Posts tagged feminist

bunnyscotcooper:

…of the bullshit. I have been even more enlightened than I have been before. The intersectionality that see affecting the lives of many oppressed people today has become a working system that is unbelievably working automatically these days. I can’t even begin to explain the frustration I feel today after reading a book called Black Feminist Thought. Am I going protesting in the streets? I want to. But am I going to let the knowledge I just gained go to waste? Feminism isn’t anti-family, and it isn’t anti-man just because it is pro-woman. And Feminism isn’t for the middle-class white American woman like Betty Friedan or Gloria Steinem have seemed to perpetuate. Its for the Black woman, Latina woman, White woman, Asian woman, of all class levels and of all sexualities.

stfuconservatives:

accordingtosami:

Answering Sami: On: Re: Am I culpable in my contraceptive marriage?

trustinjesus:

The Church herself has never oppressed women. This is a fallacy. In fact, the most important and perfect creature (Jesus is God, begotten not made, mind you) is Mary, Jesus’ mother. She is the Ark of the new covenant, the First Christian and everything that we should all aspire to be as a creature. Women play a vital role in the Church and in our lives in general. Women and men are equal but our natures are different - our roles are different. Failure to recognize this is failing to recognize who you or I are.

This is so wrong it’s laughable. That’s like the KKK saying it’s never promoted racism. Are you actually telling me the church believes that men and women are equals? C’mon. In the OT, if a man accuses his wife of not being a virgin, and her father can’t prove she was, she gets put to death. If it’s ruled that she was falsely accused, does he get put to death? Nope. If a man RAPES a woman, she should marry him so she’s not, what, a slut? Because it was her fault, so now she has to be married to her rapist. And I don’t want to hear about “oh Jesus came and voided those laws and everything is happy times now!” because I went to mass for 12 years, there was a reading out of the old testament every day. Obviously the book is still relevant. 

I edited this down to the most important point: this person believes the church has never oppressed women. All the gods are male, and women can’t be ordained in a Catholic church, and woman is responsible for original sin, and every religion in the history of ever has treated women as inferior in some way, but whoa, Jesus had a mom! It’s all good!

 *Looks the the left “Oh look, ‘When Women Were Priests: Women’s Leadership in the Early Church & the Scandal of their Subordination in the Rise of Christianity’ the same book I was planning on quoting about today.”

“The Vatican’s 1976 Declaration on the Question of Admitting Women to the Priesthood justifies its exclusion of women from the priesthood on the grounds that the female body does not resemble the male body of Christ.  It is therefore impossible for a woman to perform the sacramental functions of a priest.  Here again, sexuality enters the picture. A woman, unlike a man, is perceived to be inseparable from her sexual nature, and as a priest she would bring sexuality into the realm of the sacred. … If God is thought of as male, people tend to equate power with maleness.  Thus, if females were to represent God, then femaleness would be equated with power. … Thus the issue of women’s religious leadership is embedded in a larger context - that of cultural beliefs about gender, those of contemporary American society and those of ancient Greco-Roman cultures. … The public-versus-private convention was in turn supported by a system of cultural values that associated men with honor and women with shame.  The quest for honor and precedence associated with public office was viewed as an exclusively masculine enterprise.  In contrast, a woman’s honor was her shame, that is, her reputation for chastity.  A woman exercising public authority could be accused of projecting a masculine personality; but, even worse, she could be called unchaste.” —-Karen Jo Torjesen

shakepaper:

Though I appreciate the things that the second wave of feminism did, it should be noted that the second wave of feminism was very essentialist and did not take the intersections of oppression into account. So, if your definition of feminism only extends to women going into the workforce, and having equal representation in patriarchal institutions, then I do not consider you an ally because your narrow notions of feminism continue to oppress me and other folks who are queer, transgendered, poc, poor, disabled etc… Furthermore, let it be known that I find reformism boring, ineffective and complicit in the oppression of our sisters and comrades. We do not have to comply to with the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy so that we too could be included in these systems of domination. If we want to make change, then we have to tear it down. Because, within these systems, though some “women” may be given privileges that were once accorded only to men, other women will continue to be oppressed. For example, if a woman becomes a CEO in the Western world, there will most likely be women who are being exploited in their factories. If women are now “valued” because they can go out into the workplace, then it still perpetuates a devaluation of women who cannot work. If women are free because they can vote, then it legitimizes a system in which divisions between “citizens” and “non-citizens” are made, and people without status continue to have no rights. So, until you realize that the nature of this idealized form of liberation is very western and essentialist (and most importantly, very privileged), then I consider you dangerous and a threat to the struggle. Equality for “women” to you, really means, equality for some women.

Liberation should occur in all its forms and for all peoples.

* It should also be noted that the term “woman” itself needs to be interrogated and taken not as an identity that is biologically determined, but as an identity that is socially constructed and strategically used to enforce normative gendered behaviours and desires. 

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