Man is willing to accept woman as an equal, as a man in skirts, as an angel, a devil, a baby-face, an instrument, a bosom, a womb, a pair of legs, a servant, an encyclopedia, an ideal or an obscenity; the one thing he won’t accept her as is a human being, a real human being of the feminine sex.
Dorothy L Sayers, Are Women Human? (via harrietvane)
Rey is given a luxury that comes so easily to male heroes – she simply turns a corner, finds a magical item (Luke Skywalker’s Lightsaber, no less) and it awakens the Force in her. Just that. No searing infertility, no rape, no revelation of past abuse, no heartbreak, no sacrifice. No heroine whose validity is defined by what she has sacrificed, in the way of Katniss handing up her life for her sister, becoming a martyr for a revolution. In the way of Ariel, handing over her power to speak in order to walk on land. No poison apple, no needle on a spinning wheel here.
How do you know if your argument is feminist? Well, check out the basic core beliefs of feminism. Does your argument support these beliefs?
The value of women is inherent because we are human beings. Males do not assign us our value.
women do not lose value based on their appearance
women do not lose value based on how much sex we have had
women do not lose value based on our marital status or sexual orientation or number of children or ability to give birth or any other male system of objectification and commodification of our bodies
women are not “bitches” or “cunts” or “sluts” or “whores” or any other label men come up with to denote that we are subhuman and have decreased in value because of a lack of obedience to them
Women are people. Our bodies exist for us. They do not exist for male consumption. Our bodies deserve respect.
women NEVER owe men access to our bodies
women NEVER owe men sex
we do not exist to provide men with children
periods are natural and not offensive
our bodies are not inherently shameful
we deserve to be educated about our bodies
males should not control or own female bodies
we do not need to conform our bodies to male imposed beauty standards
our natural body hair is not offensive
Women are not naturally ““feminine”“ there is no such thing as a “lady brain” because women are not mentally inferior to men.
femininity is a social construct forced on women at birth
the idea of what is “feminine” is created by men and imposed on women against our will
gender does not come from inside of us, it is not natural
we suffer punishment ranging from social consequences to male violence for not conforming to male feminine ideals
brain plasticity is a thing
socialization exists and is real
how you are raised and treated by society affects how you act and behave, your thoughts, ideas, and opinions and actions
people are born as a blank slate personality wise, and develop who we are based on our surroundings and how we react to them and the consequences of how we reacted, etc.. Life events are important.
Male is not the default setting for human being.
“equality” is giving a fish and a bird the same set of standards
women need liberation from male supremacy, not a place within it where we can continue to perpetuate harmful male supremacist values such as “might makes right”
the capability of physical violence does not make someone superior to another person, especially in a species whose primary evolutionary advantage is our brains
female reality is important and should be weighed with the same consideration and respect given to male reality–femaleness is not a handicap just because our capabilities are different from those of men
women should be able to live entirely independent of men
women’s capabilities need to be respected, the things women can do well need to be valued, rather than telling women we need to do things that men value
the things men can out perform us on (such as sports) do not make men more valuable human beings than women
the things men can do are not inherently more valuable than what women can do
Actor over 40: action hero, love interest to 20-something female protagonist, superhero, dramatic lead, half of a buddy comedy duo, head of important organization, complex villain
Actress over 40: somebody’s mother
K, the younger ladies are awesome but the older ladies absolutely steal the hell outta this show. (PS Nice to see the uniforms and decorations aren’t completely off the wall)
complex women defined by solid characterization rather than a handful of underdeveloped masculine-coded stereotypes.
If you took our two good male characters Max and Nux out of the movie, Furiosa and the girls (and to a lesser extent the Vuvalini) would still have motivations and character development and narrative arcs. But if you took the women out of the movie, the men aren’t left with a plot of their own. THIS IS INCREDIBLE TO COMPREHEND. I have spent complete minutes lost in wonder at how rare this is to find in any movie, especially a big explosiony one. Without Furiosa, without the women she is freeing and the women she is returning to, who raised her to be the woman she is, this movie just does not exist.
It’s interesting you know, doing these press junkets and having people come up to you and say ‘Ah, strong women, strong women!’. It’s like, no, we’re just actually women in this movie. We had a filmmaker that understood that the truth is women are powerful enough, and that we don’t wanna be put on pedestals or be made super unnaturally strong and capable of doing things we are not capable of doing, but what we are capable of doing is really interesting.
yeah, this is like how people are calling the movie “feminist” when I call it “the bare goddamn minimum”
we shouldn’t have to be making a huge deal about Strong Women like portraying women as capable and interesting is so fucking strange and yet here we are
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