Study: Everyone hates environmentalists and feminists

[Oralmat]

dont include me , not everyone. I love environment and i love environmentalist.

Me too.  Almost every woman I know who is somewhat bright and most who are not are what I would consider feminists

[Wilikon]

Environmental Activist Marries 1,000 YEAR OLD TREE

Peruvian activist and actor Richard Torres contracted matrimony with Mexico’s famous 1,000-year-old Arbol del Tule, or Tule Tree, in an Inca ceremony replete with incense, grains and conch shells.

The ritual began Sunday around 11:30 a.m. in the presence of dozens of environmentalists and inhabitants of the Oaxaca town of Santa María del Tule, most of whom had no idea why the man was kissing and “marrying” the tree, a type of cypress whose trunk, at nearly 140 feet around, has the largest diameter in the world.

The wedding was part of the “Marry a tree, save your oxygen” project, whose mission is to stop deforestation around the world, and has already been initiated in Peru, Colombia and Argentina.

“Stop the hand that cuts down trees. I condemn this genocide and ask the president of Mexico to halt the destruction,” the environmentalist said during the ceremony.


http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/nlifestyle/2016/05/10/environmentalist-weds-1000-year-old-tule-tree-in-south-mexico/?intcmp=hplnws



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The tree has yet to comment on its consent regarding that forced union...

 

[Wilikon]

Artist 'films herself being raped' to challenge how society views assault

An Australian artist has filmed herself having un-simulated sex with a stranger in a so-called ‘rape representation’ to encourage debate on the patriarchal nature of sexual violence.

Sophia Hewson – who arranged and choreographed the three-minute piece called Untitled (“are you ok bob?”) – invited the man to her home in New York to record the video.

Throughout the scene the focus is on Miss Hewson’s face as she looks towards the camera, and only the arms of ‘Bob’ - the man’s pseudonym - can be seen.

“The raped woman is nearly always depicted with her face downcast and her eyes averted," she explained in a statement on her website.

“The most confronting aspect of Untitled ("are you ok bob?"), isn't watching as a woman is struck or penetrated, it's seeing her look back out at us from the experience.

“Caught in her gaze, the viewer is not only forced to bear witness to her subjectivity, but implicated in her desolation.”

The work of the 31-year-old artist, who was born in Cambridge, UK, but is now based in Melbourne, Sydney, has often explored the relationship between female objectification and the role of male power.

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She says her latest work is “conceptually challenging” as it “threatens our assumption that man's power is unsurmountable”.

She also said she wanted to highlight the idea that rape is "more than an unwanted sexual act, that it is the foundation for the entire institution of the patriarchy, and hence it is the crucial battleground for dismantling male power".

And she noted that while the piece may provoke a "horrified reaction", the subject of rape "isn't just about our desire to eradicate the epidemic".
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“It's essential to the patriarchy that rape is taboo, because demystifying the act challenges shame and erodes the fear that is needed to suppress the majority," she added.

Clarifying her motivation for the video, and perhaps pre-empting detractors, she stated:  "I’ve never had rape fantasy and I didn't enjoy making the work physically."

According to joint statistics from the Ministry of Justice and the Office for National Statistics, 85,000 women and 12,000 men are raped in England and Wales every year.


http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/female-artist-films-herself-having-sex-with-a-stranger-to-challenge-way-people-view-rape-a7039361.html


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