Öte yandan, bazı muhafazakarların kadınların tercihlerini lanetlemek için su götürür cinsiyet farklılıklarına başvurması, feministlerin en büyük korkularını haklı kılmaktadır. Wall Street Journalin editör köşesinde siyaset bilimci Harvey Mansfield "Kadınların ev dışındaki işlere eşit erişime sahip olmasıyla erkekliğin koruyuculuk unsuru tehlike altına girmiştir" diye yazdı. F. Carolyn Graglia'nın Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism (Yerel sükunet: Feminizm karşıtı dilekçe) adlı kitabı, kadınların annelik ve cinsellik içgüdülerinin, kariyerin talep ettiği değerlendirmeci ve analitik zihin yüzünden bozulduğuna yönelik bir kuram ortaya attı. Wendy Shalit ve Danielle Crittenden adlı gazeteciler, kadınlara genç yaşta evlenmelerini, mesleki kariyerlerini ertelemelerini ve geleneksel evlilikler yaparak çocuk bakımını üstlenmelerini tavsiye ettiler; gerçi kendi tavsiyelerine kulak verseler, o kitapları yazamazlardı.
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Spinoza'nın kolektif özgürlük görüşü
''Another point that is vindicated for feminism from Spinoza's philosophy is the role that corporality plays in its thinking, which also allows feminism to think about the consequences that materiality has in the analysis of oppressions. The idea that the body is always in a social context, as it is composed of other bodies, helps feminism to examine the oppression of women from this perspective, since freedom for Spinoza is a collective and not an individual matter.''
(Feminizm'in Spinoza'nın felsefesinde olumlanan bir diğer noktası, kurumsal olanda ''ataerki düşüncede'' oynadığı roldür, bu da feminizmin baskılar karşısında direnç ve baskının analizindeki önemini ortaya koyar. Bedenin her zaman ana gündem konusu olması, diğer bedenleri de kapsadığı için, feminizmin, kadınların bu perspektiften baskıyı incelemesine yardımcı olur. Çünkü Spinoza özgürlüğü bireysel bir konu değil kolektiftir.)
Cinsiyetler savaşta...
The sexes are at war. Men must struggle for identity against the overwhelming power of their mothers. Women have menstruation to tell them they are women. Men must do or risk something to be men. Men become masculine only when other men say they are. Having sex with a woman is one way a boy becomes a man.
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Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements. To this day, communities are few in regions scorched by heat or shackled by ice. Civilized man conceals from himself the extent of his subordination to nature. The grandeur of culture, the consolation of religion absorb his attention and win his faith. But let nature shrug, and all is in ruin. Fire, flood, lightning, tornado, hurricane, volcano, earthquake—anywhere at any time. Disaster falls upon the good and bad. Civilized life requires a state of illusion. The idea of the ultimate benevolence of nature and God is the most potent of man’s survival mechanisms. Without it, culture would revert to fear and despair.
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“Feminism isn’t about man-hating! It’s about women’s liberation, equal rights and freedom from limiting expectations, you need to think for yourself instead of parroting the patriarchy!”
Milestones of First Wave Feminism
1770–84
Abigail Adams corresponds with her husband
1792
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
1821
Frances Wright, Views of Society and Manners in America
1837
Harriet Martineau, Society in America
1837
Angelina Grimké lectures in public about abolition and women’s suffrage
1837
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady attend World
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Tecavüz, uygar toplumda göz yumulmayacak bir rezalettir.
Rape is an outrage that cannot be tolerated in civilized society.
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Defloration is destruction. But nature creates by violence and destruction. The commonest violence in the world is childbirth, with its appalling pain and gore.
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Some people ask, ‘Why the word feminist ? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?’ Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general – but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women. That the problem was not about being human, but specifically about being a female human. For centuries, the world divided human beings into two groups and then proceeded to exclude and oppress one group. It is only fair that the solution to the problem should acknowledge that.
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