Showing posts with label ladies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ladies. Show all posts

Friday, September 27, 2024

Men, I'm going to kick your arse (1933)


Self-Defence Tutorial for the Ladies from 1933
Feminism means equality or equity?
(British Pathé) Women have it tough. Thuggery is nothing new. It's been this way since cavemen dragged dates off by the hair. So here's a self defence class from 1933. This is May Whitley explaining the aim of the Asian martial art of jujitsu to England in a slow-motion tutorial.

American girls will not be outdone in anything.
What if he has guns? New techniques not as good

Hey, Men, love war more than your wife? Check out the "War Archives" (http://bit.ly/1jHBjmY). Light in the loafers and interested in fashion? Have a look at "Vintage Fashions" (http://bit.ly/1st5iPT). Want to know how to make love to a lady? That's disgusting! We won't tolerate randy smut around here! Get your rank ripe bottom to an Anglican church where the deacon can talk some sense into your defiled noggin. Instead, at British Pathe one can find more about "Sporting History" (http://bit.ly/1lom5zM).


My husband has good advice sometimes.
Now be a good pip and tell BP about your stories on Facebook: britishpathe. Follow BP on Twitter: britishpathe, what Mr Musk has taken to calling X. The archive on the website: britishpathe.com.

ABOUT: British Pathé News was a producer of newsreels, cinemagazines, and documentaries from 1910 until 1976 in the UK. Its founder, Charles Pathé, was a pioneer of moving pictures in the silent era. The Pathé News archive is known today as "British Pathé." Its collection of news film and movies is fully digitised and available online.

American giant jujitsu master grapples with man

A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT'S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. britishpathe.tv. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES, VISIT britishpathe.com.

British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website. britishpathe.comyoutu.be/tpDmcxOSuas
  • British Pathé, YouTube, March 13, 2015; I. Rony, Seth Auberon, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Friday, March 8, 2019

International Women's Day (March)

Ananda (Dharma Meditation Initiative), Dhr. Seven, Crystal Q., Wisdom Quarterly

The International Women’s Strike (IWS) is a grassroots movement established by women from Poland and Argentina and joined by women all over the world. It was created in 2016 as a response to the violence experienced by females. General strikes and protests on March 8th are in response to the common call, “Solidarity is our best weapon.” IWS Los Angeles is held in solidarity with the global movement.
 
Invest in Caring Not Killing
Stop Wars on Women, Children, Migrants, Mother Earth
No War Economy. No Pay, Low Pay - No Way!

To volunteer with the international effort email iwsm8LosAngeles@gmail.com or DM International Women's Strike Los Angeles.

Monday, February 25, 2019

Should females face military draft?


You want me to kill? Want me killed?
A federal judge has ruled that it is unconstitutional to only force men to register for the draft when they turn 18. While the draft ended in 1973 following the Vietnam War, the MSSA (Military Selective Service Act) still requires all men between the ages of 18 and 25 to register for the draft. In 1981, the Supreme Court ruled that only requiring men to register was constitutional because at that time the military banned women from serving in combat roles. That changed in 2013, and Senior Judge Gray Miller of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas ruled that the government "can no longer justify the MSSA's gender-based discrimination." The lawsuit was filed by the National Coalition for Men, who praised the judges ruling. "Forcing only males to register is an aspect of socially institutionalized male disposability," the group said in a statement. "Men still face prison, fines, and denial of federal loans for not registering or for not updating the government of their whereabouts." Women, it said, "should face the same repercussions as men for any noncompliance."

Friday, March 8, 2013

International Women's Day (video)

Ashley Wells, Amber Dorrian, Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly
Read Wisdom Quarterly's featured article this month: "The Buddha's Women"
 
Solidarity with women's struggles worldwide
In recognition of women here, now, everywhere, and throughout history, "International Women's Day" celebrates their contributions.  It is a celebration of more than half of the Earth's population.
  
It has been a history of being discounted, disempowered, disenfranchised, and made to feel less worthy than violent oppressors. But "power" does not derive solely from force. As great women in history (his story) reveal, even as the group is discounted, heroines emerge.
 
(Moksh) Documentary by Deepesh Vesuwala and Team highlighting an end to Eve teasing
  
Are men to blame? Perhaps. But that is only part of it. It is a distortion to imagine that it is boys against girls. How many women are against women, and how many men are pro-women? When we create a false dichotomy -- imagining that two sides are completely opposed -- we lose power. The history of gender has always been more subtle, more nuanced.
 
Even male neighbors
Who teaches children the culture's sexist ways? Those who raise the children. Which gender does most of the raising of children?
 
When we uplift one another, men and women as well as women and women, we uplift everyone. If we imagine the Amazon, we can ask: Who needs men? Even Amazon women needed men. Imagine a fascist nation and ask, Who needs women? Even fascists need women.

Shall we wait for all the world to be fair before we assert ourselves as individuals? Shall we wait for Congress to gain gender equality before we join Congress? Shall we seethe in anger that women have been mistreated before treating them better? We can hate the discriminators, or we can create what the world needs.
 
Reparations. Shall we demand reparations then do nothing until we get them?

Let's take life off "hold" and live now as we make things better. Pres. Obama finally did something good today -- signing an act (VAWA) to treat Native American women and others more equally. It's a small start for the third "Bush" Administration, but it is something.
 
Does it end rape in Washington, DC? Or Eve teasing (sexual harassment) in India? Or infanticide in China? Or sexist segregation in the Islamic world? It doesn't even begin to address racism and other problems in America, but at least it casts light on sexual discrimination. Nevertheless, there are many things to be happy about... if we look and notice them.
  

 
An angry "war mentality" that says we have to destroy aggressors makes us aggressors. And if we become aggressors to oppose other aggressors, only aggression wins. There is a better way to improve things; there are many better ways to improve things.

Monday, July 16, 2012

Creating Female Leaders in Nepal (video)

Claire Naylor and Claire Charamnac, Women-Lead.org (Good Maker)

In 2010, we co-founded Women LEAD, a leadership development organization for young women in Nepal. We were 20 and strongly believed that the lack of female leaders around the world is one of the worst inequalities of the 21st century. 
  
We empower young women to take leadership positions alongside men in Nepal by providing them with the skills to pursue their vision for change. Women in Nepal face overwhelming challenges: 33% of girls aged 15 to 19 are married, and 60% of women are illiterate.
   
   
We build the capacity of female high school students to tackle poverty and discrimination. In 2011, we equipped 200 promising leaders (aged 14 to 19) with academic, career, and leadership skills through our programs.
   
What can be done?
Young women have the passion and vision to solve the problems plaguing their communities. They simply lack the necessary training, guidance, and resources. Our programs empower young women to be leaders by providing them with leadership training, skills building, mentoring, and a peer-support network. Vote for us

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

International Women's Day 2011 (video)

() Join Wisdom Quarterly for the largest gathering of women for International Women's Day in the history of the world. The Women's Information Network (The WIN) is presenting celebrations at venues in 10 U.S. cities and in 175 countries around the world. Log on to find the nearest celebration: InternationalWomensDay.org. This a time for all people with women and men shoulder to shoulder. Individuals lead the way free of gender barriers. Nothing and no one can stop a movement whose time has come! Our friend Gina Marie says "Women's Day" is an insult to women, who are actually a majority on the planet. But we all have to recognize how women are subordinated, undermined, and discounted before we can claim to effectively being doing anything about it. It improves life on Earth for men, children, women, unseen beings, animals, and even plants that women are recognized and treated as the equals they always have been.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Feminism: Who's Afraid of Naomi Wolf?

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Feminism is the radical notion that men and women are equal. It should not be assumed that any religion has always taught this. Modern interpretations may. But all major traditions were corrupted at some point. Something went astray in the world: a movement violently usurped men's and women's "feminine" sensibilities (such as emotional intelligence).

Instead, the movement has led us toward words over pictures, rigid logic over fluid intuition, and we are left to idealize objectivity over immediacy. A hardness, rigidity, fearfulness, and smallness has been left in place of wholeness and integration. But there is still time and a way to wholeness if we but recognize the problem. Humor (like that of Ali G) helps. Who's afraid of Naomi Wolf (author, advocate, feminist) is a play on the famous theatrical work "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
Harem (thereligionofpeace.com)