Thought I’d start reposting some of Twisty’s pieces (because, really, they need to be read again and again) (sigh). http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2014/02/01/that-cant-be-sexual-assault-because-its-normal/
Category: feminism
Apr 25 2017
from Joanna Russ’ The Female Man
excerpted from Joanna Russ’ The Female Man: …I wept aloud, I wrung my hands, crying: I am a poet! I am Shelley! I am a genius! … Lady, your slip’s showing. … There is the vanity training, the obedience training, the self-effacement training, the deference training, the dependency training, the passivity training, the rivalry …
Apr 25 2017
Mentoring
Studies show that people who have had mentors, who have had someone to provide “sponsorship, exposure, visibility, coaching, protection, and challenging assignments – activities which directly relate to the protégé’s career” do indeed experience more career advancement than people who have not had mentors [1]. In a study of 1241 American executives, 67% of all …
Apr 07 2017
“What is Wrong with this Picture?” a short feminist film script by Peg Tittle
What is Wrong with this Picture? This film consists of a collage of scenes, five to ten minutes in length), in which women are always the superordinates and men are always the subordinates. Dialogue isn’t that important, so once the scenes are decided upon and roughed out, the cast can probably improv rather than follow …
Mar 07 2017
Ten years later, she meets Dick, and he’s so –
You’re so – different. Not such an – Yeah. It’s like before I was so – driven. It’s like I was in a car, no, I was the car. And it was always in high gear, in screaming high gear. I had to get somewhere, I always had to get somewhere. I couldn’t sit …
Feb 22 2017
Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, Sheri Tepper
Although I read this fantastic novel years ago, I was recently reminded of it by Judith A. Little’s Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: utopias and dystopias. At the end of the novel, five options for human reproduction are presented: Only partners for life will be able to reproduce, and only once every decade. Parthenogenesis, with …
Feb 05 2017
Rain Without Thunder (movie) HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Rain Without Thunder (movie) HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!! I just watched this! And will watch it again, stopping to think at so many points! Here’s the brief description: It’s the year 2042 and the threat is real…women are going to prison for terminating their pregnancies. An investigating reporter is determined to reveal the truth behind …
Jan 16 2017
For your convenience, a sanitary receptacle is provided in this cubicle. You are requested …
So I was in a public washroom the other day and noticed this little sign: “For your convenience, a sanitary receptacle is provided in this cubicle. You are requested to co-operate and use it for the purpose intended.” “For your convenience.” For our convenience? Given that the alternative to the requested behaviour would result in …
Dec 14 2016
Christmas Elves
Generally speaking, I don’t do Christmas. At all. But when I see an ad in the classifieds for “Three female elves to work in a mall during the Christmas season”, well, I have to say something. And the first thing I have to say is, I don’t think they’re going to find any – male …
Nov 04 2016
Sterilization: The Personal and the Political
Ever since I’ve been old enough to ask myself ‘Do I want children?’, my answer has been ‘No’ – a rather emphatic ‘No!’ I consider parenting to be a career, and a very demanding one at that: twenty-four hours a day for at least fourteen years, you are responsible for the physical, emotional, and intellectual …
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