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Oct 03
The Portrait, by Chris Wind
The Portrait, by Chris Wind (from Deare Sister)
My dearest Nannerl,
Of course you have a right to be upset about the portrait. After all, you performed right alongside your brother; in fact, your father had the bills printed to read “Two World Wonders.” Two, not one. You were with Wolfgang on the 1762 tour …
Oct 03
The APA is so fucked up.
Why Are Some People Transgender? an APA pamphlet [1] asks.
Their answer? “Many experts believe that biological factors such as genetic influences and prenatal hormone levels, early experiences, and experiences later in adolescence or adulthood may all contribute to the development of transgender identities.”
Um, no. People are transgender because they are intelligent and thoughtful enough …
Sep 28
Some excellent insights about gender identity by Sharon Thrace
“[Gender identity] holds that ‘feeling like a woman’ (whatever that means) is the same as being a woman. It’s a callous disregard for our lifetime of oppression, the limits placed upon our participation in society, the ever-present threat of rape we face. It’s an erasure of the quarter of our lives we spend managing bleeding …
Sep 26
More insights about transgenderism, by Ruth Barrett
“Imagine …
“If the vocal trans majority had not chosen to focus their energy on re-defining women in their image, and instead proudly claimed themselves to be gender non-conforming men …
“If they had not insisted on erasing our biology or their own in order to validate their gender identity, and instead acknowledged themselves as …
Sep 20
Algorithms perpetuate sexism …
Check out this interview for a VERY enlightening (and scarey) interview about how algorithms are perpetuating sexism in its many, many, aspects:
Why algorithms aren’t working for women
Sep 19
The Hook-Up (a very short screenplay)
FADE IN:
INT. BAR — NIGHT
Crowded bar scene. MAN and WOMAN do the standard flirting thing, he buys her a drink, they dance, then exit. Their dialogue isn’t important — the bar’s too loud for us to hear much anyway. But it’s clear that both are willing to engage in the sex that follows.
…
Sep 15
Men, Noise, and A Simple Request, Really
I finally figured it out — why the men in my neighborhood react with such escalated lack of consideration whenever I ask them, politely, to limit their noise. I’ve asked snowmobilers who are out racing around the lake and having a good time going VROOM VROOM to please just turn around a few seconds before …
Sep 12
Football takes precedence over climate refugees
People are fleeing for their lives from North and South Carolina, but there may not be enough rooms in hotels because — football. Apparently there’s a (male) game scheduled for play and (mostly male) people have come to watch.
Clear evidence of the male obsession with competition having a stranglehold — wait, the hurricane itself …
Sep 12
“The Adult Market”
What’s adult about forcing someone to do something she doesn’t really want to do?
What’s adult about doing sexual things to children?
What’s adult about humiliating another person?
What’s adult about hurting another person?
We should call it what it is. The psychopathic sociopathic misogynist market. The sick fucks market.
(I’d intended …
Sep 12
Women Writing Science Fiction as Men — why bother?
I’ve just finished reading Mike Resnick’s collections Women Writing Science Fiction as Men and Men Writing Science Fiction as Women. There were two rules for submissions to the anthologies: “First, each story had to be told in the first person of a man [woman]; and second, if changing the narrator from Victor to Victoria [or …
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