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I created this in my animation class and I just wanted to post it here!
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bell hook's critique on Betty Friedan
first wave feminism completed their goal of Women’s Suffrage, women began a journey of self-discovery and most women’s organizations disbanded after the 19th Amendment. Betty Friedan and her novel The Feminine Mystique sparked what we call today second-wave feminism. Throughout this time period, some like to mislead the movement’s ideal by saying this was a time for liberation. I am not saying that the United States didn’t see any form of liberation. We saw historic legislation from the Equal Rights Amendment, the passing of the Civil Rights Amendments, and Title IX. However, the liberation of women during this time period was exclusionary and the rifts between groups stagnated the entire movement.
As discussed earlier, The Feminine Mystique kickstarted the second wave of feminism by identifying an unspoken problem that stemmed from the postwar “American Dream”. This “dream” was domesticity and the life of a middle-class, educated housewife. Friedan noticed that after the end of the day, she was “afraid to ask even of herself the silent question—is this all?”” (Friedan 15). How could someone think about dissatisfaction when they are free to choose their legislators, free to choose cars, and free from the lack of individuality. Friedan surveyed other women who felt like this, and one said “I ask myself why I’m so dissatisfied. I’ve got my health, fine children, a lovely home” (Friedan 21). Friedan decided that the problem was the lack of work. These women were college-educated and able to work outside just their home in careers beyond just “Occupation: housewife” (Friedan 18). This pushed the feminist movement to focus on the struggles of middle-class, college educated White women. If you were experiencing a different kind of sexist, patriarchal oppression, you were not seen as oppressed.
This exclusionary ideology derailed the feminist movement into several different coalition, all looking for the same goal: liberation from a capitalist, patriarchal society. Betty Friedan saw lesbian women as “lavender menaces” and excluded them, along with other Black women, from her organization (Dicker 93). The writer, bell hooks, focused her writing on feminism that paid attention to those most victimized by sexism and capitalism. hooks critiqued The Feminine Mistique by summarizing the oppression of white women as the only type of oppression that women can face. The second wave feminists used the phrase “all women are oppressed” to indicate a shared experience among all women (hooks 5). This rhetoric is what white feminists, like Friedan, primarily focused on. However, poor, Black, and queer women did not experience the type of feminism that Friedan wrote about. Due to power structures, those who did not agree, or didn’t identify with this type of feminism were ostracized. Our author, hooks, writes about her experience trying to join feminism movements “that white women adopted a condescending attitude towards me and other non-white participants” (hooks 11).
Earlier, I wrote the using liberation to describe second wave feminism was misleading. I wrote this because I disagree. As hooks writes about, there is an ideology of individualism and competitive nature within the feminist sphere. Due to our capitalist and white supremist societal structure, Black and queer women were excluded from feminism and forced to form their own groups. These groups of people, especially in Florida, are still being excluded and attacked by the same principles that hooks and Rita Mae Brown wrote about in the 80’s. This lack of liberation to me, is not what feminism should be about. Its liberation for all people who are under attack by capitalism and white supremacy that still currently haunts us to this day.
Feminism Defined by Me
Both writings from Rory Dicker and Gay talk about what it means to be a feminist and what society has required in order to fit the appearance of a feminist. The definition of feminism and a woman’s role is one that needs to belong in the hands of the people who are constantly feeling the ‘shackles’ of a White, heterosexual male dominated world.
Because of the feminism of the 1920s, I am able to go to school, own a credit card, and hold property. I also can thank the feminists of the 1960s and 70s because of them, I am able to call a rape crisis hotline and get an abortion in select states (thanks Alito). What else could I, a White woman in 2024, still possibly need? Well, in a Post-Roe era, pregnant people are imprisoned for miscarrying after a Catholic hospital told her to go home. We live in a day in age, where native women are assaulted and murdered at a higher rate than any other women. Black and Brown women face medical racism and are never taken seriously over life-threatening symptoms. Since we are talking about never being taken seriously, a 5’6” man went on TikTok to tell his audience he could ‘dog walk’ the 6’0” point guard of the Iowa Hawkeyes Caitilin Clark. Every day, I go into my minimum wage job to argue with male coworkers how I love being single and could not possibly imagine myself in a relationship. Yet, “I just haven’t found the right man yet”. However, the single men are living out their bachelor years, where I am just waiting for someone to ‘wife me up’. Feminism has come far, but in terms of ‘equality’, women have barely scratched the surface of potential.
Rory Dicker has her Doctorate in English from Vanderbilt University and in her novel A History of U.S Feminisms, she highlights and analyzes the three major waves of feminism from the exclusionary women’s suffrage movement to the contemporary riot grrls of the 90s. The social inequalities discussed previously suggest that feminism is still urgent. However, feminism according to the American Heritage Dictionary is flat and lacks the true meaning of feminism. Women aren’t looking for equality in an androcentric space (who built that system of constant economic and social equality?). Dicker highlights two definitions, one being from Barbra Smith stating, “Feminism is the political theory and practice that struggles to free all women… Anything less than this vision of total freedom is not feminism, but merely female self-aggrandizement” (Dicker 7). Being transparent, I had no idea what female self-aggrandizement meant at the time of reading as well. Female self-aggrandizement is drawing attention to your own importance, which is a main critique of White feminism in this fourth wave of feminism. This idea of self-aggrandizement questions whether women as whole are even qualified to have the same interests and desires. By understanding this, most would find it almost impossible to liberate all women as a Black women may not have the same desires as an Asian Pacific Islander Queer woman. However, Dicker seems to dance around the cause behind this impossibility as patriarchal White supremacy. Now, I can’t blame all my problems on White, heterosexual men; however, I can blame the system of oppression that we continually uphold. This power dynamic between man and women has been around since Adam and Eve or why we see Medusa as a monster but never Poseidon.
This definition is what our author seems to favor about power dynamics and feminism. “Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination” (Dicker 8). Our author concentrated on the domination of the female sex that has frequently shackled women into places of domesticity and obedience. The idea of domination, not just of the sexes, but the domination of one group upon another. This definition delineates that imperialism, colonialism, and capitalism are all notions that feminists should reject. Dicker travels through time by critiquing and analyzing how power dynamics can play when it comes to identifying oneself as a “feminist”. Feminists at the time encompassed more than just the right to vote for women, it encompassed “civil rights as well as opportunities for professional work, economic self-sufficiency, self-expression, and sexual freedom” (Dicker 12). This important idea was further conceptualized in the second wave of feminism during the 1960’s and 70’s. It was less about where ‘White middle-class women should fit into society’ and more about social and gender reconstruction of society. These second-wave feminists such as Shulamith Firestone, “understood women’s status as separate from their biology” and pushed towards a movement that women are not just babymakers (Dicker 13). These stereotypical power dynamics forced on women, such as domestication, are side effects of the social power systems that men dominate. Susan Doughlas thought that “the personal is political” meaning that the restriction on a women’s freedom from the power dynamic is meant for public discourse (Dicker 14). Those who are in power, husbands and bosses, are the ones that make gender-based assumptions that continually haunt women. Feminism pushes this ideology away and emphasizes the need for public action in order to work towards liberation.
As Dicker discussed in the first few pages of her chapter, society places these depictions of what a feminist and a women’s role is supposed to look. However, Gay returns the conversation back into the hands of feminist themselves. Feminists aren’t supposed to be these individual celebrities placed on a “Feminist Pedestal” (Gay). Feminism is what the individual makes of it. It’s not a singular definition found in the Oxford Dictionary, but a “collective of individuals working towards liberation in a patriarchal society” (Gay). Due to power relations in a patriarchal society, there are several bad connotations that come with the word feminist. As Gay points out, many reject calling themselves feminists because all they see is the “bad figurehead”. By focusing on the individuals in a public discourse, we can see feminism as what the people are, flawed (Gay). In the era of reclaiming words, feminism is one that needs to be reclaimed to the imperfect, flawed individual working with other imperfect, flawed individuals towards the liberation from patriarchal shackles.
Take a Picture, It Will Last Longer
In the Victorian Era, women were expected to follow the doctrine known as the “cult of true womanhood”. Which includes piety, purity, domesticity, and finally submissiveness (Dicker 22). If your community saw you as a follower of these four beliefs, you were considered to be a ‘true woman’, hence the name. Many who were outcasted were mainly Black women and women who did not fit the four traits of a “true woman”. However, let’s discuss the treatment of women as a whole in the late 1800’s into the early 1900’s.
To begin, women all different race, economic background, and education all lived completely different lives. However, for many White, middle-class woman, it was about domination and control. Women were expected to live a domestic life, “obeying his [their husband] commands and accepting his punishments” (Dicker 22). Women, once married, lost access to their own name, their property, and their own physical body. Essentially, once married, women were their husband, and no longer seen as a separate human.
Wanting to change this status quo, many women found themselves empathizing with the abolition or temperance movements. It was in those groups; women began to talk and learn the necessary organizing skills to defend their civil rights. The right to vote was a huge battle for women during this time period. One woman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, worked to compose the “Declaration of Sentiments, which articulated the wrongs done to woman” (Dicker 29-30). Considering many women worked on the antislavery movement, many hoped that ‘woman’ meant ‘ALL women’.
They typical White-middleclass homemaker described above, was not experienced by Black woman. Black women have always been on the wrong side of the binary, also dubbed as “Others” of their community. Since they were woman, many Black movements organized by men excluded their female counterparts; and since they were Black, they were excluded from the Women’s Suffrage movement. Black women were constantly sexually exploited and abused by men (Dicker 34). The state also saw Black marriages as illegitimate and sometimes illegal (Dicker 24). Due to this horrifying circumstances, Black women were not seen as ‘true women’ and viewed as impure. This characterization of Black women continued, as groups still justify their racism by using these controlling images (Collins 69).
Their oppression goes beyond just gender, its crosscutting education, race, and judgmental arguments through these controlling images (Collins 70). Reagan especially popularized ‘welfare queens’ after a Black woman, Linda Taylor, was abusing the welfare system. Taylor’s abuse of the welfare system was not ok; however, Reagan’s political campaign used her as a tactic to deem all Black women on welfare as ‘lazy’. These images mark Black women with ‘Scarlet letters’ by blaming them for the failures in the home or within the community itself. Like Reagan, the matriarch stereotype of Black women puts them in the place of losing. They are forced to work because if they are a homemaker, they are blamed for their “subsequent poverty” (Collins 76). However, if they are in the labor field, they are painted as too “masculine” and not subordinate or submissive to their husbands (Collins 77). By upholding these negative pictures of Black women, they are forced to be the ‘outgroup’ feeling the oppression from all angles; unable to define their own identity.
Drinking Raw Milk
Today, in my constitutional law class, we did our hot takes as an ice breaker.
This GROWN WOMAN said "I drink raw milk"
Naturally, we questioned her more. We asked if she meant like chunky milk. She replied with a simple "No, like the pasteurized stuff"
And when I tell you this class went silent. We finished the hot takes but I could not stop thinking about how dumb this person could be. RAW UNPASTEURIZED MILK IS NOT GOOD FOR YOU. NO MILK IS GOOD FOR YOU. THE GOVERNMENT PUT CALCIUM IN IT TO SEND BOYS TO WAR.
Went to a Fall Out Boy concert and that shit was crack.
D and her coworker went and we went HARD bro! Our surprise song 'Where did the party go' and that shit is my favorite song. Dance, Dance went hard to. WE WERE THOSE OBNOXIOUS DANCING GIRLS IN THE BACK
being delulu is saying “President Trump” and then “Mr. Biden”
card got declined at the denver airport. im embarrassed to be seen
I swear to god if i miss my flight because the airport opened tsa at 4:15 and my boarding starts at 4:35
Airport Pearls
So, I am at the airport and I just have one question. Who checks the TSA agents and makes sure they don’t have weapons. Like, do they just go into work without being checked or do the TSA agents before them check them.
Airport Stories
Hello fellow flagpoles!
I am currently at the airport right now and my throat fucking hurts. I can feel the sinus infection in the back of my throat and I AM PISSED. After avoiding disease all week at work, I finally caught something when I am going on vacation. Karma is real and I am feeling its first hand attacks. I left my pen at home because my best friends do not smoke and I can have fun without it.
Best friend M took me to the airport around 2 AM. When she got off of work we went to Chilis for dinner and M (being the whore she is) left our waiter a note with her number stating that “she was shooting her shot”. The best part is that his name was “LUKE”. Only her and I will get that joke so anyone else who stumbles upon this will be confused hehehe.
We then went to McDonald’s to get me a Dr. Pepper and I left it in the car BECAUSE at the time I didn’t really want it. Well, now my throat hurts and I am sitting by my gate. TSA does not open until 4:00 AM.
Airports are fucking weird.
There are so many people here who are sleeping and doing mundane things. This pretty girl is just walking around and exploring. Its weird to think that she has lived a totally different life than me. I am the only one wearing a mask
I know Covid-19 is over, but I do have a sore throat. I find it hard to believe that I am the only person here who is sick-because I am the only one wearing a mask.
always remember the rage that lego batman inflicted on homophobic batman fans, the cries of little pissbabies everywhere, the petitions to ban the movie, parents fuming. remember that all it took was two fictional legos to look at each other for a little longer than expected, now wait till these fans find out what telltale did… omg
i love this guy. the splotch
i think banishment is the funniest possible spell you can cast on someone. like i'm not even going to fight you. YOU'RE going to leave. you have no choice.
a guy i banished to the desert 10 years ago finally tracks me down after years of plotting his revenge and i immediately banish him to the desert again