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Let me just begin by saying,
This is what my pepper spray looks like. For the record, I didn’t buy it for myself, my parents got it for me. As I was walking out of Wal Mart tonight, without it, it donned on me on how fucked up it is. Not only the fact that I need the weapon itself, but it’s color.
It’s like, we’re trying to make rape culture cutesy. Same goes for pink tazers. Pink handguns. We’re trying to make these weapons adorable in order to distract ourselves from the reason we carry them: to prevent ourselves from attackers.
Not only that, but the pink is geared toward women (or people who identify as women). There isn’t any blue, masculine mace. Why? Because men aren’t the ones who carry it around. How fucking terrible is that? “Here you go, you cute little girls, here’s a pink weapon to protect yourself from potential rapists and/or murderers.” It’s furthering the idea that rape and violence towards women is acceptable. It’s saying because our ways of protecting ourselves are cute and stylish, we’re harmless. Weapons should never make a fashion statement.
lemme just nip this thing right in the bud here
companies aren’t making pink guns or pink mace or pink anything to “perpetuate the rape culture”, they’re doing it to sell units
people in suits are finding out that pink things sell, and these people want to sell things, so they make them pink
yes i know you wanted to prove a point and advance your agenda, sorry about that
Source: theforthrightfeminist
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It is done. Feminists Against Hugo Schwyzer Facebook page right here. Please "like" and reblog! →
There’s also a Twitter!
Please contact me if you want to help run this show, ‘cause I really could use it. I’m on the social networks all day long but it would great if someone could write some content for the FB page, like some sort of “what’s wrong with Hugo Schwyzer?” thing or…something.
hey hey, stabbing your supporters in the back, that’s a great idea!
Source: unknowablewoman
i once knew a chick
she called herself a feminist and believed strongly in woman power
then one day she complained that she can’t meet a man who treats her like a lady
i asked her if she even knew what she believed in, she called me a misogynist
i’ll take that as a no
postscript: come to think of it, i don’t even think she knew what it was to be a woman. she had the whole “stupid shallow college bitch” thing down pat though
