Just wanted to share these images by ayomeredith:

For this body of work, entitled “Hailee”, I photographed my 11 year old niece in scenes which exemplified qualities of the “perfect woman”. In the United States, these qualities include being beautiful, smart, sexy, able to cook and clean, all while still being pure and innocent. I created this portfolio to illustrate the pressures women feel to be all of these things, and to show how these ideals are being instilled in girls’ minds from a very young age…

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Q:Hay. I've been reading over this blog and feel a need to say something personal. I've always been supportive of equality and the desire to end pointless oppression be it skin color, sexual preference or gender. However over the years I've found that the people I've meet who stood against these things were in some way a part of it. It may have been simply my misunderstanding but I've been accused of being racist simply because i am white, sexist because I am male and gay for every reason under

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There’s quite a spectrum to how much people actually know about the underlying forces of oppression and inequality, and it’s up to you to evaluate what each person is saying. Some people do go about it in either a very aggressive, hateful, or ignorant manner. But individuals don’t represent everyone, and we shouldn’t ever assume we know the group by a “handful of people we’ve met”.

On the other hand, we can’t be too sensitive, either. Someone who is simply critical of my style of antiracism or feminism or robustness-for-all-humanism is not inherently being racist or sexist by distrusting me on those grounds.

Does this get at your question at all? In short, figure out what it is that you can and can’t learn from people — especially when they’ve had experiences you probably haven’t.

First ever domestic abuse ad in Saudi Arabia. I lived in Saudi Arabia once and agree with Redditor ofthreesteps that it’s going to take more than a clever ad to change the culture in the country. Still, change is happening there, however slowly: a Saudi prince recently made a public case for allowing women to drive (though mainly for economic reasons…).
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First ever domestic abuse ad in Saudi Arabia. I lived in Saudi Arabia once and agree with Redditor ofthreesteps that it’s going to take more than a clever ad to change the culture in the country. Still, change is happening there, however slowly: a Saudi prince recently made a public case for allowing women to drive (though mainly for economic reasons…).

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How ‘Slut Shaming’ Has Been Written Into School Dress Codes Across The Country

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