February 2011
14 posts
The movement for change is a changing movement, changing itself, demasculinizing itself, de-Westernizing itself, becoming a critical mass that is saying in so many different voices, languages, gestures, actions: it must change; we ourselves can change it.
Adrienne Rich—”Note Toward a Politics of Location”
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Smash the White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy: grammar policing and derailing →
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Grammar policing is one of the nastiest and most privileged forms of derailing I’ve come into contact with. When you nitpick a person’s argument because of formatting, grammar, or spelling errors, rather than examining the actual intent and objective worth of what they are saying,…
The motivation behind asking Justin Bieber what he thinks about abortion disgusts me more than his response. It doesn't surprise me in the slightest that he is pro-life, I mean look at him. But why is a teen heartthrob who sings songs for a living being asked about abortion? ...erm maybe because millions and millions of teenage girls hang on his every word, and therefore his response could be used as yet another way to shame and control young women.
“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: ‘You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.”
—Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook (via feminismistheshit)
“You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population.”
—Manifesto of the Communist Party, Karl Marx. (via marxist-feminism)
marcy playground is playing at a bar in fresno tonight, guys
nbd
