“In response to the “informed consent” bill the Kentucky House passed on January 28th, which requires women to consult a doctor–by video conference or in person–at least 24 hours before having an abortion, Kentucky state representative Mary Lou Marzian proposed a rather tongue-in-cheek bill of her own: a law requiring women to approve their husband’s …
Category: feminism
Apr 27 2024
Of Boys and Men, Richard. V. Reeves – Quotes and Notes
Reeves quotes Kristof and WuDunn about the recent trend (which started in the 2010s): “Men in particular felt the loss not only of income but also of dignity that accompanied a good job.” from Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (p62) Poor babies. Need I point out that women would not …
Feb 19 2024
Men’s Studies Modified, Dale Spender, ed. (1981) – quotes and notes
“Adrienne Rich (1979) [commented that] objectivity is the name we give to male subjectivity.” Introduction, p5 “Anna Bexall (1980) [ has suggested that] males have a great emotional investment in objectivity.” Introduction, p5 “… the ways we have been ‘protected’ from obscenity, yet made the object of much of it.” from “A Thief …
Jan 24 2024
from Amazons, Bluestockings and Crones: a feminist dictionary, a woman’s companion to words and ideas, by Cheris Kramarae and Paula A. Treichler
A hefty book of over 500 pages of entries, but worth, at the very least, a skim through for words of interest to you. Here are a few that I love: Academia: a hierarchy whose “purpose is the production of prestige” (Jo Freeman, 1979) Acknowledgements: … where authors acknowledged the ideas and intellectual contributions …
Nov 25 2023
Porn for Women
Check out her list of insightful observations: https://xtan.wordpress.com/2006/06/02/porn-for-women-a-false-notion/
Oct 30 2023
Among the things that don’t count …
[Bernadette Powell, a black woman from Ithaca, New York, is now serving a 15-year-to-life sentence … because in 1978 she shot and killed her ex-husband.] [T]he Tompkins county prosecutor … argued … that [she] had no reason to fear bodily harm from her ex-husband because although the man admittedly had committed many violent acts against …
Oct 24 2023
What if all news were written this way?
From the RadFem News Service the news, without the male-supremacist spin (LOVE that!) “Today, one Dr. Frank Ochberg, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Michigan State University and former Associate Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, reports for CNN that boys and men are responsible for almost all school shootings, consistently, around the world. …” Read …
Oct 15 2023
Let me tell you how much I HATE MEN! (reblogged)
https://elementalwitch.wordpress.com/2013/06/27/let-me-tell-you-how-much-i-hate-men/ And here it is (in case it disappears): I’m a feminazi. I laugh at men, but not at their stupid jokes. I want to take away their porn—erm, sorry, I mean “free speech.” I won’t fuck them or flirt with them. I don’t find them interesting. I think they look like mutants. I hate…I …
Oct 10 2023
Great bit from wwomenwwarriors
From “It is my judgement in these things that when you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it, and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb. I don’t think anybody opposed …
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