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Posts tagged: patriarchy

Within patriarchy woman has no legitimate voice. Her voice is either constructed in complicity or resistance. If the choice is not radical then we speak only what the patriarchal culture would have us say. If we do not speak as liberators we collapse under the weight of this effort to speak within patriarchal confines or lose ourselves without dying.
bell hooks, from Remembered Rapture: The Writer At Work (via revolutionnow)
Many pro-lifers oppose free contraception because what bothers them is not just abortion, but the whole notion of sex without consequences.

How Health Reform Should Deal with Birth Control - The Daily Beast (via bagleworm)

This sums up a majority of the anti-choice movement as a whole.

I’ve been bickering with them for almost a year now and I can say that eventually it comes down to “well she had sex, so she should get pregnant”.

Love,

Rabble

(via rabbleprochoice)

Or, to put it bluntly: “The slut had it coming.”

(via sluthaditcoming)