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The following pictures are truck decals;pictures you would paste on to the back of your truck bed. I assume this is so you can ‘pimp’ your truck in order to share with the world your creepily-violent-asshole-ish nature.
These are actual things in the world. Unfuckingbelievable .
THIS IS MARRIAGE!!
Thats right!
Permission to be a bad ass. Nod.
He looks back at the guy like, “SEE THAT? SHE SAID YES. YOU’RE SO FUCKED.”
Like, guys. Sparta was so kick ASS sometimes when it came to women. Spartan women were given these small knives so that if their husbands came home and tried to hit them or assault them, they had a weapon within reach. That weapon was for CUTTING THEIR HUSBANDS’ FUCKING FACES so that when he went out in public everyone would know he was an asshole, abusing jerkface and they would publicly shame him.
I DID NOT KNOW THAT THAT IS GREAT
LET’S JUST TALK ABOUT SPARTAN WOMEN FOR A SECOND.
In Sparta, women could own land and were considered citizens. THAT IS A HUGE BIG FUCKING DEAL. Why? Because that was RARE AS FUCK and there are lots of places TODAY where women don’t even get that much.
Divorce was totally fine, and a woman could expect to keep her own wealth and get custody of the kids because paternal lineage wasn’t very important. And it didn’t make her a pariah! She could totally remarry, no big deal at all.
Spartan women participated in some fuckin’ badass sporting events, too. And because they were expected to be as physically fit as the Spartan menfolk (who all had to serve compulsory military duties, btw, and couldn’t marry until they finished them at thirty) they didn’t have time for lots of swishy dresses. So they wore notoriously short skirts. According to some accounts, their thighs were visible at all times. HOLY SHIT.
Also, In Sparta men only got their names on their graves if they died in battle. And women? Women only got their names on their graves if they died in childbirth. THE SPARTANS COMPARED CHILDBIRTH TO FUCKING BATTLE AND IT WAS VIEWED AS A GODDAMN BADASS AND HONORABLE WAY TO GO OUT.
FUCKING SPARTAN WOMEN. THIS DUDE HAD FUCKIN’ BETTER MAKE SURE SHE’S COOL WITH WHATEVER HE’S DOING, IF HE KNOWS WHAT’S FUCKIN’ GOOD FOR HIM.
Many thanks to the Evil Feminist.
I wish I had thought of this.
Patriarchy is a term used to describe a system in which males are socialized at birth to acquire a set of attributes that are meant to maintain a sex-specific hierarchical system that establishes them as superior to females and grants them more access and opportunities in social spheres that allows for male control and dominance in economics, politics and the general culture (which also includes media).
In a society in which males are more likely to act violently against females and other males and females are usually the ones subjected to acts of sexual violence by males, it’s significant that as a culture, we denounce any practices, beliefs or reactions that reinforce cultural attitudes that maintains rape culture. A culture in which the victim of rape – typically female – is criticized, ridiculed, insulted and degraded by the society at large as responsible for being victimized.
Furthermore, it’s important that we remove any fetishizing or sexualizing stigmas to acts of violence against women because it reinforces rape myths, such as “rape is not that bad,” “rape is sexy”, myths that are misleading and makes it far more difficult for the individuals who internalize these myths to sympathize with the victims and support them.
Becoming sexually aroused at violence against women is a product of a society that continuously sexualizes females – treating them of objects, not only of desire, but of contempt, even while dying. Females are treated as something to be used and degraded rather than people who’s boundaries and limitations are to be acknowledged and respected.
We encourage empathy, sex-critical feminist ethics and the belief that in order to dismantle patriarchy, destroy rape culture, de-popularize porn culture myths and attitudes, we must begin by calling out those who consume violent pornographic media that turns misogyny into something titillating and we must consider the societal repercussions of being conditioned in a culture that treats violence against women and girls as comedy and pornography.
“With a disgust common to all feminists who have tried to be participants in the so-called humanism of men, only to discover through bitter experience that the culture of males does not allow honest female participation, Virginia Woolf wrote: “I detest the masculine point of view, I am bored by his heroism, virtue and honour. I think best that these men can do is not to talk about themselves anymore”. Men have claimed the human point of view, they author it, they own it. Men are humanists, humans, humanism. Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers, these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat. Men have claimed the earth, called it Her. Men ruin Her. Men have airplanes, guns, bombs, poisonous gases, weapons so perverse and deadly that they defy any authentically human imagination. Men battle each other and Her; women battle to be let in to the category “human” in imagination and reality. Men battle to keep the category “human” narrow, circumscribed by their own values and activities; women battle to change the meaning that men have given the word, to transform its meaning by suffusing it with female experience.”
— Andrea Dworkin, Pornography, Men Possessing Women
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