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Feminism

by The Thinker-Writer, January 31, 2010

The belief that women are and should be treated as potential intellectual equals and social equals to men. These people can be male or female human beings, although the ideology is commonly (and perhaps falsely) associated mainly with women. The basic idea of Feminism revolves around the principle that just because human bodies are designed to perform certain procreative functions, biological elements need not dictate intellectual and social functions, capabilities, and rights. Feminism also, by its nature, embraces the belief that all people are entitled to freedom and liberty within reason–including equal civil rights–and that discrimination should not be made based on gender, sexual orientation, skin color, ethnicity, religion, culture, or lifestyle. Feminists–and all persons interested in civil equality and intellectuality–are dedicated to fighting the ignorance that says people are controlled by and limited to their biology.

Feminism is the belief that people are entitled to the same civil rights and liberties and can be intellectual equals regardless of gender. However, you should still hold the door for a feminist; this is known as respect or politeness and need have nothing whatever to do with gender discrimination.

By The Thinker-Writer, January 31, 2010

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So, why did I go to the urban dictionary for a definition of Feminism?

I saw the article above and thought, nah, that wasn’t what I was taught as a young child…

Then

I got my Cosmo in the mail and while the fashions are fun, some gaudy, others worthy of a second look or two, but most are out of my price and age range, but when I see hair and beauty products, well now, that is a whole different response entirely. As I was thumbing through one of many magazines, which is another bad habit, an article about feminism popped up and yes folks are questioning Beyoncé among others with headlines such as, “can you be Sexy and a Feminist? ” or as Cosmo asks,

“Can you be a Sexy Feminist? It was a quick read and in all honesty, I don’t spend a lot of my time dissecting labels, but I will say that being a feminist used to be defined as a woman who didn’t appreciate men, some said, they despised them. Honestly, there was a time when Women were advised not to question the gender roles of men & women, and when that barrier fell, women realized it was time to demand equal access to education. While so-called hardcore feminists suggested being a companion, forget about being happily married, lest we acquiesce simply because we are women. I don’t subscribe to hating on men, I like men on several levels, that includes my dad, my kid’s father, my son, a couple of teachers, and a couple of bosses who happened to be male.

As a side note on a political level, current Republican men are the bane of our (women) existence in my opinion.

So, getting back to Feminism, when it comes to being an active participant in what seemingly is the opposite side of equality and justice for everyone. I have to admit, I have danced to fabulous music that had one or more negatives like sexual assault, and misogynistic and chauvinistic words. It’s definitely not something I ever used to think about while dancing, and as an adult, I found it upsetting when what was being said became clear; generally, this kind of talk would get a whole different response if these words were being exchanged through a conversation at work, a bar or one on one. In this 21st Century, we hear more Women with edgy lyrics and to find out that a story or two based on reality inadvertently comes to light … so, the choice to listen and buy is up to you.

However, it does appear that the word feminism or being a feminist in this 21st century society is ever-changing and ever-evolving to bring about a belief in equality and the rights for everyone in all its forms and genders. I see the urban dictionary as a place run not only by a younger group of folks, but who use it, research it, and discuss the “stuff” they post. I admit to not referring to the urban dictionary that much, but I found the post in the process of searching out what younger folks felt about the comments on who is or can be a feminist, it caught my eye. As you read on, Cosmo asked stars like Lady Gaga, Lana Del Rey, and Taylor Swift just to name a few, but when Pharrell was asked he stated, “I don’t think it’s possible for me to be (a feminist). I’m a man, but I do support feminists.”

Anyway, an article worth reading in Cosmo in September 2014

~~ Nativegrl77

What do you think?

Is being a feminist gender-specific?

The answer is yes, in the 1800s, as the root of feminism they used to define women, was fem, being that of the female feminine persuasion, so Pharrell among others probably used the definitions as their guide … though in this 21st Century like and while we are coming out of the nightmare that was the era of trump … The dictionary defines a Feminist as a person who believes in Equal Rights for Women. We need more 21st Century thoughts and people action.

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Major U.S. Regions Facing Data‑Center Environmental Strain

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40 Mayors pushing data‑center growth are ignoring the lack of water, utilities, land, and eminent domain, which will create negative impacts. ~ Nativegrl77

Oregon (The Dalles & Hillsboro) — water secrecy + farmland loss

Google fought to keep water usage confidential.
Residents sued for transparency.
Farmland rezoned for industrial server farms.
Local aquifers under stress during heat waves.

Oregon data center water

Washington State (Quincy, Wenatchee, Seattle region) — grid strain + moratorium

Quincy has multiple hyperscale centers next to residential neighborhoods.
Seattle passed a 1‑year moratorium on mega‑data‑center construction due to grid capacity concerns.
Chelan and Douglas PUDs warned about massive electricity draw.

Seattle moratorium

Phoenix Metro (AZ) — water depletion + moratorium

Dozens of data centers approved despite long‑term drought.
Some suburbs paused new centers due to water stress.
Local officials warned that each facility can use 1–5 million gallons/day for cooling.
Residents protested new land takings for industrial zoning.

Phoenix water strain

Northern Virginia (“Data Center Alley”) — grid overload + eminent domain

Loudoun County hosts the world’s largest cluster of data centers.
Dominion Energy proposed new high‑voltage lines through residential areas.
Eminent domain was used or threatened for transmission corridors.
Noise, diesel generators, and land conversion are major complaints.

Northern Virginia impacts

South Carolina & Georgia — coastal water + forest loss

New data‑center corridors proposed near wetlands and coastal aquifers.
Forest clearing for multi‑building campuses.
Local officials raised concerns about hurricane‑season resilience.

Southeast data centers

Iowa (Altoona, Council Bluffs) — energy consumption + land use

Meta, Google, and Microsoft operate massive campuses.
Local utilities expanded generation capacity to meet demand.
Farmland converted to industrial use.

Iowa data center impacts

New Mexico (Los Lunas & Albuquerque) — water rights conflicts

Meta’s expansion faced pushback over water use during drought.
Local tribes and environmental groups raised concerns about aquifer depletion.
State regulators questioned long‑term sustainability.

Guided Link: New Mexico water concerns

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Kansas (De Soto & Olathe) — farmland → server farms

Thousands of acres rezoned for data‑center campuses.
Residents raised concerns about loss of agricultural land.
Water and power demand projected to spike.

Guided Link: Kansas rezoning

Sources: internet, x articles, ai, info links included and a personal opinion

40 mayors pushing data‑center growth are ignoring the lack of water, utilities, land, and eminent domain, which will create negative impacts. ~ Nativegrl77

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on this day … 10/8

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1895 – The Berliner Gramophone Company was founded in Philadelphia, PA.

1904 – “Little Johnny Jones” opened in Hartford, CT.

1915 – During World War I, the Battle of Loos concluded.

1918 – U.S. Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly killed 25 German soldiers and captured 132 in the Argonne Forest in France. York had originally tried to avoid being drafted as a conscientious objector. After this event his was promoted to sergeant and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

1919 – The first transcontinental air race in the U.S. began.

1945 – U.S. President Truman announced that only Britain and Canada would be given the secret to the atomic bomb.

1950 – U.N. forces crossed into North Korea from South Korea.

1952 – “The Complete Book of Etiquette” was published for the first time.

1956 – Donald James Larsen (New York Yankees) pitched the first perfect game in the history of the World Series.

1957 – The Brooklyn Baseball Club announced that it had accepted a deal to move the Dodgers to Los Angeles.

1966 – The U.S. Government declared that LSD was dangerous and an illegal substance.

1970 – Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize for literature.

1979 – “Sugar Babies” opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on Broadway.

1981 – U.S. President Reagan greeted former Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon to the White House. The group was preparing to leave for Egypt to attend the funeral of Anwar Sadat.

1982 – In Poland, all labor organizations, including Solidarity, were banned.

1991 – A slave burial site was found by construction workers in lower Manhattan. The “Negro Burial Ground” had been closed in 1790. Over a dozen skeletons were found.

1993 – The U.S. government issued a report absolving the FBI of any wrongdoing in its final assault in Waco, TX, on the Branch Davidian compound. The fire that ended the siege killed as many as 85 people.

1996 – Pope John Paul II underwent a successful operation to remove his inflamed appendix.

1998 – Taliban forces attacked Iranian border posts. Iran said that three border posts were destroyed before the Taliban forces were forced to retreat. The Taliban of Afghanistan denied the event occurred.

1998 – Canada and Netherlands were voted into the U.N. Security Council.

2001 – Tom Ridge, former Governor of Pennsylvania, was sworn in as director of the new U.S. department of Homeland Security.

2001 – Two Russian cosmonauts made the first spacewalk to be conducted outside of the international space station without a shuttle present.

2002 – A federal judge approved U.S. President George W. Bush’s request to reopen West Coast ports, to end a caustic 10-day labor lockout. The lockout was costing the U.S. economy an estimated $1 billion to $2 billion a day.

2003 – China announced that it would have a human crew orbit the Earth briefly on October 15.

2003 – Vietnam and the United States reached a tentative agreement that would allow the first commercial flights between the two countries since the end of the Vietnam War.

2003 – It was announced that Vivendi Universal and General Electric Co. had reached an agreement to merge. The name for the combined company was NBC Universal.

2003 – Siegfried Fischbacher and his manager announced that the “Siegfried and Roy” show at the Mirage was canceled permanently. It was also said that if Roy Horn survived, after a tiger attack on October 3, the duo would continue to work together.

2004 – The first-ever direct presidential elections were held in Afghanistan.

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Do you know about Indigenous rights? – ran

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First posted seven years ago

We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.” —Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemala Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 1992

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People has now been endorsed by 161 countries around the world. It is time for all countries to walk this talk. Here are some of the ways you can join RAN in doing just that.
Table of Contents
**Stand for Justice
**Reclaim Ancestral Lands
**Honor Sacred Sites
**Respect Traditional Territories
**Recognize Free, Prior & Informed Consent
**Protect-An-Acre
**RAN Recommends

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Stand For Justice

Chevron’s massive oil disaster in the Ecuadorean Amazon has affected the health, culture and communities of five Indigenous nationalities: the Cofan, Siona, Secoya, Kichwa, and Huaorani. Chevron has now been found guilty by a court of law but, unsurprisingly, is refusing to pay. Stand with the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon. Stand up to Chevron. Join us

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Reclaim Ancestral Lands

Right now the Indigenous people of Long Teran Kanan in Malaysian Borneo are standing up to the palm oil industry and its unchecked expansion into their rainforest home. After more than a decade of struggle, the Long Teran Kanan community peacefully reclaimed part of their ancestral lands from the palm oil giant IOI Group, one of Cargill’s key suppliers.

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Honor Sacred Sites

<a class="zem_slink" title="Rainforest Action Network" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainforest_Action_Network" rel="wikipedia">Rainforest Action Network</a>'s headquarters in <a class="zem_slink" title="San Francisco" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.7793,-122.4192&spn=0.1,0.1&q=37.7793,-122.4192 (San%20Francisco)&t=h" rel="geolocation">San Francisco, CA</a> is located on the traditional land of the <a class="zem_slink" title="Ohlone people" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohlone_people" rel="wikipedia">Ohlone people</a>. Segorea Te a.k.a. Glen Cove is a shellmound, a sacred burial site of the Ohlone people, and it is currently being threatened by proposed development. The recreation department of <a class="zem_slink" title="Vallejo, California" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.1130555556,-122.235833333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=38.1130555556,-122.235833333 (Vallejo%2C%20California)&t=h" rel="geolocation">Vallejo, CA</a> wants to pave trails and parking lots over this sacred site. Tell City of Vallejo officials to respect sacred sites now.

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Respect Traditional Territories

While Disney’s image is built on fairy tales, much of Disney’s manufacturing is built on nightmares. Lab results have shown that Disney, the leading publisher of children’s books worldwide, uses paper created from the destruction of Indonesia’s rainforests. The paper industry’s destruction of rainforests causes Indigenous communities to be pushed off their land, and plant and animal species to be driven further towards extinction. This month RAN activists gave Disney execs a huge wake-up call. So can you.

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Recognize Free, Prior & Informed Consent

<a href="https://beaseedforchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/indigenousrightsnow.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-29511" title="indigenousrightsnow!" src="https://beaseedforchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/indigenousrightsnow.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="110"/></a>To many the <a class="zem_slink" title="World Bank" href="http://www.worldbank.org/" rel="homepage">World Bank</a> is known as a human rights bulldozer blindly implementing policies around the world that erode the rights, culture, ecosystems and economies of rural and Indigenous peoples. That’s why it may surprise some that the IFC, the private lending arm of the World Bank, recently announced revisions to its policy for projects proposed on <a class="zem_slink" title="Indigenous land rights" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_land_rights" rel="wikipedia">Indigenous lands</a>—the IFC now recognizes the principle of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC). Will the World Bank walk its talk? Will other banks follow suit? The world is watching.

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Protect-An-Acre

Since 1993, RAN’s Protect-An-Acre (PAA) program has distributed more than one million dollars in grants to over 150 Indigenous-led organizations, frontline communities, and allies around the world working to regain control of and sustainably manage their traditional territories. PAA is one of the most direct and effective ways you can stand in solidarity with Indigenous communities and contribute to the protection of our world’s forests.