Not a Single Damn of the Day: Bearded Lady Advocates Her Lady Beard
Mariam, the now most famous bearded lady of Britain, wants everyone to know that she is proud of her facial hair and that she’s “never felt sexier.” During her appearance on the UK talk show This Morning last week, Mariam explained that she began sprouting a beard after giving birth to her son in 1985 and spent the next two decades plucking the hairs off her face before she ultimately grew tired of grooming herself and decided to wear it proudly. She also went on to reveal that she has been unfazed by Internet trolls leaving hateful comments on her blog and is currently traveling the world as a model and festival performer. As for the scientific explanation behind female facial har, doctors say the hair growth can be caused by various factors, such as an increase in sex hormones that can lead to excess hair growth known as hirsutism.
This woman rules.
That’s one pretty beard, if you ask me.
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A catcall is entirely about reminding you that you are not yours. The purity myth is entirely about reminding you that you are not yours. The fetishization of female purity in a world where catcalls are an acceptable form of communication telegraphs one thing very clearly:
“Women, stop sexualizing yourselves—that’s our job, and you’re taking all the fun out of it.”
The sexualization of women is only appealing if it’s nonconsensual. Otherwise it’s “sluttiness,” and sluttiness is agency and agency is threatening.
“Female ‘Purity’ is Bullshit”, by Lindy West
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reblobs by request.
Dude, like, can we make this an international law? (But one that really works, not a crappy UN treaty).
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real women have curve
just one curve
real women are circle
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So maybe I’m crazy… but I made this for The Hawkeye Initiative.
The idea is to: Replace the female comic book character with Hawkeye doing the same thing.
HOWEVER, the submission guidelines clearly allow:
- Characters other than Hawkeye in Strong Female Poses
- Photos of people attempting the poses/showing how unrealistic the costumes are/etc
And I obviously already had this blue unitard lying around… so, yeah.
Not sure if you can tell by the strained look on my face but this was really, REALLY hard. I did my best to pose like Mystique and then I added a few more, for good measure.
I’m available for birthday parties, weddings, and bar mitzvahs.
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This is what people see as they commute to work in Philly.
Hollaback Philly is absolutely doing it right.
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But are we really that surprised that these two young men didn’t think their actions were wrong?
Videos of men running up to women they don’t know just to grab their ass or stomach and run away are played for laughs on shows like Tosh.0. (The show is run by a comedian who garnered tremendous support after he “joked” about a woman in his audience being gang raped.) A “funny” montage of women’s breasts shown at the Oscars included rape scenes. We have handfuls of qualifiers—date, legitimate, forcible, gray—that we throw in front of “rape” because we want to know if an assault was a “real” rape or one of those non-rapes Republican politicians keep talking about.
And it’s not just rape that’s the joke—it’s women. Our very existence is presented to young men as fodder for sex and laughs, our humiliation and pain as goalposts for their masculinity. While mainstream culture fools itself into thinking that Americans take rape seriously, most women know better. We get the joke. We’re just tired of being the punchline.
What’s So Funny About Steubenville, my latest at The Nation (via thewastedgeneration)(Quelle: jessicavalenti, via another-vegan-feminist)
“Repeat Rape: How do they get away with it?”, Part 1 of 2. (link to Part 2)
Sources:
- College Men: Repeat Rape and Multiple Offending Among Undetected Rapists,Lisak and Miller, 2002 [PDF, 12 pages]
- Navy Men: Lisak and Miller’s results were essentially duplicated in an even larger study (2,925 men): Reports of Rape Reperpetration by Newly Enlisted Male Navy Personnel, McWhorter, 2009 [PDF, 16 pages]
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Knowledge is a seed; sow it.
Pretty much.
And that’s not all. 43% of college men will admit to using “coercive behavior” to have sex with a woman… which of course is also rape.
Rape culture trains sociopaths.
this is good to have. I always want these studies and I always have trouble finding them via google.
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instead of publicly shaming girls for wearing shorts on an 80 degree day you should teach teachers and male students to not overly sexualize a normal body part to the point where they apparently cant function in daily life
OHMYGOD!!! LEGS!!!111
*falls over and has seizure*
Done doing these so here they all are in one place! Fully Dressed Redesigns of Superheroines.
Point of this: An exercise in character design, attempting to clothe the heroines nearly all the way and not making them painted-on, while still keeping the look of their original costumes in some way. Hopefully keeping them looking as iconic as the originally were. Just showing what can be done with a costume breaking outside the barrier of the norm.
NOT the point of this: some moral code I’m trying to push on you
Sorry if there was a character you wanted me to do that I didn’t get to!
I really like these. :)
Personally, I’ve never had a problem with Supergirl wearing a skirt or Wonder Woman showing her legs (in fact I love the Supergirl skirt, as long as it’s not a frilly belt), or etc, but I was really impressed by this. They really do look very recognizable and keeping to their iconic aesthetic “feel”. The Vampirella one really impresses me because it looks like it fits her so well, and yet is such a change from what she normally wears.
My only thing would be I’m not sure if the brown pants work on Wonder Woman. I really love the Supergirl and Power Girl designs. :3
(Credit to sugarfiendgfx for showing me this.)
Edit: http://ze-tarts.tumblr.com/post/47058071540 A clarification about what Wonder Woman is supposed to be wearing. :)
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Aiya Van Kooten everyone
When Aiya Van Kooten stood face-to-face with a burglar in her bedroom, her left eye twitched, then she went into “predator mode”.
“I screamed at him… jumped off my chair, leaped over my bed and sprinted after him down the stairs,” she said.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/8626910/Predator-mode-scares-off-burglars
This is the best story of my life
“Although she was the only one home, Van Kooten said she had no regard for her safety - instead, she said she was just overwhelmed with “rage“….. ummmmm Hero!!!
Haha, badass Muslim woman. Love it!!!
This lady is so awesome. She lives with her grandma and was studying and had a towel on her head and no shoes but she chased them out of her garden, kicked one up the arse as he climbed a fence, they dropped a camera and laptop, she flagged down a passing driver to help her continue the pursuit, and it turned out he was ex-military, and they finally caught one of them in a park and pinned him as the police arrived. Now she’s going to visit the burglar in prison for the next few months to help with his rehabilitation.
So in summary:
This lady doesn’t just defend her home and loved ones, she will hunt you down, team up with other skilled individuals, get you put away, and then teach you the consequences of your actions until you’re a valuable member of society once more.
Seriously she’s a frigging superhero.
literal hero
That story just kept getting better as I read on. Earth has found it’s champion.
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