“The important thing is: at the end of the day, I don’t owe the world a thin body in exchange for their acknowledgement and approval. I’m not a magically better or more worthy person because my pants size is smaller. If someone’s going to make a contingency for love and acceptance based on my weight, then they belong with all that toxic sludge I was eating back a few years ago— in the trash.” — Laci Green (via fallintomyowleyes)

Here’s a friendly reminder:

commanderspock:

caffeinatedfeminist

-You cannot be sexist toward men. Sexism is based on a system of oppression. You CAN be discriminatory, rude, inconsiderate, and/or prejudiced against men but you CANNOT be sexist toward them.

-You cannot be racist towards white people. Racism is based on a system of oppression. You CAN be discriminatory, rude, inconsiderate, and/or prejudiced against white people but you CANNOT be racist toward them.

This is not difficult.

“Of course, if you meet someone that puts a hurricane in your pants, a song in your heart and a fire in your mind, don’t worry about what gender they are – just don’t let them get away.” — Milly Shaw from “Understanding bisexual attraction” published 25 August 2008 in Lesbilicious (via bialogue-group)

“And if a woman should say she doesn’t want to have children at all, the world is apt to go decidedly peculiar: ‘Ooooh, don’t speak too soon,’ it will say - as if knowing whether or not you’re the kind of person who desires to make a whole other human being in your guts, out of sex and food, then have the rest of your life revolve around its welfare, is a breezy, ‘Hey - whevs’ decision. Like electing to have a picnic on an unexpectedly sunny day or changing the background picture on your desktop. ‘When you meet the right man, you’ll change your mind, dear,’ the world will say, with an odd, aggressive smugness.” —

Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman (via theavenuesunsugaredtaste)

“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. ‘My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.’ It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions?” —

Sandi Toksvig (via suzywire) (via thegirlwithout, learninglog) (via turntoreallife)

“ortaWhen we complain about men raping, abusing, harassing, and refusing us our human rights, and you come back angrily with “But some men aren’t like that! How dare you imply that I might be like that.” Do you not think that the problem might come from the very fact that you are angry at … us for complaining, rather than angry at your fellow boys and men for this enduring misogyny? Instead of being furious that we point out that many men do act this way - including men these women trust completely - be angry that there are men that will treat your mother, sister, daughter, friend, girlfriend badly purely because they are female. Not only that but they are giving you a bad name, not us.” — Unknown.  (via j-a-n-e-a-s-h-e-r, inherhipstheresrevolutions) (via bellatrixareforkids)

8bitmaximo:

Every time I see that dude telling women about being sluts or that other dude telling girls about their makeup on my tumblr, I feel like doing this. So I did it.

foxycyrus:

Imagine finding someone you love more than anything in the world, who you would risk your life for but couldn’t marry. And you couldn’t have that special day the way your friends do—you know, wear the ring on your finger and have it mean the same thing as everybody else. Just put yourself in that person’s shoes. It makes me feel sick to my stomach.

When I shared a picture of my tattoo on my Twitter page and said, “All LOVE is equal,” a lot of people mocked me—they said, “What happened to you? You used to be a Christian girl!” And I said, “Well, if you were a true Christian, you would have your facts straight. Christianity is about love.” The debate resulted in a lot of threats and hate mail to people who agreed and disagreed with me. At one point I had to say, “Dude, everyone lay off.” Can’t people have friendly debates about sensitive topics without it turning into unnecessary threats?

I believe every American should be allowed the same rights and civil liberties. Without legalized same-sex marriage, most of the time you cannot share the same health benefits, you are not considered next of kin and you are not granted the same securities as a heterosexual couple. How is this different than having someone sit in the back of the bus because of their skin color?

One day I read online about the head of Urban Outfitters donating to a presidential candidate who does not support equality for everyone. I was shocked and disappointed that a company with such diversity would exclude such a large group of people. I can no longer bring myself to shop there

We all should be tolerant of one another and embrace our differences. My dad [country singer Billy Ray Cyrus], who is a real man’s man, lives on the farm and is as Southern and straight as they come. He loves my gay friends and even supports same-sex marriage. If my father can do it, anyone can.

Things you should know about eating disorders…

7percentsolution:

• there are more eating disorders than just anorexia and bulimia
• guys have eating disorders too
• you cannot tell if someone has an eating disorder by their body
• eating disorders are mental illnesses
• it takes hard work and patience to recover from an eating disorder, it does not just happen over night
• people of all ages have eating disorders

As do people of all races, nationalities and genders/sexes.

 #this barely even scratches the surface of misconceptions about eating disorders but yeah