January 2012
50 posts
“Slut” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “yes”....”
– angels-and-angles
(via bornthisbrown)
this shadow play of whiskey talk.: downlo: Fact:... →
downlo:
Fact: White students receive more scholarship money than non-white students
Do minority students get more than a fair share of college scholarships? That myth reared its head earlier this year after a Texas nonprofit, the Former Majority Association for Equality announced…
White people lack empathy for brown people, brain... →
stfuconservatives:
The participants – all white – watched simple videos in which men of different races picked up a glass and took a sip of water. They watched white, black, South Asian and East Asian men perform the task.
Typically, when people observe others perform a simple task, their motor cortex region fires similarly to when they are performing the task themselves. However, the UofT...
“If we want to teach our daughters to be good people lets teach them to be good...”
– Jessica Valenti. (via feministhistorian)
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“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It’s nice.”
– The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger (via la-fatale)
“Men have called me a man-hater, a feminazi, frigid, a bitch… but in my mind it...”
– Heartless Bitches International (via warrioroftheleft)
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“Cuenta la historia oficial que Vasco Núñez de Balboa fue el primer hombre que...”
– Eduardo Galeano, Espejos: una historia casi universal.
“The official history tells that Vasco Núñez de Balboa was the first man who saw, from a peak in Panama, the two oceans. Those who already lived there, where they blind?
Who were the first to give names to corn and potatoes and tomatoes and...
“If feminism is a movement to end sexist oppression, and depriving females of...”
– bell hooks (via mutualaddiction)
“My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures,...”
– Mary Wollstonecraft in Vindication of the Rights of Women (via transcendhate)
