Tag: feminism
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May 22, 2009 01:47 PM EDT --
I've already alluded to my rotten mood in a comment elsewhere on Gather today. It did not improve after my most recent experience. I needed to track down the current lender of the mortgage, . . .
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September 22, 2008 08:04 PM EDT --
Sister Henrietta, the whirlwind in a gray habit was the instigator of my social activism. She was a force to be reckoned with and she would not let you say no when she asked you to do something. . . .
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November 25, 2009 02:23 PM EST --
Women Are Overtaking Men in the U.S.
The United States may have officially entered the age of woman.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, this fall, for the first time in U.S. history, . . .
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November 06, 2008 09:48 PM EST --
My wife came home from a NOW convention years ago with a tee-shirt on which was a drawing of Emma Goldman and the quote: "If I can't dance, comrade, then I don't want to be part of . . .
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December 23, 2008 08:48 PM EST --
Woohoo!!!! I've been trying to get my hands on a copy of this book for a long time, and tonight I won one on eBay. I read it years ago, and I've wanted to read it again. This is absolutely great!!!! . . .
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July 07, 2009 07:03 AM EDT --
Part 11 – Protofeminism, Feminism and Post Feminism
I have traced women’s rights issues from Victorian times up until the 1940’s. However, no discussion of woman’s . . .
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April 20, 2007 06:23 PM EDT --
Keep Your Seat
A radical feminist is getting on a bus when, just in front of her, a man gets up from his seat.
She thinks to herself, "Here's another man trying to keep up the customs of a patriarchal . . .
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June 22, 2007 11:05 AM EDT --
A while ago a young woman on Gather told me feminists were as evil as Communists, and came out of Communism. I didn't agree. This is what the Columbia University Encyclopedia . . .
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July 05, 2007 09:54 AM EDT --
When my daughter was 7 she wanted a Barbie doll.
Being a good mom and an ardent feminist, I told her no. I told her that Barbie was an illusion. Real women don't look like that. . . .
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June 12, 2008 11:10 AM EDT --
I was actually playing a game on Live Search Club yesterday when I came across a term that sparked this discussion. It was talking about the word "womyn." If you haven't heard . . .
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September 13, 2008 04:41 PM EDT --
The recent move on behalf of the Republicans is flabbergasting. To bet that women would vote for the Anti-Feminist, just because she has the right parts, is the most vile and sexist bid I can imagine. . . .
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July 13, 2009 05:25 AM EDT --
Part 15 - The Second Wave of Feminism
From the backdrop of the 1950’s, which I still may revisit as the series progresses, we get the key figure in the second wave of feminism. . . .
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July 23, 2009 12:36 PM EDT --
He hit her so hard that she went bouncing off the wall and slumped to the floor. The kids were in the bedroom screaming and she felt so helpless.
He started walking towards her again, with his . . .
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January 30, 2008 02:43 PM EST --
Women of Magdalene is a gripping drama about the power that men once had over women. The story-set in an asylum in the Post-War South-is eerie and tense and brimming with tensions sexual and otherwise. . . .
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June 15, 2006 06:05 PM EDT --
It seems that for girls and young women these days, in order to be cool, you need to post naked or revealing photos of yourself on the Internet. Everywhere I look is yet another girl planning on a career . . .
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October 30, 2006 03:29 AM EST --
I have noticed a disturbing trend in our media where the "ideal women" showing up in advertisements and sometimes movies are looking younger and younger.
They are also stripped of their womanly . . .
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December 30, 2006 08:33 PM EST --
A bedraggled Santa rang a wooden-handled bell next to an iron Salvation Army bucket. I slid a few coins into the black slot, tried not to let my eyes rest on his five-o-clock stubble. Red veins crowded . . .
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April 11, 2007 01:49 PM EDT --
I'm sure at the title for this article makes one assume a joke or a list of funny yet often true details of what it means to be a man is to follow, but sadly I actually aim to make this a more serious . . .
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June 27, 2007 11:25 AM EDT --
And men used to be rude but used to be nice.
Or so it has been claimed. Join the conversation about how feminism has made everybody rude - or has it. Are YOU RUDE?
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April 28, 2008 02:01 PM EDT --
I fooled no one when I slapped the flashing, neon label on my articles and submitted them to the feminist group. The owner rejected my work so fast the font smeared. Obviously, my priorities were out . . .
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