https://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2017/07/08/how-being-in-public-feels-men-vs-women/
Category: feminism
Jun 18
Women Now Empowered … GREAT ONION PIECE
http://www.theonion.com/article/women-now-empowered-by-everything-a-woman-does-1398
Jun 06
Things they’ll never tell you about basketball — and sexism
Things they’ll never tell you about basketball – and sexism
May 28
The Hook (Up) – a short script by Peg Tittle
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.
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May 14
Size Matters – a short film collage
Size Matters, Peg TIttle
What if women were the taller sex? I suggest that this would make a difference in the power relationship between men and women. Ask any short man.
This short film is a five‑minute (approximately) collage of scenes from ordinary life. That is, ordinary life reversed ‑ one in which women are …
May 08
To all the men who
To all the men who let their mothers and wives do all the dusting, vacuuming, kitchen wiping, and bathroom scrubbing; to all the men who throw their garbage out of their cars and boats and ATVs and snowmobiles; and to all the men who ‘externalize’ the waste/disposal costs involved in doing (their) business — because …
May 02
A Great Twisty Faster post: “That can’t be sexual assault because it’s normal”
Thought I’d start reposting some of Twisty’s pieces (because, really, they need to be read again and again) (sigh).
http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2014/02/01/that-cant-be-sexual-assault-because-its-normal/
Apr 25
from Joanna Russ’ The Female Man
excerpted from Joanna Russ’ The Female Man:
…I wept aloud, I wrung my hands, crying: I am a poet! I am Shelley! I am a genius! … Lady, your slip’s showing. …
There is the vanity training, the obedience training, the self-effacement training, the deference training, the dependency training, the passivity training, the rivalry …
Apr 14
The Mr. America Pageant – a short feminist script
The Mr. America Pageant, Peg Tittle
(hoping there are some people out there looking for short feminist scripts, for film or stage!)
This is a parody of the Miss America Beauty Pageants. Basically, it’s a freeform collage of scenes (of indeterminate length – five minutes might suffice) similar to those one would see during the …