“More girls have been killed in the last FIFTY years, precisely because they were girls, than men were killed in ALL the battles of the 20th century. More girls are killed in this routine gendercide in any ONE decade, than people were slaughtered in ALL the genocides of the 20th century.”

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Nicholas Kristof, Half the Sky

Read that AGAIN.

“Saying that we can’t have feminism because we should only focus on general human rights is like saying we can’t have oncologists because some doctors are general practitioners.”

—Why Not Say Everyday Humanism Instead of Everyday Feminism? — Everyday Feminism

“I don't want to give up the term 'queer', because it still bugs people like the middle-class gay homeowners in the Castro who have halted plans to open a shelter for homeless queer youth in their beautiful neighborhood. I use it because every time I say it, I get an unpleasant jolt of memories of being called vile names or bashed, and I guess I hope that if I say it with enough aplomb and nonchalance, those memories will lose their power to subdue and terrorize me. The jaws of assimilation have closed around the word queer, but they haven't managed to crush it into dust just yet.”

—Patrick Califia - “Legalised Sodomy is Political Foreplay”

“Women are not punished in this world for acting ‘like men’. We are punished for acting like human beings. In our world, only men are human. They take that label for themselves, they accord themselves social and economic and legal privileges because of it, and they declare women other and different and make damn sure that we wear our inferiority in whatever way they tell us to. Through our clothing and our hairstyles and our submissive and ingratiating behaviours. Any time a woman gives herself the right to be fully clothed, to have access to forums and spaces in which to express her ideas and opinions, to work in fields which men declare unsuitable, to be comfortable and free of bodily restriction, she is (knowingly or not) refusing to accept her inferior sex-caste status. We are declaring our right to be human. Not our right to be men, our right to be human. Got it? The association of man with human is so pervasive, yet invisible, that women refusing to accept inferior status is equated with wanting to be men, rather than with wanting to be human, which is surely more accurate. And it is difficult to get away from...”

—weirdward, Behaving Like A Man at Dusk is Falling

“I resigned from my job yesterday as a matter of principle. I was given a letter to type by a senior secretary to the auditing firm that had recently been in our books. A woman headed up the team of accountants at our company for several weeks. The letter was opened to “Gentlemen.” I changed it to “Greetings.” I was told that the letter must be redone because it was the policy of the company to use the salutation “Gentlemen.” I was told that management determined company policy, not uppity secretaries who didn’t know their place. I decided to resign and didn’t redo the letter. I’m looking for another job, but I did raise quite a few eyebrows and, hopefully, someone’s consciousness. Name Withheld September 12, 1982”

—One of the small acts of courage and defiance that sparked the Second Wave of Feminism and paved the way for much of what we take for granted today.

“Poor countries sell their grain to the West while their children starve in their arms and the west feed it to the animals so they can eat a steak. Am I the only one who sees this as a crime? Every morsel of meat we eat is slapping the tear-stained face of a starving child. When I look into her eyes, should I be silent? The earth can produce enough food for everyone's needs, but not enough for everyone's greed.”

—Philip Wollen

“The assimilated homo doesn't understand why I don't protest the Boy Scouts of America for being homophobic, or why I don't give a shit about gays in the military or--gasp!--legal marriage rights. I presume that the assimilated gay world finds it very divisive of me, protesting my lesbian and gay sisters and brothers instead of the straight world at large. What they don't get is this: I don't give a shit about the straight world. Sure, dominant society is just that: DOMINANT. No consent here. But, you see, I'm not trying to make room for myself in it. We fagulously freaky queerbos are not looking for a seat at the table of normality.”

—Josina Manu Maltzman - “Revolting”
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