Sexism/Feminism/Womanism Discussion Thread Social • Page 78

so disappointed. I don't even know what to say.

 

sadly not super surprised, LA Reid has always been a bit of a scumbag iirc

 

The Sexual Harassment Allegations Against This Virtual Reality Startup Are Really Gross

 

Bill Cosby is infuriating. I hope he rots in hell, bastard.

 

I figured out who puts up the exploitative anti-choice billboards in town and I'm FIRED UP

 

It’s Time For The Left’s ‘Progressive’ Men To Start Listening

 

https://m.mic.com/articles/177504/t...ders-and-how-to-fight-bias-in-startup-funding

 

This DC Bar Is Serving "Pill Cosby" Cocktails

 

Senior student barred from Christian school's graduation because she's pregnant

 

But.... Mary.... the fuck... irony.

 

They did this at my school, too. Girls would go visit some relatives up north for 9 months and then show back up to school after missing a year.

 

This is fucking disgusting. TW: Rape.

Judge sentences man who raped sister to probation, citing 'stigma'

 

Surf Legend Laird Hamilton Falsely Blames Shark Attacks on Women's Periods

 

High school reportedly considering expulsion after student wears off-the-shoulder top

 

cross posting from the Pinegrove thread. Some good @replies too

 

Thought some might be interested. It's an array of different stuff.

Catching up with “Feminist Snack Break” | Bitch Media

 

Yeah, toxicity from each extreme is bad, but that doesn't mean we should appeal to "logical," "rational" centrists who think we don't need more progress.

I'm so conflicted by this. I applaud her for being the bigger person and actually listening to the other side, but I keep thinking of that segment John Oliver did a while back about climate change deniers, how if the debates were an actual representation instead of one-on-one, the room would be filled with scientists with a shit ton of statistics and studies vs. a couple of people who "don't feel like global warming is a thing."

 

Accused of underpaying women, Google says it's too expensive to get wage data

The hacker news thread has some gross misogynistic shit going on in it, too. whyyyyy did I think none of this would bother me when I chose this field omg

 

'Dangerous Woman': Pop And Feminism

Probably going to post this to the pop music thread too, but yesterday's episode of On Point had an all-female panel talking about feminism and pop music. They talk about everyone from Billie Holiday to Taylor Swift and Beyonce and the effect feminist pop stars have on young girls. It's a great listen if you have the 45 minutes to spare.

 

thanks for sharing this! It's hard with pop music sometimes to see if I'm supporting empowerment or patriarchal capitalism, so I appreciate this

 

yea pop music is how I discovered feminism (thanx xtina sis) but I'm often skeptical of how popstars use it and it's always a weird line to walk. I can appreciate how popstars impact young girls like xtina did for me, but I'm hesitant how "empowerment" is kinda always expressed in a similar way and I guess not in a way that I always find personally empowering.

 

Yeesssssss! I'm always looking for things like this. Great post.

 

We're not perfect and I've already explained over the past year why the Left is absolutely ignorant and wrong on a lot of things. There are groups of people (example: MENA minorities and other POC immigrants) who are ignorant and uneducated about Western history, and they are from other regions with other dynamics, and they don't understand dynamics here very well, if at all. So that leads them to having very conservative/RW views, if they didn't have them already because of their upbringing and culture.

We need to educate and reach out to these people, listen to their stories, ask them why they think the way they do, explain why we think we have better solutions, how we can address their problems etc. Right now, the left is losing, and not just in the US. Staying in our bubbles is doing no good. Considering politics affects our daily lives, it's actually much worse to be stubborn and arrogant. Most people (regardless of whether it's online or not) just don't want to admit they're wrong, and they're very in denial about a lot of things and that leads to really harmful and ignorant narratives. This is prevalent everywhere.

Nobody is saying you have to reach out to race realists or climate change deniers. But there are still many, many people with different experiences and understandings that need to learn things because even if they're not on the very far right, they still hold a lot of problematic and discriminatory views, and things won't change if we as leftists just stay in an echo chamber, throw out memes and emojis, and say "everything is racist/sexist/homophobic". It helps no one and solves nothing, and I say this from experience.

There's a difference between debating centrists or your average right-winger and trying to talk to someone who literally denies climate science or something. Let's be real, right-wing rhetoric/policies are global and are much louder now. It's boring to see echo chambers on both sides. We need to be able to challenge each other in fair debate. Like I said earlier, it depends who she's going to have discussions with and what they're going to talk about.

I'm holding out hope that the debates she will post will be informative and helpful. I don't want to comment on something that hasn't been posted yet. I personally seek out listening to debates and discussions because we need more education and critical thinking when it comes to politics as FB and Twitter have become really reactionary and you can't really have long discussions there the way you can via voice/video. So, YouTube is a great platform for that and the videos can be easily shared elsewhere.