rebecca walker speaks out

greenfire

Tue, Jan 20 2009, 7:17 pm

hey there is no way we can use these emoticons irl ... Scratching Head

... okay the vomitting one we could Puke

and I like the ChillPill

and the

however the hands-up is mia ... go figure What

and one more thing clarissa - me & my feminist mocha @$$ love you Hug

say you love me too ... say it ... and make some emoticons

greenfire

Tue, Jan 20 2009, 7:29 pm

Clarissa wrote:

I love you, too, but I'll say it with words and not emoticons.

Well, maybe one emoticon to make you happy, but it'll be an innocuous one:
Flower

aw I feel so special - peace ... and don't worry my love is NOT in a lesbian sort of way - just a feminist / nurturing way Wink

Barbara

Tue, Jan 20 2009, 9:43 pm

Clarissa wrote:

That phrase was actually a take-off on a philosophical tidbit that "man needs God like a fish needs a bicycle." It was swiped and rewritten by a student as a statement about the fact that women can do well even if they don't marry. Like it or not, it was a tiny footnote in the movement that enabled women, even the women here, to get decent pay and to get respect for working outside the home. Interestingly, the young women of today want to be able to work if they want to, or if they need the money, but think the very people who created these opportunities for them by paving the way were idiots. Ridiculous. I won't even comment about the references to lesbians here. I suspect there are actually some people who think lesbians are women who just decided not to sleep with men. As I said, even Grandma knew better than that.

There really isn't much more for me to say.

Feminism is women's fight to be treated equally, to have the right to equal education, to have the right to be evaluated in the same manner as men, to have the right to be paid the same as men for the same work. It is the fight to be viewed as a person, not a s-x object.