“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
Category: gender issues
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
Aug 12 2020
Says it all.
image thanks to StormLogic at
Exposing youth to porn is dangerous, but the harms of pornography don’t end there
Aug 10 2020
If women completed work based on their percentage of wages compared to men
This is hilarious. And enraging.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/if-women-completed-work-based-on-their-percentage-of-wages-compared-to-men
Aug 07 2020
Tubal Ligation vs. Vasectomy. Hm.
Read Kacey Merced’s post here:
The Primary Axis of Oppression is Based on Sex
Imagine.
Books by Peg Tittle
Writing as Jass Richards
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