It’s funny, because when women enjoy male-dominated things like video games or comics, we are called “attention whores”, yet men who take over an entire fandom of a show aimed at little girls and create their own little movement based on it claim to be oppressed because people are creeped out by them. And then they’ve got the nerve to argue they are “challenging masculinity”? Puh-lease. Bronies are entitled males, they hate women, they even seem to hate the little girls the show was originally made for.
I’d like to really show what I believe the men want to see: violence against women. I firmly believe that we serve a purpose by showing that. The most violent we can get is the cum shot in the face. Men get off behind that, because they get even with the women they can’t have. We try to inundate the world with orgasms in the face.
Bill Margold in Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality. (via keepfeminismindisney)
Porn is now so deeply embedded in our culture that it has become synonymous with sex to such a point that to criticize porn is to get slapped with the label anti-sex.
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But what if you are a feminist who is pro-sex in the real sense of the word, pro that wonderful, fun, and deliciously creative force that bathes the body in delight and pleasure, and what you actually against is porn sex? A kind of sex that is debased, dehumanized, formulaic, and generic, a kind of sex not based on individual fantasy, play, or imagination, but one that is the result of an industrial product created by those who get excited not by bodily contact but by market penetration and profits? Where, then, do you fit in the pro-sex, anti-sex dichotomy when pro-porn equals pro-sex?
So I posted a couple weeks ago about selling books for $5. Each book is $5, so if you order two it would be $10, if you got 3 it would be $15, etc. If you live outside of the US, each book will be $10 because shipping cost more. Payment is made through paypal.
Books for Sale:
Jesus Miriam’s Child, Sophia’s Prophet: Critical Issues in Feminist Christologyby Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
Liberalism & the Origins of European Social Theoryby Steven Seidman
Race & Ethnic Conflict: Contending Views of Prejudice, Discrimination, and Ethnoviolenceedited by Fred L. Pincus and Howard J. Ehrlich
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, & Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginiaby Kathleen M. Brown
In the Company of Educated Womenby Barbara Miller Solomon
Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, A Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacyby Elizabeth R. Varon
A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868by Anne Sarah Rubin
A History of Women: From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saintsedited by Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot
Women as Candidates in American Politicsby Susan J. Carroll
The Women’s Westedited by Susan Armitage and Elizabeth Jameson
A Hard Fight For We: Women’s Traditions from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolinaby Leslie A. Schwalm
Images of the Feminine in Gnosticismedited by Karen L. King
Disorderly Women: Sexual Politics & Evangelicalism in Revolutionary New Englandby Susan Juster
The Devils Lane: Sex and Race in the Early Southedited by Catherine Clinton and Michele Gillespie
Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Communityby Charles Joyner
The Pearl: A Failed Slave Escape on the Potomac by Josephine F. Pacheco
As if an Enemy’s Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution by Richard Archer
So Much to Be Done: Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier edited by Ruth B. Moynihan, Susan Atmitage, and Christiane Fischer Dichamp
The Elusive Ideal: equal Education Opportunity and the Federal Role in Boston’s Public Schools, 1950-1985 by Adam R. Nelson
Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution by Richard Beeman
Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia’s Black Community, 1720-1840 by Gary B. Nash
The Gospels of Mary: The Secret Traditions of Mary Magdalene the Companion of Jesus by Marvin Meyer
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the Civil Wat by Drew Gilpin Faust
Gendered (In)Justice: Theory and Practice of Feminist Criminology edited by Pamela J. Schram and Barbara Koons-Witt
Punishment and Crime: Towards a Feminist Analysis of Penality by Andrian Howe
The Gospel of Judas: Second Edition edited by Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer, and Gregor Wurst
The House of Tudor by Allison Plowden
Rapture Ready: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture by Daniel Radosh
Contested Boundaries: Itinerancy and the Reshaping of the Colinal American Religious World by Timothy D. Hall
Slavery and Crime in Missouri, 1773-1865 by Harriet C. Frazier
Feminist Sociology: Life Histories of a Movement edited by Barbara Laslett and Barrie Thorne
Following the Drum: Women at the Valley Forge Encampment by Nancy K. Loane
The Faiths of the Founding Fathers by David L. Holmes
The Columbia Guide to American Women in the Nineteenth Century by Catherine Clinton and Christine Lunardini
Criminology at the Crossroads: Feminist Readings in Crime and Justice edited by Kathleen Daly and Lisa Maher
Glory, Passion, and Principle: The Story of Eight Remarkable Women at the Core of the American Revolution by Melissa Lukeman Bohrer
Mary Magdalene: A Biography by Bruce Chilton
How Democratic is the American Constitution? By Robert A. Dahl
A History of Women: Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes edited by Natalie Zemon Davis and Arlette Farge
The Hemmingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America by Benjamin L. Carp
Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England by Catherine Adams and Elizabeth H. Pleck
Abigail Adams: A Writing Life by Edith B. Gelles
I have more books on the Civil War I want to sell. I can type up that list if people are interested in them.
Critiquing a Disney movie does not mean we hate Disney, think Walt Disney is the devil, or have some stick up our ass. Most people who critique Disney do enjoy the films and do actually like Disney. We are also about to think critically about the media we consume. Disney was no saint. He heavily relied on stereotypes in his films. Haven’t you notice all his female heroines, animals or people, are kind, caring, and compassionate? That is the stereotypical representation of what a woman should be in the early 20th century. Snow, Cinderella, and Aurora are also all seen cleaning in their films, i.e. they are domestic. Two of them were also being abused with was a fucking plot point in their movies. Disney heavily relied on the evil step mother trope in both Cinderella and Snow White. Disney relies on racist stereotypes in Dumbo (the crows), Lady and the Tramp (the cats and Chihuahua), and Peter Pan (the Native Americans) to name a few. Does that mean these movies are inherently bad and evil? No. However, people do start to believe the stereotypes in these movies because they are reenforced by our culture at large. Disney is a huge cultural force in the 20th and 21st centuries. There is no denying that. Disney movies, while entertainment, do shape how people view society. For that reason it is incredibly important to critique Disney. That doesn’t mean we want to kill your childhood or hate on Walt Disney for shits and giggles.
Please sign this petition, even if you don’t watch the show. While there are many feminist debates about this show, one thing we can all agree on is a convicted rapist should NOT be on this show. This is a slap in the face of all survivors of sexual assault/rape and the survivors who are fans of the show. This is absolutely disgusting.
Seriously tumblr? You will get all the required signatures needed on pointless shit like getting a puppy a purple collar within minutes but not for something like this?!?
Please sign this petition, even if you don’t watch the show. While there are many feminist debates about this show, one thing we can all agree on is a convicted rapist should NOT be on this show. This is a slap in the face of all survivors of sexual assault/rape and the survivors who are fans of the show. This is absolutely disgusting.
Shipping: Shipping (for US): 1-2 books: $3 3-5 books: $5 6-7 books: $7 7+ books: $10 If you live outside of the US and want books, shipping will depend on the weight of the books. Shipping will most likely be between $5-20 depending on where you live.
Payments are made through paypal!
Feminism & History:
Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry by Tiffany M. Gill
Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race Relations by David Fort Godshalk
Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois by Wanda A. Hendricks
Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South by Kristina DuRocher
Talk With You Like A Woman: African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935 by Cheryl D. Hicks
What Women Ought to Be and to Do: Black Professional Women Workers During the Jim Crow Era by Stephanie J Shaw
Our Minds on Freedom: Women and the Struggle for Black Equality in Louisiana, 1924-1967 by Shannon Frystak
I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle by Charles M. Payne
Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movements edited by Bettye Collier-Thomas and V.P. Franklin
How Long? How Long:: African-American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights by Belinda Robnett
Yours in Sisterhood: Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular Sisterhood by Amy Erdman Farrell
The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement by Winifred Breines
Mass Media and the Shaping of American Feminism, 1963-1975 by Patricia Bradley
Breadwinners: Working Women & Economic Independence, 1865-1920 by Lara Vapnek
Want to Start a Revolution?: Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle edited by Dayo F. Gore, Jeanne Theoharis, and Komozi Woodard
Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers & Torchbearers, 1941-1965 edited by Vicki L. Crawford, Jacqueline Anne Rouse, and Barbara Woods
Patronage in Renaissance Italy: From 1400 to the Early Sixteenth Century by Mary Hollingsworth
The Mirror of the Artist: Northern Renaissance Art in its Historical Context by Craig Harbison
All Bound Up Together: The Women’s Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900 by Martha S. Jones
Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance During the Vietnam War by Michael S. Foley
Gender & Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 by Glenda Elizabeth GIlmore
A Separate Canann: The Making of an Afro-American World in North Carolina, 1763-1840 by Jon F. Sensbach
Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1867 by Joshua D. Rothman
Fiction and Historical Writings:
The Cross of Redemption: James Baldwin Uncollected Writings edited by Randall Kenan
The Selected Writings of Christine De Pizan edited by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
W.E.B. Dubois Writings Library of America College Edition
Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 by W.E.B. DuBois
The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe
W.E.B. DuBois Speaks: Speeches and Adressess 1880-1919 edited by Philip S. Foner
W.E.B. DuBois Speaks: Speeches and Adressess 1920-1963 edited by Philip S. Foner
The Blazing World and Other Writings by Margaret Cavendish
The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan