Posts tagged feminism
Posted 1 year ago
Posted 1 year ago
![stfufauxminists:
[Image: A Toothpaste for Dinner comic includes two men having a conversation. One says “Man, those feminists are fulla crap…we should start the National Organization for Men” to which the other replies “We already have one of those…it’s called the government.”]
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[Image: A Toothpaste for Dinner comic includes two men having a conversation. One says “Man, those feminists are fulla crap…we should start the National Organization for Men” to which the other replies “We already have one of those…it’s called the government.”]
Always relevant to this blog/life.
Posted 1 year ago
There are over 4000 Crisis Pregnancy Centers in the U.S. compared to under 750 abortion clinics.
can you imagine how much money is being wasted on these? i mean, resources, time, and energy funneled into “saving” zygotes, instead of saving actual, living people.
where was all of this money when my mom had to decide between mental health for herself and school books for her kids? yeah, it was “helping” amoebas
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Posted 1 year ago
I used to slip into The Incredible Hulk voice when having online chat conversations. One day, I was talking with my buddy Libby Bulloff about someone’s inconsiderate, entitlement-driven behavior. I suggested that sexism was a contributing factor, and then wrote, “HULK SAYS FUCK PATRIARCHY. HULK SMASH GENDER BINARY. ALSO, HULK THINK JUDITH BUTLER IS THE SHIT.” Libby and I are mutual friends with the writer of @xdressinghulk, and she suggested that I create a Feminist Hulk Twitter page. I had posted to Twitter maybe five times in my life, but for some reason I said, “Give me ten minutes.” I opened the account, made the icon of Hulk holding a copy of Gender Trouble, and here we are!
Who’s Behind the Mask of Feminist Hulk? Only the Ms. Blog Knows! : Ms Magazine Blog
Complete interview at the link. H/T timecodereading!
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Posted 1 year ago
![stfuhypocrisy:
feministblackboard:
When aspiring to be on MTV’s The Real World you have to sign a contract that states that you understand you may get raped. Other issues that get covered include:
-If you undergo any medical procedures while involved in the show, they carry the risk of infection, disfigurement, death. (4)
• You may be humiliated and explicitly portrayed “in a false light.” (12)
• Producers are under no obligation to conduct background checks on your fellow cast members. (7)
• You grant the Producer blanket rights to your life story. (49) • The Producer can do pretty much anything they want with your life story, including misrepresent it. (49)
• You authorize the Producer to have total access to your school records, government forms, your credit history. (19)
• The production crew can show up at your personal house at any time to film and/or to take anything they want, as long as they return the objects once production has ended. (20a)
• Under ordinary circumstances, all of this would be considered a “serious” invasion of privacy. (11)
- you may die, lose limbs, or suffer a mental breakdown
It’s amazing that there are people out there willing to sign over all of their rights just like that.Full List [HERE]
What is this even?](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpqidcnkkx1qgtmnto1_500.png)
When aspiring to be on MTV’s The Real World you have to sign a contract that states that you understand you may get raped.
Other issues that get covered include:-If you undergo any medical procedures while involved in the show, they carry the risk of infection, disfigurement, death. (4)
• You may be humiliated and explicitly portrayed “in a false light.” (12)
• Producers are under no obligation to conduct background checks on your fellow cast members. (7)
• You grant the Producer blanket rights to your life story. (49)
• The Producer can do pretty much anything they want with your life story, including misrepresent it. (49)• You authorize the Producer to have total access to your school records, government forms, your credit history. (19)
• The production crew can show up at your personal house at any time to film and/or to take anything they want, as long as they return the objects once production has ended. (20a)
• Under ordinary circumstances, all of this would be considered a “serious” invasion of privacy. (11)
- you may die, lose limbs, or suffer a mental breakdown
It’s amazing that there are people out there willing to sign over all of their rights just like that.
Full List [HERE]What is this even?
(Source: feminist-blackboard)
Posted 1 year ago
The Silence - Video | FRONTLINE | PBS
In the remote Native villages of Alaska, FRONTLINE examines a little-known chapter of the Catholic Church sex abuse story.
“80% of the town’s children— literally, an entire generation— were molested”.
Incredible story. Very strong TRIGGER WARNING.
Posted 2 years ago
Meet Phoolan Devi who killed 22 men as a revenge for being gang-raped
Also known as the Bandit Queen, Phoolan Devi was born in 1963 in the north of India into a poor low-caste family. She married at the age 11 to a man three times her age, but was abandoned by her husband and her family after the marriage broke down. At her 20s she was subjected to numerous sexual assaults and turned to a life of crime.
In 1979 she was imprisoned in Behmai, an obscure Thakur village. Each night for two weeks, a group of Thakur men gang-raped Phoolan, most times until she lost consciousness. After three weeks, she managed to escape and formed a gang.
Almost two years later, she stumbled upon Behmai to rob the villagers. What began as a robbery transformed into an inquisition when Phoolan recognized two of the men as part of the gang that had raped her. When the villagers failed to disclose the whereabouts of the gang leaders, an infuriated Phoolan assembled the men in a line and opened fire. Of the thirty men who crumbled, twenty-two died in what became known as the St. Valentine massacre, the largest massacre by bandits in Indian history.
Afterwards, police launched a huge manhunt using helicopters and thousands of men, but Phoolan Devi’s already high reputation among the poor was enhanced as she frequently outwitted them and evaded capture. She surrendered to the authorities in 1983 in poor health after most of her gang members had died. After serving her time in prison (11 years) she insisted that she was a reformed character and was elected to the Indian parliament. There she tried to establish a reputation as a champion of the oppressed in India. Phoolan Devi’s criminal record and subsequent rehabilitation was made into a successful feature film in India and the west.
On July 25, 2001, Phoolan Devi was fatally shot as she got out of her car at the gate of her New Delhi residence. Sher Singh Rana confessed to the murder, saying he was avenging the deaths of 22 Kshatriyas at Behmai.Found Here
Posted 2 years ago
What does feminism have to do with breastfeeding?
Central is the notion that breastfeeding is not a “choice.” Breastfeeding is a reproductive right. This is a simple, but remarkably radical, concept. Here’s why: When we frame infant feeding as a choice made by an individual women, we place the entire responsibility for carrying out that choice on the individual woman. Moreover, as Bernice Hausman writes in her essay, “Women’s liberation and the rhetoric of ‘choice’ in infant feeding debates,’ we position the nursing mother as making a consumer decision, rather than exercising a human right. This framework, in turn, weakens legal protections for breastfeeding families. In her analysis of “The construction of parenting protections in United States law,” Maxine Eichner writes about why courts have determined that the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) does not apply to breastfeeding mothers:
Rather than consider it a “related medical condition” with respect to pregnancy, which would give it coverage under the PDA, courts deem breastfeeding to be a “choice” related to parenting and therefore to be uncovered. Constructing breastfeeding as a choice that absolves employers from any duty to accommodate it evades the question of whether such “choices,” when they contribute to welfare of children, should be supported.
The result, says Paige Hall Smith, is that women who have control over their bodies, their time, and their lives — typically highly educated, upper middle class women – can choose to breastfeed, but most mothers – hourly workers, women from families that require two incomes to survive, poor women required by law to go back to work or forfeit their federal aid — can not. The lack of response by feminists to these workplace inequities makes breastfeeding a “class-based privilege,” she says. Indeed, the ultimate link between breastfeeding and feminism is that in a truly equitable society, women would have the capacity to fulfill to pursue both their productive and reproductive work without penalty.
Posted 2 years ago
Learn about the male gaze via T-Rex
I OFFICIALLY LOVE THIS COMIC
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intro to feminist theory with professor t. rex.
Posted 2 years ago
I call myself a feminist. Isn’t that what you call someone who fights for women’s rights? We all come from the same mother. That creates the basis for compassion.
The Dalai Lama at the International Freedom Award ceremony in Memphis (via i-am-the-lighthouse) (via glitterbombing)
Yeeeeees
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FUCK YES
Posted 2 years ago
The main thing about these half-assed analyses of ‘hookup culture’ that makes me want to claw my eyes out is that the ALWAYS seem to only talk about women — since men are, you know, immune to cultural change and also more naturally adjusted to casual sex? What? You know, the usual, ‘these girls think they’re feminists for having sex but look how conflicted and depressed and UNCHASTE/stupid/slutty they are?” As if a.) the human condition doesn’t basically involve feeling conflicted and depressed and making regrettable decisions most of the damn time anyway and as if men don’t feel those things too, and b.) really?? Haven’t we been making that exact argument for the better part of a fucking century, that we’d be more fulfilled keeping quiet and nursing babies? There would be plenty of ways to discuss the conflicting pressures of modern femininity/sexuality/feminism/college campuses/Lady Gaga that don’t also involve a subtle implication warning to young ladies to behave or else and also to turn off MTV because that shit is CORRUPTING you. Once you tell your son to stop putting out because it’s gonna make him unhappy and you know that deep down he’s pining for a wife and must feel stressed out for having to compete with his frat brothers, then we can have a real conversation about this.
good morning midnight - hookup culture, lady gaga, and bad faith
for REAL.
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Thank. You.
A former friend once told me not to have friends with benefits, because future boyfriends would see me as tainted. Anyone who thinks a woman who engages in casual sex - and doesn’t get all heartbroken from it -is “tainted” wouldn’t have survived the dating process with me.
Women and men act in similar ways - let’s stop giving women the side-eye cos they dare to acknowledge and attend to their sexual needs at their leisure.
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Posted 2 years ago
Let’s Not Be Silly: The Marie Arraras 911 Call, and What It Means
“On May 28, Arraras called Miami 911, telling the dispatcher to send the cops right away because her boyfriend had hit her and was trying to choke her. The police did eventually come to the house, arrested her boyfriend, and observed that she had a swollen lips and marks on her arms.
All this you can read in this story from the Sunday New York Daily News, like I did. What I find interesting is that in the online version, they left out the transcript of the call. Which makes for some…what’s that word we use? Interesting? Infuriating? Depressingly typical?
Yeah, that one.
Here, in living Minou Transcription, is the 911 call:
Operator: Miami Dade, where is your emergency?
Arraras: Please send the police to [redacted] right now. Somebody is about to kill me. Please.
Operator: What are they doing?
Arraras: Choking me. Please hurry.
Operator: They are choking you?
Arraras: Please.
Operator: Ma’am, you are on the phone; they are not choking you. What did they do?
Arraras: They just hit me and tried to choke me. Please.
Operator: Who did that to you?
Arraras: Somebody that lives with me.
Operator: Okay then, who is that somebody? Let’s not be silly. Ma’am, answer my question.
Arraras: I have three kids here.
Operator: And who is this someone that tried to kill you?
Arraras: It’s somebody that I’m dating, that lives here…please, could you send somebody right away?
Operator: Okay, ma’am. Hello. Instead of just saying hurry up, why don’t you answer the question?
Arraras: Listen to me, I have to go because he’s trying to get back in. Could you please…
Operator: So the person is outside?
Arraras: Outside, but not for long.
Operator: So, he lives there with you?
Arraras: Are you sending somebody right now?
Operator: I said, yes, if you would have listened instead of just talking. Okay.”
C. L. Minou reminds us how little Law Enforcement gives a shit about intimate partner violence, and women in general.
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