chemins du désir

captured-ghosts:

How dare a woman use a relevant anatomically correct term in a debate about abortion! 

(via thiscouldbemoresonic)

fuckyeahsexeducation:

This blog brought to you by someone from one of those grey states.

(Source: sexandhealthandshit, via brucebananeronawillgrahamcracker)

wimpynoodle:

I’M NOT EVEN GOOD AT THINGS I’M GOOD AT

(via like-one-who-died-young)

whoneedsfeminism:

(via omnomnominous)

just-gene:

Things you had not thought about, and Should.

(via postmoderndepression)

"[F]or the first several years the SAT was offered, males scored higher than females on the Math section but females achieved higher scores on the Verbal section. ETS policy-makers determined that the Verbal test needed to be “balanced” more in favor of males, and added questions pertaining to politics, business and sports to the Verbal portion. Since that time, males have outscored females on both the Math and Verbal sections. Dwyer notes that no similar effort has been made to “balance” the Math section, and concludes that, “It could be done, but it has not been, and I believe that probably an unconscious form of sexism underlies this pattern. When females show the superior performance, ‘balancing’ is required; when males show the superior performance, no adjustments are necessary.” "

“Gender Bias in College Admissions Tests”, FairTest.org

This pisses me off especially because I am a math tutor for standardized tests and I have to work extra hard to cheer up my female students who are convinced that they “can’t do math” even when they’re better than my most arrogant male students, who begin every story with “I’m really good at math, BUT…..”

(Source: fairtest.org, via nerdloveandlolz)

cakeyisalwaysreallylatey:

thistmblrisbetterthanyourlife:

Nigel Farage is facing fresh embarrassment over a Ukip supporter after it emerged that one of the party’s most generous donors believes that women are guilty of “hostile behaviour” by “deliberately” wearing trousers to make themselves unattractive to men.

Demetri Marchessini, a Greek-born shipping tycoon who gave Ukip £10,000 this year, made the comments in a coffee table book that features photographs of women from behind.

The millionaire teamed up with a photographer a decade ago to find “unattractive backsides”, in the words of the Observer writer Liz Hoggard, on the streets of London and New York.

Marchessini wrote in Women in Trousers: A Rear View: “I adore women and want to see them looking beautiful. Everyone has the obligation to look as attractive as possible. It pains me to see women looking terrible.

“Walk along any street and you see women using trousers like a uniform every single day. This is hostile behaviour. They are deliberately dressing in a way that is opposite to what men would like. It is behaviour that flies against common sense, and also flies against the normal human desire to please.”

The world sucks that so many men like this have money and power.

It’s also ironic that he doesn’t fulfill that key ‘obligation to look attractive’ that he so dickishly expects all women to follow.

Trousers are trousers, skirts are skirts, it’s just fucking clothing and surprisingly enough I doubt the women he was judging gave two shits about his opinion, and would probably rather peel their own skin off than become the object of his desire.

ladyogrady:

Dom & Sub is a body of illustrative work in digital media that attempts to humanize practitioners of BDSM and offer a representation of kinky sex that not only refutes negative stereotypes but informs the audience that sadomasochistic play is done best between happy, healthy, and consenting adults. I portrayed the couple in the work not only engaging in S&M play but also building a “scene” together and nurturing one another after the play has concluded; these are moments often left unconsidered or completely ignored in visual representations of S&M. I believe it’s important to see how kinky scenes are crafted with care, commitment to safety and enthusiastic consent in order to limit those times when sadomasochistic play is used to abuse or dehumanize other human beings. It is my hope that my audience will learn from the illustrations that sadomasochistic play is not always dark or scary, and that fellow ‘kinksters’ can enjoy tender representations of S&M that do not ridicule or pathologize them. I’ve designed the work to engage sadomasochistic imagery, material and theory with an ethical conscience.

(via ethicalsluthood)

thisgingerisback:

Angelina Jolie announces a double mastectomy to save her life, people get fucking pissed and act like she’s lost everything that’s made her worthwhile in the first place, AND YOU WONDER WHY I FUCKING HATE THE “SAVE THE BOOBIES” TROPE.

BECAUSE NO ONE ACTUALLY GIVES A FUCK ABOUT THE WOMAN’S LIFE. WOMEN JUST HAPPEN TO BE ATTACHED TO A PAIR OF BREASTS. WOMEN AREN’T WORTH SAVING—BUT YOU BET YOUR ASS THE PUBLIC WILL BE IN A RIOT IF A GOOD PAIR OF TITS IS IN DANGER.

(via richardbroman)

(Source: drunkonstephen)