feminism

When impossible becomes possible.

| Henna Timanttimetsä
It means one has a goal worth while to reach for. What is impossible then? Impossible situation is when one is considerably smaller, with less appropriate means and resources, not found, less connected in a right way, looked down on for whatever reason. There are plenty of reasons to despise. World is full of contempt. That is the easy path to choose. To build barriers, gaps and walls between us and those others. So called impossible is a situation which millions of women and children face. How can you do anything? You who have nothing. Then one has to define what is nothing and know that one is not nothing. To become to know one’s possibilities is a life long research, which everyone should begin. It is not putting yourself on pedestal, it is not putting anyone down.

Google’s stereotypical portrayal of prostitutes and prostitution. People, you can do better than sell yourselves.

 

Crisis everyday yesterday and today. Nature will solve them in its own way. How do we solve them? What kind of responsibility do we have?

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Heavy winds. Nature of crisis. Is it an attitude question how we measure and define what is the quality of a disaster? For who and what has happened. The scale of downfall, accident or deliberate ill doing. What kind of catastrophes are we expecting since it is before our eyes, the worst ever in plural form and  complexity. Disposable I love u’s and have a-nice-days. Get a new one.

Nature is in crisis always, at the brink of chaos. We like to rock the boat even further. It will grow back, nature. How long does it take for plastic to be decomposed? I repeat because it cannot be emphasized enough. We are what we produce and use, we like things to elevate us. It is also the key to the fantasy world of products and services made with sellable images. And how we produce. How indeed.

Sermon for Easter. This garbage is u. Don’t u forget it.

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It is also me as I picked it up.

Sadism. How much do we approve of it?

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How much do we notice, and where does the line go? Is sadism there and here because we need to test how much someone can take or to test ourselves what we can do? Line is important. A measurement of pushing, of going over, of knowing what not to do.

 

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 Boycott China for occupying Tibet. Now.

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 Boycott China for occupying Tibet. Now.

Something called every girl’s dream. What is it exactly?

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I too adore the idea of beautiful weightless ballet dancers to some extent. I love the effort they see to achieve the easiness and beauty of their craft. So why is it a bourgeois art, doesn’t it speak for all? Ballet is so-called high art, which is about princesses and princes with manners, costumes, settings, choreography, funding, competition. It does exclude from the beginning a lot of people, all of high art is exclusive. What happens for the art, which likes to linger in the past and have a sense of closed society? Question is does high-art evolve and is it a belonging of someone and what kind of purpose does it serve? Does it repeat something that cannot be or is not wanted to be changed? Is it meant to elevate? Same goes of course with the music played for these shows. Crackless bravo.

It is a culturally bound, strictly framed way of expressing love for symmetry, achieving a certain kind of perfection, to be adored as ballerina, as an artist, who does many sacrifices for her art: becomes a swan, moves her arms like a swan.  The art expresses bourgeois longing for harmony, ecstasy, tradition and fantasy world. Women as flawless floating beings expressing all this.

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/books-and-arts/78263/ballet-over article Is ballet over by Jennifer Homans for The New republic 2010
”The ubiquitous presence of reconstructors, notators, and directors—ballet’s curators and conservators—rather than choreographers is further evidence of this obsession with preservation. London’s Royal Ballet and New York’s American Ballet Theatre have both devoted vast resources in recent years to new productions of The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake. Even the New York City Ballet, vanguard of modernism, now has its own full-length productions of these nineteenth-century classics with new but blandly conventional choreography.”

Why the need to label and categorize?

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What is the meaning of waves in feminism? There are and have taken place four waves of feminism to this day. Do they all add something new to image of womanhood, femininity, idea of being a woman or is it about finding out. Breaking boundaries is what is needed to be heard and listened to. Radicalism is essential part of feminism therefore I do not understand why there are differently named movements inside feminism for example radical feminism is one part of feminism. It is not all radical? For what I know all feminism has been radical and continues to be so. Radical in its marginal position, strangely distant, when impact of feminism on the world is perceived. To me femin-isms are all part of one and the same need to be whole in finding dignity and are one movement.

Aren’t waves of feminism reactions in time to people who are stuck to their traditions, rules and beliefs so much that want to decide for women’s lives and bodies and especially those. In that thought wave is a good word to describe a happening of feminism, attack and sudden burst of rage and emotion.

 

Dedication to the cause Feminism is demand for respect and dignity

| Henna Timanttimetsä
Strange to me is how divided we are in more ways that is reasonable. Feminism and Socialism are ideologies which divide strongly and are opposed heavily. Feminism especially is put to dirt. Self-evidently it involves women. Feminism demands women to be active, stand up for themselves and their children and importantly feminists also speak for others in similar position as millions of women are treated like shit. speak for those who are treated like inferior, rejected as half-humans without capabilities, people who are tools and objects. How many times it has happened that a woman has to prove herself many times over and maybe not even then is she accepted and acknowledged as capable individual who is not dependent on men and their opinion, who has ideas of her own. One part of the problem lies in wanting to be acknowledged and accepted. Women’s need to please. It is a kind of weakness to want to be loved as one is, do everything possible for it. There is great demand for people to be encouraged as creative intelligent and capable persons.
To acknowledge someone is to honor that person. To honor someone, anyone, is and has been a difficult task. There is need for power and questions on trust. Self-evidently there are cultural differences what is to honor and does it have to be gained. Obvious also is the lack of capability to honor because there is no knowledge of what it is to honor. Respect and dignity begin from knowledge of self-worth, understand that one is valuable as one is with potential and resources. Self-worth grows from having felt respected since childhood. Respect is to be interested in other people, give space, reflect, act and listen to the other. Self-worth grows in being listened to, in atmosphere of trust. It grows when one learns what one can do, is able to accomplish. So to gain self-esteem one needs others but more importantly one needs oneself.