geee so much for free thought, so do feminist think freedom of expression should be tuned down or is it that only a few select women think themselves to be above others when it comes to thinking right????.Yikes anti-capitalism???? do feminists belive in capitalism??????
this page is a load of laughter, have bookmarked it, thanks guys, soz gals!!!!!!!!

Indigo has been available for some time as a blue dye. Good red dyes were historically more expensive and less colorfast. So that doesn’t hold up as an explanation as to why colors are associated with different genders.

My partner had heard reference on the BBC some months ago to the supposed historical fact that until 100 years ago or so–at least in the UK–it was reversed–pink was boy and blue was for girls. Can’t remember the exact programme, so can’t look it up, but I thought I’d mention it as a possibility.

Needless to say, he and I had a little “discussion.” Which basically meant I had him for breakfast and spit out the pits. He was gone by sundown. But the Busties kept him and continued to fawn all over him. This is just a taste of what Busties were sporting as “feminism.””

is some kind of fantasy.

Gee, thank goodness you are there to save the world. I’ve been on the Bust boards for ages, and have never, ever seen anything like this.
Not even remotely.

I cannot believe no one challenged this–maybe it was just too crazy to even talk about. I don’t know. But it is true that assuming everyone on the Bust boards is 100% behind everything Bust the magazine ever says or does is nonsense. There are people on the boards who love the magazine, who sort of like it, who used to like it but now hate it, who loathe it, who don’t care about it one way or another, and who have never, ever seen the magazine.

It happens to be an online community with a basically feminist slant. And like any other set of political beliefs feminism is definined differently by different people–including on the Bust boards.

I think the discussion of what message a magazine like Bust presents and the implications are important and I think the original entry was terrific, and clearly tapped into something a lot of people are feeling.

For example take a media example of a woman being subjected, and you say to a white racist “What if they were doing it to a black person instead”, it would have no meaning to them. The N-word and the B-word are equally hateful to me because of that.

I guess this one went over my head, Salty. Are you saying that it’s better when oppression is invisiblized? I don’t know about that. I’m told it’s better to be hated than nothing-ed and ignored as if one doesn’t even exist.

I mean, I look at the Holocaust and wondered what would’ve happened if the human rights violations that occurred with the Jews had been considered an aberration instead of a methodical, systematic operation. What would’ve happened if slavery had been invisibilized? Could the abolition of slavery and civil rights have ever taken place? I mean, the violations are going to take place whether it’s visibilized or not. But when the oppression is visibilized, it can be recognized as such and a plan of action taken. When it’s invisibilized, little to no action occurs. Because it simply doesn’t exist in the minds of a society or culture. And this is what did occur with Jews and people of color at first. Which is what enabled the violation of human rights to occur in the first place. No one, except those that were subjected to it, saw it as such!

But yes, I’ve stepped into the twilight zone and have lived down South. Being I’m from NY, to say it was culture shock, would be an understatement. And yes, I had to wise up real fast as it was made very clear to me that I wasn’t in Kansas any more, Toto.