The precarious social positioning and aspirations that hamstring women described by Beauvoir in 1949, still ring true today. “In The Second Sex (1949), Simone de Beauvoir argued that women were at a disadvantage in a society where they grew up under ‘a multiplicity of incompatible myths’ about women. Instead
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Dead Wild Roses: The Normalization of Abuse Against Females in Our Society – Shanita Hubbard
Oh my goodness, an actual intersectional analysis of oppression. Thank you Shanita Hubbbard. I would recommend reading the entire article as this pull quote merely sets the stage for a vivid example of multiple axis of oppression that black women face growing up in our white patriarchal society.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Female Socialization – Mary Wollstonecraft
“Wollstonecraft concentrated on describing the state of ignorance and servility to which women were condemned by social custom and training. The passionate feeling with which her book is imbued give it wide social appeal and persuasive power. […] Wollstonecraft’s acute question – “how many generations may be necessary to give vigour to the virtue […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Difficulty of Asserting Boundaries
The lived experiences of women are fundamentally different than men. Go to This Ain’t Livin’ blog for the full post. “This is the society we live in: it’s difficult for women and people socialised as women to assert their boundaries because they were trained to have no boundaries, and consequently,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Unhappy Reality of Female Socialization :(
A helpful primer for the dudes out there. Thank you, Fugitivus “Here’s a situation every woman is familiar with: some guy she knows, perhaps a casual acquaintance, perhaps just some dude at the bus stop, is obviously infatuated with her. He’s making conversation, he’s giving her the eye. She
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