I want equality in more than my workplace.

[justira]

Found this via unfunnybusiness over on journalfen. Should be sleeping/eating/thesising but thought this should be shared:

I want equality in more than my workplace. I'd like it in the park, in the elevator, in my experience at McDonald's, when I get my car fixed, when I go to a fancy restaurant, when I want an abortion, when I want my birth control, when I walk down the street at 4 AM slightly drunk, and when I go to the fucking movies. Is it too much to ask that people recognize my equality at all times? Do I have to decide when I get to be human and when I get to be a receptacle for the male fantasy of "all she needs is a deep dicking"? Oh wait, no. The men get to decide when I get my quaint little equality that I'm always caterwauling about.

Yes.

I'm not familiar with the site this was posted at; not really saying anything on the topic there or the ensuing argument/wank, but... that one paragraph, that I like.

Comments

[justira.livejournal.com]

I think my class on torture was one of the most valuable experiences of my academic career. The professor is amazing (and is on my orals board for my thesis, urk), and besides being a scarily comprehensive expert of violence in general and torture in particular (he's been called on to testify for the Gitmo trials and such) his main goal in the course was really to get us to think critically about the world and our assumptions. Granted, that's the stated goal of the entire school I go to, but usually in a pretty broad way; that prof really took us down to the basics and tore them down for us.

It's one of the great... ironies, or tragedies, of the women's movement that "feminist" smacks of a pejorative. Isn't that just sad?

[shuraiya.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's incredibly. What kind of university do you go to? I wish we had such classes! The best world learning or whatever class I ever took was my End of the World class, it was the shit. XDDD

It really is. It kills me that being a woman or that something having a feminine quality is thus deemed as bad or inferior.

[justira.livejournal.com]

I go to Reed College, in Portland, OR. We are a certified weirdo/hippie/nerd school and I will love/hate this place for life.

Currently I am in hate mode, since the rough draft of my thesis is due in um, four days. So I have a couple hundred pages of writing. And then the final draft. And then I get to defend it to an orals board. Basically I want to kill everything right now =P

Also the reason I'm STILL NOT DONE with, uh, VARIOUS PRESENTS I owe people. Also, I checked my email records and I was totally the last one to send an email! YOU DROPPED THE BALL CLAIRE. YOUR TURN.

[shuraiya.livejournal.com]

I'VE HEARD OF REED.

Hahaha! WELL YOU NEED TO WRITE THAT HUNDRED PAGES.

Also, I'm a dick and I will send you an email. |D