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Sasha Stone on the F Word

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fem2I have been following and reading Sasha Stone for over a decade.  I do not always agree with her, but I do believe she has been integral to legitimizing online film criticism. She recently posted the following article: Schooling Shailene Woodley on the Word Feminist, and it is a must read.  Though I do feel that Ms. Stone should have probably taken a breath before she started typing, the article encapsulates why Woodley came off so embarrassingly ignorant in her interview with Time and in further interviews she has given on the subject.

I wanted to like Ms. Woodley, that is no longer possible, but it is not too late to correct the perpetuation of the ideas she is espousing. It is too important not to. There is too much at stake.

“Whatever each individual woman is facing; only she knows her biggest challenge. However, if we add up the problems that affect the biggest numbers of women, then issues having to do with physical safety and reproduction are still the biggest. Female bodies are still the battleground, whether that means restricting freedom, birth control and safe abortion in order to turn them into factories, or abandoning female infants because females are less valuable for everything other than reproduction. If you add up all the forms of gynocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and domestic abuse, everything, we lose about 6 million humans every year just because they were born female. That’s a holocaust every year. It makes sense that reproductive freedom is still the biggest issue – because the reason females got in this jam in the first place was because the patriarchal state or religion or family wanted to control reproduction — to decide how many workers, how many children the nation needs, and who owned them in systems of legitimacy — or even outright slavery. The International Labor Organization says there are about 12 million people living in literal slavery around the world, and 80 percent of them are women and girls.”

                                                                                                                                                  Gloria Steinem



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