January 2011
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Think women have achieved equality? Think again. →
thedaysarenotfullenough:
We Can’t Be Equal While:
Gender Roles
Men are the default and women are the Other (and therefore lesser).
Being called “girly” or a “sissy” or “pussy” are some of the worst insults you can give a man.
When a woman shows confidence in herself, she is said to “have balls”, or conversely she is a “man-eater”, “ball-buster”, or a “bitch” because she was “too” assertive.
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feminist songs :):)
Feminist songs!
reelaroundthefountain:
The following is my feminist music (five! whole! songs!) plus everything that everyone else wonderfully recommended.
From me:
When I Was A Boy - Dar Williams
I Am Woman - Helen Reddy
Flirting - Jess Klein
Respect - P!nk
18 Wheeler - P!nk
From femonster:
Not a Pretty Girl - Ani Difrano (really any Ani)
Like Giants - Kimya Dawson
Tomorrow’s Just...
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100 feminist books for the young adult reader →
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Am I arguing that girls and women shouldn’t be...
Emily Maguire, Princesses & Pornstars: Sex, Power, Identity.
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male privilege
1. My odds of being hired for a job, when competing against female applicants, are probably skewed in my favour. The more prestigious the job, the larger the odds are skewed.
2. I can be confident that my co-workers won’t think I got my job because of my sex – even though that might be true.
3. If I am never promoted, it’s not because of my sex.
4. If I fail in my job or career, I can feel...
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How to Talk To an Anti-Feminist
Sometimes we come across women (or men) who are so vehemently against the idea of feminism, it really starts aggravating us. But we must remember one of the prime directives of feminism, which is to educate those who have bought into the stereotype media has foisted upon our movement. These people are simply ignorant—and ignorance does not mean stupidity. Ignorance has a capacity to learn....
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More Ideas in Feminist Reading
•The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women •Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History •Feminism is for Everybody •The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women •Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrrls Gone Wild •Sexual Politics of Meat: a feminist vegetarian critical theory •I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished works of Audre...
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Defining: The body.
Homophobia is all about defining the queer body as wrong, perverse, immoral Transphobia is all about defining trans bodies as unnatural, monstrous or the profuct of delusion Ableism is about defining disabled bodies as broken and tragic. Class welfare about defining the bodies of workers as expendable. Rascism about defining the bodies of people of color as primitive, exotic or worthless. Sexism...
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The bible is not 100% pro-life.
This post was originally published here, on the Rabble Pro Choice site Exodus 21:22-23 If an attack on a woman causes a miscarriage the attacker must pay a fine. If he causes serious damage to the mother it’s “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth”. This indicates that a fetus does not have equal standing under God’s law. Leviticus 27:6 Monetary values are assigned to lives according to age and...
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"I asked a Burmese man why women, after centuries...
~ Robert Mueller
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Feministhub's book suggestions
Feminist Theory from Margin to Center, by bell hooks (really, I’d recommend any bell hooks)
Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape, by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti (Valenti has a number of books on feminism, by the way)
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, by Ariel Levy
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the...
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7 responses to rape victim blaming
When someone says something which helps support an anti-rape culture, thank them and praise them to others.
When someone says, “Boys will be boys,” when they learn a boy has been accused of rape ask them, “Do you really believe all boys are rapists?”
When someone says, “The only way to prevent sexual violence is to teach girls and women how to avoid danger,” respond with, “And I suppose the...
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why is it that whenever taylor swift mentions cars...
rebel-sweetheart:
a small sample:
“i was riding shotgun with my hair undone in the front seat of his car” - our song
“then i think about summer all the beautiful times i watched you laughing from the passenger side” - back to december
“I wanna stay right here in the passenger seat” - fearless
“i don’t think the passenger seat has ever looked this good to me” - i’d lie
with the feminist...
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Q: So, why do you write these strong female characters? A: Because you’re still asking me that question.
— Joss Whedon
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