Being pretty old-fashioned, he had to consider it for a couple seconds — but being smart and adaptable, he just replied, “And you don’t have to.”

I have good genes. 

“Homosexuality: The REAL Sickness” “Islam wants gay people dead” “Christianity calls for killing fags” “God hates fags” “BUT THE BIBLE SAYS _____” “BUT THE QURAN SAYS ______” “so death to all fags” “also non-virgin women wut”

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“America is turning into a matriarchy” “men are much more oppressed than women are” “make me a sammich woman” “oh women are just imagining discrimination there’s no glass ceiling” “women who want to pay for dates are evil nazi feminists” “women shouldn’t hold the doors open for men” “lord help us if we ever have a female president” 

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“supporting abortion rights means you hate babiez” “women who use birth control are sluts” “no way should birth control availability be considered in health plans” “oh but viagra no viagra should def. be included” “if women today kept their legs closed they wouldn’t need birth control now would they”

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I hereby present Tumblr with the best Lady Gaga cover on YouTube.

THIS

I WILL SEE THIS

AND I WILL ENSURE THAT MY SONS AND DAUGHTERS SEE THIS

FOUR FOR YOUR MERIDA YOU GO MERIDA

An interesting article arguing that women need to be as ambitious and overly confident (read: arrogant) as men are in order to succeed. 

It’s not that women will be better off being con artists; a lot of con artists aren’t better off being con artists either. It’s just that until women have role models who are willing to risk incarceration to get ahead, they’ll miss out on channelling smaller amounts of self-promoting con artistry to get what they want, and if they can’t do that, they’ll get less of what they want than they want.

There is no upper limit to the risks men are willing to take in order to succeed, and if there is an upper limit for women, they will succeed less. They will also end up in jail less, but I don’t think we get the rewards without the risks.

Good stuff.

My mom (who is currently sprawled out on our couch cuddling with our immortal/ancient dog) suddenly yells, “IF ANY MAN GIVES YOU THAT SHIT, GIVE HIM HELL BACK. I RAISED YOU RIGHT.”

The Harvard Political Review reports on the history of Iranian feminism (it exists, and it is awesome) and how the 2009 protests could galvanize the women’s movement there.