Posts tagged feminist
“If they did ever allow certain aspects of the left’s rigidities to be criticized, it is certain that they would not exalt those who gleefully participate in the status quo. Meat-eaters, for instance, would never be characterized as cutting-edge liberators, just because they enjoy eating meat, and are rebelling against rigid vegetarians. Critics of the meat industry and meat consumerism would never be slandered for their positions, portrayed as “anti-appetite,” and denied a voice in the leftist media.
But such is the treatment that radical and anti-porn feminists receive. Leftist publications characterize the anti-porn movement (when they acknowledge it at all) as a censorship monger with no meaningful points to make, nothing of substance to communicate. The only significance of the movement is that it “oppresses” those who have a good time being sexual.
Or so the monologue goes, without end. Everyone knows there will be no retorts, no corrections, no arguments and counterarguments made by radical feminists. There is simply no criticism allowed, and no built-in system of accountability when it comes to the terrain of male supremacist sexuality. These publications just pretend that radical feminism doesn’t really exist — except to occasionally warn women away from the “bad” feminists, or portray the never-heard-from radical feminists as the all-powerful oppressors of those who monopolize the “discourse” on the politics of sexuality.”
too many funfems, my head is spinning!
(i edited this question from “an unpopular book you believe should be a best-seller”)
ariel by sylvia plath
this is by far the best collection of poetry ive ever read. incredibly written, so many allusions, smashing patriarchy one poem at a time. love love love.
( im sorry i wish there was a way i could give a trigger warning before the image, gah. )
4,699 notes on this. 4,699. out of the notes i looked through (almost all of them) only TWO made any sort of commentary against this. the rest were likes and reblogs, all the comments were people laughing, joking more about rape, etc.
but we dont live in a rape culture. right.
(via awtumstiltskin)
Well, the conflict rages on, and I could not have been more right when I said that this was far from over. Now comes the part where visible feminists you once respected say/do heinous things that could lead to rape survivors getting more death threats!
From our earlier post…
(via fuckyeahfeminists)
