“These people hate women. To them, women are murderous sluts when they want health care, uppity feminazis when they dare to consider themselves citizens of the republic, yet totally hot when they are working in porn videos. It seems a little conflicted, but not when you consider that it’s all coming from the same place.”
—Henry Rollins on the GOP’s big problem with women.
(Source: blogs.laweekly.com)
“ It is an important thing to instill in a younger generation about the impact of rape, the lasting impact of rape. Children from grade school to high school to college are incredibly susceptible and incredibly malleable, as we all know. To get them early, to teach them about the facts and figures and other realities of rape is key. It is an important issue to me as not only a man, but as an educator, as a human being and as a person on this planet.
We treat rape as a joke. We ignore the fact that every woman walking back to her car at night has to be scared in a way that a man does not.
Comedian Guy Branum talks about the five things feminists still have to fight for.
“ Overall, I think it’s a good time to have a girl in the 21st century because things are changing, with more opportunities for women. But girls are still the underdog, which means they’ll work harder, and everybody loves an underdog. The next Steve Jobs will totally be a chick, because girls are No. 2—and No. 2 always wins in America. Apple was a No. 2 company for years, and Apple embodies a lot of what have been defined as feminine traits: an emphasis on intuitive design, intellect, a strong sense of creativity, and that striving to always make the greatest version of something. Traditionally, men are more like Microsoft, where they’ll just make a fake version of what that chick made, then beat the shit out of her and try to intimidate everybody into using their product.
“ We are all born feminists, just as much as we are all born free of racial discrimination. The definition of feminism is the same now, as it was on the day I was born: a man or woman who believes in full gender equality. […] I am a product of women, they nurtured me, protected me, fed me, clothed me, educated me, loved me. I am happy and successful because of what they offered and sacrificed for me. I have a responsibility to support and honor their struggle.
“ Uh oh, I think we’re arriving at why this song is not just awful, but is in fact dangerous. You are playing a character in this song! A character based on the young female demographic you target your music at: young women who do have jobs and bosses and mothers and fathers and necks and vaginas which sure as hell will be damaged and violated if they subscribe to the ideas you foist on them with your songs and the confusing “goofy slut” persona you’ve created… …I know you’re not a real person. I know you were hatched in a lab and fine-tuned by focus groups to prey on vulnerable adolescent girls, lowering their self-esteem and preparing them for a lifetime of subjugation and consumption.
“ In this society, if a man is called a woman, that’s the biggest insult he could get.” He arches his eyebrows skeptically and asks, “Is that because women are considered something less?
“ I’ve worked with so many funny women over the years, and I’m friends with so many funny women, that I felt when I watched those movies where women don’t get to be very funny, or they’re the nagging wife, or needy girlfriend, I’m thinking, ‘Fine, those parts are there, but is that all they get to play?’ So, it was a bit of a cause for me, to get in there and reinvent the wheel a little.
He mighta had you, but he never had you.
He said, ‘Can I buy you a drink,’ what he meant was, ‘Can I buy you?’ Yeah his eyes were pits of despair, but his accent recalled the bayou.
Oh, and women go crazy for guys who talk funny and men who treat them mean.
Oh, but you deserve better than that, my friend. You are no simple machine.
“ You have to question a cinematic culture which preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual torture and violence for entertainment purposes, but they are trying to force us to look away from a scene that shows a woman in a sexual scenario, which is both complicit and complex. It’s misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman’s sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than this film.
Hey girl, I’m just speaking the truth.
