"I wish people wouldn’t just see me as the Asian girl who beats everyone up, or the Asian girl with no emotion. People see Julia Roberts or Sandra Bullock in a romantic comedy, but not me. You add race to it, and it became, ‘Well, she’s too Asian’, or, ‘She’s too American’. I kind of got pushed out of both categories. It’s a very strange place to be. You’re not Asian enough and then you’re not American enough, so it gets really frustrating."

- Lucy Liu (via strangite)

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Men deal with a lot of social pressures regarding body image just as girls do, and never is this more stressful than in high school. We grow up with the idea that men are supposed to be big and strong, they’re supposed to be able to kick a door down and sweep a women off her feet and carry her home with no effort, that they want to be these big, burly manly men that make girls swoon with a passing glance. However, in reality, when we’re teenagers, we’re more like the teenage kids in practically every modern family comedy, like Steve from American Dad or Bobby Hill from King of the Hill.

What makes it worse for guys than gals is that guys are expected to not care about their body image, but they totally do, so they’re never allowed to release these feelings when they’re teenagers. It’s not “manly* to talk about one’s feelings, and it’s not “manly” to put effort into anything having to do with one’s own body image. So many of us go through this phase where we have acne, crappy hair, and are ridiculously scrawny and we won’t do anything about it because we feel that would be effeminate. Then we look at ourselves in the mirror and realize our “manly” selves look like scrawny teenage bums, and we don’t know what to do.

Then there’s porn, which in recent times has been giving guys unrealistic expectations as to how big their penis should be.

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FluffyLion in /r/sex on how males suffer the same body image insecurities, especially during the teen years, and most importantly, not being able to talk about it.

And then there was this one, two of the best quotes that perfectly sum up how I feel, being a man.

(via sorryimsixyearslate)

jennihasherpes:

I have saggy boobs and I love them

"it could be that this is some degree of sexism . m.i.a. had to deal with this with the respected website pitchfork.com where they assumed that diplo had produced all of her kala album without reading any credit list or nothing , it just had to be , it couldn´t have been m.i.a. herself ! it feel like still today after all these years people cannot imagine that woman can write , arrange or produce electronic music . i have had this experience many many times that the work i do on the computer gets credited to whatever male was in 10 meter radius during the job . people seem to accept that women can sing and play whatever instrument they are seen playing .but they cannot program , arrange , produce , edit or write electronic music ."

- Björk, on sexism in the electronic music genre (via hellodecatur)

(Source: pinnacle.bjork.com, via hellodecatur)

The prison industrial system and the racist treatment of African American men in the justice system is indirectly a feminist issue because it takes away men who have children and families and creates a cycle of poverty that affects everyone. It’s all connected. It’s why we fight it.

thefourthwavebegins:

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So, here is my challenge for those who want to tell rape jokes:

Ask every woman in your life if she has been sexually assaulted. Ask her to tell you her story. This means your mother, your sister, your girlfriend, your grandma.

Once you have heard all their stories, go watch a movie with a rape scene in it. One you didn’t mind before. One you thought people were overly offended by.

Now tell me a joke.

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- http://www.fugitivus.net/2009/06/24/a-woman-walks-into-a-rape-uh-bar/ (via mightgetrunovermightgetshot)