Comments on: Backyard Farming Is A Feminist Act

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:47:27 +0000

Femivore – I never heard that one before! Though I’m not so sure about the name, I do identify strongly with the meaning, and I’m so glad to see that the movement is spreading as far as the New York Times!

I write about radical homemaking at http://patchworkradicals.weebly.com – and attempt to answer the question so many here are asking: what makes homemaking radical, again?

By: Fimail

Fimail — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 03:23:52 +0000

I think that people don’t understand feminism. Feminism is and always has been about women being considered whole persons – so voting, changing the laws to make it illegal for your husband to hit you, and then changing attitudes so that this is dealt with properly by police, being paid equally for equal work and being allowed to study things at university are obvious major milestones that most people know about.

All of these are about allowing women and men to participate fully in the world. If anyone told you now that you or your daughter couldn’t study maths at high school, go to university, complain if you were beaten up, or vote you’d rightly feel like a second class citizen.

How people express feminist ideas however and what they think is a social good and how they think about society. Therefore there is definitely a stream of feminism which has been pro work anti childraising or home life and about women working long hours. Funnily enough at the same time many more women entered the workplace western economies were in the process of shifting from a manufacturing to a service economy – and there were many more employees needed, especially low paid ones like women, in the service economy. You can’t blame feminism for a major shift in the economy. After all not all feminists went that direction anyway.

Feminist theorists have discussed for instance: why doesn’t the GDP of a country count the unpaid work that (largely) women do in society? Why do working hours have to reflect male ideals of long hours? What effect does this have on men too? There are some really interesting maternal feminists around too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism

By: Mommypotamus

Mommypotamus — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:09:01 +0000

That term “femivore” is horrific. If we base our understanding off other similar words like “herbivore”, one would logically assume that a femivore eats females. Anyone else ready to pass?

I blogged about my own chicken coop obsession just yesterday. I do not, however, consider myself anything at all resembling a feminist. I am educated, informed, and proactively researching ways to personally improve the health of my family. But I never do so from a perspective of domination or control or gaining back what was “stolen” from me by the male gender.

Instead, I am quick to honor men, especially my husband and men in positions of authority in my life (spiritual and civic). There is a breaking of the bonds of control that only comes through the vehicle of honor.
.-= Mommypotamus´s last blog post …Healthy Snacks That Toddlers Love Part 1 =-.

By: Jenna Ann

Jenna Ann — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:17:27 +0000

I’ve not applied the label “femivore” to myself but I DO consider myself a Radical Homemaker. (I LOVE that book!!!!!)
.-= Jenna Ann´s last blog post …REDUCE, reuse, recycle =-.

By: OffHerCork

OffHerCork — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:14:10 +0000

For the love of all that is holy, why does every act need a label? “Femivore” MEH. http://is.gd/baauw (via food renegade)

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By: Deanna

Deanna — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:57:01 +0000

When I declared my intention to leave my corporate job and stay home with my six-month old son, that alone was enough to raise eyebrows in the office. When I followed by saying, “We’re headed to the country. And boy, do I mean COUNTRY,” my colleagues bluntly offered that I could easily find myself bored, unsatisfied, unchallenged and intellectually unfulfilled. Yes, I *could* have…but I didn’t, I’m not, and know I never will be. Consuming depressed me; producing rewards me, not to mention my family.
.-= Deanna´s last blog post …Relatively Speaking =-.

By: TJC

TJC — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:02:09 +0000

Great point!

By: Belle sudiste

Belle sudiste — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:32:49 +0000

I don’t consider myself a feminist or radical because I garden and want to have chickens and kids and goats. I feel like I’m old fashioned. I think its a woman’s duty to be able to protect and sustain her family through self sufficiency. I don’t think that we’re being radical, we’re reverting to the satisfying and challenging lifestyle women had while running a household before labor saving devices. I’m a college student and I can’t wait to graduate, get married and settle down on a farm with a mess of animals and children!

By: Sheri @ Moms for Safe Food

Sheri @ Moms for Safe Food — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:39:46 +0000

I don’t care for the term either, but I’m a mom, garden and have chickens.
I also work from home so don’t know what term they’d use for that. LOL

We are also renters at the moment. We’re planning on relocating after the kids graduate high school in two years. We’re in the heart of the suburbs and my landlord was okay with us having chickens. They’re in a movable coop and as long as we don’t have a rooster we’re within city guidelines.

By: jacobmlee

jacobmlee — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:06:41 +0000

Hate the term, love the concept. “-vore” is the ‘cupcake’ of the hipster-literary world… http://bit.ly/9hwTlQ

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