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Modern Feminist Manifesto

by Nyentek

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1.
Are there women, really? Like man, woman is a human being There exist two groups of individuals who are manifestly different In clothes, faces, bodies, smiles, gaits, interests, and occupations Females are half of humanity, and yet we are warned that femininity is in danger But if femininity no longer exists, then it never did Every human being is a unique, separate individual Every human being is a unique, separate individual Every human being is a unique, separate individual Every human being is a unique, separate individual What is a woman? A woman is not a man What is a woman? A woman is not a man This is more concrete than the abstract view of woman being a human being, as man is Man represents both positive and neutral, leaving woman as only the negative Being a man is no peculiarity Man ignores his hormones and the fact of his anatomical glands Humanity is male, and man defines woman Not in herself but as relative to him Humanity is male, and man defines woman Not in herself but as relative to him What is a woman? A woman is not a man What is a woman? A woman is not a man This is more concrete than the abstract view of woman being a human being, as man is You think thus and so because you are a woman (I think thus and so because it is true) You think thus and so because you are a woman (I think thus and so because it is true) You think thus and so because you are a woman (I think thus and so because it is true) What is a woman? A woman is not a man What is a woman? A woman is not a man This is more concrete than the abstract view of woman being a human being, as man is
2.
“It is maddening to listen to discussions of five genders when every sane person knows there are but two sexes, both of which are rooted in nature.” Stop infant genital surgery If we protest the genital mutilation of other cultures, then we must also protest our own Infant genital surgery is cosmetic surgery performed to achieve a social result, and it does not work Early genital surgery leaves long-term scars, requires further surgeries, and frequently negates the possibility of orgasm Stop infant genital surgery If we protest the genital mutilation of other cultures, then we must also protest our own Infant genital surgery is cosmetic surgery performed to achieve a social result, and it does not work Early genital surgery leaves long-term scars, requires further surgeries, and frequently negates the possibility of orgasm Stop infant genital surgery Stop infant genital surgery Let there be no unnecessary infant surgery Let physicians assign a provisional sex to the infant Let the medical care team provide full information and long-term counseling to the parents and to the child Let there be no unnecessary infant surgery Let physicians assign a provisional sex to the infant Let the medical care team provide full information and long-term counseling to the parents and to the child Two of nine reports never state criteria for success Four emphasize cosmetic criteria Only one considers psychological health or does long-term follow up Children adjust to the presence of anomalous genitalia and manage to develop into successful, functional adults No woman or man fits the universal gender stereotype No woman or man fits the universal gender stereotype No woman or man fits the universal gender stereotype No woman or man fits the universal gender stereotype Let there be no unnecessary infant surgery Let physicians assign a provisional sex to the infant Let the medical care team provide full information and long-term counseling to the parents and to the child Let there be no unnecessary infant surgery Let physicians assign a provisional sex to the infant Let the medical care team provide full information and long-term counseling to the parents and to the child No woman or man fits the gender stereotype No woman or man fits the gender stereotype No woman or man fits the gender stereotype No woman or man fits the gender stereotype Stop infant genital surgery Stop infant genital surgery Stop infant genital surgery Stop infant genital surgery Stop infant genital surgery Stop infant genital surgery Stop infant genital surgery Stop infant genital surgery Stop infant genital surgery Stop infant genital surgery Stop infant genital surgery Stop infant genital surgery It is possible to envision a new ethic of medical treatment, one that permits ambiguity to thrive, rooted in a culture that has moved beyond gender hierarchies
3.
Sexuality 05:25
Sexuality is implicated Sexual violence is not just violence The common male sexual role centers on aggression intrusion on those with less power Such dominance is experienced as sexually arousing, and thus sex becomes an act of domination Women are not a second class Women are not a second class Women are not a second class Women are not a second class Women should never be constrained, contorted, servile, self-mutilated, humiliated, or passive A person should never be reduced to a thing A person should never be reduced to a thing Sexuality is made in social relations of power in the world, through which process gender is also produced The hegemony of the male-dominated social construct “desire” produces sexuality, and thus the construct of “woman” Dominance eroticized defines masculinity Submission eroticized defines femininity Women are not a second class Women are not a second class Women are not a second class Women are not a second class Women should never be constrained, contorted, servile, self-mutilated, humiliated, or passive A person should never be reduced to a thing A person should never be reduced to a thing Sexuality is implicated Sexuality is implicated Sexuality is implicated Sexuality is implicated Sexuality is implicated Sexuality is implicated Sexuality is implicated Sexuality is implicated Dominance eroticized defines masculinity Submission eroticized defines femininity This sexuality itself is the dynamic of the inequality of the sexes Dominance eroticized defines masculinity Submission eroticized defines femininity
4.
Rape is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which men keep all women in a state of fear Sexual violence is a tool of patriarchy as well as colonialism and racism Racism is the condition that makes it acceptable to put certain people to death in a society of normalization Rape is never “traditional” or “cultural” behavior All people deserve bodily integrity Sex should never be a weapon of hate Sex should always be an act of love Sex should never be a weapon of hate Sex should always be an act of love Native American women are bearers of the counter-imperial order and are a significant threat to the dominant culture Immigrant women have long endured a history of sexual exploitation in the US due to racially discriminatory employment laws and promises of a stable marriage or job only to become trapped in the sex trade Sex should never be a weapon of hate Sex should always be an act of love Sex should never be a weapon of hate Sex should always be an act of love Sex should never be a weapon of hate Sex should always be an act of love Sex should never be a weapon of hate Sex should always be an act of love
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Human relations are defined by the self and the other The other is inevitably seen as an antagonist The person unsuccessful in opposing the other’s values has to accept the successor’s values and become submissive Heterosexualism is men dominating and deskilling women and women devaluing and devaluing female bonding In the US women cannot appear publicly without some men advancing on them presuming access to them When a woman is accompanied by a man; however, she is usually no longer considered “fair game” Protectors interact with women in ways that promote the image of women as helpless Men open doors, pull out chairs, and expect women to dress in ways that interfere with their own self-protection What a woman faces in a man is either a protector or a predator, and men gain identity through one or another of these roles What radical feminists have exposed through all the work on incest and wife-beating is that protectors are also predators Of course, not all men are wife or girlfriend-beaters, but over half who live with women are Heterosexualism has certain similarities to colonialism, particularly in its maintenance through force when paternalism is rejected, and its portrayal of domination as natural
6.
Prison labor is exploited by private corporations for products such as circuit boards, limousines, waterbeds, and Victoria’s Secret lingerie Mounting prison populations are not due to increased levels of crime Racism and the pursuit of profit tie together corporations, government, correctional communities, and the media Prisons must no longer be the dominant mode of punishment The millions of men, women and children behind bars deserve a more humane, hospitable environment Punishment must be conceptually separated from crime Punishment is linked to economical and political structures and ideologies Prison populations are racialized in the US, Europe, South America, and Australia Although the prison industrial complex is not replacing the military industrial complex, they mutually support and promote each other Social destruction reaps profits for both Prisons must no longer be the dominant mode of punishment The millions of men, women and children behind bars deserve a more humane, hospitable environment Turning imprisoned bodies who are mostly bodies of color into sources of profit devours public funds that could be otherwise used for social programs such as education, housing, childcare, recreation, and drug programs Prisons must no longer be the dominant mode of punishment The millions of men, women and children behind bars deserve a more humane, hospitable environment During the 1980s corporate ties to the punishment system became further entrenched Prisoners in the US have always constituted a potential profit source They have served as valuable subjects in medical research, providing a link between universities and corporations, that of the prison Prisons must no longer be the dominant mode of punishment The millions of men, women and children behind bars deserve a more humane, hospitable environment
7.
Oppression 04:53
The root of oppression is press Something pressed is caught between or among forces and barriers so related that they together restrain, restrict, or prevent the thing’s motion or mobility People who are oppressed are required to smile and be cheerful or else they are perceived as mean, bitter, angry, or dangerous Women in the US are often caught in a bind where neither sexual activity nor inactivity is all right If she is heterosexually active a woman is punished as being loose, unprincipled, or a whore On the other hand, a woman who refrains from heterosexual activity is harassed to relax and is threatened with labels such as frigid, uptight, man-hater, and bitch If a woman who has been heterosexually active is raped she is subject to the presumption that she liked it, since she has been known to like sex If a woman who has not been heterosexually active is raped she is subject to the presumption that she liked it because she was supposedly repressed and frustrated If one dresses one way one is subject to the assumption of advertising one’s sexual availability If one dresses another way one appears to not care about one’s self or to be “unfeminine” When you look macroscopically you can see a network of forces and barriers that are systematically related and conspire to immobilize, reduce, and mold women and the lives they live
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Privilege 04:24
If you can say you don’t care about age You’re in a position of privilege If you can say you don’t care about race You’re in a position of privilege If you can say you don’t care about sex You’re in a position of privilege If you can say you don’t care about sexuality You’re in a position of privilege If you can say you don’t care about wealth You’re in a position of privilege White people are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege White privilege is like an invisible, weightless knapsack of special provisions, assurances, tools, maps, guides, code books, passports, visas, clothes, compass, emergency gear, and blank checks If you can say you don’t care about body type You’re in a position of privilege If you can say you don’t care about ethnicity You’re in a position of privilege If you can say you don’t care about gender You’re in a position of privilege If you can say you don’t care about religion You’re in a position of privilege If you can say you don’t care about age You’re in a position of privilege Rarely will a man go beyond acknowledging that women are disadvantaged to acknowledging that men have unearned advantage, or that unearned privilege has been good for man’s development as human beings or society’s development Or that privilege systems might ever be challenged and changed We must give up the myth of meritocracy One’s life is not what one makes it Many doors open for certain people through no virtues of their own Many doors open for certain people through no virtues of their own We must give up the myth of meritocracy One’s life is not what one makes it One’s life is not what one makes it We must give up the myth of meritocracy If you can say you don’t care about... You’re in a position of privilege
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Gender 02:50
Gender is not a stable identity Gender is tenuously constituted in time It is an identity instituted through a stylized repetition of acts Gender is instituted through the stylization of the body It must be seen as the acts that constitute the illusion of an abiding gendered self Gender is not a stable identity Gender is tenuously constituted in time It is an identity instituted through a stylized repetition of acts The body is a set of possibilities, therefore its appearance is not the manifestation of an interior essence, and its concrete expression in the world must be understood as within a specific set of historic possibilities Gender is not a stable identity Gender is tenuously constituted in time It is an identity instituted through a stylized repetition of acts The association of a natural sex with a discrete gender And with an ostensibly natural attraction to the opposing sex or gender is an unnatural conjunction of cultural constructs in the service of reproductive interests Gender is not a stable identity Gender is tenuously constituted in time It is an identity instituted through a stylized repetition of acts Gender is not a stable identity Gender is tenuously constituted in time It is an identity instituted through a stylized repetition of acts
10.
Gendered family radically limits the quality of opportunity of women and girls Of all classes, as well as that of poor and working class children of box sexes Some instances of vulnerability that may at first appear natural Are in fact to a greater or lesser extent due to existing social arrangements Marriage and the family As currently practiced in our society Are unjust institutions They constitute the pivot of a societal system of gender That renders women vulnerable to dependency, exploitation, and abuse Socialization and the culture, in general, place more emphasis on marriage for girls than for boys, and young women are more likely than young men to regard having a good marriage and family as important A cycle of power relations and decisions pervades both family and workplace, and the inequalities of each reinforce those that already exist in the other Marriage and the family As currently practiced in our society Are unjust institutions They constitute the pivot of a societal system of gender That renders women vulnerable to dependency, exploitation, and abuse Marriage Marriage

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All music and vocals by Nyentek, from July 19 - August 23, 2014. Remastered on May 17, 2015. All lyrics adapted from essays in The Feminist Philosophy Reader (1st ed.) edited by Alison Bailey and Chris Cuomo. Essayists include Simone de Beauvoir, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Catherine A. Mackinnon, Andrea Smith, Sarah Hoagland, Angela Y. Davis, Marilyn Frye, Peggy McIntosh, Judith Butler, and Susan Orkin. Album art by Nyentek (www.instagram.com/NyentekArt).

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