#feminist quotes
Beauty practices show that women are obedient, willing to do their service, and to put effort into that service. They show that women are not simply “different” but, most importantly, “deferential”. In western societies it is expressed in the requirement that women create “beauty” through figure-hugging clothing which should show large areas of their bodies for male excitement, through make-up, hairstyles, depilation, prominent display of secondary sexual characteristics or creation of them by surgery and through “feminine” body language. Women are required to practise femininity in order to create sexual difference/deference. But the difference is one of power, and femininity is the behavior required of the subordinate class of women in order to show their deference to the ruling class of men.
- Sheila Jeffreys, Beauty and Misogyny
The refusal to experience the discomfort of real change, and this rejection of the radical feminist position, has led to what is called “choice feminism”. This is the belief that no matter what a woman chooses, from her lifestyle to her family dynamic to her pop culture consumption, she is making a feminist choice, just from the act of choosing anything. The idea is that under the more rigidly patriarchal past, women’s choices were made for them. So simply by choosing anything at all, you are bucking the patriarchy and acting like a feminist. This is what universal feminism, devoid of any real personal internal change, leads to. No debate, no consideration, no discomfort required.
- Jessa Crispin, Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto
Western culture is founded on the notion of sexual difference: the idea that there is an essential difference between men and women, expressed in the behaviors of masculinity and femininity and their attendant practices. It is so dominant and all pervasive, that the idea that women can positively “choose” the practices which express this difference makes little sense.
- Sheila Jeffreys, Beauty and Misogyny
If it’s so normal and well-intended, why don’t men tell other men to smile?
- Abbi Crutchfield
“Anger is the demand of accountability, It is evaluation, judgment, and refutation. It is reflective, visionary, and participatory. It’s a speech act, a social statement, an intention, and a purpose. It’s a risk and a threat. A confirmation and a wish. It is both powerlessness and power, palliative and a provocation. In anger, you will find both ferocity and comfort, vulnerability and hurt. Anger is the expression of hope.
How much anger is too much? Certainly not the anger that, for many of us, is a remembering of a self we learned to hide and quiet. It is wilful and disobedient. It is survival, liberation, creativity, urgency, and vibrancy. It is a statement of need. An insistence of acknowledgment. Anger is a boundary. Anger is boundless. An opportunity for contemplation and self-awareness. It is commitment. Empathy. Self-love. Social responsibility. If it is poison, it is also the antidote. The anger we have as women is an act of radical imagination. Angry women burn brighter than the sun.”
─ Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her
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“si me matan
si me violan
si me desaparecen
destruyelo todo”
#NoMeCuidanMeViolan
a 17 year old girl reported being raped by 4 policeman in mexico city and the authorities did nothing about it; that’s what been happening in mexico.
in 2017 a girl disappeared every 5 hours and the numbers keep rising.
“si no regreso quemen todo” “if i ever don’t return, burn it all” that’s what his is all about, justice.
#NoMeCuidanMeViolan (they do not protect me, they rape me)
