profeminist:

profeminist:

refinery29:

Have you ever heard of “time poverty?” – here’s why it’s the biggest issue preventing gender equality

Images: Matt Baron/REX/Shutterstock/Gregory Pace/BEI

“Across the globe, women spend about 4.5 hours a day on unpaid labor, such as child care and household chores. For men, that figure drops in half.

That’s according to data cited by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which identified the issue of time poverty as a central focus in an annual letter released by its wealthy benefactors. In poor countries, the unpaid labor gap grows. Women in India, for example, spend an estimated six hours a day on unpaid labor. Men there spend just an hour on such chores.

The expectations affect a woman’s ability to work outside the home.

“She doesn’t even get out of the house in that situation. She is trapped in that home,” Melinda Gates told Refinery29 during a round table interview earlier this year. “So she doesn’t even get to go to the market, or participate in a job.“ 

Read the full piece here

crime-she-typed:

babashookbitch:

rexkataki:

babashookbitch:

rexkataki:

babashookbitch:

rexkataki:

babashookbitch:

treefrogsoup:

okay, as a straight guy I have a complaint

So what do you call a group of women?

Friends

Then why are a group of men a threat? A group of women can be a threat if they wanted to

The difference is that women have to want to be a threat to be one whereas men just be like that

Not all men are like that

And not all bacteria are pathogenic but we still wash our hands out of fear of the ones that are so what’s your point?

^^^THAT CLAPBACK WAS VISCIOUSSSS

Why I Refuse To Support PETA

the-long-dog:

chimeracuddles:

amicitonia:

libertarirynn:

awkwardlesbian:

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harostar:

ptsd-illidan:

As most of you know, PETA (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals) produces lots of sexist, racist, fatphobic, and even ableist ads. Their ideologies match, unfortunately. They are incredibly unreasonable, too, and they effectively want to remove companion animals from human contact entirely.

Members of PETA have done the following to me.

  • Attempted to take my service dog’s leash
  • Threatened to take him away
  • Sent me death threats
  • Threatened to euthanize him out of “mercy”
  • Claimed that I am a “slavedriver” and “active participant in the speciesist h*l*caust” (Ah yes, please tell the romani-german-native girl that she’s basically a Nazi. Good idea.)
  • Left threatening voicemails on my phone.
  • Scared me so badly that I had to move house at one point
  • Grabbed my service dog
  • Tried to pry my hand off of my service dog’s harness
  • Threw paint on a faux fur-lined coat I was wearing (the paint got matted in my hair to the point where I had to shave my head)
  • Speaks openly on their hatred for service dog handlers.

Adding:

Their “Adoption” services are a complete lie. Do not bring an animal to a PETA facility or allow PETA volunteers or employees to take an animal. THEY WILL KILL IT. 

Their own documentation shows that they euthanize approximately 90 – 97% of all animals they take in, on a yearly basis. This includes everything from seriously injured/ill animals, to healthy puppies and kittens.

They support Breed Specific Legislation, and call for the mass extermination of all “Pit Bull-type dogs”.

if there is anyone out there who doesn’t know this – this is really important. PETA kills and terrorizes animals. They do so for their own propaganda and in turn, profit. There is nothing ethical about their treatment of animals let alone other human beings.

Their position is, supposedly, that animals are equal to humans and as such use really ableist, racist, and wildly inappropriate metaphors that undermine real human oppression and suffering. Often just for shock value. If they applied their principle, then they are basically saying that mentally ill or struggling and homeless humans should be put to death on mass.

In addition to all of the above, they also promote the idea that dairy products cause autism.

Plus, they harassed Steve Irwin’s family while they were grieving his death. 

They’re pretty terrible.

The Humane Society of the United States and the SPCA are where it’s at, if you want broad, effective, and ethical animal rights organizations on a national scale, though you can be really effective seeking out your local no-kill shelter or wildlife refuge.

Some more sources

About why PETA

is awful

PETA is grooosss

Seriously fuck PETA

YES SERIOUSLY PETA, GO FUCK YOURSELVES! YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED! BEING A DICK DOESN’T MAKE YOURS BIGGER!!!!!!!

Don’t forget that Lush supports them too, Lush and PETA did an event together a few years back and they encouraged many reptile owners to free their snakes and lizards into the wild… Into climates they couldn’t possibly survive in.

Humane Society of the United States is pretty bad too. Not PETA level of bad but I find it very disingenuous how they use sad images of puppies and kittens in cages to get people to donate when very little of their money actually goes to shelters.

Much better to donate to your own local humane society/shelter if you have the money to do imo.