Fuck yeah, feminists!: Movement towards changing FBI's definition of rape
For nearly a decade, Carol Tracy, the executive director of the Women’s Law Project, has been agitating for a change in what she describes as the FBI’s ”archaic” definition of rape.
This month, the agency made a major step forward to doing just that.
At a meeting in Washington last Friday,…
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robotghost replied to your link: Boiling Bunnies: The demonisation of “mistresses”
until the mistress is in a committed relationship and cheated upon, she will never, ever understand.i disagree 100% with everything about this.So, do you think it’s right to blame the single woman?
Shout About: CHIVALRY.
Just read this article on “Benevolent Sexism” where the author, Mary Schneider says,
“I’m all for good manners, and looking out for each other and feeling that I can ask the opposite sex for help without being branded weak. Men and women are different. Period. That’s cause for celebration.”
Whereas Liz Jones argues that yes, it is the thin-edge of the sexist wedge.
“The more women allow men to help them, the less we will be able to achieve on our own…I don’t believe anyone should be mollycoddled, particularly female children, because, ladies (!), there will come a time when the man in your life will either have left you for someone younger, or you will have outlived him by at least two decades. Either way, you will have to fend for yourself”
Hmm… what are your views on so-called Benevolent Sexism?
Care Bears vs. Transformers: Gender Stereotypes in Advertisements
“At this point some of you may be saying so what. What’s the big deal if a toy is blue or pink or if it’s a doll or an action figure? Isn’t it just advertising trying to sell a product? The problem is that within these messages of consumption are lessons about gender roles and expectations. These advertisements specifically target children with a message of what is and isn’t appropriate for boys and girls. Although these may be “just advertisements” they are also one of the places that children learn about gender roles. According to Bandura’s social learning theory, children formulate gender role concepts through observations as well as through rewards and punishment (Bandura, 1969). As the definition of social learning has expanded , the focus has included both imitation of others and expectancies of reinforcement for that imitative behavior (Rotter, 1982). The media have become a focus of study related to social learning, because the most readily available sources of models for children to emulate aside from their parents are movies, books and especially television (Mayes & Valentine, 1979). Considering the number of hours of television that children watch, their exposure to televised models through programs and advertisements may even be greater than their exposure to their own parents’ behaviors (Bandura, 1969). It could be argued that children learn all sorts of behaviors from television that either sex could perform. However, research has indicated that children tend to imitate same-sex models with greater frequency than opposite-sex models (Courtney & Whipple, 1983). According to Smith (1994), “one argument for this occurrence is that peers and parents are more likely to reward children when they imitate same-sex models. Children also generally recall more about same-sex models than opposite sex models. This sex bias is especially true of boys and also especially pronounced when male models behave in sex-stereotyped ways (p.324).”
Jean Kilbourne’s pioneering work helped develop and popularize the study of gender representation in advertising. Her award-winning Killing us Softly films have influenced millions of college and high school students across two generations and on an international scale. In this important new film, Kilbourne reviews if and how the image of women in advertising has changed over the last 20 years.
With wit and warmth, Kilbourne uses over 160 ads and TV commercials to critique advertising’s image of women. By fostering creative and productive dialogue, she invites viewers to look at familiar images in a new way, that moves and empowers them to take action.
Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We’re not inherently anything but human.
— Robin Morgan
I’ve yet to be on a campus where most women weren’t worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I’ve yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
— Gloria Steinhem
[W]hile sex positivity is often discussed in the context of acknowledgement and toleration for “non-mainstream” activities such as kink, BDSM, polyamory, LGTB orientations, or sex work, it necessarily implies toleration and acceptance of asexuality, disinterest, and even squicks: real sex positive people are as respectful of “no thank you” as they are of “yes please.
— Clarisse Thorn on Why Active Monogamy is Also Sex Positive and Thus Needs No Apologies | Figleaf’s Real Adult Sex (via sexisnottheenemy)
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Fuck yeah, feminists!: What Melanie Phillips Was Wrong About.
What Melanie Phillips Was Wrong About:
“Slut Walks” do not promote treating women as sexual objects. They challenge the societal belief that what a woman wears defines how she should be treated, who she is as a person and in effect, if she deserves to be sexually…
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