I am a Teenage Feminist

  2. "You don’t have to be pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked “female”."

    Erin (from A Dress A Day)

    I wish someone would have told me this when I was younger.  

  3. melloknee:

    I hate feminine hygiene product commercials that act like having your period is a “dirty little secret! *gasp!* here, have a tiny tampon that is discreet and looks more like an after dinner mint or one that you can hide anywhere!” It’s like they’re telling me I have to be embarrassed about menstruating. Who cares?!? I get my period, if that isn’t obvious to you then you obviously haven’t passed the 7th grade. Because my body quite obviously hit puberty. I don’t understand why women can’t talk about their bodies but it is perfectly socially acceptable for men to talk about their dicks and getting it in or whatever the hell they want. Whatever.

    Ah! Yess! 50% of the world menstruates, why are we acting like it has to be some super secret thing. 

    Because it’s *~*gross*~*. Well, guess what? I’m the one in pain bleeding out of my vagina, I’m pretty sure it won’t kill you to see a tampon.   

  4. "In social justice, there’s this absurd meme (that I’ve been guilty of myself) is that we are the “voice for the voiceless,” but that’s not right. The oppressed are not voiceless – they’re just not being listened to."

    Dianna Anderson, of Be the Change, at Rachel Held Evans’ “Ask a Feminist” (via emm-in-sem)

    Wooo, I like this. 

  5. Found these in my sister’s room <3 She was all embarrassed when I found them. 

    Found these in my sister’s room <3

    She was all embarrassed when I found them. 

  6. "This morning, for example, Republican Representative Christopher H. Smith decried the rejection of PRENA as the “real war on women” without a trace of irony, despite the fact that he used story about an immigrant woman abused violently for not having sons. The entitled audacity of voting in gendered blocs against the Violence Against Women Act and then using stories about abused immigrant women (whose rights to protection and legal redress you just voted to eliminate) to justify your own attempts to control girls and women is stunning. People like this are walking manifestations of violence against girls and women. His claim to care about girls and women flies in the face of everything his party stands for. If you genuinely want to “protect little girls and women” you don’t limit yourself to a single minded focus on their uteri. You understand, for example, why health care, fair pay and comprehensive sex ed are important for their well being. You understand why contraception is about jobs and the economy. You understand, for example, why forcing women service members to pay for their own rape-caused abortions is wrong. You don’t make jokes, for example, about about throwing acid on female political opponents or perpetually describe girls and women as farm animals."
    Soraya Chemaly http://www.huffingtonpost.com/soraya-chemaly/gender-selection-sex-discrimination-abortion_b_1559405.html (via ohlookanotherfeminist)

  7. AHAHAHAHAHAHA

    There are anti-choicers on my dash complaining about pro-choicers “verbally assaulting” other anti-choicers. 

    I’m talking like protestors who yell at them when they hold up their dead fetus signs. 

    AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH

    Yeah, no. 

    Pro-choicers have never murdered anyone.
    Pro-choicers have never bombed anyone.
    Pro-choicers have never committed arson.
    Pro-choicers have never lied to medial patients and denied them service.

    AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH

    You go ahead and complain about us yelling at you during your insensitive oppressive protests. 

    MEANWHILE 

    We’ll be over here mourning the people you’ve murdered in the name of your ideology. 

    My god. 

    You have some guts. 

  8. Our favorite feminist tumblrs

    sadiemagazine:

    by Adriana Lucci

    posted Friday June 1, 2012

    Last week, Sadie launched a tumblr, and since then we’ve been on the hunt for feminist tumblrs by and for teen and young adult women, these are some of our favorites:

    Lauren, 21

    username: laurenvauren

    Lauren posts about scientific research, pop culture, and politics relevant to gender equality.

    Marie, 19

    username: iamateenagefeminist

    Marie has been posting lately about Dr. George Tiller, the physician assassinated for administering abortions safely, DOMA, and eating cookie dough balls. She started this tumblr at age 16!

    CJ, 22

    username: feministsociology

    CJ, a sociology student in Massachusetts, posts comics, quotes, inforgraphics about rape culture, racism, feminism, and queer theory in our society.

    If you have a favorite feminist tumblr (better yet, if you run one), let us know throughSadie’s ask box so we can check it out! We’ll be posting links to your favorites on our tumblr as you send them in.

    Thanks for the promo! I love my description, ahahahahahaha.

    P.S. The links don’t work :(

  9. Not All Feminists are the Same

    Not all feminists have the same point of view. We are not one monolithic group. There is a lot feminists disagree on. 

    You are not helping anyone when you insist on creating factions within feminism surrounding trite ideological differences. 

    I’m not talking telling anti-choice feminists or radical feminists that their beliefs are bullshit. That’s different from what I’m talking about. Abortion rights and supporting the trans community are things integral to feminism as a movement. 

    Whether or not you believe that shaving legs and wearing makeup are feminist choices are not. 

    I’m tired of seeing these “you’re not a feminist if you believe wearing makeup is oppressive” or “you’re not a feminist if you think BDSM is problematic”. There are feminist theories that back those ideas up. There is seriously no point in fighting with other feminists over their feminist street cred, when we could be spending time working on things that matter to us. 

    I don’t know where this idea that all feminists are the same comes from, but it’s seriously detrimental. Allowing conflicting views within feminism allows for us to have an ongoing conversation about what feminism actually is. Feminism is evolving, it is different for everyone. It’s not a concrete block. 

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