#french feminism

[profeminist]

"A little-known feminist of the seventeenth century, Poulain de la Barre, put it this way: 'All that has been written about women by men should be suspect, for the men are at once judge and party to the lawsuit.'"

Simone de Beauvoir, in her introduction to The Second Sex

#Poulain de la Barre #Simone de Beauvoir #feminism #feminist #feminist quotes #french feminist #french feminism #feminist history #quotes

[thetremblingroofbeam]

#simone de beauvoir #the woman destroyed #french feminism #sick sick sick

[sickofthis666]

Just listened to a podcast on FranceInter about post WW2 feminism.

I've always believed that the right to vote in France, was given to women in 1944 as some kind of part of the package (l'État Providence/welfare state) De Gaulle and his government offered to provide relief to the people post WW2.

The podcoast gives two reasons for it that I didn't know. According to it, the right to vote was given to women:

1. As a reward to women who were part of the Resistance (even though there were very little resistants)

2. Because France was so fucking backwards in terms of women's rights compared to their occidental neighbours (other european countries + USA) that it would have been the only country among their little club where women couldn’t vote, and of course that would make us look bad.

But at zero point, it was because women were recognized or thought equals (despite them managing the country while men were at war).

So yeah, France is the country of men's rights. Men's. Not mankind. No matter how much every one insist that the "h" in front of Droits de l'homme is a capital letter, it's not.

Even in 2024, a female Prime Minister in France is a preposterous concept, meanwhile poorer countries we would call "backwards" have female leaders of states without losing their mind about it.

#rant #radical feminism #men vs women #feminism #france #french politics #french feminism #sexism #misogyny #women's rights #right to vote

[haggishlyhagging]

[Olympe de Gouges] was a Parisian playwright and pamphleteer, an uneducated one who held women’s education dear, and she was very well known. She founded women's clubs and tried to break down the exclusion of women from politics through discussion in these clubs and through her own writing and pamphleteering. As a woman, however, in line with the traditional classification and division of women, and politics, her interests have not often been perceived as political. ‘She was indefatigable in composing appeals for good causes; the abolition of the slave trade, the setting up of public workshops for the unemployed, a national theatre for women’ (Tomalin, 1977, p. 200). What does a woman have to do to be seen as political?

In ‘Nine hundred and Ninety Nine Women of Achievement’ (Chicago, 1979) it is said of Olympe de Gouges that: ‘She demanded equal rights for women before the law, and in all aspects of public and private life. Realizing that the Revolutionaries were enemies of the emancipation of women, she covered the walls of Paris with bulletins - signed with her name - expounding her ideas and exposing the injustices of the new government.’ She was sentenced to death by Robespierre, and guillotined, but not before she to demanded to know of the women in the crowd, ‘What are the advantages you have derived from the Revolution? Slights and contempt more plainly displayed’ (p. 177).

Evidently, she was quite troublesome. In 1791, in response to the Declaration of the Rights of Man, she produce her own Declaration of the Rights of Women (a strategy closely paralleled by Wollstonecraft's work and later by the women at the first Woman's Rights convention in Seneca Falls, 1848) and, 'Taking the seventeen articles of the Declaration des Droits de l'Homme and replacing whenever she found it the word man by woman, she demanded that women should have the same political and social rights as men' (Nixon, 1971, p. 81). It was also one of her convictions that marriage had failed as a social institution and should be replaced by a more just and appropriate arrangement.

-Dale Spender, Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them

#dale spender #olympe de gouges #feminist history #womens history #French feminism

[hard--headed--woman]

Today, French feminists protested in Marseille in front of the concert venue of a rapist and sexual abuser who is also an actor and singer, Gérard Depardieu. They sang a radical feminist song, "On est fortes, on est fières, féministes, radicales et en colère". (We're strong, we're proud, feminist, radical and angry).

As well as disrupting the concert and those attending it, the aim of the demonstration was to denounce the impunity of sexual abusers, who are punished only in the rarest of cases, and the fact that someone who has committed such acts can walk free and give concerts, funded and supported by many people.

Some have tried to say that there is no proof that this man is guilty, and that we must wait for the verdict of the courts, but as feminists have pointed out, 14 women have accused Depardieu of rape and sexual assault, and over 98% of rapists receive no sentence anyway.

Over 100 women attended the protest.

(You belong in prison, not on stage)

(Spectators, you will be cheering on a sexual abuser)

(Victims of Depardieu, we believe you)

(This concert is an insult to the victims)

(No producer for rapists)

(Gérard, the black eagle is you) (=a ref to the song L'Aigle Noir by Barbara, that tells the story of the singer, raped by her father when she was a child. The black eagle represents her father, and she mentions the horrible things he's done to her, while asking him to take her back to the time when he hadn't done it yet, and when they had a normal father/daughter relationship)

Of course, mysoginist channels like CNEWS immediately cried foul, accusing feminists of being hysterical and overreacting, of being a danger to democracy, of not respecting the sovereignty of justice and the presumption of innocence. One of them even accused "this" feminism of being "feminicide".

But we don’t care, parce qu'on est fortes, on est fières, féministes, radicales et en colère.

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[alien-bear]

It makes me sick that feminists such as Marguerite Stern, who fought for women all their lives, are being violently attacked and suppressed because they didn’t bend down to the dick

They’re considered by the brain dead hive as “not real feminists” because they call “transwomen” “trans-identified males”

How have we gotten to the point where you’re considered “not a real feminist” when you’ve defended women all your life just because you refuse to bow down to men who insult womanhood by reducing it to a “feeling” or to a fashion statement

It’s nauseating

#feminism #misogyny #woke misogyny #terfs please touch #radfems please interact #radfems do touch #radfems do interact #terfs do interact #terfs do touch #radfem safe #terf safe #france #French feminism #marguerite stern

[taylor14firefly]

Feminist Review No. 4 (1980), pp. 79-105 (27 pages)

“The left does not dream for one minute of invalidating the economic perspective as regards the classic social classes. It would cost them dearly so to do, since it is this perspective precisely which constructs classes as classes only for the revolutionary: only for those who think that some people exploit others. To the capitalist, in whose eyes exploitation does not exist, classes in the Marxist sense do not exist either.

What bothers the left is when women apply to their own situation a materialist analysis; when they reject the ideology which says that they are naturally inferior or the victims of a culture which happens, unhappily but mysteriously (ie. without any material benefits for anyone), to be sexist. But women are now saying 'there is no mystery: we are oppressed because we are exploited. What we go through makes life easier for others'. And the left is afraid that women will call a spade a spade, the economic economic, and their own sufferings exploitation.

The strategy is therefore still the same: women and their oppression are sent back to the superstructural and attributed to patriarchal 'ideology', whilst proletarians are the sole occupants of the economic realm. The left now says that the economy is no longer--'Bah, rubbish--the determining instance, and yet at the same time they fiercely oppose the entry of women into it (their theoretical entry, that is, for concretely women have never left the economy). The economy remains the mainspring of the class struggle, and the class struggle remains for the left the struggle. Dismissing women to the superstructural therefore means the same old thing as ever: that the women's struggle is secondary.” (pp. 100-101)

#christine delphy #materialism #french feminism #woke misogyny #leftists

[thevvitchbitch]

#video #free palestine #gaza #west bank #jerusalem #usa news #us politics #ceasefire now #france #palestine #palestine news #social justice #middle east #lgbtq #feminism #french

[emptygatoradebottleundermycoach]

I hate French people ;(

#french #french people #french fries #french feminism #french national day

[sissy-frydda]

#submission #sissy domination #french maid sissy #feminine sissy #sexy femboy #trans femboy #feminization husband #panty sissy #crossdreser ass #forced feminized #lingerie sissy

[profeminist]

"The right to abortion in France hardly seems under threat — it’s been inscribed in law for 47 years and enjoys broad support across the political spectrum. But more and more French women are asking: Could what happened in the U.S. happen here one day?

The decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to strip women of the right to abortion has reverberated across Europe’s political landscape, forcing the issue back into public debate in France at a time of political upheaval.

With women increasingly taking leadership positions in French politics, lawmakers in both houses of parliament have proposed four bills to enshrine the right to abortion in the French Constitution in order to defend it from future threats.:

Read the full piece here: https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-health-government-and-politics-paris-fae308e307dc5c250534a593e0410354

#abortion #abortion rights #pro choice #feminism #feminist #french feminism #french feminist #pro-choice #reproductive freedom #reproductive rights

[hairtusk]

Marilyn French, The Women's Room (1977)

#this novel is going to destroy me and i'm only 47 pages in #marilyn french #the women's room #literature #feminist literature #second wave feminism

[mxjackparker]

The Kickstarter for “Contemporary Prostitution”, a translation of “La Prostitution Contemporaine” (1884) by Léo Taxil is now live!

Within it are letters from real 19th century sex workers, long discussions of male prostitution and lesbianism among French prostitutes, and the trafficking scandals at the time. You can read criticism of the morality police who both registered and arrested sex workers, see the author discuss the racist fear-mongering around “white slavery” which was later used to justify the criminalization of paying for sex or of prostitution entirely in other countries, and segments with talk about prostitution in ancient Greece and Rome.

You can support the translation from the original French and get yourself a copy here:

Please reblog and share with others!

I'm a sex worker myself and I have been translating this work for free for many months - I'd love to be able to fund the completion of it and get copies out so we can keep this history alive!

#feminism #translation #french #francais #lgbtq #history #victorian era #19th century #1800s #leftism #france #anti swerf #kickstarter

[tomieexoxo]

#feminine hysteria #romanticizing school #xoxo #coqquette #female manipulator #ultraviolence #lana del ray aesthetic #nympette #nymphcore #nymph aesthetic #office siren #coffee #coquette community #coquette aesthetic #coquette girl #coqeutte #french chic #french new wave #franz kafka #feminism #female rage #divine female #female fatale #female hysteria #femcel #female #hell is a teenage girl #im just a girl #dark core gothique #2000s core

[soccersoccer]

Misogyny within Wikipedia

A male Wikipedia editor reversed my edit, and I can't fight back or else risk being banned. I changed the men's-only list of French football players (titled List of France international footballers) to say List of France men's international footballers. This should be uncontroversial.

The women's page is called List of France women's international footballers.

The views the men's page got in the past 20 days, while it was titled as if it was a gender-neutral list, List of France international footballers: 175 views, 161 views, 180 views, 214 views, 220 views, 186 views, 198 views, 216 views, 220 views, 177 views, 168 views, 207 views, 228 views, 218 views, 192 views, 351 views, 378 views, 318 views, 266 views, 165 views, (then here is where I changed the name to List of France men's international footballers) 74 views.

Wikipedia purposely lies to trick people into believing List of France international footballers will be all the major footballers in France, when it is men only. The pattern in page views shows crystal clearly people are NOT searching for the men's content. When the page is properly labeled to point out it's about men's sports players, it gets FEWER VIEWS.

The worst part isn't just male Wikipedia editors deliberately lying to you. This is men in every station since the beginning of media. They have always been falsely hyping up men's sports and brushing aisde women's sports.

Not to mention this same male editor erased 2 hours and 15 minutes of my work adding a minor amount of information (linking and checking all the dates took me forever lol) to the page Football in France, because adding some short info about women threatens the men's status as the primary importance of the Football in France article. That was literally his reason for deleting. Wikipedia straight up erases information if it's about the oh so unimportant female sex.

#woso #soccer #women #women's football #women's soccer #d1 arkema #france #french women #misogyny #wikipedia #radfem #radical feminism #angry #feminism #male privilege #eugenie le sommer #selma bacha #sakina karchaoui #wendie renard #amandine henry #constance picaud #elisa de almeida #kenza dali #solene durand #delphine cascarino #estelle cascarino #grace geyoro #sandie toletti #clara mateo #kadidiatou diani

[belle-keys]

France is banning the abaya, which is a loose-fitting dress worn by Muslim women (among other groups of women), in public schools. They claim the dress is an affront to French secularism even though it's not even a religious garment – it's a cultural garment that resembles pretty much any loose-fitting modest dress.

I can't possibly spell out for you how discriminatory and backward this is for a "modern, democratic" nation like France. Muslim women deserve more humane treatment and respect than this – being forced to undress more than they're comfortable with.

Photos taken from muslim on Instagram.

#let women wear what they want to wear or not wear #bodily autonomy has left the chat it seems #screw the french government and this gross misappropriation of laïcité #france #islamophobia #muslim #islam #xenophobia #laïcité #french politics #signal boost #french news #emmanuel macron #populism #human rights #bodily autonomy #women's rights #intersectionality #intersectional feminism #muslimah #muslim women #hijab #discrimination #current events #women's issues #feminism #abaya ban #abaya #hijab ban #racism