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some excellent bits from Roper’s Sex Dolls, Robots, and Woman Hating

“… when sex doll and robot advocates promote the use of these products as being beneficial for ‘people’, they mean male people. When they claim sex robots could help alleviate loneliness, they mean men’s loneliness, not women’s. When they argue sex robots could be used by the elderly, they mean elderly men. When they champion …

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Why aren’t more men insulted by the low standards we set for them?

If he changes a diaper, he’s father of the year. If he cooks something, anything, he’s a chef. If he marries, but otherwise continues to live pretty much as he has to that point, he’s suddenly respectable. If he continues to pay a child’s ball game into adulthood, he gets paid a six figure salary. …

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Here’s a letter (from a ‘transwoman’ I haven’t seen yet … and I’m waiting … and waiting …

I don’t know what I was thinking.  No, that’s not true.  I do know what I was thinking.  I was thinking I could be a gentler person, free of all that macho shit.  I thought I could indulge my feminine side without shame (and yes, perhaps with praise).  I thought I could finally be the …

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McSweeney’s List about the Birth Rate – brilliantly hilarious

Check it out! https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/americas-op-ed-columnists-brainstorm-future-headlines-about-the-birth-rate

experiences reported in Complaint, Sara Ahmed

“I took an off-the-record grievance pay-out (not massive) and a much-reduced pension to get out of academia two years ago after an unremitting fifteen years of sexist (and disablist) bullying.   … I had to sign a gagging clause when I got my grievance pay-out which—as I’m sure you are aware—is how universities typically try to  …

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Home for Old Hags

Struck by arthritis and its attendant mobility issues, the most worrisome being an increased risk of falling while walking in the forest or on her way down to the water, it hit her: her life would be shorter than most because she’d rather kill herself than live in a so-called retirement village. It was bad …

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from No Logo, Naomi Klein

“… many of today’s best-known manufacturers no longer produce products and advertise them, but rather buy products and ‘brand’ them …” p5 “[T]his corporate obsession with brand identity is waging a war on public and individual space; on public institutions such as schools, on youthful identities, on the concept of nationality, and on the possibilities …

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Janelle Shane’s You Look Like a Thing and I Love You

a few bits from Janelle Shane’s You Look Like a Thing and I Love You “Researchers have discovered that something as seemingly insignificant a a small sticker can make an image recognition AI think a gun is a toaster …” p4 And vice versa, I presume.  Well, that’s not alarming at all. “A team at …

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“What Does it Mean to Work Under Algorithmic Eyes?”

What Does it Mean to Work Under Algorithmic Eyes? ” “We should not take computer scientists at their word that the paradigms for human emotions they have developed… can produce ground truth about human emotions.” Part of the reason is that machines are biased. Women, older employees, neurodiverse workers, and people of color are far …

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Suppose that worldwide …

Suppose that worldwide, women flood the military, soon comprising, say, 40% of the ranks (which will be perceived by men as a majority) (go figure). Suppose then, as happened when women flooded the ranks of bank tellers, secretaries, and teachers, being a soldier became devalued, losing its prestige, its glory, its funding, its media coverage. …

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