what a feminist looks like!

Nevyn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO9p6e4SWLM

Jules

Nicely done Thaedylal.

bronte

This is exactly what I say to peeps who think feminism is a dirty word.

Thanks!

SheRa

Is it supposed to be blank or is it just my stupid work computer?

Jesus Wept

/stands up

Hi, my name is The-Rigger and I'm a feminist.

ztoical

SheRa wrote: »

Is it supposed to be blank or is it just my stupid work computer?

its a youtube video - your work network might block youtube or else its just slow loading

Jesus Wept

Jebus, feminists have a lot of veins poppin out of their neck. :eek:

Ginny

Excellent Thaedylal!

John Mason

i am glad i dont know any feminist's, her neck is really, really scary

RxQueen

The-Rigger wrote: »

Jebus, feminists have a lot of veins poppin out of their neck. :eek:

wow must be Deidre form corries daughter!:eek:

Gordon

Nothing wrong with lovely young Ashley Judds neck. She's just in a line chanting something loud.

mmm.. feminists..

Pighead

Bah, what a load of pants. Reminds Pighead of the concerted efforts a few years back to make Cooking sexy. "Hi my names Nigella Lawson and I like to lick my lips suggestively to give you a big dirty horn and subconciously increase your love ofg the noble art of cooking" Ok she was an ok looking chick but she was without doubt the exception to the rule.

Most people who cook are fat and ugly. Its a fact. Pighead just googled female chef and this girl was one of the 1st to appear.
Pretty? Nope.

Its the same with this feminist thing. Stick up a youtube video and try to fool the pople into thinking feminists are hot and nubile with a unhealthy interest in sex. Load of tosh, google feminists and this beast comes up.


Moral of the story=Google>YouTube

Walls

Nice post Theadydal.

LouOB

ok ok
abit confussed here

feminism has changed since 1960's - whats the definition of a feminist now?
I could be one too

Nevyn

Walls wrote: »

Nice post Theadydal.

Glad you liked it.

Homer

An alternative view on feminism (tongue firmly in cheek ok)

Maximilian

I think hard-core feminists look more like this. The man-hating kind who spell it "wimmin" that is.

Knee-Vee

Lol, nice one Thaedydal!

rain on

Reminds me of a postcard I have stuck up on my mirror, with a guy saying "You don't look like a feminist" and a girl saying "Watch out - we disguise ourselves as HUMAN BEINGS".

Knee-Vee

rain on wrote: »

Reminds me of a postcard I have stuck up on my mirror, with a guy saying "You don't look like a feminist" and a girl saying "Watch out - we disguise ourselves as HUMAN BEINGS".

Ahh!!! Cool!!! Where'd ya get it?

Sherifu

Burn your bra!

rain on

Knee-Vee wrote: »

Ahh!!! Cool!!! Where'd ya get it?

In a gift shop in west Cork! Trying to find them online at the moment for illustrative purposes but without any success..

Nevyn

Sherifu wrote: »

Burn your bra!

What are you mad ?
Clearly you have no idea the cost of a good bra these days and how hard it is to get a good fit.

Nevyn

http://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/index.asp?PageID=394

Beelzebub

Peared

I found that annoying. Also not sure what its for/trying to say.

AckwelFoley

i thought feminist was another word for a woman thast was both a manhater and a lesbian, and not one or the other.. but both.

Clearly i was wrong.

(mind you on a serious note, Irish feminism was been Hijacked by manhaters in the early 80 - late 70's.. now its changed im sure )

Sherifu

Thaedydal wrote: »

What are you mad ?

Clearly you have no idea the cost of a good bra these days and how hard it is to get a good fit.

Heh.

Thaedydal wrote: »

And just then all her clothes fell off.

johnnyskeleton

Sherifu wrote: »

Heh.

And just then all her clothes fell off.

But it didn't matter - I saw everything.

The video is busted, I can only assume it was lesbian sex or some such. Care to explain what it's about or update the link?

Sherifu

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

But it didn't matter - I saw everything.

The video is busted, I can only assume it was lesbian sex or some such. Care to explain what it's about or update the link?

Working for me.

johnnyskeleton

Sherifu wrote: »

Working for me.

Ok, it's working now. It came up first with this video is no longer available.

And after seeing that, it's really changed my mind.

There was not a looker among them.

And contradictions aside (saying that men can be feminists and then saying that women should unite to become the female majority or whatever), it's subversive nonsense. Either a feminist is someone who advocates women's rights or they aren't. Either there is a gender-specific problem that needs to be rectified or there isn't. You can't say a feminist is a humanist, but then turn it around and say women need more rights.

Macha

Eh it says 'feminist majority' not 'female majority'. Why can't a feminist be a humanist and at the same time say women need more rights? Why can't a man be a feminist?

Subversive?? You mean against the patriarchal society we live in? :P

ztoical

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

You can't say a feminist is a humanist, but then turn it around and say women need more rights.

at no point in the video does anyone say they need more rights for women - they say there should be equal rights ie men and women treated the same...whats wrong with that?

panda100

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

And contradictions aside (saying that men can be feminists and then saying that women should unite to become the female majority or whatever), it's subversive nonsense. Either a feminist is someone who advocates women's rights or they aren't. .

I dont know any feminists nowdays who would say women should unite to become the female majority. When feminism first arose to fight for universal suffrage the struggle existed across all the classes and women did have to unite in a single sex. However feminism evolved when sexism evolved and its no longer a fight of men versus women. Femisim is now a struggle for all those who are oppressed,though women because of our ability to get pregnant will always be more opressed in a society which puts profits before everything else.
"The queen of the parlour has nothing in common with the maid in the kitchen. The sisterhood of women, like the brotherhood of men, is a hollow sham to labour. Behind all its smug hypocrisy and sickly sentimentality are the sinister outlines of the class war. "

Oh and this is what a feminist looks like
me

Walls

One thing that alarms me, and possibly shows my age, is the ease with which folk state utter nonsensical opinions about Feminism. 'Feminism is useless and outdated', 'women have all the rights they need', 'feminists are ulgy', etc. Also the idea of feminists as man haters seems to be cropping up again these days. Utter tripe.

stovelid

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00055/AndreaDworkin_55742a.jpg

Beelzebub wrote: »

...

My, hasn't Naomi got a big head?

ztoical

Walls wrote: »

One thing that alarms me, and possibly shows my age, is the ease with which folk state utter nonsensical opinions about Feminism. 'Feminism is useless and outdated', 'women have all the rights they need', 'feminists are ulgy', etc. Also the idea of feminists as man haters seems to be cropping up again these days. Utter tripe.

my fav is "all feminists are lesbians" That always makes me laugh - I have a few lesbian friends and I wouldn't class any of them as feminists in fact most of them are worse then men in their attitudes towards women.

Walls

I came across that as well, and I found it so strange. The one woman I knew who was in a long term lesbian relationship was being subjected to the most awful conduct from her partner. I asked a third person about it and she, rightly, considered me an idiot. "Gender preference isn't any indication that folks are nice," she said, and it is true.

Stovelid, what's your point?

watna

Thaedydal wrote: »

What are you mad ?
Clearly you have no idea the cost of a good bra these days and how hard it is to get a good fit.

Damn right. I paid over €120 for three bras the other day!

ztoical wrote: »

my fav is "all feminists are lesbians" That always makes me laugh - I have a few lesbian friends and I wouldn't class any of them as feminists in fact most of them are worse then men in their attitudes towards women.

Would definitely agree with this. Had one or two lesbian friends in college and they had terrible attitudes towards women.

Thanks for posting this Thaed, I like the idea of more rights and choices for women in society and more equality (as men and women are inherently different I don't think we'll ever be fully equal) but do find the "feminazi" tag and image that feminism have difficult and hate the reaction it gets. It's great to see something done to combat this.

The Feminism = humanism part will stick with me.

stovelid

Walls wrote: »

Stovelid, what's your point?

Is one required?

Walls

Well it is a phallic-centric society, don't cha know!

stovelid

Walls wrote: »

Well it is a phallic-centric society, don't cha know!

:)

I was just being juvenile. AD came to mind when I saw the thread title. Not fair to her really.

WindSock

I was in the Tower of London the other day, doing a tour with a Yeoman (Beefeater). There is one female Yeoman. The first ever, as she served 25 years in the Army. One guy asked our guide about how the other Yeomen treat her. He was clearly disgusted by the question and said ''like every body else...when it's cold she gets cold like us, and when it rains she gets wet, just like us.''
Anyway, I thought it was a nice thing to say :pac:

Slutmonkey57b

Thaedydal wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO9p6e4SWLM

Said Video is lying.
At one point it claims that feminism is about being treated equally.
Then it bogs on about them being strong and funny and smart...
Surely some of them are also ugly, brainless, humourless cnuts without a useful chromosome to rub together?
I know some men certainly are.

Walls

They should be treated equally, at least from the point of view of Resources, if not more.

pickarooney

Ah, feminism, the carrot that made women everywhere run so far away from the home they longer have a choice to go back.

Nevyn

Eh no feminism is about choice, I am lucky enough that I have a choice to be currenntly a stay at home mother.

Lockstep

Macha

Just a reminder that we still have a long way to go...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7331813.stm

JC 2K3

I found the video irritating to say the least.

Then again, I hate "quirky" approaches to try and entice people into following some seemingly righteous ideology. I mean, it's a bit of a contradiction saying that feminists are intelligent in a video whose central message is "you're probably not smart enough, nor do you have the attention span necessary to listen to a reasoned discussion on the meaning and merits of feminism, so here's 2 and a half minutes of inspirationally sounding, yet substanceless quotes and buzzwords."

Not that I'm against feminism or anything, though I don't like the word, I'd prefer something like equalism. (And rational or not, I believe many men don't care about feminism because the word implies it's not their concern)

Also, taconnol, I'm only speculating, but that link says 70% of the world's poor are women. Could this possibly be because many of thier equally poor husbands have been killed in conflict?