I was 14 years old.
I don’t even remember what my hopes and dreams were at that age, but I know they didn’t involve having a baby with Bobby in Texas. My mother found out and she threw me out of the house—she was probably afraid my father would kill me. I stayed with my aunt, who took me to Planned Parenthood. I was so lucky. I have a 17 year old and a 14 year old now, and I hope if they needed an abortion they would tell me. — Lisa G.
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cosmo sex tip #666
when he’s least expecting it, carve a pentagram in his chest and begin summoning satan
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Also this one because I thought I looked cute >_>
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Ready for A-Kon!
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Finally, a makeup advertisement addressing the fact that makeup is an ARTFORM, and isn’t only used to “hide your flaws”.
Oh my god Maybelline! Well fucking done! *raucous applause and whooping*
well…i certainly agree with the message. makeup is a legitimate form of individual expression. but i’m not about to get all bright eyed and bushy tailed for maybelline.
even if it were a real ad (edit: it’s not!), companies only market in a way that is necessary for profit. the beauty industry is increasingly exploiting the growing attempts to critique patriarchal expectations of female beauty. these critiques threaten the success of these companies which, more often than not, thrive on body shame and sexism. companies like maybelline only care about empowerment as long as is brings in the cashola. the green. the money, honey.
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TANK GIRL
My Tank Girl costume from this weekends Kapow on Saturday. Costumes different tomorrow. But still Tank Girl. Photos taken by the amazing Anna and edited by myself.
/love
Que currada.
Shiiit,
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Whiteness is a hell of a drug.
This shit is being sold in a ‘hood beauty & barber supply store. In a Black ass mall. In Black ass PG County, Maryland.
Ugh, and you know this shit is pure poison that’s damage the skin of anyone who uses it.
I went to India a few years ago and in all of the shops I went into they had these kinds of ‘whitening’ products. But they were Garnier. Like, the same ‘beauty’ products as you could get anywhere else but they all were to make your skin whiter. Not cute.
I had a few friends in college who bleached their skin :(
Here’s a really awesome essay on skin bleaching and white supremacy.ugh.
Someday, in Mia’s perfect future world, beauty products will largely be moot. They’ll be there for fancy dress, but both men and women can use them, and there will be no shame associated with partaking in makeup or choosing NOT to partake in it.
But these products will NOT be around, because if there is a beauty standard in Mia’s future world, it was be a very loose one that does not favor certain racially-associate traits over other racially-associated traits.
Because while I don’t necessarily believe that everyone is beautiful, I also don’t believe that white skin is more beautiful than dark skin.
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Dad what
what are you doing
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"And what’s so awful about ‘The Other Woman’ is that outside of that one thing, SCDP and Don do everything right. The pitch is good. The moment when Ginsberg realizes what it is is perfect. The whole thing plays off of the way women are sold to us as sleek, unattainable objects, but it places it in a context where it’s meant to be “acceptable.” They make the right calls, business-wise. They make the right calls in terms of creativity, and who cares if the thing that maybe puts them over the top is that they compromised something important and precious?"
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"As powerful as Joan has always been in certain ways, she remains a prisoner of her body, which men fetishize and seek to possess. While her rape by Greg remains perhaps the most shocking and painful moment of the series, seeing Joan allow her body to be used in this fashion is worse because of what it suggests about her character. We’re not long past the time when all women who gained a position of any power were accused of sleeping their way into it. To literalize that degrading accusation in Joan renders her less than we’ve always thought her to be, and makes her better-late-than-never rejection of the hideous Greg seem less of a triumphant turning point. Joan is now in partnership with a group of men who used to respect and even fear her (as Don admitted last week) but who will now always see her as the woman who slept with a repugnant client in order to get ahead. She’s gained a literal promotion only to be demoted in their estimation."
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"Female toplessness is legal in a lot of places in the US (although not where I live), and I’d be meeting the letter of the law with a couple of Band-aids. But I have a gut feeling that if I go anywhere that there are people—and particularly anywhere there are children—nobody’s going to be too happy about my Band-aids. The enforcement is social; women just don’t go around topless in the US.
It bothers me because it’s unequal, but it also bothers me in its implications: that my body is inherently sexual, and a man’s body isn’t. It feels like men are being viewed through the first-person lens of “it’s nice to feel the sun on my skin, and I don’t mean anything by it” and women are being viewed through the distinctly third-person lens of “it’s inappropriate for me, a heterosexual man, to see her sexy parts.” It ignores the experiences of people who are turned on by male chests and somehow manage to contain themselves when they see one."The Pervocracy: My boobs want to be free. (via sexisnottheenemy)
I have no desire to go topless anywhere, but I thought this made good points about perspective, and about how female [identified?] bodies are considered inherently sexual even when nothing sexual is going on or implied.
(via feministdisney)
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from the latest Sex+: Fat Shame
I have a feeling that making rebloggable gifs for tumblr of these videos has been a very great marketing tool/idea because I went from never having heard of them to seeing them in my feed like twice every day!
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