nevver: One Shade of Grey

nevver:

One Shade of Grey

mollysoda: so my e-friend caitlin has started a fundraiser for a documentary film she’s working on entitled “women of the world.” basically, she’s making a feminist documentary that focuses on all sorts of women globally, which is awesome because a lot of feminist work/videos/etc. that i’m familiar with are from a very western standpoint or way of thinking (which is also cool don’t get me wrong).  it’s a super involved project and is going to be a lot of work and take quite a bit of money to fund. you can find out more info about the project here. i really appreciate y’all even taking the time to read this and she only has 3 weeks left to get the project funded so time is of the essence or something like that ^.^. anyway, go check it out! i think it’s cool and important and special. did i mention caitlin is 19 years old and really cool and passionate about something and when i was 19 the only thing i was passionate about was boys and getting drunk and skipping class and stupid stuff so yeah, i’ll quit rambling! go check it out and please donate if you can!!!

mollysoda:

so my e-friend caitlin has started a fundraiser for a documentary film she’s working on entitled “women of the world.” basically, she’s making a feminist documentary that focuses on all sorts of women globally, which is awesome because a lot of feminist work/videos/etc. that i’m familiar with are from a very western standpoint or way of thinking (which is also cool don’t get me wrong). 

it’s a super involved project and is going to be a lot of work and take quite a bit of money to fund. you can find out more info about the project here. i really appreciate y’all even taking the time to read this and she only has 3 weeks left to get the project funded so time is of the essence or something like that ^.^. anyway, go check it out! i think it’s cool and important and special. did i mention caitlin is 19 years old and really cool and passionate about something and when i was 19 the only thing i was passionate about was boys and getting drunk and skipping class and stupid stuff so yeah, i’ll quit rambling! go check it out and please donate if you can!!!

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You Can Stop Saying “I’m Not a Feminist But” Now.

roxanegay:

Today, I am done with women bending over backwards to disavow feminism. I’ve been done with this for a while but I am EXTRA done today.

I mean, ladies, do whatever you want and be whatever you want and be however you want and believe whatever you want but stop saying, “I’m not a feminist, but,” and then proceed to list everything that has been borne of the feminist movement. You don’t get to have that cake and eat it too. Wipe that frosting off your face.

How many different ways can a successful, highly visible woman declare to anyone who will listen that she is not a feminist?

Let’s take a look.

Former French First Lady Carla Bruni said, ”There are pioneers who paved the way for us. I am not a feminist activist at all. On the contrary I am a true bourgeoise. I love family life and doing the same thing every day,” and ”In my generation we don’t need to be feminist.”

How nice for her. Feminists, I guess, do not love family life. They fucking hate it. They spit on it!

Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo said, “I don’t think that I would consider myself a feminist. I think that I certainly believe in equal rights, I believe that women are just as capable, if not more so in a lot of different dimensions, but I don’t, I think, have, sort of, the militant drive and the sort of, the chip on the shoulder that sometimes comes with that. And I think it’s too bad, but I do think that feminism has become in many ways a more negative word. You know, there are amazing opportunities all over the world for women, and I think that there is more good that comes out of positive energy around that than negative energy.”

Feminists are full of negative energy, mostly because of the word, got it.

Lady Gaga said, “I am not a feminist. I hail men. I love men. I celebrate American male culture.”

Feminists hate men, obviously.  

Katy Perry said, “I am not a feminist, but I do believe in the strength of women.”

Who even knows what this means.

Taylor Swift is not a feminist. Instead, she thinks, “I don’t really think about things as guys versus girls. I never have. I was raised by parents who brought me up to think if you work as hard as guys, you can go far in life.”

Feminism is guys versus girls… moving right along.  

Artist Marina Abramovic is not a feminist nor is actress Melissa Leo.

I have addressed this elsewhere.

Designer Vivienne Westwood is not a feminist but that’s just because she’s rich. She said, explaining why she’s not a feminist, “Another reason is because I live in the privileged world and I would never accept the idea that somehow I am a victim of society. Just by being born a woman.”

Feminism is for poor people!

Madonna is not a feminist, she’s a humanist. 

We are the world.  

Demi More is not a feminist. She said, “”I am a great supporter of women, but I have never really thought of myself as a feminist, probably more of a humanist because I feel like that’s really where we need to be.”

We are the world. 

Dame Stephanie Shirley, a British philanthropist, said, “I am not a feminist but I have always fought for women.”

I don’t know.  

We could do this all night.

There are, literally, thousands upon thousands of blog posts across the Internet from women declaring why they are not feminists, doing their damndest to distance themselves from the feminist scourge, the scarlet F. 

Guess what? Good for you. You’re not a feminist. Fine. Stop talking about it. Stop reveling in your ignorance about what feminism is, does, and has done. Ignore the reality that feminism makes your success possible and gives you the platform from which you disavow the history that put you there. It’s all good.

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Malala Yousafzai, in a 2011 interview with CNN, discussing her activism on behalf of girls seeking education in Pakistan.

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emilybooks: download Promising Young Women by Suzanne Scanlon right now

emilybooks:

download Promising Young Women by Suzanne Scanlon right now

kateordie:

Sometimes I have the time and patience to get from an idea to a fully fleshed-out, penciled, inked and coloured comic.

Sometimes I don’t.

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“I don’t think it’s terribly controversial to note that women, from a young age, are required to consider the reality of the opposite gender’s consciousness in a way that men aren’t. This isn’t to say that women don’t often misunderstand, mistreat, and stereotype men, both in literature and in life. But on a basic level, functioning in society requires that women register that men are fully conscious; it is not really possible for a woman to throw up her hands and write men off as eternally unknowable space aliens — and even if she says she has, she cannot really behave as though she has. Every element of her life — from reading books about boys and men to writing papers about the motivations of male characters to being attentive to her own safety to navigating most any institutional or professional or economic sphere — demands an ironclad familiarity with, and belief in, the idea that men really are fully human entities. And no matter how many men come to the same conclusions about women, the structure of society simply does not demand so strenuously that they do so. If you didn’t really deep down believe that women were, in general, exactly as conscious as you, you could probably still get by in life. You could probably still get a book deal. You could probably still get elected to office.”
– Jennifer duBois, Writing Across Gender (via florida-uterati)

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“The thing is, it’s patriarchy that says men are stupid and monolithic and unchanging and incapable. It’s patriarchy that says men have animalistic instincts and just can’t stop themselves from harassing and assaulting. It’s patriarchy that says men can only be attracted by certain qualities, can only have particular kinds of responses, can only experience the world in narrow ways. Feminism holds that men are capable of more – are more than that.”
– On claiming to be a stupid man who doesn’t know anything « Zero at the Bone

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