Anyone can tell you there’s no more road to ride

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We hold a strong belief that actions stem from ideology and philosophy. We need new philosophies and new ideologies. Actions and inactions around us in society currently demonstrate an old ideology/philosophy that still excludes people. We want and need to transform that.
Feb 20 '12
“Consider, if you will, the prospect of a girl being invited to participate on a boys’ football team. She can wear the uniform, learn the plays, and practice the tackles, but come game day, when it counts, chances are she will be warming the bench. This is football, after all! And she’s, well, a girl! Does anyone really believe she or any other female (rare exceptions notwithstanding) can compete as an equal on the football field? To do so, she not only has to be as good as her male counterparts, she has to be better. But even then, who wants to see a girl get tackled on the football field? And what girl in her right mind would want to be there?”
— Ruth Dynamite, Feminism: The Dynamite Perspective

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