Now I understand why feminists who had respect for themselves always championed the steadfastness of supreme court justices and city councilwomen.
Growing up, there were a bunch of psychology articles and news editorials that would demand, “Do women university deans carouse in promiscuity and drunkenness? Do women doctors and lawyers chase around men or spend their lives OD-ing?”
Those feminists were actually doing this as a cautionary measure. They were quite clairvoyant. It seems that even back then, they knew that less scrupulous types would try to fool young females into thinking that promiscuity and drunken carousing were emblems of liberation and empowerment.
I often wondered why they felt they needed to offer us these constructive axioms. They would tell us to look to the greats, the trailblazers, the pioneers. Look to the women who paved the way and busted through glass ceilings so that we may seek actualization.
Back then I was always thinking, “Look, I agree completely! I think it is wonderful that you are pointing to self-respecting women as exemplars.” But while I definitely appreciated the gesture of them offering us role models, I felt that we didn’t even need to go to the effort to extrapolate that far for a worthy argument against treating women like sxxx objects.
Simply in and of *itself,* sexual objectification crap is unacceptable. This is degrading demeaning unladylike behavior. This is not respecting oneself. -(and two) not every girl is necessarily going to be a supreme court justice or become a doctor or lawyer. That does not mean she is any less worthy of dignity.
...which I believe is just as valid. This is because I am not easily fooled.
But it seems that a disturbingly large number of the little girls today are easily duped. Those earlier feminists had been trying to warn us of the false gods that would demand worship from young naiive females, much like the golden calf of yore.
And this Moulin Rouge shyte?? Is this supposed to be what passes for "girl power" these days? Don't try that with me. Silly child, I grew up in the era of Lilith Fair with my hero, Sarah McLachlan. I know from women musicians who are genuinely talented, and are good people who respect themselves.
The current spate of media is especially horrifying because it has taken multiculturalism and turned it into a travesty of what it used to be. Sick, disgusting, crass way of treating black women. The music industry has degenerated into a sopping, raggedy, gross mess on the floor. I saw a news segment the other day reporting on the sort of weird shyte trash that MTV is showing. The trash part isn't new, but what is alarming is that black women are the ones being objectified, demeaned, and degraded to mere body parts. In some very sickening, nauseating ways. I don't even think there are words in the English language that can capture the type of fury and disgust and disappointment I feel with the human race when I see this.
Worst of all, it is disheartening how these black women musicians are treating themselves. Whatever happened to the intelligent, truly strong, self-respecting women in my time?
Back in my day we had Lauryn Hill's wisdom setting girls straight. She told young girls the truth and looked and sounded beautiful doing it. I think it's rather awesome that she has a family with Bob Marley's son. That seems so perfect and very satisfying in so many ways. They are not legally married and I am aware that that is not ideal. But I feel that in God's eyes they are husband and wife
Erykah Badu was also a strong female presence, time was. She was intelligent, kind, cerebral, feminine, and she had a thread of iron wire through her soul that never wavered.
india.arie -- not the average girl from yur video.
But we have not heard from these ladies in a while, and that is extremely discouraging.
These feminists whom I grew up with were so much... smarter than the pseudo-feminists of today. They wanted girls to have enough respect for themselves not to lower their IQs just to please males (nor for any other reason). They wanted girls to have enough self-respect not to treat themselves as sex objects. That was the battle cry of old-school feminism. Women are equal human beings worthy of respect and dignity. They are not supposed to be objectified. No human being is.
Growing up, there were a bunch of psychology articles and news editorials that would demand, “Do women university deans carouse in promiscuity and drunkenness? Do women doctors and lawyers chase around men or spend their lives OD-ing?”
Those feminists were actually doing this as a cautionary measure. They were quite clairvoyant. It seems that even back then, they knew that less scrupulous types would try to fool young females into thinking that promiscuity and drunken carousing were emblems of liberation and empowerment.
I often wondered why they felt they needed to offer us these constructive axioms. They would tell us to look to the greats, the trailblazers, the pioneers. Look to the women who paved the way and busted through glass ceilings so that we may seek actualization.
Back then I was always thinking, “Look, I agree completely! I think it is wonderful that you are pointing to self-respecting women as exemplars.” But while I definitely appreciated the gesture of them offering us role models, I felt that we didn’t even need to go to the effort to extrapolate that far for a worthy argument against treating women like sxxx objects.
Simply in and of *itself,* sexual objectification crap is unacceptable. This is degrading demeaning unladylike behavior. This is not respecting oneself. -(and two) not every girl is necessarily going to be a supreme court justice or become a doctor or lawyer. That does not mean she is any less worthy of dignity.
...which I believe is just as valid. This is because I am not easily fooled.
But it seems that a disturbingly large number of the little girls today are easily duped. Those earlier feminists had been trying to warn us of the false gods that would demand worship from young naiive females, much like the golden calf of yore.
And this Moulin Rouge shyte?? Is this supposed to be what passes for "girl power" these days? Don't try that with me. Silly child, I grew up in the era of Lilith Fair with my hero, Sarah McLachlan. I know from women musicians who are genuinely talented, and are good people who respect themselves.
The current spate of media is especially horrifying because it has taken multiculturalism and turned it into a travesty of what it used to be. Sick, disgusting, crass way of treating black women. The music industry has degenerated into a sopping, raggedy, gross mess on the floor. I saw a news segment the other day reporting on the sort of weird shyte trash that MTV is showing. The trash part isn't new, but what is alarming is that black women are the ones being objectified, demeaned, and degraded to mere body parts. In some very sickening, nauseating ways. I don't even think there are words in the English language that can capture the type of fury and disgust and disappointment I feel with the human race when I see this.
Worst of all, it is disheartening how these black women musicians are treating themselves. Whatever happened to the intelligent, truly strong, self-respecting women in my time?
Back in my day we had Lauryn Hill's wisdom setting girls straight. She told young girls the truth and looked and sounded beautiful doing it. I think it's rather awesome that she has a family with Bob Marley's son. That seems so perfect and very satisfying in so many ways. They are not legally married and I am aware that that is not ideal. But I feel that in God's eyes they are husband and wife
Erykah Badu was also a strong female presence, time was. She was intelligent, kind, cerebral, feminine, and she had a thread of iron wire through her soul that never wavered.
india.arie -- not the average girl from yur video.
But we have not heard from these ladies in a while, and that is extremely discouraging.
These feminists whom I grew up with were so much... smarter than the pseudo-feminists of today. They wanted girls to have enough respect for themselves not to lower their IQs just to please males (nor for any other reason). They wanted girls to have enough self-respect not to treat themselves as sex objects. That was the battle cry of old-school feminism. Women are equal human beings worthy of respect and dignity. They are not supposed to be objectified. No human being is.
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