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31/f brazilian cellist in germany

[mimeticfield]

[lesser-known-composers]

Luise Adolpha Le Beau (1850-1927) - Streichquintett c-Moll op. 54 (1900),

I. Allegro für 2 Violinen, Viola, Violoncello und Kontrabass

Nurit Stark (Violine I), Eriikka Maalisma (Violine II), Hariolf Schlichtig (Viola), Alexander Hülshoff (Violoncello), Gunārs Upatnieks (Kontrabass)

[lesser-known-composers]

“I have attained this highest and most worthy goal of humankind”

Luise Adolpha Le Beau's persistence and dedication

Luise Adolpha Le Beau (1850-1927)

[jaubaius]

Source

[ninefoldrin]

This isn't cute! Cars only do this when they feel extreme distress!

[loth-catgirl]

Maan get that quivering snout outta here

[antidotefortheawkward]

everyday i think of instant gratification monkey

[antidotefortheawkward]

instant gratification monkey my beloved

[antidotefortheawkward]

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[captainjonnitkessler]

We really, really need to kill the idea that something being a religious belief puts it on a special untouchable level that nobody is allowed to disrespect or think is dumb. A religious belief isn’t any more special than any other belief or opinion, and it should absolutely be held to the same standards and critical thinking as anything else.

[creepymutelilbugger]

[haggishlyhagging]

From Dora Russell's point of view it was patently clear that when it came to birth control, working-class women were going to be the last to know about it, when they were likely to be the women with the greatest need to know about it as they tried to support large families on low wages, and so she took her case to working-class men, to the Labour Party and socialists. But she didn't get much satisfaction and was bluntly informed that it was not less children that the working class needed, but more money. 'They wouldn't even recognise my argument that if a woman lived in Buckingham Palace and had all the money she needed she still wouldn't want a baby each year' (1982). (We both decided that this argument might need to be revised in the near future.)

While Dora was being admonished for bringing sex into politics (and accused of trying to split the Labour Party over this 'ridiculous' issue) she was busily and defiantly trying to introduce politics into sex as she again and again pointed out that it was men - who did not bear children - who were making the rules about child bearing. She also helped to coin a slogan that spelt out this message loud and clear:

IT IS FOUR TIMES AS DANGEROUS TO BEAR A CHILD AS TO WORK IN A MINE: AND MINING IS MAN'S MOST DANGEROUS TRADE

Great efforts were being made by men to remedy the scandalous practices of mining and to make it more safe: why would men not make the same effort for women? Why indeed did they deliberately oppose measures to make maternity safer for women?

-Dale Spender, There’s Always Been a Women’s Movement This Century

[bunny-banana]

if u feel the first cramp and think "i dont need a painkiller yet, itll pass" ? that the devil speaking, take that painkiller immediately

[senatortedcruz]

How it feels cutting through the 2010s liberal bullshit and realizing how correct old school feminists were about how degrading the beauty and sex trade industries are

[nitrosplicer]

Fully losing it at this facebook screenshot. 22 inches of green and 1.5 of carrot.

[niyarest]

did we learn nothing

[t4nku-deactivated20230703]

yummy leaf ultimate showdown

kale

collard

spinach

cabbage

chard

arugula

romaine

bok choy

brussels sprouts

yummy leaf that is not on this list

Voting ended onJun 24, 2023

[t4nku-deactivated20230703]

There’s only thirteen hours left. Will you let spinach sweep or will you give arugula the fame she deserves

[angelofmeth-deactivated20240415]

I wish it were more acceptable for girls and women to just call feminine beauty rituals degrading.

[angelofmeth-deactivated20240415]

like i cant believe how much i used to jump around that word growing up. No, I'm not gonna wear a swimsuit that's designed to show my entire ass, only looks good when im completely bald down there or otherwise forces me to constantly monitor my behavior or my literal gentials will spill out of it because it's "just not my style". I find it literally degrading. I feel like an animal.

[peachtwigs-deactivated20230912]

— excerpt from invisible women by caroline criado perez

[haggishlyhagging]

[Olympe de Gouges] was a Parisian playwright and pamphleteer, an uneducated one who held women’s education dear, and she was very well known. She founded women's clubs and tried to break down the exclusion of women from politics through discussion in these clubs and through her own writing and pamphleteering. As a woman, however, in line with the traditional classification and division of women, and politics, her interests have not often been perceived as political. ‘She was indefatigable in composing appeals for good causes; the abolition of the slave trade, the setting up of public workshops for the unemployed, a national theatre for women’ (Tomalin, 1977, p. 200). What does a woman have to do to be seen as political?

In ‘Nine hundred and Ninety Nine Women of Achievement’ (Chicago, 1979) it is said of Olympe de Gouges that: ‘She demanded equal rights for women before the law, and in all aspects of public and private life. Realizing that the Revolutionaries were enemies of the emancipation of women, she covered the walls of Paris with bulletins - signed with her name - expounding her ideas and exposing the injustices of the new government.’ She was sentenced to death by Robespierre, and guillotined, but not before she to demanded to know of the women in the crowd, ‘What are the advantages you have derived from the Revolution? Slights and contempt more plainly displayed’ (p. 177).

Evidently, she was quite troublesome. In 1791, in response to the Declaration of the Rights of Man, she produce her own Declaration of the Rights of Women (a strategy closely paralleled by Wollstonecraft's work and later by the women at the first Woman's Rights convention in Seneca Falls, 1848) and, 'Taking the seventeen articles of the Declaration des Droits de l'Homme and replacing whenever she found it the word man by woman, she demanded that women should have the same political and social rights as men' (Nixon, 1971, p. 81). It was also one of her convictions that marriage had failed as a social institution and should be replaced by a more just and appropriate arrangement.

-Dale Spender, Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them

[rad-chocho]

this is your sign to stop shaving when you go to the beach. this is also your sign to wear comfortable bathing suits that allow you to move and swim and jump without worrying about readjusting them every minute to avoid flashing someone. this is also your sign to stop the constant body monitoring - sit comfortably on your towel and ignore your belly rolls, get your hair wet and don't stress about it looking bad, walk along the shore and enjoy yourself without thinking about how your body is looking like while you do so, crouch down to inspect the sand and focus on the pretty seashells below you not on how your body looks in that position, lay down and feel the sun on your skin without caring about your double chin

free yourself from this mental burden. you don't owe anyone prettiness, but you owe yourself this

[haggishlyhagging]

If Lady Mary [Wortley Montagu] was indeed the author of Woman not Inferior to Man, then not only does she share many of Mary Astell's ideas about the nature of society and the fundamental feature, and fallacy, of male superiority, she expands and develops some of these ideas. If not, and it is but her Letters and the periodical which reflect her analysis, then she did not go quite as far as Astell, though their ideas on learning and marriage show they have much in common. Lady Mary, like Astell, concluded that, in a society where males held power, there were for women many advantages to be gained from learning (but, of course, it had to be hidden from men) and very few from marriage. (She herself was separated from her husband later in life and appears to have been 'exiled'; she returned to England on his death.)

For many years Lady Mary's only contact with her daughter (and her granddaughter) was through letters and they are therefore quite illuminating. In them there is many a shrewd assessment of the way male-controlled societies work against women. Giving advice about her granddaughter's education, Lady Mary says that: “The second caution to be given her (and which is most absolutely necessary) is to conceal whatever learning she attains with as much solicitude as she would hide crookedness or lameness” (Wortley Montagu in Rogers, 1979, p. 66). Learning in women is a deformity as far as men are concerned, and men make up the rules. Lady Mary's advice has its parallels today when many women are counselled that, ‘it doesn't pay to be too bright’ (see Horner, 1974).

Lady Mary also counsels her granddaughter against marriage (perhaps not such prevalent advice today) and urges that the ultimate end of her education be ‘to make her happy in her virgin state. I will not say it is happier but it is undoubtedly safer than any marriage. In a lottery where there are (at the lowest computation) ten thousand blanks to a prize, it is the most prudent choice not to venture’ (in Rogers, 1979, p. 67). She has the experience of her own marriage to go upon, as well as the knowledge of Mary Astell's 'celibate state', and had no hesitation in recommending the latter to her dear granddaughter. Regardless of the reasons put forward for women's entry to marriage (economic necessity, and fulfilment), Lady Mary has more faith in her own personal experience (and presumably the economic motive was not so imperative).

-Dale Spender, Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them