“Women’s magazines are typically associated with check-out lines in grocery stores, where they sport loud headlines that either promise a “beach body” in ten days, or describe exciting new ways to please a man in bed. (Back in the old days, all you had to do was show up.)” Erica Verrillo
Category: feminism
Aug 23
Male privilege
Excerpts from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/06/male-privilege-female-top-surgery-workplace
“After returning to teaching, I started to receive very little, if any, pushback when I said no. This was especially the case with students. Within academia, it is not an uncommon belief that students make more requests (for grade changes, deadline extensions, and so on) of female-presenting professors. In my case, requests …
Aug 22
What harm does it do?
So I’ve received a 1/5 review of Gender Fraud: a fiction at Goodreads by someone claiming, basically, TERF!!! Expected. Sigh.
But the reviewer did ask a question that I should have been able to answer, which was ‘What harm does it do if a transwoman wants to call herself a woman?’
Well, here’s the …
Aug 20
from Jack Holland’s A Brief History of Misogyny
(All quotes are from Jack Holland’s A Brief History of Misogyny)
“It was a battle for the ultimate mechanism of control within a woman’s body—her reproductive cycle. For a woman, this right is the most crucial of all, and the key to achieving real autonomy. Misogyn denies her autonomy; her subordination depends on the lack …
Aug 18
“25 Ways I Was Granted White Male Privilege After I Transitioned…”
25 Ways I Was Granted White Male Privilege After I Transitioned – and Why ALL Men Must Speak Up Against Sexism A must-read.
We really need BOOKS about these experiences. Norah Vincent’s Self-Made Man and Kristen Schilt’s Just One of the Guys … MORE please!!
Aug 12
Says it all.
Aug 10
If women completed work based on their percentage of wages compared to men
This is hilarious. And enraging.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/if-women-completed-work-based-on-their-percentage-of-wages-compared-to-men
Aug 07
Tubal Ligation vs. Vasectomy. Hm.
Read Kacey Merced’s post here:
The Primary Axis of Oppression is Based on Sex
Imagine.