#feminist manifesto

[overtlydinosaurian]

Are you a Feminist?

Are You A Feminist, the introduction of Jessa Crispin's 2017 feminist manifesto

Do you believe women are human beings and deserve to be treated as such? That women deserve all the same rights and liberties bestowed upon men? If so, then you are a feminist, or so all the feminists keep insisting.

Despite the simplicity and obviousness of the dictionary definition of feminism, and despite years of working at feminist nonprofits and decades of advocacy, I am disowning the label. If you asked me today if I am a feminist, I would not only say no, I would say no with a sneer.

Don't worry this is not where I insist I am not a feminist because I am afraid of being mistaken for one of those "hairy -legged, angry, man hating feminists" who are drawn up like Boogeyman by men and women alike. Nor will I now reassure you of my approachability, my reasonable nature, my heteronormativity, my love of men and my sexual availability (despite the fact that this disclaimer appears to be a requisite for all feminist writing published in the last 15 years.) If anything, that pose- I am harmless, I am toothless, you can fuck me -is why I find myself rejecting the feminist label. All these bad feminists, all these Talmudic "can you be a feminist and still have a bikini wax?" discussions. All of these reassurances to their (male) audiences that they don't want too much, won't go too far - "we don't know what Andrea Dworkin was on about either! Trust us!" All of these feminists giving blowjobs like its missionary work. Somewhere along the way towards female liberation, it was decided the most effective method was for feminism to become universal. But instead of shaping a world and a philosophy that would become attractive to the masses, a world based on fairness and community and exchange, it was feminism itself that would have to be rebranded and remarketed for contemporary men and women.

They forgot that for something to be universally accepted, it must be banal, as non-threatening and ineffective as possible. Hence the pose. People don't like change, and so feminism must be as close to the status quo - with minor modifications - as it can be in order to recruit large numbers. In other words it has to become entirely pointless. Radical change is scary. It's terrifying actually. And the feminism I support is a full-on revolution. Where women are not simply allowed to participate in the world as it already exists - a world that because it was devised by a patriarchy in order to subjugate and control and destroy all challengers is inherently a corrupt world - but are actively able to reshape the world. Where women do not simply knock on the doors of churches, of governments, as capitalist marketplaces and politely ask for admittance, but create their own religious systems, governments, and economies. My feminism is not one of incremental change that is so revealed in the end to be The Same As Ever, but more so. It is a cleansing fire. Asking for a system that was built on the express purpose of oppression to um? please stop oppressing me? Is nonsense work. The only task that is worth doing is fully dismantling and replacing that system. This is why I cannot associate myself with a feminism that focuses dementedly on ""self empowerment,"" whose goals do not include the full destruction of corporate culture but merely a higher percentage of female CEOs in military officers, a feminism that requires no thought no discomfort and no real change. If feminism is universal it is something that all women and men can get on board with, then it is not for me. If feminism is nothing more than personal gain disguised as political progress, then it is not for me. By declaring myself a feminist I must reassure you that I am not angry, I post no threat, then definitely feminism is not for me.

I am angry and I do pose a threat.

-Jessa Crispin, Why I Am Not a Feminist, Emphasis mine.

Crispin, J. (2017). In Why I Am Not a Feminist (pp. ix–xii). introduction, Melville House.

[androgynealienfemme]

“The Woman Identified Woman” from Radicallesbians (1971) sourced from Burn It Down! Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution.

[aidzpanwchuj]

~ Vivian Gornick in introduction to Valerie's Solanas "Scum Manifesto"

[slidehead]

hello online feminist do you hate men as an extension of the hierarchical class they create, uphold and coercively enforce in society or do you hate men because you genuinely believe they are evil through an inherent biological heritage that cannot be mended

[misandrist-meme-machine]

[my-vanishing-rad]

The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that is, it has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.

Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

[dworkinhardorhardlydworkin]

Does anyone have the url of the woman who made the radfem bling banners? I had some downloaded but I need more (also if you know of others/have made some of your own, add that as well!!)

The ones I still have are:

I don't even recall if these are all from the same blog either ngl

[raddietrin]

favorite excerpts from SCUM manifesto by Valerie Solanas

[willowren]

read the Scum Manifesto today if you don’t want tomorrow to be the Handmaid’s Tale

[scum-man-of-pesto]

Okay I found out that the band I posted about before dropped a new song a couple months ago that's one half andrea dworkin speech and one half like hardcore punk about killing rapists and how aileen wuornos did nothing wrong but my reblog about it didn't get much attention so I'm just posting this one myself. This shit rips and I'm so glad that the gash rock thing is picking up traction now bc I'm so tired of liberal-ass riot grrrl. Start a rad ass band today!! It's never too late

[lesbianlenses]

[aidzpanwchuj]

~ Valerie Solanas "Scum Manifesto"

[widevibratobitch]

dont you think its fucked up how once upon a time women couldn't vote and barely had any human rights but somehow were still allowed to yell on stage and now we tell them to sing quieter and more feminine and less vulgar like feminism just cant ever fucking win what is life but an ongoing performance of the magic flute forever

[misandrist-meme-machine]

[bluebelltohell6]

miss this queen

[cherryvampyre]