I own stripping as a feminist option because I believe that feminism is anything that empowers a female. You want to be a housewife because it empowers you? DO IT. You want to be in the army? DO IT. You want to be a doctor? An astronaut? A painter? A bartender? …A stripper? DO IT if it makes you happy, just do it. The essence here is the phrase, empowering to a female. I do not claim that stripping is empowering for everyone. I will not stand here and tout it as the be-all. Some girls come to it out of a rock and a hard place, and that, my friends, is not feminism. If there’s no choice in it, if it is not empowering, it is not feminism. But I do refuse to be shamed into being told that stripping is inherently degrading. I refuse to be told that I have no self-respect; I’ve got it in spades. I refuse to, like any good feminist, allow you to use your narrow-minded perspective and words against me. To let you create my spaces for me. All empowered women should be allowed to roar. And any who haven’t found that voice should be supported to find their empowerment, where ever it may lie.
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Ava Adore (via beautyinthebr0ken)
“If there’s no choice in it, if it is not empowering, it is not feminism.” Key sentence right there.
(via moreapologies)
The People You Meet When You Write About Rape
From pervocracy:
I could not have said this better in a lifetime. Every post about rape on an major blog is littered with comments from one or all of these people.
Mr. What About The Men
“The real problem here is all these false rape accusations that are destroying our society! 90 million men are falsely accused of rape every second! A woman just has to sort of mumble a word starting with ‘r’ and a man instantly gets a life sentence! There are no instances on record of a woman actually being raped!”
Ms. Tough Girl
“If women would learn martial arts—70-year-olds and women with disabilities can do this if they put their minds to it, darnit—and carry weapons everywhere, no one would ever get raped! All you have to do is be ready to threaten your own friends and lovers with lethal force at any moment, any anyone who can’t do that must be weak or something.”
Mr. Model Victims Only Please
“The victim was no angel herself. If you look at her record, she’s been arrested several times, she’s a single mother, and she’s living on welfare. So it’s not like she was some innocent little virgin beforehand. None of this makes it right, but I’m just saying, let’s not overreact like a good woman got ruined.”
Ms. Fashion Police
“Did you hear what she was wearing? I’m sorry but that’s just not common sense. If you go out looking like a piece of meat, you have to expect you’ll get treated like a piece of meat.”
Mr. I’m Not Blaming Her But It’s Her Fault
“Rape is never the victim’s fault, of course. But I just want people to admit that she has some responsibility. That she maybe played a part in it. That in an alternate universe where she’d done things differently and she lived in a steel Battlemech wearing a chastity belt, she wouldn’t have gotten raped, and she did make the choice to not use a Battlemech. I just need people to acknowledge that.”
This is so accurate.
This whole situation is seriously scary when you think about it.
Worth the reblog, I feel.
Always reblog
I was going to say “no words needed”. But then I thought actually, words are definitely needed. SOCIETY WILL BENEFIT FROM YOUR VOICE. Speak your mind!
(via lipstick-feminists)
Favorite Female Character in a Book | Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
Although the Harry Potter series practically defined my childhood, I didn’t fully appreciate Hermione Granger until I began to realize how rarely a character like her comes along.It’s not often that a fictional lady is allowed to be as smart and assertive as Hermione without being immediately labeled a hard-hearted bitch. Not only does Hermione avoid this fate, but she’s also given depth and nuance. Beneath her know-it-all exterior lurks the vulnerability of someone teased about her looks and alienated by her peers one too many times, and the compassion of someone who wants only to protect her friends and family, even if it means erasing herself from their memory. Like all of us, she sometimes locks herself in the bathroom and has a good cry, but not once is she made out to be any weaker for her insecurities. She wasn’t perfect, but that didn’t stop her from being the role model my young self needed, and I’m proud to have grown up with her.
THIS.
(Source: burtmacklin, via lipstick-feminists)
We all deserve to be treated with respect. Bottom line.
this is perfect
Compare: purple dots to the other colored dots. Conclusion: sexism is borrowed in our language.
Why so few purple dots, I wonder?
(Source: sancty, via lipstick-feminists)
If this happened in our Congress it would undoubtedly become a huge issue right away, with naysayers talking trash right and left about how women need to put aside careers to take care of families or vice versa.
(Source: historicalslut, via lipstick-feminists)
