I just backed the fabulous Anita Sarkeesian’s Tropes Vs. Women in Video Games video project on Kickstarter, and you should, too! She does amazing feminist critique of pop culture, and videos is expensive. :) She’s already made her goal for the first couple of videos, but she’s now looking to fund the whole series. Let’s help her out!!
And here is the proof. :)
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As women, we need to stop looking at other women and assuming they are dressing a certain way for male attention. Every time I go out and there is a woman there dressed in a tight dress, or whatever, shaming starts immediately. Not always to her face. But it’s there.
There seem to be people who…
Yes, Jessica. Y. E. S. :)
I’d never thought about this - especially in the context of the Beastie Boys’ song, “Girls.” But Jessica Valenti of The Nation wrote this really heartfelt column about how MCA and the rest of The Beasties did something that more people, particularly men, should be strong enough to do. Change their minds, and be vocal about it. This is a really interesting piece.
RIP MCA.
Yeah, I didn’t think so. Equality Now is calling you to action.
- Mr “Welcome to the real world”. Sexism happens. Always has, always will. Might as well suck it up and deal with it. Try to change society? What are you, mad? I don’t like it either, sunshine, but just be good and don’t make a fuss.
- Mr “Oh my god calm down it was a…
OMG. YES. I have totally come across each and every one of these people on the internet.
(Source: spitfireinspace)
First we stop pretending. Call out the hate for what it is. Resist cultural relativism and know that even in countries undergoing revolutions and uprisings, women will remain the cheapest bargaining chips. You — the outside world — will be told that it’s our “culture” and “religion” to do X, Y, or Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman. The Arab uprisings may have been sparked by an Arab man — Mohamed Bouazizi, the Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire in desperation — but they will be finished by Arab women.
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We are more than our headscarves and our hymens. Listen to those of us fighting. Amplify the voices of the region and poke the hatred in its eye. There was a time when being an Islamist was the most vulnerable political position in Egypt and Tunisia. Understand that now it very well might be Woman. As it always has been.
” Why Do They Hate Us?. By Mona Eltahawy (via mollycrabapple)YOUR IGNORANCE IS MORE SCANDALOUS/ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
The horrible thing is, I just long for a day when having to fight is unnecessary. How many decades, how many centuries, how many millenniums are we going to have to fight, just to have the rights to our SELVES?
Short, sweet, and to the point. I like it. :)
I like to give people the benefit of the doubt.
I really, really do.
Which is why I’m not going to say that anyone bringing up the issue of, “Self-objectification,” is doing so in bad faith. It is, however, extremely problematic.
When someone talks about this mythical state of self-objectification, they’re putting the onus for what most of us can admit are incredibly skewed beauty standards onto people who are making the choice to perform gender in a way that conforms to that standard.
Except they’re only making this judgment towards cis/heteronormative APPEARING women who fall within the cultural standard of attractiveness. Since obviously, cis/het women are performing gender in this way solely for the benefit of men, regardless of what the individual person engaging in the gender performance thinks about why they’re doing it and what they get out of it.
