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Female Flesh
think on this.
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fuckyeahchubbygirls!
The Activista
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GauntletFemale Flesh
think on this.
Robot Heart: Sex, Religion, and Politics
Sexism & the City
Philosophic, Feminist Ramblings
fuckyeahchubbygirls!
The Activista
That Development Lady
Curvy Couture
Little Mumbles
Patriarchy Is Bullshit
Crystal Renn - Bazaar Australia by Luis Sanchis
I love a lot of things about Crystal Renn, probably what I love the most are her thighs.
isay:
THIS IS YOUR REAL GPOYW.
Do we have to discuss the superiority of women anymore?
Look at the egg cell’s size, look at that tiny sperm.What looks like an artist’s rendering of the sun is actually a human egg cell. The egg cell is much larger than the sperm attached to it, and is surrounded by protective cells around its outside surface (shown in yellow). The brown membrane surrounding the egg cell is the zona pellucida. The head of the sperm carries special enzymes to dissolve this membrane, which it must do in order to fertilize the egg.
I am convinced that if God were to exist, He would in fact be a She.
Women ruin everything, including science fiction.
At least according to The Spearhead, an online magazine that bills itself as “An expression of our growing voice, and combines the talents of some of the Anglosphere’s best bloggers on men’s issues.”
There are lots of Men’s Rights sites out there, and this one is only different in that it does a slightly better job of dressing up its anti-woman schlock as a valid worldview instead of plain old discrimination, and it reaches a relatively wide audience — especially with it’s recent article about the “feminization” of science fiction. The article has been picked up and tossed around the internet a great deal — it popped up in my RSS reader a total of four times from both feminist sites and science fiction sites.
The article essentially blames women for the increase of character and plot driven science fiction recently, using the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica as its example (over and over and over again). Why is this a problem, you ask? Oh, because apparently, “Science fiction is a very male form of fiction.” And “feminizing” it will result in “[A] generation of boys [that] will not have inspiration from science fiction, at least not from science fiction on television and in movies.” And as a result will not go on to have careers in the fields of science and technology (where, as we all know, men are VASTLY underrepresented).
While the number of people who seem to agree with the author is neither heartening nor surprising, a lot of people seem to be publicly calling bull on this one. (The Spearhead notes with glee that their article ended up being a topic of discussion in their “local feminist gutter-rag.”) My favorite response so far is from author John Scalzi, who retorted with:
The premise of [this article] essentially boils down to:“Science Fiction is by boys and for boys and now girls are ruining it for anyone with testicles, except the gays, who are just like girls anyway (and whose testicles frighten me).”
"The shift away from an emphasis on Sisterhood has occurred because many women - angered by the insistence on common oppression, shared identity, sameness - criticized or dismissed or dismissed the feminist movement altogether. We are mistaken if we allow these distortions or the women who created them to lead us to devalue Sisterhood. Women are enriched when we bond with one another, but we cannot develop sustaining ties or political solidarity using the model of Sisterhood created by bourgeois women’s liberationists. Working together to expose, examine, and eliminate sexist and racist socialization within ourselves, women would strengthen and affirm one another and build a solid foundation for developing political solidarity."
— bell hooks, feminist theory: from margin to center. (via abbyjean) (via gauntlet)
Edge
femaleflesh: fuckyeahsylviaplath:
The woman is perfected.
Her dead
Body wears the smile of accomplishment,
The illusion of a Greek necessity
Flows in the scrolls of her toga,
Her bare
Feet seem to be saying:
We have come so far, it is over.
Each dead child coiled, a white serpent,
One at each little
Pitcher of milk, now empty.
She has folded
Them back into her body as petals
Of a rose close when the garden
Stiffens and odors bleed
From the sweet, deep throats of the night flower.
The moon has nothing to be sad about,
Staring from her hood of bone.
She is used to this sort of thing.
Her blacks crackle and drag.
BBC NEWS | Africa | Traumatised Semenya 'skips exams'
South Africa’s gender row athlete Caster Semenya is too traumatised to take her university examinations, according to her trainer. “Her head is very tired,” Michael Seme told the Beeld newspaper.
The University of Pretoria, where Ms Semenya is studying Sports Science, has agreed to let her write her exams when she is ready, according to Mr Seme. “Fortunately, the university has a good understanding of her situation and made it clear to her that exams are the last thing she should worry about at the moment,” he said.
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This is how I do.
abbyjean: sexartandpolitics: I don’t want anybody thinking that straight, cis, men can’t make meaningful contributions to feminist theory and practice. If you’re doing feminism, then keep at it. My irritation was caused by men who who think that, because they are feminist identified, they get a pass on sexist behavior and think there’s no more learning to be done. I’m surprised by how many liberal feminist men took this personally. For one, if you spend time in women’s spaces, you’ve surely learned to perform a mental check as to whether the criticism being voiced applies to you and, if it doesn’t, understand that you’re an exception. This is basic stuff.
femaleflesh: fuckyeahzaftigbitches: (via somerset)
Growing Strong is calling for submissions
Send submissions to growingstrong2010@gmail.com by 20 December 2009.
Growing Strong is a NSW wide student feminist publication.
Contribute through sending us your articles, essays, artworks, photography, reviews and creative pieces that explore issues relating to women.
Submissions are due by 20th December 2009. Growing Strong will be printed before the start of the university year and will be distributed at the launch and at campus o-weeks to begin the year of amazing feminist activism that will be 2010!
"inWhile acknowledging the unrelenting struggle waged by a handful of feminists within the UN, as well as a myriad international feminist organisations and lobby groups to push the UN, to even condemn the resort to sexual violence in contexts of conflict, it is also important to recognise that such piecemeal resolutions – 1325, 1820 and now 1888 – do not adequately address the fact that militarism is inherently violent, patriarchal and masculinist, and intrinsic to the expansion of capitalism and imperialism. In other words, it is a legitimised form of structural violence that pervades our everyday, is dependent on particular gendered notions and practices and is not merely restricted to wars and conflicts."
— Don’t ignore militarised sexual violence (via gauntlet) (via robot-heart-politics)
RT @melsil Check out this facebook group: Petition to Rescind the Polanski Rape Petition: http://tinyurl.com/yf5k7qu
