“If 1% of the population controls most of its disposable wealth, what we call ‘the market’ reflects what THEY think is useful or important, not anybody else.” “Bullshit Jobs,” David Graeber (p.xx)
Oct 05 2023
She wanted it.
She was dressed like a slut = She wanted it
She was dressed all prim and proper = She wanted it
She was aggressive = She wanted it
She was submissive = She wanted it
She ran = She wanted it
She didn’t run = She wanted it
She was afraid = She wanted it
She wasn’t afraid = She wanted it
She screamed = She wanted it
She didn’t scream = She wanted it
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Sep 30 2023
A woman was raped. A man raped a woman.
A woman was raped. A man raped a woman.
He got her pregnant. She made him a father.
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Sep 25 2023
I’m ashamed to be male.
I am ashamed to be male.
We turn everything into a weapon.
We are obsessed with competing, with being better than not our previous
selves, but others.
We enjoy hurting. We tear the
legs off flies, we put firecrackers into dogs’ mouths, we attach electrodes to
people’s genitalia.
We are unable to experience pleasure without conquest.
We fell entitled, to everything.
We do not think of the consequences of our actions.
We expect others to clean up after us, to fix the things we break, to
sweep up our messes, the wipe away our smudges, to pick up the things we just
toss wherever we like …
Half the human species is afraid of me.
They don’t walk at night because of me.
They don’t go out alone because of me.
They can never enjoy the sunset, the night, the stars in solitude
because of me.
They have to watch their drinks at bars because of me.
They are ever vigilant in public — on sidewalks, in subway stations — because
of me.
Children are wary of every stranger’s help, every stranger’s generosity, every stranger’s kindness because of me.
(Men, additions?)
Sep 19 2023
Why is it they can’t even SAY ‘rape’?
Why is it they can’t even SAY ‘rape’? Ya gotta wonder.
And here’s an interesting answer: https://radfemworldnews.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/cnn-terminally-allergic-to-the-rape-word-even-when-reporting-on-rape-rape-slavery-rape-trafficking-and-child-rape/
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.
Sep 04 2023
Inferior, Angela Saini
Just a few quotes and notes –
“… the perennial problem of childcare, which lifts women out of their jobs at precisely the moment that their male colleagues are putting in more hours and being promoted” (p6)—yeah, to avoid childcare
“It was also thought that merely having women around might disrupt the serious intellectual work of men.” (p10 —probably true, but that’s their fault (can’t handle distractions) (and, before that, that they find women they find sexually attractive to BE a distraction) (or women they don’t find sexually attractive to be a distraction, b/c wtf are they doing here?!) and, so, their responsibility
and if you don’t know about Lise Meitner and Rosalind Franklin and Jocelyn Bell Burnell (how men kept the Nobel Prize from them)
re how male peacocks evolved bright, fancy plumage to attract hens, and lions evolved glorious manes … “For humans, the logic goes, this vigorous competition for women means that men have had to be warriors and thinkers” (p19)—why not beauty queens? (THAT would be a logical conclusion)
re selective abortion and infanticide in India, “Women are wanted as wives and girlfriends, but not as daughters” (p41)—where do they think the wives and girlfriends come from?
the whole ‘men are bigger’ thing (p42)—yes, they are on average six inches taller, but our chest measurements are typically bigger, our hip measurements are typically bigger, and our thigh measurements are typically bigger (sometimes even our waist and calf measurements)
“In pharmacology, the study of medical drugs, the articles reporting only on males outnumbered those reporting only on females by five to one.” (p57)—good to keep in mind
re one of the reasons not to include women is that “A woman’s fluctuating hormone levels might … affect how she responds to a drug.” (p58)—wouldn’t that be a reason to include them? don’t we need to KNOW how our hormone levels affect our response to drugs???
re babies who stare at faces longer (female babies, it’s said) were deemed to be more socially inclined (p70)—maybe it wasn’t that they LIKED faces more (than mechanical stuff), maybe they were CONFUSED by them and so stared at them longer, trying to understand them
re males better for analyzing and building systems (p69) than females b/c “males tend to think narrowly while females think broadly” (p72)—wouldn’t that make females BETTER for designing systems? (b/c they can see the big picture?)
as for chap7, “Why Do Men Dominate?” — because they’re naturally bullies (i.e., ethically-challenged)
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