Act 41
April 29, 2009
Feminist Cookies
We talk about cookies a lot in the femoblogosphere, but it seems to me that this is a subject that is greatly misunderstood and misinterpreted. The most common thing I hear with regards to cookie misunderstanding is “but why *shouldn’t* people be rewarded for good behaviour?”
So today I am going to address this.
Absolutely it is great to reward people for good behaviour. Parenting 101 tells us that it is much more beneficial (though not always easier) to notice and reward good behaviour than to berate and punish bad behaviour. However, this is not what we are talking about when we are referring to feminist cookies.
What we are talking about is the expectation of, or the giving of, accolades to people for merely meeting the basic standards of non-misogyny. So you think women are people? Well yeah, that is great, but it is not exactly above and beyond the call of duty is it?
And yet, some people still do want credit for these basic things “but I am not a rapist!”, “I don’t hit women!”, “I read books by female authors!”. So to that end I made a batch of extra special tasty feminist cookies. All cookie images are usable under a creative commons non-commercial share-alike licence so feel free to distribute as needed :)
A Big thanks to Callistra for her collaboration and help with the icing writing. All my cookies are gluten free–so enjoy!
April 29, 2009 at 6:17 am
I love the sperm-y looking dribble on the “has female friends” cookie.
April 29, 2009 at 6:27 am
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April 29, 2009 at 7:09 am
Ha, I thought “sperm” too. Well done!
April 29, 2009 at 11:42 am
COOKIES!!!!
*dances*
April 29, 2009 at 2:45 pm
ha! I saw those earlier today on HAT, thought ‘those are awesome’, and didn’t even realise they were by you. They are indeed awesome.
April 29, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Those are fantastic!!
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April 30, 2009 at 2:51 am
Can I have one made that says, “I was hired by a woman”? twice. Gosh, I’m trendy and modern,lol.
April 30, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Awesome. I love it.
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May 3, 2009 at 10:55 am
Awesome. Can’t wait to see these start popping up in threads.
May 4, 2009 at 6:39 am
Oh dear! Are we being oppressed again?
I hope you made a few for feminists too:
“Can admit mistakes.”
“Knows sentences without ‘patriarchy’ or ‘privilege'”
“Doesn’t patronise women.”
“Has male friends.”
“Doesn’t flame non-feminist women.”
Because such qualities are so rare amongst feminists, they deserve cookies too.
May 5, 2009 at 12:36 am
OMG… I love this!
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