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 Ardashir rated 3 months ago - From the page:
"Anyone who has ever called themselves a feminist - even with a laugh in their voice and a toss of their hair - knows that the word is a red rag to misogynists, and that in the face of this, you have to find ways to bolster yourself. Deep-held conviction helps, as does the ca...
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- jynxpup rated 6 weeks ago
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This article makes some excellent points.
- memachelle rated 2 months ago
- From the page: She points to the revival of the Reclaim the Night marches, and the recent Million Women Rise march. I do think that there's a sense that people are beginning to get active, because they're also all waking up to the fact that a lot of the rights that we've taken for granted, can't be. I think that that activism and recognition is a cause for optimism.
Professor Liz Kelly, chair of the End Violence Against Women campaign agrees that we're in a time of resistance, but also sees a positive side to the situation: I think that you always get the greatest resistance when you're actually doing something, she says. I think it signals that there's a slightly stronger sense of feminist organisation and voice than there was 10 years ago. The irony, of course, is that you only get resistance if there's something to be resisted.
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- Ardashir rated 3 months ago
- From the page:
"Anyone who has ever called themselves a feminist - even with a laugh in their voice and a toss of their hair - knows that the word is a red rag to misogynists, and that in the face of this, you have to find ways to bolster yourself. Deep-held conviction helps, as does the camaraderie of brilliant, politicised women. There's the self-respect that comes with recognising that not having a penis is no actual impediment, and, finally, crucially, there's the element of results: the sense that the culture is chugging forward.
There has always been resistance to feminism - the backlash that Susan Faludi chronicled in her 1991 book of the same name. But there is also the satisfaction of arguments won, rights enshrined, respect ensured, the sense that the central feminist project - the fight for women to be treated as human beings, no more, no less - is inching along. In fact, reading a recent piece by US feminist writer, Katha Pollitt, headlined Backlash Spectacular and charting the ways in which North American culture is regressing on women's rights, I felt smug. Thank God that's not happening here, I thought, sinking into my seat and reaching for another chocolate.
Of course, if you're feeling smug, you've got it wrong. In the weeks after Pollitt's article, I found myself tripping over signs, left and right, that not only does the feminist movement still have far to go, but that arguments we thought were long-won have been re-opened, rights we thought were settled are suddenly under threat. These signs came in a whole variety of forms, some ridiculous, some devastating.
On the ridiculous side, for instance, came a survey by Marketing magazine of the nation's most-loved and least-loved celebrities. The respondents' top five most loved were men: Paul McCartney, Lewis Hamilton, Gary Lineker, Simon Cowell and David Beckham. Of the five most hated, the top four were women: Heather Mills, Amy Winehouse, Victoria Beckham and Kerry Katona, with Simon Cowell coming in at number five. On some level, reacting to this at all seemed stupid, and yet ..."
- GalloiseBlonde rated 3 months ago
- From the page: This massive shortfall in services is less surprising when you consider that three of the most important women's charities in the UK - Refuge, Women's Aid and Eaves Housing for Women - all of which support female victims of violence, have a combined income considerably lower than that of The Donkey Sanctuary, a charity that supports ageing donkeys.
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