“Talk about discrimination—he’s a white Scandinavian male! If he was a woman of color he’d FOR SURE get into med school”

my mother and uncle commenting on my cousin’s chances of getting into med school.

WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE WHITE MEN?!

THINGS THAT DO NOT MAKE A WOMAN A WHORE:

  • Dating the boy you like
  • Having sex because she likes having sex
  • Going on dates with people whom she has no intention of calling again/dating exclusively
  • Wearing clothes that show her cleavage
  • Flirting

THINGS THAT DO MAKE A WOMAN A WHORE:

  • Soliciting sexual acts for currency, and although that fits the definition of “whore” that’s still a derogatory term and you should probably stop using it because it sets back the feminist movement several decades and the preferred term is ‘sex worker’ and please get over your internalized misogyny, why do we keep having this discussion.

From an interview with the director of the Help.

  • Interviewer: Emma said you kept a calendar of everyone’s hormonal states?
  • TT: Oh, yeah. Yeah, varying menstrual cycles and 110-degree weather in Mississippi could have been a time bomb, but it was not.
  • OS: Let me just clarify …
  • TT: It was not! Everybody was wonderful. She had some bad days …
  • OS: He’s like my brother, and obviously I’m going to have bad days with him. But you know that’s the misperception though. That a group of women … is going to be crazy. But our hormones, while they can be problematic, I think there are so many professionals and such a good group that men will find—and I’m glad that he’s a person who has been around a lot of women in his life that that really wasn’t that daunting.
  • TT: No, it really wasn’t. Everybody was fantastic.
  • WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK.