“You want to show solidarity with women? Acknowledge their right to be sexual beings without being sexual objects. That’s a start.”
—Unknown
December 2011
100 posts
21st century Western culture:
Women are worthless for having sex.
Men are worthless for not having sex.
Alrighty then!
“I think a lot of people are still looking for a singular definition of feminism that will represent everyone and meet everyone’s needs. I don’t think this exists. Sometimes I’ll read critiques of events like SlutWalk or people like Naomi Wolf and the complaints will be that not everyone’s viewpoint or understanding is being represented. Well, duh. Womanhood (whatever that is) is a diverse experience. To try to encompass it in a single comment would be grossly reductive. I think we need to move away from feminism as a platform and start thinking of it as a discourse. More than one person can be right. What feminism means is highly contingent on personal experience.”
—Jamie Keiles
“Each time a girl opens a book and reads a womanless history, she learns she is worthless.”
—Myra Pollack Sadker
Gingrich, Perry, Bachmann, and Santorum Go Extreme on Abortion →
thedailybeast.com
TW: Rape.
The event demonstrated that a commitment to banning all abortion, even in cases of rape, incest, and threats to a woman’s health, is now the normative position among the party’s presidential contenders.
“And while the whole woman-on-a-pedestal thing is often shrouded by ideas of romance, it’s anything but. Because notions of pedestals and chivalry operate under the assumption that women are inferior. While holding women up to high standards may not immediately seem like it’s degrading … What it’s actually doing is saying that women are children, not fully formed people. We have to be protected. We have to be coddled. We have to be treated with kid gloves.”
-Jessica Valenti
