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Palin Mantrafesto

Submitted by hwink on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 11:08am

Sorry about lateness of posting! This is the Palin/bell hooks mantrafesto done by myself, mbeale, and sara.gladwin

Feminists are made, not born.
Making feminism is a revolutionary act.
Revolutions of mindset can be violent.
Violence is an upheaval to oppression.

 

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Mantrafesto Part II

Submitted by w0m_n on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 10:30am
-"The only genuine hope of feminist liberation lies with a vision of social change which challenges class elitism."
-Class elitism is a mechanism of power that divides women.
-Dividing women can perpetuate the patriarchy.


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Setting the Stage: Congratulations, you're a male feminist

Submitted by rayj on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 9:22am

Tumblr discussion about congratulating men for being feminist, and the problems/possibilities in that. 

Original post HERE

Some Responses HERE

Irony of reblogging HERE

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Modern Family and Masculinity as Homophobia

Submitted by sara.gladwin on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 6:08pm

The article "Masculintity as Homophia" reminded me several times of the show Modern Family. In particular, there is a scene in one of the episodes of the show in which one of the husbands, Phil, is shopping with his father-in-law's wife Gloria, when he runs into an old college rival. His college rivel as always been better then him in everything and Phil decides to use Gloria as a representation of how succesful he has been in his life. His rival, seeing Phil's extremely hot Columbian "wife," then admits that Phil has indeed done well for himself. I tried to search youtube for a clip of this but came up short- but I thought this scene embodied so well some of Kimmal's points about masculinty. Kimmal states that  "Women become a kind of currency that men use to improve their ranking on the masculine social scale" (61). Gloria becomes Phil's way of proving his masculinity to his highschool rival. I thought it was interesting that Phil's desperation to not be "unmasked" as a masculine failure was so prevalent that he went to the extremes of using Gloria as the symbol of ultimate success.

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Tales of Passion

Submitted by ramgarali on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 1:21pm

Yesterday's discussion about passion encouraged me to share this video with you. I have provided a link to a brief biography of the speaker and the link to the video in case any of you are interested. 

http://www.ted.com/speakers/isabel_allende.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/isabel_allende_tells_tales_of_passion.html

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Girls Watch Porn

Submitted by rayj on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 12:03am

I think this demands some critical attention, and it's not perfect, I mean, it's a CollegeHumor video so, it's not going to pe perfect, but I also think it gets at our discussion of women and the shame of watching porn, that women would be more reluctant to discuss their porn watching habits with others, and kind of capitalizes on the shock value situation. Why shoudl it be so shocking to have a hegemonically pretty girl yelling about how much she likes anal fisting or POV? 

College Humor video about girls...who watch porn
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Palin mantra

Submitted by buffalo on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 9:57pm

Syeager, meowalex, buffalo

 

"She cannot be anti-abortion and advocate for feminism"

Sarah Palin is anti-abortion

Anti-abortion takes away the right to a safe body

A safe body gives you agency 

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