Suppose two married women get jobs outside the home at the same time, forcing their husbands to hire someone to do the cooking, cleaning, and childcare. Ten hours/day, 5 days/week, at $20/hr. It’s a lot to afford, but the men have so-called ‘breadwinner’ salaries. Suppose it turns out that Emma is hired by Alyssa’s husband …
Category: justice
Mar 23 2026
Naomi Alderman’s The Power meets Monty Python’s “Hell’s Grannies”
A man struts and huffs and puffs and expands like a blowfish, but all the old women close their eyes. Deny him the female gaze. Refuse to be a witness to his Almighty Greatness, let alone a cheerleader. And not only does he deflate, he disappears in a puff of, well, nothingness. Existential nothingness. Beauvoir …
Jan 23 2025
from Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Transformative Opinions and Dissents
“Absent firm constitutional foundation for equal treatment of men and women by the law, women seeking to be judged on their individual merits will continue to encounter law-sanctioned obstacles.” p18 “At the very least the Court should reverse the presumption of rationality when sex -based discrimination is implicated and, rather than requiring the party attacking …
Sep 07 2024
Dynamic Pricing – didn’t know there was such a thing – oughtta be illegal!
‘Corporate Greed Is Out of Control’: Warren Slams Kroger’s AI Pricing Scheme
Sep 07 2024
Transaction Taxes!
Of course there should be transaction taxes. I did not know there aren’t. WTF?! The Irrationality of Markets
Oct 30 2023
Among the things that don’t count …
[Bernadette Powell, a black woman from Ithaca, New York, is now serving a 15-year-to-life sentence … because in 1978 she shot and killed her ex-husband.] [T]he Tompkins county prosecutor … argued … that [she] had no reason to fear bodily harm from her ex-husband because although the man admittedly had committed many violent acts against …
Jul 25 2023
Catharine MacKinnon on words and images …
“Words and images are how people are placed in hierarchies, how social stratification is made to seem inevitable and right, how feelings of inferiority and superiority are engendered, and how indifference to violence against those on the bottom is rationalized and normalized.” Only Words, p.31
Oct 16 2022
Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future. A MUST READ.
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson should be required reading for everyone. In particular, for those with economic and political power (send a copy to the people of your choice!). “Easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism …” p25 And that’s the problem. “Looking into plans …
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