Not just relevant in India.
Feminism
Public assertions of privilege
Research, then, has shown that expansive body postures that take up room instill a psychological sense of power and entitlement. The fact that this behavior is gendered may go some way towards explaining the persistence of gender inequality and, more pointedly, some men’s belief that they have earned their unearned privileges.
So it turns out blokes sit like they sit on the bus because this gives them a sense of power, research shows (PDF). As men still are socialised much more than women to assert their authority, it makes sense that they (we) claim space in public transports in ways women don’t. This is not an excuse to keep doing this. Once you know that you are doing this and why, it’s up to you to stop it.
Manufacturing outrage
Flavia Tamara Dzodan on the meltdown of socalled feminist leader Hugo Schwyzer and how the mainstream feminist media helped built him up and enabled him to attack women of colour:
I despise the TMZ of feminist media that “reports” our issues and sells us a lip gloss version of our politics and gives space to people like him so that he can shit on us and tell us how we should take it in the face while he puts Women of Color in “their (our) places”. This is how White Supremacy works and I am pointing all my fingers at Jezebel and xoJane and The Atlantic and every other publication that paid him to publish his repulsive opinions. The shame is on each of you and not merely on his cock shots or pathetic sexting. The shame is on every editor that thought selling women like Blackamazon or brownfemipower (or even my fucking self) for page clicks was a worthy trade off. Each and every one of those editors that knew what he was, how he acted and how his misogynist racism operated behind the scenes has played a part in this. And you get to “represent” feminism. You are the filters of who gets published and who doesn’t. You are the ones that hold the doors and set the agendas. The dick pics are also on you. You helped create the monster, now I hope you enjoy the money shot. And don’t say you weren’t warned. Countless others aside from myself had extensively documented his antics, his skeevy politics, his racism, his misogyny. But he brought the page clicks. At our fucking expense. Sisterhood! Yay!
today’s foundations and 501c3s are being brought on at the insistence of feminism. clicking outrage is encouraged. change dot org gets paid for outrage. jezebel got paid for hugo outrage. the “movement” is carefully controlled by clicks, outrage and grants all hidden under the disguise of “change” and “sustainability”. liberal reformists steal radical content and get paid to translate it into a liberal vision.
radical women of color were turned into “The WOCs” and feminists write reports congratulating themselves on everything they’ve done
#SHOUTINGBACK
“In other words: quotas. Hard quotas.”
How to make your talkshow more diverse:
“We just would look at the board and say, ‘We already have too many white men. We can’t have more.’ Really, that was it,†Hayes says. “Always, constantly just counting. Monitoring the diversity of the guests along gender lines, and along race and ethnicity lines.†Out of four panelists on every show, he and his booking producers ensured that at least two were women. “A general rule is if there are four people sitting at table, only two of them can be white men,†he says. “Often it would be less than that.â€
If they did end up booking a show that featured a majority of white men, they’d call it “taking a gender hit.†Hayes explains, “and then we’d be like, well, we have to make up for that either in the second half of the show or on the Sunday show.â€