By: Momma Cyndi
“Racism has been a major challenge in the feminist movement” ?? could you extrapolate upon that ??
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Hi Koketso As a Christian, I do not agree with abortion. However, although I do not agree with it, judging a person because they have had an abortion is a different matter. No one can make me see that...
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Momma Cyndi, back in the ’70s there were loads of white South African “feminists” who took their cue from the American and European second-wave feminists and didn’t give a damn for black women. There...
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Something like 55 million unborn babies murdered every year and YES, they are human. That is just about the same as the SA population. How sad, but what’s even more sad is the fact that they are...
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The Creator Thanks for that. I was only introduced to the feminist ideals in the 1980s so I must have missed all that. It was the vision of female solidarity during the pass law marches that must have...
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The Creator, find your point very interesting, the worldviews and objective of ‘white’ women and ‘Black’ women, both here and in the wider Western World were different back then. What is the situation...
View ArticleBy: Claire
Hi Keketso, I agree that many of the issues you’ve brought up here need serious attention from all sectors in our society. Please could you explain what you mean by the following though? “So until...
View ArticleBy: Neville
An analogy: The law says:”Come to a total stop at a stop sign”. More and more people are ignoring that law. Does that now make the action justifiable? Certainly not! God’s laws are there and in no way...
View ArticleBy: Koketso Moeti
@Graham, you are right in saying that we are very quick to judge. Talk about seeing a speck in someone’s eye but not seeing the plank in one’s own. Whether or not one agrees with it, reality is it’s...
View ArticleBy: Koketso Moeti
@Claire, not necessarily only healthcare. In many societies pregnant young women are heckled and worse, called names because of the ‘shame’ of it. I should know. Because of my height many people think...
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@Neville, interesting how it only counts when it’s abortion. What about rape and some of the other negative factors that lead to abortion? For instance, a raped woman would not be having an abortion if...
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Koketso Moeti Yes, thanks again, I have reformed and will forever hold those white women who took part in the march against pass laws in the contempt that their horrible, taunting racism deserves. It...
View ArticleBy: Koketso Moeti
Momma Cyndi, Errrrr, not sure what this is about. Not denouncing Black Sash or anything, but pointing out that womanhood is often depicted in terms of whiteness. A good example of this is ‘beauty’....
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Koketso Moeti Good for you dear. If you want to go it alone then do so. I really couldn’t care less. You do it your way and I’ll keep doing it the old way were sisters were sisters and it didn’t matter...
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