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 …
Category: gender issues
May 02
A Great Twisty Faster post: “That can’t be sexual assault because it’s normal”
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/
Apr 07
“What is Wrong with this Picture?” a short feminist film script by Peg Tittle
What is Wrong with this Picture?
This film consists of a collage of scenes, five to ten minutes in length), in which women are always the superordinates and men are always the subordinates. Dialogue isn’t that important, so once the scenes are decided upon and roughed out, the cast can probably improv rather than follow …
Mar 07
Ten years later, she meets Dick, and he’s so –
You’re so – different. Not such an –
Yeah. It’s like before I was so – driven. It’s like I was in a car, no, I was the car. And it was always in high gear, in screaming high gear. I had to get somewhere, I always had to get somewhere. I couldn’t …
Feb 22
Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, Sheri Tepper
Although I read this fantastic novel years ago, I was recently reminded of it by Judith A. Little’s Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: utopias and dystopias.
At the end of the novel, five options for human reproduction are presented:
Feb 05
Rain without Thunder – HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Rain without Thunder (movie) HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
I just watched this! And will watch it again, stopping to think at so many points!
Here’s the brief description: It’s the year 2042 and the threat is real…women are going to prison for terminating their pregnancies. An investigating reporter is determined to reveal the truth behind the convictions.
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Dec 14
Christmas Elves
Generally speaking, I don’t do Christmas. At all. But when I see an ad in the classifieds for “Three female elves to work in a mall during the Christmas season”, well, I have to say something.
And the first thing I have to say is, I don’t think they’re going to find any – male …
Sep 10
Making misogyny a hate crime — It’s about time!
Take a look: “Police in England and Wales consider making misogyny a hate crime”
It’s about time! Let’s see this WORLD-WIDE!!!
Aug 18
What if it were convention …
What if it were convention for men at the workplace to wear their shirts with the sleeves rolled up and the top few buttons undone, and to wear make-up that accentuated their jaw and cheek lines?
Would they start obsessing about the muscularity of their forearms? Would they get chest hair implants? Would they consider …
Jul 14
“The Adult Market”
What’s adult about humiliating another person?
What’s adult about hurting another person?
What’s adult about forcing someone to do something she doesn’t really want to do?
What’s adult about doing sexual things to children?
We should call it what it is. The psychopathic sociopathic misogynist market. The sick fucks market.
(I’d intended to be more …
Books by Peg Tittle
Writing as Jass Richards
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