Something that is deeply frustrating to me is how we have these female fandom powerhouses and theoretically that should be a good jumping-off point for demanding wider and more varied representation in media. It's interesting, because I spend a lot of time arguing that because these female fanbases exist, it's living, breathing proof of the need ( Read more... )

So...someone on Plurk defriended me. Honestly, it's not the worst thing in the world. She's been making me anxious and obsessive about my fandom/shipping preferences for a long time. For those of you who are curious, this is the girl that made me feel so awful about shipping slash pairigs for a while and very frustrated with humanities majors ( ( Read more... )

Tumblr discussion on APH headcanon.

Tart says "no matter what you think, society says that strength is a masculine trait" and then went on to say that to think a woman can be strong on her OWN without wanting to be a man means you're a "raving feminist" and somehow disconnected from reality.


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The idea that it's perfectly okay to say "I'm just not interested in male characters" without being called misandrist, but "I'm just not interested in female characters" will bring accusations of misogyny almost definitely.

Something doesn't add up.

Ignoring the fact that misandry and misogyny are horribly overused and, I feel, misrepresented, either ( Read more... )

Okay, so there was this incredibly ( jerkish post ) Hetalia_wank. Pretty sure they were a troll, because anybody who says there are no awesome girls in the series has clearly not read it.

What's awesome is how Page 3 turned into a GIANT PICSPAM of the girl characters <3

One or two of them are somewhat NSFW femslashy...but I was annoyed enough at this ( Read more... )

The World Economic Forum did a study on gender equality in the countries of the world. Sweden ranked top.

http://lifestyle.msn.com/your-life/m...8715>1=32053

My favorite part is:

The goal of equality starts young: "Anti-Sexism Awareness Training" begins in kindergarten, ( Read more... )

( Utah Criminalizes Miscarriage )Fucking hell ( Read more... )

This was just something I stumbled across while doing some research on women in the military, and thought it was awesome enough to share. Mostly because I never knew this before. I find it very interesting that after a country sustains horrible losses it's more likely to look to women as a source of badass.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ ( Read more... )