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International Women's Day
I’d like to wish all women out there a happy International Women’s Day.
Ladies, you’ve come a long way, and I support...
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Fucking THIS.
TRIGGER WARNING: SEXUAL ASSAULT
if you’re a perpetrator of sexual assault who isn’t willing to take the steps to change and i know about it and you’re at the same show as me i will try so hard to kick you out while telling everyone about it
if you have shows at your house,…
Many Republicans don’t regard government jobs as actual jobs, and are eager to see them disappear. Republican governors around the Midwest have aggressively tried to break the power of public unions while slashing their work forces, and Congressional Republicans have proposed paying for a payroll tax cut by reducing federal employment rolls by 10 percent through attrition. That’s 200,000 jobs.
But every layoff, whether public or private, is a life, and a livelihood, and a family. And too many of them are getting battered by the economic storm.
4 Pieces of Relationship Advice Movies Need to Stop Giving
#4. Not Being Able to Function Socially Makes Someone Attractive and Interesting
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This is something that has bothered me throughout my life, likely because I know my mother - a petite woman, former construction worker - has experienced the worst when it comes to having your strength judged based on your gender.
If we can’t handle it, we won’t carry it. [more from #feministwishlist]
I have a neighbor who says this to me every time he sees me take out my garbage. I think I can handle it.
Meanwhile I’d love to not be told to carry/open/lift things because I’m a manperson.
I offer men and women help with carrying things because I’m big, and while I’m fairly certain that there are women that would take offense, I don’t care. It’s polite. I hold doors open too, I say please and thank you and I let people in in traffic.
Come at me.
^This is entirely reasonable. What’s annoying are the people who, even when you say “no thanks i’ve got this” continually insist that you can’t handle it and keep going “are you sure? i can take if if you want, it’s no problem. Here, just let me take it.” etc, etc.
A lot of good commentary going on in this thread and I’d like to clarify something, since some of you seem to interpret my sentiments incorrectly.
I do not view a man’s offer to help me carry something as a misogynistic move. And, no, I don’t think you’re an asshole if you ask a woman if she needs help. Rather, it is the endless insistence when I have said I don’t need help… hence me including the “are you sure?” portion above (alas, it’s difficult to fully explain your grievances in less than 140 characters). Of course many men are simply being polite and may ask other men if they need help. However, anecdotally speaking, there are times when men have grabbed stuff out of my arms after I said I didn’t need help, will struggle to grab every item so I have nothing to carry, or will tell me I “shouldn’t have to” carry heavy items (at my first job in high school, my boss specifically told me not to carry boxes because “that’s why I hired boys”). In my profession, working in TV production, it’s part of my job to carry lots of gear, set up lighting, etc., so I might take offense when someone implies over and over that I might not be able to handle part of my job. At the root of the issue, though, I think of the phrase “you [verb] like a girl/woman”… widely used to describe one’s weakness.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu7attO3MK1qzr73ro1_1280.png)
This is something that has bothered me throughout my life, likely because I know my mother - a petite woman, former construction worker - has experienced the worst when it comes to having your strength judged based on your gender.
If we can’t handle it, we won’t carry it. [more from #feministwishlist]
I have a neighbor who says this to me every time he sees me take out my garbage. I think I can handle it.
Meanwhile I’d love to not be told to carry/open/lift things because I’m a manperson.
I offer men and women help with carrying things because I’m big, and while I’m fairly certain that there are women that would take offense, I don’t care. It’s polite. I hold doors open too, I say please and thank you and I let people in in traffic.
Come at me.
^This is entirely reasonable. What’s annoying are the people who, even when you say “no thanks i’ve got this” continually insist that you can’t handle it and keep going “are you sure? i can take if if you want, it’s no problem. Here, just let me take it.” etc, etc.
A lot of good commentary going on in this thread and I’d like to clarify something, since some of you seem to interpret my sentiments incorrectly.
I do not view a man’s offer to help me carry something as a misogynistic move. And, no, I don’t think you’re an asshole if you ask a woman if she needs help. Rather, it is the endless insistence when I have said I don’t need help… hence me including the “are you sure?” portion above (alas, it’s difficult to fully explain your grievances in less than 140 characters). Of course many men are simply being polite and may ask other men if they need help. However, anecdotally speaking, there are times when men have grabbed stuff out of my arms after I said I didn’t need help, will struggle to grab every item so I have nothing to carry, or will tell me I “shouldn’t have to” carry heavy items (at my first job in high school, my boss specifically told me not to carry boxes because “that’s why I hired boys”). In my profession, working in TV production, it’s part of my job to carry lots of gear, set up lighting, etc., so I might take offense when someone implies over and over that I might not be able to handle part of my job. At the root of the issue, though, I think of the phrase “you [verb] like a girl/woman”… widely used to describe one’s weakness.
