Forest Green Feminism | Earth-survival radical feminism
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Without a viable planet, no oppression really matters; we’ll be dead. Second to Earth’s survival, though, is a future where radical feminism and all its concerns, which are the concerns of women, move forward through the bottleneck of collapse. These issues include but are not limited to patriarchy and male supremacy, white supremacy, classism, the oppression of the disabled.
Forest Green Feminism | Earth-survival radical feminism
3y ago
via You Can Police Language But You Can’t Police Thought ..read more
Forest Green Feminism | Earth-survival radical feminism
3y ago
Who broke feminism? And how, and really, why?
Is it just feminism, or is the collective fight against oppression equally broken? And isn’t that still a reflection of the discounting of women’s liberation? I found myself in an ugly conflagration with a man I had thought of as an ally. I certainly – and carefully – supported him! But as it turns out, because he was oppressed for reasons other than sex, he couldn’t also be an oppressor, in his view. And even if I was oppressed for reasons of sex, for being a woman, that was insignificant compared to my ability ..read more
Forest Green Feminism | Earth-survival radical feminism
3y ago
It’s not that women are helpless pawns, it’s that women are oppressed: the subjugated sex, the sex with all the rules and constraints and expectations for meek conformity. Women are raped (at least one in four is the accepted stat); women face violent abuse (50%), and even death (1300 per year) from the men they love at statistically horrifying rates (http://www.stopdv.org/index.php/statistics/). And when women leave their abusers? That’s where men commit 75% of DV murders. (http://www.domesticabuseshelter.org/infodomesticviolence.htm)
Where is “agency” in all thi ..read more