Comments on: UPDATED! The Many Faces of an Indian Feminist

By: “Along the way, many a times, we had heart-burns but we did not burn those sexy bras!” « The General Wolfe

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:21:38 +0000

[...] “Along the way, many a times, we had heart-burns but we did not burn those sexy bras!” By da wolfe I was going to write a killer takedown of the coalition - and of Stephen Harper this weekend… but right now I want to post about feminism all day. I want to post my favorite feminist/pro-woman country songs and about the feminism101 site I’ve gotten links to. But what I just found was a “possibly related” link that’s definately related. These are the first posted comments by people who call themselves feminists from a post on Ultra Violet called The Many Faces of an Indian Feminist: [...]

By: Late night links: stuff around the feminist blogs at Hoyden About Town

Late night links: stuff around the feminist blogs at Hoyden About Town — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:07:20 +0000

[...] Indian feminists. It’s smart, passionate, and information-packed. Dilnavaz Bamboat showcases what an Indian feminist looks like, Annie Zaidi takes a closer look at pink, unmana thinks the State should stay out of marriage, and [...]

By: Dilnavaz Bamboat

Dilnavaz Bamboat — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:00:29 +0000

Thank you all, for adding your perspectives.

By: Batull

Batull — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:57:34 +0000

Chevalier….I’m enthralled by your response…the women are constantly battling odds for the simplest of jobs and forever multi-tasking…. Yet women are sporty and laugh at all the sexist jokes too! SO PROUD TO BE A WOMAN!

By: Omi

Omi — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:52:57 +0000

I am a humanist, if you can call it that… I choose to love all equally and do not wish to be bracketed or appropriated by any group. It also helps to have no leanings if I wish to fight from an ideologically independent base with a complately new set of arguments. But, that’s just me…

By: Chevalier

Chevalier — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:01:44 +0000

What Suchi said – I don’t have a picture I can send, but this is what I have to say:

If you believe all human life is a struggle for perfection, and that all movements/revolutions are attempts to edge us closer to a more equitable, perfect state of being, feminism is the most important, critical, wide-ranging of all movements. There is no other prejudice, no bigotry that is as critical to be removed as is sexism. None that is as universal, as entrenched, as historical, as sanctioned by socio-cultural norms, as hard to raise consciousness about, as difficult to fight against. All inequalities get exacerbated because of sexism – be they based on economic factors (e.g. poor women vs. rich women), or race, or caste, or religion, or geography, or beauty standards, or physical/mental disability, or education levels, etc. etc. There is no comparable parallel in history to 52% of ALL humanity being subjected to a different standard, a harder set of rules, than the other 48%. Therefore, I cannot help but be a feminist.

- ‘Chevalier’, 27

By: Suchi

Suchi — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:28:02 +0000

Great idea! I’m not one for sending in photos, so I’ll just say my bit here:

I am a feminist because I believe in individual liberty, and because I see it denied everyday to women on the basis of their gender. My battle is against this denial of justice, against society’s acceptance of it as a normal thing.

By: Warren.rior

Warren.rior — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:54:58 +0000

As a white, raised female, and as an oppressor, it is my responsibility to address the fear in women's studies and feminism. Trustee Manager

By: Batull

Batull — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:12:49 +0000

I wish there would be more Ranjan Rajgopauls in our world! An understanding man is a rare species…..

I second what Sonal Gopujkar has to say….we would all be so much happier if we could only just “be”…no titles…nothing.