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Gentlemen. This is what rape culture is like:
Imagine you have a Rolex watch. Nice fancy Rolex, you bought it because you like the way it looks and you wanted to treat yourself. And then you get beaten and mugged and your Rolex is stolen. So you go to the police. Only, instead of investigating the crime, the police want to know why you were wearing a Rolex instead of a regular watch. Have you ever given a Rolex to anyone else? Is it possible you wanted to be mugged? Why didn’t you wear long sleeves to cover up the Rolex if you didn’t want to be mugged?
And then after that, everywhere you go, there are constant jokes about stealing your Rolex. People you don’t even know whistle at your Rolex and make jokes about cutting your hand off to get it. The media doesn’t help either; it portrays people who wear Rolexes as flamboyant assholes who secretly just want someone to come along and take that Rolex off their hands. When damn, all you wanted was to wear a nice watch without getting harassed for it. When you complain that you are starting to feel unsafe, people laugh you off and say that you are too uptight. Never mind you got violently attacked for the crime of wearing a friggin time piece.
Imagining all that? It sucks, doesn’t it.
Now imagine you could never take the Rolex off.
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what if humans have cheat codes like if you jump 14 times and then punch + kick ok awesome now i can walk on water and do calculus
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Tom Hiddleston as F. Scott Fitzgerald in Midnight in Paris
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I’m that dragon.
it’s sam tho
I’m the kind of dragon who would’ve eaten the stupid viking for being such a dick because he got all upset that I called him on his shit so he had to resort to namecalling to feel better. Then I’d be like, “FEEL BETTER NOW, BITCH?!”
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The Only Unfair Thing Ever
Jason Jones learns that profiling is unfair only when it’s directed against you. http://on.cc.com/170orDk
Linda: “When people say there’s no one complaining about being profiled it’s because they’re not listening to the people who are being profiled on a daily basis.”
Jason: “If, somehow, those people were in the same position they’d be outraged. Without seeing the inherent irony. Three, two, one: BUSTED.”
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Same-sex spouses, who cannot divide their labor based on preexisting gender norms, must approach marriage differently than their heterosexual peers. From sex to fighting, from child-rearing to chores, they must hammer out every last detail of domestic life without falling back on assumptions about who will do what. In this regard, they provide an example that can be enlightening to all couples. Critics warn of an institution rendered “genderless.” But if a genderless marriage is a marriage in which the wife is not automatically expected to be responsible for school forms and child care and dinner preparation and birthday parties and midnight feedings and holiday shopping, I think it’s fair to say that many heterosexual women would cry “Bring it on!”
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Gay marriage can function as a controlled experiment, helping us see which aspects of marital difficulty are truly rooted in gender and which are not. A growing body of social science has begun to compare straight and same-sex couples in an attempt to get at the question of what is female, what is male. Some of the findings are surprising.
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Fantastic, necessary article by Liza Mundy on what gay couples can teach us about healthy, happy marriages as society’s conception of marriage in general continues to evolve.
Even the penguins can attest.
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"Never believe a man can change a woman
Those men are pretenders
who think that they created woman
Woman does not emerge from a man’s ribs, not ever,
it’s he who emerges from her womb"
Those men are pretenders
who think that they created woman
Woman does not emerge from a man’s ribs, not ever,
it’s he who emerges from her womb"
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