I’m sure they didn’t mean any harm but some people will take it offensive.

pantslessprogressive:

“If you’ve not been to war, you might think that death is more dramatic than it often is. In Syria, people die every day… shot in their homes, shot in the street, killed in detention. People die and the world does not stop. Some may mourn, but the world keeps spinning. Basil Al-Sayid died as he lived, with a camera in his hand and like so many of his other videos, his too was posted on YouTube. That’s him in the body bag - family and friends mourning him. 

In a country where the truth is as ugly as these pictures and silence is enforced under penalty of death, the only answer - dangerous as it can obviously be - is showing the pictures and breaking the silence and trying to tell the truth. Basil Al-Sayid lived and died trying to do that.” - Anderson Cooper, on the death of 24-year-old Al-Sayid, who was killed while filming the ongoing violence in Syria.

Too many of us still believe that “self-respect” for a woman means chastity and modesty. If she’s wearing revealing clothing, enjoys attention, and maybe even likes sex outside of a committed monogamous relationship, we call her a “slut”—and accuse her of not respecting herself. Perhaps she does respect herself, perhaps she doesn’t. (Promiscuity is not perfectly correlated with low self-esteem, despite what a lot of pop psychologists tell you.) But in the end, it doesn’t matter. Women aren’t commodities whose value is based on their own fluctuating sense of self-worth.

subconciousevolution:

While covering a story about an 18 year old girl who was raped and killed, Bill O’Reilly felt it was relevant to add that she was “wearing a mini skirt and a halter top” and that every “predator in the world is gonna pick that up;” oh, he also called her “moronic.”

So using his logic, are all these women on Fox News with their rising mini skirts “moronic” and asking to be raped as well? 

Fox’s philosophy: Let’s use women in short skirts to hike our ratings, and then blame 18 year old girls wearing the same skirts for being raped and killed.

(via thefemme-menace)

The people you meet when you write about rape ›

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stfuconservatives:

amberofthismoment:

Saw a version of this around Tumblr. Decided to give it a free makeover. Because I’m a nice guy like that.

I love how everyone on Tumblr (except for me) is a graphic designer. Informative AND gorgeous!

(via squeetothegee-deactivated201111)

fuckyeahbrownpeople: dunx:

i couldnt stop crying after watching the little girl pick the lightest skinned girl as the “smart” one and the darkest skinned one as the “dumb” one.

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