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I Am a Feminist

Male-dominated Culture - Response To " Hijab Is My Feminism" By Sapphiresun

By: DancingFox
Written on September 21st, 2012
Age: 31-35 , Female
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    seldonna

    Reasoning with them.
    PBY streetgang Hotel 9. over.
    Do you have a solution?
    Roger that.
    Commit force. Start your run.

    Sep 27, 2012
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    kelly6726

    so true

    Sep 27, 2012
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    ARestlessSoul

    It's funny because it's true.

    :-)

    Sep 23, 2012
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    EarthlingWise

    The parallelism isn't real, the lady in the swimwear covers her body when it's cold and she does enjoy basking in the sun for the sake of it, not because she was asked to get undressed. Plus a fundamentalist complaining about a male dominated culture is a joke.

    Sep 22, 2012
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      SapphireSun

      You completely missed the actual joke in societal expectations.

      Sep 22, 2012
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      EarthlingWise

      No I didn't.

      Sep 22, 2012
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      SapphireSun

      No, you did. The entire point isn't someone being in a bikini, it's that women in the west are expected to be constant objects of beauty where a woman's sexual appeal is her main asset of any worth.

      Sep 23, 2012
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      DancingFox

      I agree with Sapphire, you missed the point. The joke is about people's perception.

      Sep 23, 2012
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      EarthlingWise

      My dear friends, no need to explain, I got it. But I disagree with what is implied, namely that women merely follow social expectations everywhere. Being able to show some flesh is just some basic human right. Salutations.

      Sep 23, 2012
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      DancingFox

      Yup, just like covering up said flesh, if it's a personal choice, is a basic human right ;)

      Sep 24, 2012
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      EarthlingWise

      Big if.

      Sep 24, 2012
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      ellaballerina

      I couldn't have put it better myself, EarthlingWise -:)

      Oct 24, 2012
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      SapphireSun

      Women do follow social expectations everywhere though, and for that fact so do men.

      Oct 24, 2012
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      ellaballerina

      Well, I don't wear a bikini just because it's a "social expectation", I wear them because I genuinely feel comfortable in them.

      Oct 25, 2012
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      SapphireSun

      Arguably you feel comfortable in it because that is what you have grown up seeing and be use to. If you took a man and a woman from Coney Island beach in 1905, took them to the present, and put them in a bikini and swim trunks, they'd probably feel a level of nakedness we can't even comprehend anymore.

      Oct 25, 2012
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      EarthlingWise

      Yes, that's true, it only shows fear is a feeling easy to instill ; but we really have no reason to feel ashamed of our bodies.

      Oct 25, 2012
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      SapphireSun

      Nobody should feel ashamed of the body they inhabit, at the same time though our bodies shouldn't be a marketing tool where we're pressured to essentially publicly sell off our sexuality to whoever wants to look. Case in point
      http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110810133015.htm
      http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120515131719.htm

      Oct 25, 2012
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      DancingFox

      Well said, Sapphire.

      Oct 25, 2012
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      DancingFox

      And thanks for the links!

      Oct 25, 2012
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    RedRubies

    This was pretty awesome... and there is a lot of truth to it! Perception is everything sometimes.... thanks for sharing :)

    Sep 21, 2012
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    SapphireSun

    lmao, I've seen this before but it cracks me up every time. Polling of the western world and the Muslim world has actually shown there's some truth to this, but one needs to also remember the abaya/niqab shown in this is only really common in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. 95% of Muslim women do dress with much more variety.

    Sep 21, 2012
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      DancingFox

      I know this. I just thought it was funny yet thought-provoking.

      Sep 23, 2012
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    JackBarnesMRA

    Yep. I agree with this cartoon 100%. The reason I agree is because I see the underlying meaning behind it. Don't take it at face value. Look deeper.

    Sep 21, 2012
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      JackBarnesMRA

      In western culture women choose to.dress the way that they do. Then complain that men force them to dress that way.

      Sep 21, 2012
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      DancingFox

      Maybe Western women not forced at gunpoint to dress that way, but the subtle message sent by the media and entertainement industry is that a woman's appeal is her sexuality. Read SapphireSun's story about it; she hit the nail on the head.

      Sep 21, 2012
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      JackBarnesMRA

      The most attractive women I have ever seen were the ones that lived for themselves and had a mind of their own and ignored the media. The problem is not what the media says. Its that people are so stupid that they can be that's easily controlled. No ones says that we have to do what the media tells us.

      Sep 21, 2012
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      DancingFox

      No, but there again, the message is being hammered at us on every poster in the street, every advert on TV, every magazine. Unless you live in a cave it's difficult not to be affected by it in some way.

      Sep 21, 2012
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      JackBarnesMRA

      Who is the problem? Our idols or the people that made them idols. Why do we continue to pretend that peoples stupidity is someone else's fault. When someone gets pulled over for a DUE do we write the bartender the ticket or jack daniels. When are we going to start holding people accountable for their actions? If a woman dresses like a **** then that was her choice and hers alone. No one or nothing is responsible for her decisions. And she has no right to expect people to not judge her by hownshe presents herself in public. (And no feminists. That doesn't give someone the right to rape her.)
      If feminism can only be held responsible for one crime it would be this. Just because a person has internal reproductive organs doesn't give that person immunity from the responsibility for their own actions. Feminism's idea of equality is to turn women into children. As children are incapable of being held responsible for their actions because they are children. As a MRA I hold women to a higher standard than that. I hold women to the same standard that society holds men. That of being an adult. A adult accepts responsibility for what they do. And if they don't society does it for them. Between feminism and the MRM the MRM is the only group that wants women and men to be equal.

      Sep 21, 2012
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      DancingFox

      Your version of feminism may differ from mine, but mine is not about dressing like *****.

      Sep 21, 2012
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      RedRubies

      "The most attractive women I have ever seen were the ones that lived for themselves and had a mind of their own and ignored the media" - totally agree with this KR. Media is tough on men and women but especially on kids. I think they are under such pressure to conform to certain standards, etc. I love it when people walk their own path and buck trends; they are usually the most interesting people to talk to as well.

      Sep 21, 2012
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      JackBarnesMRA

      " they are usually the most interesting people to talk to as well." most definitely.
      I think that the media is harder on kids. Between the boys and the girls I think its harder on girls. I maybe wrong about that as it is my opinion and not based on studies or evidence.

      Sep 21, 2012
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    CrazyWaterSpring

    Spot on!

    Sep 21, 2012
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    JoeyPFoxx

    AWESOME!!!! :-)

    Sep 21, 2012
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    Lilt

    Fantastic!

    Sep 21, 2012
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