Feminazi

aboutmaleprivilege:

‘Feminazi’ is definitely one of my least favourite portmanteaus ever. Did you know it was popularised by Rush Limbaugh? 

”In his 1992 book The Way Things Ought to Be, Limbaugh credited his friend Tom Hazlett, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute,[8] with coining the term.[3] In the book, Limbaugh also stated that the word refers to unspecified women whose goal is to allow as many abortions as possible, saying at one point that there were fewer than 25 “true feminazis” in the U.S.[9][10][2] Limbaugh has used the term to refer to members of the National Center for Women and Policing, the Feminist Majority Foundation, the National Organization for Women, and other organizations at the March for Women’s Lives, a large pro-choice demonstration.”

“In a 1996 interview, Gloria Steinem criticized Limbaugh’s use of the term feminazi. According to Steinem, “Hitler came to power against the strong feminist movement in Germany, padlocked the family planning clinics, and declared abortion a crime against the state—all views that more closely resemble Rush Limbaugh’s.”[19] In her book Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, Steinem characterised the term as “cruel and ahistorical”, and elaborated on the repression of feminism under Hitler, noting that many prominent German feminists like Helene Stöcker, Trude Weiss-Rosmarin and Clara Zetkin were forced to flee Nazi Germany while others were killed in concentration camps.[20]

Memorise this shit and throw it in the face of the next person who calls you a feminazi.

Or, that important slice of history that is never taught because it tells the violence against women.

Source: all-about-male-privilege

girlgrowingsmall: The reason that this works is because, as the egg spoils, a gas forms inside the shell. That’s what causes it to float. The less fresh the egg, the more gas is produced, the more it floats. Rather ironic that “GTFO bitch I’m doing science” is the meme caption since Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze, Lavoisier’s wife, was not only his primary assistant and colleague, but was also responsible for many of Lavoisier’s breakthroughs. The two of them worked as a team, even though Lavoisier got all the credit. Lavoisier was not good at hands-on laboratory work and relied upon his wife. She also translated English scientific texts into French for him, kept records of their procedures, drew diagrams of the laboratory instruments and equpiment, and helped him write and publish Elementary Treatise on Chemistry, which presented the idea of conservation of mass, a list of elements, and a system for chemical nomenclature. After his beheading during the French Revolution, she organized his papers for publish. 
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girlgrowingsmall:

The reason that this works is because, as the egg spoils, a gas forms inside the shell. That’s what causes it to float. The less fresh the egg, the more gas is produced, the more it floats.

Rather ironic that “GTFO bitch I’m doing science” is the meme caption since Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze, Lavoisier’s wife, was not only his primary assistant and colleague, but was also responsible for many of Lavoisier’s breakthroughs. The two of them worked as a team, even though Lavoisier got all the credit. Lavoisier was not good at hands-on laboratory work and relied upon his wife. She also translated English scientific texts into French for him, kept records of their procedures, drew diagrams of the laboratory instruments and equpiment, and helped him write and publish Elementary Treatise on Chemistry, which presented the idea of conservation of mass, a list of elements, and a system for chemical nomenclature. After his beheading during the French Revolution, she organized his papers for publish. 

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thepeoplesrecord: “The feminist movement is generally periodized into the so-called first, second and third waves of feminism. In the United States, the first wave is characterized by the suffragette movement; the second wave is characterized by the formation of the National Organization for Women, abortion rights politics, and the fight for the Equal Rights Amendments. Suddenly, during the third wave of feminism, women of colour make an appearance to transform feminism into a multicultural movement. This periodization situates white middle-class women as the central historical agents to which women of colour attach themselves. However, if we were to recognize the agency of indigenous women in an account of feminist history, we might begin with 1492 when Native women collectively resisted colonization. This would allow us to see that there are multiple feminist histories emerging from multiple communities of colour which intersect at points and diverge in others. This would not negate the contributions made by white feminists, but would de-center them from our historicizing and analysis. Indigenous feminism thus centers anti-colonial practice within its organizing. This is critical today when you have mainstream feminist groups supporting, for example, the US bombing of Afghanistan with the claim that this bombing will free women from the Taliban (apparently bombing women somehow liberates them).” - Andrea Smith, Indigenous Feminism Without Apology
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thepeoplesrecord:

“The feminist movement is generally periodized into the so-called first, second and third waves of feminism. In the United States, the first wave is characterized by the suffragette movement; the second wave is characterized by the formation of the National Organization for Women, abortion rights politics, and the fight for the Equal Rights Amendments. Suddenly, during the third wave of feminism, women of colour make an appearance to transform feminism into a multicultural movement.

This periodization situates white middle-class women as the central historical agents to which women of colour attach themselves. However, if we were to recognize the agency of indigenous women in an account of feminist history, we might begin with 1492 when Native women collectively resisted colonization. This would allow us to see that there are multiple feminist histories emerging from multiple communities of colour which intersect at points and diverge in others. This would not negate the contributions made by white feminists, but would de-center them from our historicizing and analysis.

Indigenous feminism thus centers anti-colonial practice within its organizing. This is critical today when you have mainstream feminist groups supporting, for example, the US bombing of Afghanistan with the claim that this bombing will free women from the Taliban (apparently bombing women somehow liberates them).”

- Andrea Smith, Indigenous Feminism Without Apology

Bad History

politicalprof:

So last week my dashboard was lit up with posts and reposts of the same claim: that economic inequality at the time the Declaration of Independence was signed was much less severe than it is today. “Aha!,” the posters seemed to scream: “we’re not living up to the Framers’ legacy!”

At which point my “bad history alarm” started to go off.

Folks, it’s possible that the income differential between highest and lowest earning persons in 1776 was much less profound than it is in 2012. Actually, given the comparative wealth of the two economies (we’re much, much wealthier now), I’d be staggered if 2012 wasn’t more unequal: we have CEOs of global corporations and an information economy that moves at literal light speed. They had, you know, mules. Wider ranges of activity afford opportunities for wider ranges of compensation. Our income differential is a sign of our wealth, not our poverty.

But that isn’t what really bothered me about this “we’re worse off now” thread. No, what bothered me was the casual way the posters and reposters seemed to ignore the obvious: ALMOST NO ONE IN 1776 EARNED AN INCOME. The United States enslaved a third of its population. It disenfranchised and economically dominated half its remaining population (non-slave females). It practiced indentured servitude. And, particularly among the Southern elite, it was a society based on land wealth, not income. For example, George Washington owned a huge portion of what today is West Virginia. What, exactly, was his wealth in 1776? Compared to some dude working in a textile mill? Or a slave working on Washington’s farm? Care to offer a calculated guess, adjusted for 236 years of inflation … and the fact that we now know West Virginia has lots of coal?

At most, 15% of the US population in 1776 was earning an income. It was probably less. So, is it possible that of that tiny fraction of persons earning an income, the income differential between best and worst paid persons was lower than it is today? Absolutely. But given that 85% (or more) of their population was enslaved, disenfranchised or otherwise outside the “income” economy, do you really want to claim things were more economically equal then than they are today?

I didn’t think so.

afternoonsnoozebutton: knowledgeequalsblackpower: June, 1964. Black children integrate the swimming pool of the Monson Motel. To force them out, the owner pours acid into the water. Whenever you think racism is a thing of the past, remember that this was less than fifty years ago. Racism? Nah, it doesn’t exist anymore…how can it exist if we refuse to talk about it?
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afternoonsnoozebutton:

knowledgeequalsblackpower:

June, 1964. Black children integrate the swimming pool of the Monson Motel. To force them out, the owner pours acid into the water.

Whenever you think racism is a thing of the past, remember that this was less than fifty years ago.

Racism? Nah, it doesn’t exist anymore…how can it exist if we refuse to talk about it?

Source: knowledgeequalsblackpower

pbsthisdayinhistory: June 25, 2009: Michael Jackson DiesThree years ago today, pop icon Michael Jackson died of a cardiac arrest due to an overdose of the drug Propofol. He was 50.In an interview a few months before Michael Jackson’s death, singer-songwriter James Ingram reflects on working with the King of Pop.
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pbsthisdayinhistory:

June 25, 2009: Michael Jackson Dies

Three years ago today, pop icon Michael Jackson died of a cardiac arrest due to an overdose of the drug Propofol. He was 50.

In an interview a few months before Michael Jackson’s death, singer-songwriter James Ingram reflects on working with the King of Pop.

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