I don’t want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living

Wow. Grimes is my new heroine.

actuallygrimes:

i dont want my words to be taken out of context 

i dont want to be infantilized because i refuse to be sexualized  

i dont want to be molested at shows or on the street by people who perceive me as an object that exists for their personal satisfaction 

i dont want to live in a world where im gonna have to start employing body guards because this kind of behavior is so commonplace and accepted and I’m pissed that when I express concern over my own safety it’s often ignored until people see firsthand what happens and then they apologize for not taking me seriously after the fact… 

I’m tired of men who aren’t professional or even accomplished musicians continually offering to ‘help me out’ (without being asked), as if i did this by accident and i’m gonna flounder without them.  or as if the fact that I’m a woman makes me incapable of using technology.  I have never seen this kind of thing happen to any of my male peers 

I’m tired of the weird insistence that i need a band or i need to work with outside producers (and I’m eternally grateful to the people who don’t do this)

im tired of being considered vapid for liking pop music or caring about fashion as if these things inherently lack substance or as if the things i enjoy somehow make me a lesser person 

im tired of being congratulated for being thin because i can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway 

im tired of people i love betraying me so they can get credit or money

I’m sad that it’s uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues

I’m tired of creeps on message boards discussing whether or not they’d “fuck” me

I’m tired of people harassing my dancers and treating them like they aren’t human beings

I’m sad that my desire to be treated as an equal and as a human being is interpreted as hatred of men, rather than a request to be included and respected (I have four brothers and many male best friends and a dad and i promise i do not hate men at all, nor do i believe that all men are sexist or that all men behave in the ways described above) 

im tired of being referred to as ‘cute,’ as a ‘waif’ etc., even when the author, fan, friend, family member etc. is being positive 

(fyi)

waif |wāf|

noun

1 a homeless and helpless person, esp. a neglected or abandoned child: she is foster-mother to various waifs and strays .

• an abandoned pet animal.

cute |kyo͞ot|

adjective

1 attractive in a pretty or endearing way: a cute kitten.

• informal sexually attractive.

I’m tired of people assuming that just because something happens regularly it’s ok

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i have so much love for everyone who has been cool and amazing.  I have the best job in the world but I’m done with being passive about any kind of status quo that allows anyone to suffer or to be disrespected

Grimes world tour is officially over, the visions album cycle is officially over, and I’m now taking the time to overhaul everything and make it better 

much love to every fan - stuff can be lame sometimes but its really cool to have this support <3 

Success stories began to pour in. In their own ways, women started to fight back. One runner, sick of catcalls and wolf whistles, started making her own “honk if you love feminism” T-shirts. A woman tired of cold-callers asking to speak to “the man of the house” started putting them on to her six-year-old son, who’d sing: “I’m sexy and I know it.” A football fan wrote to the chairman of his club to ask why the fans were singing such misogynistic chants. And email after email started arriving from women who had found the strength to report harassment, stalking and sexual assault to the police. This time last year, I had an idea. Today, 25,000 women’s voices have turned it into so much more.

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Laura Bates, die vor einem Jahr das Every Sexism Project erfand, schreibt im Guardian über die vielen Posts von Betroffenen – mittlerweile über 1000 in einer Woche – die scheusslichen Hassnachrichten, aber auch über neuen Mut, den Frauen aufgrund des Projekts gefasst haben.

Seit heute gibt es übrigens auch eine deutsche Version der Seite.

Die Texas Association Against Sexual Assault hat eine großartige Kampagne namens “Break The Box” gestartet. Sie zeigt auf, wie uns Geschlechterstereotype einschränken, demütigen und eine Basis für sexuelle Gewalt darstellen – und dass es deswegen so wichtig ist, aus dieser Schublade auszubrechen.

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let me correct you: every girl is a badass. #notbuyingit

Wanting to be liked means being a supporting character in your own life, using the cues of the actors around you to determine your next line rather than your own script. It means that your self-worth will always be tied to what someone else thinks about you, forever out of your control.

— From Jessica Valenti’s excellent piece “She Who Dies With the Most ‘Likes’ Wins?”.

It’s a long-running – and frankly rather insulting – trope that men are powerless before their own sexuality. We are so at the mercy of our hard-ons that the merest hint of sex is enough to reduce us to cavemen, incapable of anything other than the fulfillment of our immediate desires.
The idea that sex inevitably becomes an issue between cross-gender (or, again, cross-orientation) friendships is a long-standing one, and one that’s reinforced regularly by pop culture. To be a man, so we’re told over and over again, is to be unable to compartmentalize our sexuality from our daily lives.

— Doctor Nerdlove on the question: “Can Men And Women Be ‘Just’ Friends?”

Can I just repeat how much I love, love, love what W. Kamau Bell is doing with his show “Totally biased”? Yeah? Because in this video he’s taking on the prevalent issue of street harassment and it’s… totally brilliant!

Can I haz German TV like this pls? Kthxbai!

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“Companies have spent millions of dollars making pills that grow men’s hair, fix men’s sex lives, and now ladies have a pen… we’ve come a long way, baby!”

Ellen DeGeneres wurde angesprochen, ob sie denn nicht Werbung für den speziellen Frauenstift “Bic for her” machen wolle. Ihre darauf folgende Antwort ist an snark nicht mehr zu überbieten. Einfach wunderbar.

Start talking with men and boys about the messages they’re getting about women and girls. Tell them that they are not entitled to our bodies, no matter what. Talk to them honestly and comprehensively about sexualization and objectification. Stop being afraid to talk about boundaries, sex, and pleasure—leaving that to schools, the Internet, and peers is simply not cutting it. Show them what consent really looks like.

And this sounds basic, but remind them that we’re, you know, people? We deserve at least that much.

— From “What it’s like being a teen girl” by Emma Woolley.

I got really fed up with seeing women naked and feeling unempowered by it so, for the album cover, I didn’t shave my legs, or dye my moustache, or pluck my eyebrows.