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Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:01:20 -0500

10 Reasons Why The Addams Family Is Awesome(ly Feminist)

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 09:01:10 -0500

soapboxinggeek:

1. Anjelica Huston was 40 when she played Morticia. Considering that it’s very hard for women over 40 (who aren’t A-listers) to get lead parts, that’s already a milestone. But she’s also sexy. Incredibly sexy. Yes, she’s playing the mother of a pair of preteens, but she appears immaculately (and eerily) beautiful in every scene she’s in. How often do we see a mother character who is genuinely sexy?

2. Morticia and Gomez Addams are famously in love with each other. What set the 1960s series apart from all other sitcoms was that this was a married couple who were crazy about each other, instead of fighting. In the film, this tradition of their great love affair continues. There are no mother-in-law jokes, both take responsibility in raising the children, and have a very healthy sex life. So many stories have the love story end at marriage, or have the couple grow to loathe each other over time. Just think of it - a loving marriage was groundbreaking.

3. Addams Family Values explicitly challenges conformist WASPs at the Summer Camp that Wednesday and Pugsley stay at. The siblings absolutely refuse to compromise themselves and pretend to be happy or to enjoy sickeningly sappy things (like Annie the musical). The camp counsellors show favouritism to the traditionally attractive blonde white rich kids, and it’s made quite obvious how hateful and hypocritical they really are. At the end of the movie, Wednesday and the other “outcasts” deliberately sabotage the counsellors’ tremendously racist Thanksgiving play by symbolically enacting revenge for the genocide that Native Americans suffered at the hands of white people.

4. Despite the Addamses having two children of each sex (at least in the first film), it is the girl that gets the good parts. That doesn’t happen very often at all - other examples of media that has two siblings of each sex almost always emphasizes the brother. Christina Ricci’s sarcastic and deadpan portrayal of Wednesday is one of the highlights of an already perfectly cast set of films. It contrasts sharply with the cheerful Wednesday from the TV version, but I can’t be the only one longing for more sardonic brunette girls in family movies…who aren’t the villains.

5. The climax of The Addams Family seemingly has a damsel-in-distress situation…except that it’s been turned on its head. Morticia…enjoys…being tied up and tortured. Yep kiddies, here’s your first introduction to bondage and BDSM! It’s played for laughs of course, as it always is, but notice that when Gomez and Morticia discuss her predicament, it’s with absolute passion. Their kinkiness is just another aspect of their already healthy sex life. And in the end, the damsel-in-distress isn’t really in distress at all! Sure, she needed to be untied, but Morticia was definitely not in any danger.

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"Men should be offended when someone claims that women should prevent rape by not wearing certain..."

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 06:01:10 -0500

“Men should be offended when someone claims that women should prevent rape by not wearing certain things or not going certain places or not acting in a certain way. That line of thinking presumes that you are incapable of control. That you are so base and uncivilized that it takes extraordinary effort for you to walk down the street without raping someone. That you require certain dress code be maintained, that certain behaviors be employed so that maybe today, just maybe, you won’t rape someone. It presumes that your natural state is rapist.”

- Common sense. (via itscandidlycara)

shooting4ownhand: fuckyeahfeminists: jessbennett: Women of...

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 03:00:57 -0500

Women of Protest: Suffragists picket outside the White House in 1917

Women of Protest: Conferring over ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution at National Woman's Party headquarters in Washington

Woman of Protest: Lucy Burns

Woman of Protest: Dora Lewis

Woman of Protest: Alice Paul

shooting4ownhand:

fuckyeahfeminists:

jessbennett:

Women of Protest: A Feminist History Refresher

It wasn’t until 1920 that women were granted suffrage, but it was 1917 when members of the National Women’s Party — Alice Paul, Lucy Burns and others — picketed outside the White House, burning copies of Woodrow Wilson’s speeches and demanding the right to vote. What resulted — mass arrests (most for “obstructing traffic”), unlawful imprisonment and bloody beatings — became known as the Night of Terror, though it’s fair to say most among my generation don’t know it.

The Night of Terror took place on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Workhouse Prison, in Occoquan, Virginia, ordered his guards to teach the suffragists a lesson. For weeks, the women’s only water had come from an open pail. Their food had been infested with worms. But on this night, some 40 prison guards wielding clubs beat the women senseless — grabbing, dragging, choking, kicking and pinching them, according to affidavits recounting the attacks.

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Would love to see a post that concentrated on women of colour and the right to vote. Anyone have any recommendations/links??

There are no good websites/online articles about WOC and the right to vote.

There are three books on black women’s suffrage which are; African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920 by Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and Electoral Politics in Illinois, 1877-1932 by Lisa G. Materson, and African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965 (an anthology).

I have stated there is not a lot of scholarship on women’s suffrage, that is especially true for WOC and suffrage.

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Fri, 09 Nov 2012 21:00:37 -0500

elongate: the women who hate ME. #dorothyallison

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:00:38 -0500

elongate:

the women who hate ME. #dorothyallison

man-and-camera: I admire Albert Einstein, and I admire nature....

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:00:27 -0500

man-and-camera:

I admire Albert Einstein, and I admire nature. It seemed suiting

nastyghoul: what do you mean you dont believe in abortion and gay marriage they clearly exist

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:00:40 -0500

nastyghoul:

what do you mean you dont believe in abortion and gay marriage they clearly exist

That an openly-gay woman can be elected to the Senate while men...

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 09:00:22 -0500

That an openly-gay woman can be elected to the Senate while men who make light of rape cannot, we give thanks, O God.

oddwritesstuff: Our first ever black president has won a second term. We now have openly gay and...

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 06:00:22 -0500

oddwritesstuff:

Our first ever black president has won a second term.

We now have openly gay and pansexual senators.

We now have a female veteran who lost both her legs in combat in office.

Puerto Rico is going to become a state.

More than one state has made marriage equality a reality.

We are living in a time of change, and it feels really fucking good.

flancoulter: you don’t have to…………personally enjoy weed………to appreciate the start of the very very...

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 03:00:20 -0500

flancoulter:

you don’t have to…………personally enjoy weed………to appreciate the start of the very very slow, gradual end of the incredibly racist and classist “war on drugs”…………………

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Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:00:24 -0500

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Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:00:20 -0500

daintyblackpegasus: real quick notice that romney talked about wives at home while their husbands...

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 15:00:38 -0500

daintyblackpegasus:

real quick

notice that romney talked about wives at home while their husbands are at war

and obama just said “military spouses”.

micro leads to macro, that inclusion, even in language, is important

fearandwar: Pretty big news.

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:00:32 -0500

fearandwar:

Pretty big news.

alittlequeerlove: meow!

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 09:00:41 -0500

alittlequeerlove:

meow!

rubato: faineemae: Tulsi Gabbard becomes first Hindu-American...

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 06:00:41 -0500

rubato:

faineemae:

Tulsi Gabbard becomes first Hindu-American in US Congress

Washington, Nov 7 — While all five Indian-American candidates hoping to enter the US Congress lost out, Tulsi Gabbard today created history by becoming the first Hindu-American to enter the US House of Representatives.

An Iraq war veteran, 31-year-old Gabbard defeated K. Crowley of the Republican Party with a handsome margin in Hawaii’s second Congressional district. Her victory has been cheered by the Hindu-American community across the country.

The heavily Democratic district also elected one of two Buddhists to have ever served in the Congress, Mazie Hirono, who won her seat in 2006 but is now running for the US Senate.

Born in American Samoa to a Catholic father and a Hindu mother, Gabbard moved to Hawaii when she was two. In 2002, at age 21, she was elected to the Hawaii state legislature.

The next year, she joined the Hawaii National Guard, and in 2004 was deployed to Baghdad as a medical operations specialist. After completing officers’ training, she was deployed to Kuwait in 2008 to train the country’s counter-terrorism units.

“Although there are not very many Hindus in Hawaii, I never felt discriminated against. I never really gave it a second thought growing up that any other reality existed, or that it was not the same everywhere,” Gabbard said in a statement soon after she took an unbeatable lead over her Republican challenger.

“On my last trip to the mainland, I met a man who told me that his teenage daughter felt embarrassed about her faith, but after meeting me, she’s no longer feeling that way,” Gabbard said.

“He was so happy that my being elected to Congress would give hope to hundreds and thousands of young Hindus in America, that they can be open about their faith, and even run for office, without fear of being discriminated against or attacked because of their religion,” Gabbard said.

At 21, Gabbard became the youngest person elected to the Hawaii legislature. At 23, she was the state’s first elected official to voluntarily resign to go to war. At 28, she was the first woman to be presented with an award by the Kuwait Army National Guard.

omg this whole election has been so gr9 for women of color

shooting4ownhand: fatttttyfatdancepants: adventuresofcomicbookg...

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 03:00:36 -0500

shooting4ownhand:

fatttttyfatdancepants:

adventuresofcomicbookgirl:

Some of this is taken from other posts. Ladies makin’ history collage.

Mary Gonzalez is the Representative-elect for Texas and will be the first openly pansexual official in the United States. She acknowledged the existence of non-binary identities when she came out.

Mazie Hirono is the Senator Elect from Hawaii and will be the first Asian-American woman in the Senate.

Tammy Duckworth is the Representative-elect for Illinois. She lost both her legs in the Iraq War and will be the first disabled female veteran elected to the House.

Tammy Baldwin is the Senator Elect from Winsconsin and the first openly gay person ever elected to the Senate.

(There was some misinformation over her stance on transgender issues (admittedly, the whole incident was a bit fuzzy at the end) but to clear things up, she has publically spoken out against transgender discrimination and advocated for their rights as recently as last year.)

GET IT, GRRRRRRRRRRRL!

This is also a historic election because there are now more women in the senate than in any other time in US history!

fyeahqueervintage: Gay pride, 1970, USA

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 21:00:40 -0500

fyeahqueervintage:

Gay pride, 1970, USA

I will ride, I will fly. Chase the wind and touch the sky.

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:00:41 -0500

I will ride,
I will fly.
Chase the wind
and touch the sky.