Sentences with phrase «thing as a feminist»

In your opinion is an egalitarian the same thing as feminist?

Thinking back to the time she wrote her most famous piece, she once told Reilly that «there was no such thing as a feminist art history: like all other forms of historical discourse, it had to be constructed.

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You know, those likes like «They're all the same» or «Men are stupid» or «Men are pigs», the crap feminists invented and called equality while calling the same language back misogyny and in many cases denying the existence of any such thing as misandry.

It seems clear to me that the feminist assertion of the interconnectedness of all things moves in the direction of perceiving this Self - formation process as emerging out of our relationships with other women.

But as long as I know how important maternal health is to Haiti's future, and as long as I know that women are being abused and raped, as long as I know that girls are being denied life itself through selective abortion, abandonment, and abuse, as long as brave little girls in Afghanistan are being attacked with acid for the crime of going to school, and until being a Christian is synonymous with doing something about these things, you can also call me a feminist.

You are labelling Sain as a feminist among other things.

I certainly appreciate your confidence in me, but here's the thing: There's a double - standard out there in which a woman's critique of patriarchy tends to get discounted as nothing more than the rants of an «angry feminist,» and, truth be told, I've grown a bit weary of hearing that charge each time I speak out about this disturbing trend in the evangelical church.

There are many mysterious things about the modern world, but the biggest mystery of all is how «the sexual revolution» is viewed as some sort of feminist triumph, when the objective truth is that if the most despicable, cretinous, woman - loathing men of a century ago had outlined their....

So perhaps Ms. Peeters» film can tell us some things about us as well — it does not hesitate, after all, to move its camera from the harassing men onto the various soft - porn advertisements that also haunt the streets of Brussels, and ask the old - fashioned feminist question, one which Ms. Brown's magazine actively mocked and undermined, «How can we be respected when images like this are displayed and circulated?»

Dawkins» spats have a typical format: he says something quite offensive, there is a big fuss, then he starts to clarify his position with tweets such as: «Criticising SOME feminists is not the same thing as criticising ALL feminists.

But one of the things I've always loved about blogging is that I get to my whole self here: I get to love theology and Church talk, I get to write about mothering and family and marriage, I get to crack jokes at my own expense, I get to love Doctor Who and Call the Midwife, I get to love thrifting and knitting and pretty things as well as being a Jesus feminist, I get to be a homemaker who talks recipes and cleaning and laundry as well as a lover of literature and poetry and history and Girl Power, I love the local church and yet I don't wear rose - coloured glasses about this stuff.

Some things about the extremes of rampant feminist rhetoric are just as bad as what some men have said about women.

The question in my mind was to what extent are things complimentarian as posited by Piper and to what extent egalitarian as posited by feminist writers.

As The Mary Sue points out, the site was created by «a real life feminist computer engineer, because who needs boys to fix things?»

While second - wave feminism got so many things so very right, and made possible a great many of the career and life choices my generation of women enjoys today, many in that group of feminist thinkers got one thing fundamentally wrong, and that is this: even for those of us who are also productively employed outside the home — whether by choice, necessity or both — our most valued, fulfilling role is the one we take on as mothers to our children.

As a politically active feminist and a mother myself, I believe her time and ability to command editorial space in The Wall Street Journal would be far better spent opining about things like the need for better family leave and health care policies, improved access to birth control and higher education and affordable child care for working mothers rather than whether Angelina Jolie plans to adopt again or how long my friends plan to breastfeed their babies.

I'd never learned to sew before as I started secondary school at the same time as a new feminist headmistress who replaced home economics with IT (which is a good thing, obviously).

Among the most disturbing things for me to hear, as someone with an extensive background in women's studies, was that by being a Sugar Baby I wasn't a feminist.

Refn has described the film as «beyond feminist», yet this is a movie in which things are done to women's bodies (there's a scene in which Fanning's character is deep throated with a knife) and which parades naked women around to be defined by their beauty.

Revenge: Coralie Fargeat's feminist reworking of the rape - revenge genre changes the game in the best possible way — by engaging with the tropes, turning them up to eleven and framing the whole thing as an almost mythical narrative.

Eccentric with a humorless intensity, this curlicued story of an oddball family features Toni Collette doing her familiar overexpressive thing as an unconventional feminist single mom; old - soul kid actor Jason Spevack as her genius son, Henry, who's a miracle of artificial insemination; and Michael Sheen as an emotionally impacted academic with a bad memory.

Frances McDormand referred to the moment as a «tectonic shift,» and even Streisand, who experienced the feminist revolution of the 1960s and»70s, said she was proud to stand in a room with people who, when faced with uncomfortable truths «have vowed to change the way things are.»

«Rather than try to get rid of all the things that have constituted being a woman for so long, as some feminists in some ways try to do, I think we should embrace those aspects — regarding sexuality and our bodies,» says Alexandra.

Thus she was first schooled in the aesthetic standards of the male universal — then represented by Modernist formalism, in particular as it was espoused and delineated by critics such as Clement Greenberg — before she began to search for what might constitute a feminine / female / feminist aesthetic, whether such a thing might be, and, if so, how it might be different than the first system.