Friday, 5 September 2014

Soar



whoneedsfeminism
:
"I need feminism because nobody has ever said to me "Women can be pilots too" And I’ve always limited myself with being a flight attendant, not going beyond that.
"I need feminism because nobody has ever said to me "Women can be pilots too"

Because they didn't need to? Because they don't say  "men can be pilots", men just do it by themselves without having to be coddled, and despite educational systems that actively discriminate against boys?
She had no Feminism to tell her she could do it. She just did it.

While you sit there whining, they're out there flying
in countries without Feminism to privilege them
women are heroes
in countries without Feminism to weaken them
they feel their own strength.

They don't live their lives as victims. They don't sit weeping in fear of global male conspiracies. They do what men do.

They soar.

Thursday, 4 September 2014

How to cut out an image using a mask (reblog)

From http://hollandrodon.tumblr.com/post/81801570354/do-you-know-how-to-cut-out-an-image-i-use-the


Anonymous
Q: Do you know how to cut out an image? I use the polygonal lasso tool but it doesnt come out really nice and I just want to know if theres an easier and more effective way of cutting out images?

actually yes! there’s a much easier way to cut out images than using the polygonal lasso.
  • first off, open up your image onto photoshop. (i’m using psc5) this is the photo i’ll be using.
  • next, click the letter “q” on your keyboard. this creates a mask for your picture. click it once and then click your brush tool. once you’ve clicked your brush tool, paint over your person. the brush tool should come off as red, and it should look like this.
  • paint over the entire person (or whoever/whatever you want to cut out) i like to use a small brush, so that it’s easier to paint over the more difficult spots to paint over. once you’ve finished painting over them, it should look something like this.
  • now all you have to do is click “q” again and it should outline what you’ve painted. it should look like this.

  • now, click delete on your keyboard and voila!
easy right? i hope this was able to help you lovely! if you have any other questions, feel free to come back and ask them!

Tuesday, 2 September 2014

Feminists demand 50% of all well paid jobs

Adapted from http://hexiac.tumblr.com/post/96515975676/weatherman667-hexiac-weatherman667-replied-to

With thanks to weatherman667 and hexiac.

Feminists demand women take up 50% of all well paid jobs.

"Becoming a CEO of a major company takes a lifetime of sacrificing almost everything in your life for your career.  Programming often involves 80 hour weeks in poorly lit dungeons, with extensive nights and weekends.  There are even laws that allow tech industry jobs to avoid paying overtime, (I’m seriously, there are laws that explicitly name technology industries as exempt from overtime).  "

Feminists want the position without the sacrifices they leave males to make.
Currently women can't get those jobs without making the sacrifices - so they don't do those jobs! Then Feminism decides it's the Patriarchy conspiring to make women not do those jobs.

"I’ve seen women fight off attempts at promoting them, because they felt the little extra pay didn’t justify the significant extra stress.  Since most of the managers are male and most of the employees female, (it was a bank), women have to fight off attempts at promoting them.  Often the women who did get promoted were not promoted because they wanted to, but because they weren’t strong enough to stand up to the company’s heavy-handed attempts at promoting them."

" Jobs that don’t pay as well, are dangerous, or labour-intensive can stay male-dominated for all they care. Honestly, they never talk about it."

"There are plenty of articles about the "desirable" sectors being men’s clubs (engineering in this case), and how they should be more inclusive. (Funny thing I noticed in that link: “long hours” and “demanding lifestyle” were listed as traits of a male-dominated culture. )

Meanwhile, no big push to make these more “inclusive”…"


Monday, 1 September 2014

Spider-butt, spiderbutt, does whatever a spider-butt does.

Recently, Spiderman's ass was used an example of sexism. It was pointed out that he was always posed in ways that emphasised his sex appeal in a way that never happens with Female Superheroes.

Feminists sprang to the rescue at this double-standard.




 
Oh wait: they didn't.




Instead, they claimed the reverse; that Spiderman was never shown in the positions Spiderwoman is. The fact that this was false, and any research would have found that out didn't matter - because facts, if you're a Feminist, just don't matter.

Feminist Myths

From Women Against Feminism:



1) Claim - Women couldn't work or be educated without feminism?



False

There was a female doctor called Elizabeth Blackwell. A doctor being a highly educated career. She held this position in 1850. 100 years BEFORE feminism.


Even as far back as Medieval times, it is shown that women could work and if they were of a higher class, full on run estates and businesses. And I think it's safe to say that if they were running entire estates, they were not lacking in education.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_Middle_Ages
http://sandradodd.com/sca/womenandwork

2) Claim - Women would have no say in society without feminism?



False


In 1674, the women of London created a petition against coffee houses because their men were socialising in them. And apparently the coffee was making men less interested in sex which these women didn't seem happy about. They presented their petition to the king at the time and in the following year the coffee houses were closed down. Again, all of this BEFORE feminism.


http://www.gopetition.com/.../the-women-s-petition...

3) Claim - Without feminism, women wouldn't be allowed the vote?

False

In the UK men were granted the right to vote in honour of their contribution to the war effort, or to be blunt, because they were being sent away to risk their lives. At the same time, women who contributed to society also had the right to vote. Suffragettes only sought the right to vote for upper middle class women, and later, all women. They did not demand that they have the right with equality to men though. After all, they weren't offering themselves up to fight in trench warfare.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffrage#United_Kingdom
In the US, it is a fairly similar story. As it is pretty much everywhere where there is universal suffrage.

4) Claim – Feminism had anything to do with any of these things anyway



False

Feminism as an ideology didn't show up until the 1960's. They took the political activities and actions of suffragettes, suffragists, and women's rights activists and declared them as being their own.

And they bullied and harassed other women in to accepting their leadership. What is known as second wave feminism is in fact first wave feminism. What is known as first wave feminism was not feminism at all, it was a whole bunch of separate groups of women fighting different battles in the name of women. Feminism, from its inception in the 60's was highly focused on male-hatred (misandry).


They didn't gain much traction until they hijacked an issue that one Erin Pizzey brought to the attention of the public. That issue was of domestic violence, she won awards for her work and started up the first women's shelter. Feminists intruded and associated themselves in Erin's work.

And when Erin Pizzey tried to address that men had problems and that women could be bad, feminists bullied and harassed her. And made legitimate threats to her life, legitimate enough that she had to flee the country for 15 years. And with feminists yet again hijacking the work for women from another woman, they used the issue of domestic violence to get funding from the government.

They then re-marketed themselves as being about “Equality” to clean up their public image. Their marketing campaigns being funded by the money generated from government grants. A worrying proportion of funds didn't actually go to helping women.


They use bullying, harassment and emotional manipulation to silence everyone that won't adopt the label. They act like a controlling partner or parent in an abusive manner. “Without me you'd be weak, you'd be powerless, you'd be nothing!”, “It's not my fault it yours! You're just too stupid to understand!”, “I know I was mean, but that's not the “real” me! I only want what's best for us!”.

Feminism convinces you that unless you're a feminist, you're an evil person. Feminism is the divine and only those who follow feminism are free, and any who don't follow? Those are sinning, woman hating, uneducated savages.

And when you ask them to prove exactly why or how they are so special, their response is, “Well, it's obvious and we don't have to prove ourselves to people clearly not educated enough to understand! And then they continue to use the bullying tactics.

It's like when a mother turns on the water works and makes you feel guilt and shame because you won't do as you're told. Except, with feminists, they use the the water-works (victimhood) - but they also use aggression and violence.


Feminism has always been what it is today, but as of late they are being more obvious about it. That is what complacency does for you. Suffragettes and women's rights activists were not feminists. Stop claiming that they are the same. You have just hijacked others efforts and claimed them as your own and I have looked at feminist history and women's rights history in depth.

So feminists, please don't have the audacity to tell anyone that they need to educate themselves about feminism. The insinuation that others should educate themselves is laughable when it comes from one claiming the label of feminist.