hey tumblr pls educate me on this because i have a project that i need to make a collage about this topic and i would like to understand it more :>>> thank you
I love that this shows both sides, how society is ingrained to see women as baby-makers and men as walking wallets who’s only worth is if they make good cash. Both are equally demeaning and limiting in different ways.
The first time I heard this song I began to cry…. even though I’m straight but, I could just imagine being in that place. you should not be down trotted for your beliefs of choices or sexuality as long as it is not hurting anyone to infringing upon anyone else’s rights!
Look! who ever you are that feels that you are looked down upon or hurting or in not the best place! Im totally here for you and millions and millions of others who are not gay! WE KNOW whats right! and level headed people logical people understand human right!! AND WE are here for you! THis is why I Decided to choose this road. choose this path!! I WILL inform and change not only the UNITED STATES BUT the whole entire world!! WILL be freed from the corruption and inequality brought upon us by the Evil and Greedy and those who don’t understand the DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
RELIGION and LAW
MORALITY and LAW
OUR RIGHTS and LAW
Until the last day I am conscious in this planet I SWEAR to myself and Everything and Everyone on this planet that I WILL leave it better then I found it!
Equality Can’t Wait - Technology for Public Safety, Crowdsourced Help, Equal Access (SaveMeNow)
#Equality Can’t Wait for Women in Technology and Public Safety!
We are applying to the Challenge with Worldie, SaveMeNow, Safe Haven Community, Code Your Dreams, The Girls Code, and Peace Education and Practice Network.
We will create technology for public safety, crowdsourced help, and equal access projects to empower women and girls for generations.
We see massive disparities in technology and public safety for women, even for calling 911. Domestic violence is the most experienced issue for 911.
Crowdsourced help and housing do not yet exist in the United States for domestic abuse victims.
Cyberabuse online harms female public figures, lives, safety, and careers. We propose the solutions to save lives.
SaveMeNow created by firefighters provides real-time data, geolocation, and victim-centering to emergency centers. (http://SaveMeNowApp.es)
Safe Haven Community provides crowdsourcing help with people donating rooms directly for domestic abuse victims. With millions of victims, isolation, and not enough infrastructure, crowdsourcing is the solution. (http://SafeHavenCommunity.org)
Code Your Dreams and The Girls Code provides coding classes for socioeconomically diverse disadvantaged girls.
Worldie is the collaborator applying as Social Media for Good. We will create anti-cyberabuse coding, helpful systems, and distribution. We will improve lives.
Equality Can’t Wait Challenge from Pivotal Ventures (Melinda Gates):
Fashion industry think-tank Business of Fashion (BoF) is currently accepting applications for Future VOICES, a great initiative to find new talents under 30.
The competition is open to both men and women globally, though you wouldn’t know, based on the @bof Friday Instagram promotional post (reproduced here), which represents a series of mostly-blue male pictograms.
The post has, at time of writing, received 29 comments, including one by @jayhoup asking “Is this only for men? Shame.” and one by @gabrielle_runzer questioning “Where’s the women???”. @Daisyschofield posted some female emoji and “think you’re missing something”. I asked whether women could apply too, to which @bof said “of course”. BoF didn’t follow up when I asked why the asset only represents men.
This adds up to nearly 15% of comments pointing out that the asset is sexist. Maybe not sexist in intention, as I doubt whoever created it wanted to exclude women, but sexist in action.
Whatever the reason, the result is inherently misogynistic. It assumes that when seeing male pictograms, Instagramers will understand that the competition is open to all. It assumes male as the default setting.
Study after study shows that representation matters and that young women are less likely to apply for positions when they can’t see other women in the field. On the face of it, fashion performs better than most industry in terms of gender equality. Except that a lot of decision-making still sits with men.
Future VOICES, a partnership with Topshop, is a great initiative. Hopefully, it will help assuage another inequality issue: the fact that to start a fashion career, one often needs to intern, unpaid, which has a deterring effect for young people from many backgrounds.
In 2016, with an American election marked by sexism, the BoF asset might seem very tame. Some might excuse it because ultimately, BoF is achieving something good. However, not being sexist, the Donald Trump way, doesn’t mean that you’re not reproducing latent sexist ideas. BoF should know better than using an asset showing only men to call for applications.
Incredibly thankful to have had my first television experience be with these women. They both inspire me to be kind, open-minded, assertive, and knowledgeable in the workplace, and therefore in life. Thank you for being my big sisters throughout the past, crazy 5 years. You’re gems. #WomensEqualityDay
Feminist claim they want gender equality, but have remained silent for nearly 40 years on the gender exclusion of women from registering for the draft under the Selective Service law. This silence didn’t stop them from incessantly bitching about the gender exclusion of women from combat roles by the military as sexism though. Hypocrites to the nth degree.
Fast forward 35 years and the military kowtowed to feminist bitching, revoking the female exclusion from combat roles. However, the female exclusion from the draft was justified due to their inability to fill combat roles. With the latter gender exclusion obliterated, the former now has no merit.
A federal district court in Houston has held that because women are now permitted to serve in combat roles in the U.S. military, all women must be obligated to register for the draft, just as men do.
I’m dying to hear the feminist response to this. Agree and they alienate the 50 million women who have zero interest in fighting in combat. Disagree and they once again prove themselves to be total hypocrites.
Academy Award winning actress Patricia Arquette tells Glamour how she’s lost out on a lot of jobs since making a bold speech about wage inequality in Hollywood at the 2015 Oscars.
In a world in which people are punished for sharing views about ways they’ve been wronged, we must stand strong and fight for what’s right. We must disrupt the expectations and shake the core of today’s norms.
10 quotes, the corresponding information and the process and techniques to use for each of them:
1. “STOP POINTLESS JUDGEMENT’
‘we will challenge each other and the world and we will stop pointless judgement’ is the manifesto of the Happy Hippy Foundation, a charitable organisation founded by Miley Cyrus. Their mission is to ‘rally young people to fight injustice facing homeless youth, LGBTQ youth and other vulnerable populations’.
I will use a mixture of letters cut out from skin, and stamping the letters then embossing them creating a textured effect.
2. ‘BEAUTY AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS PERPETUATE FEELINGS OF SELF HATE.’
quote from Tyler Ford, agender writer, model and LGBTQ consultant. The media and society continually portray the idea that you have to look and act a specific way in order to be viewed as beautiful. These ideals are often unrealistic and unattainable, which is harmful because people are left feeling inadequate and unhappy with how they and their bodies look.
I will use one of the skin photographs as the background, embroider the words on and add glitter, embossing powder and ink, and burn into it.
3. ‘WE LIVE IN A DEEPLY MISOGYNISTIC SOCIETY’
Misogyny runs very deeply within our society, and men and boys often act towards women and girls in an extremely predatory manner. Men continually oppress women, and treat them like objects for them to own, it’s a man’s world that we live in.
I will use a blue background, then use a bold black font with the letters individually cut out, and then collage it with ink, embossing powder, glittery nail varnishes and heat it up, burning into the paper.
4. ‘YOU SUFFER TO BE BEAUTIFUL FOR A CERTAIN GAZE.’
Quote from Fanny Sosa, artist and activist. The male gaze is the idea that men are active and dominant whilst women are passive and submissive, and attempt to full fill the ideal expectations men set up for them. Feminine beauty practices show the extent that women go to, to make themselves acceptable for the male gaze, because ‘looking good is a caae of looking good for men.’ - Gender and Popular Culture
This will be on a background of a photo of skin with sewing, glitter, embossing powder and heating it up.
5. ‘RAISE BOYS AND GIRLS THE SAME’
It is important to raise children the same regardless of gender in order to break down these harmful gendered stereotypes. Children are very impressionable and breaking down these expectations of what it means to ‘be a man’ or ‘be a woman’ is an important step to achieving a more equal society.
I will make a background using inks, different embossing powders, glittery nail varnishes, and wax crayons and heat it up in different areas creating lots of texture, and then use a bright pink paper and cut all the letters out individually and lay it over the textured background.
6. ‘WE ALL HAVE INGRAINED MECHANISMS THAT ARE SEXIST AND RACIST.’
-quote from Fanny Sosa, artist and activist. The Western society is controlled by the patriarchy and white supremacists. In everything we see and do, ideal and expectations are continually forced upon us and many of these stem from sexist and racist frameworks. This is something that is important to recognise, and we must work together to fight against these ideas.
This I will also do using the skin photograph with embroidery and texture with glitter and embossing.
7. ‘THERE ARE MORE THAN TWO GENDERS.’
Gender is a social construct and it is very ignorant to say that there is nothing beyond ‘man’ and ‘woman’. Rather than viewing gender as these two distinct categories, it should be viewed as a spectrum, with a‘multidimensional array of possibilities.’ For more information visit genderspectrum.org.
8. ‘THERE IS A SPECIFIC WAY THAT SOCIETY EXPECTS YOU TO BEHAVE.’
Gendered stereotypes are continuously used in the media, for example in advertisements, often in subtle and overt ways but these fuel the idea that there is a specific way that society expects us to behave, which enforces conformity. Concepts of masculinity and femininity are social constructs and are not something that individuals should feel that they have to conform to.
This also will be a photograph of skin as the background with embroidery, glitter, embossing powder, ink and it heated up burning into it.
9. ‘COLOURS ARE NOT GENDERED.’
The gendered stereotype that is constantly reinforced says pink is for girls and blue is for boys, which is something that clothing companies aggressively market. It is harmful to push these gendered stereotypes onto children as it enforces the false idea that there is a specific way that boys or girls must be.
This will be done creating a textured background with ink, embossing powders, glittery nails varnish and crayons and heated up, then another layer in blue with the letters all hand cut out and layered over the top.
10. EDUCATION SHOULD NOT BE LIMITED TO THE HISTORY OF WHITE MALES.’
Education is hugely shaped by colonialism, placing white, Eurocentric writers, thinkers and activists and artists etc. above others. Many women and people of colour’s voices and histories are silenced and erased, in the place of white, Eurocentric males. Curriculums greatly need to be diversified. For more information visit www.nus.org.uk Why Is My Curriculum White?
This will be done on a pink background, with the text in a large bold font and the letters individually cut out, then texture created around it with inks, embossing powder and glittery nail varnishes, heated up and the paper burnt into.
For the front cover I am going to use FUCK WOMEN* with their consent. This bold derogatory statement will hopefully draw in people’s attention. By using this I hope that it will make someone look at the product who would otherwise be unlikely to view something on feminism. I want it to be something that spreads a message, to people who are less educated on the subject, ignorant or who take Emily Hill’s stance that feminism is no longer needed, to teach them how this is not the case. The cover will either be like a sleeve with the letters hand cut out and a glittery background underneath, or I will make it in pink fabric and cut the letters out in felt. I will bind it like a flip book with a metal hoop so that each of the pages can potentially be unattached and taken out and displayed as individual posters. I am also going to print out an insert to go at the front.
And yeah, women want white collar jobs too. Go figure - A diverse population of women, with different abilities, interests and levels of education, are all fighting for the right to seek diverse forms of employment. Fighting for equality in one sphere doesn’t mean that we’ve forgotten about the others.
Just because you aren’t paying attention to the feminist movement doesn’t mean that the feminist movement is nonexistent.
Many jobs such as these (although I don’t know that this is the case for these exactly) have been denied to women based on the idea that doing a particular type of labor or being in a particular environment would be too harmful to women.
And by “too harmful to women” I of course mean “too harmful to their uterus.*”
Like, there was a case back in the… 80s, I think? where some women worked at some sort of factory or plant or something. (I’ll be honest, I don’t remember a lot of the details of this— Google, however, informs me that I was right and it was in the 80s).
Anyway, there were hazardous materials in the plant. And, using laws that were intendedto protect pregnant women, the company basically realized, “hey, wait a minute, we don’t need to have any women working here and we can get away with it!” Because, see, hazardous materials like that are bad for fetus.
So the company basically told a bunch of women “you can’t work here anymore because you can have babies and it’s not safe for you.” But, you know, one thing they could do would be to get sterilized, and then they could keep working there. So women did— women who would not otherwise chosen to have been sterilized got sterilized because it was either that or lose the jobs that they desperately needed.
Stuff like this gets ignored all the time. I hear the argument all the time “well women can’t be drafted…” Well, first off, let’s set aside the whole issue of the draft because that’s a whole ‘nother can of worms. But you’re acting like there aren’t any women who would want to volunteer to be in the military. There are plenty. Only lots don’t because they’re discouraged from it or aren’t allowed to serve in the role they want. Or they dojoin but often leave because of severe sexual harassment and even sexual assault.
Saying that women “don’t want” these jobs is ridiculous on multiple levels— but what it doesdo is work to affirm the idea of women as illogical, weak, and “naturally” not suited for particular jobs.
*It is important to acknowledge that being a woman =/= having a uterus. However, such associations are made and utilized in this particular discourse (i.e. people equate being a woman with having a uterus, and that gets tied up in the discourse surrounding excluding women from jobs).
Notice how Shan Yu doesn’t even question it or make a comment about “BUT YOU’RE A GIRL” he just instantly goes into a “I’LL TEACH YOU TO KILL MY MEN AND STEAL MY VICTORY” rage and I think about this a lot sometimes
((Well that might have to do with the fact that he’s a Hun. Women among the Huns had higher status than their Chinese counterparts and even some of their own men. Women were free to hunt and fight along side of the men, could choose their own husbands and divorce him if she choose to. There were even records of clans being led by women leaders. So for Shan Yu Mulan is just another soldier))
thank you, history side of tumblr.
He also might not have been able to see very well, due to whatever horrible disease has taken hold in his eyeballs.
Pretty serious Wilson’s Disease judging by the copper buildup in in irises, and apparent melanocytosis localized to his sclera.
