Category Archives: defining feminism
rebuttal
I also believe feminism is about making sure that women are free to make their own choices without being discriminated against in any way. So if that’s a woman who wants to work full-time, feminism is about making sure that she earns as much as her male colleague who’s doing the same job. If she wants to work part-time, feminism is about making sure that she can ask for part-time work and that childcare is readily available and not too expensive. And if she wants to stay at home to care for children or the elderly, feminism is about supporting her choice of a caring role and making sure that she’s not financially worse off. Continue reading
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war and peace
When will you ever understand? War is not the solution, and whoever the combatants are – men or women – it is a terrible, horrible act of injustice when they die. Continue reading
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the ugly truth movie
A review of The Ugly Truth movie in the Sydney Morning Herald. Continue reading
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quote of the week: hillary clinton
Quote of the week from Hillary Clinton. Continue reading
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the girl effect
Please visit www.girleffect.org. Watch Addis, Kidan, Sanchita and Shumi’s stories. Click on ‘Change’. And do something. Please. Continue reading
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the ugly truth about beauty
I find it sad beauty is so prized that women will deform themselves for it. Like any person, I love beauty when I see it. I thrill to rainbows and radiant sunsets, grand architecture and gorgeous clothing. But I don’t thrill to one particular type of beauty, and that is the beauty myth. Because for some reason, all these so-called ‘beauty treatments’, whether face creams or Botox or diets or liposuction, all conform to one particular image of beauty. It is blonde, smooth-skinned, unwrinkled, thin, regular-featured, white-toothed, shiny-haired but not too hairy, well-endowed and moist-lipped. A young, white, Western beauty, in fact. Continue reading
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a thought from Faludi
But what is it exactly about women’s equality that even its slightest shadow threatens to erase male identity? What is it about the way we frame manhood that, even today, it still depends so on “feminine” dependence for its survival? … Continue reading
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backlash
To me, it is so important that equality is something society as a whole should believe in and work towards, otherwise the women’s movement just disintegrates into an exhausting, futile struggle against our brothers, friends, husbands, fathers. Rather, it should be a struggle with them against injustice. Continue reading
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the female de-miners of Sudan
My first reaction on reading this was, “Typical! Of course, women’s lives are more expendable, less valuable, easier to risk.” I was reminded of the women of Burma, who used to walk a foot behind their husbands as a sign of submission. Years after conflict, they now walk a foot in front of their husbands. Not from any progress in gender equality or societal norms, but because they’ll be the first to encounter any unexploded mines. Continue reading
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