May 2013
22 posts
what you said was: "i don't respect women who don't respect themselves"
what you meant was: "i and society as a whole hold women up to ridiculous respectability standards directly relating to the "purity" of said women while hypersexualizing them at the same time and if you are a woman and don't fit my awkward monolith of criteria then i refuse to acknowledge your humanity"
what i heard was: "hi i'm a misogynist piece of shit, please punch me in my face"
April 2013
19 posts
“We black people, poor people-we’ve not really been introduced to the injustices...”
– Erykah Badu (via lunagemme)
“1.
I say, ‘I am fat.’
He says ‘No, you are beautiful.’
I wonder why I cannot...”
– Rachel Wiley (via acynicalcunt)
March 2013
37 posts
Cops Who Shot 16 yr old Kimani Gray Have 5 Prior... →
thesevenshow:
The cops who shot 16-year-old Brooklyn teen Kimani Gray have been accused of civil rights violations in federal lawsuits. The New York Daily News writes that Sergeant Mourad Mourad and Officer Jovaniel Cordova racked up five such charges prior to their fatal confrontation with Gray on March 9.
Mourad has been sued three times while working as a plainclothes officer in Staten...
