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Rep Barbara Lee, you’re singing my song:
I remember the days of back alley abortions, and this amendment takes us one stop closer to those dark days. This amendment … attempts to dictate to women how to spend their own money. It is outrageous. It further places the religious views of some into our public policy. We’re a democracy, we’re not a theocracy. The separation of church and state requires us as legislators to never cross that line. This amendment crosses that line.
I hear a lot of arguments that go a little something like this: “But abortion should be kept legal because what if the woman will die if she gives birth! What if she was raped?!” which is all well and good and obviously true, but the fact of the matter is… if I have a one night stand and end up pregnant because the condom failed or WHATEVER, my rights to get an abortion should ALSO be protected, not just when YOU morally agree with it.
The end.
PS: Stop saying “I would never get one, but…” etc. because you’re implying that you are morally superior to someone who has had one. You aren’t.
“Girls as young as five are preoccupied with body image, and ‘Between 2000 and 2006, the percentage of girls who believe that they must be thin to be popular rose to 60% from 48%.’”
[via Jezebel]
Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes, c. 1970
Le Tigre — Hot Topic
So much feminism in one song.
Eve Ensler
Feminist.com interviewed her. She’s an extraordinary woman who has done so much for women all over the world. Some of the major issues she’s concerned with are violence against women and body image. She’s the woman behind The Vagina Monologues and V-day.
This:
“What’s involved in doing something about all of this? The men’s movement seems to stay stuck on two points. The first is that men don’t really feel very good about themselves. How could you? The second is that men come to me or to other feminists and say: “What you’re saying about men isn’t true. It isn’t true of me. I don’t feel that way. I’m opposed to all of this.”
And I say: don’t tell me. Tell the pornographers. Tell the pimps. Tell the warmakers. Tell the rape apologists and the rape celebrationists and the pro-rape ideologues. Tell the novelists who think that rape is wonderful. Tell Larry Flynt. Tell Hugh Hefner. There’s no point in telling me. I’m only a woman. There’s nothing I can do about it. These men presume to speak for you. They are in the public arena saying that they represent you. If they don’t, then you had better let them know.”
And also:
It is not just a matter of your attitude. You can’t think it and make it exist. You can’t try sometimes, when it works to your advantage, and throw it out the rest of the time. Equality is a discipline. It is a way of life. It is a political necessity to create equality in institutions. And another thing about equality is that it cannot coexist with rape. It cannot. And it cannot coexist with pornography or with prostitution or with the economic degradation of women on any level, in any way. It cannot coexist, because implicit in all those things is the inferiority of women.
I want to see this men’s movement make a commitment to ending rape because that is the only meaningful commitment to equality. It is astonishing that in all our worlds of feminism and antisexism we never talk seriously about ending rape. Ending it. Stopping it. No more. No more rape. In the back of our minds, are we holding on to its inevitability as the last preserve of the biological? Do we think that it is always going to exist no matter what we do? All of our political actions are lies if we don’t make a commitment to ending the practice of rape. This commitment has to be political. It has to be serious. It has to be systematic. It has to be public. It can’t be self-indulgent.
And this:
As a feminist, I carry the rape of all the women I’ve talked to over the past ten years personally with me. As a woman, I carry my own rape with me. Do you remember pictures that you’ve seen of European cities during the plague, when there were wheelbarrows that would go along and people would just pick up corpses and throw them in? Well, that is what it is like knowing about rape. Piles and piles and piles of bodies that have whole lives and human names and human faces.
Instead, feminism has caught itself up in identity politics, where the label does not follow the belief set; the label is the belief set. This might be comforting for people who already call themselves feminists, but it is bad for political discourse and it is bad for feminism.
Feminism is not Freemasonry; it is a set of related social values, not a fraternity or a religion to which one can belong. People are feminists because they hold certain principles; they do not hold these principles because they are feminists. (…)
People are defined by what they believe, and how they turn those beliefs into action—not what they call themselves. So if you meet someone who can’t stand those feminists, yet is working to combat sex trafficking or gender-pay discrepancies, you’ve found someone you should work with.
Feminism: Substance vs. Semantics (via igather) (via subjecttomeg)
