#feminists

First off, as has been well stated by many Indigenous Feminists before us, the idea of gender equality did not come from the suffragettes or other so-called "foremothers" of feminist theory. It should also be recognized that although we are still struggling for this thing called "gender equality," it is not actually a framed issue within the feminist realm, but a continuation of the larger tackling of colonialism. So this idea that women of colour all of a sudden realized "we are women," and magically joined the feminist fight actually re-colonizes people for who gender equality and other "feminist" notions is a remembered history and current reality since before Columbus. The mainstream feminist movement is supposed to have started in the early 1900s with women fighting for the right to vote. However, these white women deliberately excluded the struggles of working class women of color and participated in the policy of forced sterilization for Aboriginal women and women with disabilities. Furthermore, the idea that we all need to subscribe to the same theoretical understandings of history is marginalizing. We all have our own truths and histories to live. ↗

— Erin Konsmo

#feminist-theory #feminists #indigenous #indigenous-feminism #indigenous-peoples

I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything. ↗

— David Bailey

#feminists #had #hated #i #i think

I'm not limited by my gender, and I don't think anyone else should be either. Because I am the age I am and I sort of rode the crest of the first profound post-suffragette feminists, I wasn't fighting to burn my bra. Those women fought that fight just seconds before I came into womanhood. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#am #anyone #because #before #bra

Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody. ↗

— Bjork

#any #bore #death #feminists #follow

I think I can speak for all four of us on the show here. We all consider ourselves to be feminists and we get very upset when people don't think we are. We're like, where did this come from? Of course we are. ↗

— Kristin Davis

#consider #course #did #feminists #four

And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way feminists had portrayed it, as men oppressing women. ↗

— Warren Farrell

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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#feminists #opportunity #outcome

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#like #men #seem #wish #women

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

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The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people. ↗

— Betty Buckley

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