alexandra macgregor

WOW this is insulting. 

newwavefeminism:

fuckyeahgenderstudies:

eightysixed:

HORRIBLE new Got Milk? campaign. Sexist and disgusting, this new campaign features husbands apologizing for all the mistakes they’ve made while trying to convince their wives to drink more milk - because it will ease the severity of their PMS.

What the fuck is going on?

Milk is a bad choice.

So they predicted the rightful angry reactions to their bullshit ass claim. If I was PMSing (which I surprisingly don’t) or if I was just in a bad mood and some dude was like “you must be PMSing” and tries to force feed me milk, i’d probably tell them to gtf out of my face.

But chances are I’m going to be with someone who doesn’t consult Got Milk ads on how to deal with MY feelings. pshhh

(via lipstick-feminists)

moreapologies:

Post from my blog (tenderhooligan/ wordpress)

(Trigger warning.)

Photo caption: “Whenever I saw him, I hid. I hated to see him,” Tahani (in pink) recalls of the early days of her marriage to Majed, when she was 6 and he was 25. The young wife posed for this portrait with former classmate Ghada, also a child bride, outside their mountain home in Hajjah.

National Geographic have compiled a series of photos about child brides. I was discussing with a colleague the other day the problem of western feminism trying to colonise the Middle East and women in that region. We western feminists often have a very set view of what is acceptable and unacceptable, what is oppressive and problematic, and what needs to change.  But those views are generally based on western experiences which are embedded in western cultural and societal norms. In short: it is very likely that these norms do not apply to non-western women. And nor should they. The most glaring example of such colonisation is the on-going discussion of the wearing of the Islamic veil. We in the west tend to disagree with the veil because we see it as a symbol of the oppression of women and evidence of their mistreatment in Islam. If we’re France we ban Muslim women from wearing the veil. That’s colonisation.

So when it comes to the discussion of child brides in non-western cultures, it’s fundamental to remove our western lens and to consider the practice within non-western culture. (Maybe it’s the case that we shouldn’t be having this discussion at all?) But that’s easier said than done, even on an abstract level. And when you see pictures such as those on the link above, it becomes harder still.

Photo caption: Kandahar policewoman Malalai Kakar arrests a man who repeatedly stabbed his wife, 15, for disobeying him. “Nothing,” Kakar said, when asked what would happen to the husband. “Men are kings here.” Kakar was later killed by the Taliban.

This is not a quandary that I can solve here and now.

matchbookmag:

DATEBOOK: June 1, 1926 Norma Jean Mortenson, later known as Marilyn Monroe, was born in Los Angeles.

(via allaboutmarilynmonroe)

(via quietquietlife)

(Source: dailymurf, via quietquietlife)

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