Sunday, February 15, 2015
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Friday, February 13, 2015
Feminist Frequency's video "Toy Ads and Learning Gender" was WOW! I never really saw what the toy advertisements to kids meant to both boys AND girls. The ending is my favorite part!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZn_lJoN6PI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZn_lJoN6PI
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
What is there to be gained from the label "Anti-Feminist"?
What puts feminists apart from everybody else is the desire for a new and equal America for every citizen regardless of gender and sex. Some females who identify and have identified as "feminist" in the past were mistreated, bullied, and told that they were inferior to men, and therefore find supporting the continued status of men in society a crime, and do this by condemning men in general. To be honest, some men deserve this, but all men do not. Seeing things from a man's perspective, women can be wild, cruel, and merciless when it comes to their condemnations of men. However, women hear all the time that they're too emotional, hormonal, crazy, vain, and stupid. It would be insane not to have enough of being called those things. Living in a country where your body is never perfect, your personality is never perfect, your clothes, your way of life, women are under an extreme amount of pressure to be beautiful, because not only are we raised to like looking like an advertisement, we're supposed to be the epicenter of sexual desire.
Women have had to fight for their rights. This is a fact. It sticks in our heads. We had to fight to have a say in how our country was governed, whether we had to have a baby or not if we were pregnant or didn't want to ever be. Now we are still fighting the battle of whether we are kept to be breeders and mothers only. We are fighting for the same pay every hour as men, and in this economy a fucking quarter makes a difference. And a woman has still, in an over a 230 year old country, has NEVER been the president of the United States of America.
What bothers me is that I've heard men who condemn feminism, like it exists to condemn them, and it does not. Feminism wouldn't exist if their weren't rights that had to be fought for, and to be fought for still. It is not your fault for being born into a world that has looked at women as inferior in the past, and still looks at them legally, and sometimes socially as unequal.
Women and men may not be in the same bodies with the same ratio of hormones that are in that body, but people grow up from children to love each other and create a life of their own together with families that create them. Women, like men, are vital to the existence of the human race, not only to make more human beings if they so choose, but to love and nurture others like them.
What is an "anti-feminist"? What is sounds like is someone who does not believe in equal rights for women and men socially and legally. What people define it as is being against a movement that exists to make women seem like victims. What women say being an "anti-feminist" is is being a "feminist." People who identify as this should lighten up, just like people in the feminist community who condemn men. Don't condemn a movement where not all women condemn men. What feminists are condemning is the sexism of the past, the victimizing of the past. That which has been largely fought over is still being done. Honestly, the abuse is not done. The fact that people can slap a label on themselves and feel better than other women that want exactly what they want is ridiculous. feminists are making feminists out to all be victims, when in reality they are all trying to stand up for women who are physically and verbally abused. Being a victim of abuse and fighting as a feminist to gain equal treatment, does not make you a weak person. There are two parts of being feminist because women are legally unequal. There's rights to be fought socially and rights to be fought for legally. Both are necessary.
It feels like a betrayal of women, it seems mean, and insensitive to those who work day in day out to create rights for people as people who believe in a lie. Anti-feminsts appear to be mostly young women, so what could they know about the suffering of women older than them, who could have gotten assaulted, raped, or denied their rights to abortions.
Anti-feminsts don't mean harm, but they sound condemning to other women who identify as "feminist" and fight for the feminist movement. That seems like pure and blatant ignorance.
What Ani-feminists are mad about is the cut and blank words of the English language, and those are fucking annoying. What we need to drop is the word "feminism" and "feminist" or continue to use it and spread a different more supportive word. It's all women under one blanket. I understand having labels that condemn as well as assist. I recently confronted the term "white privilege." Friends told me I had it, and I didn't want it. Nope. That label made me feel like shit. What am I supposed to do? Go up to people and ask, "Are you not scared of me because I'm white?" and "Do you think I'm a person with more positive values because I am white?" I see a whole lot of people who are white who I think need to be viewed as scary, who have horrifically negative values, creating pain and suffering. I wouldn't shake many white people's hands in this world. And I'm white. How do I stop it besides being kind to people I meet, not caring where their ancestors came from? I am not someone who actively participates in white privilege. sometimes I get scared when a black man comes up to me out of no where and gets really close to me to talk. This is because of many things. I was raised by people whose ancestors came from England and surrounding European countries where most people weren't tan, in a rural suburban town with a majority of other people with the same amount of Northern European blood in their bodies, maybe more. There were few people of African, South and Central American, Asian, and any other descents than mine. In high school there were some people who were Indian. I wasn't surrounded by a diverse urban community till my first two years of college. News is fucking terrible in its way of telling the news. Police officers can be racist belong belief and those cases end up on the news. A bias formed in my head in the form of fear. I don't want it there. "White privilege" is a term that makes me feel ashamed. It makes me feel like people are looking at me only skin deep, and also criticizing not only my heritage, but myself. It's the same feeling I get when people say, "OH, you're a FEMINIST?" And suddenly their opinion of me is probably that I'm an out of control woman who is probably a lesbian who won't ever have any children, and thinks they're better than men. Only the middle two are true.
If you don't like the word "feminism," don't use it, just say you want to be treated the same as a man legally and socially. No woman wants to be a victim, no woman wants to be seen as an insane "feminazi," a word which a half of it signifies a group that committed the holocaust, either.
How one's sex is going to be viewed in America and around the world is up to everyone, male and female. Please think twice about what you say about people.
Women have had to fight for their rights. This is a fact. It sticks in our heads. We had to fight to have a say in how our country was governed, whether we had to have a baby or not if we were pregnant or didn't want to ever be. Now we are still fighting the battle of whether we are kept to be breeders and mothers only. We are fighting for the same pay every hour as men, and in this economy a fucking quarter makes a difference. And a woman has still, in an over a 230 year old country, has NEVER been the president of the United States of America.
What bothers me is that I've heard men who condemn feminism, like it exists to condemn them, and it does not. Feminism wouldn't exist if their weren't rights that had to be fought for, and to be fought for still. It is not your fault for being born into a world that has looked at women as inferior in the past, and still looks at them legally, and sometimes socially as unequal.
Women and men may not be in the same bodies with the same ratio of hormones that are in that body, but people grow up from children to love each other and create a life of their own together with families that create them. Women, like men, are vital to the existence of the human race, not only to make more human beings if they so choose, but to love and nurture others like them.
What is an "anti-feminist"? What is sounds like is someone who does not believe in equal rights for women and men socially and legally. What people define it as is being against a movement that exists to make women seem like victims. What women say being an "anti-feminist" is is being a "feminist." People who identify as this should lighten up, just like people in the feminist community who condemn men. Don't condemn a movement where not all women condemn men. What feminists are condemning is the sexism of the past, the victimizing of the past. That which has been largely fought over is still being done. Honestly, the abuse is not done. The fact that people can slap a label on themselves and feel better than other women that want exactly what they want is ridiculous. feminists are making feminists out to all be victims, when in reality they are all trying to stand up for women who are physically and verbally abused. Being a victim of abuse and fighting as a feminist to gain equal treatment, does not make you a weak person. There are two parts of being feminist because women are legally unequal. There's rights to be fought socially and rights to be fought for legally. Both are necessary.
It feels like a betrayal of women, it seems mean, and insensitive to those who work day in day out to create rights for people as people who believe in a lie. Anti-feminsts appear to be mostly young women, so what could they know about the suffering of women older than them, who could have gotten assaulted, raped, or denied their rights to abortions.
Anti-feminsts don't mean harm, but they sound condemning to other women who identify as "feminist" and fight for the feminist movement. That seems like pure and blatant ignorance.
What Ani-feminists are mad about is the cut and blank words of the English language, and those are fucking annoying. What we need to drop is the word "feminism" and "feminist" or continue to use it and spread a different more supportive word. It's all women under one blanket. I understand having labels that condemn as well as assist. I recently confronted the term "white privilege." Friends told me I had it, and I didn't want it. Nope. That label made me feel like shit. What am I supposed to do? Go up to people and ask, "Are you not scared of me because I'm white?" and "Do you think I'm a person with more positive values because I am white?" I see a whole lot of people who are white who I think need to be viewed as scary, who have horrifically negative values, creating pain and suffering. I wouldn't shake many white people's hands in this world. And I'm white. How do I stop it besides being kind to people I meet, not caring where their ancestors came from? I am not someone who actively participates in white privilege. sometimes I get scared when a black man comes up to me out of no where and gets really close to me to talk. This is because of many things. I was raised by people whose ancestors came from England and surrounding European countries where most people weren't tan, in a rural suburban town with a majority of other people with the same amount of Northern European blood in their bodies, maybe more. There were few people of African, South and Central American, Asian, and any other descents than mine. In high school there were some people who were Indian. I wasn't surrounded by a diverse urban community till my first two years of college. News is fucking terrible in its way of telling the news. Police officers can be racist belong belief and those cases end up on the news. A bias formed in my head in the form of fear. I don't want it there. "White privilege" is a term that makes me feel ashamed. It makes me feel like people are looking at me only skin deep, and also criticizing not only my heritage, but myself. It's the same feeling I get when people say, "OH, you're a FEMINIST?" And suddenly their opinion of me is probably that I'm an out of control woman who is probably a lesbian who won't ever have any children, and thinks they're better than men. Only the middle two are true.
If you don't like the word "feminism," don't use it, just say you want to be treated the same as a man legally and socially. No woman wants to be a victim, no woman wants to be seen as an insane "feminazi," a word which a half of it signifies a group that committed the holocaust, either.
How one's sex is going to be viewed in America and around the world is up to everyone, male and female. Please think twice about what you say about people.
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
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