Beyond Feminism

Welcome to the Feminist LOL Funfair! What is a Feminist LOL Funfair, you wonder? It’s a collection of quotes from feminist posts that make me LOL. (I love it when people make me laugh when they weren’t planning to). It’s a Funfair, not a Carnival, because it’s tiny.

Hope you LOL too!

“Hands up all feminists who’ve been told in a patronising tone that they should drop their struggles for gender equality, because there are MORE IMPORTANT PROBLEMS in the world today? *waves hand frantically* Nice to know there’s a precedent… and nice to know there’s a precedent for replying with bugger off, too.”

The “Bugger Off” did it for me.

from Friday Hoydens: The Suffragettes In Court

“Everyone agrees that Hillary has too many icky girl cooties to be President. But just how icky are her cooties? Normal icky or super-duper icky?”

from She’s probably a bad driver too

“Lauca: If a woman touched Daddy’s penis?
Me: She’d be in big trouble, let me tell you, BIG trouble.”

from The body sovereignty conversation you didn’t get to hear last time

“Q. Is eating Heinz Tomato soup feminist?
A. Yes. (…) It therefore fills all the requirements of feminism. Which are 1)A woman, somewhere, likes doing it and 2)It is therefore full of empowerfulmentnessism.”

from Things you didn’t know were feminist - No 1

I present you sexeee anecdote: when I was 2 I had chubalicious baby fat, the kind that fell in rolls down my legs and arms. My hair was short and whitish blonde. I had a drooly mouth cuz I chewed on everything. And because I wasn’t some prodigy-pooper I was bottom heavy in a diaper like all my tot friends.

Prodigy-pooper! HA HA HA!!!

from Hot for Tots (Sexual Stigma, p.1)

“This post is about all those young women (mostly young) who think Opossum is Cream of Jesus on toast.”

Cream of Jesus on Toast!!! LOL!

from The Opossum Delusion

“Only women who conform 100% to patriarchy’s exacting standards - ones who are beautiful, white, slim, blonde, big breasted etc, etc, etc blah blah de blah blah, don’t get shit. And even then you get shit - because you’re too sexxayy! Rule number one of patriarchy - you can only win with patriarchy if you’re a man!”

In short: you will bet shit.

from Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.

This idea sounded better in my head. Oh well.

Here’s a depiction of how women were distributed in the hierachical structure that is patriarchal society* BEFORE…

And NOW…

I tried to show how things have changed. Well yes, they have, but mostly for those on top. You know, the ones who were already A-OK-ish.
There’s a big reason why the people at the bottom of the structure are sistematically ignored by feminism. Yes, it is, partly, because feminists who have time to engage in feminism are usually from the top themselves. But also, because the only way to move the people at the bottom UP is to move the people at the top DOWN. And yes, the very feminists who are at the top are not very likely to work towards moving themselves down. But also, because in order for that to happen, we would have to bring “teh left” into the table. And “teh left” is, like, not cool. It’s a dirty word. It’s not gonna make you very popular. And it’s definitely not gonna help you sell “cool” books.

Constructive criticism welcomed!

* not to scale, not scientific, not researched, not… that good.

I don’t like talking about Sex Education. I don’t agree with the current idea of “sex” or “education”, so much less with “sex education”. But many bloggers do, all of them american, and for a good reason: the only sex education in american schools consists of “no sex” education. Which sucks. But everyone already knows it sucks, which is why blogging about it seems pointless. It’s yet another example that it’s not “the people” who have “the powerz” but a tiny, tiny group. The US is* the only industrialized nation with a “no sex” education policy. This, of course, has a huge impact on the rest of the nations of the world, because the US is “teh Nation”. Let me explain: the US has got it effed up, so comparatively, the other industrialized nations seem to have gotten it right. Which is NOT true. I have suffered “sex education” and it’s far from perfect. Why, it’s infinitely better than “no sex” education and infinitely better than “no (sex) education”, but it’s not the best we can do. “Comprehensive”, as it’s called sex education limits itself to what a vagina does and what a penis does and how to avoid catching aids. Yeah, that’s right, two people are reduced to their reproductive organs and the encounter is in turn reduced to “do whatever as long as you are safe”. For some patriarchal reason beyond the limits of human or even feminist understanding, talking aobut a penis entering a vagina is more acceptable than talking about the feelings attached to that penis or that vagina. The result? The tacit condoning of one of modern society’s highest principles: “whatever rocks your boat”. Which doesn’t leave radical feminists, or anyone with the tiniest grasp of the complexity of human nature, remotely satisfied.

So my plan for action is the following: dump all the previous ideas about “sex” (and “education”, for that matter) and let’s start again from scratch. With the help of feminism, of course.

* probably. Am not sure, but it’s a safe bet.