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Your favourite feminist icons

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CardiffUniversityNetballTeam · 15/11/2015 08:32

I am quite in awe of Geena Davis of late. Speaking up about inequality in the U.S. film industry and the work she has done to raise the bar in women's roles in kids TV shows.
I'm not sure she is my all time top feminist icon though.
Who is your feminist hero, and why?

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norrean · 13/12/2015 22:44

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Ughnotagain · 13/12/2015 22:48

Not Germaine Greer.

Angela Carter is a big hero of mine.

Cerseirys · 13/12/2015 22:52

What's the evidence that Malala's speeches are written by her father?

norrean · 13/12/2015 22:58

"Not Germaine Greer."

I don't know much about that one, but her comments on trans-women are utterly disgusting.

Lizawithaz · 13/12/2015 22:58

Norrean i think you should show us the evidence for this. Otherwise one may assume you're full of shit.

CallaLilli · 13/12/2015 23:01

So who does measure up to your stringent standards then norrean?

Ughnotagain · 13/12/2015 23:05

Liza www.advocate.com/caitlyn-jenner/2015/10/26/feminist-germaine-greer-goes-anti-trans-rant-over-caitlyn-jenner

I know a lot of MNers agree with GG's views on transwomen. I don't. She doesn't represent feminism to me. No hero of mine.

norrean · 13/12/2015 23:06

@Calla, I have already said who.

Cerseirys · 13/12/2015 23:08

ugh I think Liza was referring to norrean's comments about Malala rather than Greer.

CallaLilli · 13/12/2015 23:10

Sorry norrean, missed that. But where did you hear that Malala's father writes her speeches? She might be from a well to do family but that doesn't negate the work she's done. She was an activist before she was shot too, which could be why she's had the attention she's had since.

VestalVirgin · 13/12/2015 23:11

@Ugh: GGs "views" on transwomen are essentially that transwomen are male. It is not that revolutionary a concept. It is also not a subjective opinion. (Even though GG helpfully pointed out that her opinion on transwomen happens to be an opinion). More of an objective fact.

Fitting username, by the way, that's exactly what I think when reading your posts.

What's the evidence that Malala's speeches are written by her father?

I think it is just a rumour, because misogynists cannot believe that a girl could say something coherent.

Even IF the speeches were written by her father, she would still deserve our respect for endangering her life to give them.

LineyReborn · 13/12/2015 23:12

I think Greer has spoken well recently.

Cerseirys · 13/12/2015 23:13

I think it is just a rumour, because misogynists cannot believe that a girl could say something coherent.

Believing rumours spread by misogynists? How very feminist... Hmm

VestalVirgin · 13/12/2015 23:17

@Cerseirys: I think a couple of posters currently on this thread are not here for the feminism but to incite fights.

yawn

norrean · 13/12/2015 23:18

"she would still deserve our respect for endangering her life to give them."

But what about the thousands of other children in the middle-east who have survived attacks on them by terrorists? How come they aren't rich and famous and lapping-up the upper-class life in England? How come Malalala gets a golden-ticket and they don't?

LineyReborn · 13/12/2015 23:24

Yes, here come the fighties.

Cerseirys · 13/12/2015 23:24

Maybe because she was already an activist before she was shot so was not unknown to the media?

Still waiting for the evidence that her father writes her speeches btw, but I suspect you're just a GF.

JasperDamerel · 13/12/2015 23:28

Audre Lord and Emma Goldman.

GreenTomatoJam · 13/12/2015 23:32

Oh. We're being invaded. How inventive. How useful. I'm sure they'll show us.

Pretty sure that there was a poster living in the same area as Malala is now, and she said it was far from upper class. Mind you, I've seen her speak on a couple of occasions, and I think that regardless of whatever he background is, she comes across as a very sensible woman, worth listening to.

And Germain Greer - she's blunt, but I don't think I've heard her speak utterly disgusting opinions. I think that saying that a woman isn't just a man without a cock is brutal, but the truth, personally

norrean · 13/12/2015 23:40

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VestalVirgin · 13/12/2015 23:42

I have recently seen that movie about Malala, and as the daughter of a schoolteacher she'd be middle class, at the highest. (Didn't seem to be a very big or famous school, either.)

It also showed that she was an activist well before she was shot in the head - her activism was WHY she was shot.

norrean · 13/12/2015 23:45

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LineyReborn · 14/12/2015 00:00

Is this a personal thing?

Cerseirys · 14/12/2015 00:02

I think I might've norrean, but you still haven't answered our question about her father writing her speeches.

CallaLilli · 14/12/2015 00:05

How the fuck are we supposed to know the answer to that question norrean, other than just theorising, which some of us have done? But we're not the ones making statements that we refuse to back up with facts. That'd be you, when you said her father writes her speeches.