Posts tagged with feminism.
“If you are a white woman and you want to call yourself a feminist, you must acknowledge that your whiteness affords you a privilege that shields you from a lot. You must also acknowledge that you are afforded privileges that some men in this country do not have. Racism and sexism are tightly intertwined. You cannot fight one while ignoring the other.”
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Legitimate criticisms of feminism:
-Trans-misogyny and the lack of inclusion of transwomen
-The racist history behind it and the lack of inclusion of WOC
-Ignoring and invalidating women with disabilities
-Pretty much anything that falls under lack of intersectionality
-Internalized misogyny and girl hate
-Promotion of political lesbianism
-Radscum
Illegitimate criticisms of feminism:
-A feminist was really mean to me once
-They’re sexist against men
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“Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men over the bodily integrity, autonomy, and dignity of girls and women. It is subtle, insidious, and never more dangerous than when women passionately deny that they themselves are engaging in it. This abnormal obsession with women’s faces and bodies has become so normal that we (I include myself at times—I absolutely fall for it still) have internalized patriarchy almost seamlessly. We are unable at times to identify ourselves as our own denigrating abusers, or as abusing other girls and women.”
Ashley Judd“As long as the society has granted women equality on paper, while being full of hidden mechanisms which hinder women from using their rights in practice, feminism is essential.”
Merja Kähkönen, Federation of Green Youth and Students, Finland
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This is outrageous
Jezebel on nail art.
What on fucking earth do Jezebel commenters have against cashiers and our spangly ass finger art. What.
“Here’s an idea ladies: maybe pick up an actual paintbrush and express yourself on canvas? Or an instrument. Or a pen. Saying nail art is a form of self-expression is akin to saying that reading Cosmo is a form of cultural enlightenment. Sure it might be fun and cute, but it saddens me that this is considered a valid creative outlet. We’re talking about a bunch of girls who probably have Audrey Hepburn posters on their walls and Katy Perry on their iPods. So I suppose a fingernail’s worth of swirly glitter would be an appropriate expression of the depth of their inner selves.”
Hey, Jezebel? Eat a dick.
Yay! Jezebel - Run by women who chortle at expressions of femininity, because if you’re not heaps busy writing hateful articles, bumping into shit and chipping your “basic manicure” then you obviously need taking down a peg or two!
“I don’t mean to demean you but you’re pathetic,” basically?
WTF.
“Slut” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “yes”. “Friendzone” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “no”.”
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BOOM.
There it is.
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Well put!
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“In the Ukraine, a country where females are victims of sexual trafficking and gender oppression, a new tribe of empowered women is emerging. Calling themselves the “Asgarda”, the women seek complete autonomy from men. Residing in the Carpathian Mountains, the tribe is comprised of 150 women of varying ages, primarily students, led by 30 year-old Katerina Tarnouska…”
Read more at PLANET˚ (Via Boing Boing)
cool…
Amazing.
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Too Many Strong Women In Video Games!!!1!!eleventyone!!
Goddamn, Men’s Rights Activists never stop being funny.
The setup:
… one I have been playing recently is Shogun 2 total war. Now for those who don’t know what this game is, it is a strategy game based on the military of feudal Japan. I recently bought an upgrade for the game the other day and guess what one of the strongest military units was? Nuns. I shit you not. The nuns had an attack 20% -40% higher than most units in the game. Somehow I doubt that in real life a nun would have swung a sword or used a spear faster and harder than a feudal warlord, and this game was based on history.
And the stunningly incisive interpretation of data:
I think I have the right to ask steam and other gaming companes: WTF with the subliminal brainwashing? What now when I buy or play a game women will be doing all the ass kicking?
That’s true. I can’t walk into any GameStop without tripping over strong female characters who kick so much ass and are universally better than their male counterparts, if any are permitted to be present. It truly is a brave new world we inhabit now, ladies, amirite?
And the worst part? This has been going on forever:
This is nothing new. I got heavy into gaming back in the late 90′s and even back then they had Tomb Raider, S.I.N., etc. Even in the original Unreal, you played as a big-breasted female.
I saw a documentary on the making of the original Tomb Raider once. The lead character, Lara Croft, was originally going to be a man. They saw him as an Indiana Jones-type character. Then, one of the designers suggested it be a woman because “if you’re going to be playing a game for hours, you might as well have something good to look at”.
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I … just… this is their example of strong women opressing men in video games?
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Really?
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Men’s Rights Activists, everybody!
One of the single most absurd things I’ve read in a while. I’m actually more baffled than anything.
Salute!The 1,000th Wednesday Protest.
I just want to write about how inspiring, passionate, and courageous these women are (my favorite Halmoni, Pak Ok-seon Halmoni can be seen in the top photo wearing a blue scarf).
They are in their 80’s and 90’s and they have been demonstrating in front of the Japanese Embassy every fucking week for 20 years. In the rain, in the snow, in the heat, in the wind, without fail. They’ve faced social stigma, being called whores and prostitutes, they’ve been asked by their families to not go public but they go out there EVERY FUCKING WEEK.
And they do it because they want the world to know what happened to them, what’s still happening in wars all across the globe, what’s happening across national borders, what’s happening in school campuses, churches, and pretty much every corner of this goddamn planet.
And that is sexual violence against women.
And when you ask them why they’re out there every week, they’ll tell you that yes, they want their apology from the Japanese government - they want someone to look them in the face and say yes, it happened and I. am. sorry. But they’ll also tell you that they’re out there because they don’t want what happened to them to happen to a single other woman, ever again.
“Feminism is the political theory and practice that struggles to free _all_ women: women of color, working-class women, poor women, disabled women, lesbians, old women—as well as white, economically privileged, heterosexual women. Anything less than this vision of total freedom is not feminism, but merely female self-aggrandizement.”
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“I think it has to go beyond men just “saying” that they think women are equal. It’s about men understanding the heteronormative trappings which are ever present within a patriarchal construct and then confuting the status quo. The pusillanimity of most men forces them to disavow any knowledge of inequality, sexism and disenfranchisement, opting instead to focus on the fact they “think” women are equal. I have not met a male choreographer, business owner or dancer yet that gave women roles of unilateral decision making outside of the patriarchal model. Even the nicest guy is often unaware of the actions he takes which perpetuate female inequality. So yes, men should speak out more about female inequality, but they must also incorporate it into their ethos as men and then teach it to other young men as well. Not being afraid to upset male egos or lose friends.”
Safi A. Thomas
Artistic Director
The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory
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^THIS
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The Princess Syndrome and the Infantilization of Womanhood
Hm.
That article is a bit rubbish. Summary for anyone hesitant to click the link: a dude speaks of our society as though women have achieved total equality, blames women who want to be “waited upon and admired” for undoing this imaginary equality, and expresses manpain over how hard these women are making things for dudes.
My favorite quote:
We need our young women to be as strong and as tough today as previous women were when they had to fight every single day of their lives to be taken seriously and to make a striking difference under the rule of law…
Did you hear that ladies? We don’t have to fight every single day to be taken seriously or make a difference anymore! And if we do, we have other women to blame for that.
There are a lot of reasons why girls and women might have “princess fantasies”. Some may have a preference for fluffy pink dresses and sparkly clothes, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Some women may see exactly how unequal the society they live in is, feel hopeless about ever being treated like adults with complete agency, and try to find comfort in the possibility that someone will “admire” them even if they’re never perceived as legitimate human beings. The latter is problematic because the world we live in is problematic. These women do not deserve to be shamed or ridiculed, and they sure as hell don’t need patronizing advice from some privileged douchefuck with his head up his ass.
If any man is put off by the “infantilization of womanhood” the first step is changing his own behavior.
Reblogging for perfect commentary.
No, but seriously, if your point relies in any way on the assumption that our society has reached gender (or race, or…) equality, be aware that I’m running really low on fucks to give.
“Something was terribly wrong, the fading connection seemed almost tangible. Her breathing, her tone, everything had changed. With these words, it was all over: “Oh. Well, I’m really very sorry, but we just don’t have a demand for bi-racial children. Our program won’t be able to help you.” Dennis was black.”
Crossing Over - I marched against abortion rights and was adamantly pro-life…until I got pregnant.
[source] Of the estimated 423,773 children in foster care on September 30, 2009:
• 40 percent were White/Non-Hispanic
• 30 percent were Black/Non-Hispanic
• 20 percent were Hispanic
• 10 percent were other races or multiracial
How Many Families are Adopting Transracially?
- The most recent estimate of transracial adoption was performed in 1987 by the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). The findings revealed that only 8% of all adoptions include parents and children of different races.
- 1% of white women adopt black children
- 5% of white women adopt children of other races
- 2% of women of other races adopt white children (estimates include foreign-born). (Stolley, 1993)
- An estimated 15% of the 36,000 adoptions of foster children in FY 1998 were transracial or transcultural adoptions. (US DHHS, 2000)
Do the math here. There’s racism and white supremacy inherent in the pro-life adoption argument.
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“Fat people who love themselves scare the shit out of people who don’t love themselves. Even fat people who are TRYING to love themselves scare the shit out of people who can’t do the same. We force people to have to look at why they hate their bodies because we are “supposed” to hate ours and we don’t. And sometimes they have no idea what to do with that, so they act like assholes.”
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“But the womenz just want to take over!” is older than you thought
So after the Punic wars many women inherited wealth because their fathers, husbands and brothers were killed.
This lead to the Roman Senate putting restrictions on what a woman could do with that wealth in 215 BCE. They were forbidden to own more than a half ounce of gold, to wear robes trimmed in purple or to Ride about Rome in carriages drawn by more than two horses.
Twenty years later the law went back to the Senate for repeal and these women protested outside of the Senate building.
Cato the Elder was in favour of maintaining the law, stating:
What they [ie the women] want is complete freedom - or, not to mince words, complete license. If they carry this present issue by storm, what will they not try next? Just consider the number of regulations imposed in the past to restrain their license and subject them to their husbands. Even with those in force, you can hardly control them. Suppose you allow them to acquire or extort one right after another, and in the end to achieve complete equality with men, do you think that you will find them bearable? Nonsense. Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters.*
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*Livy, ‘The Early History of Rome’. A. de Selincourt trans. London: Penguin Classics 1960. 34.2-4
Quoted in: Sawyer, Debora F “Gender Stragagies in Antiquity: Judith’s Performance” Feminist Theology 28 (2001), 9-26.
