“‘But we need male allies’ you cry in defence. Nope! We don’t. … ‘Male allies’ have had six thousand years or longer to get their shit together. They are from the ruling class after all, so have more impact than females. …” from https://davinasquirrel.wordpress.com/2016/12/07/inclusive-is-bullshit/
Category: feminism
May 30 2023
Brilliant bit from Rageagainstthemanchine
“Not to bring up Robert Jensen every three sentences, but he’s made a point that I find extremely salient when it comes to how porn affects women’s lives. If I have to go to court tomorrow, or I have to go discuss my career with my boss, or I have to work on a project …
May 10 2023
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 the lack …
Apr 25 2023
Like night and day indeed.
2 women entrepreneurs who invented a fake male cofounder say acting through him was ‘like night and day’ “It was like night and day,” Dwyer told Titlow of working through Mann. “It would take me days to get a response, but Keith could not only get a response and a status update, but also be …
Apr 15 2023
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 …
Apr 11 2023
things we — women — wouldn’t have without feminism
https://medium.com/the-matriarchy/things-you-wouldnt-have-without-feminism-e743e694801e Sad to say, I’ll bet some will surprise you.
Mar 15 2023
John Varley’s Dark Lightning
It’s just space opera, but I love that the girls kick ass and the prettyboy hunk is pretty much useless.
Mar 02 2023
aurora linnea on Ekman’s “On the Meaning of Sex”
An excellent review of an excellent book here. And because a link isn’t anywhere near sufficient … “On the Meaning of Sex reads like a forensic dissection, its forty concise chapters taking apart the corpus of transgender ideology piece by piece. No fallacy-wrapped riddle of a paradox is spared the nick of Ekman’s scalpel as …