Posted on Friday, 3 February 2012

The thing is, it’s patriarchy that says men are stupid and monolithic and unchanging and incapable. It’s patriarchy that says men have animalistic instincts and just can’t stop themselves from harassing and assaulting. It’s patriarchy that says men can only be attracted by certain qualities, can only have particular kinds of responses, can only experience the world in narrow ways. Feminism holds that men are capable of more – are more than that.

On claiming to be a stupid man who doesn’t know anything « Zero at the Bone (via grrlyboy)

EXACTLY. 

(via utopiaisbanished)

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    Feminism is about the equality of women and men. Feminism helps men too (although I can’t believe we have to say that in...
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    I am going to yell this at every man I know until they’re a feminist.
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    Never thought about it this way before.
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    It’s weird that this concept, which seems so evident, is so hard to grasp sometimes.
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