Girlistic aspires to be an encompassing feminist resource, vital to the online feminist community. We act as a connector, joining women to each other, to resources, and to feminist interests and entertainment. We work to progress the feminist movement through providing education, discussion, news, and networking opportunities for feminists. We strive to link visitors quickly and easily to the resources they need, including to other important feminist resources on the web. We are committed to helping women entrepreneurs through a variety of methods, including cost-effective advertising that connects them with their consumers. Through this building of a strong feminist community, we hope to empower women and forward the movement towards human equality.
Every once in awhile, we get an inquiry about why we chose "Girlistic" as the name for our website. We have many reasons, ranging from simple reasons like we just enjoy the sound of the word, to something as practical as the word was hardly used at all on the web or in business, so there was no legal issue in being able to name our site Girlistic. However, there are deeper reasons for why we ultimately decided on Girlistic.
Definitions of the suffix "istic" include "characteristic of," "having the qualities of," "formed by," etc. Everything on our site, everything we are interested in, is characteristic of, having the qualities of, or formed by anything relating to girls (of all ages), women, feminism and anyone identifying in any way with women/females, etc. Why we landed on "girl" goes deeper.
There is a myriad of ways to define oneself: female, feminine, woman, womyn, girl, etc. Choosing "girl," as opposed to any other version of female/feminine identification is a lovely feminist irony. What adult feminist doesn't get irked by being called "girl" when she and everyone else knows she's a grown woman? It is a reclamation of the word. Previous generations of women often learned to hate the word "girl" because it was a condescending thing men called them, often as a way to make them small, insignificant and powerless.
We feel girls, old or young, in body or in spirit, are powerful. So having a feminist website called Girlistic takes back some of that lost power. It is in the same vein as the riot grrrl movement, the titles of Bitch Magazine, or BUST Magazine, what Inga Musico did with "cunt" in her book by the same name, or what the GLBT community has done with "queer." Words are what you make them.
And we say GIRL is power.
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