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Mar 01 2024
from “Dishonorable Behavior” Elizabeth D. Samet Dishonorable Behavior Some good bits: “Among the linguistic tics cadets most quickly acquire is the use of the noun female in lieu of woman. They see it in formal briefings and official documents, and they hear it in everyday conversation. Woman is by far the more usual choice in …
Mar 01 2024
“Polluters do not deserve to live. That’s the first thing children are taught: Do not foul the life system.” from “Touchdown” by Nancy Kress
Feb 25 2024
So I watched “The Assault” (on peacock) last night … about a cheerleader who gets raped by the team … sigh … but there was something that really made me stop and think. (Always a good thing.) They claimed she consented, she was drunk/unconscious so even if she had consented, it would be considered invalid …
Feb 19 2024
“Adrienne Rich (1979) [commented that] objectivity is the name we give to male subjectivity.” Introduction, p5 “Anna Bexall (1980) [ has suggested that] males have a great emotional investment in objectivity.” Introduction, p5 “… the ways we have been ‘protected’ from obscenity, yet made the object of much of it.” from “A Thief …
Feb 08 2024
(from Naomi Mitchison’s Memoirs of a Spacewoman) She writes, regarding a creature with a radial form, “something like a five-armed starfish” … “But the radial pattern which had developed out of the budding spiral had remained throughout evolution and completely dominated all mental and psychic processes” (p11) Is that why we’re so obsessed with binary? …
Feb 04 2024
Great video. Watch to the end, as Irene Brit expresses the situation so … succinctly.
Jan 24 2024
A hefty book of over 500 pages of entries, but worth, at the very least, a skim through for words of interest to you. Here are a few that I love: Academia: a hierarchy whose “purpose is the production of prestige” (Jo Freeman, 1979) Acknowledgements: … where authors acknowledged the ideas and intellectual contributions …
Jan 21 2024
Well worth the read. Some quotes and notes … “Because law is based on male experience, it ‘understands’ men. Thus, courts apply male values to conclude that sexual and sexist workplace conduct is merely annoying, that fear of a stalker is unjustified, and that sex against a woman’s will is seduction.” (p3) “Men’s physiology defines …
Jan 01 2024
https://babylonbee.com/news/i-dont-want-my-skull-fractured-by-a-man-says-bigoted-female-athlete