Why There's Still a Need for Feminism: 2 parts out of ???

Dec 31, 2011 11:56

Part one.  The BBC couldn't find a 12th woman as interesting as a female panda named Sweetie for its "female faces of the year 2011."   See this site's discussion: http://jezebel.com/5871634/

One wonders who at the BBC--what gender, that is--decided on the ones they did pick, including Sweetie.  (I suppose we should be glad there weren't more non- ( Read more... )

politics, feminism, bbc

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e_moon60 January 1 2012, 03:21:52 UTC
Women back then, no. My mother did target shooting (which more women did than hunted) with a Colt Woodsman, a very special one I wish I'd inherited. A friend of hers whose father was a poacher (among other things decidedly not illegal) was a crack shot with just about anything and NONE of it was pink. I knew a few women hunters, more target shooters, and they used regular ordinary firearms. I will guarantee you that no one thought the women I knew in my childhood were any less female for wearing appropriate outdoor clothes when in the outdoors (nothing pink!) or using regular firearms. (There were women who wouldn't have touched a firearm--but it was still a rural area and lots of women did.)

I saw my first pink firearm at a gun show, a pink .22 rifle, maybe seven years ago. It was disgusting. That was supposed to be Daddy's little girl's first gun. Right. When I took the old rifle in to a really good gun shop for some work, they had a .22 rifle with its [expletive deleted] stock done in pink camo. Disgusting. Now you see pink stuff in the Bass catalog, including "action figures" of a family in the woods--the mother and daughter are of course wearing pink and lavender. The clothes for women are all designed to be attractive to guys ogling women, not useful for women actually hunting and fishing.

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