And once again, we’re having to ask “What about men?” Many think it’s funny that people ask this question, as if the answer is always going to be some silly way of including men where they don’t belong, but it’s often used as a silencing tactic. Ironically it’s all from a group that claims to want equality, but very few of them really do.
Women commit half of all partner violence and are just as controlling as men.
The same research which is used to say that a woman is severely assaulted by her husband/boyfriend every 15 second in this country, also indicated that a man is severely assaulted by his wife/girlfriend every 14.6 seconds.
Women are more likely than men to “stalk, attack and abuse” their partners. (also here)
While men are less likely to report violence, which distorts crime data, virtually all randomized sociological surveys show women initiate domestic violence as often as men and use weapons more than men, that men suffer one-third of injuries, and that self-defense explains only a small portion of domestic violence by either sex.
Lesbian and bisexual relationships are more violent than heterosexual relationships.
Women are more likely to abuse their children, which only further proves that women are more violent than they’re made out to be.
And despite all of this, we still have people believing that men are more violent than women. We still have people jumping to protect abused women, while ignoring female on male violence, cheering for abusive women, or laughing at abused men, and this can mostly be attributed to feminist causes only representing the side of the issue that they care about, not the full picture. The Federal Government, under feminist pressure, still pays grants to police departments in proportion to the number of men jailed under VAWA legislation, leading to an incentive for police to expand the defintion of ‘domestic violence’ to absurd extremes, and when a man who calls the police to report domestic violence, he is three times more likely to be arrested than the woman who is abusing him, leaving any possible children between them alone with the violent parent. Where’s the child advocacy in that?
Anybody that participates in this “awareness” week is not raising awareness of domestic violence, but once again reinforcing the “women are weak and innocent, men are strong and violent” stereotype by ignoring that domestic violence goes both ways and is more often perpetuated by women than men. All this bullshit says is that men aren’t the ones that need to learn how to walk in someone else’s shoes. Really, how goddamn hard is it for feminists to take the focus off of women, walk a mile in men’s shoes, and look at the bigger picture here?
OH MY GOD IT’S TRANSPARENT
should I make this my blog title
soren-grey: A mourning dove that built her nest in my balcony garden. She isn’t afraid of me at all. It’s like I’m a pest in her yard. I thought she looked so cute sitting there on the railing, glaring at my cat. So after I took this, I reached out to touch her. She puffed up her feathers and hoot-growled at me. Sorry, ma’am.
I hope you feel better/things get better for you soon, hun ; n;
thank you so much!!! kvlds ;__;
sorry its not much I just hate to see you all bummed UvU
aaah wow thank you so much baylee flkdg
I TRIED TO DOODLE SOMETHING SUPER QUICK FOR YOUR BEFORE YOU WENT TO BED BUT THEN YOU WENT TO BED OMG
I’M SORRY I WAS TIREEEDDD OTL
HIS SWEATER’S SOOOO CUTE <3 <3
ADORABLE
IM GLAD IT’S PRESENTABLE EVEN IF I WISH I HAD DONE MORE
he’s asking how to say “i love you” in fish alien
or maybe it’s “you fucking idiot you’ll get us both killed” i always get those two mixed up.
happy birthday im sorry this has nothing to do with duck agent haru i just didnt have any clever ideas for that one
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW OMG I LOVE HIS SPACESUIT WAT??? IT’S GORGEOUS
he’s like “don’t take me to your planet, Haru, It’s all dorks over there.
Green Flame Dragon OHM Betta Male :)
This ‘fit!!!
THT FkKin SWEATER
Sorry about submitting this story but it’s much to long for ask and I just had to tell someone and this blog seems like the perfect place for it.
This is just another story clearly showing how whitewashing and the whole “white being default” in hollywood and such things is extremely harmful, it’s sort of along the same lines as the which baby doll is prettier thing.
Okay so, I’ve been volunteering at the elementary school that my mother works at to boost my resume in the future and I’ve spent most my time in the art room.
Well the first week in art we did a simple task for the first day back in art class, drawing portraits and this week we painted them in.
We of course put all the basic colors on the table to paint with black, white, red, blue, etc. We also put a few basic skin tone options we had a peach out and a light, medium and a dark brown.
In one class I noticed something strange happening a little white girl giving the brown paint to a little black girl to paint her skin and I saw the black girl refuse it. The little black girl refused to color in her skin and after that I started noticing something very troublesome a lot of the little black children(particularly the little girls) were not painting their skin in, at all. They just left the white paper.
So I started talking to some of the children asking them to color in their skin, they’d always refuse or say they didn’t want to.
I’d tell them things like “but you have such pretty skin, don’t you want to paint it?” and they’d still say they didn’t want to, one girl even responded to me by saying her skin isn’t pretty “not like yours”(me, a white woman) it broke my heart and I tried to tell her it wasn’t true that her skin was beautiful but she wasn’t having it.
It was so sad.
I’d say over half the black children didn’t paint their skin in and the rest of them all chose the lightest brown no matter what shade their skin actually was.
Also another thing that I’m not really sure if it’s problematic or not but I noticed a lot of the little black girls wouldn’t draw their hair in braids(which all the little black girls hair are in some kind of braid) and they’d draw it down and straight, not curly, not wavy, straight as bone.
I asked a few of them why they didn’t draw their hair in braids(or at least curly) and they all said because straight hair is prettier, some of the girls told me because they wanted their hair to be like mine or the teachers(thin and straight) and some of them refereed to it as “good hair” I wasn’t really sure what they meant by that but it obviously meant that they thought straight hair was better then what I’m sure is their naturally curly hair.
That’s just my story, I’m not sure if it’s something you’d actually post but I thought it was something interesting to known and something you could say to all those people who say whitewashing “isn’t a big deal”
Today has been so heart wrenching for me, I of course knew whitewashing was a problem but I have never seen the problem of it being executed so strongly before my very eyes. In fact I don’t think I’ve ever really actually seen an example of it happening in person but now that I have, it’s like I understand it so much better. Really seeing it happen, really hearing these adorable little girls saying they think they think they’re ugly or they they think they’d be prettier if they were white. It’s just so heartbreaking. I didn’t know what to do, I wish there was something I could have said to them to change how they feel but there are just no words, not when they keep saying “I’m wrong” or that “I’m prettier” or that “it looks better the way it is”(not colored in) it was like I was grasping at straws, there was just nothing I could say to change the way they feel and I hated it, I hated that these kindergarteners and first graders already feel this way. It’s so disgusting and how people can ignore the problem is beyond me!
This is heartbreaking :( And I feel it’s relevant because we’ve talked about the effects having a narrow idea of body types for women saturating our media has on girls growing up, especially ones that don’t fit that body type. In the same way it’s equally important to note the effects that having a certain skin colour, hair type, etc being held up as the way women need to look to be beautiful has on children of colour.
