Men: $$$, having testes
Women: being fun and sexy!
Gals, don't you go on and try to rise above the ranks at your jobs! Don't you know that'll only cause wrinkles, and looking good is how you're gonna get some respect, girlfren! #germainegreer
Oh geez... here's where I begin having a problem. What exactly does unattractive mean? Is unattractive something given at birth? Or can makeup, grooming, plastic surgery, or any other type of manipulation of the natural state stave off ugly?!? When we talk about unattractiveness, are we talking about things a person can change, or things a person is POWERLESS against?
Honestly, I'm like 3 Bloody Mary's into the evening and for some reason, this is stuck in my craw. #germainegreer
@kityglitr: I think it means spending money and going through painful procedures to make your naturally frizzy hair straight and glossy. 'I'd love to stop doing it, but the feminine-ist in me won't let me!' #germainegreer
If you haven't already read the comments on the Oprah article, please do! Every single one of them basically says: "I'm a feminist and this article is crap." It's awesome!
Some of the comments are the type of thing you only see here or on Shakesville or Harpyness. This actually made my day. #germainegreer
@La Chica Lucy: Yeah, that's what I was coming to say. It's a waste of worry to say "millions of women will read this on Oprah.com" and take as gospel or whatever when the actual women reading it on Oprah.com are doing a fantastic job taking it down on their own. Well done, feminists! #germainegreer
@La Chica Lucy: I want to hug the user "pandmitten" over there because her comment is SO amazing. Well written, right on, and just a total takedown. #germainegreer
Why does sexy always have to come into everything? I don't need to feel sexy 24/7 because *GASP* I am not defined by my sexuality, my sexual appeal to others, or as a sex object!
Amazing, but true.
I don't need to feel sexy to do my job well. It frankly never even occurs to me. Being pre-occupied with either feeling sexy, or considered sexy by others, seems like a fun way to develop an objectification complex.
It should go without saying that I don't feel sex-less, either. But I'd think it would be exhausting to, among all the other things I need to accomplish in a day, managing to be or feel "sexy" the whole time, too. That just seems like pressure I don't need when I have deadlines.
This is just another version of expecting/requiring women to be thinking about our sexual object status all the time. And frankly, I've got much better things to do. #germainegreer
As a side note, apparently my four-year-old son asked my husband the other day if he looked "sexy." WHO HAS BEEN TALKING TO MY KID I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW. #germainegreer
@tiredfairy: I rarely feel "sexy", but it's not that I feel "not-sexy". It's that I am not thinking about it. When I am taking notes in class, I hardly care if I am attractive. It doesn't cross my mind, and why should it? That's not what I'm there for.
I'm down with that. There are situations in which I want to be seen as sexy, and many in which sexiness is irrelevant or even harmful to me, so... why should I push to be unilaterally sexy, anyway? #germainegreer
I'd love to ask the author of the "feminine-ist" article how her "fun and sexy" power is working out for her when she's in her 70s.
What a freaking dip that woman is.
And also, can someone explain to me what the obsession is with Germaine Greer? I mean, I know who she is, but she's so irrelevant over here, yet it seems like her name pops up with regularity in the Daily Fail. I don't understand. #germainegreer
@whynotshesaid: It depends on your generation -- The Female Eunuch was a groundbreaking book, especially coming on the heels of the sexual revolution when women were still being defined and confined by a narrow definition of "womanhood." She was brave and coarse and ballsy at a time when "nice" women didn't talk that way. Some of this stuff seems strident and loopy now, maybe, but it was so important in moving the conversation forward. #germainegreer
Well, I am a feminist, and I will get as drunk and disorderly as I want! And when being drunk and disorderly, I will puke anywhere I please (preferably on a computer screen displaying this article)! #germainegreer
@Snowbunny: Hmm.... this is true. I was thinking I would puke on a random computer in the bar where I am drunk that for some reason is displaying the article.... but I suppose a printed out copy is better. :) #germainegreer
First of all, the term "feminine-ist" is really unwieldy -- it sounds like "feminist," pronounced with a stutter. She can't really expect people to drop the word into actual conversation, so why create a new term? It seems like she just wants to be able to say that she's not a feminist and not come off like an asshole even though it's true. She IS an asshole.
Femininny-ism: Belief in the right of women to be silly ninnies.
Fame-inism: Belief in the right of women to pursue fame and fortune. i.e. Lady Gaga is a fame-inist icon.
Femi-nan-ism: Belief that women's proper role is that of the grandmother, regardless of age. Alternatively it is the belief that women should be a delicious leavened bread (sp. femin-naan-ism)
Femi-noon-ism: Followers of Peggy Noonan, belief in the right of women to be complete nutballs. #germainegreer
@futuremouse: Famine-ism: Belief that all women like to look at pictures that have been altered using various photoshop tools. See: Famine-ist: Member of Self magazine editorial staff.
God knows there's nothing more unattractive than a sexy, warm, loving man...those Sir Prancibalds are so un-masculine . And a powerful, intelligent woman? She might as well be wearing a tuxedo to the Oscars, that sexless hag. Doesn't she know her "male" traits need to be counteracted by femininity? Otherwise she'll NEVER be happy.
Feminine-ism: The road to hell is paved with rigid gender roles.
I wish it was, like, international law or something to require people to know a bit about history before they post shit like "it's all feminism's fault women are promiscuous and end up drunk in gutters."
Those same charges have been leveled against women since, oh, forever--certainly since times when treating women like property instead of people was a whole lot more accepted than it is now. In Western thought, to be a woman and to be promiscuous has been (and, to an extent, still is) considered to be pretty much the same thing.
Right-wing thought and social conservatism is based on the assumption that women can't control themselves because of what they are. It doesn't matter if a woman's in a nunnery, an office, or a bar... She'll always need to be controlled because she can't control herself. #germainegreer
'Loose-knickered lady louts', a 'sweaty jungle'. Someone's imagination is working at fever pitch, eh Quentin, you miserable old homophobe? #germainegreer
Before the night is out, some of them will be bending over a storm drain, puking, weeping, wailing 'e don't love me!' before passing out under some sulphurous street lamp...
@Triana Orpheus: Oh, that was you? It's so hard to keep all the puking, weeping, wailing women straight... especially when I'm passing out drunk under my sulphurous street lamp. #germainegreer
@KikiCanuck: Ha! I love his curiously Dickensian phrasing there. In fact, the whole article is absolutely hilarious. Dr Johnson would be proud of the following line:
'Many is the wastrel who remains in his skimpies until lunch, hair askew, chin unshaved, emerging from his pit only to slope down the pub for a few bevvies in front of the satellite TV football.' #germainegreer
@RStewie: Meanwhile, I was castrating hard-working white men while my illegal immigrant lesbian lover used their hard-earned tax money to feed our seventeen welfare babies.
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Men: $$$, having testes
Women: being fun and sexy!
Gals, don't you go on and try to rise above the ranks at your jobs! Don't you know that'll only cause wrinkles, and looking good is how you're gonna get some respect, girlfren! #germainegreer
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Oh yeah, sounds like feminism to me. #germainegreer
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Honestly, I'm like 3 Bloody Mary's into the evening and for some reason, this is stuck in my craw. #germainegreer
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Some of the comments are the type of thing you only see here or on Shakesville or Harpyness. This actually made my day. #germainegreer
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Amazing, but true.
I don't need to feel sexy to do my job well. It frankly never even occurs to me. Being pre-occupied with either feeling sexy, or considered sexy by others, seems like a fun way to develop an objectification complex.
It should go without saying that I don't feel sex-less, either. But I'd think it would be exhausting to, among all the other things I need to accomplish in a day, managing to be or feel "sexy" the whole time, too. That just seems like pressure I don't need when I have deadlines.
This is just another version of expecting/requiring women to be thinking about our sexual object status all the time. And frankly, I've got much better things to do. #germainegreer
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As a side note, apparently my four-year-old son asked my husband the other day if he looked "sexy." WHO HAS BEEN TALKING TO MY KID I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW. #germainegreer
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I'm down with that. There are situations in which I want to be seen as sexy, and many in which sexiness is irrelevant or even harmful to me, so... why should I push to be unilaterally sexy, anyway? #germainegreer
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Honest question. #masculinity
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What a freaking dip that woman is.
And also, can someone explain to me what the obsession is with Germaine Greer? I mean, I know who she is, but she's so irrelevant over here, yet it seems like her name pops up with regularity in the Daily Fail. I don't understand. #germainegreer
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Femininny-ism: Belief in the right of women to be silly ninnies.
Fame-inism: Belief in the right of women to pursue fame and fortune. i.e. Lady Gaga is a fame-inist icon.
Femi-nan-ism: Belief that women's proper role is that of the grandmother, regardless of age. Alternatively it is the belief that women should be a delicious leavened bread (sp. femin-naan-ism)
Femi-noon-ism: Followers of Peggy Noonan, belief in the right of women to be complete nutballs. #germainegreer
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Feminine-ism: The road to hell is paved with rigid gender roles.
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Those same charges have been leveled against women since, oh, forever--certainly since times when treating women like property instead of people was a whole lot more accepted than it is now. In Western thought, to be a woman and to be promiscuous has been (and, to an extent, still is) considered to be pretty much the same thing.
Right-wing thought and social conservatism is based on the assumption that women can't control themselves because of what they are. It doesn't matter if a woman's in a nunnery, an office, or a bar... She'll always need to be controlled because she can't control herself. #germainegreer
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My apologies guys, it was a rough night. #germainegreer
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'Many is the wastrel who remains in his skimpies until lunch, hair askew, chin unshaved, emerging from his pit only to slope down the pub for a few bevvies in front of the satellite TV football.' #germainegreer
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Man, that was a great party. #germainegreer
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