trancifiery:

feminism is the idea that focusing on one sex will create equality. it needs work both ways for equality to happen. get with the program.

I mean, yes, there are militant feminists who want to burn bras and wear skirts in construction zones, and there are feminists who want the work force to have a perfectly equal male:female ratio, but I think there are a lot of different kinds of feminism. For me, feminism is about making it okay for any gender to be feminine. This doesn’t just focus on just one sex because being a ‘girl’ doesn’t mean you have to be feminine and being a ‘boy’ doesn’t mean that you can’t be. For example, it’s generally not socially acceptable for guys to be feminine (or society’s idea of such) - no skirts, no fruity drinks, no excessive emotions, etcetera. However, it’s slightly more acceptable for girls to be masculine, tomboyish. We tend to look at femininity in general as something that makes you weaker and lesser. 

I’m not just advocating for equal rights, I’m advocating for sex to be about as unremarkable as hair color. Maybe you’re attracted to people with blonde hair. Or brown hair. Or both, or bald people, whatever.

Feminism is about making it okay to be feminine - or not, as long as it’s your choice.

(Source: 1ncapacitat3d)

// Another reason why we still need feminism://

The University of Alberta dodgeball league.

My friend, who enrolled just this week, told me about this.

On a coed team, there must be 8 girls. Only one of these girls is allowed to throw the ball. And when a girl catches the ball, the thrower is not ‘out’. So the other 7 girls are essentially just moving targets who pass balls to boys.

What the actual fuck.

It’s ‘just a game’ but honestly, it’s completely ridiculous and even though this is hours away I AM SO ANGRY.

I mean, what’s the POINT? 

Hey, would you mind messaging me as many sexist brand names/fast food chains/etc as you can think of? 

// I need feminism because//

whoneedsfeminism:

I was raised in a society that keeps insinuating that masculinity is preferred over femininity. Because I as a little girl was made to believe that boys are stronger/better/cooler than girls, and that the girls who knew how to hang out with the boys were somehow cooler than the other “silly, typical girly girls”, and practically deserving of a special badge of honor. Because it wasn’t until my later teens that I suddenly came to terms with the fact that I by nature am very much in touch with my femininity, that I like “girly” things, and this is not something that I have to hide, because there is. nothing. wrong. with. being. a. girl. And we are not weak, or shallow, or vain, or silly, or trivial.

// I need feminism because…//

whoneedsfeminism:

my friends are slowly killing themselves as they starve their bodies away to reproduce an unnatural body image.    

// My name is Neil Zachariah Bristow and I need feminism.//

whoneedsfeminism:

Because when my (FtM) boyfriend was sexually assaulted by his not-exactly-naive elementary school classmates, they should have been sent to juvenile hall, not laughed off as “boys being boys”.

Because when I see a woman assert as a fact, not an opinion, that women shouldn’t be allowed to ______, part of me dies inside. Or even if she asserts it as an opinion. To see someone internalize so much bigotry and prejudice toward their own gender is sickening…and sickeningly common.

Because threats to one’s masculinity shouldn’t be insulting, nor a good way to sell overpriced crap.

Because I’m sick of being seen as “less of a man” because I value womens’ opinions - not offended, just disgusted.

Because it depresses me to see how society is more accepting of my boyfriend’s transition than of trans women - because he’s “upgrading” and they’re “downgrading”.

Because men are afraid to come forward as sexual assault victims, because we’re conditioned to believe that seeking help, no matter how much we need it, is “unmanly” - which is, of course, a fate worse than death in our society.

Because it’s so easy to fail to see that we still grow up conditioned from birth to see women only as decoration, sex objects, and/or prizes to be won.

Because so few try to overcome this conditioning even once they realize it.

Or, to sum this all up as simply as possible, because no one wins when you create an exaggerated or false dichotomy.

Every human being in this society is a victim of sexism, wether we realize it or not.

When you create a hierarchy such that one sex is “greater”, and pressure them to behave a certain way to defend their status as such, they lose. When you determine that one sex is “lesser”, they lose for all the obvious reasons, and thensome. And when you factor in the gender minorities…you have a society where everyone is being shat upon.

How can anyone not see what’s wrong with this system?