If only Baz Luhrmann directed my life.


Stephanie Irene. KC girl. Feisty. Feminist. Neurotic. Atheist. Passionate. CATS!

 

‘When you’re born a woman, you must live as a woman’ The quicker you understand that, the easier it will be to accept.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Good god. I have never seen a more succinct description of the root of all feminist problems.

at least she's a good looking spy.: Fur is Back.

andtherebyhangsatale:

Eve Ensler. From A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and a Prayer.

I wanted to be funny. I wanted to be a funny, laughing, invited-to-the-party person. I wanted to be a little flirty, maybe, a little naughty, a little fab, mysterious, chic. I wanted to be fun—telling wild, crazy stories, jumping…

Attach yourself to any verb - be it ‘defy,’ ‘question,’ ‘create,’ ‘invent,’ ‘envision,’ ‘protest’ - any verb, but the verb ‘to please.’

Why extremists always focus on women remains a mystery to me, but they all seem to. It doesn’t matter what country they’re in or what religion they claim, they all want to control women. They want to control how we dress, they want to control how we act, they even want to control the decisions we make about our own health and our own bodies. Yes, it is hard to believe. But even here at home, we have to stand up for women’s rights and reject efforts to marginalize any one of us because America needs to set an example for the entire world.

Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton


Great speech by Hilary Clinton. We also need to keep in mind that while we are calling for America to “set an example” this must not, and can not translate into “Americans telling women in other countries how to fight for their own rights” and keep this as a focus on analyzing what is going on in America, and even how America exports damaging and exotifying images & beliefs about other women all over the world. We can set an example by handling our business in house while still aknowledging our complicity in the subjagation of the “exotic other” overseas that we do on a daily basis.

(via newwavefeminism)

at least she's a good looking spy.: Fur is Back.

andtherebyhangsatale:

by Eve Ensler, from “A Memory, A Monologue, a Rant and a Prayer”.

I wanted to be funny. I wanted to be a funny, laughing, invited-to-the-party person. I wanted to be a little flirty, maybe, a little naughty, a little fab, mysterious, chic. I wanted to be fun—telling wild, crazy stories,…

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My point is that feminists are not biological determinists. Feminists are the least likely people to say ‘all men are bastards’. Some of them might say ‘many men behave like bastards’. But they don’t imply that such behaviour is acceptable because its genetic or ‘natural’ for men to behave that way, like those arguments defending rapists which imply that men are really all just stupid cavemen who can’t be blamed when they rape because, hey, men just can’t help it when they see someone in a mini skirt. Feminists don’t write books about how men are genetically incapable of picking up an iron. Feminists don’t write books about how men are from another planet, one where men have to be left ‘in their cave’ because they just don’t have proper emotions like women do. That’s because actually, feminists think men should be treated as fully functional human beings with brains and morals who should be held responsible for the choices they make.