January 2010
27 posts
New Moon and other dumb films for women - Eureka... →
Love it or loathe it, there is one thing everyone can agree on: New Moon has surpassed all expectations. Personally, I detest this film and all it stands for. Its popularity, not only with teenage girls but with grown women in their 20s and beyond, has me scratching my head like no other movie I’ve seen in recent memory….
Philosophers Zone - 5 December 2009 - How... →
Philosophers Zone - 12 December 2009 - A tribute... →
Gender Terrorism: the war against women in South... →
Gardening and the human condition - Late Night... →
Does God hate women? - On Line Opinion - 2/12/2009 →
…When it comes to matters of childbirth, fault lies entirely with the woman it seems. Given that childbirth is one of the few activities which can grant women some semblance of “honour” in the biblical world, the idea of barrenness seems especially cruel….
The miracle of conception is no metaphor for some... →
There is an ugly, modern trend towards blaming infertility on the sufferer….
Women today are encouraged to prepare their bodies before they begin trying to conceive. We swallow folate supplements and curb our alcohol consumption, embark on exercise regimes and chart our ovulation cycles. But if this doesn’t work, we can also buy pre-conception multivitamin supplements, claimed to...
“Providing sexual services in exchange for a fee is not by its nature sexist....”
– comment on A feminist perspective on Jacqui Smith’s proposals to change the prostitution laws « Shiraz Socialist
(this is old but any thread in which someone says all Mark is doing is using Marxist theory as a crutch to sell classic radicalfeminist antiprostitution policies is bound to be an...
“[Gender inequality] issues from a belief so fixed as to be unimpeachable: women...”
– Breaking a Conspiracy of Silence - The New York Review of Books (via @daviddark) (via unrepentant) (via ilovefat)
“This article is one manifestation of that, fitting right into the category of...”
– pandagon.net (via wendyblackheart) (via ilovefat)
On Fat, Feminism, & Harassment
ilovefat:
donewiththisshit:
I’m a feminist. I don’t think this comes as any surprise to people who know me. What might come as a surprise is that I’m also, technically speaking, obese. Sure, my weight is only a little over the line, but you know that “obesity epidemic”? Yeah, I’m a part of that. The vast majority of people who make up that epidemic have BMIs between 30 and 35. In my...
“The feminization of poverty, for instance, is a much bigger and more pressing...”
– pandagon.net - Well, okay, but it’s still so tone deaf (via notemily) (via ilovefat)
December 2009
24 posts
