"When women explain to you — in a calm, nuanced, proportionate way — that there are some contexts in which your advances are less likely to be well-received than others, and you respond by sticking your fingers in your ears and screaming about ball-busting, man-hating feminists who are hell-bent on eradicating all flirting and sex and eroding your First Amendment right to proposition any woman at any time and place? When you resist hearing that hitting on a woman who’s alone in an elevator in a strange city at four o’clock in the morning is not likely to be well-received, that it’s likely to be perceived as a potential threat, and that you are likely to be perceived as an insensitive clod at best if you do it? When we explain ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times, that elevators are well-documented as a common place for women to get raped and that it’s therefore not an appropriate place to make sexual advances — and you still reply, “But I don’t understand what the problem is with elevators?”
I have to assume that getting laid is not the point.
I have to assume that the point is something entirely different. I have to assume that you will do anything to resist hearing that women experience male advances in a very different context from the way men experience female advances. I have to assume that you have an active resistance to understanding that women’s experiences are different from men’s: that (among other things) women routinely get our professional/ intellectual/ artistic accomplishments dismissed in favor of a focus on our sexual attractiveness, and that women have to be seriously cautious about physical and sexual violence from men. When you are so vehemently unwilling to see some of the ways that privilege works in your favor, I have to assume that maintaining privilege is the point."
An awesome article about feminism in general, and about feminism’s intersection with other ideological movements (in this case, atheism in specific.) (via speak-slow)
(Source: darthbiscuit)
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[TW for a privileged asshole comparing abortion to the holocaust]
catholiclifeguard:
“It is our hope that, just as the ovens of Auschwitz stand empty now as a public memorial to millions of slain Jews, so someday Planned Parenthood’s clinics will stand empty to remind us of the countless babies sacrificed in the name of ‘choice.’”— Colin Mason, Director of Media Production for the Population Research Institute
It took me a second to not just reblog this with “FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU”, I’m not going to say much more than that, but I’ll expand on it.
You’re comparing people’s loved ones who felt pain and were tortured and were rounded up and murdered to a fetus. I’m having a hard time sticking to my idea that you are just ignorant and wanted to stand up for something, but I am actually starting to think you’re just a horrible person. You value a fetus over those people that were murdered. That you see some kind of parallel at all disgusts me. That you try to use it to fear monger and just to win an argument out of shock value DISGUSTS ME. You disgust me.
Are you saying it’s in the name of ‘life’ that you make light of tragedies, discard pregnant people’s lives and feelings and lie to people? I find that hard to believe.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp43ic3CHT1qkubsbo1_500.jpg)
