corvidjuice:

Job applications: I am very passionate (true!) about normal and useful things (lie.)

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plannedparenthood:

Sarah Weddington was 27 when she argued Roe v. Wade  — the youngest person ever to win in the Supreme Court. Today is the 45th anniversary of the landmark case that legalized abortion in the U.S. Young people have the power to change the world. 

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theunsubtleknife:

tlirsgender:

tlirsgender:

Leftism teaches you that the most annoying people in the world can have the exact same opinions as you. And they’ll still get on your nerves

Other leftists will say some shit you fundamentally agree with but phrased in a way designed in a lab specifically to piss you off. Like you’re right but shut the fuck up

ALT

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vampcraft:

i think as adults it’s our responsibility to be nice to kids and treat them with the respect we wish we got at that age and im not kidding or exaggerating in the least

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pillarsalt:

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tehm-ally:

opinionated-but-here-to-learn:

tehm-ally:

rakastiikeri:

rad-aspie:

lesbian-lizards:

auntiewanda:

ithelpstodream:

never forget

Actually in the United States it was a lesbian who challenged the United States government when she was going to be hit with over $300,000 in estate taxes after she was widowed, something that wouldn’t have happened if her marriage was federally recognized. Which gave the supreme court no choice but to rule the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) that was established in 1993 banning federal recognition of same sex marriage to be unconstitutional. 

Her name is Edith Windsor. 

But sure, you can just have your tumblr revisionist history of Stonewall where Martha P. Johnson wasn’t a gay male tranvestite/drag queen, somehow was the only person who mattered out of the hundreds of people involved in the uprising, and imply that gay people did nothing to fight for their own rights in the following 46 years. 

And pretend the AIDS crisis never happened and how that brought to light the gross inequality of gays in the US.

And pretend that Matthew Shepard’s murder never happened and didn’t launch the gay rights movement into the modern incarnation that eventually lead to marriage equality. 

Because US liberals have finally found a way to hate gays now while convincing themselves they’re still progressive, and that’s all that matters. 

I see this post way too often without any additional commentary.

who gave me the right to marry

supreme court

trans women of color throwing bricks at cops

Jewish Lesbians (Edie Windsor, Thea Spyer (Edie’s spouse), and Roberta Kaplan (Windsor’s lawyer for the doma case) were all jewish lesbians)

This is more like it

I wonder where that guy in the first picture is. Has he realized the error of his ways yet?

Is tumblr so obsessed with Stonewall because it’s easier to rewrite the history of one event than decades of political organizing and legal battles? Just going to leave this here in case OP or anyone else who bought into the myths wants to learn about the real history of Stonewall and the political organizing that was done in response to it.

Tumblr first became obsessed with stonewall when the trailer for Stonewall (2015) came out and, already piling onto the cis white gay hate train, the site collectively threw a fit that the main character was …a cis white gay. He was shown throwing a brick in the trailer, so people on tumblr started to say things like “Marsha Johnson threw the first brick!” in an attempt to ‘correct’ what they saw as a ‘whitewashed’ narrative. In reality, Marsha Johnson did not arrive at stonewall until after the riots had been going a couple hours, and most of the historical pictures we have from the event do, in fact, predominantly show young, white gay men such as the one featured in the 2015 film.

This video also breaks down the modern stonewall myths pretty well (with the exception of still referring to Johnson as a trans woman instead of the gay transvestite he claimed to be).

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shrimpsisbugs:

shrimpsisbugs:

shrimpsisbugs:

i’ve noticed a lot of you keep saying things like “i don’t like men” and “men treat people like me badly” and “men categorically oppress women” and “men should be accountable for their behavior” and “please please for the love of god could men stop raping and killing us,” and like….have you even thought about how that makes men feel? so in the future please shut up. uhh, because, um, that would be more progressive of you, or something. thanks

did you really think this post was being sincere?

marginalized people are allowed to hate their oppressors. get better soon!

it’s amazing that several people read this post and unironically walked away like “yeah it’s important to prioritize men’s feelings above all else, i love chastising women for resenting widespread rape and femicide”

like i don’t even know what to say

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fartydaughter:

tfw you’re forced to complete the same “diversity and inclusion” training interactive video every single year for your job, which includes a skit where a woman is offended because her coworker, a muslim man, is shaking other men’s hands but blatantly refuses to shake hers and tells her it’s because she’s a woman… and you can’t pass the training until you make your character tell the woman that she’s imagining negative intent, that she needs to “respect the customs of other cultures”, and that complaining about this is an actionable offense according to HR.

literally “when men discriminate, it’s culture, and when women speak out against culture, that’s discrimination”

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engulfes:

Young women today blaming feminism for the evils of capitalism… i want you to have time to pick berries as well but that’s not on women in the 70s for wanting to have a life independent of their husbands

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sarahduke:

gorlblogging:

Talking to older women will make you realize that mat leave and birth control and women being allowed to wear pants are all new things within living memory. My grandma told me yesterday how she was forced to quit her job if she got pregnant, and wasn’t allowed to wear pants for the first couple decades of work. When she got near retirement she had to go back and prove she lost a few years of work from being forced to quit while pregnant; fortunately she was heard and got her full pension.

All that is within living memory. Someone is alive who lived through that. So many of the rights we have today were achieved so recently. I think sometimes young women forget that, myself included. Things are very different now but we are one of the first generations for whom this difference exists. There is still more to be done.

Yeah. And it’s happened nearly everywhere similarly. In my family’s context (east african) my grandmother had 11 kids when she only wanted 3 and only got 4 years of formal education making her functionally illiterate and everything that implies. She couldn’t get birth control without her husbands permission.

Her daughter (my mum) finished secondary school, had 2 children and tied her tubes and started multiple successful businesses, occasionally marrying when she felt like it.

Me and my sister both attended university and are horrified to learn/ see what granny went through and can’t imagine such a life for ourselves.

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