Women read comics. Anyone at all engaged in social media knows this. Women read comics and are a driving force behind fandom. I think I could call them the driving force behind fandom and put up a convincing argument. Just think about it: what fandoms have driven America crazy in the last decade? Could anyone dissuade me from saying that they were Harry Potter, Twilight and the Hunger Games? “Avatar” may have put butts in theater seats, but you don’t hear about it… ever. No one is immersed in the world of “Avatar” except James Cameron and people who enjoy wearing Na’vi Zentai suits. “The Avengers” was pretty darn huge and, if Tumblr is any indication, a whopping portion of the people driving that fandom online do not possess a Y chromosome. Women engage in fandom to levels that men do not. When women get behind something, their sheer numbers and passion force it into the mainstream. That’s why you can name the actor who plays that werewolf kid in “Twilight” and probably sing at least the chorus to one Justin Bieber song. What do tween boys like? I have no clue. Sports? Probably sports.
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Brett White, Comic Book Resources (via wandrinparakeet)
and yet men remain the most marketed demographic for just about everything.
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I’m pretty sure the only men who spend more time thinking about DC than women on Tumblr are the men who actually work there.
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Incel in a nutshell
- Incel: I am so ugly and undesirable
- Incel: I demand the most attractive virgin woman in the universe for my partner.
- Incel: I can't believe how shallow fat, ugly women are.
- Incel: Not that I care I deserve at least a solid 8/10.
- Incel: I told a woman about being incel and how it ruins my life and she told me I was creepy! American bitches must die!
- Incel: IF WOMEN WERE STILL PROPERTY LIKE THEY SHOULD BE WE WOULDN'T HAVE THESE PROBLEMS.
Yes, false rape accusations happen. Run the protocol anyway. I’ve heard that perhaps the military has the highest number of ‘em. True or not, RUN THE PROTOCOL ANYWAY. Because in 15 years of investigating rape accusations, I can count those that panned out as false on one hand. Meanwhile, the one time I almost skipped the protocol, the one time I almost didn’t believe a petty officer, because I was naive as an investigator and a young woman, because her commanding officer described her as “a party girl, always late, always out drinking, don’t bother with this one”, she turned out to be the victim of one of the most brutal assaults I’ve ever investigated. She shouldn’t have still been -alive-, let alone up and making the accusation. So let me repeat: five false accounts in fifteen years. And one time I almost failed a woman ‘cause of the bullshit way it’s normal to talk about us. Take your shipmates’ word, and then run the protocol. Every. Single. Time.
— - JAG lawyer, speaking to my husband’s plant during Sexual Assault Prevention Month. (via circusbones)
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Spit on them.
all my followers best fucking reblog this goddamn shit.
This is rape culture.
(Source: gentlywachainsaw, via choosechoice)
If owning a gun and knowing how to use it worked, the military would be the safest place for a woman. It’s not.
If women covering up their bodies worked, Afghanistan would have a lower rate of sexual assault than Polynesia. It doesn’t.
If not drinking alcohol worked, children would not be raped. They are.
If your advice to a woman to avoid rape is to be the most modestly dressed, soberest and first to go home, you may as well add “so the rapist will choose someone else”.
If your response to hearing a woman has been raped is “she didn’t have to go to that bar/nightclub/party” you are saying that you want bars, nightclubs and parties to have no women in them. Unless you want the women to show up, but wear kaftans and drink orange juice. Good luck selling either of those options to your friends.
Or you could just be honest and say that you don’t want less rape, you want (even) less prosecution of rapists.
ALWAYS REBLOG KAT DENNINGS SLAMMING SLUT SHAMING
BAM BAM TURKEY AND HAM
BUT THIS SCENE IS SAD CUZ WHEN THE GIRL LEAVES KAT’S CHARACTER JUST STARTS CRYING AND-UGH.
Truer words have never been spoken.
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… He is making some very good points.
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AMEN. Can we get a medal for OP on this one please?
(Source: radfeminist, via iridessence)
If you can’t see past the notches on the bedpost, then no way are you earning one. THAT SIMPLE.
wristsareforbracelets-n0tcutting:
The amount of notes on this is disgusting.
pretty fucking much ^^And girls
8th grade. he called me fat. I’ll never forget it.
Elementary school, all the boys, even the one I had a crush on.
They called me Twinkie
It used to get to me so bad and now I’m like, SHUT UP LOSER I’M AS FABULOUS AS CAN BE THERE’S THE DOOR HOPE IT HITS YOU ON YOUR WAY OUT TO FUCK YOURSELF.
#safetytipsforladies: A hashtag about how tired women are of being told to do stupid, ineffective, unrealistic things to avoid being raped.
“try becoming Medusa, or if that is too difficult, a basilisk.”
Not sure if laughing or crying.
omg
TRY NOT KNOWING ANY MEN
1 chameleon bodysuit, please!
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