“Stop the attack of the planes and helicopters this moment! You cannot destroy her! For she represents all women everywhere! Women forced into a mold to satisfy the images of male chauvinism! If you destroy this beautiful beast, you’re destroying a lifetime of female struggle! Yes! She represents woman! Woman struggling to find her identity in a society viewing her as a kitchen slave and sex object! Woman subjugated to the whims of man with no consideration for her own personal self expression! What you see as a terrifying gorilla, I see as the embodiment of the frustrations of all women everywhere! You’re not persecuting her because this poor creature is a giant gorilla, but because she is a woman. A female. A feminine creature. You persecute her like you persecute all women! You take her from where she can be loved and respected and force her into a costume that you find suitable. Ladies everywhere, this is your chance for emancipation! All of you! Big women! Small women! Ugly women! Beautiful women! All of you must gather together to save your friend, our friend, Queenie!”
[Witches are] the embodiment of a world of female subjects that capitalism had to destroy: the heretic, the healer, the disobedient wife, the woman who dared to live alone, the obeah woman who poisoned the master’s food.
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Sylvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (via pedialite)
1. It focuses on the individual rights rather than collective rights
2. It is ahistorical. It does not have a comprehensive understanding of women’s role in history nor has it any analysis for the subordination (subjugation) of women.
The Atheist Movement Needs to Disown Richard Dawkins
Atheist author, biologist, pioneer of the term “meme,” and noted sexist curmudgeon Richard Dawkins let fly a firestorm of tweets about rape this past Friday. Those, along with his statements from the past couple of years about this and other issues, make for pretty strong evidence that Dawkins is no longer the figuredhead the atheist movement needs or deserves.
A woman was alleging that a man raped her when she was too drunk to give consent, and Dawkins’ immediate response was the mainstay of all conservatives: what if she’s lying? Plenty of Dawkins’ Twitter followers agreed with him. It’s her word against his, they cried. Rape accusations are serious business, they cried.
Yes, rape accusations are serious business. Actually, accusing anyone of a crime, especially a violent crime, is serious business. That’s why we have court systems in place that determine, to the best of their abilities, whether a given accusation is most likely true or false. We have this for virtually every crime. So why are Dawkins and his ilk so preoccupied about false accusations of rape in a world full of false accusations?
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