lucyamy's SuicideGirls Blog

The word misogyny is a borrowing from Greek, μισογυνία, meaning hatred or dislike of, or prejudice against, women. So let's take a moment to examine the status of women in Classical Athens.

Under Athenian law, women's rights were limited: They were barred completely from political life. An Athenian woman was not permitted to represent herself in law (they needed a man, of course), although weirdly...
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Some may have noticed, that although I proclaim myself a radical feminist, I've never done a 'So what is Radical Feminism anyway?' - yet. There's a reason for that - other than the bloody obvious reason that I haven't done it. Radical feminism is the central pillar of theory in feminism. Radical feminism provides the foundation (mostly) for the rest of the flavours of feminism....
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Marxist feminists are a bunch of wankers. I hate them almost as much as Eco-feminists. So you might think I'd rather fight Eco-feminists - but you'd be wrong. If you hit an Eco-feminist, they fall over and cry. A Marxist feminist will get right up and deck you. They're all right that way.

Whilst Marxism recognises the fact that women are oppressed (well spotted Marxism,...
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Ifeminists, or individualist feminists, say that the feminist slogan "a woman's body, a woman's right" should extend to every peaceful choice a woman can make.

Ifeminists believe that freedom and diversity benefit women, whether or not the choices that particular women make are politically correct. They respect all sexual choices, from motherhood to porn.

As the cost of freedom, ifeminists accept personal responsibility for their...
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NOTE: The views expressed here are not the views of Suicide Girls, nor of anyone except me. Other people may have different views, although they are wrong.

Eco-feminism is a bag of shite*.

Eco-(so-called)-feminism is much more spiritual than political or theoretical in nature, i.e., it is a bag of shite*. It is often jumbled up incoherently with such New Age tosh as Wicca, Mother...
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From about 1975, as radical feminism began to fizzle out as a force in feminism, a new framework (I refuse to say p***digm) called cultural feminism got going, and absorbed many (former) radical feminists. Many of us carried the name "radical feminist" with us, and some of us now-cultural-feminists use that name to this day. Maybe denial, maybe not. If so many of us radical...
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In "A Reader's Companion to Women's History", the liberal feminists among the book's editors so disagreed with the definition of feminism that Smith and Mink had written in an early chapter, that they (Steinem, Navarro, and Mankiller) collectively co-authored an essay that responds to it.

But for what it's worth, here are those two definitions of feminism:

Steinem et al.:

"The belief in full economic...
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