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Sometimes you think life turned into an Onion article (a bit like this Tumblr account, but in reverse). But as it turns out, it’s actually not a joke.
*still perplexed*
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| 16 notesIt is difficult for many of us to imagine what it is like to feel trapped in a body that seems to be of the wrong gender. It is so far from common subjective experience of being that a first reaction is often to think that gender dysphoria is a choice and one that must only be made as an adult. But it is not a choice, it is a condition. And in some cases it is so definite that the gender dysphoric person wants to change their body. Philippa Perry writes about gender and the tyranny of the ‘normal’
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| 15 notesIs the US the only country where more men are raped than women?Jill Filipovic on rapes in the US penitentiary system:
For 2008, the government had previously tallied 935 confirmed instances of sexual abuse. After asking around, and performing some calculations, the Justice Department came up with a new number: 216,000.
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Feminist anger did not close the Hooters restaurant down in Bristol, UK - they went into administration. That didn’t stop ‘lads’ and anti-feminist trolls posting the kind of abuse you see above, specifically aimed at feminist activists. Read the entire account here
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So, men are obsessed with their bodies. Is that so bad?
Mark Simpson doesn’t think so:
Men didn’t look at one another’s bodies. Now they can’t stop staring. A married squaddie mate who is an occasional gym buddy of mine always subjects my body to close scrutiny in the changing rooms after our workouts. Appreciatively commending, say, my deltoid or tricep development and mercilessly criticising, say, my belly’s general flabbiness. As he says, “No one really cares whether any of this makes you fit or not, Mark. You could be rotten underneath but if you look great no one gives a fook.” He’s right. The metrosexy cult of male beauty is all a bit Dorian Ghey.
Watching straight men flaunting their depilated pecs and abs on reality shows, or the orange rugby players spinning around topless in glittery tight pants on Strictly Come Dancing – or Tom Hardy doing much the same thing in Warrior – it’s as if I’ve died and gone to a hellish kind of heaven. But I can probably live with that.
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The 70,000 women who die annually as a result of unsafe abortion didn’t just die because abortion was illegal in the country they live in. They died because their lives were seen as dispensable by those in charge. The complacency over unsafe abortions must end
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Gary Younge writes: No wonder she’s weary of being cast as ‘an angry black woman’. Where’s the upside in being first lady for a modern woman?
When asked if she found it limiting to be described as a black woman writer Nobel laureate, Toni Morrison, replied:
“I’m already discredited. I’m already politicised, before I get out of the gate. I can accept the labels because being a black woman writer is not a shallow place but a rich place to write from. It doesn’t limit my imagination; it expands it.”
Generally invisible to the broader culture and polity unless they are being vilified as “welfare queens”, objectified as sexually incontinent or chastised for being domineering, it is only in the rejection of almost every societal expectation thrust upon them that black women stand any chance of doing anything more than survive.
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Women, professor Hawking said in an interview with New Scientist, were a “complete mystery” – one that he now devotes much of his time to contemplating. Here are a few of our pointers to help him on his quest…
1. Much like individual fundamental particles, women and men are different, but also the same. Which is to say: women are unique, complicated, intellectual, emotional, sexual. We respire and we digest. Sometimes we are lovely. And sometimes we are horrible. This has less to do with our intrinsic womanliness and more to do with the fact that we are human.
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