lagertha-lodbrok:

halfhardtorock:

friendlycloud:

agewa:

“We went to Kineshma, that’s in Ivanovo region, to visit his parents. I went as a heroine and I never expected someone to welcome me, a front-line girl, like that. We’ve gone through so much, we’ve saved lives, lifes of mothers, wives. And then… I heard accusations, I was bad-mouthed. Before that I’ve only ever been “dear sister”… We had tea and my husband’s mother took him aside and started crying: “Who did you marry? A front-line girl… You have two younger sisters. Who’s going to marry them now?” When I think back to that moment I feel tears welling up. Imagine: I had a record, I loved it a lot. There was a song, it said: you have the right to wear the best shoes. That was about a front-line girl. I had it playing, and [his?] elder sister came up and broke it apart, saying: you have no rights. They destroyed all my photos from the war… We, front-line girls, went through so much during hte war… and then we had another war. Another terrible war. The men left us, they didn’t cover our backs. Not like at the front.” from С.Алексеевич “У войны не женское лицо”

In Soviet Union women participating in WWII were erased from history, remaining as the occasional anecdote of a female sniper or simply as medical staff or, at best, radio specialists. The word “front-line girl” (frontovichka) became a terrible insult, synonimous to “whore”. Hundreds thousand of girls who went to war to protect their homeland with their very lives, who came back injured or disabled, with medals for valor, had to hide it to protect themselves from public scorn. 

This has always happened in history: Women do something important. Then they get shamed for it (so nobody will talk about it) and it gets erased from history.

And then certain men will say: “Women suck, they’ve never done anything important.”

Look into history and learn that women have played a far greater role then douches (present and past) wanted you to know.

This reminds me of how Egyptian women, who participated in Arab Spring protests in great numbers and were critical to the revolution that ousted Mubarak’s regime, have only been treated with great disdain and violence for their passion and work. 

http://www.impowr.org/forum/current-events/after-arab-spring-womens-rights-egypt

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ida-lichter-md/womens-rights-arab-spring_b_1169821.html

Remember that time I made a post reminding people that okaying women for front-line combat is not the beginning of women fighting in wars, but only the beginning of men finally realizing we weren’t going to shut up about it? Remember after I posted that some dudebro came into my inbox and tried to claim I was wrong and that only a few “rogue women” were fighters?

Again, we have fought in every conflict and every war since the beginning of time. We’re the ones most likely to be victims of war crimes so you better fucking believe we fight for our homes, our people, our lives.

We fight alongside men and help them, save them, die for them as battle buddies and they turn around and write us out of their histories. They erase our efforts, our sacrifices, our deaths.

(via rabbleprochoice)

angrygirlcomics:

angrygirlcomics:

no offense to my Sternie friends, of course, but you gotta admit…

I’m bringing this back because I’m feeling supremely unkind towards my alma mater today. 

total offense intended. if you went to Stern, you’ve been socialized to not care about business ethics, or, in fact, any ethics at all. and if you still care, congratulations. you’ve survived business school with your soul and conscience intact, which is so much more than can be said for so many people I know who graduated from there.

liberalsarecool:

Government is public. You can control and vote on what you do not like. Corporations are private, you have almost no control.

(via rabbleprochoice)

stfusexists:

stfueverything:

knowledgeequalsblackpower:

thenapturalone:

diemeowderkatze:

I AM SORRY BUT THIS IS WHY I AM EMBARRASSED TO BE AN AMERICAN. IF A HIJAB THAT DORNS THE AMERICAN FLAG PATTERN IS NOT ACCEPTABLE BUT SKIMPY ASS BIKINIS OR WEARING THE FUCKING ACTUAL FLAG IS ACCEPTABLE, JUST BECAUSE THE PERSON IS WHITE, I WANT TO FUCKING THROW UP.

(I don’t have a thing against Audrey Kitching, she was just merely and example). 

But this fucking disgusts me right here. It makes me want to say, fuck this country and its racism and double standards. 

I LITERALLY FUCKING CAN NOT

Give her a bullet to the head for walking down the street, minding her own business??  And they think SHE’S the terrorist. 

^bolding for emphasis. 

I want someone to force Bill Maher to read all of these comments 100 times the next time he goes on and on about how the US treats women sooo much better than those evil Muslim countries. Because it seems to me that we have plenty of people foaming at the mouth to treat Muslim women like shit here in the good ol’ US of A.

glameater:

Please guys, help us spreading this message!

(via theprophetlilith)

Happy pride, Brooklyn! Love, a queer femme who has to work.

chead:

tsunderisse:

antigovernmentextremist:

gerrycanavan:

Jury nullification. Pass it on.

Jury nullification is so fucking important.

Did you know?? “Mens Rights” organisations of hijacked this technique away from progressive causes & are attempting to use it on any and all rape trials. That’s how scummy and inhuman MRAs are.

Murder every self-identified MRA in real life, forever.

(via sugaredvenom)

It’s nice to know that I’m still an xtreme procrastinator.

specialedition87:

ieatboyss:

#whenever I see a pic of Dany and Jorah together I like to pretend they’re judging people’s outfits

Well this changes everything.

(Source: alayne-stoneheart, via titsmcgrits)

oh-forsure:

stupiduglyfatcunt:

myphoria:

Check out the contrast between these search results. Not a single “loser”, “easy”, “desperate”, “stupid”, “scum” or similar insult in the search results for fathers.

Why, society, are single fathers so often seen with sympathy and admiration, yet single mothers are painted as a washed-up, disgusting strain on the system?

This is fucked.

Men are gross.

UGHHHH

(via nerdgrrrlnerd)

100sleeplesssnights:

trans-scripts:

hardlystricktlystarkid:

GUYS MY SCHOOL DID SOMETHING RIGHT

This is really really cool!!!!!

wow. why doesnt my school do this?

(via theprophetlilith)

sorryimlate:

ALWAYS

(Source: suitup-throwdown, via showerbeers)

hay internet my boyfriend is really good at flailing around and doing ying yang twins impression

sammijawsome:

my boo and i are checking our tumblrzzzz

o he reblogged it

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