Tropes Vs. Women in Video Games
Nine months after her successful Kickstarter campaign, Anita Sarkeesian unveils the much anticipated pilot episode of the Tropes Vs. Women in Video Games series, which examines how video games often portray female characters as someone who needs to be rescued.
(via holisticsexualhealth)
So this video started going around my facebook today, with about a dozen of my female friends sharing the link with comments like, and “Everyone needs to see this”, and “All girls should watch this,” and “This made me cry.” And I’m not trying to shame those girls! I definitely understand why they would do so. And I don’t want to be a killjoy. But as I clicked the link and started watching the video, I started to feel a slight sense of discomfort. I couldn’t put my finger on why that was, exactly, but it continued throughout the whole thing. After watching the video several more times, I have some thoughts…
RIGHT ON!!!
Totally could have used this last semester!
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
Yet this truth has not yet been realized when women are still asked to wear bra at work and to cover their breast at the beach when men aren’t.
I have a dream. I have a dream when bra-less women can step into every conservative corner of the world with dignity and their heads held high.
I have a dream when women can go topless at the beach without society shaming them.
I have a dream.
My brothers, this is our hope. This is our fight and we can not go back. We can not go back until the day women are freed from the enslavement of the bra and when women can go bra-less with dignity and top-less without being shamed.
When that happens, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing “Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, women breasts are free at last!”
‘Domestic Violence: A resource for trans people’ was produced in 2009 by The Greater London Domestic Violence project, in collaboration with the LGBT Domestic Abuse Forum and NHS Barking & Dagenham.
The resource has been written primarily to assist trans people who experience domestic abuse. There is information as well as links to UK resources.
To view the full booklet, click here.
(via thesexuneducated)
My feminism doesn’t support women who go to immense lengths to cut services that directly help and benefit other women.
My feminism doesn’t support all women simply because they’re women.
My feminism doesn’t support women who use their power to plunder, steal and exacerbate class gaps.
My…
This is AMAZING!!!!
everyone was talking about the Supreme Court last week so I made a thing
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Kind of wish that “Parliament of Owls” had made the list.
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