F is For Female

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself. - Harvey Fierstein

—(via safercampus)

A slut is someone, usually a woman, who’s stepped outside of the very narrow lane that good girls are supposed to stay within. Sluts are loud. We’re messy. We don’t behave. In fact, the original definition of “slut” meant “untidy woman.” But since we live in a world that relies on women to be tidy in all ways, to be quiet and obedient and agreeable and available (but never aggressive), those of us who color outside of the lines get called sluts. And that word is meant to keep us in line.

—Jaclyn Friedman (via cultureofresistance)

(Source: rockandrollhigh, via jessicavalenti)

jessicavalenti:

There are so many things wrong with Anna David’s post, “Women Had It Better in the Sixties,” it’s hard to know where to begin. First of all, it really should have been titled “Straight White Women Had It Better in the Sixties,” cause you know…fucking civil rights and all that. But even if David…