Get Your Anti-Femininity Out Of My Feminism by s.e. smith (via nerdiestofbears)
Can I marry this post? This is everything I’ve ever wanted.
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- Lucy, When Worlds Collide: Fandom and Male Privilege. (via seaofbadstories)
I might have reblogged this already but it’s so good I don’t care.
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Kyriarchy in action.
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Also the study where they had women and men talking in a discussion and when women spoke around 30% of the time, men perceived them as dominating the discussion. They didn’t consider it “equal” until something like 5-10% of women talking.
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Voila. A beautiful example of why fighting for equality becomes a gross exaggeration in the eyes of the oppressors.
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I remember reading a study in which male participants viewed pictures of groups of ten people. Groups which included four women and six men were perceived as being overrun with women. I wish I could find the link to cite this, but I read it so long ago. But this has always stayed with me.
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and she actually compares the way women in America are “routinely naked” to ACTUAL SLAVERY. Saying “in the antebellum South, young black male slaves were naked while serving the clothed white masters at table. To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren’t is to learn inequality in little ways all day long.”
making the choice to dress a certain way, regardless of how it relates to societal pressures and outside influence is in no way the same thing as the intentional, calculated and blatant dehumanizing aspects of slavery & FORCED nakedness. it just isn’t. No one’s going to whip me if I choose against wearing a mini skirt.
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come on… we can all be feminist without comparing the CURRENT state of womanhood in America to slavery. honestly we can.Naomi Wolf is a walking feminist fail.
I think you may be missing her point. Women’s bodies are cute up all the time for serving industrial capitalism in advertisements, television and literally in households and the streets. Rape rates are climbing. I think her point was to suck the life and dignity out of a living being is the very first step to justifying cruel actions against that being, or to perpetuate systematic cruelties (by looking the other way or not seeing them, even if they’re right in front of us everyday) that we’ve inherited as a society from this culture.
I think that is bullshit and making excuses for her. In my Gender and Society class this girl kept relating the way women were treated in the past to the slavery that happened here. Come on, people. Use your big woman words and express what you want to express without trying to compare it to other people’s trauma. The only thing that ends with is people feeling like their history is being erased or not taken seriously enough. Comparing things to slavery is just a way of trying to get people’s attentions but it is offensive. I guess getting your point made, regardless of who you’re stepping on, is more important.
I’m glad you caught that and proceeded to shut it down. No one is debating the real world consequences of commodification and objectification. We are saying that that comparing the current condition of the American woman to slavery is erasure and offensive… and RIDICULOUS
