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nessfraserloves: crunchykatie: nanner: liquidiousfleshbag: maritsa-met: thecranium: timemagazine: The latest issue of TIME, featuring our cover story on the rise of attachment parenting, “Are You Mom Enough?” hits newsstands Friday. (On the cover: Jamie Grumet, 26, and her son, 3, whom she breastfeeds. Photograph by Martin Schoeller for TIME) Read more here. omg. “Breastfeed forever. It will make your kid grow so fast he looks six when he’s three. So he can defend himself when his peers find this magazine cover on the Internet.” All I can think of is Lysa and Sweet Robin I dunno Time Magazine, did you fucking ask if any fathers are Dad Enough? Or does that not matter as long as you can continue to criticize women and motherhood in general? Time Magazine is basically some sort of smug, weave your own baskets version of fucking Cosmo. And let’s not discuss how attachment parenting is by and large dependent on a stay-at-home mother who does nothing but care for her child all day. Or the racial/class/political connotations and consequences of that. Or we could talk about how they staged the picture to make the three year old look MUCH older than he probably does on a day to day basis. So this is sexist and gross, and they’re definitely trying to turn this into a girl(woman) hate thing. But you don’t have to be a SAHM to be an attachment parent. AP has a special place in my heart so i feel the need to clarify that these are the 8 principles of AP: Preparation for Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting Feed with Love and Respect Respond with Sensitivity Use Nurturing Touch Ensure Safe Sleep, Physically and Emotionally Provide Consistent Loving Care Practice Positive Discipline Strive for Balance in Personal and Family Life You can practice these things to varying degrees (or choose not to practice some of them at all) and you can DO WHAT’S RIGHT FOR YOU. Even if you’re working! Also, there’s nothing wrong with a 3-year old who breastfeeds. The last bit of commentary on this thread is spot-on (internet high five to you!) Mothering and being a mother are independent experiences that are never alike for two people.  ”And let’s not discuss how attachment parenting is by and large dependent on a stay-at-home mother who does nothing but care for her child all day” — you’re right, we probably shouldn’t discuss that because that statement is a generalization and well.. false. Being a SAHM means a lot more than just caring for children and if you don’t understand why or how you should go pick up “the price of motherhood” so you get got on the level real quick.  I hate to be anecdotal because it makes shit personal but, I’m a mother who breastfed for a very long time, who practices AP and works a full time job while studying Political Science. If you understand the ideology behind attachment parenting then you are able to live that lifestyle.. because.. well.. it is just that — A lifestyle. It is so easy to turn this image into a nasty thing or a problematic thing but what it is instead is natural. Everyone is so busy feeding their kids processed foods and sending them off to travel-sports tournaments that when someone sees a loving parent who does their best nurture their children they get slapped with the “extremist” critique. Parenting is not a competitive sport and I wish everyone would stop trying to turn it into one. 
Anonymous: Go make me a sandwich, Pussycat.

While trying to think of a clever way to respond to this ignorant button-pushing coward all I could think about was Tom Jones and this song. whats new pussy cattttttt woahhhhwooahhhwoooahhh

operating table? more like kitchen table!

suspicious-white-van:

Yesterday, I wrote a gender studies exam, and I called my dad to boast about how I knew what I was talking about (and how I shat all over Mike Harris in the process). My dad asked me this riddle:

“Father and son are travelling in a Jeep when the vehicle swerves from the road and flips twice, landing on its hood. The older man is killed instantly, but the younger man survives and is rushed to hospital.

“At the hospital, the son is about to go into emergency surgery. The doctor arrives, recognizes the patient, and says, ‘I can’t perform this operation—that’s my son.

“How is this possible?”

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This is excellent and I hadn’t heard this revealing riddle before. Please, read on!

khaleesi: A GREAT BIG GIANT ASS LIST OF FEMINIST LIT. Being both a starter kit of sorts and a list of titles that are important to the history of feminism or current feminist movement.   Please note: The author of this post has not read everything suggested here but has compiled this list based on recommendations, academic courses, etc. Many of these texts are admittedly problematic, but are included because this feminist believes it’s important to know where we’ve come from in order to move forward. Go forth and read! And feel free to add titles if you reblog! NEW TO FEMINISM?Manifesta by Jennifer BaumgardnerFeminism is For Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooksFull-Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti DIG IN!The Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirGender Trouble by Judith ButlerBacklash by Susan FaludiNo Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women by Estelle B. FreedmanThe Essential Feminist Reader edited by Estelle B. FreedmanThe Feminine Mystique by Betty FriedanColonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism by Daisy HernandezAin’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism by bell hooksFemale Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel LevyFeminism Without Borders by Chandra Talpade MohantyCunt: A Declaration of Independence by Inga MuscioReviving Ophelia by Mary PipherWonder Women: Feminisms and Superheroes by Lillian RobinsonThe Spiral Dance by StarhawkA Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft; BUY IT | READ IT ONLINEA Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolfe FEMINISM AND THE BODY:Unbearable Weight by Susan Bordo FAT!SO? Because You Don’t Have to Apologize For Your Size by Marilyn WannThe Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf  FEMINISTS DO IT BETTER.Yes Means Yes! Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti Our Bodies, Ourselves by Judy Norsigian and the Boston Women’s Health Book CollectiveThe Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti GET INVOLVED!Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism by Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards, and Winona LaDukeLeading the Way: Young Women’s Activism for Social Change by Mary K. Trigg  This is a really great list of wonderful literature, I wish I could high-five the person who originally created this post. I’d like to add a few books to this list: Women and Gender in Islam by Leila Ahmed Women and Power in the Middle East by Suad Joseph and Susan Slyomovics Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender by Gloria Steinem  The Women’s Room by Marilyn French Gender Outlaw: On men, Women and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki How we Survived Communism and Even Laughed by Slavenka Drakulic  Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy Naphtalene a Novel of Baghdad by Alia Mamdouh Dessa Rose by Sherley A. Williams Thanks for Coming: One Young Woman’s Quest for an Orgasm by Mara Altman The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World is Still Least Valued by: Ann Crittenden The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls by Joan Jacobs Brumberg Do Tampons Take Your Virginity: A Catholic Girls Memoir by Marie Simas I know at first glance some of these don’t seem like feminist texts but I promise you that they will open your mind and twist your image of womanhood, female sexuality and what it means/is like to be a woman globally. I wish I could keep adding to this list because I could honestly do this all day, but I MUST get back to work. I hope everyone is having a beautiful day and if you don’t have a summer reading list already.. well… now you do. 
The Sexual Politics of Meat

lasso:

Please do not compare the eating of animals to the systematic large-scale genocide of millions of people. Do not compare someone eating protein to the sexual violation of a person. Do not compare raising animals for food to human beings being kidnapped and sent to foreign continents to be treated as property. You are a horrible person if you do. 

I was a vegan for many years and never did any of the above BUT I did read The sexual politics of meat: a feminist-vegetarian critical theory by carol adams. It was super interesting and she made several great points that hadn’t previously occurred to me. If this topic is interesting to you, I could send you the book (who ever/where ever you are) and you could read it. If this post was just a rant and these vegans who make stretched parallels just piss you off.. then by all means feel free to get it all out. 

(Source: kakapop, via sazquatch)

Powerful.

crystaldiamondrose:

One of the more powerful images (and cover stories) I’ve read on Choice in a while.

I don’t miss Texas politics.

This cover says everything that needs to be said without saying a word. 

loveyourchaos:

Andrea Gibson / The Nutritionist (I am legitimately crying.)

(via samanthacorrie)

lahappyfeminist:

Gloria Steinem supports President Obama

Oh hey dylan, you sexy beast.  (miss you)
The Republican Party Declares War on Women ➜

stfusantorum:

This from The Guardian. 

The British are paying attention to the Republican freak show going on right now. Which is really embarrassing. 

Je T’aime

Want to know what I love? No? Well.. I’m going to tell you anyways because I’m a pushy feminazi. More than anything else, I LOVEEEEadoreJUSTCANTGETENOUGH of anti-feminist posts made by women. What I love even more is when I go to their page and see : “Anti-feminist, pro-cannabis, pro-life, free palestine, I say what I want” under their about tab. LOLZz. you silly stinker, enjoying your right to freedom of speech? did you vote on elections that would later decide on issues such as pro-cannabis and pro-life bills/reforms?  OH HONEYBABYSWEETTHANGGG You’re so very welcome for your rights, you can thank feminism for those things later.

Sincerely yours, 

The Feminist Movement.

truth-has-a-liberal-bias: One of the reasons Rick Santorum is doing so well in the Republican primary is that he is bringing back two of the Supreme Court cases that were decided decades ago, but that the Republicans refuse to accept as the law of the land. Griswold v. Connecticut, (1965), was a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Constitution protected a right to privacy. The case involved a Connecticut law that prohibited the use of contraceptives. By a vote of 7–2, the Supreme Court invalidated the law on the grounds that it violated the “right to marital privacy”. […] Roe v. Wade, (1973), is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. Decided simultaneously with companion case Doe v. Bolton, the Court ruled that a right to privacy under the due process clause in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution extends to a woman’s decision to have an abortion, but that right must be balanced against the state’s two legitimate interests for regulating abortions: protecting prenatal life and protecting the woman’s health. Saying that these state interests become stronger over the course of a pregnancy, the Court resolved this balancing test by tying state regulation of abortion to the woman’s current trimester of pregnancy. […] Republicans want to roll back the clock on decades of progress. And Rick Santorum is leading the charge. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griswold_v._Connecticut http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade
Well played

YESSSSSSSSSS! This just made my day. I’m sitting here letting out the deepest darkest most evil chuckle. Nina Turner you’re the best, HIGH FIVE GO TEAM! Well played.

http://feministing.com/2012/03/14/bad-ass-woman-of-the-day-nina-turner/