Women are not some marginalized, insignificant
group – we are the majority of citizens. What happens to us determines
everything.
The second highest rate of rape in the world is in the US Army system.
We have reclaimed our stories and our voice but we have not yet unraveled
or deconstructed the inherent cultural underpinnings and causes of violence.
We have not yet demonstrated the mindset that somewhere in every single
culture is permission for violence, expect violence, wait for violence,
and instigate violence. We have not yet stopped teaching boys to deny
being afraid, doubtful, needy, sorrowful, vulnerable, open, tender and
compassionate.
We have not yet elected leaders or become leaders who refuse violence
as a possible intervention, who make ending violence the center of everything.
We have not yet elected or become leaders who understand that you cannot
say that you believe in women and children, and then support bombing
Iraq. Exactly whose children do you believe in protecting?
We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary,
unacceptable, we have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue.
Women are the greatest resource of the planet. You destroy trees and
forests, ocean and sky – it is the same story.
If we are to end violence against women, the whole story has to change.
The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others.
The only point of leadership is to inspire.
Unfortunately I think we have now come to identify women and power not
as the radicalization of the mechanism and definition of power, but
instead women climbing to the top of the current patriarchy and bureaucratic
hierarchy at any cost.
The question is how can women who have been funded by the same corporate
interest and money, by the same system of exclusion and corruption,
by the same system, think for one moment it would be any different in
that position.
If you accept the argument which I hear lately that they make about
Senator Clinton all the time, that she needs to say what she is saying,
to do what she is doing, in order to get into office, I would argue
she’s already in office, and she now has a record that reflects who
she is. But secondly I would argue, that how you travel impacts where
you are going, and how you behave matters every step of the way.
Do I hold women to a higher standard? No. I am holding them to a different
standard, a different structure all together.
In my early days of feminism, I did not imagine a world of Condi Rices.
Women who are so cut off from their own ability to feel what another
person feels, their own to empathize…
I had a different vision, which was women becoming leaders who understood
that empathy was as primary and essential and intellect, who knew that
authenticity and strategy were only effective as a team.
I really don’t care if more women are in power – that in itself means
nothing to me. I care if more women who are fighting for people over
profit are in power.
I care if more women are in power who say that nuclear weapons are never,
ever an option, and they should be taking off not only any negotiating
table, but they should be made absolete all together.
I want women to be in it to end poverty, to rethink racism, to stop
global warming, to make parenting and sexuality and education and health
care priorities, rather than being in it to win.
Peace happens in touch, in pleasure, in feeling, in beauty and in nature.
We are creating the other way have to stop minimizing it or doubting
or allowing it to be co-opted.
I am waiting for a woman to run as a woman, to remain a woman, to usher
in the values of women.
I believe that women can and will manifest the new kind of power.
I am always afraid, I am never afraid.
May 4, 2008 
"The Vagina Monologues"
From feminist.com
What is rape?
April 27, 2008
"What is a
woman? A woman is the mother of a nation.
and this shit is happening to women and they have no power to stop it.
April 27, 2008
April 26, 2008
Need to visit now!
April 26, 2008
April 12, 2008
I thought this was too ridiculous, and totally crazy at the same time. Hysterical, actually. As I was googling my name (I know you have done it too), one link led me too this survey site, called Survey Central, which, very strangly, under the category of ethics/morality, offered this question:
My favorite part was the responses. Here are the most amusing ones:
Not really since I have no idea who she is.
Hasn't quite got the same ring to it as Mother Theresa.
Who?
I don't think that names convey qualities like "integrity and trustworthiness". To me, "Emily Jacobs" conveys old-fashioned, 19th century, Christian, American, frontier... it sounds like the sort of name that would be used on that "Little House on the Prairie" TV show from back in the '70s and '80s. I picture someone in one of those bonnets with a white apron and a flower print dress, spinning or churning butter or something...sitting in a rocking chair reading the family bible....
no sounds like a serial killer to me.
The first thing that comes to my mind when I read "Emily Jacobs" is blind, deaf, mute girl. But that was Helen Keller. I don't know, the names sort of feel like they belong to the same epoch.
I don't think this name particularly evokes integrity or trustworthiness. In fact, I feel like taking the wagon into town and shopping for some new thread and material for a dress when I hear it. That's what I think when I hear it..
I suppose it might, it sounds like a name that you might find in a Jane Austen or a Bronte book.. but why oh why would this be under the category of Ethics and Morality? Shouldnt it just be opinion?.
Is she a car dealer? Than [sic] no. I don't know the name...should I?.
What?
Now I am no so narcissistic a person that I think this survey is about me. I know it isn't. So, no, I am not sharing this to show off. I don't identify with it at all. Interestingly, though, if you know me well enough, you realize that none of these assumptions are anywhere close to who I am.
What I find truly interesting about this is that people have opinions and assumptions about names.
How odd that a name can evoke anything. I have always thought of a name as what to call someone and what is on a birth certificate. In its basic form, it is a designation, like a social security number. A name differentiates you and I from each other and everyone else. On paper.
Apparantly, it also can tell us what others think about who they think we are, without even meeting us, without even seeing a picture of us (not that a picture is a good way to assume anything about a person either).
How odd, and quite frankly a tad frightning, that by the mere creation of the survery to the actual mental picture the question evokes, people can assume things about us that are not true and we have NO control over it.
We are all at the mercy of how the "collective" views us. We can be revered or crucified in another's mind because of our name.
Incidentily, I was named Emily after a Simon and Garfunkel song "For Emily, wherever I May Find Her". To me, Emily sounds more 70's folk song than fronteir schoolmarm. (Oh, and when I was growing up, no one was named Emily. Now, every third caucasian girl of yuppy parents is named Emily--also definitely NOT bonnet wearing pioneer girl). I was not born Emily Jacobs. Jacobs is my married name. So, I just think of myself as Emily. But emily.com was taken, so was emilyjacobs.com. SO I had to further designate myself with the c, which stands for Carin, by the way.
What do you think people think when they hear your name?
April 1, 2008
The Ambivalent Sexism Inventory measures 2 tendencies:
Scoring: 0-not sexist through 5-sexist
Mine=1.45 (ouch)
Mine=0.55 (yeah, I don't need a man to take care of me)
March 18, 2008
Eve Ensler
playwright, performer, and activist, is the award-winning author of"The Vagina Monologues"
From feminist.com
What is rape?
Essentially, "Rape is the intentional seeking of
another individual to inflict physical and psychological harm on that
person, with the motivation of seeking self-satisfaction."
~Benita Ann, Canada
So, remove the image from your mind of a woman being raped by a man, or a man being raped by another man, and observe the violence as what it is in its very essence. A person being violent for pleasure.
Is there any other crime of its kind in the world?
~Benita Ann, Canada
So, remove the image from your mind of a woman being raped by a man, or a man being raped by another man, and observe the violence as what it is in its very essence. A person being violent for pleasure.
Is there any other crime of its kind in the world?
April 27, 2008
"What is a
woman? A woman is the mother of a nation.
When you rape a woman, you rape the entire nation."
while we must endure billary's negativity....
There is a real fucked up world of which we need to take care
and this shit is happening to women and they have no power to stop it.
April 27, 2008
dear white feminists
Quit goddamn fucking up
my sentiments exactly
April 26, 2008
Women, Action & the Media
Need to visit now!
April 26, 2008
bitch magazine
feminist response to pop culture
B-Word Worldwide is a nonprofit, independent, feminist
media organization best known for publishing Bitch: Feminist Response
to Pop Culture, a print magazine devoted to feminist analysis and media
criticism. Bitch features critiques of TV, movies, magazines, advertising,
and other elements of pop culture. We also interview feminist pop culture
makers, review new books and music, and lots more. We're in the process
of evolving into a multimedia organization, starting with this very
website.
April 12, 2008
what's in a name
I thought this was too ridiculous, and totally crazy at the same time. Hysterical, actually. As I was googling my name (I know you have done it too), one link led me too this survey site, called Survey Central, which, very strangly, under the category of ethics/morality, offered this question:
Does the name 'Emily Jacobs' evoke integrity and trustworthiness?
My favorite part was the responses. Here are the most amusing ones:
Not really since I have no idea who she is.
Hasn't quite got the same ring to it as Mother Theresa.
Who?
I don't think that names convey qualities like "integrity and trustworthiness". To me, "Emily Jacobs" conveys old-fashioned, 19th century, Christian, American, frontier... it sounds like the sort of name that would be used on that "Little House on the Prairie" TV show from back in the '70s and '80s. I picture someone in one of those bonnets with a white apron and a flower print dress, spinning or churning butter or something...sitting in a rocking chair reading the family bible....
no sounds like a serial killer to me.
The first thing that comes to my mind when I read "Emily Jacobs" is blind, deaf, mute girl. But that was Helen Keller. I don't know, the names sort of feel like they belong to the same epoch.
I don't think this name particularly evokes integrity or trustworthiness. In fact, I feel like taking the wagon into town and shopping for some new thread and material for a dress when I hear it. That's what I think when I hear it..
I suppose it might, it sounds like a name that you might find in a Jane Austen or a Bronte book.. but why oh why would this be under the category of Ethics and Morality? Shouldnt it just be opinion?.
Is she a car dealer? Than [sic] no. I don't know the name...should I?.
What?
Now I am no so narcissistic a person that I think this survey is about me. I know it isn't. So, no, I am not sharing this to show off. I don't identify with it at all. Interestingly, though, if you know me well enough, you realize that none of these assumptions are anywhere close to who I am.
What I find truly interesting about this is that people have opinions and assumptions about names.
How odd that a name can evoke anything. I have always thought of a name as what to call someone and what is on a birth certificate. In its basic form, it is a designation, like a social security number. A name differentiates you and I from each other and everyone else. On paper.
Apparantly, it also can tell us what others think about who they think we are, without even meeting us, without even seeing a picture of us (not that a picture is a good way to assume anything about a person either).
How odd, and quite frankly a tad frightning, that by the mere creation of the survery to the actual mental picture the question evokes, people can assume things about us that are not true and we have NO control over it.
We are all at the mercy of how the "collective" views us. We can be revered or crucified in another's mind because of our name.
Incidentily, I was named Emily after a Simon and Garfunkel song "For Emily, wherever I May Find Her". To me, Emily sounds more 70's folk song than fronteir schoolmarm. (Oh, and when I was growing up, no one was named Emily. Now, every third caucasian girl of yuppy parents is named Emily--also definitely NOT bonnet wearing pioneer girl). I was not born Emily Jacobs. Jacobs is my married name. So, I just think of myself as Emily. But emily.com was taken, so was emilyjacobs.com. SO I had to further designate myself with the c, which stands for Carin, by the way.
What do you think people think when they hear your name?
April 1, 2008
How Sexist are You?
Click here for The Ambivalent Sexism Survey
The Ambivalent Sexism Inventory measures 2 tendencies:
Scoring: 0-not sexist through 5-sexist
Hostile sexism:
which involves negative feelings toward womenMine=1.45 (ouch)
Benevolent sexism:
a knight-in-shining armor ideology that offers protection and affection to women who conform to traditional gender roles (e.g., cute girlfriend, obedient wife, etc.)Mine=0.55 (yeah, I don't need a man to take care of me)
March 18, 2008
Never forget Katrina.
There is a different America for the rich and the poor.
There is a different America for the rich and the poor.
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately. Benjamin Franklin
