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Ruth Fertig
New York, NY
Ruth Fertig is a documentary producer and director based in New York City. She has worked with survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault as a peer counselor, advocate and shelter volunteer. You can read about her films at www.fertigovafilms.com and follow her on twitter @fertigovafilms.
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Ruth commented on the article |Thanks for your questions, Samuel. I would check out the Women's Law Project http://www.womenslawproject.org/ , the National Women's Law Center http://www.nwlc.org/ , RAINN's policy resources http://www.rainn.org/public-policy , or Victims Services departments for state governments. They may not have all the information you're looking for, but they will at least point you in the right direction.
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Ruth commented on the article |Yes, the petition is open to people outside the US! Directly underneath the address text boxes there is a little hyperlinked purple word, Intl. Click it to enter your country information. Thanks for signing!
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FYI, this essay, which was adapted from Susan J. Douglas' new book, "Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message that Feminism's Work is Done," touches on everything being discussed in this thread, and makes a fabulous case for how sexual objectification is being packaged as sexual empowerment: http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/5575/girls_gone_anti-feminist
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Aaron, again, I appreciate where you're coming from, but I feel like you are talking about how things ought to be without viscerally understanding how they actually are. While you could be a valuable ally to women and we desperately need more feminist men, by saying what should and shouldn't be a part of feminism, you risk appropriating the movement. While I as a white person can be a valuable ally to anti-racism struggles, it is simply inappropriate for me to tell a person of color what should and shouldn't feel like racism to them, and what they should or shouldn't do to gain equality. While I as a mostly straight person can be a staunch supporter of LGBT rights, I would never tell you that something you perceive as homophobia is actually not that big a deal, that it's actually your perception that needs readjustment. That's because I understand that I can never truly understand the lived experience of racism or homophobia the way a person of color or an LGBT person can, respectively. As a man, even a gay man, you have never walked a mile in a women's shoes. I know your intentions are well-meaning, but I see great harm in men appropriating discussions about women's issues, as is threatening to happen in this comments section.
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Ruth commented on the article |The group that started the American Apparel petition, Hardy Girls Healthy Women, seems like a great place for young "anti-objectification" feminists to come together. I think there are plenty of us who feel objectification exists on the same continuum as other forms of sexual oppression, including human trafficking (albeit at two very different ends of the spectrum). And any feminist organization worth its salt is at least open to engaging with that idea, even if it ultimately aligns itself more exclusively with sex-positive thinking.
Thanks for the post, Sarah. The Diesel ad I saw (woman in bikini is busy snapping a photo of her crotch while a lion gets ready to eat her; text is the same as the ad in your post) so boggled my mind that I couldn't even process what was going on in it. I guess the stupid campaign lives up to its name.
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