#feminism — Public Fediverse posts

We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, and make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded.

-- Sheryl Sandberg (Lean In, 2013)

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We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, and make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded.

-- Sheryl Sandberg (Lean In, 2013)

#feminism #quotes

Palestinian academic Nada Elia identifies the shortcomings white saviour libfems currently fail to acknowledge and demand to be swept under the carpet when it comes to their Western idol as they promote femwashing, normalizing propaganda for empire and #Israel

https://www.newarab.com/opinion/palestinian-women-gloria-steinems-feminism-anything #hasbara #IsraelFascism #Palestine #feminism #USFascism #neoliberalism

Palestinian academic Nada Elia identifies the shortcomings white saviour libfems currently fail to acknowledge and demand to be swept under the carpet when it comes to their Western idol as they promote femwashing, normalizing propaganda for empire and #Israel

https://www.newarab.com/opinion/palestinian-women-gloria-steinems-feminism-anything #hasbara #IsraelFascism #Palestine #feminism #USFascism #neoliberalism

Women are the architects of change and the builders of peace.

-- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Nobel Prize speech, 2011)

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Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We are powerful and we know it.

-- bell hooks (Feminism is for Everybody, 2000)

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Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We are powerful and we know it.

-- bell hooks (Feminism is for Everybody, 2000)

#feminism #quotes

Disquiet Listening - Sep 8th live on Colaboradio from 17-18h

"Still Brain Storming: Broken Radio"
— Shannon Soundquist, Pinheiro, Notorische Ruhestörung and Chebedajha —

http://colaboradio.org
http://fr-bb.org
DAB+7D (Berlin)
DAB+12D (Brandenburg)

On 19 September "Still Brain Storming: Broken Radio" on Dresden's Coloradio, 20-22h.

http://coloradio.org
UKW (DD) 98,4 + 99,3 MHz
DAB+7A (DD)

#femnoise
#shannonsoundquist
#chebedajha
#pinheiro
#notorischeruhestoerung
#noise
#feminism

Disquiet Listening - Sep 8th live on Colaboradio from 17-18h

"Still Brain Storming: Broken Radio"
— Shannon Soundquist, Pinheiro, Notorische Ruhestörung and Chebedajha —

http://colaboradio.org
http://fr-bb.org
DAB+7D (Berlin)
DAB+12D (Brandenburg)

On 19 September "Still Brain Storming: Broken Radio" on Dresden's Coloradio, 20-22h.

http://coloradio.org
UKW (DD) 98,4 + 99,3 MHz
DAB+7A (DD)

#femnoise
#shannonsoundquist
#chebedajha
#pinheiro
#notorischeruhestoerung
#noise
#feminism

Disquiet Listening - Sep 8th live on Colaboradio from 17-18h

"Still Brain Storming: Broken Radio"
— Shannon Soundquist, Pinheiro, Notorische Ruhestörung and Chebedajha —

http://colaboradio.org
http://fr-bb.org
DAB+7D (Berlin)
DAB+12D (Brandenburg)

On 19 September "Still Brain Storming: Broken Radio" on Dresden's Coloradio, 20-22h.

http://coloradio.org
UKW (DD) 98,4 + 99,3 MHz
DAB+7A (DD)

#femnoise
#shannonsoundquist
#chebedajha
#pinheiro
#notorischeruhestoerung
#noise
#feminism

Disquiet Listening - Sep 8th live on Colaboradio from 17-18h

"Still Brain Storming: Broken Radio"
— Shannon Soundquist, Pinheiro, Notorische Ruhestörung and Chebedajha —

http://colaboradio.org
http://fr-bb.org
DAB+7D (Berlin)
DAB+12D (Brandenburg)

On 19 September "Still Brain Storming: Broken Radio" on Dresden's Coloradio, 20-22h.

http://coloradio.org
UKW (DD) 98,4 + 99,3 MHz
DAB+7A (DD)

#femnoise
#shannonsoundquist
#chebedajha
#pinheiro
#notorischeruhestoerung
#noise
#feminism

K2 kommt an: Freundin hat Videos geschickt. Aussagen von Leiten der AfD, Fakten zu Femiziden und Frauenrechten.
Da musste einiges sortiert werden - K2 war nicht bewusst, dass es nicht überall so gut ist wie in D und dass es auch hier deutliche Unterschiede gibt... Und auch wie die Zahlen im Video einzusortieren sind.
#Feminism #Gleichberechtigung #Kinder

When women are in positions of power, the world is a safer, more humane place.

-- bell hooks (Feminism is for Everybody, 2000)

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Women are always doing things so we can be better for other people.

-- Amy Griffin (The Tell: A Memoir, 2025)

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Women are always doing things so we can be better for other people.

-- Amy Griffin (The Tell: A Memoir, 2025)

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A strong woman looks a challenge dead in the eye and gives it a wink.

-- Gina Carey (Interview, 2005)

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Woman is the race; man is only an incident.

-- Eliza Burt Gamble (The Evolution of Woman, 1894 (circa))

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Blog/News: What is With the Lindsay Clancy Case?

I’ve been pretty touch-and-go with the news lately, but one of the things that I keep seeing every time I go on a quick doomscroll is someone talking about the Lindsay Clancy case.

To sum up this case, back in January 2023, Lindsay sent her husband – Patrick Clancy – out of the house on some errands and while he was gone, she strangled her three children with an exercise band before cutting her wrists and neck and jumping out of the second story window of her house in a suicide attempt. When Patrick returned, he found her lying outside where she had fallen and called 911. While on the phone with emergency services, he went inside and found the children unconscious. When paramedics arrived, resuscitation attempts were made, but two of the kids were pronounced dead at the hospital, and the youngest died three days after the incident.

From that summary alone, it should seem like a pretty cut and dry case that should end with life in prison or the death sentence. But that’s only if we lived in a sane society…and if there weren’t underlying things that the defense is pulling out so she doesn’t get life in prison.

According to Lindsay, after the birth of her first two kids, she began experiencing postpartum anxiety, which worsened after the birth of the second child. She began taking Zoloft for it and trying talk therapy for a while. However, she only did this briefly, and after she gave birth to her third child, planned to resume taking the Zoloft because her anxiety had returned. Then, in September 2022, she was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder, and prescribed Zoloft by her therapist, but after she complained about insomnia (which is a side effect of that medication), she was prescribed Ativan. She said that while it reduced her anxiety, it didn’t help her sleep, and she had turned to taking Benadryl as a sleep aid. She was then prescribed Buspar but didn’t take it since she didn’t want to try a new medication.

In November of 2022, things worsened as she was prescribed even more medications. During a visit to the ER on November 15, 2022, she was prescribed Trazodone. Six days later, on November 21st, she was prescribed Prozac by psychiatric nurse practitioner, Julie Paul. Four days later, Paul put Lindsay on Ambien, Remeron, and Klonopin. On November 29, she was prescribed with an anti-psychotic called Seroquel by nurse practitioner Rebecca Jollotta.

From there, things continued to get worse as Lindsay claimed the Remeron was causing her to have suicidal thoughts and severe emotional numbness. She told this to her therapist, Jeniffer Tufts, and to Rebecca Jollotta, but Jollotta testified that she believed it to be part of postpartum depression, not side effects from the medication. Lindsay also reported having hallucinations and calling two suicide hotlines, and Jollotta suggested that she had bipolar disorder, recommending hospitalization.

On December 20th, Lindsay Clancy went to Women & Infants Hospital Rhode Island for a day program to deal with post-partum depression, but was discharged, with hospital staff believing that she had been misdiagnosed and her symptoms were a result of overmedication. She was encouraged to get off the Seroquel and over the next few weeks began tapering off, though she was later put on Ativan and Amitriptyline.

Because of her reported postpartum depression and anxiety that led to her giant cocktail of drugs, Lindsay’s defense is arguing that she killed her children in a fit of postpartum psychosis, and thus, shouldn’t be put in prison. Instead, they’re arguing that she shouldn’t be found guilty of her crimes since she wasn’t in the right state of mind during the murders and should be put in a psychiatric facility.

Of course, this defense ignores that the explanation of insanity from postpartum psychosis does not match her official diagnoses, because while she was diagnosed with postpartum depression and anxiety, generalized anxiety disorder, and suggested to have bipolar, she was not diagnosed with psychosis.

However, there is something extremely odd about this case, that, from a Christian perspective does make me wonder. According to Lindsay, on the day that she murdered her children, she reportedly heard a male voice telling her to kill her children and herself. She reports that it became loud and demanding, repeatedly telling her to kill the kids and herself, saying she wouldn’t get another chance to do it, and during the murders, the voice took over and she felt like she had to comply. That detail makes me wonder: is she lying or did she actually hear something? If the latter, was that an auditory hallucination from the drugs messing with her brain, or was she actually possessed?

We may never know for certain, but that detail totally reminds me of the movie Nefarious. It also makes me ask the question: if she was demon possessed, how would the legal system deal with that? Would it be good to put her in jail forever? Would she be treated as insane and put in the psych ward? If she were exorcized or something, what happens then? Anyway…

Besides the question of if she was insane, of sound mind, or possibly possessed, there is something else that’s extremely disturbing about the case, and that’s the Lindsay Clancy supporters.

For some reason, women have been lining up in droves in support of Lindsay Clancy outside of the courthouse where she’s being tried. Online, women have been posting videos with the captions “Same, Lindsay,” “Me too, Lindsay,” etc. talking about their postpartum depression, rage, anxiety, etc. That would be disturbing enough that women are essentially saying that they, too, have had the urge to kill their kids, but what’s worse is that their kids are often in the videos with them. I can understand joking about wanting to kill your kids because they can be annoying, but when you’re saying that with a straight face in defense of a murderer…that’s just creepy.

What’s even worse than that, however, is that it’s seen as a feminist issue. Women online are saying that if Lindsay Clancy is found guilty, then we need to start a whole new feminist revolution for her. I didn’t think the modern feminist movement could get any worse. They already chant for babies to be killed up to the moment of birth and have erased what it means to be a woman. Now, they want a new feminist movement to defend a mentally unstable murderer that they believe should be acquitted essentially because her hormones were out of whack and causing problems.

Never mind the fact that this line of logic can easily be used by men to justify things like rape. An insane surge of testosterone made him do it and caused temporary insanity. He’s innocent. Or how it can be used to argue against women being able to vote or hold public office. After all, if a woman’s hormones can be so powerful that they cause insanity, then why trust women to vote rationally or be in charge of running a district, a city, a state, or even a country?

But the feminists don’t think that far ahead. They’re more interested in seeing what they can get away with. And in the case of Lindsay Clancy, there’s even been a copycat murder in which a woman – Corie Walsh – hanged her two-year-old, and when police arrived, she had self-inflicted wounds on her wrists and thighs. Incidentally, she too was reported to be having a psychotic break and was an avid follower of the Lindsay Clancy case. I’m sure that that murder totally wasn’t done for the attention of fem-nazis online and was actually the result of psychosis.

Overall, this is an interesting case, not just because it raises a lot of questions about the motives behind the murder, but because of what it’s revealed about society at large.

Until next time,

M.J.

Men think they’re mysterious; women know they’re just badly written.

-- Jean Kerr (Essay in Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, 1957)

#feminism #quotes

👩 Gloria Steinem passed last week at 92.
From A Bunny’s Tale to Ms. magazine, she spent decades challenging sexism and fighting for women’s rights🐰
🪧 What do you think her greatest legacy will be?
👉 https://alisonlittle.blog/?p=6811
#GloriaSteinem #Feminism #WomensRights

👩 Gloria Steinem passed last week at 92.
From A Bunny’s Tale to Ms. magazine, she spent decades challenging sexism and fighting for women’s rights🐰
🪧 What do you think her greatest legacy will be?
👉 https://alisonlittle.blog/?p=6811
#GloriaSteinem #Feminism #WomensRights

👩 Gloria Steinem passed last week at 92.
From A Bunny’s Tale to Ms. magazine, she spent decades challenging sexism and fighting for women’s rights🐰
🪧 What do you think her greatest legacy will be?
👉 https://alisonlittle.blog/?p=6811
#GloriaSteinem #Feminism #WomensRights

👩 Gloria Steinem passed last week at 92.
From A Bunny’s Tale to Ms. magazine, she spent decades challenging sexism and fighting for women’s rights🐰
🪧 What do you think her greatest legacy will be?
👉 https://alisonlittle.blog/?p=6811
#GloriaSteinem #Feminism #WomensRights

The average man’s idea of a romantic evening is one where he talks about himself uninterrupted.

-- Dorothy Parker (The Portable Dorothy Parker, 1944)

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Just to clarify: when yesterday I posted that message criticizing some radical positions on Fediverse, I expected a debate and I'm proud I got it; but not those saying that feminism has ruined society. Not this. I won't support that kind of position at all. My position, to be clear, I'm proudly a feminist. But feminism is a label which is highly abused.
One claiming to be feminist and who hates men, is not a feminist; she applies the same abuses which oppressed women for centuries, and it's not the right way to go.
Someone making you feel guilty because you keep a child despite a rape or whatever, is not better than a so-called "pro life" who fights against legal and safe abortion.
Feminism can't be recognized in a single movement, it's so easy to define yourself "feminist" then condemn a self-determined woman who chooses a lifestyle opposite than yours.
Btw I'm scared, I hear lots of girls attracted by those romance books where men humiliate women and overall vice-versa. No idea if that Felicia Kinsley is internationally known, I think so. But how she talks about men is shameful. If it was the opposite, someone would have called it sexism. It's against men, it's sexism anyways.

#feminism #men #toxic

Men have had their chance, and they have failed; it is time for women to lead.

-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Women and Economics, 1898)

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Cartoonjournaal 7 september 2026:

'Traditionele normen en waarden in de rolverdeling tussen mannen en vrouwen...'

#rolverdeling #man #vrouw #tijd #cultuur #SocialeKlasse #gender #TradWives #manosphere #feminism #feminisme

Cartoonjournaal 7 september 2026:

'Traditionele normen en waarden in de rolverdeling tussen mannen en vrouwen...'

#rolverdeling #man #vrouw #tijd #cultuur #SocialeKlasse #gender #TradWives #manosphere #feminism #feminisme

Cartoonjournaal 7 september 2026:

'Traditionele normen en waarden in de rolverdeling tussen mannen en vrouwen...'

#rolverdeling #man #vrouw #tijd #cultuur #SocialeKlasse #gender #TradWives #manosphere #feminism #feminisme

Cartoonjournaal 7 september 2026:

'Traditionele normen en waarden in de rolverdeling tussen mannen en vrouwen...'

#rolverdeling #man #vrouw #tijd #cultuur #SocialeKlasse #gender #TradWives #manosphere #feminism #feminisme

Cartoonjournaal 7 september 2026:

'Traditionele normen en waarden in de rolverdeling tussen mannen en vrouwen...'

#rolverdeling #man #vrouw #tijd #cultuur #SocialeKlasse #gender #TradWives #manosphere #feminism #feminisme

The world needs strong women. Women who will lift and build others, who will love and be loved.

-- Amy Tenney (Interview, 2002)

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Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their oppressors.

-- Evelyn Cunningham (Interview in The New York Times, 1969)

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Gloria Steinem, 1934–2026: She Found Her Cause — Did It Change the World?

By Cliff Potts, Editor-in-Chief, WPS News

September 6, 2026 — Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines

Gloria Steinem died September 2 at her home in New York City. She was 92.

For more than half a century, Steinem was one of the most recognizable voices of American feminism: journalist, organizer, author, political activist, co-founder of Ms. magazine and a woman who spent much of her adult life insisting that equality was not some radical concession society might someday grant women. It was their right.

Three days after her death, there is an obvious temptation to simply declare victory for a life well lived.

The harder question is whether she won.

She Found Her Cause

Steinem was born March 25, 1934, in Toledo, Ohio. After graduating from Smith College, she entered journalism at a time when women working in the profession routinely encountered barriers their male colleagues did not.

Her breakthrough came in 1963 when she went undercover as a Playboy Bunny and documented the working conditions inside New York’s Playboy Club. But Steinem’s transformation from journalist into activist accelerated after she attended a 1969 gathering where women publicly discussed their experiences obtaining abortions, then illegal in much of the United States.

Steinem had herself undergone an abortion after college, something she had kept secret because of the stigma surrounding it.

She increasingly recognized that what individual women had been taught to regard as private failures were often consequences of political and economic structures.

That realization became central to the women’s movement.

In 1971, Steinem helped establish the National Women’s Political Caucus. That same year she helped launch Ms. magazine, initially appearing as an insert in New York magazine before becoming an independent publication in 1972.

Ms. discussed subjects mainstream publications often avoided or marginalized: abortion, domestic violence, workplace discrimination, sexual harassment and women’s political power.

Putting those subjects into print mattered because naming a problem is frequently the first step toward making society acknowledge that the problem exists.

Did Any of It Work?

This is where an obituary should resist mythology.

Gloria Steinem did not liberate American women single-handedly. No individual did. The women’s movement consisted of millions of women and men, organizers, lawyers, politicians, writers and ordinary people whose names will never appear in history books.

Steinem understood that herself.

But did the movement she helped build accomplish anything?

Absolutely.

The America in which Steinem began her career was a country where women could encounter legal and institutional obstacles to obtaining credit independently, where employment discrimination was commonplace, where sexual harassment was barely recognized as a public issue and where domestic violence was frequently treated as something occurring behind somebody else’s closed door.

Women entered universities, professions, politics and positions of economic independence in numbers previous generations could scarcely have imagined.

Steinem didn’t accomplish all that.

But she helped create the political language, organizations and public pressure that made those changes possible.

That is an enormous legacy.

And Yet, Here We Are

There is another side to the story.

The constitutional Equal Rights Amendment Steinem championed never became part of the Constitution. In 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, eliminating the federal constitutional protection for abortion that had existed for nearly half a century. Steinem, then 88, responded by insisting the struggle for reproductive freedom would continue.

And at street level, it can sometimes seem as though some of the cultural assumptions Steinem spent decades fighting never really disappeared.

Perhaps they didn’t.

Rights can be won without prejudices disappearing. Laws can change faster than cultures. And political victories that appear permanent to one generation can be challenged by the next.

That doesn’t mean the earlier struggle failed.

It means there was never a finish line.

The Measure of a Life

Steinem received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2013. She remained politically active well into old age, continuing to write, organize and advocate for women’s rights.

Her final memoir, An Unexpected Life, is scheduled for posthumous publication this month.

But medals, books and famous photographs aren’t the most convincing measure of what Gloria Steinem accomplished.

A better measure may be how unremarkable some freedoms now seem.

A woman opening her own credit account. A woman expecting equal consideration for a job. A woman running for president. A woman publicly identifying sexual harassment instead of being expected to quietly tolerate it. A battered woman being treated as the victim of a crime rather than the participant in a private family dispute.

None of those things is remarkable enough anymore.

That is precisely the point.

Social movements sometimes succeed so thoroughly that later generations forget how abnormal today’s normal once was.

Gloria Steinem found herself a cause and gave most of her life to it.

Did she change everything?

No.

Did everything she fought for survive?

No.

Are some of those fights being fought all over again?

Absolutely.

But did Gloria Steinem and the movement she helped build change the world?

Yes.

The evidence is all around us — including in the freedoms now taken so much for granted that people can forget somebody once had to fight for them.

Gloria Steinem did.

And she kept fighting almost to the end.

References

Associated Press. (2026, September 3). Gloria Steinem, defining symbol of women’s movement and eloquent advocate for equality, dies at 92.

Reaney, P. (2026, September 3). Feminist activist Gloria Steinem dies at age 92. Reuters.

The Washington Post. (2026, September 3). Gloria Steinem, lodestar of the modern women’s movement, dies at 92.

Women are the true architects of peace.

-- Jane Addams (International Congress of Women speech, 1915)

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A teacher stands in front of a blackboard in a dimly lit classroom, surrounded by students with complex and varied expressions.

#illustration #educational #feminism #critique #erotism #anthropomorphism

The superiority of women is attested by their greater longevity, patience, and courage in suffering.

-- Eliza Burt Gamble (The Evolution of Woman, 1894)

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Soundcheck zine interview.
#punk #feminism #anarchofeminism

"AI made me doubt everything about programming" by @Felienne - #DDD Europe 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-6-f94n_9M

#ProgrammingLanguages #Feminism #FeministEpistemology

The more a woman learns to say no, the more the world trembles.

-- Andrea Dworkin (Speech at University of Massachusetts, 1981)

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A man who says he "lets" his wife work might as well boast that he "allows" the sun to rise.

-- Betty Friedan (It Changed My Life, 1976)

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Robin Morgan started out as a child star on TV and radio in the 1940s and ‘50s. She was only getting started. Morgan would go on to become an all-American radical as a poet, essayist, editor and second-wave feminist, living a full and influential life until she died recently at age 85, just days after her friend and fellow activist Gloria Steinem. @AssociatedPress has more on her life in the first link, while the second link points to a profile from @MsMagazine2019 where Morgan was a longtime editor:

https://flip.it/codnn4

https://flip.it/OJJttx

#Feminism #Herstory #Culture

Women aren’t just equal to men—they redefine what equality means.

-- Anonymous (Protest slogan, 2020)

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#RobinMorgan caused shock waves in 1970 when she published an essay in Rat….The article, titled “Goodbye to All That,” named specific men as #sexists. “Goodbye to Hip Culture & the so-called Sexual Revolution,” she wrote, stating the murderous Charles Manson was “only the logical extreme of the normal American male’s fantasy.”The piece became an instant classic of second-wave #feminism; it also brought her death threats….“They called it ‘the shot heard round the Left,’” she told The New Yorker….

#RobinMorgan caused shock waves in 1970 when she published an essay in Rat….The article, titled “Goodbye to All That,” named specific men as #sexists. “Goodbye to Hip Culture & the so-called Sexual Revolution,” she wrote, stating the murderous Charles Manson was “only the logical extreme of the normal American male’s fantasy.”The piece became an instant classic of second-wave #feminism; it also brought her death threats….“They called it ‘the shot heard round the Left,’” she told The New Yorker….

#RobinMorgan caused shock waves in 1970 when she published an essay in Rat….The article, titled “Goodbye to All That,” named specific men as #sexists. “Goodbye to Hip Culture & the so-called Sexual Revolution,” she wrote, stating the murderous Charles Manson was “only the logical extreme of the normal American male’s fantasy.”The piece became an instant classic of second-wave #feminism; it also brought her death threats….“They called it ‘the shot heard round the Left,’” she told The New Yorker….

#RobinMorgan caused shock waves in 1970 when she published an essay in Rat….The article, titled “Goodbye to All That,” named specific men as #sexists. “Goodbye to Hip Culture & the so-called Sexual Revolution,” she wrote, stating the murderous Charles Manson was “only the logical extreme of the normal American male’s fantasy.”The piece became an instant classic of second-wave #feminism; it also brought her death threats….“They called it ‘the shot heard round the Left,’” she told The New Yorker….

#RobinMorgan caused shock waves in 1970 when she published an essay in Rat….The article, titled “Goodbye to All That,” named specific men as #sexists. “Goodbye to Hip Culture & the so-called Sexual Revolution,” she wrote, stating the murderous Charles Manson was “only the logical extreme of the normal American male’s fantasy.”The piece became an instant classic of second-wave #feminism; it also brought her death threats….“They called it ‘the shot heard round the Left,’” she told The New Yorker….

I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.

-- Helen Reddy (Song lyric (I Am Woman), 1971)

#feminism #quotes