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 December 16, 2007 by tigtog
This is to alert the feminist/womanist blogging community to the FemmoBolsho ‘07 Best Posts compilation I have just announced over at Hoyden About Town. (”Bolshy” in Aussie slang has no special leftist connotations, it has a stronger denotation of simply “challenging the status quo”.)
There are two wings of the nomination procedure: nominate your favourite feminist/womanist [...]
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Posted on October 18, 2007 by tekanji
Just as there’s no easy answer to the question of whether or not a man should call himself a “feminist” or go by a different term, there’s no easy answer for what role men should play in feminism. Below are a collection of different thoughts and perspectives of what men can do to be good [...]
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Posted on September 25, 2007 by tigtog
In my inbox this morning. As I’m not a US citizen, I reproduce it here for those who are:
Hi Feminism 101,
My name is Joey Appley-Epstein, and I’m writing to you on behalf of a project by the Women’s Campaign Forum called “She Should Run.” The goal of the project is to encourage both [...]
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Posted on July 28, 2007 by tigtog
Where do you point a male feminist ally (whose alliance up until now has been based on largely unexamined egalitarian impulses, but who hasn’t read any theory) to find good introductory analysis of gendered dominance in sexual behaviours, and how attitudes towards and about sexual behaviours play back into gender relations more widely?
Some of [...]
Filed under: Feminism Friday, Sexuality & Health, allies, clarifying-concepts, gender, writings | Tagged: acculturation, behaviours, dominance, feminism, Feminism Friday, gender, health, sexism, sexuality | 13 Comments »
Posted on April 3, 2007 by tigtog
aka “Why do we still need feminism?” (see “Does feminism matter?“ 
This question is based on several misconceptions.
1. Even if women in your part of the world do have legal equality, what about women elsewhere? Feminists who fight for the rights of other women to have what they already have are justified in doing so.
2. Simple, [...]
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