Rob Borbidge, former Premier of Queensland, put his political career on the line in order to take a stand for gun control in Australia.
Meanwhile, American politicians bow under the pressure put on them by the NRA.
“Look, there are Australians alive today because we took that action. I mean, how much is a life worth?”
OH GOD HIS FACIAL EXPRESSION IN THE BOTTOM LEFT GIF
LIKE, WHO ARE YOU, MAGICAL AUSTRALIAN CREATURE?
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I think I reblog this every single time it comes up on my dash.
Printing this out and taping it to my bathroom mirror.
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Tumblr needs more of this….whatever this is.
This is artwork by Emmy C. I suggest you give her gallery some love.
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(Top) 1968 … ‘The Boss’s Couch’ | Artist: Paul Rader
(Bottom) 1957 … ‘Wild Town’ | Artist: Robert Maguire
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Anyone who thinks Shakespeare is boring apparently missed the greatest stage direction ever written:
I want that to be the final line of my biography.
Shakespeare’s awesome, yo’.
But this is especially interesting, given that Shakespeare’s plays don’t normally include stage directions in their original format. Most stage directions in modern additions were added much later in the 17th and 18th centuries. (that’s also when a lot of modern edits were made and problematic themes were removed. God, even the editorial history of Shakespeare is fascinating. Shakespeare, why are you so cool?)
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Okay, guy, so why do you feel like you want/need/deserve to settle down with a “pure” woman? I’m genuinely listening. “Oh, it’s because sluts are gross.” Too vague. Do better. “Well, their vaginas are real stretched out and big.” No. “Ummmmm, they probably have a bunch of diseases?” Easy fix! Setting aside the fact that plenty of women contract STIs from monogamous partners or during “safe sex,” it sounds like your real problem here is with illness, not sex. So I assume you’d be fine dating a promiscuous woman who practiced safe sex and happened to be STI-free? “No, because I want a girl who’s traditional and family-oriented.” Having sex doesn’t mean you don’t want to have a family. It just means that you want to have sex. “Yeah, but a slut is more likely to cheat on me.” Really? Then why do couples in the Bible Belt have such a high divorce rate? “The devil, I guess?” NOPE. “I just can’t stand the thought of her getting fucked by all those other guys.” So you’re about to have sex with a woman you’re attracted to, you really want to have sex with her, but all you can think about is her getting pounded by tons and tons of dicks? That sounds like an entirely different issue. “No! I just mean that I struggle with the same powerlessness and insecurity that all human beings do, so as a coping mechanism I take advantage of our culture’s patriarchal power structure and exorcise my feelings of worthlessness by perpetuating shame-based proprietary attitudes over women’s bodies. Basically I’m obsessed with controlling women’s lives because I can’t control my own.” Oh, honey. I know.
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First of all, this is not a feminist issue. Implying that this only happens with women is a little sexist. I’m a woman here valuing a man’s virginity, and I’m not alone. Real feminism is about equal rights for all.
Here’s why people want to settle down with a virgin partner:
- Most of us are jealous beings. This was addressed in the quote. We can’t avoid it. When we find someone we actually love, we don’t like the idea that they may have felt that way, or close to that way, with someone else enough to share that intimate act. It makes your relationship feel more common, even if it’s not. You might stay pure for that same reason, so your future partner doesn’t have to deal with those same jealous feelings you know you’d have. That way, the first time for both of you is extra-special because it’s with each other.
- Sex is a special thing, like love is supposed to be. Once society started throwing those things around, they lost their value. Now there are teenagers two weeks in using that L-word and college students having one-night stands with strangers. To some people, sex is an extremely special and wonderful thing, and to other people it’s just for fun. The specialness of sex is then what plays into the importance of virginity.
- Some girls don’t want a stretched-out vagina, and most boys want a tight vagina. Even if the tightness doesn’t last (especially after having kids), at least the first time was nice for him, and you care about how nice it was for him because you love him.
- Obviously for some people there are religious reasons, and disregarding that is downright disrespectful.
Not everyone who values virginity sees the loss of it as a sort of change-of-person. It can’t decrease a person’s value, but it can decrease desirability for the listed reasons. But not always! I am a virgin; my boyfriend is not. I don’t care. He’s dated girls who weren’t virgins, so he doesn’t care either. I know at least one other couple like this, and they’re engaged. Of course, I’d rather my boyfriend have not seen another woman the way he’ll see me someday in such an intimate setting, but it doesn’t define who he is.
The concept of virginity might mess with the way some people live, but this “feminist” idea that virginity is not important also screws with the way other people choose to live. It’s a two-way street. Usually the word “bigot” is reserved for religious folk, but I’m definitely seeing it here, in this quote. Be respectful.
If you like to have sex, cool. If you like virginity, cool. Stop putting each other down. If one person places a higher value on virginity than the other, then why does it even matter, since they obviously have different morals and won’t be dating anyway?
Extreme opinions like this really bother me. You can live however you want (to an extent; don’t kill people), just don’t try to make everyone else do it, too.
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That’s not the point though. You have the right to have sex. You also have the right to not have sex without anyone judging you.
BUT IT’S YOUR OWN PERSONAL CHOICE. That’s what this quote is saying. You can be a feminist and a virgin. This quote is not demanding that everyone go out and have lots and lots of sex (but if you want to and you’re being safe and respectful and getting/giving consent, great.)
About the issue of jealousy: Yes, if I express the desire to have sex with another dude while I’m dating my boyfriend and we have not previously decided that we’re okay with polyamory, that does make me wrong. However, if my boyfriend is obsessed with the fact that I made the choice to have sex with other men (or women) before I met him and that because I made this choice, I am somehow devalued, yes that is wrong. It suggests that he is asserting control over something that I should have full agency over- my body.
Look, no one’s critiquing you for staying a virgin. It’s your own choice, and good job knowing what you want or do not want to do. Respect that other women have the right to make that choice. The idea of purity is largely constructed by men and has been imposed- violently in many cases- by patriarchal societies. Let’s not continue this practice. A person’s purity or value has nothing to do with their sexual proliclivities, ‘k?
Diane Sawyer: So, have you thought, how many women is enough? How many women [on the Supreme Court] would be enough?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Nine, nine. [Applause.]
Sawyer: Oh! Oh. [Laughs.]
Ginsburg: Well, there’ve been nine men there for a long long time, right? So why not nine women?
(x)this makes me so excited
Okay, guy, so why do you feel like you want/need/deserve to settle down with a “pure” woman? I’m genuinely listening. “Oh, it’s because sluts are gross.” Too vague. Do better. “Well, their vaginas are real stretched out and big.” No. “Ummmmm, they probably have a bunch of diseases?” Easy fix! Setting aside the fact that plenty of women contract STIs from monogamous partners or during “safe sex,” it sounds like your real problem here is with illness, not sex. So I assume you’d be fine dating a promiscuous woman who practiced safe sex and happened to be STI-free? “No, because I want a girl who’s traditional and family-oriented.” Having sex doesn’t mean you don’t want to have a family. It just means that you want to have sex. “Yeah, but a slut is more likely to cheat on me.” Really? Then why do couples in the Bible Belt have such a high divorce rate? “The devil, I guess?” NOPE. “I just can’t stand the thought of her getting fucked by all those other guys.” So you’re about to have sex with a woman you’re attracted to, you really want to have sex with her, but all you can think about is her getting pounded by tons and tons of dicks? That sounds like an entirely different issue. “No! I just mean that I struggle with the same powerlessness and insecurity that all human beings do, so as a coping mechanism I take advantage of our culture’s patriarchal power structure and exorcize my feelings of worthlessness by perpetuating shame-based proprietary attitudes over women’s bodies. Basically I’m obsessed with controlling women’s lives because I can’t control my own.” Oh, honey. I know.Female ‘Purity’ Is Bullshit (via asgardian-feminist)
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