February 16, 2011
Tired of Fuckers Fucking Over Me, 1970

tired of fuckers

Bev Grant

when I’m walking down the street and every
man I meet says “baby, ain’t you sweet” well
I could scream! `cause although the guy is
sick and thinks only of his dick it ain’t sweet I
feel I feel just good and mean


chorus: they whistle for me like a dog they
make noises like a hog heaven knows they
sure got problems I agree but their problems
won’t be solved by getting me involved
and I’m tired of fuckers fucking over me


well here I am at work and I’m confronted by
this jerk who’s got some obscene quirk he
must display though I know the guy is ill I
can’t help but want to kill any man who’s
standing in my way


now I’m trying to take a walk and he says he
wants to talk and proceeds to block my way I
get real sore `cause although I talk just fine
well that’s not what’s on his mind I’m a
pretty piece and he’s just trying to score

chorus: they whistle for me like a dog they
make noises like a hog heaven knows they
sure got problems I agree but their problems
won’t be solved by getting me involved
and I’m tired of fuckers fucking over me

now I know that life is rough and to be a man
is tough but we have had enough and we
can’t ignore that their macho fantasies don’t
respect our right to be and now we women
ain’t gonna take no more!

chorus: they whistle for me like a dog they
make noises like a hog heaven knows they
sure got problems I agree but their problems
won’t be solved by getting me involved
and I’m tired of fuckers fucking over me

(c) 1970 Bev Grant, used by permission of the author. All rights reserved.

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Filed under: 1970 flo kennedy feminism feminist songs bev grant 
November 11, 2010
Context

I’m at the part in the Flo Kennedy book where she goes on the Canadian feminist television show, “Some of My Best Friends Are Men.”  There is a picture of the whole staff and Flo, all wearing tshirts with wings that form a vagina, from which the symbol for “woman” dangles. SOLID GOLD.

I went looking for more info on the show and I discovered FLO KENNEDY HAD A SHOW AS WELL. Obviously viewing this is a priority. It’s funny that Flo’s papers are housed at Harvard, the place where she led a mass urination protest about the fact that they had so few women’s bathrooms.

And this:

“It has never been my thesis that women are necessarily good. I’ve never thought that oppression makes people better; oppression, in my opinion, is not good for you. And women are already sneaky and hostile and oppressive. They beat up their kids, they yell at the butcher, they mistreat their parents—they’re just as pathological as everyone else. Otherwise, it would appear that people are improved by oppression, and I don’t believe that.”

Also, Crystal found an episode of Family Ties that her guide describes thusly: “Alex becomes an ERA supporter to woo a feminist.”

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Filed under: flo kennedy tv family ties feminism sitcoms 
October 8, 2010
"If you’re going to be where it’s at, you’ll have to be somewhere on the horizontal level of the liberation struggle."

— Flo Kennedy, in “A Message for White Radicals.” There will be much more on this. 

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Filed under: Flo Kennedy liberation racism white racism 60s 70s 
September 26, 2010
"Kicking ass should be only where an ass is protecting the System. Ass-kicking should be undertaken regardless of the sex, the ethnicity, or the charm of the oppressor’s agent. As the struggles intensify, the oppressor tends to select more attractive agents, frequently from among the oppressed."

— Flo Kennedy, from her essay “Institutionalized Oppression Versus the Female” in Sisterhood Is Powerful

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Filed under: feminism radicalism critique Flo Kennedy Sisterhood is Powerful: The Book 
September 26, 2010
Fighting the Power on Fire Island

From Flo Kennedy’s obituary in the New York Times:

In 1969, she helped represent 21 Black Panthers on trial in Manhattan for conspiracy to commit bombings, among other things. They were eventually acquitted, but during the trial she used them for another purpose.

She and Ms. Goodman, not then a judge, and others were renting a house on Fire Island. They decided to take the Panthers to a community on the island for a dinner at a restaurant that did not accept blacks or Jews. It created quite a commotion, the intended effect. But afterward, Ms. Goodman asked if it was all that important, compared with the life and death issues at stake in the trial.

Ms. Kennedy gave an emphatic yes. ”Her point was that you have to fight on all the fronts all the time,” Justice Goodman said.

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Filed under: black panthers, civil rights Flo Kennedy Fire Island radicalism 
September 26, 2010
"So what I’m saying to you now is use your powers: your body power, your dollar power, your vote power. We’ve got business to take care of. Zombie-ism is for worms."

— Flo Kennedy

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Filed under: feminism radicalism zombies Flo Kennedy 
September 26, 2010
Flo Kennedy. From Wikipedia: Once, to protest the lack of female bathrooms at Harvard, she led a mass urination on the grounds. When asked about this, she said “I’m just a loud-mouthed middle-aged colored lady with a fused spine and three feet of intestines missing and a lot of people think I’m crazy. Maybe you do too, but I never stop to wonder why I’m not like other people. The mystery to me is why more people aren’t like me.”

Flo Kennedy. From Wikipedia: Once, to protest the lack of female bathrooms at Harvard, she led a mass urination on the grounds. When asked about this, she said “I’m just a loud-mouthed middle-aged colored lady with a fused spine and three feet of intestines missing and a lot of people think I’m crazy. Maybe you do too, but I never stop to wonder why I’m not like other people. The mystery to me is why more people aren’t like me.”

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Filed under: feminism, radicalism protests Flo Kennedy 
September 26, 2010
"The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea."

— Flo Kennedy, founder of the Feminist Party.

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(Notes: 3)
  
Filed under: feminism radicalism Flo Kennedy 
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