Category: feminism

Use protection. Use contraception. A HUGE difference.

When we talk to/about men and condoms, we say ‘Use protection’, but when we talk to/about women about various options, we say ‘Use contraception’.  The difference is NOT insignificant. 

In the second case, we’re talking about preventing conception, about not becoming pregnant, about not becoming a parent.

In the first case, we’re talking about protection …

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“Your body, my choice.” WTF?!

BE AWARE!

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/11/business/your-body-my-choice-movement-election/index.html

“I regret becoming a mother …”

https://clovenhooves.org/showthread.php?tid=447

A great and courageous post. I was the same way and at the fork in the road left the guy who wanted kids. Haven’t looked back. (Never had them and am wonderfully happy doing and having done all the stuff I wanted.)

I wonder if this woman had a Caesarean. I’ve heard that that …

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No Sex, No Dating, No Babies, No Marriage – GREAT!

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/16/4b-movement-america-political-protest-00189314

Good article, great movement, but does anyone else see the disjunct with the second picture?

Jaded, Ela Lee

Highly recommended!

A few impressive bits:

“I’m minded to pursue the current approach, given the sensitivities in this area, and reassess once we have greater visibility over how the strategy has been received,” Will spoke, baritone and authoritative.

“Urrrr,” Genevieve’s voice grumbled, … “is your Grand Plan of Action that you will carry on as …

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“Thus Saith Eve” by Chris Wind – sensational performance by Deoudone van der Merwe

Wendy Murphy on Equal Treatment vs Equal Rights

from Amazons, Bluestockings and Crones: a feminist dictionary, a woman’s companion to words and ideas, by Cheris Kramarae and Paula A. Treichler

A hefty book of over 500 pages of entries, but worth, at the very least, a skim through for words of interest to you.  Here are a few that I love:

Academia: a hierarchy whose “purpose is the production of prestige”  (Jo Freeman, 1979)

Acknowledgements: … where authors acknowledged the ideas and intellectual contributions of …

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from Dale Spender’s Nattering on the Net  — quotes and notes

According to 19th C feminist scholar Matilda Joslyn Gage, 9 million women were executed or burned for having knowledge—i.e., for being witches (p163)

Wow.  Did not know it was that many.

“Had women ever  contributed to the design of roads and vehicles, there is no doubt that the entire system would look very different.  The …

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things we — women — wouldn’t have without feminism

https://medium.com/the-matriarchy/things-you-wouldnt-have-without-feminism-e743e694801e

Sad to say, I’ll bet some will surprise you.

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