It really hit home when my father gave me twenty bucks for a pizza, his treat. As if I were a teenager. Instead of a 50-year-old woman with a mortgage to pay, property taxes, and monthly bills for oil, electricity, phone, internet, tv, house insurance, car insurance… Amazing. He was sitting in my living room …
Category: gender issues
Nov 15
That said, I also hate women.
I hate the way they defer to men.
I hate the way they expect a man to pay their way through life.
I hate that they accept the privileged status that accompanies being married to a man.
I hate that they sexualize themselves with make-up and clothing choices as a matter of routine.
I hate …
Nov 14
Do I hate men?
Yes, generally speaking, I do.
I hate the way they take up more physical space than necessary, sprawling over the confines of their chairs, elbowing the people beside them.
I hate the way they take up more conversational space, speaking slowly, repeating themselves, and making irrelevant comments that derail the discussion.
I hate the way …
Nov 07
I’m too drunk. No I’m not.
According to the Canadian Criminal Code, (self-induced) intoxication is no defence against charges of assault (33.1): if you’re drunk, you’re still able to form the general intent to commit said assault.
And yet, with regard to the sub-category of sexual assault, belief that someone is consenting is cancelled if that someone is intoxicated (273.1(2)): if …
Oct 25
Men, Women, and Fairness
It’s not that men aren’t fair. It’s that they don’t even think about fairness. When Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever (Women Don’t Ask) asked people whether they deserved what they wanted, women typically responded with something like “…my training—what is really engrained in me—is that you’re never quite deserving of what you might want” (58).
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Oct 17
Combining Family and Career
People say that women can’t have, can’t combine, a family and a career, that it’s having family responsibilities that keeps them from advancement – the inability to work late or on weekends, the tendency to need time off to tend to kids…
I’m not so sure. I’ve never had such competing obligations, and I don’t …
Oct 09
In a late-breaking story, Caitlyn Jenner now says she’s black.
In a late-breaking story, Caitlyn Jenner now says she’s black.
“Deep down inside, I’ve always felt like a black,” she confessed, smiling at the cameras despite recent surgery that has left her lips overly puffy. Her nose will be widened in a subsequent surgery, and she has already begun skin dye treatments. “I can’t wait …
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 …
Books by Peg Tittle
Writing as Jass Richards
Writing as Chris Wind
