WMST 1000Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lady Gaga, White Ribbon Campaign, Feminazi
4 Apr 2016
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Reflect on last weeks note on frosh week and gender politics. This year, carleton student leaders mock university"s safe space policy. This policy entails that leaders of frosh week need to use safe language, no swearing, no drinking etc. Due to the nature of rape chants, canadian jeff perara developed the white. He made a post that called upon men to end rape culture. He emphasizes we need to change the conversation and have the conversation of gender politics and the gender binary. People are very resistant to his organizations motives. Being a feminist can be considered radical . Ironic as radical means to the root of. All feminists are ugly, butch, misandry-ists, lesbians, overbearing and radical. Social media is the biggest place for feminism. People limit themselves to identity as a feminist . First used in france, by women in the suffrage movement is 1880"s. For example, domestic abuse caused by alcohol.
