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"The mystery of our time is the inability of decent people to get angry."-- Eric Hoffer

I'm going to ask wewe a swali right now, and wewe can feel free to answer honestly. Do wewe consider yourself a feminist?

After kusoma the responses to _lina_'s link, I decided to remind everyone here, particularly women in the western world, what feminism today is really about.

Modern women in Europe and North America enjoy a multitude of freedom that often goes underappreciated. Women today are afraid to call themselves feminists because of the negative stereotypes associated with that word. Before I talk about the present, let me talk about the past and let wewe know what a feminist really is.

In her pick, lina defined feminism as "a) the principle that women should have political, economic, and social rights equal to those of men b) the movement to win such rights for women" which is from the Webster's New World dictionary. Atari (rightfully) pointed out that it was zaidi than that. That feminism is everything, the positive and negative associated with that term. The problem is, no one remembers the positive, au how feminism in the past is responsible for the freedoms we have today.

If wewe went up to an average black man, and asked him if he believed in the Martin Luther King movement and civil rights, he would in all likelihood say that yes, most definitely, he did. But if wewe went up to a women and asked if she believed in the Susan B Anthony movement and feminism, she might hesitate on feminism before saying "Well, I appreciate what Susan B Anthony did, but I wouldn't say I'm a feminist." But essentially, the two maswali are identical, because they are both about civil and human rights.

Even in the pick linked above, plenty of people still state that they believe in "the freedom of women and our rights to vote and have a say in everything" (actual quote from a user) but that they don't consider themselves a feminist. Most people do not even know that there are different schools of feminist thought, just as there are different sects of major religions. There is cultural feminism, material feminism, liberal feminism, ecofeminism, and radical feminism. In brief, cultural feminism focusses on the essential differences between men and women, and celebrating those differences in women that allows them to bond. The famous "Vagina Monologues" is a form of cultural feminism, which celebrates the idea of womanhood and pride in our own sexuality. Material feminism, also known as Marxist feminism, recognizes the plight of the oppressed women and sees capitalism as its fault, believing capitalism to be a means of exploiting not just workers, but women. Liberal feminists believe in the essential freedom of women. Their focus is to ensure that freedom, mostly from the state (who they see as the main oppressor of women) and to allow every woman the right to self-govern. It focuses on the power of the individual, and asserts that if a woman wants to be treated as equal, she has to present herself as an equal and believe in herself. Ecofeminism believes that the oppression of nature and the oppression of women are interconnected, and that nature is mainly a feminine force being dominated kwa a masculin patriarchal culture. Radical feminism, often the stereotyped feminism, believes that it is the flaw in our patriarchal society that oppresses us. It is often deduced that radical feminists hate men, which is not true. They hate the patriarchy, which puts men in power, not the men themselves.

An example of the differences between the feminisms:

"In liberal feminism, prostitution is conceived of in the contractrarian sense of being a private business transaction. Radical feminists, on the other hand, view a prostitute as a human being who has been reduced to a piece of merchandise. The liberal contends that a woman is free to enter into contracts. However, the radical feminist does not believe that a prostitute’s desire to enter into such a “contract” is done of her own free will." [link]

Now that wewe know what feminism really is, let me just briefly try to remind wewe what it has gotten women in the modern world.

Causes and successes of the feminist movement in the western world include:
Women's Sufferage
Reproductive rights, which includes birth control and abortion rights
Equal Pay for Equal Work Laws
Educational Rights
Diminishment of mandatory gender roles
Sexual assault and harassment laws

Many feminists, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony, also latched on to the Black Sufferage movement in the past, seeing it as similar in their ideals. Today, some feminists, particularly liberal feminists, also fight for the LGBT cause of equal rights and marriage. But it's not just about obtaining these rights, my friends. It's about keeping them, too.

So where would wewe be today without feminism? Without the right to vote, reproductive rights, educational rights, vocational rights, and sexual rights? Do wewe still believe wewe aren't a feminist?

Now let's get to the moyo of the matter, what this makala is really about: People who don't have all those rights that we have won. Women in the western world take their cozy position for granted. Apologies if I offend, but those who say that the feminist fight is over is gravely mistaken.

Right now, in our so-called "enlightened" world of equality, women are still the most common victim of link, followed kwa homosexual men. Most often, honor killings occur in predominately Muslim cultures, though there is no support for this in Islam at all. But in India, zaidi than five thousand brides are killed annually because their dowries are considered insufficient. In Iraq, "honor killings are conducted kwa armed insurgent groups on politically active women and those who did not follow a strict dress code, and women who are perceived as human rights defenders." (from the link above).

If that doesn't make you, as a woman (or friend of women) angry, then let me tell wewe this. 99% of women in Guinea of reproductive age (15-49) and 97% of Egyptian women in the same age bracket have gone through link. In the entire world, between 100 and 140 million women have been circumcized and every year, two million girls are at risk. The World Health Organization classifies FGM as "all procedures involving partial au total removal of the external female genitalia au other injury to the female genital organs whether for cultural, religious au other non-therapeutic reasons." In most instances, this includes partial au complete removal of the clitoris. Other than initial shock and pain, FGM can also cause bleeding, infection, infertility and death. It has also been linked to complications during childbirth, which can harm the mother and her child.

If that isn't personal enough, let me leave wewe with one last statistic, this time closer to home. In the United States, according to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, one in six women will be sexually assaulted in her lifetime. 17.7 million American women have been victims of attempted au completed rape. And if that doesn't make wewe angry, only six percent of rapists will serve one siku in jail.

According to a United Nations report, one in three women-- 33% of our sisters-- around the world "has been beaten, coerced into sex au abused in some way, most often kwa someone she knows." [link] Ladies (and Marafiki of ladies), if wewe thought that the feminist struggle was just about bra-burning and refusing to shave, if wewe thought that the feminist movement was zaidi au less over and done with, if wewe thought that feminism was all about man hating and protesting maleness, what do wewe think now? When a depressingly large amount of our sisters still suffer in the world? When Saudi Arabian women are denied the right to drive, au to leave their homes without a male escort? When a woman can be stoned to death simply for making eye contact with a man?

So I want to ask those of wewe who answered the swali at the begining of this makala as "no."

Do wewe still not consider yourself a feminist?

"It is very easy to hate a Nazi, a guardian in a Gulag. But the real danger is not them. It is the decent people who compromise with evil."-- Jacobo Timerman.
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posted by breebree446
The Difference between wewe and me!
Calling me FAKE won't make wewe REAL,
Calling me STUPID won't make wewe SMART,
Calling me WEAK won't make wewe STRONG,
Calling me UGLY won't make wewe PRETTY,
Calling me POOR won't make wewe RICH,
Calling me FAT wont make wewe SKINNY,
Calling me UNCOOL wont make wewe COOL,
So why bother?



This is from a little something I found online. This makes a lot of sense to me and I bet it makes sense to other girls like me. Bullying is an ugly thing. Don't let them get to you, girls. They aren't worth your time.
posted by isabelle_905
Another email…


Dear Tech Support,

Last mwaka I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slow-down in ujumla, jumla system performance - particularly in the maua, ua and jewellery applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.

In addition, installation of Husband 1.0 seems to have uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, and then installed such other undesirable programs as NFL 5.0, NBA 3.0.and Golf klabu 4.1.

Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and Housecleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system.

I've tried running Nagging...
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posted by isabelle_905
More lovely emails!! Ladies, I'm sure wewe can all vouch for these!

9 WORDS WOMEN USE

1. Fine: This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and wewe need to shut up.

2. Five Minutes: If she is getting dressed, this means a half an hour. Five dakika is only five dakika if wewe have just been aliyopewa five zaidi dakika to watch the game before helping around the house.

3. Nothing: This is the calm before the storm. This means something, and wewe should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with nothing usually end in fine.

4. Go Ahead: This is a dare, not permission. Don't Do It!...
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posted by isabelle_905
From an barua pepe I got.

"The Rules" from the male side

We always hear ‘the rules’ from the female side. Now here are the rules from the male side. I’m not saying I like them, but it’s only fair to present both sides.

1.    Men are NOT mind readers.

2.    Learn to work the toilet seat. You’re a big girl. If it’s up, put it down. We need it up. wewe need it down. wewe don’t hear us complaining about wewe leaving it down.

3.    Sunday sports: It’s like the full moon au the changing of the tides. Let it be.

4.    ...
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Lady Gaga talks about feminism and what it means to her.
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Jordin Sparks singing, "I am Woman."
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posted by Summer_Leanne
-He stares at wewe a lot
- He hits wewe a lot(playfully)
- He uses the first thing that pops into his head to start a converstaion with you
- He yelled, "HI"to your mom that siku she picked wewe up from school
- He blew off his buds to go see "Brown Sugar" with wewe cuz wewe couldn't get another girl pal to go and didn't want to go alone
- He tries to make wewe laugh anyway even if he gets hurt in the process
- His voice gets softer when ever wewe two talk
-You hung up on him. He called wewe back
- wewe where invited kwa him to a group outin
- He called wewe to talk about nothing at all.
- He imitates your laugh...
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