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Jul 18
“We don’t occupy their imaginations …”
“We don’t occupy their imaginations the way they occupy ours.” Black scientist about his white colleagues (from the movie “Black Cake”)
Yeah. Now imagine that ten-fold for a female scientist.
Jul 14
from The First Political Order: How sex shapes governance and national security worldwide, Valerie M. Hudson et al.
Part I is a must-read.
Excerpts follow.
“Men seeking their own security attempt to construct strong male-bonded alliances, typically based on patrilineal (agnatic) relationships … [Women] biologically reproduce the group, providing brothers and sons for this male alliance. The fraternity’s dependence on women … leads to the necessity for men to control them.” p2 [This …
Jun 25
Fucking bitch.
“A guy on a bicycle was staring at her so intently he nearly got hit by a bus. ‘Watch out,’ she cried, but the sound was swallowed by the simultaneous blast of the bus driver’s horn. The biker swerved, and the bus just missed him. He slammed into a parked car and was thrown to …
Jun 19
“I’m not a feminist, but …”
“But how often, still, do we hear women anxiously asserting ‘I’m not a feminist, but …’ as they go on to make claims that depend upon, and would be impossible without, a feminist groundwork?” from Feminism: A Very Short Introduction, Margaret Walters
Jun 18
from I Don’t, Clementine Ford
There’s a lot here and every bit is worth reading.
Better yet, just get the book. And read it. Every word.
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from blurb for Ford’s I Don’t
“why do so many women still believe that our value is intrinsically tied to being chosen by a man?”
“Ford explains …
Jun 02
some excellent bits from Roper’s Sex Dolls, Robots, and Woman Hating
“… when sex doll and robot advocates promote the use of these products as being beneficial for ‘people’, they mean male people. When they claim sex robots could help alleviate loneliness, they mean men’s loneliness, not women’s. When they argue sex robots could be used by the elderly, they mean elderly men. When they …
May 28
McSweeney’s List about the Birth Rate – brilliantly hilarious
Check it out!
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/americas-op-ed-columnists-brainstorm-future-headlines-about-the-birth-rate
May 28
experiences reported in Complaint, Sara Ahmed
“I took an off-the-record grievance pay-out (not massive) and a much-reduced pension to get out of academia two years ago after an unremitting fifteen years of sexist (and disablist) bullying. … I had to sign a gagging clause when I got my grievance pay-out which—as I’m sure you are aware—is how universities typically try …
May 26
Why aren’t more men insulted by the low standards we set for them?
If he changes a diaper, he’s father of the year.
If he cooks something, anything, he’s a chef.
If he marries, but otherwise continues to live pretty much as he has to that point, he’s suddenly respectable.
If he continues to pay a child’s ball game into adulthood, he gets paid …
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