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gluten tag

@yellyhaim / yellyhaim.tumblr.com

jess / germany / twitter
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Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”

and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”

and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.

This is so well put I am stunned

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lesbians who make the first move are braver than any US marine

yes because facing rejection is so much scarier than being fucking shot at in the middle of a land you have never been to, and have a high chance of dying. ok

i’m glad you understand

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lagoonhag
The common phrase ‘rape is about power, not sex’ is misleading; rape is about the fusion of sex and domination, about the eroticization of control. When we are stuck in “an endless debate over whether rape is about sexual gratification on the one hand, or a display of power and dominance on the other; sex accomplished violently, or violence accomplished sexually,” as one writer puts it, we obscure the uncomfortable reality that in patriarchy the two are intertwined, not just in rape but in much of ‘normal’ sexual activity. Yes, men who rape seek a sense of power, but men also use their power to get sex from women, sometimes under conditions that are not legally defined as rape but involve varying levels of control and coercion.

Robert Jensen, The End of Patriarchy, 2017 (via warmlove)

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