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quadrangledreality: lightningsshadow: paranoidandroid42: yes i’m a boy yes i play videogames ;] don’t hit on me silly girls xoxoxo wft boys don’t play videogames get back in the garage and fix my car. another fucking “gamer boy” They all just want attention they cant even play well!

quadrangledreality:

lightningsshadow:

paranoidandroid42:

yes i’m a boy

yes i play videogames ;]

don’t hit on me silly girls xoxoxo

wft boys don’t play videogames

get back in the garage and fix my car.

another fucking “gamer boy” They all just want attention they cant even play well!

feministdisney:

mourning-would:

feministdisney:

flopehoats:

elizabitchtaylor:

gbg-g:

interstellargeek:

feministdisney:

xelamanrique:

look who’s finally joined!

look who got pushed to the side

Wow, move Tiana over one and suddenly all the PoC princesses are in the very back. I mean, did the people that made this lineup not see how racist this appears?

Mhmm. So not surprised

ew i hate the redesign and also why would you put Mulan in the outfit she wore to see the matchmaker, which she hated because it didn’t really represent her?

GOD DAMMIT MULAN IS NOT A PRINCESS SHE MARRIED A GENERAL

I like how someone read all this and at the end of it all was truly outraged that…

Mulan is in the lineup

I’m just gonna say that to me it looks like they put them in order of popularity. But sure lets turn everything in existence into some form of racism.

But sure let’s pretend the WoC princesses are least popular in spite of everything that indicates most of them being popular fan favorites, much more so than Aurora or Snow White??

And even if it were true, popularity of merchendise is manufactured in itself. Tired of people acting like certain princesses are associated as princesses more just by chance. It’s because they’re marketed that way! Think of how- even after Tiana came out- WoC princesses are tokenized in any princess merchendise.

If there is more than one princess, and less than six, there will almost always be only one shown. This is one of the reasons Pocahontas is less associated as a classic princess- Jasmine usually ended up being the tokenized character. Even though WoC made up almost half the line before Merida came along, I’ll be on my deathbed before I consistently, or even sporadically, see three of them together when it isn’t  entire group. Even though this happens all the time with the white princesses. (links show examples of marginalizing merchandise) 

So yeah after almost 15 years of doing that since the inception of the princess line, it’s no wonder that the princesses who are featured on every piece of merchandise- because Disney chooses to feature them- become seen as the “classic princesses.” Marketing does not just make use of perceptions- it creates them. People perceive the white princesses as being classic princesses because they’ve been repeatedly exposed to this message, not because it’s a given fact of life. 

It may seem pointless to talk about it to a lot of people, but no one is saying it’s racism in the sense of denial of housing opportunities, jobs, or anything like that. It is, however, a largely subconscious racial microaggression that contributes to a socialized way of viewing PoC as “the other” that are there to “show diversity” and white people, characters, preferences, everything, as the “default.” This happens not only when we refuse to call actions out, but also when we fail to even notice it happening in the first place.

vaginashavefeelingstoo:

statichijabi:

Why the F did the senate give Harper a standing ovation just for entering the room?

He didn’t even answer any questions/address the concerns of the media.

”We must create accountability” my ass…….

How did you not think $90,000 to your chief of staff would not be noted? You thought you could get away with it, like the $3.1 billion spent on ”fighting terrorism” that wasn’t accounted for. Who the eff voted for this goof?

Not me, I assure you.

wasn’t me

silverstarfall: Please spread this around and help find these kids!!  Do not ignore this!

silverstarfall:

Please spread this around and help find these kids!! 

Do not ignore this!

We must be very careful to avoid the use of the term “tribe” to describe these ethnic groups. “Tribe,” Ukpo points out, is largely a racist term. The Ibo and Hausa-Fulani of Nigeria are each made up of five to ten million people, a figure comparable to the number of, say, Scots, Welsh, Armenians, Serbs or Croats. Yet we do not refer to the latter groups as “tribes.” The term “tribe” is almost exclusively, and very indifferently, applied to peoples of Native American or African origin. It is a label which emerged with imperialism in its application to those who were non-European and lived in a “colonial or semi-colonial dependency…in Asia, Africa and Latin America” (14). As we are attempting to discard the prejudices of imperialism it is in our best interests to discard the use of the term “tribe” when referring to the ethnic groups of Nigeria.

Ethnicity in Nigeria

Why people should not even think of using the word “tribe”.

(via cosmicyoruba)

I’ve always hated this word.

(via zorascreation)

ya the word tribe is a no

(via l-angston)

try “nation” or “people” instead

(via callingoutbigotry)

(Source: thefemaletyrant)

Why aren’t more people freaking out about the new Venezuelan labor law?

bluandorange:

monetizeyourcat:

dancepunksnotdead:

You know, the one that gives housewives/full-time mothers a pension— wages for housework?

It’s ONLY A HUGE VICTORY FOR FEMINISM, SOCIALISM, AND WOMEN OF COLOR. Not a big deal or anything. Tumblr is mysteriously silent about this.

http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/05/venezuelas-new-labour-law-best-mothers-day-gift

holy shit!

fucking COOL

bailzosaurus: lexcanroar: feministdisney: irresistible-revolution: timseriladashmimeni: oliveseraphim: callingoutbigotry: nappyminds: poonraider: tiffanymicah: bl4ckhippie: vivalavintagee: What exactly does “normal” to dark skin mean? So dark skin isn’t normal? Dove is fucked up. What the hell yeah my friend showed me this and what can i do 2013, every body. Ok. I’m convinced that bottles of DOVE LOTION and it’s distributors are racist fucks. plus dove sells skin-lightening products in a lot of countries Dove are also owned the same company who owns lynx (google ‘the lynx effect’ for your daily dose of misogyny) Dove are evil fucks but guuuuuuuys ~*~real beauty campaign~*~!!!!!!! I say this all the time when some white feminist talks about dove’s ‘real beauty’ campaign. They’ve been peddling skin lightening cream to desis for years ^real talk they’re racist, use misogyny to sell products and they also torture animals. yay!! Reason number 47 why I am highly suspicious of the Real Beauty campaign.

bailzosaurus:

lexcanroar:

feministdisney:

irresistible-revolution:

timseriladashmimeni:

oliveseraphim:

callingoutbigotry:

nappyminds:

poonraider:

tiffanymicah:

bl4ckhippie:

vivalavintagee:

What exactly does “normal” to dark skin mean? So dark skin isn’t normal? Dove is fucked up.

What the hell

yeah my friend showed me this and what can i do

2013, every body.

Ok. I’m convinced that bottles of DOVE LOTION and it’s distributors are racist fucks.

plus dove sells skin-lightening products in a lot of countries

Dove are also owned the same company who owns lynx
 (google ‘the lynx effect’ for your daily dose of misogyny) Dove are evil fucks

but guuuuuuuys ~*~real beauty campaign~*~!!!!!!!

I say this all the time when some white feminist talks about dove’s ‘real beauty’ campaign. They’ve been peddling skin lightening cream to desis for years

^real talk

they’re racist, use misogyny to sell products and they also torture animals. yay!!

Reason number 47 why I am highly suspicious of the Real Beauty campaign.

vaginashavefeelingstoo: muzungus: shaytheworlddestroyer: thescienceofchic: tomboylovesmakeup: insanepoet9: bisexual-genderfluid-christian: fuckyeahbodypositivity: wereallsexyasfuck: lets play a game called ‘find a shade that would suitably match an African American or any person of any color different than white’. Very tired of white washing. while there’s obviously a couple of shades for POC up here. there’s so so so so much whiteness. no one needs to wear make-up but anyone who wants to should have the option. And even those that would work for POC are still on the light end. Another thing I’ve noticed, which might be a microaggression, is that a lot of the darker skintones have food related names. The lighter shades will be stuff like beige, ivory, and nude (don’t get me started on the word nude), but the darker shades will be honey, chocolate, cocoa, caramel, etc.  If I wanted a caramel machiatto, I’d have just gone to Starbucks. Sorry but I lol’ed, and you are very correct. Our shades usually have some sort of food attached to them, its annoying. They can take the time to find all these different names for beige but they can’t come up with a few names for brown?! Like maybe sienna, sepia, mahogany, bronze, sable…we come in a variety of brown shades and there are many ways to describe our skin tone without calling us chocolate or cafe au lait.  The drugstore is pretty much 50 Shades of Beige…  None of this drugstore shit is WHITE. It completely ignores all of us who are whiter than fresh snow. Don’t even get me started. Drugstore makeup just sucks ass for everyone who isn’t in that specific color range. I ragequit foundation. Nope. You’re complaining about something completely different. They don’t have your exact shade but at least they try for you. My colour is not even on the colour chart. This whole industry caters to you, stop derailing this discussion. Shut up white women! Whitey complains about how they are still falling short to cater to her beigeness on a thread of marginalised PoC talking about whitewashing cosmetic lines. Cry harder.

vaginashavefeelingstoo:

muzungus:

shaytheworlddestroyer:

thescienceofchic:

tomboylovesmakeup:

insanepoet9:

bisexual-genderfluid-christian:

fuckyeahbodypositivity:

wereallsexyasfuck:

lets play a game called ‘find a shade that would suitably match an African American or any person of any color different than white’. Very tired of white washing.

while there’s obviously a couple of shades for POC up here. there’s so so so so much whiteness. no one needs to wear make-up but anyone who wants to should have the option.

And even those that would work for POC are still on the light end.

Another thing I’ve noticed, which might be a microaggression, is that a lot of the darker skintones have food related names. The lighter shades will be stuff like beige, ivory, and nude (don’t get me started on the word nude), but the darker shades will be honey, chocolate, cocoa, caramel, etc. 

If I wanted a caramel machiatto, I’d have just gone to Starbucks.

Sorry but I lol’ed, and you are very correct. Our shades usually have some sort of food attached to them, its annoying. They can take the time to find all these different names for beige but they can’t come up with a few names for brown?! Like maybe sienna, sepia, mahogany, bronze, sable…we come in a variety of brown shades and there are many ways to describe our skin tone without calling us chocolate or cafe au lait. 

The drugstore is pretty much 50 Shades of Beige… 

None of this drugstore shit is WHITE. It completely ignores all of us who are whiter than fresh snow. Don’t even get me started.

Drugstore makeup just sucks ass for everyone who isn’t in that specific color range.

I ragequit foundation.

Nope. You’re complaining about something completely different. They don’t have your exact shade but at least they try for you. My colour is not even on the colour chart. This whole industry caters to you, stop derailing this discussion. Shut up white women!

Whitey complains about how they are still falling short to cater to her beigeness on a thread of marginalised PoC talking about whitewashing cosmetic lines.

Cry harder.

Yes, false rape accusations happen. Run the protocol anyway. I’ve heard that perhaps the military has the highest number of ‘em. True or not, RUN THE PROTOCOL ANYWAY. Because in 15 years of investigating rape accusations, I can count those that panned out as false on one hand. Meanwhile, the one time I almost skipped the protocol, the one time I almost didn’t believe a petty officer, because I was naive as an investigator and a young woman, because her commanding officer described her as “a party girl, always late, always out drinking, don’t bother with this one”, she turned out to be the victim of one of the most brutal assaults I’ve ever investigated. She shouldn’t have still been -alive-, let alone up and making the accusation. So let me repeat: five false accounts in fifteen years. And one time I almost failed a woman ‘cause of the bullshit way it’s normal to talk about us. Take your shipmates’ word, and then run the protocol. Every. Single. Time.

 - JAG lawyer, speaking to my husband’s plant during Sexual Assault Prevention Month. (via circusbones)

Rape culture means being more worried about a handful of men being accused of a crime and then proven innocent than helping hundreds and hundreds of actual rape victims over the course of 15 years.

(via justplainsomething)

I encourage my followers and anyone interested to visit this blog [“The Invisible Men”]. As is already indicated in the above screenshot, it offers the perspective of the Johns/”punters” who purchase the services of women to sexually perform for them. Usually the perspective that is brought to the forefront of discussions and viewpoints on sex work and the sex industry is that of the workers with typically positive experiences. The choice of women who are privileged enough to willingly, enthusiastically and consensually engage in the industry is paraded yet rarely, it seems, do people inquire about the mindset and motivations of the men who are active with these women. What is going on in HIS HEAD, what about HIS CHOICE? I warn you in advance, this blog contains first person accounts of rapists and (IMO, unsurprisingly) raging, remorseless misogynists. Visit if you want to broaden you understanding of the dynamics in this industry in regards to the experiencing of male Johns and female workers. Visit if you want to broaden your understanding beyond just being exposed to a veil of glamor or positivity that keeps many people ignorant to how violent/abusive and yes, degrading it can be. - G.G after the jump, tw: sexual assault, abuse

I encourage my followers and anyone interested to visit this blog [“The Invisible Men”]. As is already indicated in the above screenshot, it offers the perspective of the Johns/”punters” who purchase the services of women to sexually perform for them. Usually the perspective that is brought to the forefront of discussions and viewpoints on sex work and the sex industry is that of the workers with typically positive experiences. The choice of women who are privileged enough to willingly, enthusiastically and consensually engage in the industry is paraded yet rarely, it seems, do people inquire about the mindset and motivations of the men who are active with these women. What is going on in HIS HEAD, what about HIS CHOICE?

I warn you in advance, this blog contains first person accounts of rapists and (IMO, unsurprisingly) raging, remorseless misogynists. Visit if you want to broaden you understanding of the dynamics in this industry in regards to the experiencing of male Johns and female workers. Visit if you want to broaden your understanding beyond just being exposed to a veil of glamor or positivity that keeps many people ignorant to how violent/abusive and yes, degrading it can be. - G.G

after the jump, tw: sexual assault, abuse

(Source: gynocraticgrrl)

This one time I was Milan and I’m literally around multi-millionaires and billionaires at this dinner and Dita Von Teese gets on stage and she gets buck naked and she spins around in a big martini glass and everyone clapped for her. And it’s bullshit. It’s not fair that it’s OK for her to do it because she doing it for rich white people but you know I was in like, the hood, and I did what I had to do to survive… and I constantly get ridiculed.

- Amber Rose 

Curve Magazine Interview “The Real Amber Rose” (2011)

YES THIS HELLO

(via so-treu)

It’s why I don’t buy into these white girl pin-up/burlesque revival fantasies.

(via thegoddamazon)

forever reblog coz pinup and burlesque were stolen from woc to begin with.

(via bad-dominicana)

(Source: femmedreamboat)

lexuswillow: This is an old family picture. My family does not support my being in the LGBTQIA community. They actually are opposed to it. They tell me every day that its disgusting and that it’s sinful and I’ll go to hell for liking women. I moved out when I was seventeen, and in January I moved back in with them because I couldn’t handle everything that was going on. Every day one of my five siblings tells me to go back to Minnesota. My little brother Charlie (the black baby in the picture) is now 8 and he constantly physically attacks me and tells me that I’m not his sister and to leave. My other siblings make it very obvious and clear that they don’t want me here and my parents tell me constantly that they’re gonna kick me out soon. I’ve been saving every penny for a bus ticket to Oregon to stay with my best friend and today I found this picture in my sisters’ room ON DISPLAY. Not hidden. On display. They cut my face out of the picture. And that… That was just the last straw. I don’t care if anyone reblogs this or whatever, I don’t wanna get popular, I just want people to know that this is not what a family looks like. This is not something people should have to go through. This is no life.

lexuswillow:

This is an old family picture.

My family does not support my being in the LGBTQIA community. They actually are opposed to it. They tell me every day that its disgusting and that it’s sinful and I’ll go to hell for liking women.
I moved out when I was seventeen, and in January I moved back in with them because I couldn’t handle everything that was going on. Every day one of my five siblings tells me to go back to Minnesota. My little brother Charlie (the black baby in the picture) is now 8 and he constantly physically attacks me and tells me that I’m not his sister and to leave. My other siblings make it very obvious and clear that they don’t want me here and my parents tell me constantly that they’re gonna kick me out soon.
I’ve been saving every penny for a bus ticket to Oregon to stay with my best friend and today I found this picture in my sisters’ room ON DISPLAY. Not hidden. On display. They cut my face out of the picture.

And that… That was just the last straw.
I don’t care if anyone reblogs this or whatever, I don’t wanna get popular, I just want people to know that this is not what a family looks like. This is not something people should have to go through.

This is no life.