The Happy Proletariat

blasphemina:

“Our house was small, and when you grow up with domestic violence in a confined space you learn to gauge, very precisely, the temperature of situations. I knew exactly when the shouting was done and a hand was about to be raised – I also knew exactly when to insert a small body between the fist and her face, a skill no child should ever have to learn. Curiously, I never felt fear for myself and he never struck me, an odd moral imposition that would not allow him to strike a child. The situation was barely tolerable: I witnessed terrible things, which I knew were wrong, but there was nowhere to go for help. Worse, there were those who condoned the abuse. I heard police or ambulancemen, standing in our house, say, “She must have provoked him,” or, “Mrs Stewart, it takes two to make a fight.” They had no idea. The truth is my mother did nothing to deserve the violence she endured. She did not provoke my father, and even if she had, violence is an unacceptable way of dealing with conflict. Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.”

-Patrick Stewart

Patrick Stewart is the best dude

(via reagan-was-a-horrible-president)

“I am doing this for my Mother who earned 3 pounds 10 shillings for working a forty hour week in a weaving shed.”—Patrick Stewart

His mom was also an abuse victim and he’s an anti-domestic violence advocate.

from: (http://effervescentexplosion.tumblr.com/) 

(via stfuconservatives)

theharpy:

rexface:

one of my fav movies since i was four. 

I had totally forgotten that Mrs. Banks was a suffragette! I need to re-watch this. 

OH SNAP!

Hey, fellas. Try this new pick up line the next time you meet a nice girl:

“Did it hurt?”
“Did what hurt?”
“When you casted off the shackles of patriarchy, ushering in the 19th amendment so that you, an equal citizen of this republic, may choose your leaders… after you fell from heaven”