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This Week in Misogyny: F* the Patriarchy
Another week, another batch of misogynistic, patriarchal bs. Let’s go smash some things, shall we? [
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And when it comes to minors who are receiving welfare benefits? Santorum believes that "teenage moms should be ineligible for welfare," because "the main reason they get pregnant in the first place is because 'they get a pretty big cash benefit." (Cherkis) And it gets even better: one of Santorum's welfare reform bills "would encourage states to refuse welfare to unmarried parents, require unmarried minor mothers to live with their parents, and the bill would reduce federal payments to states that do not achieve high rates of paternity establishment." (Cherkis)
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My feminism is not equality feminism because patriarchy and kyriarchy, ensure that men have it pretty rough as well. Men are not just some monolithic group of creatures who conspire to keep the ladies down. Men are actively oppressed by patriarchy, because patriarchy has a very slim definition of what makes a man. You know, the tough manly man with the sports obsession and the muscle car in the garage who loves beer and red meat? Yeah, that guy. That stereotype, really. The same ideals that tell women that we can't like sports or beer or muscle cars and that good ladies order salads at restaurants are the same ideals that tell men that they have to like those things, lest they not be a "real man." And it is this concept of a "real man" that routinely excludes the queer identified, no matter their gender.
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Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?
Lynn Hecht Schafren
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Men weren't really the enemy — they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
Betty Friedan
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Men will often admit other women are oppressed — but not you.
Sheila Rowbotham
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
Shirley Chisholm
The entire social order...is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.
Mary Wollstonecraft, writer and philosopher
As all advocates of feminist politics know, most people do not understand sexism, or if they do, they think it is not a problem. Masses of people think that feminism is always and only about women seeking to be equal to men. And a huge majority of these folks think feminism is anti-male. Their misunderstanding of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn about feminism from patriarchal mass media.
bell hooks, feminist, writer, and educator