"We live in a culture that condones and celebrates rape.
Within a phallocentric, patriarchal state, the rape of women by men is a ritual that daily perpetuates and maintains sexist oppression and exploitation. We cannot hope to transform rape culture without committing ourselves fully to resisting and eradicating patriarchy.”
- bell hooks, in Transforming Rape Culture, chapter ten: “Seduced by Violence No More”
Fighting rape culture isn't about 'reclaiming' words. It's about fighting the underlying forces that perpetuate sexualized violence and the idea that women's bodies are public property.
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Three white high school students in Waverly, New York, performed a satirical “re-enactment” of Chris Brown’s infamous beating of his then-girlfriend Rihanna, in blackface, at a pep rally in front of students, parents, community leaders, and the media.
The act has decried as racist by former students of the high school, and some have questioned the judgment of the school administrators who allowed such a show to be performed. Their students were participating in a competition to be crowned “Mr. Waverly.”
According to CNN, former Waverly High School student Vlad Chituc said, “I think it’s unconscionable that such blatant racism has been tacitly approved two years in a row.”
not a mention of misogyny for our children to consume. violence toward women as entertainment. racist, ya. but women.... meh. we have had a real good dose of that on du the last couple days.
no, it does not help when we teach our girls young.
Not sure what happened with the reading group here, but I'd say that would be an excellent suggestion for a feminist reading list. Then again maybe it wasn't supposed to be a reading group for feminist works... I don't know.
Ours fizzled before most. 
I think I'm the only one who read the book completely & my 'book report' sits mostly unfinished on a bunch of stickies in the book.
I ordered this book too. Got a "used in good condition" copy for 15¢ plus shipping! 
And by the time we officially "started" I was on to something else. I was traveling like crazy then too and didn't have much time to get online.
Bad me. 
Maybe we could have just a generic 'feminist book discussion' thread where anyone who was reading whatever could jump in whenever...
Of course I have zero experience with reading groups, so I really have no idea... but I would love to see my fellow HoF group members' perspectives on these things and discuss our different interpretations and thoughts about them.
That in New Jersey women (unmarried property owning women - women who were "heads of household" could vote up until 1807?
I just learned that recently, I had no idea.
They took women's suffrage away in New Jersey in 1807 using claims of "voter fraud" (sound familiar?) -- among other things, they said men were dressing up as women so they could vote twice.
