...but can we do it without suggesting that the reason a woman would dedicate her life to #science & #teaching was to fill the vacuous space of never having children?
...and maybe also without suggesting some intuitive maternal instinct as the source of her #scientific reasoning?
Featured story: “[Molly Ivins] came already baked, so to speak. She was already almost fully developed as a writer. So there was not much editing to do, except maybe tone down some of the excesses. I think I saved a couple of libel suits ...” https://www.texasobserver.org/forging-their-own-way-kaye-northcott/
Just finished reading the will to change by bell hooks as part of my long overdue introduction to #feminism.
Oh boy, if that book was written today I would regard it as an optimistic call to action. But is has been published 20 years ago, and with the manosphere in mind, and politics of strongmen ahead, it sure seems like we stagnated.
Catching up on reading some book reviews and I've been reminded of an extraordinary book I read some years ago called The Natural Way Of Things by Charlotte Wood. It's bleak, terrifying but fiercely feminist, picking apart the brutality of patriarchy to examine externalised and internalised misogyny. If you choose to read it, the words "she's gone to the fence" will stay with you for a long time.
P.K. Dick 1968, Do Androids Dream: in ch. 16 is a paragraph that describes Rachael's body in anatomical detail and assigns race to it. It would be difficult to argue that this is a device that says more about the viewpoint character than about the author.
Today in Labor History March 8, 1857: Women garment workers picketed in New York City, demanding a 10-hour workday, better working conditions, and equal rights for women. In 1910, German socialist Clara Zetkin proposed to the Second International, that March 8 be celebrated as International Women’s Day to commemorate this strike.
“Half of Mexico’s Congress is #female. The cabinet is #gender-balanced. And now, #women have won the primaries of the two leading political blocs—making it likely that this traditionally macho nation will elect its first female president, ahead of the United States…
#Mexico ranks fourth in the world in female participation in national legislatures, according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union. The US ranks 71st—just below Iraq.”
Circumcision as Child Abuse: The Legal and Constitutional Issues
W Brigman, 23 J. Fam. L. 337 (1984-1985)
"This paper will examine the medical and psychological case against routine neonatal circumcision and will discuss the potential legal and constitutional barriers to treating the practice as child abuse."
#Medieval Scandy laws didn't differentiate between rape of and consenting extramarital canoodling with other men's wives and daughters. The main wronged party in either case was the man who owned control over the woman's sexual favours and fertility. A man raping his own wife was a contradiction in terms and no concern of the judicial system.
Just a lil reminder that my feminism-and-other-progressive-activism video series Topless Topics is "constantly banned from every platform you've heard of and some you haven't,"
so if you'd like to help me try to convince new people (and someday far in the future, the platforms themselves) that enforcing different levels of censorship based on "what gender you look like" is absurd and blatantly sexist,
please consider widely sharing, reblogging, and posting your own reply content (or just shouting out my channel) to my own posts, to help me get out of the shadowban-void I'm constantly fighting against (when my content isn't banned outright, as happens almost daily)
I have to change social media accounts fairly often as they get banned (always and only for the heinous unforgiveable sin of "female nipples") but here they are as of me writing this post:
(see the most up-to-date contact list at toplesstopics.org/contact )
Best Ways to Contact Cleo in Order of Preference:
In the future I'm hoping to set up my own mastodon instance focused on progressive activists and creators, and their supporters, called the "Outcast Creator Collective." You can read up more about that here: https://www.toplesstopics.org/outcast/
"Based on our interviews, there appears to be a growing eagerness among both young men and women to blame their problems on each other. And a society in which men and women see their interests as irrevocably opposed is not one that can last."
It was inevitable that there would be a gender critic who wrote "At least Russell Brand knows what a woman is" but are you sure you really want it to be "someone who gets pestered and forced into sex"?
Gender criticism is no brand of #feminism whatsoever.
If Andrew Tate & Jordan Peterson represent what modern Capitalism wants to prop up as a voice for Men™, Im happy / proud to be both unpropped up & an anticapitalist Feminist crank.