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Men want kids; women don’t anymore.

Interesting thread over at clovenhooves:

https://clovenhooves.org/showthread.php?tid=1616&pid=5639#pid5639

“The Discrimination against Women Directors”

The Discrimination Against Women Directors at the Oscars since 1927 to the Present

Well worth the read. And it’s great to be able to search imdb.com (film database) by director, for your next watch!

There Is No Record Of Andrea Dworkin Asserting That “All Sex Is Rape” – guest post by Jocelyn Crawley

           

Despite popular opinion to the contrary, Andrea Dworkin never asserted that “All heterosexual sex is rape.” She did, however, draw attention to the parallels that exist between heterosexual sex and rape. Specifically, in her important text Intercourse, Dworkin asserted that “Violation is a synonym for intercourse.” To understand the significance of the …

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“Foul Play” – men in women’s sports

Foul Play: The Colonization of Women’s Sports

Written six years ago, but still great.

Take a look, especially, at the graphic distinguishing between equality and equit.

from The Yearbook, Holly Bourne

“The group chat should essentially just have been titled Adam breathed—applaud.” p29

Was anyone else out there the invisible little sister?

“The end of childhood — realizing adults don’t know what the hell they’re doing.”  p55

“My future wasn’t something the family ever really discussed.  I guess I was …

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Women’s Career Dies in Childbirth

Woman’s Career Dies In Childbirth

from Pain and Prejudice: What Science Can Learn about Work from the People Who Do It, Karen Messing

First, note that the title really should be “…from the Women Who Do It”

Chap 2 “The Invisible World of Cleaning” – very enlightening for those who’ve never had a cleaning job, including about the idiocy of those in management positions

“… the village where the women’s backs were all bent because …

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How would that matter indeed.

“What do you think she would be like in bed?”“I’ve nevr met her.”“How would that matter?”

So telling.

Hacks – highly recommended

But if you’re not into it, at least watch episode 8 of season 1.

(on Crave TV)

from Fraternity Gang Rape, Peggy Reeves Sanday

“Rape [is] rare in 47 percent of the societies studied and common in 18 percent of them. … In the more rape-prone societies there [is] greater sexual segregation, male social dominance, interpersonal violence, and the subordination of women” p4

“… in the United States, which is in all likelihood one of …

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