In the comments to an article about social inequality of women on college campuses at Pandagon (a good article, you should read it), the commenters discuss the strange phenomenon of girlfriends watching their boyfriends play video games. The commenters rightly identify forcing an uninterested third party to watch you game as a pretty rude thing […]
A woman gamer admits on reddit that she pretended to be male for 6 years after she had some seriously fucking creepy experiences due to her awful crime of gaming while female. “Discussion” ensues. One sympathetic commenter responds There’s so much I want to ask, but for right now, I’ll just ask the one thing: […]
The feminist subject “in the room” hence “brings others down” not only by talking about unhappy topics such as sexism but by exposing how happiness is sustained by erasing the signs of not getting along. […] My point here would be that feminists are read as being unhappy, such that situations of conflict, violence, and […]
No matter what you do as a woman, you’re doing it wrong. It’s not simply that the ideal to which you are supposed to live up to is difficult. The ideal is impossible because it’s subject to change at any time at the whim of the men (and sadly, yes, women, too) judging you constantly. […]
1. Start a consciousness raising blog 2. ?* 3. Feminist revolution 4. Liberation Step 2 is going to need some fleshing out, but I feel it’s a sound model. *With all due respect to the underpants gnomes profit plan so popular in the days of web 1.0
Shortly before the lunch, we asked the 77-year-old Steinem if she thought the Kardashians “empower” other women. “No,” replied the founder of Ms. magazine. “They’re not empowering other women, but there’s no point in blaming the people who take advantage of the system without changing the system.I don’t know who the Kardashians are. I assume some kind of space alien. But this point is very close to what I was trying to say about “gamer girls” yesterday.
Kardashians do not empower women:
To act in act in a way that is both racist and sexist, to maintain one’s class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner. Nonetheless I doubt that any of us who does so is totally without the knowledge that something is wrong. To slide into decisions […]
Let me draw you a picture of the “girl gamer”. You know her. She comes on vent and cracks dirty jokes and all the boys fall over themselves. She’s just as good as any guy. She’s the exception. She’s the token gamer girl. She posts pictures of her boobs on the guild forum. You heard […]
Developing feminist consciousness—the awareness of the sexist systems of oppression—is very difficult at first because sexist oppression is so built into culture, into life, into the most mundane and exalted things, in a word, so ubiquitous, that one is tempted to believe that this is how has always been and how it always must be, […]
the-r-evolution: ITV Reporter: Is rioting the correct way to express your discontent? Young Londoner: You wouldn’t be talking to me now if we didn’t riot, would you? ITV Reporter: … Young Londoner: Two months ago we marched to Scotland Yard, more than 2,000 of us, all blacks, and it was peaceful and calm and you […]
