Because I am a Woman
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- “The Particular Struggles of Rural Women” by Casey Quianlan for The Atlantic:
- “What Happens to Women Who Are Denied Abortions” by Joshua Lang for The New York Times
- Feminist Taylor Swift and Hillary Clinton’s Twitter feeds
- “Fighting Unwanted Catcalls, One Poster at a Time” by Stephen Nessen for NPR
- “Republicans Want to Ban Abortions After 20 Weeks. Here’s How One Group Is Fighting Back” by Kate Sheppard for Mother Jones
I’m looking at you
bro
In the “Cool story babe, now make me a sandwich” t-shirt
The commonly uses
“I raped you faggot”
when playing
Video games
To dehumanize
Your straight friends
The white kid who greets his buddies with the n-word
Who’s OkCupid dating profile describes him as a “nice guy”
He’s just sick of getting friend-zoned
Because being just friends with a woman
Is so terrible
Nevermind the fact that he answers yes to the following:
Are women obligated to shave their legs?
Are racist jokes funny?
When a woman is raped, is it sometimes her fault?
I’m looking at you
guy in every women’s studies class ever
who derails dialogue
About a third of the world’s population of women
Who will be raped
In their life times
By asserting
“the wage gap isn’t real”
the guy who starts “PimpWalk” in response
to slutwalk
a demonstration aimed at ending victim blaming
of rape victims
the guy with the “no fat chicks” bumpersticker on his F150
whos confused why
he cant get pussy
to the guy who calls anal rape
“surprise buttsex”
to the one who uses “feminazi”
as a frequent part
of his vernacular
to every guy who has ever thought that a facebook status
about domestic violence
was a good opportunity to practice playing the
devils advocate
to every guy
boy
man
who has ever dismissed feminism
because it didn’t involve him
to every man who has ever raped a woman
to every man who has ever beaten one
isolated one
belittled one
dehumanized one
to every guy
who thinks he’s not like those ones
because
its just a joke
to every guy who is confused why feminists hate him
to every guy
its because
you’re part of a problem
a culture
that won’t stop choking us
but tells us
to just breath
(via thenewwomensmovement)
bportahh Asks:
becauseiamawoman Said:
In my opinion, chivalry is just benevolent sexism (PS I highly recommend giving that linked article on the topic a read, its fantastic). Does that mean I think that men shouldn’t be nice and polite to women? Absolutely not, but here is the catch: Men should be nice and polite to women because they are humans, and people should be nice and polite to each other when the situation calls for it. We shouldn’t base our standards of decency in dealing with others on the perceived gender of the person we are interacting with.
Tumbling over the past year and a half has made me see the problems of gender roles that exist in media, but sometimes it gets to the point where I over analyze every single piece of television or film that I come across. (However this in no way means that I think feminist media criticism is wrong, or should be avoided!) Mostly I just over think everything.
This is awesome!
Oh god, my life.
And this is what Butler and Foucault mean when they talk about knowledge production being a reproductive process. Butler says that, “the naming is at once the setting of a boundary, and also the repeated inculcation of a norm” (Bodies That Matter, xvii). As feminists, each time we locate and name a particular issue, we participate in discursively reproducing it. This is true of all things, in a post-strucuralist sense. I think avoiding this trap is an impossible feat! However, the critique is powerful in that creates the necessary fissures and gaps in the reproductive process to create new ways of imagining. The power of fantasy then becomes the vehicle for embodying new ways of being and seeing.
(via auberginecats)
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pretty much my favourite commercial ever ft. strong ladies taking nobody’s bullshit (x)WHY DOESN’T THIS HAVE MORE NOTES
Breaking the patriarchy imposed mould - brilliant !!
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? FUCK OFF NIKE
CATTLE PRODS USED ON PROTESTING FEMALE WORKERS AT NIKE FACTORY
FEMALE WORKERS ABUSED, OVERWORKED AND UNDERPAID AT INDONESIAN NIKE FACTORIES
WOMEN ATTACKED, TORTURED, MOLESTED BY BOSSES AT NIKE FACTORY IN VIETNAM
WOMEN SEXUALLY HARRASSED, OVER WORKED, UNDERPAID, FIRED FOR BEING PREGNANT IN BANGLADESH
Nike - exploiting women, commodifying femism
