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 …
Category: gender issues
Mar 07 2017
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 sit …
Feb 22 2017
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: Only partners for life will be able to reproduce, and only once every decade. Parthenogenesis, with …
Jan 11 2017
Women Discover Life on Mars
Should we fund a mission to Mars? Sure. Give us a bit of time and we can make that planet uninhabitable too. That said, I thoroughly enjoyed watching MARS. Why? Because the three astronauts who walk out onto the planet’s surface at the end to discover life on Mars are all women. Not a token …
Dec 27 2016
Telling our Members of Parliament How to Dress
So I recently found this on the Parliament of Canada website: While there is no Standing Order setting down a dress code for Members participating in debate, [84] Speakers have ruled that to be recognized to speak in debate, on points of order or during Question Period, tradition and practice require all Members, male or female, …
Dec 14 2016
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 2016
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!!!
Sep 08 2016
To My Philosophy Professors – by chris wind
Another poem from chris wind – thought this one especially apt since it’s September and students are back at university…it’s from her book dreaming of kaleidoscopes To My Philosophy Professors Why didn’t you tell me? When I was all set to achieve Eudamonia through the exercise of Right Reason, When I was eager …
Aug 27 2016
AI Indeed
So I first heard of the movie Ex Machina when I read a review (by Chris DiCarlo) in Humanist Perspectives—and was so disgusted that I wrote a letter to the editor. Why? Because the reviewer had revealed his own misogyny by failing to address the elephant in the room: the fact that the body the …
Aug 18 2016
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 …
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