#feminism

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men? ↗

— Cyndi Lauper

#hate #means #men #think #you

The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#cornerstone #correctness #culture #dominates #feminism

I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves. ↗

— Joyce Johnson

#beats #feminism #age

In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#coming-of-age-metaphore #feminism #iconic #age

Be as pissed off as you want to be. Don’t hold back because you think it’s unladylike or some such nonsense. We shouldn’t be shamed out of our anger. We should be using it. Using it to make change in our own lives, and using it to make change in the lives around us. (I know, I’m cheesy.) So the next time someone calls you emotional, or asks if you’re PMSing, call them on their bullshit. ↗

— Jessica Valenti

#anger

Cosmetic surgery is not "cosmetic," and human flesh is not "plastic." Even the names trivialize what it is. It's not like ironing wrinkles in fabric, or tuning up a car, or altering outmoded clothes, the current metaphors. Trivialization and infantilization pervade the surgeons' language when they speak to women: "a nip," a "tummy tuck."...Surgery changes one forever, the mind as well as the body. If we don't start to speak of it as serious, the millennium of the man-made woman will be upon us, and we will have had no choice. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics #culture

But somehow things took a sinister turn, and the division of labor came to be understood as the demarcation of a social hierarchy. Women kept busy with numerous domestic responsibilities while their male counterparts' sole duty was tending to the flocks. Men had time to think critically, form political infrastructures, and ultimately, network with other men. Meanwhile, women were kept too busy to notice that somewhere along the line, they had become inferior. This is approximately when shit hit the fan. ↗

— Julie Zeilinger

#feminism #feminist #gender-roles #gender-studies #history

The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#change

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#feminism #had #i #i think #impact

Sex discrimination and hate crimes against women don't come from the leather community or its pornography. They occur within contexts like industrial capitalism and marriage that most people take for granted as if they had always existed, like gravity or continental drift. If feminism is going to change the world, it has to focus its critical lens on what most people think is normal, not on what most people think is abnormal. ↗

— Pat Califia

#feminism #pornography #change