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

Jessica Valenti

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Jessica Valenti
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: November 1
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New York City
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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.
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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.
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Whether people identify as feminists or not, if they're doing work that furthers a feminist cause, I think that's wonderful, like if it works for me, right, it works for the movement.
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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.
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If your husband is cheating on you, it doesn't mean that you need to get prettier -- it means he's a scumbag.
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I think day care is terrific. Kids get to be around other kids, and they're playing, and they're teaching each other. When I was in college, my summer job was being a preschool teacher. I loved it, and after that experience, I said I can't wait to put my kid in day care because I could see how much they loved it.
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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.
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Given the reality of unintended parenthood and parental unhappiness, one would think that women and men who make the decision not to have children - who are deliberate and thoughtful about the choice to bring another person into the world - would be seen as less selfish than those who unthinkingly have children. Yet the stigma remains.
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And really, how insulting is it that to suggest that the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things? I'm betting some of those women would like to do great things of their own.
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According to the virginity movement, men have no self-control when it comes to anything sexual.
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Making women the sexual gatekeepers and telling men they just can't help themselves not only drives home the point that women's sexuality is unnatural, but also sets up a disturbing dynamic in which women are expected to be responsible for men's sexual behavior.
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Stress from blogging keeps me up at night.
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I grew up definitely a feminist, but I didn't call myself a feminist until I took my first women's studies class in college.
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People are not going to give up marriage. But we can try to make it more fair. We can try to change that institution and make it more equal.
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Wedding fever is one of the scariest diseases I have ever seen.
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...idea at play here is that of “morality.” When young women are taught about morality, there’s not often talk of compassion, kindness, courage, or integrity. There is, however, a lot of talk about hymens
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[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.
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Life is messy, and it's okay if you are too! We all screw up, that doesn't have to define us.
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Something I say a lot when it comes to anti-feminist stereotypes is that they exist for a reason.
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There's something really terrible about having your BlackBerry next to your bed or having your laptop in the living room when you're talking to someone. The biggest source of stress in my life is the screen, the blogging.
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