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The problem that needs to be fixed is not kick all the girls out of YA, it’s teach boys that stories featuring female protagonists or written by female authors also apply to them. Boys fall in love. Boys want to be important. Boys have hopes and fears and dreams and ambitions. What boys also have is a sexist society in which they are belittled for “liking girl stuff.” Male is neutral, female is specific.
I heard someone mention that Sarah Rees Brennan’s THE DEMON’S LEXICON would be great for boys, but they’d never read it with that cover. Friends, then the problem is NOT with the book. It’s with the society that’s raising that boy. It’s with the community who inculcated that boy with the idea that he can’t read a book with an attractive guy on the cover.
Here’s how we solve the OMG SO MANY GIRLS IN YA problem: quit treating women like secondary appendages. Quit treating women’s art like it’s a niche, novelty creation only for girls. Quit teaching boys to fear the feminine, quit insisting that it’s a hardship for men to have to relate to anything that doesn’t specifically cater to them.
Because if I can watch Raiders of the Lost Ark and want to grow up to be an archaeologist, there’s no reason at all that a boy shouldn’t be able to read THE DEMON’S LEXICON with its cover on. My friends, sexism doesn’t just hurt women, and our young men’s abysmal rate of attraction to literacy is the proof of it.
The Problem is Not the Books by Saundra Mitchell (via albinwonderland)
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Splendid! God, I was just saying the other day that my misogyny didn’t have enough racism in it.
in which vaginal bleaching is apparently a thing now.
Other fun lines include:
“Really, the ultimate one-vagina-to-rule-them-all would glow in the dark like one of those deep-sea fishes. I need my vagina to attract more krill so my husband will fuck me again! (My husband is a whale.)”
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Meteorite Thin Section Photographs by Tom Phillips
Oooo, my rock senses are tingling…
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4 weeks ago - 
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8Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.
C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves, “Friendship” (via outlawroad)
Put that in your “Friend Zone” pipe and smoke it.
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And so what we start to see now is a pattern in world history, much like the Greeks and the Romans. Remember that there are seven families fighting for control of Westeros…
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While watching Blade II
“It’s like a cross between Voldemort and Smeagol… with pants.” -Daniel
