Oct 08
A while ago, I saw a post by a woman bragging about her bruises … (should’ve saved the link, but I was just so … appalled …)
In 1976, Women Against Violence Against women (WAVAW) protested and got the Stones’ billboard taken down (it showed a woman bound and bruised saying ‘I’m ‘”Black and Blue” …
Oct 03
The convention that one marry a man a few years older than oneself allows both partners to pretend that her subordination to him is due to her relative age, not her sex.
Sep 29
Men are the ones who rape, so why is rape a women’s issue? Because men see nothing wrong with rape.
Men: the sooner you recognize this, the sooner you’ll see rape as a men’s issue.
Sep 25
“White males are most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today. Yet who is controlling the supposed revolution to change all that? White males.” Robin Morgan
Sep 22
Read this years ago, but thought I’d read it again as I hadn’t been able to afford to actually buy it back then …
Talking about how men typically behave, he says they “[disregard] completely the reality of anyone who is not fawning and flattering and full of awe for our masculine prerogative …” …
Sep 12
– “… no doubt it would be declared illegal, like everything else women wanted to do without men.” Our History in New York, Linsey Abrams
Sep 12
An interesting novel, worth the read!
“Think about how different our world is going to be when this generation of boys grows up, having been allowed to grow into whole, good, decent men. Nobody is going to tell them that they have to go through life being some stupid caricature of masculinity anymore. They can …
Sep 04
The Politics of Rape was one of the first (of a great many) works about rape that I read.
See what else she wrote at http://radicalprofeminist.blogspot.com/2020/08/diana-e-h-russell-6-november-1938-28.html
(And thanks, Julian, not only for that list but for your comments about the NYT obituary. Sigh.)
Aug 28
“Women’s magazines are typically associated with check-out lines in grocery stores, where they sport loud headlines that either promise a “beach body” in ten days, or describe exciting new ways to please a man in bed. (Back in the old days, all you had to do was show up.)” Erica Verrillo
