Posted on May 16, 2008 by shakesville
cross-posted by Melissa McEwan , originally posted at Shakesville on November 20, 2007
[Important Note to Feminist Noobs: This is a long post. It contains lots of different, though related, Feminist 101 kind of ideas about misogynist language. Please carefully read the whole post before commenting. If you don't understand one of the points that is [...]
Filed under: 101, Feminism Friday, allies, discrimination, privilege, sexism | Tagged: censorship, cultural connotation, culture of inequality, examined prejudices, fabricated belief, homophobic, marginalising, marginalizing, misogynist language, PC-police, racism, reclamation, self-censor, self-examination, sexism, slurs | 2 Comments »
Posted on May 16, 2008 by shakesville
[This is a crosspost from Shakesville where it was originally posted in October of 2007.]
I was standing in front of a full-length mirror with my leg stretched out, modeling at its end for my own consumption the left half of a pair of kelly green steel-toed Doc Martens knee-highs I had just bought, in spite [...]
Filed under: Feminism Friday, Social Justice, allies, identity, sexual expression & exploitation | Tagged: allies, gender, gender variation, gender-queer, gender-roles, LGBT, sex, trans, transgender | No Comments »
Posted on May 3, 2008 by shakesville
So: Toss out the idea that there must be unanimous consent, or even majority agreement, that something is sexist for it to be determined as such. In fact, toss out the idea that sexism is determined by subjective opinion altogether.
Filed under: 101, Feminism Friday, feminism, gender, sexism | Tagged: beneficiaries, critically biased, cultural indoctrination, intent, majority agreement, misogyny, objective observer, objectively determined, patriarchy, pattern-finding, perception effect, sexism, subjective opinion, targets | 3 Comments »
Posted on April 30, 2008 by tigtog
Here’s an excellent column by Amanda Teuscher in Ohio U’s student newspaper which sums up the issues regarding the defeated Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act:
The Feminist’s Corner: Equal pay litigation is justice, not an inconvenience
There’s not much commentary around pointing out that the proposed legislation would have enabled more than just women to have [...]
Filed under: discrimination, gender gap, intersecting, op-ed | Tagged: bankruptcy, class, corporate welfare, disability, equal pay, ethnicity, gender, lawsuit, legislation, lily ledbetter, litigation, pay discrimination, race, restitution, sexuality, USA | 6 Comments »
Posted on April 13, 2008 by tigtog
Shakesville: We Write Letters
This blog resolves to acknowledge our social privileges without defensiveness, to welcome the comments and contributions of socially marginalised voices, and when our work builds on the ideas of others we will fully attribute our debt to their work.
We will no doubt get it wrong at times. Call us on it. [...]
Filed under: Solidarity & Sisterhood, discrimination, op-ed, privilege, race & racism, womanism | Tagged: blackamazon, bloggers, blogosphere, brownfemipower, feminist issue, Feministe, feminists, la chola, marcotte, race, racism, seal press, solidarity, women of color | 5 Comments »
Posted on April 11, 2008 by tigtog
No other industry with a comparable mortality rate is unregulated by the state, and in none of those industries would the workers be allowed to sign away their basic health and safety guarantees in order for more pay. Employers who try to coerce miners or firefighters to go into work without adequate safety measures are quite rightly prosecuted and socially condemned, yet the workplace death rate of those professions combined does not match just the homicide rate amongst prostitutes, let alone the death rate once drug overdoses are taken into account.
Filed under: Feminism Friday, Sexuality & Health, sexual expression & exploitation | Tagged: abusive practices, brothels, child prostitution, criminal gangs, drugs, exploitation, homicide, horrific violence, murder, opinion polls, prostitutes, public health benefits, regulations, sex industry, sex work, sex workers, sexual services | 19 Comments »
Posted on March 7, 2008 by tigtog
Originally posted at Hoyden About Town
The top link offered to me on Stumble-Upon for Women’s Issues is this: Through a Rapists Eyes, a page on a rape-prevention site. Unfortunately, they are propagating misinformation, pure and simple.
Some of you may recognise the opening paragraphs as one of those emails that gets forwarded around the place. [...]
Filed under: Feminism Friday, debunking myths, sexual expression & exploitation, violence | Tagged: debunking, e-lore, rape-myths, sexual-assault, snopes, statistics, urban-legends | 14 Comments »
