In my novel Gender Fraud: a fiction, several people discuss the negative effect of gender recognition legislation on women’s sports (in a nutshell, it allows men to compete in women’s events and often they win … sponsorships, scholarships …) and one person suggests that sports should be categorized not by sex but, instead, by directly …
Category: feminism
Feb 05
Reducing sexism: non-binary sex and sex-neutral language
That sex is binary makes sexism so easy. What if sex existed on a spectrum?
But, you may reply, it doesn’t. Contrary to so many transactivists, sex is a matter of biology, and you are either male or female; barring the exceptional, one has either XY chromosomes or XX chromosomes.
True, but saying that sex …
Feb 01
“My Love” by Chris Wind
commentary on love, from Chris Wind’s Album “The Art of Juxtaposition” www.chriswind.com
Jan 28
December, Like It’s 1989
December, Like It’s 1989
Tell it. Geneviève Bergeron, civil engineering Hélène Colgan, mechanical engineering Nathalie Croteau, mechanical engineering Barbara Daigneault, mechanical engineering Anne-Marie Edward, chemical engineering Maud Haviernick, materials engineering Maryse Laganière, finance department Maryse Leclair, materials engineering Anne-Marie Lemay, mechanical engineering Sonia Pelletier, mechanical engineering Michèle Richard, materials engineering Annie St-Arneault, mechanical engineering Annie Turcotte, materials engineering Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz, nursing.
“Hey, come on. Not all men are like that, …
Jan 18
So much time advocating heterosexual marriage
There’s a reason we devote so much time to getting little girls invested in the idea of heterosexual marriage.
Imagine if we told them that there is a single life choice that will:
-shorten their life expectancy
-lower their earning power
-immediately increase their household labor
-erode their mental health and make them less happy
…
Jan 16
Archive of feminist activism 70s-90s
For those of you who weren’t born yet …
Rise Up: a digital archive of feminist activism
You don’t need to reinvent the wheel.
Jan 10
from Rebecca Solnit’s Recollections
From Rebecca Solnit’s Recollections of my Non Existence
“To be a young woman is to face your annihilation in innumerable ways ….” (p4)
“I was often unaware of what and why I was resisting ….” (p4)
Yes. Let’s not understate the value of having words for what we experience. The words ‘sexism’ and ‘misogyny’ didn’t …
Jan 05
“Men need Sex” — a story about a story
So I wrote a story, “Men Need Sex.” I started with the mistaken, but wide-spread, belief that men need sex (PIV). Mistaken because, unlike food, water, and oxygen, without sex, you don’t die. Then, ‘inspired’ by Roger Elliott, I thought, ‘What if?’ What if men really did die if they didn’t get sex. I postulated …
Books by Peg Tittle
Writing as Jass Richards
Writing as Chris Wind
