HIGHLY RECOMMENDED It took me until p79 to see where this was going—the title should’ve clued me in sooner, but—without spoilers, let me just say that compared to her husband, the husbands’ behavior at the dinner party (p91) is so … stark. And therefore so telling. The boxed online chats are so insightful. Perfectly obvious, …
Category: sexism
Sep 29 2026
“Home for Unwed Fathers” (fiction from Fighting Words)
About a month after, they came to get him. “Hello, is there a Rob Ellis here?” He heard the polite voice at the door. “Yeah,” his mother replied. “Rob!” she called up the stairs. Rob came down the stairs and warily approached the two people standing at the door. “Rob Ellis?” He nodded. “Would you …
Sep 23 2026
They Never Learn, Layne Fargo – quotes and comments
Great read! Some quotes and comments … “He tosses the cap onto the floor.” p2 As soon as he takes a bottle from the garage fridge and tosses the cap onto the floor, I hated him. Is he going to pick up the cap later? Clean up after himself? Don’t think so. But he thinks …
Sep 08 2026
Excellent piece on calling women crazy
https://zawn.substack.com/p/why-is-patriarchy-so-obsessed-with “We tell women deprived of sleep and support in the postpartum period that their exhaustion must be due to their crazy woman hormones. When girls enter puberty—and the world of dehumanization and male abuse it brings—we pretend their distress is due to vague “puberty hormones.” And when, after a lifetime of exploitation, women are …
Sep 06 2026
A woman alone
“When a woman is all alone, she stands out as a woman, but she becomes invisible as a person.” Malcolm Gladwell (in Revenge of the Tipping Point, p123) paraphrasing Rosabeth Moss Kanter, who is speaking about women in groups, such as at work or in sport. Bbut I’m thinking it describes women in life, in …
Aug 29 2026
Man or Bear … and still clueless
So I recently posted this on a local Facebook page: “I’m looking for a woman with carpentry skills and tools to build a sound-absorbing enclosure for a generator. Please leave a message.”* Three men and three women replied. Two of the men made light of my preference for a woman (“I could be a woman …
Jul 18 2026
“We don’t occupy their imaginations …”
“We don’t occupy their imaginations the way they occupy ours.” Black scientist about his white colleagues (from the movie “Black Cake”) Yeah. Now imagine that ten-fold for a female scientist.
Jul 14 2026
from The First Political Order: How sex shapes governance and national security worldwide, Valerie M. Hudson et al.
Part I is a must-read. Excerpts follow. “Men seeking their own security attempt to construct strong male-bonded alliances, typically based on patrilineal (agnatic) relationships … [Women] biologically reproduce the group, providing brothers and sons for this male alliance. The fraternity’s dependence on women … leads to the necessity for men to control them.” p2 [This …
May 28 2026
McSweeney’s List about the Birth Rate – brilliantly hilarious
Check it out! https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/americas-op-ed-columnists-brainstorm-future-headlines-about-the-birth-rate
May 18 2026
experiences reported in Complaint, Sara Ahmed
“I took an off-the-record grievance pay-out (not massive) and a much-reduced pension to get out of academia two years ago after an unremitting fifteen years of sexist (and disablist) bullying. … I had to sign a gagging clause when I got my grievance pay-out which—as I’m sure you are aware—is how universities typically try to …
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