#women's lib

[redditreceipts]

how about the men who are apparently weak enough to "stumble" when seeing an underage girl's developing breasts are just not fit for Christian heaven and by constantly accomodating them, you are actually getting in the way of God's plan to send only the righteous to heaven? Because a guy who puts his own comfort over the safety of another person isn't that righteous after all and won't get into heaven either way.

(I don't really believe in Christianity btw, I am just trying to follow the argument of not cause men to "stumble" instead of teaching them how to be a righteous person. in my opinion, the latter would get them into heaven at a much higher rate than just making girls vulnerable to car accidents)

[oldshowbiz]

her favorite subject is abortion

[comic-covers]

(1972)

[lisamarie-vee]

[radfemboards]

Feminism and hippie culture/aesthetics 🌻🐿️🦎🌼 board for anon

Yonic tree hollow with fungi - https://www.tumblr.com/radfemboards/730479934654529536?source=share

2. Sunflower png - https://www.tumblr.com/radfemboards/730479811159605248/northlamed-i-know-this-has-probably-been-done-a?source=share

3. Country Lesbians: The Story of the Womanshare Collective - https://www.tumblr.com/radfemboards/730479775264784384/fernstream-uwmspeccoll-staff-pick-of-the-week?source=share

4. 70s style floral phone - https://www.tumblr.com/radfemboards/730479762986893312/disease-70s-style-phone-decor?source=share

5. Houseplant vine - https://www.tumblr.com/radfemboards/730479754952720384?source=share

6. 60s/70s Lesbian Feminist books from Archieve.org - https://www.tumblr.com/radfemboards/730479729382162432/a-wlw-reads-books-from-archiveorg-i-was-amazed?source=share

7. 1960s Activist photos - https://www.tumblr.com/radfemboards/730479723081302016?source=share

8. Vintage mug - https://www.tumblr.com/radfemboards/730479711152635905?source=share

9. Anti-Violence Against Women pin button '75 - https://www.tumblr.com/radfemboards/730479707196424192?source=share

10. International Womens Day pin button '78 - https://www.tumblr.com/radfemboards/730479704168169472?source=share

11. Amazon pin button - https://www.tumblr.com/radfemboards/730479700895498240?source=share

12. Shameless Hussy Press publication '71 - https://www.tumblr.com/radfemboards/730479687471628288/uwmspeccoll-first-feminist-press-shameless?source=share

13. Third World Women's Alliance protestor at a women's lib protest '70 - https://www.tumblr.com/radfemboards/730479675746451456/oldnewyork-a-womens-liberation-demonstration?source=share

14. Butterflies from illustration published in the Haight-Ashbury Tribune '67 - https://www.tumblr.com/radfemboards/730479672492752897/undergroundrockpress-haight-ashbury-tribune?source=share

15. Cynthia Macadams / Emergence photographs - https://www.tumblr.com/radfemboards/730479661622149120/unionrising-cynthia-macadams?source=share

16. 1970s mushrooms and ladybugs stickers - https://www.tumblr.com/radfemboards/730479644852338688?source=share

17. Vintage rugs - https://www.tumblr.com/radfemboards/730479640371675136?source=share

18. Oregon Wimmin's Land shirt - https://www.tumblr.com/radfemboards/730482377873391616?source=share

19. “Dyke Country,” a poster by Marilyn Gayle, reprinted from the book What Lesbians Do - https://www.tumblr.com/radfemboards/730482374559809536/songsforgorgons-dyke-country-a-poster-by?source=share

20. Dandelions picked in a colander png - https://www.tumblr.com/radfemboards/730483570751242240/snailspng-things-i-loved-as-a-kid-pngs-1?source=share

21. Dandelion jam with toast on a plate png - https://www.tumblr.com/radfemboards/730483675809071104/random-pngs-part-120-1-golden-emperor-moth-2?source=share

22. Monarch butterflies in chrysalis png - https://www.tumblr.com/radfemboards/730483639970938880/snailspng-random-pngs-part-124-1-art?source=share

[idasessions]

Gloria Steinem c. 1967

[ubu507]

women's lib meeting

[who-canceled-roger-rabbit]

In the same spirit as the old phrase Women's Lib as an alternate name for feminism, has anyone coined the term Mad Lib as an alternate name for mad pride

[liskantope]

A professional acquaintance who is herself at some stage of menopause recently posted on social media this NYT piece on the difficulties working women face when going through menopause. I know menopause can be pretty rough for a lot of people, and I also know in principle the article could be exaggerating or cherry-picking to make a feminist point, and as long as my current state of knowledge on this topic remains close to zero, I'm completely agnostic on how fair an assessment it's making of how much of a challenge menopause presents for the average woman in the workplace.

But I do want to make a point about the nature of the feminist point articles like this are clearly trying to make, which is that the feminists propounding them don't come across to me as looking at the full picture and being wary of the possible consequences of playing the "women are so physically disadvantaged" hand. Now maybe the article paints a perfectly accurate picture of the direness of the situation for menopausal working women, or even downplays it, in which case, fine. But a major rationale for sexist biases, particularly in hiring, seems to come from the idea that having a body that menstruates and goes through all the related things makes someone less fit, less pleasant to be around, and more likely to complain or make excuses for not being able to do things. (I wasn't around during the main women's lib movement, but I'm pretty sure "women have too many, uh, feminine ailments to be welcomed into the workplace at all without leading to problems for everyone involved" was a pretty common view from the conservative side.) It's not exactly subtle that articles like this are going to play right into that narrative, big time. Or to put it another way, it's good to raise awareness of true problems but also important to be as truthful as possible about the degree of the problems, because regardless of truth values the more strongly problems like this are played, the stronger "women are too weak to be relied on" narratives are going to become, period.

This is one particular type of Women Can't feminism (low-agency-ism) versus Women Can feminism (high-agency-ism) situation, except that unreservedly leaning into the Women Can't side arguably comes with fewer concrete advantages and certainly its dangers are more blatant than usual here: the disadvantages of one's body having to go through menopause can't be framed as the fault of other individuals or of society*; and claims of these physical forms of weakness are very explicitly weaponized by sexists.

*Yes, clearly, writers of articles describing health difficulties of this type tend to be indirectly framing them as such, I guess, by claiming they're exacerbated by the medical establishment not taking women's health seriously or workplaces not making enough accommodations for women.

[jhsharman]

Ski stunts

All right. The term "women's lib" gets bronzed in a time and place, even as we continue the basic message of showing up the unimpressive male chauvinists. The second line is probably more natural, with the first the effort to spell out the topic of the day.

And what we have here?

And ... Fighting A double standard. Decide if you find the guys hot yourself.

Interesting fumbling for a statement, not even wanting to leave Reggie's initial judgement as acceptably unacceptable.

[radblr-positivity]

“Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power – not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.” ― Bell Hooks

we cannot, will not, be silenced, destroyed, or subjugated. We are taking back our power.

[oldshowbiz]

January 1970.

Female employees of CBS in New York held a slack-in to demand their right to wear pants to work.

[mrbopst]

[lisamarie-vee]

[ot3]

i do fundamentally agree with the idea that stuff like 'man' and 'women' dont have to be mutually exclusive, people can identify as whatever they want, and gender is there to be played around with as much as anyone likes. but i do feel like we're seeing a trend amongst some subsets of people where they can't hold those beliefs and Also accept the fact that as it stands 'woman' is still a very real and important political class of people. like it really would be great if we were in a place culturally where gender categorizations werent very politically relevant. but they clearly are. and i feel like a lot of people in an attempt to find an understanding of gender that makes them more comfortable have subconsciously kind of abandoned a framework that calls for a structured women's lib movement.

and it's like, on one side you have large swathes of the population who still aren't fully sold on the whole 'women are people' thing. and then on the other side you have a group who correctly understand that the whole gender thing is pretty bullshit. but then, instead of using feminism as a platform to try and build towards a world that reflects those ideals politically they have just kind of retreated fully into idpol and abandoned the scraps of the feminist framework to the radfems to re-appropriate into. fucking. nouveau phrenology.

it just sucks man it feels like we're sort of at an all time low in regards to public interest in meaningful feminism that i've witnessed in my lifetime.

[idasessions]

Gloria Steinem by Susan Wood, April 1974