Category: sexism

The Male Privilege Checklist

Check it out. https://francoistremblay.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/what-is-the-mens-rights-movement/ Thanks to Francois Tremblay.

Why don’t men sell sex?

Check this out: https://uploads.ovarit.com/390523a9-9760-5cfe-a3ce-ef6d5486cffe.jpg

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.  …

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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

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, …

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Brilliant Sarkeesian

“In the game of patriarchy, women are not the opposing team. They’re the ball.” Anita Sarkeesian

If women completed work based on their percentage of wages compared to men

This is hilarious. And enraging. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/if-women-completed-work-based-on-their-percentage-of-wages-compared-to-men

Tubal Ligation vs. Vasectomy. Hm.

Read Kacey Merced’s post here: Imagine.

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 …

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“All Men Need their Whores” Davina Squirrel

Great post: