robot-heart-politics:

I’m seriously going to flood their motherfucking inboxes with articles about rapists, defense lawyers, judges, and any number of other social commentating rape apologists who have all made statements to similar effect.

I’m tired of having this discussion. I’m tired of women who in any normal situation have no problem understanding why it is wrong to reduce a woman to the sum of her outfit, why it is wrong to make assumptions about people based on little more than stereotypes (particularly when it comes to women and sex), and have no difficulties in seeing how either of those things are absolutely based in patriarchal regulation of women’s bodies, sexuality, reproductive systems, etc., turning around and using the same arguments that the motherfuckers they usually rail against use to keep women “in their place.”

I’m not sure what’s so special about Halloween, that it suddenly becomes okay to assume and judge and to play the slut-shame game. Maybe it’s the fact that many of the women who dress up in these costumes aren’t always the women that you like or who normally get your feminist seal of approval. You know, the women who cringe at the word feminist, who go to college for their MRS degree, who join sororities (although, OOPS! I guess I’m guilty there, too), who have sex, but don’t do so for the super-feministy power of ROAR, WOMEN LIKE HAVING SEX, TOO, AND I DON’T NEED YOUR PATRIARCHAL APPROVAL TO HAVE IT! But if you’re only reserving your feminist ideals for the women you like, for the out and out victims of patriarchy, or for the people who share your opinions, then honey, you’re not much of a feminist.

10:49 pm  •  21 October 2009

feminism

women's bodies