“Words and images are how people are placed in hierarchies, how social stratification is made to seem inevitable and right, how feelings of inferiority and superiority are engendered, and how indifference to violence against those on the bottom is rationalized and normalized.” Only Words, p.31
Category: feminism
Jul 03
The ReGender App – review copies available!
What if there was an app that could cloak you in a cross-gendered hologram? And it had a voice modulation module? Women could present as men and get better-paying jobs. Men could present as women and get groped in the subway. Cool.
Review copies available! Contact jassrichards@gmail.com and/or visit her website at www.jassrichards.com. (Or do …
Jun 29
Proof of Sexism
Read this:
Folks, it F*cking Sucked – Sexism in Society
Men have no idea how hard daily life is for women. Women have no idea how hard daily life is for them either because they don’t know how easy it is for men. Everyone should reverse for a week. At least online. If you’re male, …
Jun 20
Gender Fraud: a fiction – new novel – review copies available!
I hope that ‘gender recognition’ legislation, which reveals a failure to differentiate between sex and gender and, with respect to sex, a denial of the definitive role of chromosomes, will soon be repealed.
I fear that this horror story will take its place.
Review copies (free) are available (obligating you merely to CONSIDER writing …
Jun 11
Excellent piece re PIV
Well worth the read.
https://francoistremblay.wordpress.com/2014/11/21/why-is-there-no-counter-argument-from-the-pro-piv-side/
Jun 11
Brilliant Sarkeesian
“In the game of patriarchy, women are not the opposing team. They’re the ball.” Anita Sarkeesian
Jun 03
This is what happens – new feminist novel by chris wind – review copies available
Here’s the blurb:
How is it that the girl who got the top marks in high school ends up, at fifty, scrubbing floors and cleaning toilets for minimum wage, living in a room above Vera’s Hairstyling, in a god-forsaken town called Powassan?
Feminist theorist Dale Spender wrote, in Women of Ideas and …
May 25
Why are cosmetics routinely sold in pharmacies?
That’s it. That’s my post. Any answers out there?