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“I need feminism because the internet is more negative about feminists than it is about misogynists.
We’re moving closer and closer to an internet-based world—a world that appears to despise those who uphold and champion gender equality, and support those who hate others based on their gender.”(See:
http://www.whatdoestheinternetthink.net/feminist
and
(via catolynwrites)
#feminism ftw
#interwebs
#misogyny
#sexism
#the world is a sorry state of affairs
#infuriating
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Buttercup: Susan B. Anthony didn’t want any special treatment.
Bubbles: she demanded that she be sent to jail like any other man.
Blossom: And that’s exactly what we’re going to do to you!
The Powerpuff Girls give you an idea of what feminism is really about.
THANK
(via melondy-rose)
#Powerpuff Girls
#FTW
#Susan B Anthony
#feminism ftw
#get educated yo
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10000000000000% done with this fucking girl-shaming.
GTFO!
Internalized misogyny at its best…FYI, putting other girls down doesn’t make you better than them.
Putting other girls down doesn’t make you better than them.
In fact, it makes you a generally shitty kind of person. So let’s not put anyone down, or be sexist, or slut shame, or make judgements about other people based on how they look/dress!
(Source: mountincest, via davidsgeeklife)
#feminism ftw
#misogyny
#not cool
#ever
#slut shaming
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Cersei Lannister is not a feminist, but is still interesting from a feminist perspective: a short essay.
Alright, full disclosure: I have only seen the show for Game of Thrones. I know, I know, bad fan. I need to read the books. Bear in mind that everything I’m about to say is based solely on my interpretation of the SHOW. Thank you.So, Cersei Lannister.
I’m going to start by saying that I LOVE Cersei. I think she’s super interesting, super complex, multi-faceted, and a wonderful example of how to write good antagonistic female characters without being gut wrenchingly sexist in the process. She’s not a good person, but she is a well written and often sympathetic one.
That being said: Cersei Lannister herself is not a feminist.
She basically says it herself. The gods have decided that men should rule the world. Cersei believes that. She accepts that. She simply resents the fact that she was born a woman. When we talk about “internalized misogyny”, Cersei is a textbook example. She truly seems to believe that women are inherently weak, and curses the gods for making her one of them. If only she had been born a man.
But this, of course, makes perfect sense for her character, and really says a lot about Patriarchy is Westeros.
Cersei was raised by men and around men. Remember that her mother died in childbirth with Tyrion. She had no strong female role models, no women to show her that women have strength and worth beyond all the sexist gender roles thrust on her. No one taught her about sisterhood, or supporting other women. She was a product of patriarchy alone.
No, she was raised by her father, surrounded by men, and raised to believe that all the gender roles pushed on her were inherent. Just look at how she and Jaime were raised. Here we have two kids who, as children, are nearly identical, and yet Jaime was pushed to have power, to be a knight. Cersei was taught to knit and to make babies. Cersei resents that. Of course she does.
Look at her marriage to Robert: emotionally and physically abused, compared to a dead girl, cheated on*. She is completely disempowered. She can not take power in the “normal” male channels because of her gender, unlike Dany, she has no dragons or armies to help her. And she does not recognize (like Margaery) how to cull power from female channels. Of course she is angry and struggling and manipulative, trying to grab at the power she can. How else can she protect herself from Robert and everyone who wants to see her and her children dead?
No one ever told Cersei that these gender roles are wrong, that they can be challenged. She learned them all, and then believed “But I’m not like that. I’m not like OTHER women.” Rather than seeing the flaws in the system, she saw herself as an exception.
This, of course, is a very relatable thing. I myself spent a good part of my teenage years thinking that I “wasn’t like MOST girls.” After all, I liked to read, and watch anime, and didn’t give a fuck about make-up. It wasn’t until college and an exploration of feminism that I was able to unlearn that misogyny.
Cersei hasn’t unlearned it yet.
She’s not a feminist, but as a feminist, I think she’s a really interesting character to watch. Here is the effect of patriarchy and internalized misogyny. Here is the outcome of women being taught and socialized to hate and distrust other women. And what a commentary that is.
What do yall think though?
Agreed! First things first though - not having read the books doesn’t make you a bad fan. There are all kinds! None more or less “legitimate” or committed or whatever than another :)
(via fandomsandfeminism)
#Cersei Lannister
#game of thrones
#feminism ftw
#misogyny
#fandom
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"I want to be a strong, female role model for my kids, but I fear staying home won’t provide that. At times, I don’t feel fulfilled by this work either. The separate me gets lost in the rigmarole of everything that has to be done, and that distinctly separate part of me isn’t nourished. I fear that they will see that. I adore mothering and being their mother. I treasure the time I’m able to spend with them, but there’s more to me than that. I want them to know that women are more than vessels for lust and procreation. I fear that, in my role, I’m inadvertently undermining the very values and beliefs I want to instill in my boys."
i admit it, i’m tired as fuck of these goddamn “raising feminist sons” narratives.
i have a massive critique of the whole “let me tell you how i’m raising my kids” narrative anyway, and the “letter to my son/daughter” thing is equally obnoxious to me. so so so many of these narratives put their child out into the public sphere in a way that is uncomfortable to witness and just…putting the kid into a box just as firmly as gender restrictions/norms do (see: the cute stories with pictures and legal names of sons who wear pink ballerina cloths to school or insist on being a girl for halloween etc).
but in this particular essay—what makes me mad is how it’s all “I.” I do this, I do that, I think this, I don’t want that, I I I I I I I IIIIIIIIIIIII. I.
granted, parenting is one of the most fucking isolating jobs a person has on many levels. but…isn’t that the POINT. that parenting is isolating? and that the ONLY thing that has EVER effected viable social changes towards justice is a MOVEMENT.
in other words, shouldn’t the question be less about what amazing things *I* do as a parent to raise my child into a feminist—but what WE are doing as a community to create a MOVEMENT whereby our sons do not become rapists, murderers, or abuse their partners?
what are WE doing to end violence against women of color and their communities in all its manifestations???
is the point to raise a “feminist” son who knows women can be “more” than a stay at home mom?
or is the point to create community systems and structures whereby a new justice based world emerges and and this unjust world that harms and violates on a mass scale is just no longer necessary?
do we need individual “feminist sons” to create a more just world? or do we need human love, compassion, relationships, and community?
does that make sense? I know all about that constant worry of what will become of your child. I KNOW. but to me the point has never been to show either of my children that girls are just as good as boys or that everybody is “equal”—to me the point has always been to affirm what they naturally as observing human beings notice—there is INJUSTICE in the world. there is MASSIVE levels of injustice. but they are not without power—THIS is how you build a movement. THIS is a loving community that sees all that injustice and is sickened by it and want to change it, just like you do. THIS is how you keep going, even when your’e hopeless, THIS is how you love love love love love.
i will not make a feminist son. I will create skills and share survival tools that maybe even work to change things—and i will make sure my kids, no matter WHO they become or what journey they travel, can use them. i will trust the wisdom of my elders and community. that only together can we make change. that only together and with the support of our community can we become the best individual we were meant to become.
if my child never sees a black person the entire time they grow up (ahem all you white mothers living in suburbs who write these “feminist son” narratives) who *cares* if they know (white) women can be more than stay at home moms?
(via iinventedeverything)
(via randomactsofchaos)
#feminism ftw
#how to
#culture
#let's change the world starting with now
#necessary
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White women. Can you stop derailing everything about race, deflecting, making everything about yourself, and admit that you do not face the additional oppression that women of color face - not just racism but racialized forms of misogyny and different stereotypes?
thanks.
narcissistic little fucks. do Black women suddenly die off before we get old or something. these heffas think they own everything. why can’t they just shut up and stop trying to occupy everything
We never age. There are white older women, white lesbians, white trans women, white fat women, white working class women. But all Black women (and other women of color) do not fall into those categories apparently!
yuppp
black women aren’t women. we aren’t people. so they always forget. that’s why everything is always, poc and women or black people and women like being brown/black negates your womanness and humanity
Actually, fuck all of you up there because when I was searching for a job, no one wanted me because I was white. Every place I went that found out I wasn’t Mexican or black suddenly had no interest in me and less qualified people got my position. I was the only white person out of 250+ employees at my last job and I got that job only because I knew someone. So actually, being someone other than white makes getting a job easier these days because jobs have some sort of “quota” to fill with “minorities.”
Bingo! Next time try to hit all the usual bigoted bullshit in fewer sentences while you completely ignore reality in favor of your comforting racist myths.
Boy did all of these FB comments just
(via randomactsofchaos)
#racism
#gender
#race
#stereotypes
#feminism ftw
#problematic
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If you’re not a feminist, you either don’t know what feminism is, or you’re a bag of dicks.
That is all.
Or you’re a WoC who’s sick and tired of White Feminists thinking they speak for everybody, ignoring intersectionality, and just generally being hypocritical as fuck.
There are very valid reasons some people aren’t feminists.
(Source: catlady28)
#feminism ftw
#race
#acceptance
#money matters
#equality
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Things that don’t make you less of a feminist:
- Being in a loving relationship.
- BDSM.
- Being submissive.
- Wearing makeup.
- Being a housewife.
- Wearing dresses.
- High heels.
- Shaving.
#feminism ftw
#yes
#this
#always
#stereotypes
