omgsocietyhateswomen:

some-bitch-just:

nemomeimpune-lacessit:

The Nu Project’s Nude Photos Tell The Truth About Women’s Bodies

The Nu Project is a no-glamor honest look at beauty and image in our world.

Female nudity isn’t hard to come by in the media, but the bodies we see usually represent a fairly limited scope of sizes and shapes. The Nu Project, a collection of nude photographs shot by Minneapolis photographer Matt Blum, seeks to add some variety to the mix. Blum started The Nu Project in 2005 but said it really took off when his wife, Katy Kessler, became the project’s editor. Blum sees the photos as filling a void. “When I started shooting nudes there was no project like it,” he told The Huffington Post in an email. The things that I had seen either used models with typical model bodies or average people who were made to look extremely unimpressive. I figured there was a way to treat women (of any size/shape) like models and photograph them beautifully, respectfully without a lot of sexual under or overtones. The women photographed are all volunteers, and most of the pictures are taken in the subjects’ homes — where they feel most comfortable. The Nu Project’s website showcases six galleries of nudes, three shot in North America, three in South America. Although Blum told HuffPost that he feels that they have a “good variety of people involved,” he and Kessler acknowledge on The Nu Project website that they’d love for the subjects to be more diverse. “The hardest part for us is that the project is 100 percent volunteer, so I do not see the women until I show up at their door,” Blum writes on the website. “We’re doing our best to encourage all types of women, but we need volunteers of all backgrounds and walks of life to make the project more complete.” Blum said he ultimately hopes that these images inspire the women who see them to feel better about their own bodies. “It’s been really exciting to hear people react to the images,” he told HuffPost. “We get a lot of feedback from women (especially) who have struggled to see themselves as beautiful, and this project has helped them on that path.”

http://thenuproject.com/

this is gorgeous. 

I love this idea, but I don’t see as many WoC as I would like to. 

(via fearlessfeminism)

fearlessfeminism:

Source: The Independent  http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/beyonce-in-gq-all-the-ladies-put-your-hands-up-for-feminism-8456294.html 

typingfrantically:

Let me talk to you about books.

Specifically, one book. This book.

This book should be a best seller. This book should be required reading for graduating from high school. Before you get that diploma, you read this book.

This book deals with debunking “Neurosexism,” which is a very fancy term for all of that evolutionary psychology bullshit that people spill about those “brain differences” between boys and girls.

This book debunks such myths as:

• Boys are better at math than girls
• Women make crappy lawyers/business CEOs/etc, as their brains are not cut out for aggression.
• Men make crappy counselors/primary school teachers/primary parents/etc, as their brains are not cut out for empathy.
• MEN ARE BUILT FOR GOING OUT AND HUNTING WHILE WOMEN ARE BUILT FOR STAYING HOME AND BABYMAKING IT’S NOT SEXISM IT’S JUST BIOLOGY
• And many other such myths.

Furthermore, this book covers topics such as: 

• Neurosexism and gender perceptions in multiple races (as this is not a singularly white experience, just as the western world isn’t a singularly white experience)
• Sex discrimination in the workplace, and how women are (or, more often, are not) allowed to behave
• How science is used (badly) to support many of these claims
• Experiences of trans* people, both through interviews and empirical studies.

AND FINALLY - It is all brilliantly researched, cited, compiled - and it’s easy to read! Cordelia Fine actually manages to be funny while writing this, which I think is important, because it makes all of this information infinitely accessible.

Delusions of Gender has reinforced what Oberlin taught me: The gender binary is stupid and arbitrary, and dangerous. And it is a self-perpetuating bias that needs to be addressed to be overcome.

Buying this and then accidentally leaving it my dad’s car.

(Source: faetrouble, via womenaresociety)

fearlessfeminism:

holy-chic:

holy-chic

ohhhhhhh snap!

fearlessfeminism:

1.  Women make 77 cents for every dollar a man makes
2.  Women are called sluts while men are players
3.  Women are expected to remove their body hair while men are not
4.  Women only make up 20% of the United States Senate and12% of Governors in the United States
5.  Worldwide, women own 10% of the worlds property and do 2/3 of the world’s work
6.  Women only make up 12 of the CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies
7.  Women STILL are expected to and take on the majority of childcare responsibilities
8. Men can dress however they please without ridiculed, while women are harassed, shamed and scorned
9. Men don’t have to shave off their body hair to be socially acceptable
10. Women who masturbate are seen as desperate or weird while it’s men are expected to masturbate
11. Women are bitches, men are assertive
12. Teacher’s call on male students more than females
13. Men are seven times more likely to be quoted in the news about reproductive health
14. Only 33 countries (196 total in the world) have ever had a female president
15. In the 2012 election coverage in print media, women were only quoted 13 % of the time
16. Women working 41 to 44 hours per week earn 84.6% of what men working similar hours earn
17. Women are 10 times more likely to be a victim of violence by an intimate partner than men
18. At the current rate of increase, it will take 475 years (until 2466) before women are as equally represented at the top of the career ladder as they are at the bottom.
19. 79% of Fortune 500 company CEOs admit that there are identifiable barriers that stop women from reaching the top.
20.  In Fortune 500 companies, women make up only 2.6% of corporate officers, even though they make up 61% of all employees.
21. Only 7% of The New York Review of Books reviewed were written by women in 2010.
22. Less than 3% of artists in the MET’s modern art section are women, yet 83% of the nudes are of women.
23. It has been noted by researchers that most topics of conversation brought up by women get dismissed, but most brought up by men are talked about in-depth.
24. Women only make up 11% of engineers
25. Women only make up 30% of full-time faculty in science and engineering departments

Sources: 

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf08308/

http://www.urbanministry.org/sexism-and-gender-discrimination-statistics

http://math.berkeley.edu/~kirby/sexism.html

http://www.vidaweb.org/the-count-2010

http://library.thinkquest.org/C006274/fem/stats.html

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/06/journalisms-gender-imbalance-includes-whos-quoted-too/53058/

http://images.fastcompany.com/upload/lovesocial-case-for-girls.jpg

Corrections:

1. White women make 77 cents for every dollar a white man makes. White women in fact make more than men of certain races, and therefore they also make more than women of color in just about every circumstance. Way to ignore intersectionality in favor of juicy soundbites.

8. Get back to me when men can wear pants and skirts without being harassed, shamed, and scorned (and murdered).

17. This “figure”, in all likelihood, heavily relies on reporting bias. It’s far more socially acceptable for a woman to come forward as a victim of abuse than a man, especially if it’s physical or sexual, and doubly especially if the perp is a woman. And that’s not even noting the high population of people that genuinely think that men can’t be abused or sexually assaulted either because men are “tough”, or because any sex is good sex, even when it’s rape.

My god, perpetuating asinine/partial myths like this makes feminism look bad. Stop it.

thenewwomensmovement:

muchachafanzine:

Help A Fellow Feminist Not Be Kicked Out On The Street By Buying A Copy of My $1.50 Fanzine

I wouldn’t normally publicly announce this but I’m a bit desperate. If all of my followers were to simply buy ONE copy of this issue then I will be able to pay my rent next month and won’t be kicked out into the street and, therefore, I will be able to create more awesome zines for you all!! (It’s a little bit strenuous if you’re homeless). Or buying any of my issues would help tremendously.

If you buy any issue of my fanzine I will publicly show you my immense gratitude by featuring your name in my next issue (along with any project or website you want to advertise) and telling the world how fucking awesome you are for helping me out!

If you are unable to buy one. I would be more than thankful if you just please reblogged this post!

Muchacha Issue #4 Winter 12’
“The Funny Female Issue”

In the mist of the whole “feminism & comedy” debate this summer after the Daniel Tosh fiasco (where he told a girl in the audience that he would find it amusing if she were gang raped), people were beginning to make false claims that feminists were being “too serious” and couldn’t “take a joke” . I thought about how the feminists in my life are the most hilarious people I have ever known. I reflected upon the funny female comedians, writers and humorous women on television that I have listened to, read and watched for years. I knew what the next theme of my fanzine needed to be…

This diverse 38 page issue contains a variety of submissions and pieces from hilarious self-identified feminists. Subject matter ranges from feminist performance pieces (“Size 2 Pants”-Guerrilla Girls on Tour!, “How to seduce a feminist”-Sarah Fox), Feminist Disney, comics ( “The Migrant Rights Activista on Her 21st B-day” “El Senor Bobo..”) the five stages of death concerning feminism within pop, men’s menstruation, satirical feminist songs, the debate between comedy and feminism itself, feminist jokes, Female Comics of Color, Samantha Bee on Abortion, “The Wisdom of Fran Lebowitz”, Daria Morgendorffer, fictional heroines and more! This issue is dedicated to every feminist who has ever been labeled “too angry” “too serious” or “too uptight”.

SIGNAL BOOST!

Hey everyone! This is Daisy, she’s in the Women’s Studies Grad Program with me at TWU and she’s the co-organizer of Femme Fest, and she makes awesome zines! You should all help her out and buy one. I have several of her zines myself, and they’re well worth the $1.50!

If you can’t afford to buy one right now, you can always help her and support feminist artists by reblogging this and spreading the word!! :o)

Signal boost and all

But I look at posts like this (thank god it’s not emotional blackmail-y) and it makes me sad because while I want to give strangers money to help them out, I’ve got people in my own family that are going through similar stuff and it kills that I don’t know how to help them beyond giving them tons of gift cards for xmas and offering them a beer when I see them. I guess that’s all anyone can really do.

(via newwavefeminism)

fearlessfeminism:

toofattobehipster:

Just another plug to get you to check out my new blog and hopefully participate in the submissions for my artwork here: BodyPositivityProject.tumblr.com

I <3 the boobies!

womenaresociety:

I have a rule of thumb that allows me to judge - when time is pressing and one needs to make a snap judgment - whether some sexist bullshit is afoot. Obviously it’s not 100 percent infallible but, by and large, it definitely points you in the right direction.

And it’s asking this question: “Are the men doing it? Are the men worrying about this as well? Is this taking up the men’s time? Are the men told not to do this, as it’s “letting our side down”? …

Almost always, the answer is: “No. The boys are not being told they have to be a certain way. They’re just getting on with stuff.” …

It was the “Are the boys doing it?” basis on which I finally decided I was against women wearing burkas. Yes, the idea is that it protects your modesty and ensures that people regard you as a human being, rather than just a sexual object. Fair enough. But who are you being protected from? Men. And who - so long as you play by the rules and wear the correct clothes - is protecting you from the men? Men. And who is it that is regarding you as just a sexual object, instead of another human being, in the first place? Men.

Well. This all seems like quite a man-based problem, really. I would definitely put this under the heading “100 percent stuff that the men need to sort out.” I don’t see why we’re suddenly having to put things on our heads to make it better.

-Caitlin Moran, How To Be a Woman

Wow this is complete horseshit

demisexualitymyths:

I’m cross posting this from the other blog I just started, which is mostly a place for feminist rants when I need to say something. It will be slightly less focused than this blog, and probably less frequently updated. Beyond the shameless self-promotion, I am sharing this on Demisexuality Myths because the topic of the friend zone comes up quite frequently when talking about asexuality, much to my annoyance. I’ve added some ace-specific commentary on the bottom as well.

myfeministsoapbox:

…Or invented man-problems.

When men complain about the friend zone, they are suggesting that they are entitled to more than friendship anytime they are interested in a girl. They are suggesting that there is no point in spending time with a girl if it doesn’t lead to sex or a relationship or sex….

As a member of the asexual community, there is another problem with the friend zone that arises (beyond the fact that, as I said above, it is a heteronormative construct). People who don’t understand asexuality think that it is an automatic “friend zoning,” which suggests that all relationships that don’t have a sexual component aren’t worthwhile, and can’t go beyond simply friendship.

Parting thought: The friend zone is not about friendship. It is about dismissing friendship.

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hiohmegan:

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