Feb 19 2024
“Adrienne Rich (1979) [commented that] objectivity is the name we give to male subjectivity.” Introduction, p5
“Anna Bexall (1980) [ has suggested that] males have a great emotional investment in objectivity.” Introduction, p5
“… the ways we have been ‘protected’ from obscenity, yet made the object …
Jan 21 2024
Well worth the read. Some quotes and notes …
“Because law is based on male experience, it ‘understands’ men. Thus, courts apply male values to conclude that sexual and sexist workplace conduct is merely annoying, that fear of a stalker is unjustified, and that sex against a woman’s will is seduction.” (p3)
Dec 26 2023
Wonderful collection of ’60s and ’70s feminist publications (journals, magazines, zines)!
https://www.jstor.org/site/reveal-digital/independent-voices/feminist/?searchkey=1703510072796&acc=on&pagemark=eyJwYWdlIjoxLCJzdGFydHMiOnsiSlNUT1JCYXNpYyI6MH19
Dec 10 2023
https://web.archive.org/web/20250323103858/https://uploads.ovarit.com/df813ce2-9e2e-53b1-8364-993c184b6087.jpg
Nov 25 2023
great list by Laurence Hughes on McSweeney’s here:
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-collected-apologies-of-lawrence-h-summers-president-of-harvard
Oct 02 2023
Great post and comments here:
https://www.thefemaledatingstrategy.com/forum/cultural-misogyny/the-reason-why-men-tell-women-to-smile
Sep 29 2023
Here:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1119278/
Sep 04 2023
Just a few quotes and notes –
“… the perennial problem of childcare, which lifts women out of their jobs at precisely the moment that their male colleagues are putting in more hours and being promoted” (p6)—yeah, to avoid childcare
“It was also thought that merely having women around might disrupt …
Aug 09 2023
“The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion.” Mother Teresa, acceptance speech for Nobel Peace Prize
WTF?! Or, in Richard Dawkins’ words, “How can a woman with such a cock-eyed judgement be taken seriously on any topic, let alone be thought seriously worthy of a Nobel Prize?” (Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion)
