"…Television is unbelievable! We now have to genderise everything. There’s ‘chick flicks’ and ‘boy movies’, differentiated as though there’s gender emanating from an object."

— Kay Bussey, Macquarie University.

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Hi everyone,
I know the posts have come to a sporadic stop, but my real-life uni degree has taken precedence over my blog life.
In the meantime, feel free to ask me questions, or suggest ways to procrastinate.

"Standards of society of physical perfection seems immutable and ‘right.’ Our bodies seem variable and ‘wrong.’ But once we see the machinery behind the facade of perfection, society turns out to be, like the Wizard of Oz, a frightened little man behind a curtain. We can change him. Indeed, we are him."

— Gloria Steinem

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"Having high standards is one thing, but holding anyone to a higher standard than you would hold yourself is a fundamental exercise in hypocrisy."

— Coquette

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"It would be logical to assume that people who claim to value all human life from the moment of conception would fiercely support programs that help disadvantaged children and parents. Sadly, this is not the case. Surveys show that, on average, people who are strongly opposed to abortion are also more likely to define themselves as political conservatives who do not support domestic programs for poor families, single mothers, people of color, and immigrants. They are also opposed to overseas development assistance in general, and to specific programs for improving women’s and children’s health, reducing domestic violence, helping women become more economically self-sufficient, and lowering infant mortality."

— Loretta Ross, The Color of Choice: White Supremacy and Reproductive Justice 

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"You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it’s a lie."

— Kathleen Hanna

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Heteropatriarchy ensures male right of access to women. Women’s relations - personal, professional, social, economic - are defined by the ideology that woman is for man. Heteropatriarchy is men dominating and de-skilling women in any of a number of forms, from outright attach to paternalistic care, and women devaluing (of necessity) female bonding. Heteropatriarchy normalizes the dominance of one person and the subordination of another. Carol Pateman argues that social contract establishes men’s political right over women and orderly access by my to women’s bodies.

The logic of heteropatriarchy includes the invisibility of lesbians, the construction and tolerance of dominant male violence together with intolerance of female violence against abusers, blaming the ‘feminine’ victim, and targeting a group of men as predators against whom dominant men can ‘protect’ chosen women, most notably in peace-time USA, black men.

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— Sarah Lucia Hoagland

From Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories

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I think the word we need to remove from our everyday vernacular is the word “raped.” I think the word raped gets thrown around far too casually. You ever listen to a bunch of guys playing video games with each other online? It’s like, “Ah man you shot me in the back dude. You raped me dude!”

I’m pretty sure if I talked to a woman who’s been through that horrific situation and I said, “What was it like you know being raped?” She’s not gonna look at me and go ,”Have you ever played Halo?”

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— Hear me Roar: Dane Cook — turning a corner? 

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Just as a quick aside; in regard to the previous question, which makes reference to the ‘subtle nuances of female oppression’… I don’t think that the 44,100 people aged 18+ in Australia (not to mention the huge number of children not encompassed within this statistic) in 2005 alone consider being brutally assaulted; sexually, physically, and psychologically, a ‘subtle nuance’ of the still omnipresent Rape Culture, or an insignificant event in comparison to Consumerism.