"Radicals, rather than breastbeating about the immorality of scientific research, could be much more effective by concentrating their full energies on demands for control of scientific discoveries by and for the people. For atomic energy, fertility control, artificial reproduction, and cybernation in themselves are liberating -- unless they are improperly used."

Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex

"The main trouble with cyborgs is that they are the illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism, not to mention state socialism. But illegitimate offspring are often exceedingly unfaithful to their origins. Their fathers, after all, are inessential... The phallocentric origin stories most crucial for feminist cyborgs are built into the literal technologies that textualize our bodies as code problems on the grid. Feminist cyborg stories have the task of recoding communication and technology to subvert command and control."

Donna Haraway, The Cyborg Manifesto

" An emerging interest in free and open source design and dissemination was characteristic of the Del-Em home abortion device's historical moment. In its commitment to non-market mechanisms and its focus on information sharing and voluntary cooperation, the feminist self-help movement arguably demonstrates an ethos of the Creative Commons, one key prong of feminist efforts to work around oppressive pathways of healthcare."

Helen Hester, Xenofeminism

In the last couple years it's become trendy for girls and women (usually youngish women) to self-identify as a bimbo. It's not that common but it's what could be called a subculture.

When I read articles about it they say that this is a supposed reclaiming of the term, where you can look super-hot (in a conventionally attractive way), wear sexy revealing clothing, and be "hyper-feminine" (whatever that means) but -- and here's the twist -- be intelligent rather than a stupid airhead.

However, the bimbo TikToks and social media posts from self-identified bimbos don't fulfil this last point, and in every way fulfil the traditional bimbo stereotype of being extremely airheaded. ("Teehee, I'm just a dumb girl, I don't understand!")

If people want to dress sexy and be "girly", go for it, but adopting the airhead thing is just so deeply degrading to the person doing it and to all girls/women/femme nonbinary people. Framing it as feminist and empowering just adds insult to injury. Really makes me angry that this is now a thing.

I swear if I see another meme stanning RBG I'm going to snap and send in the tanks.