I’ve just finished reading Mike Resnick’s collections Women Writing Science Fiction as Men and Men Writing Science Fiction as Women. There were two rules for submissions to the anthologies: “First, each story had to be told in the first person of a man [woman]; and second, if changing the narrator from Victor to Victoria [or …
Category: sexism
Aug 12 2018
Gwynne Dyer (along with half the species) misses an obvious point
I highly recommend Gwynne Dyer’s Climate Wars, but I must say he misses an obvious point, especially evident when he says “There are almost seven billion of us, and it is almost impossible to imagine a way that we can stop the growth before there are eight and a half billion” (p.268) — because it’s …
May 30 2018
“Office Help”
You can tell, when a job ad is titled that way, that they expect, or want, a woman. Women help. They don’t actually do a job, they just help someone else do a job. So the someone else gets the credit. And the big bucks and the benefits. After all, you’re just helping out, you’re …
Apr 11 2018
Developing Authority and Being a Parent
I’m wondering whether it’s just me or…whether most women who never become mothers simply never develop an authoritative manner. Men have it from the get go: they are automatically thought, by themselves as well as by others, to be authorities, and early on, they develop both the habit of telling others what to do and …
Dec 17 2017
Artificial Intelligence Indeed (Ex Machina)
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 …
Jun 18 2017
Women Now Empowered … GREAT ONION PIECE
http://www.theonion.com/article/women-now-empowered-by-everything-a-woman-does-1398
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 …
Aug 28 2016
Boy Books
Boy books. You’re thinking The Boys’ Book of Trains and The Hardy Boys, right? I’m thinking most of the books I took in high school English. Consider Knowles’ A Separate Peace. Separate indeed. It’s set at a boys’ boarding school. The boys are obsessed with jumping out of a tree. This involves considerable risk of …
Oct 26 2015
The Default Male
“Why the Default Male is Not Just Annoying, But Also Harmful” check it out at http://cratesandribbons.com/2013/01/27/why-the-default-male-is-not-just-annoying-but-also-harmful/#comment-124981
Oct 15 2015
Why Women are Leaving Law Firms
“Here’s my theory: women aren’t leaving law firms at an abnormal rate. They’re leaving law firms at a perfectly rational and normal rate. It’s men who are staying in law firms at an abnormal rate. Women aren’t the faulty outliers; men are. “When you look at the situation that way, a lot of things start …
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