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Mens reactions to a story about women being brutally raped while on vacation in Dubai. It shouldn’t surprise me anymore but it always does.

Men are happy enough to share these comments on a public platform, with their real name and photo of themselves. But we are meant to believe they give a shit about consent? We are meant to believe they view women as fully people? Women get condemned for being naive, but what young person isn’t naive and trusting, who doesn’t want to have a good time on holiday? Nothing is said about the men who attack us and rape us.

Love! Love! Love!

If the reason why the legislation got passed (that women legally means female) was because JK Rowling payed 70k in lawyers fees, shouldn’t the takeaway be that people shouldn’t be able to influence the decision of government with money?

Obviously 70k is a lot of money for most people (including me) but it isn’t actually that much money in the grand scheme of things and if your saying that’s all it takes to influence laws we would all be a bit fucked. Like 10% of the uk has over 70k saved up.

Day of dread, Michael McGrath

Annie Pootoogook (Inuit, b. 1969)

Composition (Mother and Child), 2006

“Someone somewhere is searching for you in every person they meet.”

— Unknown

by Anna Sushok

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Chiseling away at it: vintage sculptors and sculpture.

Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain

Jambu fruit dove.

The problem isn’t that men don’t understand the word no, it’s that they don’t see women as people.

I'm sorry but "educate your son" or "no means no" is such a brain-dead take. Your son understands the word no. A three year old understands the word no. A dog understands the word no. Stop coddling males. Rapists know that rape is wrong.

Kill them all! I refuse to beleive people are that stupid.

Bronze statue fragment uncovered near Geneva, Switzerland.

Roman, 1st century AD

from The Geneva Museum of Art and History

Yayoi Kusama 

"At the core of many of Kurt's internal struggles was his disassociation with the masculine ideal. 'I've always had a problem with the average macho man they've always been a threat to me,' he once said. Growing up in Aberdeen, Washington, he always felt at odds with the gruff culture of loggers and lumber mill workers, the jocks at school who he felt 'just wanted to fight and get laid'. His father tried to make him play baseball and go hunting; he would spend the whole time brooding silently, waiting until he could go home and listen to cassettes and draw pictures. In an environment where being male meant being aggressive and macho, this introspective blond kid - barely five foot seven, so skinny he would pile on extra layers of clothing to look bigger - was never going to fit in. He grew to look at masculinity from an outsider's perspective: 'I definitely feel closer to the female side of the human being than I do the male or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be.'

— Been a Son: Kurt Cobain and His Challenge to the Masculine Ideal

Kurt Cobain and his kitten looking at polaroids (1991)

Collection of 15 Artist's Stencilling Brushes

Copper and Hog's Hair Bristle

Northern European c. 1920

Robert Young Antiques