“The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.”
—Ruth Benedict (via alostlittlelark)
December 2011
At Google, A Transgender Gold Standard →
advocate.com
One of the best parts of this article is that all of the comments on the bottom of the page are positive and supportive!
“Nation, this orgy of Christmas shopping proves once again, that America is back. We are once again spending money we don’t have, on things we don’t need, to give to people we don’t like. USA! USA! USA!”
—Stephen Colbert (via cultureofresistance)
November 2011
“Misogyny …. is a central part of sexist prejudice and ideology and, as such, is an important basis for the oppression of females in male-dominated societies. Misogyny is manifested in many different ways, from jokes to pornography to violence to the self-contempt women may be taught to feel toward their own bodies.”
—Allan G. Johnson (via shandog)
Open Letter to that 53% Guy →
dailykos.com
This is a really excellent read. It’s long but worth it. PROMISE!
I will admit that he definitely glorifies the 50s from the point of view of a middle class white male, but I’ll let it slide since he acknowledged it, and because he’s specifically addressing another white male.
“This issue of pornography is complicated and I’m not comfortable taking a pro- or anti- stance. Even the term feminist porn is too broad and is contested in feminist circles. I prefer to take a more nuanced look at the industry. I support sex-positive films where workers are paid a fair wage, have safe environments, have health insurance and get routine testing, are not underage, not forced or coerced, not demeaned (I hate that freakin’ money shot), and I support sex-positive films that are queer-friendly and supportive of the wide spectrum of human sexuality and gender expression.”
—AE Pierre-Louis (via cocothinkshefancy)
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You know, in Western cultures, we give a lot of lip service to motherhood. We call motherhood special, we valorize our own mothers, we say it the most important job on earth, but in practice there’s very little out there that supports mothers as a class of people. As a culture, we can barely come to an agreement on whether children, the most vulnerable population among us, have the right to food, clean water, safe homes, and access to health care. As teenage parents, we are on the receiving end of some particularly nasty judgement because we happen to hit a lot of these buttons: we’re young, we tend to have less wealth, we tend to have less education. And because the system is set up against us, a lot of folks as satisfied just shaking their heads and telling us we should have kept our legs closed.
That’s not good enough. You do have rights. You have the right to work, to attend college, to live in safe neighborhoods, to access quality health care and nutrition for your children. Some jerk’s false perception of you as a promiscuous loser — whether this jerk be your parent, your uncle, your freshman English teacher, or some stranger — is not a valid reason to prevent you from accessing these resources. In cases like this, knowledge is power. Know what your rights are and how exactly to exercise them when someone is putting up roadblocks to keep you from reaching your goals. What someone else thinks about you is none of your business. Forget their judgement.
” —Lauren Bruce, founder of Feministe, in an interview about teen motherhood. (via jessicavalenti
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I really, really love the feminist community at VCU.
And by VCU I mean Richmond in general. I am lucky to be surrounded by so many kind and intelligent feminists!
Microsoft Word... →
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…needs to stop telling me I’m sexist, and stop being such a bitch about gender equality. Yeah, that’s right Word: I used a feminine term as an insult, suck it! Stop telling me to change “mankind” to “humanity,” “brotherhood” to “unity,” or any other bullshit like that. They’re words. Words that mean things. If women really have a problem with that, they can go fuck themselves because they’re being ignorant whores (fuck yeah, another gender-biased insult). If we let feminism alter our language, it’s only a matter of time before it becomes a garbled clusterfuck of politicized Newspeak. So please, for the sake of present and future freedom of thought, stop corrupting the English language.
Today’s award for Most Privileged and Arrogant Douchebag goes to THIS fucking asshole. CONGRATULATIONS, now pull your head out of your rectum.
just in regards to some history lessons, people are often like "women" fought for the right to vote, reproductive... →
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because it was feminists, not “women”. there were a bunch of genders fighting for rights especially during the second wave. i mean during the first wave it was mostly women arguing for the right to vote, but here in Canada that was only so that they could vote in place of their husband who was off to war basically, so that right was a bit stunted at the time.
but seriously it’s like “women fought for this and that” and that’s simply untrue, many women were opposed to what feminists were fighting for in the second wave because it was such a break from traditional gender roles, eh?
and then, because people say “women fought for this and that”, feminists and their work gets left out of the equation, their name continues to be tainted with the concept of “man hating lesbians”, and they do not get credit for their very hard work the past few decades.
history books and history folk need to give credit where credit is due, eh?
Occupy This: Create a Lasting Legacy by Passing the Equal Rights Amendment →
huffingtonpost.com
The Occupy Movement continues to protest economic inequality. But it might be missing an important opportunity to create a lasting legacy that will resonate for generations to come: to push for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.
A more effective and powerful approach to reaching the Occupy Movement’s goals could be to create a “sequential system” by building a unified voice (which many — even those who are ardent supporters — believe the Occupiers are lacking) and attack each injustice — one at a time — starting with the horrendous state of women’s rights in this country.
