Episode 40: Dismantling Patriarchy to Protect Our Planet – with environmentalist Osprey Orielle Lake
hope is a verb with its sleeves rolled up…
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humans in general are damaged by any hierarchy…
what you value is what you deify…
I would have reached for the apple too…
open access to all of it…
girls have never actually been asked, “What do you want?”…
young Black women students who endured…
this is not okay; you have to react and don’t accept it…
what child sex abuse is and what to do if it’s happening…
things change when you have more women leaders…
the rough and tumble world of professional chess…
we solved so many problems because of the music…
it’s really important to have trans people who are happy…
we want you to march with us…
How do I know when to trust myself and when not to?…
I didn’t want to be surrounded by war all the time.…
go beyond your comfort zone…
I decided early in my life that I wanted more…
Will the Church change as a result of 15,000 women speaking out?…
The minute you push back, the attacks are just vicious…
there’s so much more to the Bible…
This is something that is unbelievable. …
women bishops, women presbyters, women priests, and women deacons…
We have a lot of work to do, so we need everybody…
“So what side do you take?”…
you are wrong about why people are poor…
if you’re going to talk about sexism, you need to talk to each other…
this is a political issue and we need to be serious about it…
she changes her life, changes herself, and goes on to change the world…
If you’re here, who’s making dinner for your kids?…
Okay, guys. We’ve got to talk about this.…
if it’s man-made it means it can also be man-unmade…
You’re not fragile. You can do this work.…
a sort of double-bind for female artists…
the problem that we face is fragmentation of consciousness…
an awful lot of monsters in Greek myth are female…
making the space to be honest with ourselves…
everybody wants to do peyote, but nobody wants to do the dishes…
anytime you’re going to surrender your psyche, it’s going to be terrifying…
Roe was illusory for Native women…
don’t accept patriarchy as something that is supposed to exist…
They don’t even know how many children died…
you’re never really alone because a white person is always watching you…
incredible women doing incredibly brave things…
She learned how to type the words of a man…
if men were the ones who got pregnant we wouldn’t be having this conversation…
in essence, all soldiers are like trans identities…
Feminism is really a white lady thing…
breaking women’s teeth, branding their shoulders, and forcing them to do labor on mission plantation…
what compelled them to embark on these missions where it was so likely that they would die…
Just because you’re wearing a smile on your face doesn’t mean you are not dead inside…
topless women revolting against patriarchy…
so exquisite, so tiny, so inhuman at the same time…
Men became more afraid of female power and decided to try and suppress it…
the idea of women as property just became more and more enforced…
the education of women is the rising tide that raises all boats…
we have to go back to this history and recognize where it’s come from…
this is the most important work any of us can be doing…
There’s this history that’s just been forgotten in the US…
Her womb belongs to the patriarchal family…
We took this moment of crisis and attacked and turned it into power…
no one is free of the influence of Jewish feminism…
we as a species haven’t always been male dominated…
strong common ground for all women to stand on…
this was not a country that was always extremist or radical…
we are feminists looking for transformative change, radical change…
these women were really able to push their narrative so far…
the ethos of the Qur’an is absolute egalitarianism…
You have to actively mark yourself as a safe place…
I’m not safe from whitemalegod in my own thinking…
If we see the same thing over and over again, it becomes normal…
we can do it, we can tell our own stories and we can sing our own songs…
There’s more to life than what meets the eye…
In every facet of the continent, male dominance is fierce, violent, aggressive, and unrelenting…
a baby (because it’s female) is not being fed appropriately…
If you aren’t angry. you’re probably asleep.…
the layering of story upon story, interpretation upon interpretation…
Do the radically new to change the stubbornly old.…
increase the presence of women at the pulpit…
Why did I need a man to be my conduit to the heavens?…
They set me free in excruciating ways…
the world is so much more than him, him, him.…
it’s not like the female brain cannot do it…
Mormon polygamy does not have anything to do with love.…
people you interact with everyday might be witches…
after that nobody ever tried to say that the women didn’t matter…
1 in 4 women and 1 in 9 men experience severe intimate partner violence…
believe women when they say they feel empowered when they put on a niqab…
this system isn’t working well for any of us…
for every 10% increase in equity, there’s a 1-2% increase in revenue.…
you’re bad for wanting it. Because you’re a woman.…
How could God distrust me so much?…
Inclusivity will not destroy Marine Corps readiness, but…hypermasculinity will.…
The word feminist was akin to a slur in our home…
I’m starting to resent that I’ve had such a self-actualization, money-focused, provider-focused life…
we didn’t start the patriarchal fire…
I didn’t know all the possibilities for my future…
This is happening right in our culture.…
Memories are unreliable sources of fact…
the new swimsuit was so sexy it was like a bomb was going off…
An empowered woman does whatever she wants.…
You know things are serious when grandma is protesting…
And then he said, Why can’t you just become a doctor and leave politics to the men in the family?…
patriarchy is a social construct, not the all-encompassing reality it pretends to be…
I mourn for the me that could have been…in a world devoid of patriarchy…
patriarchy’s impact is not only on women or on men. It’s on everyone. It’s on all of us as a society…
see how you’re holding up patriarchy, and then determine how you can be better…
As a man in a #TimesUp #MeToo #SayHerName world, it’s not enough to pay lip service for a second and…
portrayals of mythical or real women as innately evil undermine the self-confidence of all women…
Stop trying to control women’s bodies and sexuality. Unwanted pregnancies are caused by men.…
it has taken years and much conscious effort to shed the negative masculine modeling I witnessed…
I was taught how to live in a feminist fairytale, but not how to live in reality. …
How could God want something for me that I was sure was incompatible with my happiness?…
in heaven, we might have to practice it. We might have to share our husbands.…
The wounds I felt from patriarchy, I inflicted upon others.…
Patriarchy isn’t a decision… made by people in power. It’s what is normal for men…
the value of questioning power structures and not just accepting things the way they’ve always been…
You are already worthy of rest and renewal…
we are restoring women to their rightful place in history.…
Challenge yourself to talk about menstruation. …
this is the beauty and distress you are talking about, deal with all of it…
Don’t listen to those who tell you you aren’t good enough…
When we are in our bodies, we are unstoppable…
She is more beautiful than the sun and more magnificent than all the stars in the sky…
we learn to relate to our bodies from the outside like we’re strangers looking in at ourselves…
“only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.”…
Amy and Erik Allebest summarize key takeaways and memories from each episode of the first season…
“Even the most injured instincts can be healed.”…
“Speaking out about your own body is profoundly feminist.”…
“There is a life meant for you that’s truer than the one you’re living.…
“Boys don’t cry. Be strong. Don’t let him know it hurt you.”…
“Outrage can save one girl or two, she told me. Only empathy can change the system.”…
“There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid”…
“Women in power are seen as…taking something to which they are not quite entitled.”…
“Removing stereotype threat can improve both men’s and women’s academic achievement.”…
“…girls learn to suppress their own feelings in order to avoid conflict, to preserve the peace…”…
“the single best indicator that an unmarried middle-class woman will end up bankrupt.”…
“women fight wars on two fronts, one for…the putative topic…and one simply for the right to spea…
“to recognize misogyny in so many forms, some great and some small, and know you’re not imagining th…
“Females were as socialized to believe sexist thinking and values as males…”…
“God does not ask us to kill innocent people or to take away their civil rights”…
“…every man’s standing…is enhanced by the male monopoly over authority in patriarchal societies.…
“…equality, security, liberty and dignity of all human beings.”…
“as women held unquestioned power…attempts at total conquest of the continents were bound to fail.”…
“If God is male, then the male is god.”…
“Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.”…
“More women have more money and power and scope and legal recognition than we have ever had before; …
“Growing up, metabolizing hatred like daily bread, because I am black, because I am woman…”…
“No history books used in public schools informed us about racial imperialism.”…
“Black women…had to become strong, for their families and their communities…”…
“.so often the women seem to feel no loss, no lack, no absence when women of color are not involved.…
“any interest of the State in…an inherently hazardous procedure …has largely disappeared.”…
“women, who remain single are seen as failures regardless of how successful and fulfilled…”…
“Civilization has always been able to substitute other methods… for those of physical strength…”…
“When you put your hand to the plow, you can’t put it down until you get to the end of the row.”…
“…destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.”
Gloria Steinem…
“The oppression of women acts as an escape valve for capitalism…”…
“ deny a particular group equality of opportunity…””…
“the range of sex discrimination that was built into the fabric of American society.”…
“The only way for a woman…to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.”…
“policymakers always seem to find money for control and domination – for prisons, weapons, wars.”…
“We call on the governments of the world to encourage women everywhere to take a more active part”…
“Man must be pleased; but him to please / Is woman’s pleasure”…
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”…
“Every woman should be absolute mistress of her own body.”…
“Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men’s work at half men’s wages”…
“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusion…
“The faint figure behind seemed to shake the pattern, just as if she wanted to get out.”…
“How is it possible that the Teacher talked in this manner with a woman…”…
“legal subordination of one sex to another is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances..…
“I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail.”…
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal”…
“I am in search of truth; and no obstacle shall prevent my prosecuting that search.”…
“Thus, if a man is superior to a woman because he’s bigger, then a cow is superior to a man.”…
“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body…”…
“Women, wake up! …Acknowledge your rights!”…
“the constant inventing of the wheel”…
“in dangers, in doubts, in difficulties, think of Mary”…
“Patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end.”…
“…warfare and the war of the sexes are neither divinely nor biologically ordained”…
