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It's a long life. Better pinch yourself.
I’m a feminist because I believe people are equal, regardless of their gender identity. I am a feminist because I believe people should be free to express their gender however they choose. I am a feminist because I believe people’s choices about their sexual activity are up to them. But that goes as much for the girl in the pink sparkly dress as anyone else.
The thing that even the most feminist of men never get is, realizing that those things are lies, that traditional female gender roles won’t make you happy, doesn’t make you want those things any less, especially not on a nonconscious level. This is further conflated by the fact that sometimes being that girl actually can make you happy. Sometimes you want to wear his favorite sundress. Sometimes you’re in the kitchen with your heels #dinnertime and it feels great. There’s a type of sick smugness that takes me over when I am being that girl and play the game the way they told me to. There’s also a pang of feminist guilt. It’s very emotionally and intellectually confusing shit.
-The Remix Baby (in my preferred colour scheme)
Jonathan sent me a link to this piece about Lana Del Rey, and while I totally (obviously) disagree with her take on Lana’s music, I think that is one of the best things I have ever read about Feminism.
Walking down the street, get sexually harassed
So I kind of casually mentioned on twitter today that it’s a pretty common occurrence for some men to make comments at me when I’m walking down the street. The response was crazy. Heaps of women shared stories of how often it happens to them, and heaps of men were genuinely surprised it happens at all.
I blogged a little bit about it here.
Now, I’m hoping to get other people telling their stories about being harassed. On Twitter, Tumblr, blogs, wherever. Let’s stop acting like this is normal, and start calling it what it is: unacceptable sexual harassment.
It’s funny ‘cause it’s true.
...achieving outcomes, going forward.: fatvirginsuicide: newwavefeminism: strugglingtobeheard: karnythia:...
So, white feminists where were y’all when:
- John Mayer called his dick a white supremacist.
- To call out Eminem who is still around and is still from my understanding rapping about killing…
Um, do any of these people complaining actually read any feminist blogs? Pretty sure John Mayer, Eminem and Charlie Sheen have all been taken to task time and time again. There’s not a hidden racist agenda: men who say bad stuff about women suck, whether they are black or white or whatever. And men who hit women suck even more.
