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Sep 25
So here’s a query letter my friend Chris Wind sent to a publisher recently:
Editor, [XYZ Publishers]:
Feminist theorist Dale Spender wrote, in Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them, “We need to know how patriarchy works. We need to know how women disappear….” Indeed we do. Where …
Aug 15
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/why-feminist-manuscripts-arent-getting-published-today
Jul 09
https://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2017/07/08/how-being-in-public-feels-men-vs-women/
Jun 18
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
May 28
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.
…
May 14
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 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
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/