All my previous posts have been rage filled lately, maybe I need to take up yoga

[lowly_concubine]

So Iceland has banned lapdancing clubs http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/mar/25/iceland-most-feminist-country

Which is great news! Several thousand women out of a well-paid job (not forgetting the bouncers, bar staff and cleaners who work there as well) many of whom will probably end up as prostitutes due to a lack of education and skills

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[lowly_concubine]

I need to stop reading newspapers full stop. There literally isn't one that doesn't get me angry about something. First the immigrant/swan cartoon in the Seig Heil and now this. (and yes! that cartoon is just as tasteful and totally not racist as you would expect it to be!)

[lowly_concubine]

It was of a woman in a headscarf roasting a swan. Based on a combination of stories. One where a Romanian family had tried to squat in a house that actually still had someone living there (of course no white Briton has ever squatted anywhere!) and a particular town where the remains of swans and carp had been found. This town had a high proportion of Eastern European farm workers and it was suspected that they eaten them. (Almost every sizeable lake I have ever visted had a group of British lads fishing next to 'No Fishing' signs. It's not exclusively a thing that naughty Polish people do.) At least they had the grace to admit that these workers were poorly paid and probably did it because they were hungry but still

[inkeyes]

These are not important issues! Not because, as you say, in the grand scheme of things, women across the world do not have even basic human rights - nope. It's because IT'S REALLY HARD FOR MEN, TOO!

I must remind you, Louise, that women rape men all the time - ALL THE TIME!!!! - and men have to buy expensive suits for work. The injustice! Ugh!

That is where modern feminism's priorities should lie: patting men's bottoms.

[lowly_concubine]

Heehe:) You are right, I should reserve the majority of my rage for proper misogynists rather than a bunch of earnest ladies who get dismissed as odd for wearing sensible shoes.

I think I got upset because I wanted to join the London Feminists Network but then I found out they don't really do anything. I was watching them on TV and they were having a very serious conversation about a bloke wearing a 'nice legs..what time do they open?' tshirt. I mean, come on guys. What about jobs and education? The Suffragettes threw themselves under horses for this.

Bottom patting does sound nice BUT IT WILL BE HARD TO DO WHEN I AM RAPING THEM!

[inkeyes]

Harrr you have the proper misogynist still friended - for lolz? C:

Oh dear, really? That seems a bit hopeless of them, whatever happened to activism! After my feminism was prodded back into gloriously raging, hair-legged and man-hating existence, I plug into modern feminism via blogs. What do you think of the stuff on The F-Word? I think there is a good mix of academic and activist discussion, and there have been some attempts to call attention to feminism which is about intersectionality and isn't white, able-bodied, heteronormative and middle class. But there needs to be more, I think. Someone's got to challenge the paradigm, I've been thinking of contributing but I don't know what...

[lowly_concubine]

I havent read that blog before. I will check it out!

*lol* NODNOD

[tropigalia]

i agree that more attention needs to be paid to international issues of basic, basic women's rights-- like women getting to eat and not die before the age of 18-- but i think it's kind of a strawman to say modern feminism is wrong because a lot of attention is paid to changing language and western thought towards women. caring about large scale and small scale issues aren't mutually exclusive.

[lowly_concubine]

That it very true. I guess I find a certain type of feminist activist exasperating. I see myself as being very privileged when it comes to equality compared to millions of women. I assume (perhaps wrongly)that these particular feminist activists come from similar privileged backgrounds who should be concentrating their resources on more inclusive, less middle-class concerns like education and better working conditions for less affluent women.

Still, without these activists we would probably be bombarded with sexual imagery and explicit advertising so I shouldn't be putting them down. I am a big fan of the group who plaster adverts for plastic surgery with stickers bearing sarcastic slogans!