http://www.about-face.org/egyptian-women-are-protesters-too/ Sat, 25 May 2013 00:20:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://www.about-face.org/egyptian-women-are-protesters-too/#comment-1507 Val Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:23:01 +0000 http://about-face.org/blog/?p=4532#comment-1507 Funny; what I see are two protesters embracing in jubilation! Funny; what I see are two protesters embracing in jubilation!

]]> http://www.about-face.org/egyptian-women-are-protesters-too/#comment-1506 heidih Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:29:24 +0000 http://about-face.org/blog/?p=4532#comment-1506 Thanks Aimy. It does say more about the writer of the caption, but also about a society that fosters that kind of writing. Misogyny is so coded into our very language (mankind meaning all humans but womankind meaning just the ladies, to give an oft-used example) that it rolls off the tongue unless we make a conscious effort to challenge it in our heads. This is why i love the term "feminist" meaning "one who fights for equality for all people." If for millenia people claimed with a straight face that "all men" really means "all humans," then i would like to seize the power to claim that "all women" can also mean "all humans." Thanks Aimy. It does say more about the writer of the caption, but also about a society that fosters that kind of writing. Misogyny is so coded into our very language (mankind meaning all humans but womankind meaning just the ladies, to give an oft-used example) that it rolls off the tongue unless we make a conscious effort to challenge it in our heads. This is why i love the term “feminist” meaning “one who fights for equality for all people.” If for millenia people claimed with a straight face that “all men” really means “all humans,” then i would like to seize the power to claim that “all women” can also mean “all humans.”

]]> http://www.about-face.org/egyptian-women-are-protesters-too/#comment-1505 Aimy Sat, 12 Feb 2011 03:20:53 +0000 http://about-face.org/blog/?p=4532#comment-1505 Great article and wonderful photos! I am baffled how anyone could look at a photo of two people participating equally in a movement of change in their society, then go on to trivialise one of those people with such a dismissive caption. Obviously reveals much more about the person who wrote the caption than the people in the photo. Great article and wonderful photos! I am baffled how anyone could look at a photo of two people participating equally in a movement of change in their society, then go on to trivialise one of those people with such a dismissive caption. Obviously reveals much more about the person who wrote the caption than the people in the photo.

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