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 Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 4:34am On Jun 30, 2013 |
anyway, moving on i'm sure you've heard of planned parenthood. the organization was started by a "feminist of old" to provide contraceptive to women. women in USA are under attack. the republican part is fighting to defund it. watch the KOMEN video and how women show that they do not support this move. this is 2013 and men still trying to control women's womb. shows that if you do no fight for your rights (even if it has been "won") it will slip right before ur eye if u do not protect it. |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 4:30am On Jun 30, 2013 |
I.Joan:do you watch the news and know that reproductive rights is a HUGE deal right now in the USA? that we just had a 15 hr victorious fillibuster that cause the house of reps to change the rules on filibusters. it was led by senator wendy williams dem. Texas. just in case you want to google it and follow along. it's about abortion rights. also right to contraceptive that was just passed just a few weeks ago!!! |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 4:29am On Jun 30, 2013 |
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (May 23, 1810 – July 19, 1850), commonly known as Margaret Fuller, was an American journalist, critic, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement. She was the first full-time American female book reviewer in journalism. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in the United States. By the time she was in her 30s, Fuller had earned a reputation as the best-read person in New England, male or female, and became the first woman allowed to use the library at Harvard College. Her seminal work, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, was published in 1845. A year later, she was sent to Europe for the Tribune as its first female correspondent. She soon became involved with the revolutions in Italy and allied herself with Giuseppe Mazzini. She had a relationship with Giovanni Ossoli, with whom she had a child. All three members of the family died in a shipwreck off Fire Island, New York, as they were traveling to the United States in 1850. Fuller's body was never recovered. Fuller was an advocate of women's rights and, in particular, women's education and the right to employment. She also encouraged many other reforms in society, including prison reform and the emancipation of slaves in the United States. Many other advocates for women's rights and feminism, including Susan B. Anthony, cite Fuller as a source of inspiration. Many of her contemporaries, however, were not supportive, including her former friend Harriet Martineau. She said that Fuller was a talker rather than an activist. Shortly after Fuller's death, her importance faded; the editors who prepared her letters to be published, believing her fame would be short-lived, censored or altered much of her work before publication. Margaret Fuller was especially known in her time for her personality and, in particular, for being overly self-confident and having a bad temper.[134] This personality was the inspiration for the character Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter, specifically her radical thinking about "the whole race of womanhood".[135] She may also be the basis for the character Zenobia in another of Hawthorne's works, The Blithedale Romance.[43] Hawthorne and his then-fiancée Sophia had first met Fuller in October 1839.[136] --- imagine, she was hated so much. Scarlet letter (if you've read that book) was based on her. scarlet letter by the way is a story of how women were treated in puritan USA. a woman was branded (literally) for the crime of adultery. |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 4:25am On Jun 30, 2013 |
are you still saluting "feminists of old"? |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 4:25am On Jun 30, 2013 |
Adeline Virginia Woolf (/ˈwʊlf/; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." Woolf's best-known nonfiction works, A Room of One's Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938), examine the difficulties that female writers and intellectuals face because men hold disproportionate legal and economic power and the future of women in education and society. In The Second Sex (1949), Simone de Beauvoir counts, of all women who ever lived, only three female writers—Emily Brontë, Woolf and "sometimes" Katherine Mansfield—have explored "the given".[34] |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 4:23am On Jun 30, 2013 |
now are you still "saluting" feminists of old? pretty much all they were fighting for are the same issues as today! equal education, reproductive rights etc!! how many "feminists of old" can you name and argue a point about? |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 4:22am On Jun 30, 2013 |
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (15 October 1880 – 2 October 1958) was a British author, palaeobotanist, campaigner for women's rights and pioneer in the field of birth control. She was the wife of Humphrey Verdon Roe, with whom she founded the first birth control clinic in Britain. Stopes edited the newsletter Birth Control News which gave explicit practical advice. Her sex manual Married Love, which she wrote while legally a virgin, was controversial and influential, while her book, Wise Parenthood, was written before she'd become a parent. A year into her marriage with Gates and the pair were struggling. She had maintained her name out of principle rather than taking on her husband's. Her work was blooming while his was struggling. He was disturbed by what seemed to him her suffragette support. He had failed to assert his position as head of the household and was thus frustrated.[9] After another year she sought legal advice as to how she could end the marriage. Not receiving useful help, she took to reading the legal code looking for a way to get a divorce.[10] The marriage had fallen apart amid squabbling over the house and rent. On 11 May 1913, Stopes filed for divorce, citing that the marriage had never been consummated. Gates left England in the following year and did not contest the divorce. Some time around the start of the divorce proceedings, Stopes began to write a book about how she thought a marriage should work. In July 1915, she met Margaret Sanger, who had just given an address on birth control at a Fabian Society meeting. Stopes showed her what she had written and sought her advice regarding a chapter on contraception for her book.[11] Her book was finished before the year was out, offering it to Blackie and Son, who declined. The book was too controversial, as she found out with refusals from several publishers. It wasn't until Binnie Dunlop, secretary of the Malthusian League, introduced her to Humphrey Verdon Roe, her future second husband, in 1917 that she received the boost that helped her publish her book. Roe was a philanthropist interested in birth control and he supplied the finance to entice Fifield & Co. to publish the work.[12] The book was an instant success, requiring five editions in the first year [13] and elevating Stopes to a national figure. |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 4:16am On Jun 30, 2013 |
FIRST WAVE FEMINISTS Mary Wollstonecraft (/ˈwʊlstən.krɑːft/; 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because they lack education. She suggests that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order founded on reason. Until the late 20th century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconventional personal relationships, received more attention than her writing. After two ill-fated affairs, with Henry Fuseli and Gilbert Imlay (by whom she had a daughter, Fanny Imlay), Wollstonecraft married the philosopher William Godwin, one of the forefathers of the anarchist movement. Wollstonecraft died at the age of thirty-eight, ten days after giving birth to her second daughter, leaving behind several unfinished manuscripts. Her daughter Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, later Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, would become an accomplished writer herself. After Wollstonecraft's death, her widower published a Memoir (1798) of her life, revealing her unorthodox lifestyle, which inadvertently destroyed her reputation for almost a century. However, with the emergence of the feminist movement at the turn of the twentieth century, Wollstonecraft's advocacy of women's equality and critiques of conventional femininity became increasingly important. Today Wollstonecraft is regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers, and feminists often cite both her life and work as important influences. |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 4:11am On Jun 30, 2013 |
CAMEROONPRIDE: I.Joan do not pick any book. They want to spoil you and. Poison your mindLOL why d he.ll do you think women were prevented from gaining education for centuries. even christians were prevented from access to the bible so they could be controlled by clergy men. it worked for centuries. |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 4:10am On Jun 30, 2013 |
I.Joan:that's what the anti-feminists of old said. |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 4:09am On Jun 30, 2013 |
If you find yourself opposing what Chimamanda says in her video. then you are anti-feminist. whether of old or new. besides, can you name one single feminist of old for me? give me the name and i will post on here plainly for you what they fought for and ask if you would have been willing to fight for those things. |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 4:08am On Jun 30, 2013 |
I.Joan:then clearly you do not know anything about feminists of old. and feminists of new as a matter of fact. whether there is such a distinction. start by picking up the book "A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Wolf. What I am saying today about STEM fields, they were saying the same things about other professional fields. exact same arguments! you know nothing about feminism. don't claim to be a feminist of old or supporter of feminism of old when you have declared yourself to be anti-feminist. |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 4:05am On Jun 30, 2013 |
I.Joan:alright but your stance against my post was very aggressive as if somehow you feel that it is unecessary and counter-productive for anyone to believe that more women should join STEM fields. yet you speak romantically about "feminists of old" as if u are not now speaking against every single thing they fought for: female empowerment!! |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 4:02am On Jun 30, 2013 |
I.Joan:you seem to have selective or malfunctioning sight/memory. last time I checked, on this thread alone we've talked about: STEM fields, women's clothing (dress codes forced upon women. most recent issue is the deeper life debacle hahaha). marriage and single parenthood reproductive rights (abortion, birth control) sex.ual violence(rape and harassment) physical and marital abuse careers etc again answer my question: what motivates you to argue aganst atheists? are they stopping you from practicing your christiaity? are feminists stopping you from practicing your woman-hate? |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 3:59am On Jun 30, 2013 |
Sheryl Sandberg is another role model and inspiration for women all over the world. I will post more about her soon. |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 3:58am On Jun 30, 2013 |
Chimamanda Adichie I salute u |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 3:55am On Jun 30, 2013 |
I.Joan:keep your salute to yourself. they will be rolling in their graves as they read your post. it is people like you who spit on them as they fought to let women the rights that we have today. you won't be typing from a computer if not for them. you went to school and got an education didn't you? yes there were women who spit on those "feminist of old" you talk about. these same women were used by men as tool to fight women. again, u are an enemy of women's rights and whatever meaning of feminism that you have should be apparent in the fact that toshman called you a feminist! clearly neither of you know what feminism is!! 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 3:52am On Jun 30, 2013 |
CAMEROONPRIDE: C.four is definitely dumber than I thought. Why is that among the people who collect garbage you don't see women? Plumber, butcher, etc. All those menial jobs have more men and we don't see you complaining.http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/lagos-employs-70-women-truck-drivers/ https://www.nairaland.com/1021836/female-lawma-truck-drivers-iyawo http://africansearchlight.com/lagos-state-employs-70-women-as-waste-truck-drivers/ |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 3:50am On Jun 30, 2013 |
I.Joan:you seem to be against women gaining advancement in STEM disciplines. why? for you to be so adamantly against my opinion that girls should be empowered to tackle STEM classes. goes to show your true colors as anti women's rights. I am done arguing with you. |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 3:48am On Jun 30, 2013 |
I.Joan:I don't know any woman out there who doesn't want to be successful in life. do you? should we have decided not to educate girls becuase all women's life "end in the kitchen" as the mantra was back then? let the girls be successful in STEM. then the can decide for themselves when the are adult if they want to pursue the career. how about that? so far, most women who major in STEM disciplines choose stem careers. so that goes to show that they want to. why do you think many women are working if they enjoyed being submissive housewives like the anti-feminists of the 60s told us? also, you have not answered my question. what motivates you to debate atheists on the religion boards? |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 3:42am On Jun 30, 2013 |
I.Joan:another classic I.Joan post!! remember that men argued against women gaining an education in the past because they felt that women like it better as housewives in d kitchen. they didn't have the mind for education. schools used to be exclusively for boys only. the same argument u r making that women enjoy being oppressed. have u considered the fact that middle eastern societies opress their women and not that the women enjoy being oppressed? |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 3:35am On Jun 30, 2013 |
fellis: God of Israel save your childrenabi o.  |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 3:34am On Jun 30, 2013 |
I.Joan:why do you think there are few women in technology fields? why do you think they do not have a "flair" for it. last time I checked, the president of Harvard University (Larry Summers) was recently FIRED for claiming that women were dumber than men that's why they do not go into science and math. do you agree with him? feminists of course played a role in actively making sure he was ousted!!! and rightfully so. |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 3:32am On Jun 30, 2013 |
I.Joan:again, you said that you argue agaisnt atheist on the religion board. could you explain to me why you do so? I need to explain to you what ideology means today. I believe in equality for men and women and believe there should be just as many women in calculus classes as men! answer my question plz. |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 3:30am On Jun 30, 2013 |
and even though USA is on that list, although not at #1 where it should be, among minority communities, the gender inequality is much much greater!! in fact, if u remove minority and conservatives, USA may move up two points. |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 3:29am On Jun 30, 2013 |
druid06: We have proven to you about your views on so called feminism isn't actually what you thought it was.great. an anti-feminist guy trying to explain to me what feminism is and should be! abeg go and sit down |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 3:26am On Jun 30, 2013 |
biolabee: There are more females in stem now than 30 years agoyes of course there are more than 30 yrs ago but certainly not enough. I'm sure you can agree to that. if not, then u might as well state upfront that u wish there weren't any women in STEM at all!! besides, how do u think we gain ground from 30yrs ago? |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 3:25am On Jun 30, 2013 |
top 10 countries that champion women's rights in order: Iceland Finland Sweden Norway New Zealand UK Canada USA Netherlands Australia |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 3:23am On Jun 30, 2013 |
druid06: Since iceland is the ideal country for this so called "feminist", why don't they relocate there and leave the rest of the world be.the point is to make all parts of the country have as much gender equality as iceland or even more! |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 3:22am On Jun 30, 2013 |
I.Joan:no one said you were against female coders! my question is do you support the need for MORE female coders? ex. I help to organize and sponsor a yearly event for girls to meet with female engineers and learn about STEM careers. there are too few women in many STEM careers and one way to combat this is to help girls see role models they can look up to to see that they can do it too. or are you apathetic and could care less if women remain shut out of technological fields? an example of that would be margaret thatcher. prime minister of UK who was a rabid anti-feminist. she was a member of the conservative party too. toshman would be proud. |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 3:16am On Jun 30, 2013 |
davidylan: 1. Iceland? lol because they produced the first elected female president? Wait... America will do that in 2016.Iceland is # 1 for gender equality. I actually didn't even know that they produced the first elected female president. that is good to know and it makes sense. no wonder. they set the example for other countries. and that is also part of what feminism is all about. |
| Politics › Re: We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Adichie by 99cent: 3:15am On Jun 30, 2013 |
I.Joan:so becuase burqa wasn't forced on middle eastern women, so we should all ignore what is going on there? i'm sure u have heard of the amina case in northern nigeria under sharia. should international world also have ignored it? all the children and women being persecuted and accused of witchcraft, should we also ignore those because those women and children are "not complaining"? abeg, let us hear word. |
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