Gail Dines bringing it home, as always, with cogent analysis and the material facts about the situations women and men face in our culture.
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Dead Wild Roses: Gail Dines @ Institute of Education | “Putting the Radical back in Feminism”
Better sooner that later.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Gail Dines – Defining Feminism
Gail Dines is an amazing feminist. She lectures worldwide and has written many an article as well as few really good books. She sums up the slide toward liberal feminism in three meagre slides. Let’s move away from the neo-liberal/libertarian ‘I’ve got mine, fuck you’ trend that has dominated
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Hypersexualization and Porn Culture – Gail Dines
http://appropriately-inappropriate.tumblr.com/post/152749317685/nevertrustamanwho-hypersexualization-and-female Filed under: Culture, Feminism Tagged: Gail Dines, Porn, Radical Feminism, The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Gail Dines on Porn Culture.
“Pornography has socialized a generation of men into watching sexual torture,” Dines said. “You are not born with that capacity. You have to be trained into it. Just like you train soldiers to kill. If you are going to carry out violence against a group you have to dehumanize them.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Feminist Thought of the Day – The Third Wave – Gail Dines
Just a handy reference slide for your perusal. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Gail Dines, Helpful Infographics
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Misogyny isn’t like a Cold, or something you catch – Gail Dines
Well, another antidote to the ferocious level of managed-shortsightedness by the media on the Santa Barbara mass murders. “I have been a radical feminist for as long as I can remember. As I witness the marginalisation of radical feminism in the cultural discourse, in publishing, and in women’s studies programs,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Gail Dines – On Pornography
Just a note to our porn friendly sex-positive types out there… “How porn is implicated in rape is complex and multilayered. Clearly, not all men who use porn rape, but what porn does is create what some feminists call a “rape culture” by normalizing, legitimizing, and condoning violence against women.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Quote of the Day – Gail Dines on Government.
What would you suggest as a metric for determining the quality of governance? Gail Dines has a simple suggestion (taken from a counterpunch article on contrasting styles of governing): ” […] a government that has demonstrated a capacity to work for the people rather than just corporate interests, and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Defanging Feminism – Gail Dines
Gail Dines knocks this talk out of the park – Neo-Liberalism is exposed, and all the ill-effects that come with that particular set of toxic ideals. Some quotes from the video: “There is no such thing as cheap labour, there is only labour that has been made cheap” “Women perform
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