Posts by giovanni tiso
Last ←Newer Page 1 2 3 4 5 Older→ First
-
You know me so well...
-
Who said I was going to let it roam? We have a backyard with a trampoline and everything.
-
I'll have a bison please - matte is fine.
-
Up Front: Say When, in reply to Deborah,
That's one hell of a put-down to the women here who write their own blogs, exploring feminism and what it means for them, and how feminist ideas are manifested in, and are informed by, their lived experience.
Not to mention Emma's work generally and this very blog post we're commenting on. As if hers weren't actual ideas, and this forum wasn't a place where ideas are dicussed. Staggering stuff.
-
Up Front: Say When, in reply to sally jones,
'Lifestyle feminist' is Greer's term poached here to describe people who call themselves feminists (when it suits?) but seem to focus their anger and 'politics' against, well, feminists, all the while advocating women's and girls' right to show plenty cleavage at the pub, lots of leg at high school, wet tits in t-shirts - for the purposes of a competition! and expecting no-one to be concerned.
Out of interes: who should be concerned? And why?
While concerns raised can be clumsy and interfering and offensive, I think the intention of the concern - to bring about awareness that hopefully leads to change in the prevailing models for female behaviour and appearance that are either heavily sexual or primly square (the Madonna/whore dichotomy) - should not be lost in our rush to condemn these concerns as presumptuous impositions on a women's right to autonomy in all things.
I'm having some difficulty not reaching the conclusion that you actually blame the women and girls in question for the madonna/whore complex.
-
Up Front: Say When, in reply to Deborah,
I've had her as a Friday Feminist in the past
I remember that.
-
Up Front: Say When, in reply to recordari,
I mean snap.
Word. I suspect people crowding to cite old Christine isn't exactly a very common occurrence.
-
Up Front: Say When, in reply to Lilith __,
And if you want to look at first-wave feminist treatises, it's hard to go past Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman from 1792.
What, no love for my homie Christine de Pizan (1365-1430)?
-
Muse: Reel Life: Pliéing Turkey, in reply to Emma Hart,
heard ALL of The Green Lantern through the wall from the theatre next door.
And they didn't make you pay extra? You lucky thing.
-
Up Front: Say When, in reply to Emma Hart,
That said, "baywatch feminist" is a label I'm going to assume is meant to be insulting, therefore I'm not happy to have it applied.
There should totally be a "MacGyver feminist" label.
[spelling of show edited after severe off line reprimand]