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 …
Category: sexism
Dec 05 2023
If men aren’t doing it, it’s probably not ’empowering’ or powerful.
Read that somewhere. Great observation.
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 …
Oct 24 2023
What if all news were written this way?
From the RadFem News Service the news, without the male-supremacist spin (LOVE that!) “Today, one Dr. Frank Ochberg, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Michigan State University and former Associate Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, reports for CNN that boys and men are responsible for almost all school shootings, consistently, around the world. …” Read …
Sep 10 2023
The Male Privilege Checklist
Check it out. https://francoistremblay.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/what-is-the-mens-rights-movement/ Thanks to Francois Tremblay.
Aug 30 2023
Why don’t men sell sex?
Check this out: https://uploads.ovarit.com/390523a9-9760-5cfe-a3ce-ef6d5486cffe.jpg
Aug 27 2023
from Dale Spender’s Nattering on the Net — quotes and notes
According to 19th C feminist scholar Matilda Joslyn Gage, 9 million women were executed or burned for having knowledge—i.e., for being witches (p163) Wow. Did not know it was that many. “Had women ever contributed to the design of roads and vehicles, there is no doubt that the entire system would look very different. …
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
Jul 18 2023
Proof of Sexism
Read this: Men have no idea how hard daily life is for women. Women have no idea how hard daily life is for them either because they don’t know how easy it is for men. Everyone should reverse for a week. At least online. If you’re male, use a female name; and if you’re female, …
Jun 25 2023
Brilliant Sarkeesian
“In the game of patriarchy, women are not the opposing team. They’re the ball.” Anita Sarkeesian
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