and assaulting: yeah, that’s right. It’s dudes. I get that it’s hard to read that poster, but here’s another guess what - you need to suck it up. Because telling men to stop raping, and educating men about consent and sexual assault, and letting them know concretely with no wiggle room that, for example, offering a girl a ride expecting sex and then raping her is NOT okay, is the only way we’re going to stop rape from being as much of a societal reality as it is today. This poster doesn’t assume that all men are rapists. That’s your own privilege speaking. Your experience is not the experience of every other man. You may not have ever raped someone, but do you know 5 other guys? Statistically, one of them has raped or assaulted a woman. Women are tired of being told to stop getting raped. I support posters like these because men need to know that it is NOT okay to assault or rape women. Considering the statistics, not enough men know this - not NEARLY enough. So the minimal offense that this causes you is not enough of a deal to make me stop supporting this. 

Reblogging for reply. 

thescarletwoman wins! If OP is really that butt-hurt over the fact that men rape women - a lot - maybe he can do something about it.

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plannedparenthood: It’s National Women’s Health Week. Use this nifty checklist to see what you should ask your health care provider about, then call your local Planned Parenthood health center to schedule your next check up.

plannedparenthood:

It’s National Women’s Health Week. Use this nifty checklist to see what you should ask your health care provider about, then call your local Planned Parenthood health center to schedule your next check up.

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WARNING

latinagabi:

If your atheism is; misogynistic, racist, homophobic, transphobic, or any other type of bullshit bigotry, we ain’t comrades. 

If your feminism isn’t Intersectional, we ain’t friends.

If your feminism isn’t Transfeminist, we ain’t buds.

Just need to get this out of the way so there is no confusion or awkwardness. 

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