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I live in London, but my heart is in the Goon Docks. Please take the time to cruelly judge me from the following links:
amazon wishlist Capitalism!
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I am also on twitter, but you'll have to ask VERY NICELY for the link.
I live in London, but my heart is in the Goon Docks. Please take the time to cruelly judge me from the following links:
amazon wishlist Capitalism!
lastfm Noises!
polyvore Superficiality!
listal Films and books!
I am also on twitter, but you'll have to ask VERY NICELY for the link.
Posts tagged with sexism.
Let me talk to you about books.
Specifically, one book. This book.
This book should be a best seller. This book should be required reading for graduating from high school. Before you get that diploma, you read this book.
This book deals with debunking “Neurosexism,” which is a very fancy term for all of that evolutionary psychology bullshit that people spill about those “brain differences” between boys and girls.
This book debunks such myths as:
- Boys are better at math than girls
- Women make crappy lawyers/business CEOs/etc, as their brains are not cut out for aggression.
- Men make crappy counselors/primary school teachers/primary parents/etc, as their brains are not cut out for empathy.
- MEN ARE BUILT FOR GOING OUT AND HUNTING WHILE WOMEN ARE BUILT FOR STAYING HOME AND BABYMAKING IT’S NOT SEXISM IT’S JUST BIOLOGY
- And many other such myths.
Furthermore, this book covers topics such as:
- Neurosexism and gender perceptions in multiple races (as this is not a singularly white experience, just as the western world isn’t a singularly white experience)
- Sex discrimination in the workplace, and how women are (or, more often, are not) allowed to behave
- How science is used (badly) to support many of these claims
- Experiences of trans* people, both through interviews and empirical studies.
AND FINALLY - It is all brilliantly researched, cited, compiled - and it’s easy to read! Cordelia Fine actually manages to be funny while writing this, which I think is important, because it makes all of this information infinitely accessible.
Delusions of Gender has reinforced what Oberlin taught me: The gender binary is stupid and arbitrary, and dangerous. And it is a self-perpetuating bias that needs to be addressed to be overcome.
one of my favourite books in recent years. read it if you can!
I totally vouch for the OP. This book should be required reading. So good!
(Source: likefrancium)
“For feminists, democracy has never existed; women have never been and still are not admitted as full and equal members and citizens in any country known as a ‘democracy’.”
Carole Pateman in The Disorder of Women“
When she spoke again it was very measuredly.
“They bring weighty arguments against us when we ask for the perfect freedom of women,” she said; “but, when you come to the objections, they are like pumpkin devils with candles inside, hollow, and can’t bite. They say that women do not wish for the sphere and freedom we ask for them, and would not use it!
“If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut? Why not open it, only a little? Do they know there is many a bird will not break its wings against the bars, but would fly if the doors were open?” She knit her forehead and leaned further over the bars.
“Then they say, ‘If the women have the liberty you ask for, they will be found in positions for which they are not fitted!’ If two men climb one ladder, did you ever see the weakest anywhere but at the foot? The surest sign of fitness is success. The weakest never wins but where there is handicapping. Nature, left to herself, will as beautifully apportion a man’s work to his capacities as long ages ago she graduated the colours on the bird’s breast. If we are not fit, you give us, to no purpose, the right to labour; the work will fall out of our hands into those that are wiser.”
” The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiber“Fashion is one of the very few forms of expression in which women have more freedom than men. And I don’t think it’s an accident that it’s typically seen as shallow, trivial, and vain. It is the height of irony that women are valued for our looks, encouraged to make ourselves beautiful and ornamental… and are then derided as shallow and vain for doing so. And it’s a subtle but definite form of sexism to take one of the few forms of expression where women have more freedom, and treat it as a form of expression that’s inherently superficial and trivial. Like it or not, fashion and style are primarily a women’s art form. And I think it gets treated as trivial because women get treated as trivial.”
Fashion is a Feminist Issue: Greta Christina (via tinybows)
MHM GURL.
Fuck yes
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fashow
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(via slutgrrrlinternational)
“True gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A group that is made up of 50% women is perceived as being mostly women. A situation that is perfectly equal between men and women is perceived as being biased in favor of women.
And if you don’t believe me, you’ve never been a married woman who kept her family name. I have had students hold that up as proof of my “sexism.”
My own brother told me that he could never marry a woman who kept her name because “everyone would know who ruled that relationship.” Perfect equality – my husband keeps his name and I keep mine – is held as a statement of superiority on my part.”
Lucy, When Worlds Collide: Fandom and Male Privilege. (via seaofbadstories)
“Compared with white British men of similar qualification, Pakistanis and Africans earn up to 21% less on average in the UK. Women’s hourly pay remains 21% below men’s median hourly pay. Why?”
The Guardian (via cooccupy)
Amanda Knox and the Stigma of the Sexist Media.
Been seeing a lot of sexist shit about this acquitted woman Amanda Knox. As an attractive, young and female murder suspect she has been getting a lot of attention in the press apparently (I’m so out of touch).
It seems in Facebook and Twitter comments, like in many areas of society, commentators can openly join in with the sexual objectification of this woman while simultaneously slut-shaming and victim-blaming her for it. Whether this woman committed murder or not (the courts have now cleared her) she has been marked and demonised as sexual object and ‘media whore’ before she has even had a chance to do anything deemed ‘slutty’ or ‘money grabbing’.
A quick mental gender reverse and … yes I can confirm that a male former suspect would never be treated like this. In fact I don’t need to imagine; her ex-boyfriend who was convicted of the same crime, it has been pointed out, got far less coverage than she did and I would be quick to remind any sexists reading that this is the media’s doing, not hers.
What should be obvious is that the murder conviction is not a necessary element in the unwarranted (okay, it’s always unwarranted) slut-shaming, hounding and sexist demonisation of a woman targeted by the media. Just look at any of those odious annually compiled lists of ‘most annoying people’, overwhelmingly populated by women whose only crime appears to be living under a media microscope (rather than, say, murder). Yes many are sick of hearing about these women, but can we not have a point of self-awareness where we realise that venom should not be channeled into those sexist bon mots that just roll off the tongue (a little too easily) but into a critique of the industry and culture that funds those upskirt paparazzi shots (what a slut!), illegally placed bathroom cameras (OMG she’s on drugs? FOR SHAME!) and relentless tabloid slander…?
Bring in the fascination our sexist society has with female murderers and this woman is going to be marked for life and in most people’s eyes she’ll deserve every bit of shit slung her way. Even when cleared by the courts, the idea of a female killer holds a lot of interest and she will never truly be redeemed.
Having read somewhere that, in cases of violent crime, women often serve harsher sentences and are less likely to be granted parole than their male counterparts I turned to Google. Many of the top results are yahoo answers (or similar) discussions asking ‘why are women given lighter sentences than men?’, followed by a stream of utter ignorance taking the original question as fact revealing it was just another exercise in sexism rather than a fact-finding mission.
This article by Rachel Thwaites from ‘The F Word’ has said it all before, so do check it out.
Women are not expected to commit violent crimes and this is because of the myth of some inherent ‘caring’ nature (as opposed to a man’s natural aggressive nature). Women are far less likely to commit violent crimes than men. This means that women on average commit less serious crimes, so they obviously, on average, serve shorter sentences as well as making up a smaller percentage of the prison population! But when they do commit these more serious crimes, why are the tabloid press so quick to invoke the outdated idea of ‘evil’ or ‘witchcraft’? How can it be more ‘evil’ for a woman to commit the same crime as a man? Why are they more harshly judged?
If Amanda Knox was a man, at the centre of this highly-publicised murder-mystery, would we be blaming and shaming him for a suspected million dollar book-deal? I reckon he’d be the venerated hero and we’d be eagerly awaiting his stoic or tearful exclusive on our favourite chat show. So shut up.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/03/amanda-knox-raffaele-sollecito-cleared-murder
It’s time that a woman who is intelligent, well spoken and an atheist stand up and join what seems to be a male-led movement.
If one can even say that Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris and Dennet actually lead the atheist movement. I think that a woman would make a fine addition to this quartet. It would have been nice if she was a “founding-member” so to speak.
I would suggest checking out Blag Hag’s list of influential and well known female atheists.
I would also check out
- Ophelia Benson, the author of Does God Hate Women.
- Greta Christina, blogger.
- Lyz Liddell, the campus organizer for the Secular Student Alliance.
- and Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education.
And me.
We’re out there. We’re strong, we’re vocal, and we’re influential.
Polly Toynbee is actually the president of the British Humanist Association. The previous two before her were also women. There are four vice-presidents currently who are female (alongside Dawkins and others). The Secularist of the Year Award given by the National Secular Society (Britain) has been presented to four separate women or women groups since its inception (2005).
But I agree, atheist media is dominated by white men. Atheists like Dawkins shouting down atheist women when they discuss their oppression within the community doesn’t help.
