#rehumanize women

[endpatriarch]

Women, don’t be soft.

In a world where men are the most dangerous risk to women, and said men want women who are styled in the patriarchy’s costume, feminists must reject this costume!

We must refuse to be soft. Refuse to be shy. Refuse to be quiet, over accommodating, cute, seductive, small. It’s only logical: don’t be what men want women to be. Don’t give them the satisfaction or opportunity. Don’t let men win. You must be tough, independent, loud, ugly, mean. Command your space.

#radblr #radfem #radical feminism #radical feminist #radicalfeminism #radicalfeminist #rehumanize women #end the patriarchy #destroy the patriarchy #anti gender #anti beauty #object to objectification #confidence #individuality #gender nonconformity #gender abolitionist

[rehumanizewomen]

Choose the sandal, ladies.

The new Barbie film makes light of a serious topic within women's lives:

👠 Accept the traditional role of femininity and remain in ignorance of the dehumanization it perpetuates

OR

🩴 Become enlightened to oppressive rituals society conditions females into to assume such a role

Most women choose the former. Be the enlightened woman! Choose the sandal.

#radical feminism #feminism #RadFem #radicalfeminism #radical feminist #radicalfeminist #barbie #barbie movie #barbiemovie #greta gerwig #rehumanizewomen #rehumanize #rehumanize women #libfemssuck #trad wives #femininity #antibeauty #anti beauty #anti shaving #anti makeup #trash your heels

[spiderfreedom]

this book keeps me sane

Why is it, that as feminism has progressed, standards of femininity have only become stricter? Why do women cling to beautification as the symbol of womanhood? Why do women continue to participate in beauty culture even as they recognize it is driving them insane? Bartky gives us some answers:

Women who have become skilled in beauty culture - applying makeup, selecting clothes, dieting - are being asked to give up a skill they have acquired that brings them advantages. People with skills don't want to give them up. And they don't want to lose the advantage they have over other women either.

Women don't want to abandon beauty culture because they have no other vision of beauty. They confuse 'beauty' and 'feminized beauty culture.' Who wants to live in a life without beauty?

Because our images of women are all feminine, and because having a sex is part of being a human, to not look feminine means you are not recognized as a female, which means to not be recognized as human. Defeminization leads to dehumanization (see the treatment of Black women and gender non-conforming women and lesbian women and older women and fat women...).

Beyond that, if you aren't feminine as a woman who grew up in a culture where woman = feminine, do you even exist at all? How do you begin to conceptualize yourself? How do you rehumanize yourself?

And so we see a lack of imagination of womanhood beyond femininity. This lack of imagination leads to fear and anxiety and a clinging to beauty practices as a way to make yourself more human, higher status, more skilled.

We really do need images of women that aren't all young and gender-conforming. We need to see these images and we need to see the women succeeding, being protected, being loved and cherished, and being respected. We need to show that there is freedom beyond femininity. Beauty culture is not beauty, it is not womanhood, it is not your sense of self.

#radical feminism #feminism #beauty culture #mypost #femininity

[bourbonandcinnamon]

Suppose a woman is raped. Please consider people like this, it happens often. What are they supposed to do if not abort? She doesn’t want to kill her child, she never wanted them in the first place. With respect, people need to stop pretending like people want to kill their children for the fun of it.  

Honestly this isn't a bad question and you asked it politely and off anon so I'm going to try and answer it the best way I can.

First, even according to planned parenthoods own independent third party statistics courtesy of the Guttmacher Institute, rape and incest make up a combined .06% of all their abortions provided in a year. Using rape victims to justify the vast majority of abortions, which are done mostly as birth control, is both incredibly insensitive and self serving since those two are nothing like the same.

Next, I've never been raped and I don't presume to speak for rape victims. I've been groped, molested, and taken advantage of, but never raped. So I will say this. Rape is hands down one of the most dehumanizing things anyone can go through, and it breaks my heart. I have no sympathy for people who rape, and cannot fathom how you would ever consider doing something so disgusting to another person.

As for my personal morals, I cannot then justify the killing of what I truly believe to be an innocent third party. Rape is an awful crime and to add a dead infant to the mix breaks my heart. I don't blame rape victims for having abortions, as I cannot even imagine the kind of pressure and heartbreak they're under. I think we as a society need to do better by actually punishing rapists (I know waaaay too many women who were raped, did everything right and went to the law with evidence, and their rapist is still wandering around with no more than a slap on the wrist), providing love and support in the form of counseling, medical care, and psychiatric support for rape victims, pregnant or no, and streamlining the adoption process while encouraging employers to provide proper maternity and trauma leave.

I would prefer to give a voice to pro life women who have actually been raped. I would especially encourage you to check out Aimee Murphy, founder of Rehumanize International who was raped as a teen and whose rapist threatened to murder her if she didn't have an abortion. I've also reblogged some posts and stories from pro-life rape victims (should be tagged under abortion). If you're inclined to do the research there's a lot of stories out there that deserve to be heard.

I feel like this is a lot, so hopefully I've answered your question.

#abortion #pro life #tw: rape #anti abortion #prolife

[clowndensation]

Entirely enabling here but how the kids have defined themselves by use to Logan, with Shiv it’s a weapon especially against other women, with Kendall it’s if he isn’t needed by his dad then what is he for, and with Roman it feels like the ability to be a mini Logan, to prove he’s smart and cunning when everyone has told him he’s not

Me every day grabbing the edge of my sink looking in the mirror speaking through gritted teeth like "Shiv has to be a knife, Shiv has to be a knife, Shiv has to be a knife. Who in this life wouldn't rather wound than be wounded?"

God. They really are defined by their dad, though, and what he needs from them. Which is so tragic, because while I'm sure that was true to some extent before the show, it's been so exacerbated by everything that's happened after Logan's stroke that we're really watching their own personal deconstruction from human beings into crude, objectified caricatures of people under their dad's instruction.

Like there's something so tragic about these grown adults holding onto this deep, childlike need to please their parent - the desire to be useful, to feel like they have a purpose, to know they have value in their parents' eyes - and that no matter how many times he hurts them, or shows that he's incapable of giving that to them... it just doesn't matter. Logan is going to hurt his children until his dying breath, and there is always going to be a little kid inside each of them, begging him to tell them he loves them, that he's proud of them, that they've grown so much. Like these kids are so raw towards any kindness, they're just one big open wound that their dad has been poking and prodding over and over again, all in the effort of making them twitch in a way that benefits him. And he's going to! They're dogs showing their underbelly, saying they mean no harm, and he can't trust or respect it, so he kicks them, and then tells them they deserved it because after the tenth, fiftieth, hundredth time he did it, they bit him back.

Like all of this talk about how they're not real people - they aren't! They were never raised as people! They're fighting dogs that Logan has spent his entire life dehumanizing, while simultaneously deifying himself in their eyes. He's created a scenario where it's almost impossible for them to truly ever stand up to him, because not only do they have to rehumanize themselves (which requires forming a "self" outside of their father), they also have to undeify him. They're all capable of one or the other, but it's so hard for them to believe both at the same time. It implies a level of self-worth that they just... do not have.

#the kids as objects really and truly got me like. god these kids are never going to be okay #like logan will let them be anything they want so long as that's not a human being #and i'm booboo the fool because the end of season 3 got me like... #maybe? maybe they could hold each other's hands and drag each other out of the fighting pit? #like season 3 was really all 3 of the kids so far separated from each other that they were entirely under their father's influence #maybe together they could leave their father's orbit just enough to switch from disfigured objects into slightly broken people? #me @ jesse: please. please let them be siblings again. they need other people in their lives so badly #just any kind of reminder that there's a life outside of their father #anyways thank you for the enabling i am blowing you a kiss #succession

[wintertidewater]

Let’s desexualize and rehumanize women’s faces by doing the opposite of women’s bodies without heads pieces. Let’s get some more women’s heads on animals art.

#sdsjstnme

[annniiieee]

My thoughts about the abortion ban on Texas.

Ever since October- November of last year I became pro life after being pro choice for quite some time.

It didn’t take long for me to realize how messed up the reality of this “medical procedure” was.

Women are lied to, told they won’t have to face any negative consequences after they get an abortion but that is simply not truth. (I’ll talk more about this on another post)

Abortion is a symptom that we haven’t met the needs of women. Society has told them that they can’t succeed if they have a child or are facing an unexpected pregnancy and that is pretty misogynistic if you ask me.

I don’t fully agree with everything the new bill says but all I know is that the fight for life doesn’t end there.

We should all strive to actually create a culture of life such as:

Paid maternity leave

More affordable and rapid adoption processes.

Funding pregnancy help and resources centers.

These are just a few. What matters is that we need to stop telling women they can’t have kids and be successful at the same time. If you believe the only way women can be truly free is by killing their own child, then that’s a crappy vision of equality you got there.

Whether born or unborn, YOUR LIFE MATTERS, YOU ARE SPECIAL, YOU CAME TO THIS WORLD TO BE HAPPY AND LOVED. AND YOUR LIFE IS TOO SACRED FROM IT TO BE TAKEN AWAY.

If you don’t agree with way I said please be kind and respectful in the comments and tell me what your opinions are. Don’t be rude! I’m aware of how frustrating it can be if someone doesn’t think the same way I do, but this is a huge step to building tolerance with each other and not being divided.

This isn’t a one partisan issue. There are also many secular pro life organizations that work towards ending abortion by educating folks about it.

Here are just a few:

Secular Pro- Life

Rehumanize International

Democrats for Life

Feminists for Life

There’s a ton more information about this delicate topic so let me know what would you like to read next!

Stay safe! ✨

#abortion #pro choice #pro life #Republican #democrats #Texas #texas abortion law #texas abortion bill

[radi-cali]

The First Step: Connotation VS Denotation of “Femininity”

We must redefine (culturally) the word “femininity”

This word is defined as the “qualities and attributes regarded as characteristics of women”. 

Ideally, this should refer to biological features that are what differ us from men. (breasts, uterus, vagina, hips, bone structure, muscles mass, etc.) What this should NOT mean is anything culturally attached to those attributes (sexually objectifying the body features mentioned, or associating preconceived judgements on what these features indicate (women are weak, submissive, etc.)

If, denotatively, femininity were the attributes to women, we cannot justify stereotypical and harmful assumptions for women by this word alone. Only what it has been misconstrued into overtime connotatively can justify gender roles.

We must take back the definition of femininity and use it to describe that which makes us female (hint: it’s not anything you participate in, and its not a behavior). Only then will we see a change in the image for rehumanizing female humans, and end gender roles and stereotypes.

#radicalfeminism #antibeauty #antigender #gendercritical #femininity #endthepatriarchy #destroy the patriarchy #endthebeautyindustry #redefinewomen

[back-and-totheleft]

Battleground Masculinity

Yet Platoon is much more than a close-to-real-life depiction of a grunt's war experiences on the Vietnamese-Cambodian border. Due to its complexity as a cultural text, it is easily the one movie of its genre that has been most discussed and analysed in academia; having inspired well in excess of twenty scholarly articles on such issues as the film's Christian allegorical structure, the forces of good and evil, ritual and remembrance, the role of women, or colonialist subtexts in the film.3

Nevertheless, there remains a striking lacuna in the academic reflections on this culturally relevant filmic text, a blind spot that calls for attention.4 For while the homoerotic undertones of such homo-social genres as Western and war films have frequently been discussed, few movies have been engaged in negotiating the borders of the gender system as remarkably as Platoon. [...]

The pot-smoking 'Heads' around Elias, on the other hand, display a masculinity that is characterized by communal singing and dancing, by rituals of male bonding that involve uninhibited physical contact and a vague element of homoerotic seduction. Where the Lifers are basically passing time, the Heads' approach in their smoky, dimly-lit and altogether comfortable den is a considerably more dionysian one. The camera lingers on the naked, sweating bodies of dancers from different ethnicities and zooms in to a far greater closeness than it ever does with the Lifers. In this subtly homoerotic environment, Elias introduces stronger hints of queerness as he welcomes Chris into their community. Rather untypical of a courageous and responsible authority figure in a war movie, he acknowledges Chris's presence by waving at him, languidly reclined in a hammock, only half-clad, and sensually eating a banana. The ceremony of initiation that he performs later on with newly recruited Chris involves not only the passing of marihuana smoke through the phallic barrel of a gun but is also accompanied by a conspiratorial look and smile on the side of Elias and a somewhat curious yet disconcerted gaze by Chris – as though he were checking if anyone might watch and disapprove of this erotically charged moment. With its homoerotic overtones, the scene is strikingly reminiscent of the sexually coded passing of smoke through a straw in Jean Genet's gay prison art film, Un Chant d'Amour (1950), and it dissolves into a scene of soldiers relaxedly dancing with each other.

On the pictorial level, Elias's masculinity is coded as deviant and somewhat queer – especially in relation to the conventions of the genre. In excess of representing moral integrity, or, with Mat-Ami, the rehumanizing power in a dirty war, then, Elias might be considered to bear certain traits conventionally perceived as feminine: he is sensuous, emotional and caring, he promotes singing and dancing, and he cherishes romantic settings, as in the intimate conversation he has with Chris under a densely starred night sky with its obligatory shooting star. 

-Christina Judith Hein, “Battleground Masculinity: Gendertroublers and Gatekeepers in Oliver Stone's Platoon (1986),” Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, Volume 8 (2007) 

#oliver stone #platoon #academia #scholarly articles #gender and film

[lalunacanta-blog]

Biography

Joamette Gil is a queer Afro-Cuban cartoonist, illustrator, and writer born in the heart of the Cuban diaspora, Miami, Florida. She is 30 years old and a January Aquarius born on the 26th, in 1989. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon and is the head of Power & Magic Press. She studied at the Savannah College of Art and Design prior to transferring to Evergreen State College. She graduated from Evergreen with a Bachelor of Arts in Multicultural Psychology. After graduating from Evergreen she studied illustration at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Gil’s artwork is described as “bold, vibrant interplay between arresting colors and emotionally charged brush work. Similarly, her writing blends the personal and the political by rehumanizing the people traditional media renders invisible. She believes in the healing nature of narratives that reflect their readers’ lives and identities, and the empowering effects of having epic heroes that look just like you. Injustice, community, and “everyday-people-with-extraordinary-powers” are the major themes that drive her storytelling and cartooning.” (JoametteGil. “About.”) Joamette Gil is known for her award-winning ‘POWER & MAGIC: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology.’ Gils work has been published into physical copies, as well as online. She self publishes her own mini comics.

Citations:

JoametteGil. “About.” JOAMETTE GIL, joamettegil.tumblr.com/about.

“Joamette Gil.” Women In Comics Wiki, womenincomics.fandom.com/wiki/Joamette_Gil.

[rabbicreditor]

I'm without words. We just stood at the border itself. Watched women and children make their ways into Poland. Countless charitable organizations have tents with hot things to drink, baby clothes... A Sikh television crew walked by. A German pastor shared a prayer. And, closest to the border, the Israeli flag at the Hatzalah rent, with Israeli paramedics serving as the first faces incoming refugees see. I'm reeling from all of this. It can't be true. It shouldn't be true. We just walked through a corridor of rehumanization, with the best of us serving, giving, helping, holding, saving. But my eyes are too full of what we've, and I know that what we saw pales in comparison to those stuck within the Ukrainian borders. These words are wholly inadequate. I'm not able to process this yet. But waiting to share, to amplify the images is not an option. @ujafedny #UJARabbinicMission #Poland #Ukraine (at Medyka) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbFcATuLfh5/?utm_medium=tumblr

#ujarabbinicmission #poland #ukraine

[secularprolifeconspectus]

Do you consider abortion to be murder? If so, what do we do with the reality of people aborting their babies illegally - should they be criminalized? This is a tough topic...

I appreciate you asking about this, despite it being tough!

My current answer is I see abortion providers as murderers and many degrees of complicity for others, but I always consider a person who procures an abortion to be a victim, never a murderer. My views about language have changed over the years, and in light of the prenatal violence exposed by #justiceforthefive, I consider abortion procedures to be murder.

Concerning illegal abortions:

Procurers can't be prosecuted in criminal court because this prohibits them from taking witness against providers, thus throwing out the cases. So legally, it's impractical to criminalize procurers of abortions. Women don't want abortions like a murderer wants to kill; they don't profit from abortion like a provider.

Personally, I am staunchly against criminalizing anyone who procures or self-induces an abortion. That would be on par with criminalizing people who attempt suicide, because both suicide and abortion are acts of violence against the self. Survivors are not culpable for their actions, and they deserve healing. This is the rule; people who choose self-violence with unadulterated volition and consent are the exception.

As a leftist, I oppose retributive justice and advocate for restorative justice. Rehumanize International wrote a white paper (link) on what restorative justice after illegal abortions could look like, and I highly recommend reading the whole thing, but here's an excerpt:

“Major changes should include:

Crimes relating to abortion may belong in a family court or other setting outside of the traditional criminal justice system

The judge would exist more as a counselor and less as an arbiter of punishment

The involvement of the pregnant person, partner, families, abortionist, clinic staff, and community in: • understanding the complex situations that precipitated the abortion decision. • tackling the root of why this violence was perpetrated, and address those social ills • acknowledging the harm done • connecting them to post-abortion healing and care

The victim’s voice is heard and their concerns are weighed on the question of restitution

The offender would be required to go through an authentic process of reconciliation and rebuilding trust, involving: ​• an authentic apology for the wrongdoing • admitting why the harm was wrong and hurtful • an amendment of change to behavior • making restitution • asking for forgiveness”

#answers and submissions #hide

[sakrumverum]

August Recap: A Hopeful Month?

(Click here to sign up for these email updates.) Projects As you may have seen in our previous announcements, Monica Snyder has joined Secular Pro-Life as our Executive Director! If you missed Monica's introduction as ED, you can watch it here. Monica hit the ground running with an appearance at the Rehumanize International conference this past Saturday, presenting "Deconstructing Three Pro-Choice Myths." This month Monica jumped in on Midland, Texas podcast Schu Bro's Unfiltered, talking about the secular position in the pro-life movement. Kelsey was busy this August. She presented "Secular Standpoint: Why Abortion Still Sucks" online to the University of Ottawa. She is serving as a Students for Life Stevens Fellowship mentor, where she's been paired up with a homeschool student from Virginia. She also contributed an article to the summer issue of Human Life Review arguing reversing Roe would correct an egregious violation of church and state. An excerpt: The Court treated the Stoics, Jewish scholars, Aristotle, and modern-day physicians as equally valid, competing sources of wisdom on the question of when a human life begins. They are not. No offense to Aristotle, but he never saw a sonogram. We were at the Rehumanize Conference on Labor Day weekend! If you didn't make it this year, mark your calendar for next! Twitter For June we gained 225 new followers, bringing us to 14,530 total. We sent 228 tweets, which were viewed 569,000 times, including 36,962 views of this tweet again reminding readers that the "pro-choice women vs anti-choice men" narrative is a myth. Also, note support for a ban is nearly as high for non-white and low-income people. Facebook We are at 33,314 followers on Facebook. Our content was viewed 304,166 times, including 35,400 views of this post, our response to a doctor arguing pro-life people should not be allowed to be OBGYNs. Original FB post here. To check out our album on how pro-choicers regularly marginalize or erase pro-life women, go here. Blogger Our three most-read blog posts for August, in increasing order: Reverse Roe to Support Separation of Church and State: Kelsey's article, one of many featured in the Human Life Review's summer issue on the upcoming Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. A fetus is a child is a baby is a patient - 5 reasons to use the terms interchangeably: Guest blogger John Bockmann makes the case for why pro-lifers shouldn't shy away from using accurate terminology for the unborn, even as pro-choice people try to rewrite the words' established meanings. Pro-Choice Author: solving Cold Case of Infanticide Presents "Slippery Slope": Kelsey unearths an interesting book by a pro-choice author who says the quiet part out loud: the defense of women's "reproductive and bodily autonomy" results in viewing infanticide (not abortion, but infanticide) as a "lesser crime" compared to other homicides. Like what we do and have something to contribute? Consider writing a guest post. Guest posts help us cover a more diverse range of perspectives, topics, and experiences. If you have an idea for a piece you'd like to submit, please email us at [email protected]. What You Can Do There are plenty of ways to help with pro-life work. This month we recommend: Support teen moms. School is starting up again and there will inevitably be teenage mothers trying to finish their education while taking care of their babies. Help them out by connecting with your local school's Title IX coordinator to offer your time and support. Donate to pregnancy resources (especially right now ones in Texas). We like Abide Women's Health. Email Monica ([email protected]) if you're interested in submitting guest blog posts on legislation or peer-reviewed research. And, of course, you can always donate: Paypal If you don't use Paypal, you can also go to our Facebook page and click the blue "Donate" button under our cover photo on the right. Thank you to all of our supporters! If you haven't already, come find us on social media. https://blog.secularprolife.org/2021/09/august-recap-hopeful-month.html

[viscomblog]

Hannah Hotch - DADA

Hannah HöchCut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany, 1919. Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin

Collage working together in an abstract way rather than making lots of images create one image, the look and feel of this piece of work is chaos, I like the meaning behind it and the visual feel of the chaos and what it represents. 

Hannah Höch was a key figure in the Dada movement that managed to sneak into the canon. She was a pioneer of photomontage, a process of making a composite image by cutting and joining two or more photographs. Her work commented humorously on society during the 20th century. Höch would critique the beauty industry and politics with references to women’s liberation. Although her fellow Berlin Dada members may have been reluctant to add a woman amongst them, her work is still an inspiration to others today.

"The Dadaists brutally demonstrated the process of creation, the cutting up of photographs, the rough slice of scissors. These 'photomontages' were the true brethren of the Futurist, brutalist music composed of scraps and noises." - 

László Moholy-Nagy in 1929 (Quoted in Devin Fore. Realism After Modernism. The Rehumanization of Art and Literature. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2012, pg. 22)

https://www.artsy.net/article/jessica-the-dadaists-brutally-demonstrated-the-process-of