hang me up so you can tear me down
alright. ani in like 5 minutes! yay!
but first, i’d like to preface with some thoughts on oppression. i believe in this country especially among white feminist females oppression is self-inflicted. we’re like goddamn self-loathers or something. i sat in my class today for womens studies and the other day as well and it basically feels like a support group for women. what the hell!? monday we talked about how unfair it is that society makes us be skinny and today we talked about how we overcome that. i say that we don’t acknowledge it. you give power to things and social constructs when you say they’re real and act like its impossible to escape. try this: you’re not fat. you don’t care if you are fat. you just want to be healthy. or you don’t even care about that. so you just say “society doesn’t say that I have to be fat. I created that idea in my mind. I’m not going to do it anymore.” AUGH! You’ve got fiat over yourself. try it on for size, pun intended.
I mostly think american feminists are missing the point. Let’s start a fourth-wave of feminism. This one wants Equality Everywhere, Dammit. I am going to make an honest effort to be less concerned with the ability of my daughter to become a Boy Scout and more concerned with that Muslim woman whose testimony counts as half that of a man.
also, when i hear battered womens task force i think “Augh! Gender Language! Augh!” since when are men never battered? and what kind of feminist is pro-generalization?