"If women were human, would we be a cash crop shipped from Thailand in containers into New York's brothels? Would we be sexual and reproductive slaves? Would we be bred, worked without pay our whole lives, burned when our dowry money wasn't enough or when men tired of us, starved as widows when our husbands died (if we survived his funeral pyre)?"

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"'The problem with feminism is the cultivation of an attitude of victimization,' desiccated, pink-faced old gasbag Phyllis Schlafly is dragged out of mothballs to opine. Feminists, she declares, 'get out of bed with a chip on their shoulder.' Because we have completely pulled out of our asses the insane idea that the world order is based on a ( Read more... )

I was thinking that there doesn't seem to be a comm or blog that collects feminist tv critiques. I want to see such a thing, so would anyone read/participate if I made one? If so, would anyone want to co-mod it with me?

It would need to be:

• moderated to some extent
• well-tagged
• civil

The kind of content I am thinking of would be like Twisty's movie ( Read more... )

The Monster at the Beginning of this Book
I. The tragic lure of the broyay
( spoilers for SPN aired to date )

Joss as the Broken-Hearted Shiva ( spoilers for Dollhouse thru 2.13 + overall Jossverse )

Wow, a tv post! Seems like forever since I've done one.

( Heroes 4.16 Pass/Fail )

(emphasis mine)

"[Feminism] is a belief, a politics, based on one simple fact: women are human beings who matter as much as men. That is all that feminism claims. As human beings, women have the right to control their own bodies, to walk freely in the world, to train their minds and bodies, and to love and hate at will. Only those who wish to ( Read more... )

unceremoniously ganked from cofax7:


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( here be spoilers for this ridiculous show )

Is it just me, or is this shit incredibly racist and sexist? ( spoilers for the shit-fest that was Children of Earth )