– “… no doubt it would be declared illegal, like everything else women wanted to do without men.” Our History in New York, Linsey Abrams
Category: feminism
Sep 12 2020
Women’s Work, Kari Aguila
An interesting novel, worth the read!
“Think about how different our world is going to be when this generation of boys grows up, having been allowed to grow into whole, good, decent men. Nobody is going to tell them that they have to go through life being some stupid caricature of masculinity anymore. …
Sep 04 2020
Thank you, Diana E. H. Russell
The Politics of Rape was one of the first (of a great many) works about rape that I read.
See what else she wrote at http://radicalprofeminist.blogspot.com/2020/08/diana-e-h-russell-6-november-1938-28.html
(And thanks, Julian, not only for that list but for your comments about the NYT obituary. Sigh.)
Aug 28 2020
A wry smile for those over fifty or so
“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
Aug 23 2020
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 …
Aug 22 2020
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?’
Aug 20 2020
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 …
Aug 18 2020
“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 14 2020
Sexism and Sports
Watch the video:
Rio 2016 – Sexism Alive and Well with Elizabeth Plank
Books by Peg Tittle
Writing as Jass Richards
Writing as Chris Wind
