Jessica Valenti Quotes About Feminism

• El feminismo no consiste simplemente en ser una mujer en una posición de poder. Es luchar contra las desigualdades sistémicas; es un movimiento de justicia social que cree que el sexismo, el racismo y el clasismo existen y se interconectan, y que deben ser cuestionados constantemente.

  Jessica Valenti

  Creer, Posicion De Poder, Racismo

• While falling in love is fun, it's not everything, and it's not the antidote to an unfulfilled life, despite what Reese Witherspoon movies may tell you.

  Jessica Valenti

  Falling In Love, Fun, Bad Ass

  Jessica Valenti (2014). “Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters”, p.62, Seal Press

• Los estereotipos de que las feministas son feas, odian a los hombres, son peludas o lo que sea, son realmente estratégicos. Es una forma muy inteligente de alejar a las mujeres jóvenes del feminismo, es difundir la idea de que todas las feministas odian a los hombres, o que todas las feministas son feas; y que realmente vienen de un lugar de miedo.

  Jessica Valenti

  Odio, Inteligente, Hombres

• It used to be that if someone was to get involved in feminism, it was probably because they were already interested. They were already interested in feminism; they were already interested in being an activist, and they found their way to like a NOW meeting or to a consciousness-raising group or something like that.

  Jessica Valenti

  Feminism, Groups, Way

  Fuente: bigthink.com

• I've been thinking a lot about Lady Gaga and what she means for feminism. I think - I find her completely fascinating, and I really like what she has to say.

  Jessica Valenti

  Mean, Thinking, Feminism

  Fuente: bigthink.com

• Sé que no estaría escribiendo libros si no hubiera sido por la blogosfera feminista, y creo que es algo realmente asombroso. Y creo que el poder de divulgación es increíble. Antes, si alguien se involucraba en el feminismo, probablemente era porque ya estaba interesado. Ya estaban interesadas en el feminismo; ya estaban interesadas en ser activistas, y encontraban el camino a una reunión de NOW o a un grupo de concienciación o algo así.

  Jessica Valenti

  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

  Fuente: bigthink.com

• Something you hear a lot is that feminism dead. But if feminism is dead, why do people try so hard to kill it?

  Jessica Valenti

  People, Feminism, Trying

  Fuente: bigthink.com

• I think feminism has always been global. I think there's feminism everywhere throughout the world.

  Jessica Valenti

  Thinking, Feminism, World

  Fuente: bigthink.com

• You have to have your personal life, and at the end of the day I think what people forget, especially when you're online, is that you're a person too, right, and that you're not this ideal of feminism, that everything you do like feminism just like falls in your wake.

  Jessica Valenti

  Fall, Thinking, People

  Fuente: bigthink.com

• I think feminism has always been global. I think there's feminism everywhere throughout the world. I think, though, for Western feminism and for American feminism, it not so surprisingly continues to center Western feminism and American feminism. And I think the biggest hurdle American feminists have in terms of taking a more global approach is that too often when you hear American feminists talk about international feminism or women in other countries, it kind of goes along with this condescending point of view like we have to save the women of such-and-such country; we have to help them.

  Jessica Valenti

  Country, Thinking, Feminist

  Fuente: bigthink.com

• I'm really aware of how feminism and feminist rhetoric has been appropriated by the right.

  Jessica Valenti

  Feminist, Feminism, Rhetoric

  Fuente: bigthink.com

• I think the biggest hurdle American feminists have in terms of taking a more global approach is that too often when you hear American feminists talk about international feminism or women in other countries, it kind of goes along with this condescending point of view like we have to save the women of such-and-such country; we have to help them.

  Jessica Valenti

  Country, Thinking, Views

  Fuente: bigthink.com

• Algo que digo mucho cuando se trata de estereotipos antifeministas es que existen por una razón. Los estereotipos de que las feministas son feas, odian a los hombres, son peludas o lo que sea, son realmente estratégicos. Es una forma muy inteligente de mantener a las jóvenes alejadas del feminismo, es difundir la idea de que todas las feministas odian a los hombres, o que todas las feministas son feas; y que realmente vienen de un lugar de miedo. Si el feminismo no fuera poderoso, si el feminismo no fuera influyente, la gente no pasaría tanto tiempo menospreciándolo.

  Jessica Valenti

  Powerful, Hate, Smart

  Fuente: bigthink.com

• I think that it's incredibly important that we're actually paying attention to the feminism that's going on on the ground in different countries and see what we can do to support the work that's already going on, as opposed to kind of assuming that we know best for women in other areas.

  Jessica Valenti

  Country, Thinking, Support

  Fuente: bigthink.com

• My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible.

  Jessica Valenti

  Writing, Choices, Political

• Yo siempre me guío por la definición de feminismo del diccionario, que no es más que la igualdad social, política y económica de las mujeres.

  Jessica Valenti

  Política, Feminismo, Definiciones

  Fuente: bigthink.com

• If there's an article about sexual assault, if there's a video about feminism on YouTube, you're going to get the most horrible, disgusting comments ever. And sometimes the comments are pornographic, and sometimes the comments are really harassing. So I think that it's kind of a difficult place for women to write sometimes.

  Jessica Valenti

  Writing, Thinking, Feminism

  Fuente: bigthink.com

• Algo que se oye mucho es que el feminismo ha muerto. Pero si el feminismo está muerto, ¿por qué la gente se esfuerza tanto en matarlo? Hay algo que no tiene sentido. Así que creo que cuando las mujeres jóvenes escuchan: "Oye, alguien está tratando de conseguir algo sobre mí, ya sabes, alguien está tratando deliberadamente de mantenerme alejada de un movimiento que podría hacer mi vida mejor", creo que eso realmente resuena con ellas.

  Jessica Valenti

  Thinking, People, Feminism

  Fuente: bigthink.com

• I remember at the time - right before we started Feministing.com - doing a Google search for the term "young feminism" and the term "young feminist," and the first thing that came up was a page from the National Organization for Women that was about 10 or 15 years old. And it just struck me as so odd that there was all of this young feminist activism going on, but that it wasn't necessarily being represented online, that the first things in a Google search to come up were really, really old. I think to a certain degree we really filled a gap, and that's why we got such a large readership.

  Jessica Valenti

  Thinking, Feminist, Google

  Fuente: bigthink.com

• I think the idea that feminism is dead is dangerous because it leads women and men to believe that (1) they don't have to do anything; the work has been done, and that everything is okay now; and (2) it leaves them kind of alone, I think, in a struggle, and that's something I've seen a lot when I go to colleges and I speak to young women.

  Jessica Valenti

  Believe, Struggle, College

  Fuente: bigthink.com

• I think feminism is taking off. It's just not visible in the way that we would like it to be.

  Jessica Valenti

  Thinking, Feminism, Way

  Fuente: bigthink.com

• I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women. And that's kind of a strategic thing on my part, because I think that it's the hardest definition to argue with. You know, who doesn't want that? Everyone wants equality for women.

  Jessica Valenti

  Thinking, Political, Feminism

  Fuente: bigthink.com

• There was no real strategic decision about editorial tone. It was kind of a write whatever you want to write, and we'll see how it goes. I think that we lucked out in that all of the women who started writing at Feministing.com were really funny, and I don't think that's something people are used to seeing or hearing when they read feminism. You know, you think feminism and you kind of think academic, women's studies, dry, humorless; there are all of these stereotypes that go along with what feminist thought is and what feminist writing is.

  Jessica Valenti

  Real, Escribir, Pensar

  Fuente: bigthink.com

• There have been women who stumbled across Feministing randomly, through a bizarre Google search or something, and had no idea what feminism was. They thought it was something older women do, or bought into the hairy bra-burning man-hating stereotype 100 percent. Anything that deviates from that is very exciting for them.

  Jessica Valenti

  Hate, Men, Ideas

• I think people resist feminism because they're scared. I think for women, they're scared of being picked on or of being called out.

  Jessica Valenti

  Thinking, People, Feminism

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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