Men on the left are sexist. Labour needs to do more to fix it | Suzanne Moore | Opinion | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/14/men-on-left-sexist-labour-womens-rights
Many men on the left hum the tune of anti-sexism; they just have no idea of the words.
Sitôt qu’on milite dans un parti politique, notamment « de gauche », on ne peut que constater ce fait. Les hommes de gauche (eux aussi) sont sexistes. Les hommes de gauche (eux aussi) ne se remettent pas en question, les hommes de gauche (eux aussi) « savent » ce qui est féministe ou non, les hommes de gauche (eux aussi) ont des combats prioritaires. Et le féminisme devra attendre son tour.
Faites-vous porter pâle : c’est un petit acte de rébellion contre l’esclavage salarial - echoes.over-blog.com
▻http://echoes.over-blog.com/2015/10/faites-vous-porter-pale-c-est-un-petit-acte-de-rebellion-contre-l-
« Se faire porter pâle est un acte révolutionnaire ». J’adorais ce slogan. Comme tant d’autres choses bénéfiques, il me parvint de Housmans, le libraire d’extrême-gauche du quartier de King’s Cross. On vous laissait y farfouiller parmi toutes sortes de pamphlets anarchistes, et j’y découvris, au début des années 80, un épatant petit magazine : Processed World. Pour dire les choses simplement : il vous expliquait comment foutre la merde sur votre lieu de travail. C’était futé, bourré de petites initiatives de subversion aléatoire. À bien des égards, il était en avance sur son temps : il provenait de San Francisco, et préfigurait de la Silicon Valley. Il prévoyait l’arrivée des machines. D’une futilité intrinsèque, les emplois devenaient de plus en plus ennuyeux. Les travailleurs se transformaient en « esclaves des données », employés par IBM (« Machines Intensément Barbantes »).
Traduction d’un article du Guardian signé Suzanne Moore.
Original de l’article en anglais :
▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/21/phone-in-sick-its-a-small-act-of-rebellion-against-wage-slavery
Why are we questioning the loyalty of British Muslims? We never ask anyone else | Suzanne Moore |
The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/25/why-are-we-questioning-the-loyalty-of-british-muslims-we-never-ask-anyo
How loyal are you to this country? How proud are you of it? Answer exactly. Explain yourself to me. Tell me how safe you feel. Tell me what you think other people think of you. Let me then declare the truth about you, your family, your faith. You are a Muslim and I am British, you see, so I can ask these things. My loyalty is taken for granted, though it shouldn’t be. Yours is always suspect. Though it shouldn’t be. Thus I can read that a BBC survey this morning found that “95% of Muslims feel a loyalty to Britain”, but that there are “no similar measurements for the general public.” Making it meaningless. And 95% does not count for much when run alongside other aspects of the survey, which showed: “One in four (27%) said that they had some sympathy for the motives behind the attacks in Paris on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.”
What does any of this mean? Are a quarter of our Muslim population going to behead us in our beds? Is the man in the Turkish shop who gives my children sweets secretly cheering on the death cult? This poll just drives the us-and-them mentality. There is a “them”, of course. But “they” are killing out in Syria and Iraq and they are killing mostly other Muslims. There is a “them” in Saudi Arabia, whom we are asked to think of as an “us”, where Prince Charles gets his sword dance on with the right kind of beheaders.
This growing culture of outrage doesn’t extend free speech – it limits it | Suzanne Moore
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/18/outrage-culture-limits-free-speech
I found a great image the other day, online obviously. It has a cat sitting in front of a computer screen. At the top it says: “OMG I have been offended.” And at the bottom: “And on the internets of all places.” The internets is, of course, where we go to be offended and then display our moral superiority, maybe by tweeting or blogging. There is no offence that can’t be hashtagged, no Facebook group that cannot collect itself at great speed.
If one’s default setting is now to be part of some anonymous but offended mob, somehow the hierarchy of outrage implodes into meaninglessness. Thus it can appear that a whole rump of the populace is as upset by the torture of Syrians as the pomposity of Greg Wallace on MasterChef. The dismantling of Disability Allowance is a bummer, but it is not as bad as Ricky Gervais being no longer funny.
Being a slut, to my mind, was mostly fun – wearing and doing what you liked | Suzanne Moore | Comment is free | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/14/slutwalk-female-dress-no-ones-business
To be a slut was, to my mind, mostly fun, and to do with wearing and doing what you liked. My mum told me that when she had wanted pierced ears and my grandma said that was sluttish, she walked into the hall, stood in front of the mirror and pierced her own ears with a hat pin. She also wore an anklet that the neighbours said was a sign of being a prostitute. So I soon acquired one of those.