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Despite living in what is often considered a progressive, educated, informed era where anything you wish to know can be found at the tap of a key or the click of a mouse, women are still faced with discrimination, abuse, and inequality. Until that changes, there is a need for feminism. The sexism comes in different ways than it did in the past: where women could not go to school or vote or work in decades previous, today, we are not allowed to be paid equally for the work we do, to evenly represent the institutions we support with our votes, and are treated as objects. And that's just in the part of the world that considers itself to be "First World". In other places, a woman still does not have basic rights. And no one will fight unless we fight for ourselves.

This tumblr will be dedicated to posts that put a spotlight on the inequalities with which women are faced, the abuse that is endured every day, the stereotyping that keeps us locked in given roles, as well as women who are pushing the boundaries, who are fighting these things, who are redefining what it is to be a woman in today's world.

"...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation."
— Abigail Adams

the women are the strong ones, truly.

Avatar: The Last Airbender probably has the best array of female characters in children’s television today.

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This is about my someday daughter, already stung stained with insecurity begging, ‘mom, will i be pretty?’ I will wipe that question from your mouth like cheap listick and answer, ‘No, the word pretty is unworthy of everything you will be and no child of mine will be contained in five letters. You will be pretty intelligent, pretty creative, pretty amazing, but, you will never be merely pretty.

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discoverynews:

Meet China’s First Female Astronaut

China has said it will send its first female astronaut into space on Saturday, when the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft blasts off from the Gobi desert for the country’s first ever manned space docking.

Liu Yang, a 33-year-old major in the People’s Liberation Army who entered the astronaut training program just two years ago, will take part in China’s fourth manned space launch, a spokeswoman for the country’s space program said.

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Image credit: Xinhua Press/Corbis

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baconisbetterthanbacon:

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

halfemptymouse:

Here is something that annoys me about animation and especially video games.

This also sorta applies to live action movies.

yep. i am dying to make my faab character go from twiggy mcconventionallyattractive to michelle rodriguez bitch check these muscles, right smack dab in the middle of the story for no other reason except loldudes

I need to keep this image on hand for the next time someone asks me why there are so many fabulously fat women in my comics. BECAUSE, that’s why.

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Men are more often confident about asking for more [time] because they believe their hobbies matter, and women often often enable that giving then the space to pursue them, even to the exclusion of our own. Of course, there are greater cultural ramifications for women who indulge their hobbies at the expense of family time; where men would be seen as maintaining a healthy balance, women are seen as selfish.

Amy Richards from Opting In

This isn’t limited to mothers, but women in general are made to feel guilty if they pursue hobbies. It’s different for women without children, of course, but then you’re dealing with the stereotype of the “selfish, childless woman.” I stopped keeping track of how many times it’s been implied that my life is superfluous or devoid of meaning because I don’t have children.

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feministdisney:

farhaha:

Found these little gems at the front of Pittsburgh’s Barnes & Noble’s children’s section. Here’s the first page of each.

I think I speak for all women when I say we are THRILLED that society is finally starting to take floristry seriously!

SUBTLE

yet effective at enforcing the gender binary

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A woman’s worst nightmare? That’s pretty easy. Novelist Margaret Atwood writes that when she asked a male friend why men feel threatened by women, he answered, ‘They are afraid women will laugh at them.’ When she asked a group of women why they feel threatened by men, they said, ‘We’re afraid of being killed.’

http://www.pbs.org/kued/nosafeplace/articles/nightmare.html (via alullaby)

This reminds me of an article about online (heterosexual) dating that I read a while ago. It listed men’s and women’s worst fears about meeting someone from online. The highest ranked fear that men had was that their date would be fat, whereas the highest ranked fear that women had was that their date would turn out to be violent and kill them.

I think that says a lot.

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Sky Cloud Sky: "Feminism is the radical notion that women are people too."—Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler →

skycloudsky:

It saddens me that women are constantly told what to wear, what not to wear, when, and how.

It upsets me that women and girls are bullied and blamed and shamed for wearing and not wearing certain clothing.

A woman and a girl should be allowed to choose what they want to wear and not wear.

Just…