T-Shirt bought a few weeks ago
I have now decided to picture myself (and I currently still wear it) with a #t-shirt I have bough a few weeks ago from #spreadshirt shop:
I have now decided to picture myself (and I currently still wear it) with a #t-shirt I have bough a few weeks ago from #spreadshirt shop:
Hypolite Petovan
So I'm going to leave a few parting words before bowing out:
- The specific idea developed in Georges Orwell's 1984 that controlling language is controlling thought is utterly wrong. Language is what people are making of it, and thought is otherwise influenced by a number of other things, like power dynamics, feelings and culture, language probably being pretty low on the list. We come up with words to describe novel thoughts all the time, so language hardly constraints thought.
- Feminism is explicitly about "respect[ing] women, want[ing] to have oppression stopped and equality for them". Any additional meaning you tacked on that word shows your thoughts about feminism have been negatively influenced by something or someone else. Your denial of being a feminist sounds like someo
... show moreSo I'm going to leave a few parting words before bowing out:
Roland Häder
I don't want to have female oppression, I don't want to have male oppression, any one of not being heterosexual shall also not be oppressed. This is what I want and that goes far beyond only being against oppression of woman (which is good but still not enough). Let's end oppression all together!
Polarized thinking is like this: If you are not for (positive) feminism, you must be a woman-hater. This is thinking in two colors, binary states while life is never binary or black/white or red/green.
Yes, my T-Shirt may provoke some people, That is fine, at least they talk and think about the topic at hand: #Cunnilingus Which is is so important to nearly... show more
I don't want to have female oppression, I don't want to have male oppression, any one of not being heterosexual shall also not be oppressed. This is what I want and that goes far beyond only being against oppression of woman (which is good but still not enough). Let's end oppression all together!
Polarized thinking is like this: If you are not for (positive) feminism, you must be a woman-hater. This is thinking in two colors, binary states while life is never binary or black/white or red/green.
Yes, my T-Shirt may provoke some people, That is fine, at least they talk and think about the topic at hand: #Cunnilingus Which is is so important to nearly all women. I have been to a sexual consultant and she (not he) said it, that most women want it, they can relax, be themselves, enjoy the pleasure given to then. Exactly that is what I love so much about it.
Hypolite Petovan
I'll use my comparison with food diet again: you are saying you are an omnivore, and you don't like to be called a carnivore. But you eat meat, which constitutes being a carnivore. You don't eat only meat, granted, but "carnivore" is still more accurate to describe what you're doing than "not being a carnivore".
Being a feminist doesn't mean you aren't also anti-racist and LGBT-friendly. But explicitly "not being a feminist" has a special negative meaning that doesn't even approach what you are describing about being against all oppressions. Just take the label, it accurately describes a part of what you claim to stand for, and it will occur less confusion than rejecting it altogether.
Roland Häder
Hypolite Petovan
Roland Häder
Hypolite Petovan
Roland Häder
So how should we call them then? Okay, cellular entities.
Hypolite Petovan