#feminist thought

[haggishlyhagging]

"You have granted that woman may be hung," said Wendell Phillips to his fellowmen, and "therefore you must grant that woman may vote." It was as simple as that. Either women were the peers and equals of men, and in that case should enjoy all civil and political rights equally with them, or women were (as men repeatedly maintained) an inferior caste; and in that case, any woman tried by a jury of men was automatically deprived of the right to trial by a jury of her peers. Feminists argued that men simply could not have it both ways.

For the men the choice was no choice at all, for to concede either point was to lose ground and that would never do. The inconsistency of their position was rather embarrassing, but certainly not unbearably so considering what there was to lose to those implacable women so relentlessly consistent in their demands. The New York State Woman's Rights Committee laid out the agenda at the Tenth National Woman's Rights Convention in 1860: "We now demand the ballot, trial by jury of our peers, and an equal right to the joint earnings of the marriage copartnership. And, until the Constitution be so changed as to give us a voice in the government, we demand that man shall make all his laws on property, marriage, and divorce, to bear equally on man and woman." "A citizen can not be said to have a right to life," the feminists argued, "who may be deprived of it for the violation of laws to which she has never consented—who is denied the right of trial by a jury of her peers—who has no voice in the election of judges who are to decide her fate."

As things were, women could not get simple justice. "It is not to be denied," Elizabeth Cady Stanton argued to the New York legislature in 1854, "that the interests of man and woman in the present undeveloped state of the race, and under the existing social arrangements, are and must be antagonistic. The nobleman can not make just laws for the peasant; the slaveholder for the slave; neither can man make and execute just laws for woman, because in each case, the one in power fails to apply the immutable principles of right to any grade but his own." In the courts of law in particular, how could a woman receive just treatment from "men who, by their own admis-sion, are so coarse that women could not meet them even at the polls without contamination?" Feminists demanded "in criminal cases that most sacred of all rights, trial by jury of our own peers. The establishment of trial by jury is of so early a date," Cady Stanton explained with that reasonableness so maddening to her opponents, "that its beginning is lost in antiquity; but the right of trial by a jury of one's own peers is a great progressive step of advanced civilization... Hence, all along the pages of history, we find the king, the noble, the peasant, the cardinal, the priest, the layman, each in turn protesting against the authority of the tribunal before which they were summoned to appear. Charles the First refused to recognize the competency of the tribunal which condemned him: For how, said he, can subjects judge a king? The stern descendants of our Pilgrim Fathers refused to answer for their crimes before an English Parliament. For how, they said, can a king judge rebels? And shall woman here consent to be tried by her liege lord, who has dubbed himself law-maker, judge, juror, and sheriff too?—whose power, though sanctioned by Church and State, has no foundation in justice and equity, and is a bold assumption of our inalienable rights."

-Ann Jones, Women Who Kill

#ann jones #womens suffrage #feminist thought #womens history #american history #womens rights

[miiju86]

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."

- Virginia Woolf; 1882 - 1941

#virginia woolf #quotes #women in literature #feminist quote #feminist thought #female reality #female erasure #women's reality

[womanest]

There needs to be a push for the American feminist movement to tie into American gun culture. There's not going to be any room for seperatist thought without the ability of the individual woman to protect herself. As soon as that is achieved, nay, achievable in the eyes of just 12% of women there will be a natural flow into more women centric ideals.

#radblr #radfem safe #radfems please interact #terfblr #feminist #feminist thought

[sickofthis666]

I was so full of hope for gender equality when I was a kid. I basically thought gender differences stopped existing in western countries.

Then I grew boobs and got catcalled.

I go to the gym to get stronger and focus on the upper part of my body and only men are there.

I play video games and only men are there. I play video games and endure the male protagonist I play being called a girl as an insult. I endure the male protagonist being proposed to fck as much female characters as possible and collect em like pokemons.

I watched Deadpool (1? 2?) the day it came out in theaters and I was the only woman here, minus the women who came with their bf bc it was Valentine's day.

My mom goes to bars for a beer and only men are there. They look at her like she has two heads.

I walk home alone at night and only men are there, albeit some straight couple.

I go to work and all my clients, business owners, are men.

I ask my girl friends why we should shave when men don't, they look at me like I'm crazy and keep shaving.

I graduate and look up the potential salary I can ask for considering my diploma and my experience. The websites remind me that women earn less than men.

#mine #men vs women #radical feminism #feminism #misogyny #feminist thought

[itellmyselfsecrets]

“The presumption that what is male is universal is a direct consequence of the gender data gap. Whiteness and maleness can only go without saying because most other identities never get said at all. But male universality is also a cause of the gender data gap: because women aren’t seen and aren’t remembered, because male data makes up the majority of what we know, what is male comes to be seen as universal. It leads to the positioning of women, half the global population, as a minority. With a niche identity, and a subjective point of view. In such a framing, women are set up to be forgettable. Ignorable. Dispensable - from culture, from history, from data. And so, women become invisible.” - Caroline Criado Perez (Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men)

#Caroline Criado Perez #data bias #womanhood #male as default #data gap #white privelage #male privilege #dibs #feminism #feminist thought #Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men #male entitlement #this is why we need feminism #sexism #smash the patriarchy

[mihotose]

funniest line you can give a character who has decided he is a feminist now

#most misogynistic feminist in the world ❤️ #gemitus #disco elysium #also fun to think of currently internalising thoughts as Cooking. ingredients in the soup of his mind

[mizandria]

so the occurrence that almost every woman was sexually harrassed by a man at some point in her life is just a cluster of a few individual experiences that you cannot formulate any general conclusions based on BUT a few reddit porn addicted losers not having a girlfriend assigned to them as soon as they're born or being rejected by three girls in middle school is a world scale epidemic that gets its own name, psychologists and media and useless video essayists devoted to finding out what its causes are and to figuring out how to solve it, and every woman is now responsible for solving it. i love living in this world i am totally not chewing on my arm right now!

#you can generalize or not. it only depends on whether men profit from it #last or like second to last post about male loneliness i promise <3 #moids are getting so boring about it anyway it's just that this cowboy guy from last night pissed me off #he kind of cleared andrew tate thought so i've decided i'm not making him my no. 1 enemy #radblr #radical feminists do interact

[b0vine-bby]

im a hardcore girlboss until i get the urge to be held, be kissed on the forehead, hold hands like a little girl, be dressed like a doll, have my hair brushed, my face touched gently, be treated like a princess, like a delicate porcelain doll by a biblically gorgeous man .

#this is a joke!!! #it’s possible to do/like these things and be a feminist 🎀 #female manipulator #girl blogging #girly stuff #hyper feminine #girl rotting #lana del rey #female hysteria #hell is a teenage girl #girl interrupted #girl problems #girly thoughts #me fr #girlhood #girl blog #cinnamon girl #just girly things #this is what makes us girls #coquette girl #female insanity #female rage #girlblogger #gaslight gatekeep girlboss #im just a girl #tumblr girls #manic pixie dream girl #elizabeth grant #girl hysteria #coquette

[natalieraymond]

not me awake past my bedtime thinking about how maybe the re-rise of "heroin chic" ultra thinness is tied to increasing food insecurity & a corporate desire to redirect sustenance insecurities.

#how do I come up with these lines of thought #I need to go to fucking sleep lmao #social theory #feminist thought

[intersectionalpraxis]

#feminist #feminism #social justice #current events #current news #inclusivity #inclusive #intersectional social justice #intersectional feminism #black feminisms forum 2024 #eyes on sudan #sudan #free sudan #liberate sudan #black feminist thought

[haggishlyhagging]

To blame feminism for women's "lesser life" is to miss entirely the point of feminism, which is to win women a wider range of experience. Feminism remains a pretty simple concept, despite repeated—and enormously effective—efforts to dress it up in greasepaint and turn its proponents into gargoyles. As Rebecca West wrote sardonically in 1913, "I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat."

The meaning of the word "feminist" has not really changed since it first appeared in a book review in the Athenaeum of April 27, 1895, describing a woman who "has in her the capacity of fighting her way back to independence." It is the basic proposition that, as Nora put it in Ibsen's A Doll's House a century ago, "Before everything else I'm a human being." It is the simply worded sign hoisted by a little girl in the 1970 Women's Strike for Equality: I AM NOT A BARBIE DOLL. Feminism asks the world to recognize at long last that women aren't decorative ornaments, worthy vessels, members of a "special-interest group." They are half (in fact, now more than half of the national population, and just as deserving of rights and opportunities, just as capable of participating in the world's events, as the other half. Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to "choose" between public justice and private happiness. It asks that women be free to define themselves—instead of having their identity defined for them, time and again, by their culture and their men.

The fact that these are still such incendiary notions should tell us that American women have a way to go before they enter the promised land of equality.

-Susan Faludi, Backlash: the Undeclared War Against American Women

#susan faludi #amerika #female oppression #feminist thought

[miiju86]

#female reality #female socialization #second class citizen #systemic misogyny #systemic oppression #patriarchy #androcracy #androcentrism #womens oppression #gender is a social construct #gender is a social hierarchy #femininity ≠ femaleness #feminist thought #radblr #radical feminism #feminism #bell hooks #feminist quotes #quotes

[calliopewpew]

Screaming, crying, throwing up at the thought that most of family and society that we know of comes at the cost of women's dreams and ambitions. It's stands on the destruction of women's purpose. That's is why feminist movements are treated with contempt, called anti family because they know, they know deep down that when women become powerful the very structure of society that we know will be dismantled.

#feminism #radical feminism #sad thoughts #feminist #womanhood #girlhood

[whatthehellami]

"I prefer natural women."

No you don't.  You absolutely don't, darling. Because natural is body hair which might be more than what you have. Natural is pimples, acne, and every 'natural' problem which occurs when you have skin. Natural is darkcircles and dandruff. Natural is cellulite and stretch marks. And the natural body of a woman definitely does not have perky breasts, a flat stomach and a plump butt.

So please do not give me the bullshit that you like natural women because you don't.

#writers on tumblr #writeblr #writing #my words #my writing #spilled thoughts #spilled ink #spilled words #tumblr girls #girlhood #girlblogging #women #radblr #radical feminism #feminism #feminist #misogny #gender #desi tumblr #desiblr #writer thoughts #my thougts #writeblr community #anti sexism #writers #writerscommunity

[itellmyselfsecrets]

“Because men go without saying, it matters when women literally can’t get said at all.” - Caroline Criado Perez (Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men)

#caroline criado perez #Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men #womanhood #data gap #data bias #gender bias #male as default #this is why we need feminism #dibs #female solidarity #feminist thought #hard to swallow pills #sexism #smash the patriarchy

[shesmanic]

I'm crying again

#lana del rey #bpd #bpd fp #bpd thoughts #girlblogging #this is a girlblog #actually bpd #female hysteria #femcore #manic pixie dream girl #im just a girl #girl interrupted #girlcore #girl interrupted syndrome #this is what makes us girls #this is so me #female rage #feminine rage #divine feminine #radical feminists do interact #favorite person #borderline personality disorder #y2k aesthetic #soft aesthetic #coquette dollete #coquette #dollette #dollcore #pink aesthetic #soft pink