A Crash Course in Feminism Mk. II (or, why everyone should be a feminist)

[eldargal]

Exactly. It's not a case of 'hey isn't it nice they had a place they could be themselves' it's a case of 'they were locked up for being themselves and there may be a small mercy that they were at least not mistreated and able to be openly homosexual for once in their life which highlights the real issue that THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO BE THEMSELVES THE REST OF THE TIME!'

[Wolfshade]

freedom to starve is no freedom at all

Sgt. Harper

[Psychosplodge]

Well I thought you'd have done if I didn't get there first...

[eldargal]

Ha, this is great (well horrible): [URL="http://mansplained.tumblr.com/"]Mansplained[/URL] on tumblr. Where helpful men explain things to us women who are too stupid to understand how own lives.

[Psychosplodge]

Ha, this is great (well horrible): [URL="http://mansplained.tumblr.com/"]Mansplained[/URL] on tumblr. Where helpful men explain things to us women who are too stupid to understand how own lives.

That's a site of horrible things.

Though given the prevailing stereotype of american worldview I'm not sure [URL="http://mansplained.tumblr.com/post/33918696510/the-prime-minister-of-australia"]this[/URL] has anything to do with her sex.

[eldargal]

Well the stories on it are horrible yes. I liked this one though:

I am a junior in college and a Women and Gender Studies major. I was in my Feminist Theory class and we were talking about different ways of discourse. My male professor brought up the idea of mansplaining and asked if anyone could explain it. I rose my hand being an avid follower of this blog. I got no more than three words out before he started talking over me and saying I wasn’t explaining it right. I started to get mad and he laughed before apologizing but he said he couldn’t help but give every one a good example of it.

The assumption that, as a woman, we must need a man to explain what we ****ing do to us is extremely widespread and toxic. It happens to me usually weekly at work and daily back when I was at university. Had ****ing freshers lecture me about my bloody doctoral subject quite a bit and it was worse when I was one.


I'm buying a bowler hat.

[Rissan4ever]

Ha, this is great (well horrible): [URL="http://mansplained.tumblr.com/"]Mansplained[/URL] on tumblr. Where helpful men explain things to us women who are too stupid to understand how own lives.

I... I just... Jesus.

On behalf of decent men everywhere, I would like to apologize for the d-bags who populate my sex.

[eldargal]

It's cool. The best thing you can do is stand up to such behaviour when you encounter it, particularly amongst your friends. Letting your peer group know that you, one of Them, do not approve of them treating women (and other discriminated groups) as Other really helps undermine cultural sexism. all of a sudden it goes from something that is just a bit of a laugh to something with consequences, especially if you explain, politely, how their behaviour impacts on women.

From Mansplainers:

[Rissan4ever]

She'll be stunned you know this and wonder what else you know about female sexuality.

LOL! If I tried this crap with my wife - and most other women, I'll bet - all I'd get is swift kick to the nuts. This is the kind of site that basically tells guys, "Women aren't people; they're puzzles. If you know the secret code words, you can get sex whenever you want." It's just as toxic for the men who read it as for the women they try it on.

[Build]

I hate sites like that, offering ways to "trick" "fool" and get women to "think" differently about you, even if there were any real validation to it, so you could end up bedding fifty 9/10s every single night, it just makes you a misogynistic, sub-human, dishonest arsehole.