Image credit: Planet Cake (only $850)
What I’ve been reading:
- Stalwart feminists worry that young blogging feminists might not be enough for feminism.
- In the absence of any other kind of power, try the power of sexual objectification.
- Kevin Rudd reminds you that a vote for him is a vote for social conservatism. What’s a poor leftie to do in this election, or a loved-up committed lesbian couple for that matter?
Rudd’s comment was so disappointing. Someone needs to point out to him that marriage IS socially conservative. Telling people WHO they are ‘permitted’ to love – and to marry – is bigotry.
guess that means I’m voting from the ‘worst at the bottom’ point of view again this year. again.
Vote green, baby!
I have a feeling that when – if – Labour is voted in there’ll be not much wild celebration as a vague sense of unease and a crossing of fingers amongst all we p.c. elites without our crazy notions of respect and care…
i only have time to respond to two of your items:
cake:
holy crap i hope it tastes good
lack of feminist movement in the young ladies:
speaking as the daughter of a feminist, and a woman who speaks with women her own age all the time (late twenties), i can honestly say that the only way us ladies will pick up our asses and continue the movement is when there is a SERIOUS and ALL-ENCOMPASSING threat to women’s lib…one that crosses race, economics, and age…like the vote. us girls in our teens and twenties have grown up in a privileged america: where we take what we want, ignore the rest, and whine without action. we tend to forget that our moms and grandmoms actually had to fight for what we already have. and like every movement before us, there is a cycle. some day, hopefully soon, we’ll get it. in the meantime, i agree with the writer…but only because it doesn’t just apply to feminism. blogging is great, but it’s not doing. doing is activism. blogging can introduce a topic, or like you do so well, start a conversation. but it can’t change the world. only getting out onto the streets and DOING can change the world. that’s hard to understand when you’re a generation that’s grown up sitting in front of screens watching everything done for you.
serahrose – fascinating, fascinating, fascinating, your comment was terrific. I love hearing about daughters of feminists who grew up to be feminists because I’m shit-scared that my daughter may not and I agreed with everything you said, and you said it SO damn well!
rose – I agree, I want to vote for a viable government option so I’m reduced to supporting the least offensive social conservative with the better overall policies.
kris – alas, I think I’ll save my green vote for the Senate. I’m too freaked out about the idea that we may return that shifty old bugger, Howard otherwise. But like you I’m hopeful and also edgy about what we’ll get if we get the ALP in government. Will they be too socially conservative to be worth the bother?
Having said all that I read a great article in Crikey today by Rodney Croome saying that overall the ALP policies on same-sex partnerships were streets ahead of the Liberals and that Rudd did himself a disservice not advertising that fact.