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e to discuss their reactions to the pill in a place free from pharmaceutical brainwashing and the liberal feminist gag order on women discussing our own biology now that grigg spall s book was published in november 2013 there has been a concerted effort to discredit her findings by misrepresenting her positions my belief is that the pharmaceutical industry is threatened by griggs spall s book and that discrediting her is a way to maintain the status quo i also contend that rejecting the pill goes against sex positive mainstream feminism which is why there s push back as well from its representatives liberal feminists have called her book dangerous and use name calling techniques in attempts to push griggs spall to the margins of feminist discourse as many of us know being insulted and told to keep quiet are tools used to keep us away from discovering truths and maintain the status quo grigg spall is referred to as a crank how feminist and potential readers of her book are warned that discussing female biology and women s experiences is inherently essentialist the cherry picked decontextualized quotes this critic uses to make her argument are an obvious attempt to contort perceptions of the book and grigg spall s positions there are several critiques of this book that have similar tones and i found the pro pill apologism quite transparent what these reviews leave out is the long overdue feminist analysis of the pill that grigg spall offers i was fascinated by grigg spall s discussion of the dark side of the pill apparently data collected from bayer concentration camp experiments was used in developing the pill p 31 the pill has negative side effects for women ranging from promoting bone loss p 63 to blood clots to depression etc the world health organization who has classified the pill as a class one carcinogen alongside tobacco and asbestos p 59 apparently depo provera is currently used in sex offender rehab programs to decrease sex drive p 68 these are just some of the negative aspects of hbc that third wave feminists and pharmaceutical companies routinely downplay grigg spall also critiques the way hbc is set up as a solution to worldwide population control when the real issue is global inequality and poverty the pill is a capitalist solution to this and not a feminist one we let women down when instead of seeking just societies we sell them injections or oral contraceptives she quotes betsy hartmann who calls population control a substitute for social justice that holds back the emancipation of women real reproductive choice relies on women having control over their own lives and equal power to men and this can only come with economic development developed nations are uninterested in providing aid for such countries because they are active in their exploitation via cooperation with corrupt governmnents and via the corporate power wielded over those countries the people are purposely kept poor so that developed countries or at least their corporations can become richer p 81 82 this helps make sense of the fact that the bill and melinda gates foundation s strategy for helping women in africa and south asia involves giving millions of these women the depo provera shot the gates foundation partners with pfizer who makes the depo shot p 80 this is business as usual and profits are being made in the name of population control grigg spall also emphasizes the importance of female biology in discussing these issues after all as women our experience of life is connected to our biology as she says taking the pill might be seen as an act of trying to get beyond femaleness as femaleness in our culture is understood in the negative escaping its confines is good and progressive any dislike we develop of being female and of having a female body is rooted in the history of female bodies being seen as problematic and in need of male control p 104 such claims have no doubt been the source of the liberal feminist claims that her book is essentialist i find this accusation very suspect as it asks us to stop speaking about our own experiences living within our female bodies many women are not comfortable with our bodies as they change in puberty as they alter with pregnancy or as they age it is important that we are able to recognize and discuss these changes amongst ourselves without being considered essentialist within feminism essentialism has always referred to the feminist objection to conservative claims that the male gender stereotypes are natural for men and that female gender stereotypes are natural for women for example the idea that men are better at math and women are natural caregivers these are obviously anti feminist claims that link our biology up with sexist behaviors that are expected of us these days however merely recognizing the relevance of female biology to our own lives is now castigated with the same essentialist label this is an entirely inaccurate characterization since the bodies we live in are obviously relevant to our experiences as women discussing biology was never the problem with essentialism the problem was linking our bodies up with sexist stereotypes not only is this new definition of essentialism an incorrect interpretation of the original meaning but it asks women to stop discussing our actual lives feminism is about our experiences as women so telling women they aren t permitted to discuss these experiences is anti feminism full stop i certainly believe that grigg spall is correct in her observations about hbc women are expected to have sex like a man and to believe that our biology is in no way relevant to our sexuality to me this is as removed from our actual experiences as my cartoon uterus theme song is from the workings of my body i ve covered just a few of the brilliant insights that grigg spall presents in her excellent book at the very minimum her book encourages women to see the pill from a different perspective and to become more in tune with what is happening with our own bodies i encourage all feminists interested in reproductive freedom misogyny in medicine or critiques of choice sex positive feminism to give it a read holly grigg spall filed under uncategorized tagged with blood clots and the pill contraception dangers of the pill essentialism in feminism female health feminism feminism and the pill feminist critique of the pill hbc holly grigg spall is grigg spall s book essentialist is the pill right for me should i take the pill sweetening the pill amnesty international supports the exploitation of women january 28 2014 2 comments amnesty international is a charity that ostensibly works to end violations of human rights yet this leaked document indicates that amnesty actively supports the full decriminalization of prostitution this policy flies in the face of extensive research indicating that areas where prostitution has been fully legalized have led to more violence and an increase in trafficking for example after legalization in australia the percentage of illegal brothels increased 300 in new zealand legalization expanded the illegal sector to make up 80 of the sex trade industry in germany the safety of women within the sex industry was not improved through full legalization furthermore both human trafficking and organized crime increase in areas where prostitution is decriminalized amnesty has chosen to ignore all of this information and instead decided that the rights of johns and pimps who wish to exploit and use women are more important than the human rights of women to live free from this exploitation amnesty could instead support the nordic model which decriminalizes women in prostitution but criminalizes the johns and pimps this has been shown to decrease violence against prostituted women dramatically decrease the number of prostituted persons and to provide a way out of prostitution for those who wish to leave you can contact amnesty and express your displeasure with their new policy at sct amnesty org uk or you can tweet amnesty or use the hashtag questionsforamnesty please speak now your voice is needed on this issue edit please go check out this response to this document written by a coalition of survivors filed under uncategorized tagged with questionsforamnesty amnesty australia feminism germany johns new zealand nordic model pimps prostituted persons prostitution sex trade sex work violence increases with full legalization what is amnesty s policy on prostitution imitation infiltration and invasion at radfem rise up 2013 july 10 2013 31 comments i am writing this as an attendee of radfem rise up 2013 held in toronto ontario these are my observations as an attendee and not an organizer this past weekend i attended radfem rise up in toronto the scheduled speakers included a survivor of prostitution and domestic violence a presentation on reproductive justice and a discussion regarding the case of rape and suicide victim rehtaeh parsons among other topics this conference was held as woman only because under patriarchy women are uniquely targeted with violence and rape many attendees have been victims of incest male violence and rape and wanted to discuss these experiences as women together we believe we have a right to female only safe space for such purposes we also believe in the rights of trans people to organize and hold their own conferences if they so choose but we expect them to respect our right to do the same the conference went ahead and was powerful despite ongoing attacks from trans and their allies who do not believe women who have shared girlhoods have a right to meet together the first trans activist attack came in the form of imitation the official website for the radical feminist event was located at radfemriseup wordpress com however trans activists and their allies created a cloned version of the website at radfemsriseup wordpress com and allege that their website is in fact the correct one their website goes on to claim that the purpose of the conference is to discuss exterminating trans people and even uses surgical porn language when it states we will also be doing some group activities that will allow us to get to know each other better in ways trans can t possibly do speculums will be provided that such a website would be set up to undermine us by imitating us and saying outrageous things goes to show how difficult it is to discredit us based on our actual positions it also tells us that these trans activists and their allies are liars without integrity in order to discover our venue at least one trans activist ally signed up and paid for conference entry with the intention to infiltrate and prevent us from meeting thus this these persons received an email stating the location of the venue and released this information on the internet trans activists mobilized their allies via social media to contact the venue and request that they cancel the booking conference organizers were told that the venue received over 200 emails requesting that they drop the booking venue staff revealed to conference organizers that some of these emails contained threats and that they were afraid for themselves and their children this is the reason conference organizers were given by the venue for cancelling the booking given this cancellation conference organizers moved the venue to the location where some attendees were staying on the first day of the conference trans activists and allies sent an infiltrator ally to the new event location this person sat among us as we discussed radical feminist politics and shared intimate stories in our ostensibly safe space this violation of our safe space affected all of the attendees including those of us who are survivors of the sex industry domestic violence and rape this trans ally infiltrator leaked the second venue to trans activists this exposed the fact that our space had been violated the space where many of us were sleeping including one ten month old infant trans activists and allies then organized a protest of our event 200 m from the venue location the original venue that cancelled the booking had told conference organizers that the reason they cancelled was because they felt unsafe given the boundary violations exhibited by these trans activists and allies on the previous day as well as the long list of violent threats previously made by trans activists towards radical feminists it is clear that this invasion was done in order to intimidate us the conference went ahead as planned despite these imitations infiltrations and invasions if you support trans activism please consider whether the above noted violations are appropriate methods to use in trans activism or whether they did in fact cross the line as i am alleging here the people targeted by these attacks are women many of whom have already had their boundaries violated by men in the past before disagreement is appropriate intimidation through imitation infiltration and invasion is not filed under uncategorized tagged with female only space feminism incidents of trans violence against radfems instances of trans violence against radical feminists ontario radfem riseup radical feminism radical feminist conference shared girlhood survivors of male violence terf wars there s no such thing as a terf toronto trans trans activism trans allies what is a terf why don t radical feminists get along with trans how do i know if my husband watches porn june 13 2013 57 comments every day women find my blog by searching some variety of the question how do i know if my husband watches porn i imagine most of the women who google this are being sent to this post i wrote nearly a year ago entitled on pornsick bastards i doubt many of these women call themselves feminists but they do know intuitively that there is something wrong with the man who claims to love them getting off to images of other women being f ked and degraded unfortunately i m not sure the post is exactly what women are looking for they probably would like some advice about how to check their husband s browser or download history in order to catch him but the unfortunate truth i share in that post is that nearly every man who can access porn is a porn user this is a sad state of affairs for women attempting to date men or even for women trying to function in the world along with men this porn and misogyny soaked culture is what leads men to joke to women at a microsoft conference in front of an audience just let it happen it will all be over soon it s what leads men to believe that this statement is not sexual harassment it s part of the anti woman propaganda that leads men to believe that their getting off is more important than our human rights for more information on so called feminist porn please check here here and here in her book pornography men possessing women andrea dworkin distills the core message of pornography in these simple words pornography means the graphic 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