The Portrait, by Chris Wind (from Deare Sister) My dearest Nannerl, Of course you have a right to be upset about the portrait. After all, you performed right alongside your brother; in fact, your father had the bills printed to read “Two World Wonders.” Two, not one. You were with Wolfgang on the 1762 tour …
Tag: sexism
Mar 07 2018
for my brother, a poem by Chris Wind
(for my brother) I with a grunt of irritation you condescend to be interrupted and move your chair back a bit so i can crawl under your desk (the one dad built special for you now that you’re at university) so i can dust the baseboards as is my job (i’ve already done the rest …
Jan 24 2018
Games for Girls (Seriously? In 2012?)
Okay, so I went to bored.com, clicked on Games, then clicked on Girls. Mostly because I was irritated that there even was a separate section for Girls (and surprised there wasn’t a separate section for Blacks)—alongside Popular, Animations, Stickman, Shooting, Escape, Puzzle, Action, Skill, Walkthru’s, Mobile, and More. Why do girls need a separate section? …
Jan 10 2018
Grey’s Anatomy, Flashpoint, and Who knows how many others
[a little old…guess who finally got to be Chief of Surgery!] Why didn’t Bailey get the Chief of Surgery position? For the same reason Ed jokingly says to Greg, when he questions his rank, “Should I get you a dress?”—and they both laugh. Because in 2012 being a woman is (still) (STILL!) (STILL!) (STILL!) …
Jan 01 2018
Toller Cranston on Janet Lynn
[obviously written a while ago, but this shit keeps happening…] Toller Cranston, as Janet Lynn takes the ice: “You wouldn’t know by looking at her that she’s a housewife and mother of three.” What? Would he have said of Kurt Browning, “You wouldn’t know by looking at him that he does stuff around the …
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 …
Jul 25 2016
Men, Women, and Fairness
Men, Women, and Fairness It’s not that men aren’t fair. It’s that they don’t even think about fairness. When Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever (Women Don’t Ask) asked people whether they deserved what they wanted, women typically responded with something like “…my training—what is really engrained in me—is that you’re never quite deserving of what …
May 12 2016
You should do something about that.
Imagine a collage of male body parts (of living men, that is — just now their whole selves), each with one of the following captions: Your legs are too hairy. You should do something about that. Your hair’s too thin. You should do something about that. Your butt droops. You should do something about that. …
Jun 04 2012
Combining Family and Career
People say that women can’t have, can’t combine, a family and a career, that it’s having family responsibilities that keeps them from advancement – the inability to work late or on weekends, the tendency to need time off to tend to kids… I’m not so sure. I’ve never had such competing obligations, and I don’t …
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