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  1. May 2020
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  3. Nov 2019
    1. Tea cites Chavisa Woods’s recent memoir of sexism 100 Times, Andrea Lawlor’s Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl and Brontez Purnell’s Since I Laid My Burden Down as examples of books that have fearlessly and artfully tackled themes of power and gender relations, misogyny and sexual violence. “Right now, I think the [publishing] industry is responding to what is happening and saying: ‘Yes we really need these voices, we need these ideas out in the world.’

      So true!

      My review of Chavisa Woods's book is here.

  4. Jul 2019
  5. May 2019
    1. Missandei, too, was failed. As one of the only two central people of colour in the entire series, her exit – her fridging, frankly – at the hands of a white woman was nothing short of woeful. She deserved so much more.
    2. And that's not all. In 'The Last of the Starks' alone, the writers stuck two fingers up at Brienne after using her to service Jaime's internal struggle regarding his twisted devotion to Cersei. Then there was Sansa Stark's conversation with The Hound about the abuse she suffered at the hands of Ramsay Bolton, Littlefinger, and Joffrey, and the way in her suffering was, in the words of actor Jessica Chastain, used as "a tool to make a character stronger".
    3. Following Rhaegal's death at the hands of Euron, Dany abandoned all reason to charge at him head on, endangering both herself and her last remaining dragon. Rather than attack from behind at speed, showering the fleet and their men in flames, she acted on impulse. Reason abandoned her.
    4. That also does Jaime a disservice, implying that his love cannot possibly be as great and all-encompassing as Cersei's because she is their mother, and he is merely their father. He remains pragmatic, Cersei is deranged.
    5. there has been one constant throughout: when women experience loss, they lose their minds.

      These statistics are saddening. Fess up, HBO!


      Why did people let this go live?



      This grated on me in S08E04. In a huge way.

  6. Apr 2019



      Damn straight. Radiant doing.

    1. In recent years feminism has, finally, become the mainstream, the norm.

      I don't understand why feminism has become 'the norm' only in recent years. I don't understand why girls don't stick up for themselves. Girls are equal to boys!

    1. Yasmin Behbehani had just walked into her third-period health class when her friend asked her if she had seen the list. “There’s a list of the girls’ names,” her friend Nicky Schmidt, a fellow senior at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Maryland, said. “And we’re ranked.”

      In this story the boys in a school in Maryland rated the girls in their class. When the girls found out they fought back.

    1. because there aren’t enough spacesuits small enough to fit both women available, a discovery that was made when McClain did her first spacewalk last week.

      This is really sad since you would think a company as big as NASA would have suits for girls, especially since almost everyone dreams about being an astronaut and certain girls' dreams are probably ruined by this.

  7. Sep 2018




    3. he might have mood swings.

      Greater aggression? --> more frequent violence toward women?




      How are these so comparatively bad?



  8. Mar 2018
    1. Last month at Portland State University, when biologist Heather Heying made the point that women and men are biologically different, protesters in the audience screamed and excoriated her and tried to damage the sound system before they were removed. “We should not listen to fascism. Nazis are not welcome in civil society,” a protester scowled.

      The belief that sexism is at the root of fascism, although well founded, causes hyperactivists to censor scientists.

  9. Feb 2018
    1. Women, meanwhile, are natural stoics, blessed with psychological strength.

      Nope! We're actually just told from a young age that if we show too much emotion we will be deemed "hysterical" and not taken seriously.

  10. Oct 2017
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      Holy shit! If people haven't quite Uber already, this has got to be the end of the line...

    1. h were more lo her satisfaction to find her Project condemn'd as foolish and impertinent, than to find it receiv'd with some Approbation,

      It is better for a woman to receive scrutiny and criticism prompting publication denial, as opposed to being somewhat praised but still denied a chance at publication.

      Basically merit vs. sexism, and Astell argues that merit is far superior. I don't think very many would dispute that.

  14. Oct 2016
    1. The Big Bang Theory. While Bernadette remains inept in her job, she enjoys a somewhat more successful relationship with Howard

      Female that cant be both good at her job and relationship.

    2. For both Amy and Bernadette the gender role expectations occur outside work and within the domestic spaces of the various characters on the show
    3. Amy is expected to take care of Sheldon,

      Why is the female expected to do this?

    4. Bernadette also assumes a care-taker role, though the role sometimes becomes a competition with his mother.
    5. fe-male scientists are represented as attrac-tive, stylish, and fashionable (39). What the the naïve expert lacks in knowledge she makes up for in appearance (Flicker 312). Among


    6. female scientists strug-gle to find equilibrium (Long et al. 359). These characters frequently fall in love with and marry male characters,

      Why is it mostly women that fall in love and get married?

    7. female scientists’ capabilities get downplayed while their ineptitude gets played up in professional settings, sometimes highlighting their lack of skills

      What does this teach young children? How does this affect younger generations?

  15. Jul 2016
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  17. Jun 2015
    1. In my exuberance about all the awesome tweets I was reading, I didn’t think about the thousands of men out there who would be reading the same tweets and feel incensed at the injustice of this one poor man being pilloried for a single comment he made in bad taste. If you don’t look at the situation from the perspective of millions of women who work everyday in a world where unconscious bias against women in science and technology is pervasive, you see only this one man and what happened to him. I hope some people out there, men in particular, who have only been looking at this situation from Tim Hunt’s perspective, will try to open their minds to the way systemic bias impacts your female colleagues and see the whole event from that lens.

      Really interesting point about "blindness" to systemic problems or scenarios!

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  19. Aug 2014