Feminist Wake-Me-Up
Is anyone else having a really hard time waking up this morning? (Yes, I may still be recovering from my sis throwing me a bachelorette party Friday night.) I figure there's nothing like a never-ending slide show of feminist graffiti to put in a little spring in one's step...
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Even though I didn't get much sleep tonight, I've been oddly productive this morning - already wrote one post and am in the progress of writing another.
Still sleepy, but now the smiley kind.
I keep thinking about the things I need to do...and then I continue checking websites and drinking coffee.
Jessica, I'm quite curious about your bachelorette party.
Heh. There are pics on my Facebook profile, if you're interested. It was very chill, actually. A few friends, dinner at my fave wine spot in Brooklyn followed by dancing (and one unfortunate tequila shot).
That sounds awesome and perfect! And pretty much what I imagined for you (and maybe one day, me).
This is absoultely amazing!! Made my day actually, I'm thinking about putting these on my facebook profile too! Thanks Jessica!
Please be careful about promoting graffiti.
It is a felony in most states and costs a lot of money in lawyers fees and fines to get dropped down to a misdemeanor.
It is a felony, like rape, molestation, murder - yep a felony.
so please, think of the kids / rebels/ artists who are not as privileged as you, younger than you, and influenced by you when you promote graf. here.
signed
a mom who has spent waaaaaay toooo much money and sleepless nights dealing with such matters.
how, HOW can you compare graffiti to rape?!
That's easy - and she already explained how: "Both are felonies". The government/legislators are responsible for that comparison - that's not Hara's fault. So, the answer to the question: "what is the comparison between rape and grafitti?" ("how can you compare those things?"): The government considers both felonies.
There the comparison stops though. Because unlike with regard to rapists, there's actually federal task forces with high-tech equipment dedicated just to chasing graffiti'ists and there's world-wide police and legislator-conferences about fighting graffitti, but very few in comparison about fighting rape.
effing LOVE mujeres creando.
Linking feminism and crime is just not a smart thing. Please stop promoting property destruction on Feministing.
Wrecking other people's stuff just because you're lazy is just an asshole thing to do.
You're gonna have to explain the laziness thing, 'cause my ladybrain isn't making the connection between making guerilla art and being lazy.
I'm sorry, I don't fully articulate my points in these posts anymore because I've stated my opinions over and over again.
The laziness is this: if you want to get your message out, there are ways to do it with out destroying other people's things. Those methods just take more work. Like talking to people on the subway, or standing in a public space with a sign. Destroying another person's property is just being lazy.
Yeah, cause the suffragettes never linked feminism and crime.
Also not getting the lazy thing.
It's one thing to break, say, a curfew imposed upon women by the city in order to protest. Breaking that law does not hurt others in order to spread your message.
It's another thing to destroy someone else's property in order to make your point. If you spray paint a window, it's the same as putting a brick through it-- either way you destroy it.
And if you're ok with feminists destroying property, then you have to be ok with all people with a message destroying property. Like anti-choicers, and other bigots. And so raises the question: if you're ok with the dollar amount of destruction that graffiti causes, are you ok with other destruction that causes the same cost of damage? Like the brick through the window, or bashing in a mail box. And are you then ok with more property destruction than just that? Where do we draw the line? It needs to be drawn BEFORE we start messing with people's things.
See my reply above about the laziness.
And if you're ok with feminists destroying property, then you have to be ok with all people with a message destroying property.
does. not. follow.
must check logic.
Similar sentences, that are also wrong wrong wrong: "if you like feminist symbols, then you must love swastikas too"... "if you advocate emancipation, then you must be okay with people who support oppression" ... "if you like apples, then you must like oranges too"... "if you are a MAC then you must also be a PC"... "if you support going to war against Nazi-Germany, then you must support going to war against Canada"...
"It was a sweet day when I realized legal and illegal has nothing to do with right and wrong" -A Softer World
Great! That's a fabulous way of deciding that nothing matters but you. And you know who else has that thought? Idiots who bomb abortion clinics.
We have to hold ourselves to the same standards that we hold others.
Are you saying that questions about "wrong and right" is irrelevant to killing people and bombing abortion clinics?
???
...really???
Here's a few things that are or have been "legal": segregation, the holocaust, death penalty, torture, slavery, deportation of refugees... are they by their quality of being "legal" also (morally) "right"? Really??
A few things that could easily be seen as "right" but nevertheless have been or are "illegal": helping refugees, reporting on torture, avoiding the draft / refusing to kill, helping runaway slaves, organizing unions, demonstrating, breaking segregation, having same-sex sex... do you really believe that "legal"/"illegal" automatically correlates with "right"/"wrong"?
Really?
I sincerely hope not. Because that would be a "fabulous way of deciding" that you have no personal responsibility for your moral actions and that anything goes if the legal structure says so. The name for that is 'authoritarianism' and if that had been more prevalent 100 years ago women would not even have the right to vote today.
But linking feminism with obedience and respect for status quo and authorities is just not very smart either.
We can't win, can we?
Status quo and authority? Seriously? Not destroying other people's things has nothing to do with this. There's breaking rules that oppress us, and then there's just being an asshole. You can get the message of equality out without being an asshat about it.
the "start questioning the offenders' behaviours and not the survivors" poster is actually from my neighbourhood (in alberta, canada), how cool!
this was lovely, thanks jessica!
What's up with the "feminist women stop treating men like wallets and garbage" one?
As a feminist I 1) have a JOB of my own and 2) want a smart, emotionally grounded man in my life, not garbage! If he can't be those things, he never makes it across my doorstep in the first place, no matter what he's got in his wallet. Hence, there's nothing to throw away.
I really like this site and what some of their customers have done.
http://www.stickersisters.com/activism.html
It makes me laugh everytime!