December 2011
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The "Accidental" Rapist: the importance of... →
Too many play what I call the stoplight game. Traffic signals, of course, have three colors: red for stop, yellow for caution, green for go. Good drivers are taught to stop on “red,” which functions as a “no.” But of course, even at the busiest urban intersections, no light stays red indefinitely. If you wait long enough at a stoplight, every red will become green. And when all we do ...
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“I believe that sex-positive feminism is about the belief that sex can be...”
– Clarisse Thorn (via msandrogynous)
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Oooohhh...
we just got such a good “Hey girl…” submission.
#queueimmediately
Guys aren't always thinking with their dicks. →
victusinveritas:
We can turn off the biological drive which tells us to fuck everything. It’s called growing up and realizing that sex is not the most important thing in the world. Yes, it’s really, really, really wonderful, but…having a meaningful relationship built on love and mutual trust is…better.
Fuck Misogyny: “It’s necessary to prevent rape—to... →
fuckmisogyny:
“It’s necessary to prevent rape—to teach people that they do have to worry about whether they, personally, are getting consent, even though they are nice people. And it’s necessary to punish rapists—to break down that mental barrier protecting Julian Assange and Roman Polanski and umpty-zillion…
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[Trigger warning] On Being a Sex Positive Rape... →
“I don’t care what you’re doing or how old you are or who it’s with, if a girl...”
– My mom, to my younger brother. (via rose-colored-sunglasses)
This is DEFINITELY something that should be included in the sex talk and in sex education.
(via fuckyeahsexeducation)
The "Accidental" Rapist: the importance of... →
Too many play what I call the stoplight game. Traffic signals, of course, have three colors: red for stop, yellow for caution, green for go. Good drivers are taught to stop on “red,” which functions as a “no.” But of course, even at the busiest urban intersections, no light stays red indefinitely. If you wait long enough at a stoplight, every red will become green. And when all we do ...
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Big News: You Can Be One of Our People!
hello people we love very much:
we’re looking to expand our team. and that means we’re looking at you.
we need:
+ people to be a part of our tumblr team (AKA scour tumblr for good content, or reblog the content of your own dashboard to our shiny tumblr!)
+ people to write about consent for us on an upcoming campaign blog (meaning news, opinion, and personal testimony writing about...
“Feminism starts out being very simple. It starts out being the instinct of a...”
– -Gloria Steinem
