“womanhood should be important to feminists. why are we not allowed to find strength in speaking about the oppression we have endured since birth? why must we pause conversations about overcoming the shame we feel surrounding our bodies, the trauma and pain of our biology, the socialized submission and inferiority we
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Male Violence – Karen Ingala Smith
“Male violence against women does not simply take place in the cocoon of an individual relationship. It is structural, it is systemic. The pattern, the overwhelming consistency with which women are the victims and men the perpetrators should be a big clue. Male violence against women is not random, it
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Post of the Day – How Could You Even Defend Prostitution and Porn? – Furious RadFem
The world’s oldest profession is easily the world’s worst ‘profession’. “We know working in prostitution causes higher rates of ptsd than participating in war, we know women are severely abused during sex, we know sex industry is heavily linked with child trafficking and human trafficking, we know most participants have to be severely drugged in […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Andrea Dworkin
“Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.” — Andrea DworkinFiled under: Feminism Tagged: Andrea Dworkin, male violence, The DWR Feminist […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – On Objectification
“there’s no such thing as “taking control” of being objectified. the women who say that through stripping or other forms of performative sexuality they are regaining control of their own objectification aren’t understanding the concept of control. control is gained through power, power is systematic and industrialized, power is not a feeling. you can feel good […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Sarah Ahmed – On Racism and Sexism
“No matter how much evidence you have of racism and sexism, no matter how many documents, communications, encounters, no matter how much research you can refer to, or words you can defer to, words that might carry a history as an insult, what you have is deemed as insufficient. The more you have to show […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Loving To Survive – Dee Graham
“To the extent that femininity is a psychology of the oppressed, or an indication of Societal Stockholm Syndrome, we are forced to ask whether women should support our culture’s glorification of “feminine qualities.” It is one thing to be feminine in order to survive when you know why you are doing what you are doing; […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Andrea Dworkin on ‘The Left’.
“Capitalism is not wicked or cruel when the commodity is the whore; profit is not wicked or cruel when the alienated worker is a female piece of meat; corporate bloodsucking is not wicked or cruel when the corporations in question, sell cunt; racism is not wicked or cruel when the black cunt or yellow […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Femininity is the Socialization of the Oppressed Class
“Women aren’t hated for being feminine, femininity is forced on us because we are hated. we don’t naturally apply make up, wear constricting clothing, shave our natural body hair and stay quiet even when we are upset with something. we are conditioned to do this because women are supposed to take up as little space […]
Dead Wild Roses: Virginia Woolf – On Literature
“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers, dreamers; how few parts in the plays of Shakespeare could be allotted to them; how literature would suffer! We might perhaps have most of Othello; and a good deal of Antony; […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day: Guilt Poisons Women – Germaine Greer
“Women feel more guilt than men, not because of some weird chromosomal issue but because they have a history of being blamed for other people’s behaviour. You get hit, you must have annoyed someone; you get raped, you must have excited someone; your kid is a junkie, you must have brought him up wrong” — […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminst Quote of the Day – Patriarchal Societies – Monica Sjoo & Barbara Mor
On being female in society. Boom. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Barbara Mor, Feminism, Life as Female, Monica Sjoo, Patriarchy, Soceity, The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day
Dead Wild Roses: Feminist Quote of the Day – Gerda Lerner
When asked about the wage gap and why we don’t see women equally represented in society how often is one bombarded with comments like: “Women prefer lower paying jobs”, or even better, ‘there is no such thing as the wage gap”. Steaming monkey muffins to that bollocks is my usual reply. Before we go on, […]
Dead Wild Roses: Feminist Quote of the Day – Andrea Dworkin on Pornography
Let’s not have the porn = ‘freedom of speech’ argument this one time okay? I live in a country where if you film any act of humiliation or torture, and if the victim is a woman, the film is both entertainment and it is protected speech. Now that tells me
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