Not too sure whether anyone has laid out different proposals in something as clear as "Column A, Column B, etc." but I recommend contacting the Big Push for Midwives (http://www.thebigpushformidwives.org/), Citizens for Midwifery (http://cfmidwifery.org), and the American Association of Birth (posted to Alternative Birthing Options in Health Care Reform)
agreed. That's super condescending, but I'm finding that Marcotte's writing trends super anti-mom second wave-ish. I'm lucky enough to have both a professional degree/fancy job and kids, and I have to say that academia and professional life are easier (*for (posted to What We Missed )
Aww cute. But here's an idea for their next song "Everyone, stop fucking telling women what to eat or not eat." (posted to Barbie, eat a sandwich)
That's why I said for their *next* song. That gives them time to develop their feminist consciousness and see that promoting a positive message by using an insult in an unironic* way is still insulting to the people to whom (posted to Barbie, eat a sandwich)
That's why I said for their *next* song. That gives them time to develop their feminist consciousness and see that promoting a positive message by using an insult in an unironic* way is still insulting to the people to whom (posted to Barbie, eat a sandwich)
Okay, I apologize. That statement was in bad taste. I guess what I meant was that I feel like Jessica posted this video because she thought it was something fun that would make us happy. Young women with feminist intentions (posted to Barbie, eat a sandwich)
I'd say that anorexic girls also endured hell, but that seems to be changing No, take it from me: a lifelong, misery-inducing, treatable-but-not-curable mental illness that's stigmatized as the result of vanity or patriarchal brainwashing and tossed around as a (posted to Barbie, eat a sandwich)
Well, since all of my other comments seem to have been eaten, let me say this: nowhere in critiquing this song did anyone say that skinny women have it worse than fat women. No one even implied that. Just because (posted to Barbie, eat a sandwich)
I don't see this thread as "petty fights". It is an open and frank discussion of feminist issues. Why would you think feminists are a homogeneous group and all identified feminists think the same? The discussion comes from a vast (posted to Barbie, eat a sandwich)
