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thenewwomensmovement:

thescarletwoman:

thisisrapeculture:

xtremecaffeine:

and-other-good-intentions:

So I saw a post on how American Apparel markets unisex clothing, but I couldn’t actually find a unisex section on their website. I did however notice this. The sweatshirts one is particularly illuminating.

Selling men’s clothes to men, and selling women’s bodies to… ?

American Apparel is really fucking horrible for many, many reasons, but here’s another example.

American Apparel’s advertising is a PERFECT example of the way that we sell products to men through advertisements and sell women’s bodies to men even though they’re being used in advertisements for women’s products. It’s a fantastic example of how the female body is treated differently than the male body, how it’s seen as intrinsically sexual, and how this is totally normalized within our culture. To be clear: i’m not saying there’s anything wrong with women’s bodies being sexual, or women being seen as sexual beings. We are sexual beings! What I am saying is that there’s something deeply problematic when that sexualizing is only happening for women, and when that sexuality turns into objectification through a male gaze. To illustrate, here’s a screencap from the AA homepage right now:

because a picture of a woman’s ass that she is spreading with her fingers and the slogan ‘get wet’ is not an objectification of women’s bodies for the male gaze AT ALL, and we would totally see these types of images and ads for male swimsuits too! -________- 

Yeah, if you’re still spending your money there, stop.

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You’re going to take some swings and misses, and you can’t be afraid of it. You can’t get paralyzed by “It has to be perfect.”
- Tina Fey [born May 18, 1970]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LOVELY LADY!

(Source: feyminism, via imprevue)

cartoonpolitics:

when singer Melissa Etheridge was battling cancer Republican star Michele Bachmann suggested that ..“this may be an opportunity for her to be open to some spiritual things, now that she is suffering with that physical disease. She is a lesbian.”  Ms Bachmann also called being gay ‘part of Satan’ and added  later “If you’re involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it’s bondage. It is personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement.”

tyleroakley:

buzzfeed:

George Takei responds to “traditional” marriage fans. 

George Takei is flawfree.

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(Source: catbushandludicrous, via raaminou)

liberalsarecool:

What a completely vile man.

queermerooooar:

6dogs9cats:

Time to start pulling the Center, Left.

Seriously when the hell are people going to wake up? These people don’t care about the people. The part of “Corporations are people my friend,” don’t give a shit and are doing everything in their power to make it impossible for those who aren’t wall street bankers or CEOs to get by. This year let’s vote the assholes out please. Whatever your affiliations are, however often you have voted for family values, I have to tell you something. Trying to kill the middle class, strip the less well off of any kind of social safety net is not a family value, it is greedy and unAmerican.

(Source: christopherstreet, via recall-all-republicans)

leapinglilies:

get in my mouth. now.

(Source: novi127)

love-is-your-destiny:

I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow.