Marguerite Bennett's Blog, page 47
August 4, 2017
August 3, 2017
smitethepatriarchy:
hyggehaven:
I think the weirdest thing about having teenaged boys yell: “suck...
I think the weirdest thing about having teenaged boys yell: “suck my dick bitch.” at me is that there’s nothing I can say to them that will make them feel the way that makes me feel.
I have lived my entire life with this threat of sexual violence hanging over my head: I’ve experienced it too. They’re hitting me where I live.
Women can’t threaten men with sexual violence and make men feel small and want to crawl out of their own skin; it’s taken a lifetime of violent socialisation just like this (men leering out of cars since I was 12, peers reaching between my legs in junior high, uncles getting too close, sports coaches grabbing my hips, being groped on transit, being sexually assaulted) to provoke this visceral reaction in me. Men haven’t experienced this constant background radiation of violation that contextualises moment like this.
I get well-intended messages from men: “I’m sorry you had to experience that.” “Those kids are jerks.” I do appreciate people reaching out. The thing is: in the context of my life experiences, this wasn’t even a particularly traumatic incident, so much as an illustrative one. It’s one of thousands of these moments.
I made me sad and a little contemplative, sure, but I’ll get by; feminism really helps with that, because it gives me this (almost) unshakable belief that I am human.
But I don’t want to hear: “those [particular] kids are jerks.”
I want to hear: “I’m not going to tolerate misogyny in my own life, and among my social circle. This stops now; it stops with me.”
There is no threat I can make to a man that will make him hate the fact he was born in the body he was born in. The second I start thinking I’m a person, someone reminds me that to them, I’m just a hole. I’m a bitch. I actually can’t make them see I’m a person. That has to come from other men.
As I get older, I get more and more angry when men I know are hostile to feminism. Because it means they aren’t really listening, or even caring, when I describe the reality of my life. Feminism is my refuge, and the sole source of my belief that I’m not deserving of the way I’m treated. It is the only movement that has dared to put forth the radical belief that women are people.
I don’t even want to hurt the men who do things like this. I just want them to be kind. Yeah, I can carry my knife, or get a big dog in self defense, but I actually don’t have a lust for vengeance or causing people pain. That’s really the worst part of it: being better – being more human, more forgiving, more kind – than them, and still losing.
This is one of those pieces of writing that just makes me want to scream and bang my head on the wall and cry and give the author a gigantic hug all at once thank you for articulating this so well.
spacecil:
tswatch:
Something I’ve talked about before and find...
Something I’ve talked about before and find super helpful! Finally in a visual!
This literally changed my life you guys don’t understand every time I almost relapse I think of this and I stop I’m two weeks clean because of this post I love everyone who reblogged this thank you all so much
Women who don't want babies
• are not selfish
• are not less of a woman
• are not weird
• are not immature
• won’t necessarily change her mind
• won’t necessary be a lonely old lady
• “a lonely old crazy cat lady” is a patriarchal asshole stereotype:):):):)
• doesn’t necessarily hate kids
• doesn’t need to give you an explanation
trashgender-neurotica:
futureblackpolitician:
lagonegirl:
I...
It’s the government’s avocado toast.
the military budget is wild high
All of Us: “I wish I could go to the doctor.”
US government, engaging in billions of dollars worth of rampant imperialism: “You got that doctor money?”
JK Rowling: Suddenly, light started shining through the window!
J.R.R. Tolkien: The window, which hanged on the wall, softly letting its curtains dance around the room, suddenly brought a bright light into the house.
Douglass Adams: Quite unexpectedly, light shined through the window in the room, which was less surprising when you think about the fact that's what windows are for.
Lemony Snicket: Light shined through the window abruptly.
abruptly, usually means unexpected, or sudden. For instance, if your mother picked you up from school after telling you twice about doing that, it would not be abruptly. However, if someone were to tell you your house burned down and your parents were dead without telling you to sit down first, it would very much be called, abruptly.
dontbearuiner:
kellyclowers:
original-violence:
auditoryeden:
...
most underrated Doctor
His face.
Always reblog.
Love, love, love Nine.
@anidragon
i love how out of context each one of those smiles would seem genuine but in context you can feeeeeel the pain
He used to do the face all the time and it’s why he’s always been my favorite ever doctor.
Too scary.
DON’T SKIP NINE.
August 2, 2017
cantinaband:I pray day will never come when she has to fight....
I pray day will never come when she has to fight. But you know, a scorpion must sting, a wolf must hunt. She is a child. The only child on the island. Please let her be so.
Marguerite Bennett's Blog
- Marguerite Bennett's profile
- 366 followers
