Case in point

This! 
This is exactly what is wrong with our society.
I saw this on facebook today, all the children involved are aged around 14-16.

10 hottest chicks: :)

Feeding our fucked up misogynist society by valuing females only for their appearance - fostering animosity and competitiveness amongst young women and objectifying them to all.
The part that scares me the most is the girls 'liking it' as though this is a compliment - "yes! I beat my peers to this arbitrary list, because my appearance is valued I am therefore valued" - they don't even realise how derogatory it is

Whose Trick Was That

I'm filled with so much passion as to how much the babe GETS IT

Magnificent.
That noise that people are making in the background 'mmmmhmmm' with appreciation? That's the sound of change.

Please also read Ashley Judd's take on commodifying women.

How will stabbing One Another in the back Help Women To Rise Above PATRIARCHAL OPPRESSION?!

-John Green 'Looking for Alaska'

cries to her husband "Daddy Our Baby's Gone"

This is a slightly non-sensical rant, it comes to you in 4 parts - 

1.Courtney Love, 2.Things From My Life, 3.A Feminist Rant, 4.Yoko Ono

1

You're not to know this but I love the expression 'you're not to know this' and I love Courtney Love. Not in the seemingly trendy way that people are lovin on Courtney, but in a fair-dinkum I-have-been-rocking-out-to-you-since-I-was-a-toddler sort of way. 

A week isn't complete if I haven't screeched Miss World or Violet at the top of my lungs.

whatcourtneyworetoday 

2
Things from my life that are meaningless:

Federation Square Melbourne

I have giardia - it is a parasite in my tummy which makes me feel like vomiting all the time (sounds like a euphemism for pregnancy)

Since telling my mother that I've booked my plane tickets to foreign lands 'She's Leaving Home' by the Beatles has been sung a lot

San Francisco in Colour

Why isn't my passport in it's very specific place where it has always lived?!?!? What dastardly creature moves my goods while I sleep?! Naughty Little Passport Hiding In The Crisps. AGAIN!

This picture of Robert Pattinson holding a crocodile is one of the most ridiculous things I have seen for some time

3

On the last day that I attended my university course I sat in a tutorial on feminism where I was the only person to raise their hand to the question 'who here is a feminist?' 

I was amazed that in a class of 25 people, (after having talked about how feminism isn't a dirty word, that it means Gender Equality to many, that boys can be feminists too) that I - in my pink and bows and glitter - was the only person to assign to such beliefs. I'm no radical feminist. There is a lot of that shit that I think is over the top and out of hand, but for fucks sake people 

YouDon'tNeedFakeTanToFeelGoodAboutYourself 

YouDon'tNeedToShaveYourLegsForAnyoneElse

YouWillBeLovedEvenIfYouHaveSmallBoobies

YouAndYouAloneMakeYourDecisions

Ruby took this photo. Both.

4

I adore Yoko Ono, I'm not going to go into it right now.

Yoko Ono, ‘Cut Piece’, 1964-5.

“The only game we play together with our children is star-chasing; sadly, not the stars in the sky, but the “STARS” who we think have achieved the standard of the dream image we have imposed on the human race. We cannot trust ourselves anymore, because we know that we are, well…too real. We are forever apologetic for being real. Excuse me for farting, excuse me for making love and smelling like a human being, instead of that odorless celluloid prince and princess image up there on the screen.”
-The Feminization of Society, 1972. 

(This makes me cry sometimes)

Cut Piece 

Yoko first performed Cut Piece in Japan 1964, Paris 2003 was its final performance.

Riots Not Diets

Bianca Jagger

There's a line in '10 Things I Hate About You' where Bianca tells Cameron that a girl only buys black underwear if she wants someone to see them.

Fuck That.

Fuck dressing, doing, being or anything else for anyone else.

Fuck fake tan.

I know third wave feminism says I can shave my legs if I want to, as long as it's for me, but I hate the expectation.
My dear friend/prodigy/wunderkind (and all round nice guy) Tessa was telling me recently that she became increasingly jealous of the blokes during Movember and wants to start something girl oriented.
The first idear was Febru-Hairy. To promote self esteem. Fuck shaving your legs, and personally, I think the armpits should be freed. (Though the protests are that February is the Australian summer and hence the whole thing is annoying.)
Secondly was Va-June-a - all the sisters are free to talk about their lady bits, and everyone is encouraged to have a pap smear, or something equally lady.
This girl's onto something.