New group everybody!

[beam me up scottie]

It's the DU Feminists Group.
And it's perfectly safe for all genders, unless you are fond of posting blonde jokes.
:evilgrin:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=341

[fshrink]

1. No thanks!

I lived for 10 years with one, a cultural anthropologist at that. I've been explained, trained, educated, re-programmed, punished and reinforced to the core.

[beam me up scottie]

3. Wonderful.

I see you respect feminists as much as our freeper cousins do.
So much for atheist enlightenment.
Charming.

[fshrink]

4. I see you bear judgments as quickly as a true believer.

[beam me up scottie]

5. I thought this was the one place

on DU where I could post about this new group without being insulted.
I guess I was wrong.
And I am so sorry that I offended you.

[Warpy]

9. By your own words you are known

But we're glad you're not going to be joining us until your wounds have healed and you realize that every woman who is fighting for her righs as a human being and a citizen of this country didn't inflict them.

I hope you heal soon.

[Modem Butterfly]

16. Oy

There is nothing worse than bring subjected to someone else's mind fuck, whether it's religion or philosophy. Yikes.

[Book Lover]

24. Gee, sounds like simple discussion was never part of that scene

Why not try some regular talk with us in the Feminist Group?

on edit: Nevermind. I just read your second post here. Glad to know you never need to talk about feminism in your life again.

[Book Lover]

2. Thank goodness!

Women's World scares me and no joke. I'm so glad the Feminists group was formed. Going there now...

[beam me up scottie]

6. outta here, see you guys in the forums.

[trotsky]

7. For obvious reasons,

feminism goes hand-in-hand with secularism/atheism. A great book showing the relationship between the two is "Women Without Superstition: No Gods, No Masters" (a compilation put together by Annie Gaylor of the Freedom From Religion Foundation). Religious patriarchies HATE strong women, especially now that in the modern era they can't just burn 'em for being witches.

[beam me up scottie]

11. See everybody?

Trotsky made it back alive!
And he made some new friends, awwwwwwwwwwwwwww. :grouphug:

[DavidDvorkin]

18. There seems to be a connection between feminism and Wicca, though

Or is that a false impression?

I guess I should say that a lot of feminists I've known have been attracted to Wicca and similar recent "Earth-religion" inventions. Which bothers me as an atheist.

[beam me up scottie]

20. Interesting observation.

I don't know anything about that except that don't Wicca and Pagan religions view the Earth as a mother figure?
If so, that might appeal to many who are rebelling against the misogynistic mainstream patriarchal religions.

I don't know that much about religion, I was raised in a faith-free
household, praise the pot roast.

[Stuckinthebush]

8. Excellent!

I'll see you over there.

Nothing like a good feminist discussion...hell, nothing like a good critical theory discussion--race,class, and gender!

[beam me up scottie]

10. Thanks,

If anybody wants to see why it was necessary to form a group (a lot of us had reservations because of the possibility of excluding other members) see this thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3810953

There are very few misogynists on DU but all it takes is one to intimidate those who have been abused.
I'm a loudmouth and I don't scare easy but I wanted this for the women who left and those who stayed but said they wouldn't post in the forums.

It is a good thing.

And if anybody thinks I'm going to shut up in the forums now, guess again! :evilgrin:

[Stuckinthebush]

26. I'm with you on this

Misogyny is abhorrent. I think many of my fellow male DUers agree 100% with that statement and consider ourselves as feminists (or pro-feminists depending on one's position regarding the term). Misogyny has no place in a progressive community.

[beam me up scottie]

27. We definitely noticed all the support

we've gotten from you and the other men.
You guys rock!
:yourock:
:applause:

[Modem Butterfly]

12. Cool! A hen party!

:evilgrin:

Just yankin' your chain some!

[beam me up scottie]

13. Somebody else yanked it

pretty damn hard in GD.
I think I'm too tired to fight.
(but you never know, check your pm)

[Modem Butterfly]

14. Unfortunately, being a feminist means always having to say...

...you don't hate men. I scanned the thread in GD but I've been involved in a lot of flame-fests this week (and it's only Wednesday!) and didn't have the stomach for this one. But your rant was wonderful, amazingly articulate and dead-on.

[beam me up scottie]

15. Why thank you.

I had a 45 minute commute in my broiler aka my car on the way home.
PLENTY of fuel for a good mad-on.

[jonnyblitz]

17. this fuckin site is infested i tell ya...

dont even need to go to wingnut sites to get wingnut attitude anymore.

[beam me up scottie]

19. Sure find out who has "issues"

when you start a positive thread in GD like that one, eh?
It's exactly like the when those imbeciles, the Young Republicans, have their "Straight Pride" parade in Texas.

[leftofthedial]

21. I used to be a feminist

but all the broads in my life cured me of it

[beam me up scottie]

22. .

:)

[fshrink]

23. Time to add

that this ex-wife of mine is one of my very few best friends. As far as "feminism", one of the central tenets is that the subject's voice is to be heard. Hence my post, which stated briefly and honestly my own experience, my own voice and no one else's, as a subject, and, secondarily, declined any further personal participation to discussions on "feminism".

[Modem Butterfly]

25. To each their own...

That's what makes being a Dem so great.

While I don't share your opinion on Feminism, there are a number of topics I am sympathetic to but not passionate enough about to spend much time invovled in discussing, such as firearms.