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It might sound silly to some of you, but I have always looked for in a boyfriend is someone to physically dwarf me. I am tall, and curvy I want to feel delicate and feminine. This is why I always ask about height, because I know the feeling inside is pure joy when someone puts their arms around me and makes me feel small.
Kimi and Carl (by ms_boomer)
I definitely understand that. I’m between 5’9 & 5’10”, so I have a significantly lower chance of meeting someone taller than me than most other women. However, as lovely as that all-encompassing hug can be, I haven’t had problems dating men shorter than me. Actually, I dated a man 3 inches shorter than me for a year and a half.
Y’know i was thinking about this the other day. When I was younger I used to tell my friends I liked when men were taller than me so I can curl up in their arms and feel safe. But when revisiting that sentiment now, I think I felt that way because of the way we view men and women’s roles. The man is supposed to be the big, strong protector, and the woman is supposed to be the small, helpless child. Like the character of Nora in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. After examining it, the OP’s last sentence, “…I know the feeling inside is pure joy when someone puts their arms around me and makes me feel small,” seems disturbing. This joy is coming from feeling like you fit into a role people have made you feel like you’re less of a woman for not normally fitting in.
FUCK. YES.Imogen
Ugh. Why ?
No ass.
Hairy armpits.
Tiny boobs.
No thanks.
Thanks. I’m really glad that I saw this on my dashboard because I was following you. (Intentional past-tense, not that you’d want a girl with small boobs and hairy armpits to be following you on tumblr. Though I assure you, my ass is fantastic, it’s just this shot.)
There’s this really amazing thing about tumblr that I totally love, and it’s the fact that participation is entirely voluntary. If one were to come across a lovely image, their options include clicking “reblog” or “like”. If one came across a post they personally did not find aesthetically pleasing, they simply may continue to scroll past it. Since you can clearly choose when you do or do not want to comment on something, I can’t help but wonder why you’d want to comment negatively on a happy naked girl. Do you have self-esteem issues? Are you upset that the media bombards us with skinny women all day and night and now, it seems, godsgirls is joining in? Did you know that, generally speaking, women who weigh 102 pounds do not have large breasts? Did you also know that women, naturally, have hairy armpits and the only reason you shave yours is that 80+ years ago some advertising campaign said it was unfeminine and unhygienic to have body hair? Or that, perhaps, I have hairy armpits just because I think it’s ridiculous that people find it unsightly?
To answer the “Why?” Or “Ugh. Why?”: As it turns out, there are many, many people out there who like small boobs, who like hairy armpits, who like my ass just fine. It’s a shame you are not among them, because I’m quite lovely even before you get to know me, and even better after that. But even so, Godsgirls does not cater to your tastes specifically, nor does fuckyeahgodsgirls. Which brings me to the point where your “No thank you.” was not needed, because, as I mentioned, this isn’t for you. The reason this photo exists is for me, and for people like me. Therefore, to your comment and fascist beauty ideals I say, “No thanks.”+1
LOLOL YOU GOT SERVED.
EPIC COMMENTARY.
REBLOG FOR PWNAGE ON DOUCHEBAG.
ALSO FOR THE REALLY HOT GIRL. Cuz yes, she is fucking hot.
I was about to start fuming, but she handled herself perfectly. Awesome.
can’t find credit
hehe. La Theorie De Connaissance
attackshipsonfire: caitygee: fight-war-not-wars: humantype2:adailyriot:bitterbuffalo)
What’s this? An anti-rape campaign that focuses on preventing rape instead of preventing women leaving the house? Holy crap it’s Christmas.
Nice.
oh my god and it’s not heterocentric.
The company Polarn O. Pyret says: “Our unisex collection (UNI) consists of clothing that is based on situation and function rather than on gender. As a clothing manufacturer, we want to make it our responsibility to offer an alternative to clothing that is based on gender. There is really no reason to design different models and fits for small boys and girls since there is no great difference in the way their bodies are shaped. We have taken an overall approach to unisex clothing, and consider not only color but also pattern and fit.”
To quote Nathan Explosion, “DARN THAT’S AWESOME.”
logansteel:genderbitch:jadedhippy:feministfury:revolutionqueergrrrlstyle:
Artist: shley77.deviantart.com
Artist statement:
“I wanted to express my understanding, the separation between biology and person. Gender is socially constructed. It changes over the years, it changes across cultures, what is appropriate for a man in one culture is unacceptable in another. I use man here because to me it seems this prejudice is especially rigid for men in our culture.
So when are we going to realize gender and sex are not the same? Gender is not black and white, it is as colorful and varied as the personality that owns it. Gender is completely fluid, it is NOT determined by biological sex. Gender is what you feel you are, a part of your personal identity, sometimes it coincides with your genitalia, sometimes it is the complete opposite, sometimes it’s a complicated mix. It’s an endless scale of shades in between.”
The rest of this artist’s work is incredible.
I want to marry a nice Mexican Catholic boy.
Weird since I’m in no way religious.
I just want my children growing up with something to believe in.
A child without hope is far too sad.
There’s nothing sad about raising children without hope for something you know isn’t true. Won’t it be sad when they find out later that they had been lied to and put their hope in something completely false and unfulfilling? And Catholicism? I don’t want to fill them with false hope AND guilt. Why can’t the universe and human life be enough for us? There is plenty to hope for that have a greater chance of being true. To quote Douglas Adams, “Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
atheismA New Fight Over Abortion Access
human rightsFrom deceptive advertising to flat-out lies, crisis pregnancy centers prey on desperate young women looking for help. Joyce C. Tang on new laws across the country fighting back.
When 21-year old Amy found out she was pregnant, she was torn between knowing she couldn’t support both herself and a child, and her religious beliefs, which taught that abortion was wrong. Unsure about what to do but leaning toward an abortion, Amy (not her real name) scoured the Internet for abortion services. She came upon the Arlington Pregnancy Center near her Texas home, which advertised help for unplanned pregnancies, counseling on abortion, and, most importantly, free services.
The financial relief “was one of the things that drew me in,” said Amy, a college student.
After arriving at the center and telling the counselor she was considering an abortion but interested in hearing about other options, Amy was left alone in a room to watch a video. For the next 20 minutes, she listened to a list of false and misleading information: that fetuses at four weeks old already have a heartbeat and developed fingers, that 50 percent of women who abort get breast cancer, and that 30 percent of women who get abortions die within the first year due to complications. In the video, a rape victim discussed how she could forgive her rapist before she could forgive herself for having an abortion.
Later, in a last-ditch attempt to stop her from terminating her pregnancy, Amy’s pregnancy counselor tried to reach her at her boyfriend’s home, whose number Amy had given to the center. Her boyfriend’s mother, who happened to be visiting, answered the phone, and when she asked what the center was calling about, the woman from the center disclosed Amy’s intent to get an abortion.
The facility Amy visited is known as a crisis pregnancy center. CPCs have long operated under the guise of reproductive health care, but in reality function as an arm of the antiabortion rights movement. With neutral names like the Center for Pregnancy Concerns and the Pregnancy Care Center, CPCs typically promise free services to young women panicking in the wake of an unexpected pregnancy. In many cities, they advertise on public transit. A typical ad lists a phone number and reads, “Had sex? Have questions? Pregnant? Need help? You are not alone. We are here for you.”
But rather than help and objective counseling, Amy was bullied. She was accused of “not [being] a true Christian,” despite the fact that she attends church regularly, and was told “if I continued down this path I was going to hell.” She wasn’t allowed to leave until she had made an appointment to come back for an ultrasound.
“If I knew they wouldn’t provide abortions, I definitely would never have gone there,” Amy said.
Typically funded by conservative evangelical and Catholic religious groups, CPCs actively lobby women against abortion and even birth control. In a form of emotional manipulation, CPCs and often encourage “abortion-minded” clients to undergo ultrasounds in the hope that seeing the fetus will create an emotional attachment to it and dissuade a woman from abortion. A 2006 Congressional investigation by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) found that 20 of 23 CPCs gave women false medical information, such as telling them that abortion increases the incidence of breast cancer, suicide, and fertility problems.
Until recently, CPCs have been largely unregulated, even though they are eligible for federal abstinence-only funding. But in November, the city of Baltimore, influenced by lobbying from Maryland’s NARAL and Planned Parenthood chapters, enacted adisclosure law requiring limited-service pregnancy centers to post signage if they don’t provide or refer for abortion or birth control.
Since November, other locales have followed Baltimore’s example. Montgomery County, Maryland, passed a similar ordinance in February, and Austin, Texas, pushed through a bill in April. In Congress, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) recently re-introduced the Stop Deceptive Advertising Women’s Services Act, and campaigns in California and Oregon plan to target lawmakers at the municipal level in 2011.
It’s not uncommon for young women to stumble upon CPCs, which often list themselves under “abortion services” or “abortion clinics.” NARAL Pro-Choice America, which discovered more than 100 centers in 25 states advertising under such a guise, is crusading to get those centers delisted from online directories.
The 800 comprehensive clinics providing abortion in the United States are vastly outnumbered by the approximately 4,000 crisis pregnancy centers. But the recent movement to stop CPCs’ deceptive advertising is giving pro-choice organizations hope that they may be finding their way out of what had long seemed like a losing, or at the very least dormant, battle.
“Local government taking action is something new,” said Ted Miller, communications director of NARAL Pro-Choice America. “It was a great step forward to have a city like Baltimore pass that kind of an ordinance.”
Pro-choice groups have been investigating CPCs for years and attempting to regulate them at the state level, but finding support on that level has been “challenging,” said Amy Everitt, state director of NARAL Pro-Choice California. Between 2004 and 2010, seven states considered legislation related to CPCs, but none passed.
Unsurprisingly, antiabortion groups are fighting back now that localities are taking action against CPCs. The Baltimore and Montgomery County laws are already being challenged. In March, the archbishop of Baltimore and the Greater Baltimore Center for Pregnancy Concerns filed a lawsuit against the city, which is still pending, claiming that the recently passed ordinance violates First Amendment protections and disregards legitimate services provided at CPCs.
Thomas Schetelich, chairman of the Greater Baltimore Center for Pregnancy Concerns, objects to the fact that his facilities were required to post signs, in English and Spanish, explicitly stating that “we don’t provide or refer for birth control, which is not true because we do—we deal with abstinence and natural family planning.” In addition, Schetelich said the centers also provide pregnant women with food, clothing, baby formula, diapers, toys, parenting skills, and Bible study, all for free. “I frankly would have hoped that Baltimore City Council would be more appreciative of the enormous volunteer efforts that were made for the poor of the city,” Schetelich said.
Though not all CPCs engage in deceptive and manipulative practices, Amy’s experience isn’t an anomaly. In the upcoming documentary 12th & Delaware, airing Aug. 2 on HBO, filmmakers Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing lead cameras into a Florida CPC located directly across the street from an abortion clinic. The CPC in the film plied typically poor and minority women with offers of free food (one woman is given a McDonald’s meal while she waits), free ultrasounds in which technicians tap out “messages” from unborn babies (“Hi mommy and daddy”), and lies about the probable timing of conception so women miss their window of opportunity to get an abortion.
A few weeks ago, at six and a half weeks pregnant, Amy walked past protesters waving religious pamphlets and calling her a murderer. She went into a reproductive health clinic and got an abortion. “I never though I’d be in a position where I’d get an abortion,” Amy said. “I was finding myself against my religion.”
“But,” she continued, “a woman has a right.”
