This is a Woman

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It’s 12-12-12!

~Stuff I pinned at my TIAW and Wisdom boards.
~I’ve been toying for awhile now with the idea of splitting the Awesome from the Angering and creating a new roundup here which I fancy I’d like to call the Friday Fury. I’m not sure if I will or not, and I have a lot of reasons both to want to and to not want to. But if I do, this is the sort of thing that would fit well into the Friday Fury.
~Where Jenny Lawson and Amanda Palmer make me cry. TIAW is about women learning to love themselves wholly. That means physically, as well as what’s on the inside. That means the parts that are easy to love and the ones that are hard to love – both inside and outside. Your weaknesses make you you. And you are beautiful.
~This iconic image isn’t quite as innocent as you might think. To be fair, I have read that the post this article is based on is quite biased and includes some comments taken out of context. I think the point, though, is that a man forcefully (as evidenced by the photo) kissed a total stranger without her permission. That is not cool on any level.
~This article is rad. I don’t agree with 100% of it, but this quote: “FOR FUCK’S SAKE, CAN’T WE EXPRESS OUR DISPLEASURE WITHOUT BEING BELITTLED OR PATRONIZED OR THE OBJECTS OF BIAS?” and this quote: “If your uterus is fucking erupting lava into your pants, you have the right to mention that shit.” and also bonus points for the Skesis/Gelfling mention. The part I take issue with is the declaration that menstruation is “horrifying.” I kind of find such a statement oppositional to the entire point of the article. Which, as I understood it, is that menstruation is normal, if painful and uncomfortable, and that we should be allowed to discuss it the way we discuss other normal things. We don’t call these other normal things horrifying. Anyway. We do have the right to – no, we have the responsibility to – talk about it. Loudly and often.