Males as a group have and do benefit the most from patriarchy, from the assumption that they are superior to females and should rule over us. But those benefits have come with a price. In return for all the goodies men receive from patriarchy, they are required to dominate women, to exploit and oppress us, using violence if they must to keep patriarchy intact. Most men find it difficult to be patriarchs. Most men are disturbed by hatred and fear of women, by male violence against women, even the men who perpetuate this violence. But they fear letting go of the benefits. They are not certain what will happen to the world they know mos t intimately i f patriarchy changes. So they find it easier to passively support male domination even when they know in their minds and hearts that it is wrong.
“
| — | bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody (via poeticallyspeaking13) |
If you are a male feminist, a white feminist, a middle- to upper-class feminist, a cisgender feminist, a heterosexual feminist, an able-bodied feminist, or an otherwise privileged feminist: please, check your privilege.
I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the pressure of them, or to have them sucked out of you, every paragraph, every sentence, every word of them, so at the end you’re depleted of all that was once as precious to you as hoarded gold, as close to you as your skin - everything that was of the deepest importance to you, everything that made you cringe and wish to conceal, everything that belonged to you alone - and must spend the rest of your days like an empty sack flapping in the wind, an empty sack branded with a bright fluorescent label so that everyone will know what sort of secrets used to be inside you?
“
| — | Margaret Atwood (via theashheapmillionairess) |
It is, but for some reason they don't keep it in the teen section.
That’s weird. O.o
B&N and their ridiculous ideas about literature….
PLEASE alert the police in Omaha, Nebraska. I met her 4 years ago working for the Obama campaign and we’ve been in touch a lot. She’s 5’5” and Sudanese, 25 with black hair and brown eyes.
La Vista police said they found Elizabeth J. Dum’s vehicle abandoned near the Interstate 80 off-ramp at Q Street on Wednesday.
Dum is a 25-year-old Sudanese woman, about 5 feet 5 inches tall and 160 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.
Dum’s mother May Pal said her daughter won’t go a day without calling her, but she hasn’t heard from Elizabeth since Tuesday.
“We never, never have a day without talking,” said Pal. “I had a bad feeling, and even now I don’t know where she is.”
Police are treating the disappearance as being under “suspicious circumstances.”
“We’re calling it suspicious because of the way the vehicle was found, and we’ve been to her home. (There was) nothing suspicious in the home. (It) doesn’t look like anyone has packed and left,” said La Vista Police Chief Bob Laustan.
“If you find her, please just let the police know,” Pal said.
Anyone with information on where Dum could be is asked to call La Vista police at 402-331-1353.
Read more: http://www.ketv.com/news/local-news/La-Vista-woman-s-disappearance-suspicious/-/9674510/14154392/-/w7k24c/-/index.html#ixzz1w28C0ASc
