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I’ve been getting a lot of these lately, and I guess I just want you all to know what I think when I read them.
This is fucking awesomesauce.
Source: boggletheowl
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But much like the Hollywood movie publicist who cobbles together a glowing review from a savage one by carefully selecting from the latter a few choice words and then tossing the rest, the Christian right is ignoring the entire point of the Bible. Repeatedly, and in no uncertain terms, Jesus insists that equity, compassion, humility, fairness, and love supersede any specific “rule” in the Bible. Christ instructed us not by prohibiting specific behaviors and prescribing others, but rather, in principles and parables, making clear that he expects us to use our hearts, minds, and the Holy Spirit to translate his words into actions appropriate to our time and place. God is all-powerful. If he wanted Christians to follow a simple, clear set of rules, then the New Testament would be a simple, clear set of rules. But it’s not. Because God wants Christians to think more than that, to intuit more than that. God wants us to be more than that.
– Betraying the Spirit: How the Christian Right Gets the Bible Wrong (via azspot)(via reagan-was-a-horrible-president)
Source: johnshore.com
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(via afternoonsnoozebutton)
Source: feyminism
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i have a new favourite twitter
^Feminist Taylor Swift is my Twitter of the day
Source: lalondes
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If I could get one message through to the adolescent girls of America, it would be this: the state of your hymen has nothing, I repeat nothing, to do with your worth as a human being.
– How to Write a Feminist Young Adult Novel (via rachelfershleiser)(via fuckyeahfeminists)
Source: jezebel.com
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(via fuckyeahfeminists)
Source: thispainshallpassaway
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I will never not reblog this, because it is essentially my life.
(via afternoonsnoozebutton)
Source: joelmchales
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Petting him feels like petting a bag of cotton balls.
Source: corgnelius
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There is no African, myself included, who does not appreciate the help of the wider world, but we do question whether aid is genuine or given in the spirit of affirming one’s cultural superiority. My mood is dampened every time I attend a benefit whose host runs through a litany of African disasters before presenting a (usually) wealthy, white person, who often proceeds to list the things he or she has done for the poor, starving Africans. Every time a well-meaning college student speaks of villagers dancing because they were so grateful for her help, I cringe. Every time a Hollywood director shoots a film about Africa that features a Western protagonist, I shake my head — because Africans, real people though we may be, are used as props in the West’s fantasy of itself. And not only do such depictions tend to ignore the West’s prominent role in creating many of the unfortunate situations on the continent, they also ignore the incredible work Africans have done and continue to do to fix those problems.
–Uzodinma Iweala, “Stop Trying to ‘Save’ Africa”
(via cammyyy)
(via fuckyeahfeminists)
Source: ryanmichael-s
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Okay then
