Dare To Be A Feminist

Catriona tumbled these enraging statistics about gender and representation in games and films for 2013:



Women make up 45% of the gaming community and 4% of the protagonists of the 25 biggest games of the year.

There was a lot to celebrate this year for women in the media. But some things aren't changing fast enough...

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I didn’t think Marissa Mayer, the Yahoo! chief who caused quite a stir with her two-week maternity leave and decision to ban employees working from home, could get any more controversial.

Enter her decision to strike a pose in the September issue of Vogue magazine, lounging on a hammock wearing Michael Kors and stiletto heels, and let the debate, mostly among women, rage on.

Tell them not to cave. This really isn't rocket science: Hillary Clinton is an eminently newsworthy and compelling figure, and it's no surprise to anyone (well, except Priebus) that NBC and CNN would want to create programs around her story. Like they've done with a zillion other compelling figures. And given that the presidential election is over three years away, and Hillary Clinton isn't even a declared candidate, there's absolutely nothing inappropriate about doing this. Nothing. Nada. Zip

I don't mean to sound sexist, but as far as women have come over the last 40 years, you don’t really see a lot of women hunters. They’re still in the minority in the military, and there’s not a lot of female construction workers. I hope that’s not taken the wrong way. I think women are as smart, resourceful, and capable in most things as any man could be … but they are generally physically weaker. That’s science.

Robert Kirkman, creator of The Walking Dead comic series, in response to the question “Why are all the strong female characters either crazy or dead”

And now that you have this information, carry on however you wish to.

(via littleorphanammo)

sexism often goes unnoticed by the ones who have never been touched by it

(via elvira)

Fucking moron. My cousin weighs 100 pounds & she’s a bad ass super strong construction worker. And if your argument is that in reality women are physically weaker, maybe in your horror fantasy world you can overcome that belief because something else that doesn’t exist in reality are FUCKING ZOMBIES. God! IDIOT!

(via bohemea)