- Tedious
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I revisit old favorites like 'Buffy' and 'Battlestar Galactica' when I'm bored. I am obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love TV.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's become impossible to enjoy most quality television shows because the hurt or endangered women device is so frequently used.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2008, I was one of the young feminist whippersnappers who voted for Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries - or as many of my older counterparts called me at the time, a traitor.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something to be said for the power of figureheads. After Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, a record number of countries posted female ambassadors to the U.S. - some of whom have dubbed this 'the Hillary effect.'
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even the notion that women should have children at all is based on the idea that a woman's inherent and most important role is that of mother. Shockingly, men's 'innate' roles are a lot more fun than the ones bestowed on women.
- Bride
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father 'giving' the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to 'obey' the groom. And that only covers the wedding.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common - they exist to keep women 'in their place.' To make sure that we're acting 'appropriately,' whatever that means.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The widely held belief that the heterosexual nuclear family is best for children has long been used as a smoke screen for homophobia and as a talking point to quash marriage-equality efforts.
- Loving
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no one right way to parent, and there's no magic combination of genders that produces the most well-adjusted child. We all do the best we can at loving our kids and building our families.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only purpose of an engagement ring is to show you 'belong' to someone, and your man makes bank.
- Parenting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal - it just feels stifling.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I was generally polite, believing that these critics would be so charmed by my professionalism that they would see the error of their misogynist ways and swiftly run out to read a bell hooks book. Ha!
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The implications of likability are long-lasting and serious. Women adjust their behavior to be likable and as a result have less power in the world. And this desire to be liked and accepted goes beyond the boardroom - it's an issue that comes up for women in their personal lives as well, especially as they become more opinionated and outspoken.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020