feminism
Stuart Evans added 2y ago
- Mothers have martyred themselves in their children’s names since the beginning of time. We have lived as if she who disappears the most, loves the most. We have been conditioned to prove our love by slowly ceasing to exist... What a terrible burden for children to bear—to know that they are the reason their mother stopped living. What a terrible bu... See more
from Untamed by Glennon Doyle by glennon doyle
sari added 1y ago
- Through the eyes of an imbalanced patriarchy, matriarchy is invisible. Matriarchy is not patriarchy with women substituted into men’s patriarchal roles. It is not women exercising the kind of power that men have in patriarchy. Matriarchy enacts another kind of power entirely, one that the modern mind cannot easily recognize.
from Feminine Power by Charles Eisenstein
Stuart Evans added 1y ago
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dane cads added 2y ago
- This process directs anti-patriarchal, feminist sentiment into the narrow channel of the mirror, rather than outwards, towards communal, longer-term feminist goals. The soft smiles and high-pitched giggles are admittedly alluring after the disappointments of earlier feminist movements, but the ecstasy of idiocy reveals a darker sentiment than even ... See more
from On Bimbos and Tradwives - Majuscule
Faith Hahn added 1y ago
- The way we think about thought is political. This much was evident at the birth of the modern study of the mind, when Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia wrote to René Descartes in 1643 to question his account of cognition. Her self-deprecation will be familiar to any woman who’s dared to dispute with an eminence, and knows that the best way to begin is ... See more
from Feminists never bought the idea of a mind set free from its body | Aeon Essays by Sally Davies
Faith Hahn added 1y ago
- Whatever initial appeal this argument has, it owes to the unpleasantness of corporate drudgery in general, not to the predicament of female corporate drudges in particular. Invariably, the job that features in articles like Andrews’s is soul-sucking, pointless and therefore presumed to have been chosen solely for the prestige it confers (although s... See more
from Women’s Work | The Point Magazine by Becca Rothfeld
Faith Hahn added 1y ago
Stuart Evans added 2y ago
Feminist Economics
Tara McMullin added 1y ago