Feminists

I work as a RN, so I'm around a lot of women. Women are afraid, not just to go out to their cars at night--thinking that the constant fear of rape is a societal norm as opposed to a societal sicknesss (rape culture) They're afraid of being ugly, not sexy, fat, unfeminine. Butch. Angry, bitchy, shrill, a slut, a ball buster, a gold digger. And incorporated in all that, feminazi. You can go to urbandictionary.com and find a multitude of choices for what women fear, because we got a lot of names and defininitions. We've been taught fear, but it's an insidious fear, not at the forefront of the brain so to speak. It's work to root it out and name it. Naming things does have power, not in the magical thinking sense, but the 'I'm gonna face what this shit really is' sense.

There are subtle problems as well as the obvious ones;

Did you know that a recent study of 3000 woman, at what as it Yale, finally indicated that females are as good at math as males. Just a few years back that Larry Summers puke--a tenured Ivy league prof, said they weren't. Asshole

Did you know, they are finally have a conprehensive study of the clitoris? One that's mainstream I should say. The article I read was just maveling over, something about how the myth of vaginal orgasm came about from not understand how bit the clitoral structure really is. I was reading this yesterday. Now the penis has been studied and studied and studied, and it's not really that fucking interesting.

Lately, my thought is on education. Would women choose to be strippers if they had equal oppurturnity in wages, jobs and education? And I mean equal between race and socio-economic class as well as gender (I'm not here to talk about the men) Since anecdotally, last I heard is many strippers are working their way through nursing school, I have a renewed interest. You go ladies, I'll welcome you with open arms once you get here. But between slut shaming and youth worship and the constant threat of violence any sex work occupation, stipping is not something most women want for the long term. Neither is serving expresso half dressed and Fending off the random pervie stalker type.

But there you go. Our bodies are objectified just walking down the street, part of the problem with feminism is we have to constantly fight the sex and sexuality angle. And part of my personal solution is to decriminalize prostitution, (I include stripping, naked baristas, modeling for 'mens' magazines, the Kardashians-- under the prostitution category. Don't be looking down on a 5 dollor crack 'ho' just because you making more money doing just about the same thing) make it a federal crime to abuse or exploit any sex worker, make plenty federal funds available for those who wish to do something else, and oh, by the way, quite calling them sluts, holes, scanky bitches etc.

I also want tricks thrown in jail for the crime of purchasing a human being, but that's more in fantasy land in the US than the above. (And no, I don't equate a hiring for a sexual act the same as hiring someone to mow my fucking lawn, I've been down that argumental road, and it's just dressed up bullshit)

There are many heroines, many women to look up to. And you're right. Having to look everybody up instead of having having certain women as household names is a crime.

Here's one of my favorite websites to this day, because it goes back TO back in the day.

http://www.suppressedhistories.net/