June 2012
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Never Have Just One Serving...: Wait. What the WHAT?! →
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Like I needed more reasons to hate Katy Perry.
So apparently Katy Perry’s obsession with Japanese people has reached new heights. On an appearance on the Jimmy Kimmel show on Monday, she stated ”I’m so obsessed I want to skin you and wear you like Versace”.
This is…
Like I needed more reasons to hate Katy Perry.
“We use our criminal justice system to label people of color ‘criminals’ and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind. Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once you’re labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination—employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service—are suddenly legal. As a criminal, you have scarcely more rights, and arguably less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height of Jim Crow. We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.”
—Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (via ida-b-wells-b-whippin-yo-ass)
“We were discussing homosexuality because of an allusion to it in the book we were reading, and several boys made comments such as, “That’s disgusting.” We got into the debate and eventually a boy admitted that he was terrified/disgusted when he was once sharing a taxi and the other male passenger made a pass at him. The lightbulb went off. “Oh,” I said. “I get it. See, you are afraid, because for the first time in your life you have found yourself a victim of unwanted sexual advances by someone who has the physical ability to use force against you.” The boy nodded and shuddered visibly.“But,” I continued. “As a woman, you learn to live with that from the time you are fourteen, and it never stops. We live with that fear every day of our lives. Every man walking through the parking garage the same time you are is either just a harmless stranger or a potential rapist. Every time.” The girls in the room nodded, agreeing. The boys seemed genuinely shocked. “So think about that the next time you hit on a girl. Maybe, like you in the taxi, she doesn’t actually want you to.””
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Homophobia: The fear that another man will treat you like you treat women. Andrew Sullivan.
(via babanees)
