I can't think of anything I've written really where I haven't had a note about being more upbeat to make what I'm saying more palatable. But why the hell should we have to? Do climate writers get told to be more upbeat about polar bears dying out? I don't think so.
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This feels like nothing more than the editorial version of "smile love it might never happen, and also if you frown when the wind changes direction you'll be stuck like that and no one will marry you because you've ruined your pretty face". It's an injunction to make
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It's just another injunction to make us more palatable to men. Tie it up in a nice pretty bow because no one (no default man) likes an angry (ugly) woman. & tbh I'm kind of sick of it. Sometimes, things just are shit. Sometimes it isn't all going to be ok in the end.
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And women have to be allowed to say that. Feminism is a political movement dedicated to the liberation of women and that means that feminism isn't there simply to tell uplifting life-affirming stories that make you feel better about the world.
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Sometimes, it will involve telling unpalatable truths that will make you feel angry and defensive and shit about the world. It is not feminism's job to make you feel better; it is feminism's job to MAKE THINGS BETTER.
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And sometimes, that involves making you feel shit about how things are right now. /end
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anyway this kind of crap is why I am such a huge fan of
@helenlewis's forthcoming book Difficult Women and why you must all pre-order a copy because fuck this regressive bullshit -- or as she calls it, the Tyranny of Niceness. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07WVXHFM9/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 …Prikaži ovu nit
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I think this is very true. Anger is not allowed,.and cheerful submission to circumstances,.no matter how avoidable is prized. Don't rock the boat. Barbara Ehrenrich wrote about the.forced..cheerfulness.around breast cancer,.when anger is appropriate and strengthening.
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"Cheerful submission". If that isn't *the* two words that encapsulates the whole of society's expectations of the female sex class. All of our oppression & subjugation (from rape culture, to crap female healthcare, to domestic servitude, pay gap, etc) summed up so succinctly.
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I did a first aid course yesterday. Questionned no boobs on dummy. Roundly put down with
#it's a generic dummy#. But no boobs make it male, I said. My point rejected by trainer. - Još 2 druga odgovora
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