Just another blog - complete with owls, tea, fashion, fangirling, more fangirling, and occasionally some horror.
Just another blog - complete with owls, tea, fashion, fangirling, more fangirling, and occasionally some horror.
feminism says “wow there’s a shit ton of inequality here and we need to focus on oppressed groups to fix shit”
whereas egalitarianism says “i guess shit’s not equal but if we pretend it is maybe the bad stuff will just go away”
Or maybe egalitarianism says both sides face…
“wow tumblr has taught me more than school ever has!” the tumblr user says as they reblog repeatedly debunked urban legends and miscellaneous information that really has no place in a school curriculum
Let’s go back to 1945…
Let’s not… Let’s play a game called “Context Matters!”
That picture on the left, so iconic and romantic? Yeah, that’s a sexual assault right there. That man was a stranger, a strong stranger who grabbed a random woman on the street, and “kissed” her. In her words:
Suddenly, I was grabbed by a sailor. It wasn’t that much of a kiss… “I felt that he was very strong. He was just holding me tight. I’m not sure about the kiss…it was just somebody celebrating. It wasn’t a romantic event.
That picture on the right, the one that looks like a man holding a woman down in the mists of a riot, her clothes disheveled as he kissed her hard? That man is her boyfriend. He’s comforting her. Her real attackers are the police. An eyewitness stated:
The girl who was knocked over landed head first on the pavement with her boyfriend landing partially on top of her. She was in visible pain, crying, but the two officers gave them a parting shove and moved on.
The left picture: an icon of sexism, male privilege, and female objectification.
The right: real love in the face of brutal state force.
Tumblr seriously. This has been debunked. :/
“George Mendonsa and Greta Zimmer Friedman — identified as the kissing couple by “The Kissing Sailor,” a book published this year by the U.S. Naval Institute — called the moment an act of unbridled celebration.
“I can’t think of anybody who considered that as an assault,” said Friedman, who exchanges Christmas cards with Mendonsa every year and has appeared with him at several reunion events. “It was a happy event.”
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