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Feminism is not a dirty word.
Author: Raine    Date: 09/22/2014 13:03:35

A new UN Campaign for Gender equality.
I am from Britain and think it is right that as a woman I am paid the same as my male counterparts. I think it is right that I should be able to make decisions about my own body. I think it is right that women be involved on my behalf in the policies and decision-making of my country. I think it is right that socially I am afforded the same respect as men. But sadly I can say that there is no one country in the world where all women can expect to receive these rights.

No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality.

These rights I consider to be human rights but I am one of the lucky ones. My life is a sheer privilege because my parents didn’t love me less because I was born a daughter. My school did not limit me because I was a girl. My mentors didn’t assume I would go less far because I might give birth to a child one day. These influencers were the gender equality ambassadors that made who I am today. They may not know it, but they are the inadvertent feminists who are. And we need more of those. And if you still hate the word—it is not the word that is important but the idea and the ambition behind it. Because not all women have been afforded the same rights that I have. In fact, statistically, very few have been.

In 1997, Hilary Clinton made a famous speech in Beijing about women’s rights. Sadly many of the things she wanted to change are still a reality today.

But what stood out for me the most was that only 30 per cent of her audience were male. How can we affect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?

(snip)

If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted women won’t feel compelled to be submissive. If men don’t have to control, women won’t have to be controlled.

Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong… It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideals.
If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by what we are—we can all be freer and this is what HeForShe is about. It’s about freedom.
This is an amazing speech, and it is something that we need to work together to achieve.

There should be no Ray Ray Rice incidents. There should be no Adiran Pertersen incidents. Men need to play a part in achieving equally. We must stop blaming the victims, the same way we have to stop putting the owness on change soley on women. It isn't much different than blaming the victim. Look at those hash tags #WhyIStayed and #WhyILeft.

I appreciate these words so very much. We are struggling for a uniting word but the good news is we have a uniting movement. It is called HeForShe. I am inviting you to step forward, to be seen to speak up, To be the he for she. And to ask yourself if not me, who, if not now when.

and
Raine
 

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Comment by Raine on 09/22/2014 13:37:10
Good Morning!

Comment by Mondobubba on 09/22/2014 13:38:05
I really don't understand why not shitting on half the population is such a difficult thing for so many people to understand. Why so threatened by women being equal to men, RWLMs? Liberate your sorry selves and embrace modernity.

Comment by Mondobubba on 09/22/2014 13:38:38
Hola Ms Raine. Did you need you bag yesterday for the Giants game?


Comment by wickedpam on 09/22/2014 13:39:37
Morning

Comment by Raine on 09/22/2014 13:51:33
Quote by Mondobubba:
Hola Ms Raine. Did you need you bag yesterday for the Giants game?
I did not! they won!


Comment by Raine on 09/22/2014 13:53:37
Quote by Mondobubba:
I really don't understand why not shitting on half the population is such a difficult thing for so many people to understand. Why so threatened by women being equal to men, RWLMs? Liberate your sorry selves and embrace modernity.
The thing is we need more men to help get that message out. I know you probably can't watch the speech at work, but it is truly worth watching. Women deserve equality in the workplace, in education in treatment and -- all those things.

Comment by Mondobubba on 09/22/2014 13:54:04
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Hola Ms Raine. Did you need you bag yesterday for the Giants game?
I did not! they won!



Liverpool lost 3-1 :(

Comment by Scoopster on 09/22/2014 14:02:28
Mornin' all..

My hip still hurts from yesterday - from the school bus ride, not the march! Those things are NOT designed for grown adults.

Comment by Mondobubba on 09/22/2014 14:15:50
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Mondobubba:
I really don't understand why not shitting on half the population is such a difficult thing for so many people to understand. Why so threatened by women being equal to men, RWLMs? Liberate your sorry selves and embrace modernity.
The thing is we need more men to help get that message out. I know you probably can't watch the speech at work, but it is truly worth watching. Women deserve equality in the workplace, in education in treatment and -- all those things.



On another point. When the fuck are people going to get over the stereotype of feminists being "unattractive" man haters. My friend here at work, Alice is as girly as the come and she's a pretty hardcore third wave feminist. I was just talking about with her on my break.

Comment by Mondobubba on 09/22/2014 14:17:24
Quote by Scoopster:
Mornin' all..

My hip still hurts from yesterday - from the school bus ride, not the march! Those things are NOT designed for grown adults.



Ow?

Comment by Raine on 09/22/2014 14:20:30
this is priceless.
House Administration Committee Chairwoman Candice Miller (R-Mich.) signed a new contract on Friday with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart’s William Burck after David Rivkin, an attorney with Baker & Hostetler, pulled out from the case.

Baker & Hostetler faced pressure “political pressure,” a Republican leadership aide said after taking the lawsuit on, prompting Rivkin to break his contract with House Republicans. A House staffer said the change of firms came after multiple clients of Baker & Hostetler expressed concern that the firm was engaged in what the companies saw as an overtly partisan lawsuit.


Comment by wickedpam on 09/22/2014 14:23:39
OMG! I'm an idiot!!!!!!!!

RAINE! How did I miss your birthday!!!!!!?????

I'm so sorry!!! Please accepts this puppy pile of hugs
http://cdn.cutestpaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/l-Puppy-pile.jpg


And this awesome Fraggle Rock cake

http://www.idiotparade.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/fragglerockcake.jpg


And my apologies for missing it when the date was staring at me on the calendar. #Iamabadfriend

Comment by Raine on 09/22/2014 14:30:08
Quote by wickedpam:
OMG! I'm an idiot!!!!!!!!

RAINE! How did I miss your birthday!!!!!!?????

I'm so sorry!!! Please accepts this puppy pile of hugs
http://cdn.cutestpaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/l-Puppy-pile.jpg


And this awesome Fraggle Rock cake

http://www.idiotparade.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/fragglerockcake.jpg


And my apologies for missing it when the date was staring at me on the calendar. #Iamabadfriend
it was September first.

But thank you anyway!

Comment by wickedpam on 09/22/2014 14:37:36
Quote by Raine:
Quote by wickedpam:
OMG! I'm an idiot!!!!!!!!

RAINE! How did I miss your birthday!!!!!!?????

I'm so sorry!!! Please accepts this puppy pile of hugs
http://cdn.cutestpaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/l-Puppy-pile.jpg


And this awesome Fraggle Rock cake

http://www.idiotparade.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/fragglerockcake.jpg


And my apologies for missing it when the date was staring at me on the calendar. #Iamabadfriend
it was September first.

But thank you anyway!




Don't even know how I missed it - have it marked on the calendar and its suppose to remind me. *Stupid outlook calendar*

Comment by Scoopster on 09/22/2014 14:40:26
OUTLOOK!

Comment by Mondobubba on 09/22/2014 14:52:36
Quote by Scoopster:
OUTLOOK!



Outlook! Slowly I turned... The worst email, contact management and calendar software ever. It does nothing well!

Comment by Scoopster on 09/22/2014 14:57:24
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by Scoopster:
OUTLOOK!


Outlook! Slowly I turned... The worst email, contact management and calendar software ever. It does nothing well!

It crashes pretty well I'd say.

Comment by Mondobubba on 09/22/2014 15:11:36
Comment by Mondobubba on 09/22/2014 15:12:06
Quote by Scoopster:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by Scoopster:
OUTLOOK!


Outlook! Slowly I turned... The worst email, contact management and calendar software ever. It does nothing well!

It crashes pretty well I'd say.



That is does. How could I forget that!

Comment by Raine on 09/22/2014 15:16:53
4Chan sucks. Seriously sucks...
Such elements have made Watson a target of intense interest, of which the 4chan site “Emma You Are Next” is merely the latest instance. The site includes a countdown clock set to four days from Monday, September 22; an image of Watson wiping away tears; and the message, “Never forget, the biggest to come thus far.”

The first group of nude photographs hacked from the iCloud by 4chan users included a number of images taken when their subjects were minors. The 4chan site makes no indication of when the photographs of the now 24-year-old Watson it allegedly obtained were taken.

Business Insider is claiming that the site is merely another 4chan hoax, “a prank designed to increase the notoriety of [the] anonymous message board…In the past, 4chan users have tried to convince people to microwave their iPhones, break their Xbox consoles, #EndFathersDay and self-harm for Justin Bieber.”



Comment by Raine on 09/22/2014 15:17:27
Comment by wickedpam on 09/22/2014 15:18:54
Quote by Raine:
4Chan sucks. Seriously sucks...
Such elements have made Watson a target of intense interest, of which the 4chan site “Emma You Are Next” is merely the latest instance. The site includes a countdown clock set to four days from Monday, September 22; an image of Watson wiping away tears; and the message, “Never forget, the biggest to come thus far.”

The first group of nude photographs hacked from the iCloud by 4chan users included a number of images taken when their subjects were minors. The 4chan site makes no indication of when the photographs of the now 24-year-old Watson it allegedly obtained were taken.

Business Insider is claiming that the site is merely another 4chan hoax, “a prank designed to increase the notoriety of [the] anonymous message board…In the past, 4chan users have tried to convince people to microwave their iPhones, break their Xbox consoles, #EndFathersDay and self-harm for Justin Bieber.”




bunch of bullies

Comment by Raine on 09/22/2014 15:19:53
This is what I am getting at and what proves Watson'd point:
Business Insider report is quick to add that this site is likely just a “prank.” You know, just one of those super-funny pranks where garbage people try to intimidate and silence women by threatening to invade their privacy and, as Anne Hathaway put it to a leering, totally out-of-line Matt Lauer, “commodify the sexuality of unwilling participants.”


Comment by Will in Chicago on 09/22/2014 15:23:37
Good morning, bloggers!!

Raine, thanks for an excellent blog. Empowering women in our world will help solve many problems and has been noted for some time. (Societies where women have more rights also tend to be more prosperous and have lower birth rates, something that the late Isaac Asimov noted years ago.)

As for myself, I am following up on some job leads.

Comment by Will in Chicago on 09/22/2014 15:24:54
Quote by Raine:
This is what I am getting at and what proves Watson'd point:
Business Insider report is quick to add that this site is likely just a “prank.” You know, just one of those super-funny pranks where garbage people try to intimidate and silence women by threatening to invade their privacy and, as Anne Hathaway put it to a leering, totally out-of-line Matt Lauer, “commodify the sexuality of unwilling participants.”


Am I wrong in hoping for Anonymous to take down 4chan's site and put up pictures to mock them? Hmm, maybe 4chan members as cavemen or as monkeys hurling excrement?



Comment by Mondobubba on 09/22/2014 15:27:19
Quote by Raine:




Was that the sound of owing you a Coke? :D

Comment by Scoopster on 09/22/2014 15:56:42
Remember that idiot neo-con economist Francis Fukayama?

He's still an idiot, but at least he has a glimmer of understanding.

Comment by Scoopster on 09/22/2014 16:01:42
The best moment of the march yesterday. Dead silence in the middle of New York City for two minutes, then this AMAZING rolling soundwave just comes crashing at us!



Comment by Raine on 09/22/2014 16:11:16
Quote by Scoopster:
The best moment of the march yesterday. Dead silence in the middle of New York City for two minutes, then this AMAZING rolling soundwave just comes crashing at us!

Seriously tears welling up here.


Comment by wickedpam on 09/22/2014 16:17:10
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Scoopster:
The best moment of the march yesterday. Dead silence in the middle of New York City for two minutes, then this AMAZING rolling soundwave just comes crashing at us!

Seriously tears welling up here.



wow - got's the goosiebumps!

Comment by Scoopster on 09/22/2014 16:17:31
Comment by Raine on 09/22/2014 16:23:46
Comment by Scoopster on 09/22/2014 16:54:51
Ah shit.. the follow-up protest today is about to get nasty.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10628077_10154607700075133_4958573435989089467_n.jpg?oh=a94f7f451d4d5d03e6c886976504e7d6&oe=5486194B&__gda__=1422022196_a0f57f1a2c01c12a47ae99705c9031c8


Comment by Raine on 09/22/2014 17:08:26
Quote by Scoopster:
Ah shit.. the follow-up protest today is about to get nasty.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10628077_10154607700075133_4958573435989089467_n.jpg?oh=a94f7f451d4d5d03e6c886976504e7d6&oe=5486194B&__gda__=1422022196_a0f57f1a2c01c12a47ae99705c9031c8
They planned for civil disobedience, I had read.


Comment by Raine on 09/22/2014 17:10:22
Comment by Raine on 09/22/2014 17:14:16
Yes, Meet the Press could actually get worse and did.

I welcome you you Idiocracy, REAL LIFE.

Comment by livingonli on 09/22/2014 17:23:17
Good day, folks.

Mala, the book of faces reminded me of Raine's birthday so on that it seems more reliable.

Comment by Mondobubba on 09/22/2014 17:25:07
Quote by Raine:
Yes, Meet the Press could actually get worse and did.

I welcome you you Idiocracy, REAL LIFE.



:head desk: :head desk: :head desk: :head desk: :head desk: :head desk: :head desk: :head desk:

Comment by Raine on 09/22/2014 17:29:28
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by Raine:
Yes, Meet the Press could actually get worse and did.

I welcome you you Idiocracy, REAL LIFE.



:head desk: :head desk: :head desk: :head desk: :head desk: :head desk: :head desk: :head desk:

http://www.sherv.net/cm/emo/angry/bang-head-on-desk.gif


Comment by wickedpam on 09/22/2014 17:46:29
Quote by livingonli:
Good day, folks.

Mala, the book of faces reminded me of Raine's birthday so on that it seems more reliable.



I've been in such a work and Halloween prep tizzy I probably missed it. Hence the need for puppies and cake

Comment by Will in Chicago on 09/22/2014 18:10:34
Comment by Mondobubba on 09/22/2014 18:21:15
On the lighter, weird side, Meanwhile in Florida.

Comment by Will in Chicago on 09/22/2014 18:40:30
Good news!! Two places want to see me soon about administrative jobs.

Also, a friend called with another job lead.


Comment by Will in Chicago on 09/22/2014 18:44:05
Tonight marks the start of autumn, so here are two appropriate songs.





A few critics said the last song was better than the movie it was in.

Comment by TriSec on 09/22/2014 19:32:21
Summer is leaving / now we'll whine about the cold/ how soon we forget

Comment by TriSec on 09/22/2014 19:36:44
Oh, and those missing Afghan dudes have been picked up at the Canadian border. What, we suck so bad that they won't even defect here?

Comment by TriSec on 09/22/2014 19:52:15
But then again, why trade one dysfunctional government for another? Canada has a working legislature, yes?

Comment by Raine on 09/22/2014 20:04:59
Quote by TriSec:
Summer is leaving / now we'll whine about the cold/ how soon we forget

well played, Sir.

This summer has been just about as perfect as it can get.