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bemusedlybespectacled: before ya’ll go talking about...

Mon, 20 May 2013 01:03:10 -0400

before ya’ll go talking about “misandry,” lemme explain you a thing

Also, for further information, Manboobz is an excellent resource. Go there. It’s awesome.

The past couple days have been ok

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:46:24 -0400

Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism arrived.
Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space arrived.
Wendy Brown’s Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire arrived.
The internet arrived.

Figure painting preparatory study, which may be the best thing...

Sat, 04 May 2013 22:14:47 -0400

Figure painting preparatory study, which may be the best thing I’ve ever painted. Especially the finger painted signature.

The Researcher, 2013. Acrylic on canvas, 54”x40”

Sat, 04 May 2013 22:13:41 -0400

The Researcher, 2013. Acrylic on canvas, 54”x40”

Figure study, 2013.

Sat, 04 May 2013 22:13:37 -0400

Figure study, 2013.

WHY DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS CAT BEFORE HER NAME IS TAMAAND...

Sat, 04 May 2013 21:56:14 -0400

WHY DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS CAT BEFORE

HER NAME IS TAMA
AND SHE’S THE STATIONMASTER AT A TRAIN STATION IN JAPAN
SHE GREETS ALL THE PASSENGERS
AND SHE HAS HER OWN OFFICE
AND SHE’S PAID IN CAT FOOD
AND SHE IS AN EXECUTIVE OF A RAILROAD STATION

AND LOOK AT HER

the trains are decorated with cartoon versions of her since she’s their mascot as well

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Sat, 04 May 2013 11:38:05 -0400

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Wed, 01 May 2013 12:52:02 -0400

"A woman’s worst nightmare? That’s pretty easy. Novelist Margaret Atwood writes that when she asked a..."

Wed, 01 May 2013 12:50:01 -0400

“A woman’s worst nightmare? That’s pretty easy. Novelist Margaret Atwood writes that when she asked a male friend why men feel threatened by women, he answered, “They are afraid women will laugh at them.” When she asked a group of women why they feel threatened by men, they said, “We’re afraid of being killed.””

- Mary Dickson

[CW: discussion of rape culture and violence]

This reminds me of an article about online (heterosexual) dating that I read a while ago. It listed men’s and women’s worst fears about meeting someone from online. The highest ranked fear that men had was that their date would be fat, whereas the highest ranked fear that women had was that their date would turn out to be violent and kill them.

I think that says a lot.

(via kaitg)

Its interesting also that these fears sit subconsciously until woman are asked to exams their responses to men. We women will operate with this fear in mind, the way we protect ourselves, make sure our friends know where we are when we go on a date, words that we use while interacting with men, all in hopes they will not kill us, but simultaneously love us.

I think bell hooks made a point about this in her series on love. Something along the lines of how can women hope to love and receive love from men when at the foundation of our relationships there is this strong fear of men. You can’t build true trust when your foundation is crumbling under you.

The scariest part is, once you recognize this fear, and face it, how do you address it when there is evidence of “good” men abusing, hurting, and killing women everyday?

(via becomingchichi)

I was in my early 20’s when one of my homegirls broke this down for me.

I was in a broken relationship, and one of the things was that bugged me at the time was that the girlfriend at the time would freak out whenever I got angry - I never yelled, never throw or hit things, mostly, I just needed some time to cool out.

“Why does she get scared when I’m angry? I’d never hit her!”

“But she doesn’t KNOW that. She can’t assume that. Look at how many dudes are out there pulling shit.”

And that stuck with me for a hot minute. The relationship was broken on so many levels anyway, but that fact still remains, as a man, I can’t fault women for assuming the worst in order to protect themselves, especially how the world’s patriarchy and misogyny rolls.

(via bankuei)

I’ve had continual discussions with Tchy about this, and I don’t expect to stop. It’s fair to say that there’s no one in the world that I trust more, and he has been extremely careful with me, but… the fact remains that he leans quite a bit towards the masculine, and this means that that fear is always there. The news of transmasculine folks abusing/raping people doesn’t help that fear any. :(

I’m learning not to apologize for it. It’s not my fault (nor, really, is it his) that I’m scared of dude-type people. But it’s always there. Which is another reason why I get so pissed off when trans men try to make transmisogyny about them.

(via kiriamaya)

This is an incredible thread of responses. I’ve seen this quote before, but not the dialogue that built up around it. The part about loud=violent hits home particularly hard for me. I am terrified of getting into irl arguments with men, especially when they get loud. It’s always going to sit in the pit of my stomach.

(via mizbingley)

That part resonates for me too, although from a completely different angle. Despite being more terrified of sexual violence than I am of anything other than my own brain, I do not hesitate to yell, confront, get up in the face of, threaten, even hit men twice my size and many times my strength. Faced with a threat of violence from men, I will either imply or state “I dare you to.”

I also, as previously established on this blog, have a death wish.

To me, that encapsulates everything about the violence, especially sexual violence, coded into relationships between men and women in our society: for a woman to assert herself in the face of maleness may require the woman in question (such as me) to be perpetually suicidal.

(via 14kgoldnyc)

Reblogging for commentary. I have been frightened and scared by men being loud with me, even if I don’t think they’ll be violent. Like people have said above, it’s just a latent response in your brain to fear violence from men.

I went out to dinner with someone a couple of weeks ago (LONG story, was supposed to be a group dinner but it ended up just being me & a strange man) and I told him I blogged about feminism and politics, and he went off on me. He told me feelings were bullshit and women just wanted special privileges, and then he said, “Women don’t give men enough credit for not being violent psychopaths. That’s what we are, deep down. We want to rape and pillage, and we don’t, and women don’t give us enough credit for that.” I burst into tears. That shit was terrifying.

(via stfuconservatives)

I too am reblogging this for the amazing commentary.

When supposed feminist ally men deny this very basic, simple truth - that’s how you know they are an ally to no one.

This all gets taught to women at a very young age, how dangerous the world is when you’re in it being a woman. I’ve been struggling to write about something that happened with my daughter a few weeks ago, how to form the words, but this is possibly the best context.

We were in the wine shop, in line to pay, and she was so excited to get her lollipop (in the time honored tradition of wine stores everywhere). A man two people ahead of us started fighting with the woman behind the counter about how much money he’d given her. As I was moving her behind my body, my daughter froze, and when I say froze, I mean wasn’t moving a muscle except to shake.

It sorted itself out pretty quickly. We paid and left.

Once we got back into the car, she started crying. I asked her what was the matter, and she said, “Mama, I was so scared. When men get angry they shoot people.”

That’s a direct quote. When men get angry, they shoot people.

I asked her, “Baby, why do you think that?” She replied, “on NPR, that’s what happens. When men get really mad they kill people. That guy was really mad, what if he had a gun? What would you do?”

The talk we had afterwards was difficult; no one said parenting was easy. But this is the life we live as women. If my 9 year old understands it, then men of the world, alleged feminist allies, Nice Guys, random douches on the street, and even actual non-dangerous men: so can you.

(via someauthorgirl)

I’ve reblogged this quote before, I think. But reblogging now for the amazing commentary.

I was having a discussion with my father and brother the other day. We were talking about receiving threats of rape or violence via the internet. Their whole argument was “just ignore it and walk away from your computer”. Amazing solution. Can’t believe I never thought of that. It’s so clever because we all know that when you leave your keyboard the threat of violence disappears.

Urgh.

(via lavenderlabia)

Now I want to go hug our cats.

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 01:36:57 -0400

Now I want to go hug our cats.

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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:48:25 -0400

thefortunatemuslim: I am laughing so hard right now.

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:16:20 -0400

thefortunatemuslim:

I am laughing so hard right now.

nyansebby: Accept me. This is exactly like our little kitten...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:13:16 -0400

nyansebby:

Accept me.

This is exactly like our little kitten :D

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Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:49:24 -0400

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Sun, 24 Mar 2013 22:33:43 -0400

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likeafieldmouse: Yayoi Kusama - Gleaming Lights of the Souls...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:27:01 -0400

likeafieldmouse:

Yayoi Kusama - Gleaming Lights of the Souls (2008)

"It is a mistake to believe that a science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions,..."

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:04:30 -0500

“It is a mistake to believe that a science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it should. It is a demand only made by those who feel a craving for authority in some form and a need to replace the religious catechism by something else even if it be a scientific one. Science in its catechism has but few apodictic precepts; it consists mainly of statements which it has developed to varying degrees of probability. The capacity to be content with these approximations to certainty and the ability to carry on constructive work despite the lack of final confirmation are actually a mark of the scientific habit of mind.”

- Sigmund Freud, A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis (via towerofsleep)

Plan: Get a second cat so they can play with each other and wear themselves out. Actual result: Cats...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 01:05:44 -0500

Plan: Get a second cat so they can play with each other and wear themselves out.

Actual result: Cats team up to wake us up and distract us to play with them.

A bluetooth mouse is trying to connect

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:39:00 -0500

Click to allow this.

Why Afghan Women Risk Death to Write Poetry

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:38:00 -0500

Why Afghan Women Risk Death to Write Poetry:

This is amazing, tragic, inspiring, and very much worth reading.